Chapter 1351: "One Day Tour of the Tomb (5)"
That garish skull only had bone left and its vacant eye sockets were in a direction facing straight at Jun Wu Xie where at first glance, it looked like it was staring at Jun Wu Xie.
If this had been the little black cat instead, it was guessed that it would have fallen into a dead faint immediately.
But Jun Wu Xie merely cast its glance in its direction, calm and unaffected.
"Little Squeak!" The little girl's voice was tinged with displeasure as she stepped over the deep piles of treasures to come before the jade throne and picked up the skull in her hand.
The Hell Rodent that was still happily spitting forth the treasures suddenly froze under the shout from the little girl. A Luminous Pearl that was the size of a chicken egg was only spat out halfway with the Hell Rodent's mouth stretched wide open as it stood blinking its black beady eyes with a blank expression at its Mistress.
"How many time have I said this? Do not keep the bones of those bad people!" The little girl said displeased with a frown upon her face as she stared at the human skull in her hand, her eyes filled with disdain.
The Hell Rodent spat the Luminous Pearl out with a thunk and quickly scuttled over to go before the little girl. It then stood upon its hind legs and stretched out its pair of tiny claws.
The little girl handed the human skull over to the Hell Rodent and said: "Filthy things like this, digest it away. Don't let it profane the Lord Dark Emperor's place."
Immediately upon saying that, she used her sleeve and wiped at the places the skull had rolled over earlier.
The Hell Rodent could do nothing but to swallow the human skull back in through its mouth.
"If you throw such filthy stuff out again, I am going to have to punish you." The little girl admonished the Hell Rodent with mock sternness after she wiped the places clean.
The Hell Rodent nodded obediently and then dawdled a while more before it went on spitting out treasures. Only when the entire hall was completely filled did the Hell Rodent finally close its mouth.
The little girl went one round to inspect the place and after seeing that there wasn't anything unusual, she then turned to walk towards the door on the inside. She pushed the door open bringing the Hell Rodent with her and her front foot had just stepped out when as if she just remembered something, she stuck her head back in and spoke into the hall that was filled with treasures.
"Aren't you going to come out? I'm going to close the door and if you still do not come out, you'll be stuck in here. You won't be able to open this door."
That voice echoed within the enormous hall and struck right at Jun Wu Xie's heart.
Those words, seemed to be directed at her.
[Could it be possible that she had noticed her presence? !]
"Don't worry, I will not harm you. If you are alright, then just have a walk around with me. If you're shut in here, then you'll definitely not be able to get out." The little girl said patiently.
Jun Wu Xie struggled for an extremely short period of time. The little girl had obviously already discovered her but from the tone of her voice, she had not been able to detect any malice.
After a moment, Jun Wu Xie then walked out slowly from under the jade throne in the little black cat's form.
In the instant that the little girl saw Jun Wu Xie, her face lit up with a brilliant smile.
"So it's actually just a cat. Your spirit is rather messed up and I was not able to sense your core. Don't worry, I know you are a spirit body and I will not do any harm to you. Come on and follow me."
Jun Wu Xie hesitated another moment before she slowly walked over to her. The eyes of the little Hell Rodent that was lying upon the little girl's shoulder immediately widened when it saw Jun Wu Xie, its gaze somewhat puzzled, and a little confused.
[It had seen this black cat earlier, but..... it seems a little different. Its spirit feels rather different from before.]
Jun Wu Xie lifted her eyes to look at the little girl who was all smiles as she lifted her paw to walk forward.
She walked up past the stone door and the little girl pulled it close with a smile on her face.
Chapter 1352: "One Day Tour of the Tomb (6)"
After entering through the stone door, there was a wide corridor. Compared to the pillared corridor she had passed before, this one before her eyes was much brighter and cleaner and from the walls to the floor slabs, they were all formed up with white bricks. Jun Wu Xie could not clearly identify the material of the bricks but she was at least able to differentiate that they were not something that existed within the Lower Realm.
The little girl really seemed to hold no enmity towards the little black cat that had suddenly appeared as she merely walked side by side with the little black cat while carrying the water bucket in her hand.
"Did you get yourself separated from your Master? All of you really shouldn't come to this place you know? Anyway, I see that your spirit isn't really in a stable state, did you get yourself severely injured before?" The little girl asked the little black cat with a rather worried look.
Jun Wu Xie stopped in her steps and looked warily at the little girl.
The little black cat was itself a spirit body and the little girl had obviously looked upon her as a ring spirit.
But.....
[How did she even discover her?]
The little girl seemed to understand Jun Wu Xie's unspoken question and she squatted down to look at Jun Wu Xie smilingly.
"Are you curious how I managed to discover you?"
