Chapter 1451: "Who's Interrogating Who (3)"
Those people who had been chosen to be carriers were mostly people who were sickly and frail. As their bodies' constitution were weak, their resilience towards drugs and bacteria were not strong. Not long after they were injected with the bacteria, they would very soon die. Upon their deaths, that would be when the bacteria would spread, silently and unnoticed, as they achieved their evil objectives.
For the revered one to have the Clear Breeze City take in the frail elderly, weaker women and children continuously, his motives must be the same as that bacteria warfare, but just that the bacteria from Jun Wu Xie's past life had been replaced with a kind of drug that spread very easily, to achieve the same kind of effect. If what she thought was correct, those people who were made to ingest the medicine, must have been secretly sent to various places throughout the Lower Realm.
Under the chaos of war and conflict, the number of refugees were endless. No matter which place it was, seeing some highly muddled and sickly refugee appearing would not attract anyone's attention. And as those people had low immunity and resistance against the drug, their deaths would also be highly sped up!
That was also the reason the revered one requested only for the frail elderly and weaker women and children to be allowed into the city. Moreover, the harsh conditions the refugees were forced to live under would further deplete the life force of those refugees and when the seven days were up, just when their bodies were at their weakest, it would be the best time to make use of them to fulfil his nefarious objectives!
Using humans as carriers to spread the poison. Such a insidious method would send chills down people's spine. When she imagined having three hundred refugees whose bodies contained that poison being sent to various places in the Lower Realm everyday, Jun Wu Xie felt a fiery blaze start to burn within her chest. The Poison Army was being reinforced everyday and there was no end to them. And the source of it all, were the people here.
Even with Jun Wu Xie's personality, she could not help but feel rage realizing it.
"Where is that revered one now?" Jun Wu Xie asked in a voice that was terrifyingly chilly.
"I..... I do not know..... The revered one and I have only met once and all the instructions the revered one had for me after that came in through Luo Xi to me. Things about the revered one..... Luo Xi knows it much better than I do! I...... I really do not know anything about that....." The City Lord started wailing.
Jun Wu Xie fell silent. The City Lord's words did not sound like he was lying. Judging from all that had happened, Luo Xi was indeed able to give instructions to the City Lord. Otherwise, upon finding out that the refugees had been moved out from the camp, the first one among the two of them to appear would not have been the City Lord, but would have been Luo Xi coming aggressively to stir up trouble.
"Today, you will act as if nothing had happened. I had never come to the City Lord's Manor and have never heard a word you said." Jun Wu Xie said suddenly.
The City Lord stared blankly at Jun Wu Xie, his tears and snot smeared all over his face in a mess.
"What..... what does..... that mean.....?"
"Tell Luo Xi that you did not succeed today and ask him to come up with another way." Jun Wu Xie said as she got up. The Lord of the Clear Breeze City was merely a pawn in the game of chess and in order for her to reel in the big fish, she needed to work on Luo Xi.
The City Lord continued to stare, looking completely flabbergasted at Jun Wu Xie.
"You need me to engrave all these words onto your body to remind you?" Jun Wu Xie said menacingly through narrowed eyes, her eyes glinting with murder.
The City Lord immediately cowered upon the floor, shaking like an injured chick to hurriedly say: "Your servant remembers it! I understand what Young Master is telling me! I will definitely carry out Young Master's instructions to the letter!"
Jun Wu Xie was satisfied and she turned around to depart, disappearing from the City Lord's Manor together with Ye Sha, looking like that had never been here before.
It was until Jun Wu Xie and Ye Sha had left that the City Lord fell limply onto the ground, all strength completely seeping out from him. Without knowing why, he had a sudden strange feeling in his heart. He seemed to feel that the cold and calm little youth, was to be feared more than that tyrannically powerful revered one!
Chapter 1452: "I'll Play With You (1)"
As expected, early the next morning, after Luo Xi ascertained that things were the same at the city's north, he came storming into the City Lord's Manor, his face darkened.