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
The little girl gave a light laugh and pointed at her own nose to say: "It's because I am of the Spirit Soul race. People of the Spirit Soul race are most sensitive to spirit bodies and I am even able to sense that your spirit is rather chaotic now. I saw that you do not possess strong power and that is why I allowed you to follow me. You are the same as Little Squeak, both are rather harmless. If you are a bad one with aggressive might, I wouldn't be this nice to you you know?"
The little girl spoke very slowly, and the meaning she was trying to bring across came out rather messily.
Jun Wu Xie could roughly feel that the little girl must have been cut off from the rest of the world for too long and her ability to express herself was almost in a similar state to how Jun Wu Xie herself had been in the beginning, where the delivery was not smooth. But the difference between them was that the little girl did not clamp up or become unwilling to speak, but was instead seen to love talking.
Even when it was only about how she knew about spirit bodies, she had already been able to say so much.
That was one point that Jun Wu Xie would acknowledge she paled in comparison.....
But the little girl's words had attracted Jun Wu Xie's attention as well.
Spirit Soul race.....
Poppy had mentioned it earlier that the Hell Rodent would be more inclined towards being matched with someone of the Spirit Soul race and judging from the relationship between the little girl and the Hell Rodent, it wasn't that difficult to ascertain her identity.
People of the Spirit Soul race were born with an innate liking toward spirit bodies and as Jun Wu Xie and the little black cat has exchanged their spirits, the state of their spirits would inadvertently be chaotic, causing the little girl to think that Jun Wu Xie was a wounded ring spirit who possessed no attack capabilities.
That was what made the little girl relax her guard.
Instead of saying that the little girl was numbingly careless, it could rather be said that she merely had complete confidence instead.
Jun Wu Xie wasn't about to assume that a little girl who was able to push open the stone door would be a defenceless weakling. Moreover, to have been picked to remain here at the Dark Emperor's tomb, she must have been carefully selected by the people from the Dark Regions. Besides those points, if the little girl had already been here since the Dark Emperor's tomb was built, then..... she would be at least a thousand years old!
"But I'm afraid that your Master would not remain alive much longer. But it's all right! Even when your Master dies, you can then return to the Spirit World and wait for your new Master then." The little girl said innocently, speaking of life and death, like it was a highly casual thing.
The little girl then stood up, and opened another stone door along the corridor while carrying the water bucket in her hand. The scene that met her eyes behind that stone door, was exactly the same as what Jun Wu Xie had seen in the hall before, the entire floor filled with countless treasure.
Chapter 1353: "One Day Tour of the Tomb (7)"
This time, Jun Wu Xie saw with her own eyes just how powerful the Hell Rodent's storage ability really was. The entire hall's treasures, was swallowed cleanly and completely by the Hell Rodent in ten minutes.
When the room was emptied out, the little girl then carried a bucket of water to go in and clean up, repeating everything she had done for the other hall.
But this time, the little girl had a "little black cat" by her side.
Jun Wu Xie merely sat there quietly to watch as the little girl got busy. She had intended to just go in further into the Dark Emperor's tomb to understand what the situation was like inside but she had now been discovered by this little girl who claimed to be from the Spirit Soul race. Although the other party had no intention of causing her any harm, Jun Wu Xie did not want to upset the assumption the little girl had made and played along while she made use of her time by the little girl's side to observe the secrets in the Dark Emperor's tomb that was not known to anyone.
The Dark Emperor's tomb was just huge, rather astoundingly immense. After the pillared corridor, were palatial halls one after another that were filled with endless amounts of treasure. After passing through the halls, was another long walkway, and along the walkway were tens other large halls filled to the brim with treasure.
The little girl went tirelessly to every one of them to dust and clean, duplicating the extremely dull and dry task repeatedly one time after another.
She occasionally hummed a little tune, while sometimes she would say a few words to the Hell Rodent, and there were also some instances where she would attempt to tell a few things to the little black cat she had just "picked up".
Unfortunately, the little girl soon found out that the little cat ring spirit's personality was even more silent than the Hell Rodent and no matter what she said, the little black cat would just listen to her talk quietly and not give her any reaction.
After several consecutive hours, the little girl finally finished cleaning all the halls linked to this particular walkway and that was when she allowed herself to rest. She sat herself down upon the mountain of gold nonchalantly, like the things she was resting upon were no different from common pebbles.
Being at leisure now, the little girl's attention was very soon drawn back onto Jun Wu Xie.
"You came in from outside, so what is the situation out there now? Do the flowers still bloom? I have not left this place for a very long time and I really do not know what the world outside is like anymore." The little girl said, muttering to herself, but also looking like she was just ranting to Jun Wu Xie.