The City Lord had suffered a great shock yesterday and had fallen so sick he was confined in bed. His ankle that Ye Sha had stomped on was thickly wrapped up with bandages and he was being cared for by his concubines so well that he was almost crooning as he lay in bed.
When Luo Xi came in, his face was terrifyingly dark.
"Why is the task I asked you to deal with still not settled! ?" Luo Xi asked as he looked at the pudgy and obese City Lord, his eyes filled with disdain.
The City Lord swung his gaze over to look at Luo Xi, his heart sneering but his face looking shocked and startled.
"All of you are dismissed." The City Lord got everyone within the room to go out before he started sobbing and wailing in front of Luo Xi. "It's not that I didn't want to go deal with it, but I really am not able to do anything about it! I had wanted to find an excuse to confiscate those lofts to make them mine but that kid was just too smart. He paid three times the asking price to buy over both the deeds to the houses and to the lands they sat on. I sent Liu Er to go stir up trouble yesterday but not only had he not succeeded, he and his gang had all died there. I led a troop of soldiers there after that and was properly snubbed and humiliated. I had wanted to shed all pretense of cordiality and would have torn right into him but I suddenly remembered that the revered one had instructed me to maintain a kindy and benevolent image before I held myself back."
Luo Xi's brows creased up even further. What the City Lord was saying wasn't wrong. His image as the benevolent Lord of the City was established only through much effort and if they wanted to continue to receive more refugees, they must not spoil that image too badly.
Luo Xi was deep in thought and his gaze then fell upon the City Lord's foot that was heavily wrapped up in bandages.
"What happened to your foot?"
The City Lord's heart jumped and he quickly tried to hide it as he said: "It's all Liu Er's fault! When I heard that he and all his men were killed up there, I was so shocked I fell heavily, and broke my ankle."
Luo Xi's glance lingered on the City Lord for a moment longer and seemed to have believed the City Lord's words.
"The refugees who were supposed to report to the City Lord's Manor still had not appeared. If that place up in the city's north is not properly dealt with, those pieces of trash would just remain there for good, which would greatly delay what the revered one wants us to accomplish." Luo Xi then went on to say.
"That's for sure." The City Lord heaved a sigh of relief.
Luo Xi then threw the City Lord a look of contempt. "You're really a useless good for nothing. You can't even deal with such a small matter properly and need to trouble me to do it."
"I know, you're naturally much stronger than I am." The City Lord said quickly, in a hurry to butter up Luo Xi, but in his heart, he was greeting all past eighteen generations of Luo Xi ancestors an entire round. "I wonder what plans Luo Xi has up his sleeve?"
"Have you forgotten what kind of a place the Fortune Spring Hall is? No matter how great that place in the city's north is, if a few lives were lost up there, those old fogeys would not dare to continue to remain there!" Luo Xi said, his eyes lighting up with a venomous glint.
He said a few more words to the City Lord and then flung his sleeves as he turned to leave.
Luo Xi's foot had just stepped out when the City Lord immediately summoned his trusted aide. After quickly writing a short and concise letter, he got his trusted aide to deliver the letter to the city's north.
"My Lord, you want me to deliver this letter to the city's north?" The trusted aide asked as he looked at the City Lord incredulously.
The City Lord then said: "Did you see anyone come to this manor yesterday?"
The trusted aide shook his head.
The City Lord then sighed morosely and said: "Then don't ask so much. Go deliver it quickly and make sure no one sees you."
"Yes!"
The City Lord looked upon the trusted aide's departing back and his heart was shrouded in a layer of cold chill. When Jun Wu Xie had come to the City Lord's Manor yesterday, everyone within the manor had been knocked out and thrown together in the backyard.
Chapter 1453: "I'll Play With You (2)"
But what was really strange was that after they awoke, they all acted like nothing had happened at all, none have them having any memory of having been knocked unconscious at all. For a period of time after they woke up, they were all acting like they had lost their memory, each of them just going back to the places they were supposed to be at, and then coming fully awake only a moment later, reverting back to normal.
That strange scene, was enough to cause the hair on the City Lord to stand, making him realize that Jun Wu Xie was truly unfathomable.