"The last time I went out, it was because I brought that person out. But..... if Big Brother got to know about it, he will surely get angry again." The little girl said and she stuck out her tongue sheepishly, looking slightly embarrassed. "But that had been a good person right? He had no more strength to resist anymore."
The confusing jumble of her ramblings, made the words the little girl said sound rather strange.
But Jun Wu Xie had understood her.
If her guess was not wrong, the "good person" the little girl mentioned should be Wen Yu.
From the way things looked, Wen Yu had been brought out of the Heaven's End Cliff by this naive little girl back then, and the Soul Calming Jade was most probably something the Hell Rodent spat out from its mouth.
But.....
As the protector of the Dark Emperor's tomb, was having such a gentle and naive personality really a suitable choice?
Jun Wu Xie stared at the natural and simple minded girl and could not make herself agree that her personality would make a good guard of the Dark Emperor's tomb, but she had noticed that the little girl had mentioned her "Big Brother".
Could it be that within this Dark Emperor's tomb, the little girl was not the only person in here?
Her elder brother might really be here as well!
That realization made Jun Wu Xie suddenly lift up her paw and touched the little girl lightly on her knee.
This was the first time that the little girl managed to get a response from the little black cat. Regardless that it might have been just a light touch, it was nevertheless enough to make her break out into a bright smile. But the metal half face mask she wore stood out more in contrast in that instance, covering over one half of her genuine and innocent smile.
Chapter 1354: "One Day Tour of the Tomb (8)"
"You don't have to be afraid, my elder brother would not harm a spirit body." The little girl said quickly in a reassuring voice, thinking that the little black cat was frightened.
Jun Wu Xie turned her gaze round the surroundings, seemingly asking the little girl where her elder brother was.
The smile on the little girl's face stiffened and her eyes were suddenly tinged with a trace of depression.
"I can't see him, and he can't see me. But I know that he is right there..... Big Brother has always been with me and even though we can talk to each other together, it's still alright."
Jun Wu Xie could not understand what she was hearing.
"It's really alright. I have Little Squeak accompanying me here, and there are also other spirit bodies that come frequently as well. But as their Masters were all killed by Big Brother, they are all unable to stay here long even though I want them to stay to chat with me." The little girl said as she bit her lip, suddenly raising her head up to look at the little black cat.
"I really wish that your Master does not come any closer to this place. If he forces his way in, he will surely die." When she said those words, the eyes of the little girl were highly serious.
"And when he dies, you will then soon have to return back to the Spirit World....." The direction of the little girl's words suddenly turned, and her eyes fell back into depression once again.
"....." Jun Wu Xie found that she was beginning to understand. The little girl had truly been closed in for too long and for every slight little thing, she was able to talk a lot about it.
This was probably the aftereffects from having been shut in too long and judging from the messy and disjointed way the little girl expressed herself with her speech, Jun Wu Xie could not help herself but feel strong empathy for the little girl.
It was not that hard to deduce from the little girl's words that her elder brother was the real protector of the Dark Emperor's tomb but it was not known why she would be here at this place as well.
[Because the siblings were very close?]
[But why were the siblings not able to meet?]
Jun Wu Xie was unable to come to a conclusion.
Just as the little girl was "rambling nonsense" to the little black cat, suddenly, a violent rumble shook the entire hall that they were in!
All the treasure piled up within the hall shook with the violent rumble, a clear tinkle sounding in the air.
Suddenly!
A resounding blast sounded from somewhere not too far from them.
The little girl who had been seated down immediately stood up with an expression of shock on her face, as she struggled to stand upon the heavily shaking ground!
"Someone's attacking..... It's the enemy..... It's those bad people....." The little girl's face was quickly showing startlement.
Surprise flashed in Jun Wu Xie's eyes, but she did not think that the ruckus was from an enemy. If what she thought was right, there was only one person who would be able to kick up such a huge commotion at the Dark Emperor's tomb.
Just as Jun Wu Xie was still thinking whether she should take the chance to escape, an astounding sight played out right before her eyes!
The entire body of the little girl who had stood up was suddenly shrouded within a plume of black mist, the light mist engulfing the person completely within. The crackling sounds of metal breaking up rang out from the vicinity of her face and the metal mask that covered the left side of the little girl's face suddenly shattered. The cracked pieces from the shattered mask did not fall onto the floor but instead gathered and fused back together at an amazing speed, with a change in its location to cover over the right side of the little girl's face!
What was even more astounding was that the half of face that was revealed no longer held the slightest bit of the soft gentleness of a young girl. It was the exact same countenance but it felt completely different, where it was brimming with the incisive edge of a male youth!
Chapter 1355: "Could This Be A Dream (1)"
To see a person's aura and demeanor change completely in an instant, was not a situation that Jun Wu Xie had seen often, and even when a person's aura was to change, it wouldn't change a person completely. But the "little girl" before Jun Wu Xie's eyes had made her feel that was exactly what happened.
Like in just a mere instant, the person in front of her eyes was no longer that innocent and slightly naggy little lass, but a young youth with a razor sharp gaze that exuded murder throughout his entire body!
The rocking rumble of the ground grew more intense and the booming crashes sounded everywhere.
The Hell Rodent which had been plopped upon the "little girl's" shoulder had leapt off at the same moment when the metal mask had switched, it's tiny palm sized figure suddenly morphing into a dazzling golden sabre tooth tiger as it landed upon the ground~
"Who would have the audacity to actually dare come damage the Dark Emperor's tomb!" The soft and demure voice of a young girl had at that moment suddenly changed into the a loud and clear voice of a young male. The eyes of the young youth narrowed slightly and murderous aura flared out terrifyingly from his entire being!
With a resounding boom, a crash then sounded! ! !
Upon the roof of the hall that Jun Wu Xie was in, a large gaping hole suddenly opened up!
Broken rubble rained down with a huge billowing cloud of dust, falling onto the treasure that covered the floor of the large hall, where a clear crisp tinkle sounded.
The immense dust cloud hung in the air, obscuring Jun Wu Xie's sight. She could only faintly make out a few blurry figures through the large hole that was broken in the ceiling.
Before she could make out the countenance of the people, the youth that was standing beside her had already suddenly leapt up in a sudden charge, with wisps of residual black mist still remaining at the spot he had just been been standing!
"All who damages the Dark Emperor's Palace shall die!"
The voice that was filled with chilling murder rang out as the youth shot through the cloud of dust, leaping atop the large hole, with the Hell Rodent who had morphed into a sabre tooth tiger rushing up just behind him!
At the moment he broke through the blinding dust and was about to charge at the intruders, a highly elegant and magnificently proud figure met his eyes!
His eyes saw the handsome and ageless man moving upon the wind, his feet treading upon the air, a gale blowing his long black hair to fan out behind him, his impeccably flawless face showing a warm tinge of rage.
In that instant, the youth felt all the blood within his entire body turn to ice, the terrifying murder within his eyes dissipating into nothing while he just stood with his eyes wide and his mouth agape at the handsome man that had appeared right before his eyes.
"Dark....."
Before the youth could get the words out from his mouth, a dark shadow suddenly charged right at him, crashing right into him in midair as they tumbled back down into the hall below!
The next instant, the massive impact from the crash fell into the treasures that covered the ground and a shower of gold and various trinkets fell like rain, scattering all over the place.
Standing atop the roof of the massive hall, Qiao Chu and the others looked in puzzlement at the figure that Ye Mei had crashed into brutally. That had all happened too suddenly and they still did not know what was really going on.
"There..... There's actually someone within the Dark Emperor's tomb?" Qiao Chu said as he stretched his neck out, wanting to peer down the hole that had opened up. But as the cloud of dust was just too thick, he could not see what was going on at all.
When Jun Wu Xie had accidentally fallen into the Dark Emperor's tomb, while Qiao Chu and the other companions had been caught in a state of panic, that was when they witnessed once again the terrifying might of Jun Wu Yao.
The man who always carried a devilish smile upon his face had at the very moment the figure of Jun Wu Xie disappeared from sight, lost all traces of that smile. Although he had not said a word, but the aura emanating from his entire body made Qiao Chu and all the others find it extremely hard to breathe.
Chapter 1356: "Could This Be A Dream (2)"
They saw with their own eyes, Jun Wu Yao in his unbridled rage, using nothing but pure brute strength to smash through the boundary barrier before the Dark Emperor's tomb!
And upon the roof of the impenetrable Dark Emperor's tomb, he opened up a large gaping hole!
That magnificent display of pure strength, had all of them standing on the outside felt the entire earth tremble and the mountains shake, as if the heavens were crashing down and the land was splitting apart, a truly terrifying sight.
This was not the first time that Jun Wu Yao showed his might before the companions, but it was this time that made Qiao Chu and the others develop a kind of reverence towards Jun Wu Yao.
That kind of might that could bring destruction upon the heavens and exterminate the lands was not strength that a mortal could possibly possess.
At the moment that Jun Wu Yao had delivered the first strike, the companions had all thought that they would definitely be destroyed together with the Dark Emperor's tomb.
"Is that the guardian of the Dark Emperor's tomb? Big Brother Wu Yao, would leaving just Ye Mei to deal with him alone really be fine?" Fei Yan could not help but asked a little worriedly. When that dark shadow had charged towards them earlier, they had already felt an immensely oppressive aura emanating from it. That kind of power was at a level beyond any of the people from the Twelve Palaces they had previously encountered.