Jun Wu Xie had received the City Lord's secret letter very quickly. The City Lord had revealed Luo Xi's intentions in the letter and based on what she understood about Luo Xi, Jun Wu Xie made her own guesses on the methods Luo Xi would use soon after.
"It will just be another round of child's play." Jun Wu Xie said as she held the letter over the candle flame, watching it being engulfed bit by bit.
Jun Wu Yao sat directly across from her, a faint smile across his lips. "Little Xie seems to be very disappointed?"
"Do I?" Jun Wu Xie asked, her eyebrow lifting slightly.
Jun Wu Yao then replied with a laugh: "You're right. The fact that Luo Xi would think of using such childish methods to want to create trouble for you, it is really rather funny."
When it came to skills with poisons and antidotes, Jun Wu Yao had never met anyone who was more outstanding than Jun Wu Xie was. Even though she was born in the Lower Realm, her expertise with medicine and skill with poison had even astounded him at times.
Sometimes, Jun Wu Yao was also very curious where Jun Wu Xie had picked up her abilities from. It seemed like she was already equipped with all of that from the moment he had first met her.
Anyone who dared to try to show Jun Wu Xie up with medicine or poison would all just end up humiliating themselves.
"Luo Xi and the revered one are in communication with each other. I will only need to force Luo Xi into a corner with no other way out for him and the person behind him will naturally make a move." Jun Wu Xie said indifferently.
The bait had been hooked and the line cast, all she had to do was to wait for the fish to bite.
In the deep of night and all was still, several suspicious shadowy figures infiltrated into the rows of lofts in the city's north. The moon was high up in the sky and the place was quiet so late at night. The several men silently gathered together and one of them distributed several palm sized paper packets into the hand of every single one of them as he said in a low whisper: "All of you listen closely. This drug kills upon contact with blood. All of you are to toss them into the water of all the nearby wells. Do not miss out any one of them."
The other black robed men all nodded, and they dispersed very quickly.
They thought they had been silent and soundless and nobody had detected them. But unbeknownst to them, within a loft unit that stood independently, a tiny figure was hidden within the darkness, her eyes seeing every move they made.
"How many wells are there nearby?" Jun Wu Xie asked from within the darkness.
Ye Sha's voice sounded out softly. "Seventeen. It's not used just by us. The residents of the Clear Breeze City living nearby use them as well."
Jun Wu Xie gave out a cold laugh.
"Luo Xi us indeed more vicious than the City Lord. In order to destroy this place, he doesn't care if he is dragging a whole bunch of other innocent people into the water."
Seventeen wells. And not just the refugees drink the water from them. The citizens living nearby drew their water from them as well and with just a rough estimation, these seventeen wells would at least kill a few thousand people.
Jun Wu Xie watched everything in silence, until the black robed men had finished with their task and left silently.
She then strolled down unhurriedly, making her way straight towards the well nearest to her. She drew out a bucket of water and checked it through.
Moments later, that pair of icy clear eyes were filled with disappointment.
Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly tossed two bottles of elixirs to Ye Sha.
"Drop two pills into each well." Upon saying that, Jun Wu Xie immediately walked away, her enthusiasm waning.
Chapter 1454: "I'll Play With You (3)"
Ye Sha watched Jun Wu Xie's back that was slowly becoming smaller with distance in silence.
[Just how inadequate was the poison in these wells that it could cause his Young Miss to become so sorely disappointed, that drove out every ounce of fight in her! ?]
Within the Fortune Spring Hall, Luo Xi stood just outside of the candlelight's glow, his face filled with satisfaction.
"Has everything been completed?"
"Yes."
"Very good." Luo Xi nodded his head and turned around to gaze at the flickering lone candle flame, his eyes filling up with vicious venom. "There might be quite a number of deaths occurring within this city tomorrow, I think the prices of coffins are going to rise quite a bit."
"Young Master is unparalleled when it comes to his schemes and that poison was even concocted by the Young Master yourself. The poison is highly lethal and no one throughout the lands will be able to counter its effects. You will surely succeed!"