It was to the extent that it gave the companions a strange feeling that that person's might was inferior only to Jun Wu Yao among all of them there, even stronger than Ye Sha and Ye Mei by quite a bit.
Jun Wu Yao did not reply as he remained suspended in midair. Qiao Chu and the companions who were standing behind him had not realized that Jun Wu Yao's eyes had already turned a violet colour.
That deep pair of violet eyes found a tiny figure among the swirling and billowing cloud of dust and in that instant, his eyes reverted back to their usual jet black shade. He then lifted up a hand and an invisible force then lifted up that tiny figure hidden behind the immeasurable amount of treasure, slowly drawing it closer to him.
"Eh? Little Black!" Qiao Chu's sharp eyes spotted the little black cat as it was being gradually brought closer before Jun Wu Yao.
The little black cat's gaze was cold and merely glanced briefly at Qiao Chu once.
"That is Little Xie." Hua Yao said as he stared in slight surprise at the little black cat, immediately recalling the Soul Transfer Technique Jun Wu Xie had used back when they were in the Qing Yun Clan.
In the little black cat's body at that moment, should be Jun Wu Xie indeed.
Jun Wu Yao stretched his hand out and cradled the little black cat who was Jun Wu Xie in his arms, the ruthlessness within his eyes disappearing without a trace. Gently, he rubbed at the ears of the little black cat and said in a deep and gentle voice: "I've found you now."
Jun Wu Xie lifted her head and looked at Jun Wu Yao.
Besides Qiao Chu and Hua Yao, all the others did not know that Jun Wu Xie had that ability and they were all looking a little stunned.
Below them, the sounds of battle quickly erupted which quickly drew their attention.
They had not thought that there would actually be someone within the Dark Emperor's tomb!
"Should we go give Big Brother Ye Mei a hand down there?" Qiao Chu asked excitedly, rubbing his fists.
Jun Wu Yao instead shook his head.
Down there within the enormous hall, the young youth had been thrown back to the ground by Ye Mei, his back crashing into the floor with great impact but his eyes were still staring widely through the huge cloud of dust, fixed upon the man above the roof of the hall, his head slightly lowered and smiling faintly at the little black cat he carried in his arms, unable to take his eyes off that figure.
"Dark....." The young youth stuttered. Before he could finish his words, Ye Mei delivered a heavy punch onto the youth which caused him to swallow back those words back down his throat.
The pain upon his face finally pulled the young youth back to his senses and he looked in confusion at the man who had him pinned on the ground, the expression on the man's face highly aggressive.
"Ye Mei..... Why are you....." The young youth had not thought that he would still be able to see his familiar companion, unable to contain the surprise upon his face.
Chapter 1357: "Could This Be A Dream (3)"
But immediately after that, Ye Mei continued to pick him up and threw a barrage of brutal strikes, executing an entire set of combination punches which made the youthful spectators like Qiao Chu and the others crowding around the hole above gasp repeatedly in shock!
The young youth was still slightly stunned by Ye Mei's successive combo attacks, the seemingly highly vicious strikes upon his body only inflicting superficial damage. If he had had his defenses up, they wouldn't have even hurt a single hair upon him. The moves had looked to be tyrannical and domineering, but the damage they really caused was actually just average.
"What are you doing! !" The young youth shouted with a confused frown on his face as he stared at Ye Mei who was looking like he was prepared to fight him to the death, wondering whether water had gotten into Ye Mei's brains.They had not seen each other for such a long time and they had not even had the chance to have a chat about old times when Ye Mei had suddenly charged right at him in a flurry of strikes!
Ye Mei did not reply but his strikes increased in intensity instead, forcing a spark of rage to ignite within the young youth.
"Damn it! I am not taking this lying down anymore! !" The fiery rage in the heart of the young youth roared ablaze and he was just about to retaliate.
In that instant, Ye Mei crashed himself right into the youth and the two of them were thrown into a corner of the large hall where they could not be seen from the gaping hole in the ceiling.
"Great lord! I....."
"Ye Gu! It's been such a long time!" Once away from the scrutinizing gaze of the others, the expression on Ye Mei's face immediately changed, grinning delightedly at the raging youth, Ye Gu.
Ye Gu was shocked by the speed that the expression on Ye Mei's face had changed and did not recover from it for a long while.
"My brother, I'm really sorry. I had no choice earlier, don't mind it." Ye Mei said with a forced laugh. Although his words sounded apologetic, but there wasn't the slightest tinge of regret within his heart.
Don't judge Ye Gu just by his external looks where he seemed to be only about eleven or twelve years old. This seemingly highly youthful Ye Gu here was in reality the Chief Commander of the Night Regime!
Within the Night Regime, he was tops in battle prowess and throughout the entire Middle Realm, the only people who possessed enough power to overwhelm Ye Gu was just one man, the Dark Emperor alone. If this had been in the past, Ye Mei would never have dared to strike at Ye Gu like today, but the situation had not given him any other choice.
"Just what is going on? The Dark Emperor..... I just saw the Dark Emperor..... The Dark Emperor he....." Ye Gu heart was still highly overwhelmed from having seen Jun Wu Yao earlier and really wasn't in the right frame of mind to pick a quarrel with Ye Mei.
How could he have imagined that the Dark Emperor who had been believed to have fallen a long time ago would once again appear before his eyes. At the moment, his mind had just completely exploded with that one revelation!
"It's a long story." Ye Mei replied with a slight sigh. He then suddenly flicked his hand out and delivered a punch onto the wall beside him, producing a loud crashing sound.
"You only need to remember that you must not expose Lord Jue's identity, and you cannot reveal the fact that you know us in anyway. That is an order from Lord Jue." Ye Mei was at somewhat of a loss himself. In the instant that he had seen Ye Gu earlier, he had immediately realized that it was a disaster and had charged forward to hold Ye Gu down. If Ye Gu had uttered the two words "Dark Emperor" before everyone, it would have given everything away!
Ye Gu looked at Ye Mei with a frown on his face. The many years of close brotherhood they had shared before made him quickly realize the reason why Ye Mei had done all of that just now. He lifted a foot and stomped it down to crush the hard floor below as the two chatted while they created sounds like they were still engaged in battle, so that they would not arouse any suspicions.
"Has Lord Jue..... been fine?" Ye Gu inquired with his eyes lowered.
"Fine, and not fine at the same time. Lord Jue has his own plans for his affairs and it is not something we should be interfering with. The Night Regime exists only to heed Lord Jue's orders and we only need to carry them out without any need to question them." Ye Mei replied with a reminder.
Chapter 1358: "Could This Be A Dream (4)"
Ye Gu then said with a sneer: "When I came into the Night Regime, I don't even know where you were then! Would I need you to teach me what to do?"
With that said, Ye Gu lifted a leg and sent Ye Mei flying with a kick!
The figure of Ye Mei shot within the perimeter of sight from the gaping hole in the roof as his abdomen burned with the pain from Ye Gu's single kick, a trickle of blood immediately flowing out from the corner of his mouth as he stared at Ye Gu still hidden in the corner of the hall.
Ye Gu mouthed the words with his mouth without a sound: We have to put up a good act and it must look real.
Ye Mei did not know whether to laugh or to cry at that moment. That rascal was obviously exacting revenge by taking advantage of the situation!
However, Ye Mei could not give voice to any of those grievances.
Standing upon the roof of the hall, Qiao Chu and the other companions saw that Ye Mei was wounded and they were all feeling highly anxious, wishing they could all just jump in and battle the guardian of the Dark Emperor's tomb in a fight to the death but were stopped by Ye Sha.
Just as Ye Mei was resigned to the fact that he would have to battle Ye Gu, Ye Gu suddenly came rushing into the perimeter of sight from up above in the roof.
He came rushing..... by rolling himself inside!
"Argh!" Lying curled up tightly upon the ground, Ye Gu let out an agonized wail.
That pitiful cry, caused Ye Mei to become stunned.
[What kind of a situation is this now?]
"What..... power..... My skills have proven to be inferior today..... and I lost to you..... I admit defeat....." Ye Gu struggled to utter those words weakly as he sat propping himself up, the exposed half of his face completely pale. For people who didn't know what was going on, they would have thought that he had just engaged Ye Mei in a highly furious battle and was severely wounded by Ye Mei.
Only Ye Mei was feeling so aggrieved in his heart that he almost vomited out blood.
[What an act!]
[His grandmother! He can really pour it on!]
[Why had such talented gift gone unnoticed in all those years past!]
Ye Gu laid upon the ground, his face showing an expression of "I'm almost done in, I have been heavily injured, I am about to die".
The sudden turn of events quickly elicited a deafening chorus of excited cheers from the youths on top of the roof!
"Big Brother Ye Mei you're the best!" Qiao Chu shouted excitedly as he stuck out a big thumb at him. In their hearts, the might of the Dark Regions was deep and immeasurable and they had never once thought that the day would come that they would be able to triumph over anyone from within the Dark Regions, but Ye Mei had today "easily" defeated the guardian of the Dark Emperor's tomb, a victory that greatly delighted all of them!
A twitch formed at the corner of Ye Mei's mouth. Against the exaggerated antics of that bunch of exuberant youths, he really didn't know where to hide his old face.
His power had nothing to do with this, but it was just that rascal Ye Gu could really put on a convincing act.
If it had been anyone else, the effect might not have been so obvious.
Although Ye Gu possessed unbelievable might, but he was born with a baby face and his body size was just like a boy who had not yet fully matured. Even with the halo of the Dark Regions upon his head, in the hearts of people, a half grown boy could not possibly be all that powerful. Hence, with him lying upon the ground with his face pale and looking highly pitiful, it was really hard to differentiate whether it's genuine or faked.
Under the showers of cheers and words of praise, Ye Mei struggled to maintain his expression like he had just returned from a big battle, while he nodded his head at Qiao Chu and the other companions.
Having seen through the whole farce, Ye Sha could do nothing but shake his head in resignation discreetly.
The guardian of the Dark Emperor's tomb was successfully captured, which resolved another one big obstacle for them to enter the Dark Emperor's tomb.
Jun Wu Yao carried the little black cat which contained Jun Wu Xie's spirit and slowly descended through the air to stand in the middle of the enormous hall that had been thrashed up. Lying upon the ground, Ye Gu fought to contain himself, struggling to not show too much fervour in the eyes that gazed upon the magnificent form of the Dark Emperor.
Qiao Chu and the others quickly jumped in after and upon landing, they all suddenly gasped in shock at the mountains of treasures, gold silver and jewels that filled up the entire hall!
Chapter 1359: "The Spirit Soul Race (1)"
What mountains of gold and silver really are!
They have really seen it now!
Ye Gu laid upon the ground, his eyes not daring to rest on Jun Wu Yao too long, and not daring to look at Ye Sha and Ye Mei too much, but just watched the idiotic Qiao Chu behaving like a country bumpkin who was gawking stupidly with his eyes widened and mouth agape at the hall full of treasures.
[Tsk! Where had this bunch of morons come from? Why are they following Lord Jue around? !]
His mind was filled with endless questions, but Ye Gu could only continue to lie on the ground and act weak.
It was only with much difficulty before Qiao Chu managed to shift his gaze away from all the rich treasures and saw Ye Gu fallen onto the ground with his face filled with feigned hatred. With that one look, Qiao Chu was then greatly surprised.
"To think that the guardian of the Dark Emperor's tomb would be such a puny little guy! What are the people from the Dark Regions thinking?"
Once those words came out from Qiao Chu's mouth, Ye Sha and Ye Mei at the side immediately felt cold sweat down down their backs.
Ye Gu as a person did not have many peeves, but he absolutely detested it when people said he was "little"!
Because of that, back when they had been in the Night Regime, he had thrashed up quite a few people.
Those careless and unintentional words from Qiao Chu, coincidentally touched the one raw nerve on Ye Gu and the two men had seemingly in that same instant, immediately turned to look at Ye Gu.
As expected, the expression on Ye Gu's face had darkened.
The two men exchanged a glance between themselves and then leapt towards Ye Gu at the same time together, to hold him down on both sides with their lives.
Towards Ye Sha's and Ye Mei's actions, Qiao Chu was still too dense to sense anything and merely thought it strange as he asked stupidly: "Big Brother Ye Sha, Big Brother Ye Mei, this little pipsqueak should have sustained severe injuries. Do you really have to be so careful around him?"
Ye Mei was already on the verge of tears but he had to maintain a calm expression in front of Qiao Chu as he smiled stiffly and said: "He is afterall from the Dark Regions and it is better we be a little more careful about it."
At the same time, Ye Sha whispered in a very low voice beside Ye Gu's ear: "Chief! Calm down!"
"Calm his grandmother's leg! From which rock had that little moron sprouted out from? He hasn't even grown out all his hair and he is already courting death! If I do not peel the skin off him, I am not Ye Gu....." Ye Gu immediately exploded.
Ye Sha and Ye Mei used all their might to try to hold Ye Gu down but the combined strength of the two men were still not enough to overcome Ye Gu's strength. Just at the moment as the two men saw that they were about to be flung out by Ye Gu, Jun Wu Yao's steps suddenly stopped as he carried Jun Wu Xie in in arm, turning his head back slightly with half narrowed eyes, his gaze passing fleetingly over the figure of Ye Gu.
Ye Gu immediately calmed down.
Ye Sha and Ye Mei secretly heaved a sigh of relief inwardly. Under the Heavens, the only person who was able to control Ye Gu was only Jun Wu Yao alone.
Just as Ye Sha and Ye Mei were just heaving a sigh of relief in their hearts, a figure suddenly walked to come stand before the two of them.
To put it more accurately, the figure had come to stand right before Ye Gu instead.
Ye Gu was holding back the fire within when he suddenly saw the handsome looking youth appear before his eyes and his brows furrowed together involuntarily.
Rong Ruo looked at Ye Gu who was wearing a half face mask upon his face and a ripple suddenly rose within her eyes. The corners of her lips trembled slightly and she stared fixedly at Ye Gu's face, her body stiffening slightly.
"Little Ruo," Fei Yan called out as he came to stand beside Rong Ruo, having quickly detected the strange reaction from Rong Ruo.
Rong Ruo did not reply to Fei Yan but continued to look at Ye Gu and asked in a subdued voice.
"You are..... from the Spirit Soul race?"
Ye Gu was slightly taken aback by the question and he turned to look at Rong Ruo in the eye. In that instant, there was a trace of astonishment in his eyes.
"Spirit Soul race? Little Ruo, are you saying he is from the Spirit Soul race?" Fei Yan asked in puzzlement.
Chapter 1360: "The Spirit Soul Race (2)"
To people of the Middle Realm, the words Spirit Soul race were not unfamiliar to them. They were a mysterious and powerful race but it was exactly because of that power that brought disaster upon them. It was not known from when it had started but people from the Spirit Soul race diminished greatly in numbers and in the past few centuries, the Spirit Soul race had disappeared from the Middle Realm completely and not a trace of them could be found anymore.
Everyone had thought that the Spirit Soul race had been wiped out.
But legends of the Spirit Soul race had never ceased to exist.
"I can't be wrong about this. This mask, is a treasured magical artifact of the Spirit Soul race that is named as the Spirit Shackle Mask." Rong Ruo said with a gulp. She only continued to say after taking a moment to compose herself: "It is said that the people from the Spirit Soul race are born with two souls in one body with one dominant and the other in support. The two souls flourish the strongest in newborns of the Spirit Soul race but as time goes by and they grew up, having two souls in one body would make them become weaker and weaker as the dominant soul will gradually wear down and whittle away the supporting soul's strength and when they mature, the supporting soul will then completely disappear."
The ones who were most powerful in the Spirit Soul race, were not the adults in that race, but the children who had not yet matured.
The younger they were, the more stable the power of the two souls would be. The immense power that having dual souls could give them, was not something any other race could compare with.
But as they age, the innate gift they were born with would gradually weaken till they fully mature where the supporting soul would then be completely devoured by the dominant soul.
Moreover, between the dual souls in the people of the Spirit Soul race, one would definitely be Yin and the other Yang, and as the attributes of the dominant soul differed, their gender differed in tandem.
"Spirit Shackle Mask, what is that?" Fei Yan asked, not knowing all that much about the Spirit Soul race.
Rong Ruo did not respond but merely continued to stare at the metal mask upon Ye Gu's face.
"The Spirit Shackle Mask, is a treasured magical artifact of the Spirit Soul race that they use tp maintain their two souls within their body." Fan Zhuo's voice suddenly rang out. He walked to come stand beside Rong Ruo and Fei Yan and looked at Ye Gu who had remained silent throughout.
"For the Spirit Soul race to maintain their immense power, they would need to ensure that their dual souls remain intact, and the Spirit Shackle Mask, was the exact artifact that fulfilled that wish. It was rumoured that all the way back in the beginning, every Chief selected within the Spirit Soul race would wear Spirit Shackle Mask from young. Once the Spirit Shackle Mask was put on, it cannot be removed unless the wearer dies, where it would then come off. After putting on the Spirit Shackle Mask, the two souls would not disappear and remain intact but at the same time, the countenance and body of the wearer would no longer grow. Their body would be just like their two souls, shackled up by the Spirit Shackled Mask, never to change throughout their entire life."
Every Chief selected from within the Spirit Soul race, would in order retain the immense power to protect his people, choose to put on the Spirit Shackle Mask, sacrificing their own bodies to gain that strength. But it was not known from when it had started, the Spirit Shackle Mask disappeared from within the Spirit Soul race. With the disappearance of the Spirit Shackle Mask, the Spirit Soul race had then fallen into decline.
Till they completely disappeared from the stage that was the Middle Realm.
"It was said that the last Chief of the Spirit Soul race that wore the Spirit Shackle Mask was the one who founded the Soul Return Palace, but with the internal strife within the Soul Return Palace, the people of the Spirit Soul race were driven out from there and the Chief had then disappeared from then on. Some people have said that he had been killed by the current reigning Palace Lord of the Soul Return Palace and some others have said that he had led his people of the Spirit Soul race to live in seclusion within the wilds to escape persecution....." Fan Zhuo said and then hesitated. He turned to look at Ye Gu for a moment before he continued on to say.
"But rumours are not to be believed and no one truly knew what happened at that time. If my guess is not wrong, you should be the Chief of the Spirit Soul race that founded the Soul Return Palace back then aren't you?"