Luo Xi smiled slightly and waved his hand dismissively. "Alright, it's good that you know that. Let's just wait to watch the show tomorrow then. One more thing, prepare more straw mats so that I can give them to all those "poor" refugees tomorrow to wrap up the dead bodies. Hahaha....."
Early the next morning, Luo Xi was full of anticipation as he sat with his face full of smiles in his manor to await news of the many deaths that would occur in the city's north. But.....
He sat there till the sun reached its zenith and he did not receive a single report of any death!
Feeling highly puzzled, Luo Xi immediately sent people up to the city's north to check on the situation and when his subordinate returned, the news he brought back immediately stunned Luo Xi.
"What did you say! ?" Luo Xi's eyes were wide with incredulity as he stared at his subordinate kneeling before him.
The man said mournfully: "Your servant stayed and watched the city's north for four whole hours and saw many of the refugees drawing water from the wells, but..... I did not see any one of them showing any symptoms of having been poisoned."
That man was almost about to cry. There was no need to even mention anyone dying. Having seen how those refugees held large scoops and drinking directly from the well's water where they looked so carefree and uninhibited had stunned him good and proper earlier. He had seen with his own eyes just how lethal the effects of Luo Xi's poison was and one only needed a little to be swallowed into their belly before the poison had killed a healthy and strong specimen of a man in mere moments, what's more for those weak and frail refugees?
But against all reason, such a strange phenomenon had exactly happened!
"What really happened! ? Have your eyes gone blurry! ?" Luo Xi could not accept such a result at all. That poison of his had worked every single time he had used it and it had never once failed him.
The servant shook his head and said: "I had been afraid that I might be seeing things and I went around to see the situation around the other wells, but the situation was the same at every single one of them."
Luo Xi fell back into his chair with a crash, the colour on his face turning an ugly shade.
"How did it turn out like this..... How could it have turned out like this..... It is absolutely impossible! My poison..... How could it have no effect..... Go! Go out there and bring in a man to test out the poison. I just can't believe that the fault lies with my drug!"
Very soon, a scrawny little youth was dragged into Luo Xi's room, He was forcefully fed the poison and within two minutes, that youth lay dead upon the ground with blood flowing out from all seven orifices.
Staring at all the blood upon the floor, Luo Xi was becoming more and more puzzled.
There was obviously no problem with the poison, so why hadn't a single one of those refugees in the city's north died?
"All of you will go there once more tonight! Triple the amount of poison and pour them all in!" Luo Xi spat through gritted teeth.
"Yes!"
However.....
Under the deep night sky, after the sneaky bunch of black robed men had left, Jun Wu Xie went once again to the well to inspect it for a while. This time, she did not even bother to say a single word before she tossed two bottles of elixirs to Ye Sha in disappointment, quickly returning back to bed to sleep.
Ye Sha stood there holding the elixir bottles, his face looking highly mournful. At that moment, he really felt like running over to Luo Xi to go tell him to come up with a poison a little higher class and more magnificent to use next time. Look at how this clumsy poison he used here had made the Young Miss lost all interest that she couldn't even be bothered to give it another glance!
Chapter 1455: "Asking to be Humiliated Again (1)"
For several consecutive days, Luo Xi still did not give up, but everyday only brought him a heavier blow as the days passed. All the heaps of poison thrown into the wells had been for total naught, causing not even a ripple which enraged him greatly as he harshly berated his subordinates one time after another.
But the situation was even becoming worse.
It was not known how the refugees who were allowed into the Clear Breeze City daily became aware of the situation in the city's north and all of them who had just come in for only a few hours would immediately pack up their things from the refugee camp and head towards the city's north. Such a situation caused Luo Xi to be unable to remain sitting back and doing nothing about it where he stormed right into the City Lord's Manor to chide the City Lord for his lack of action.
The City Lord expressed that he had already been trying very hard as well but with such good conditions in the city's north, only an idiot would reject it. He had sent people to stop the refugees from moving but they had failed utterly, and the City Lord was saying that he was feeling entirely helpless on what else he could do.
The City Lord had even claimed that despite his injury, he was really mentally and physically exhausted, infuriating Luo Xi so badly his face went from white to green in fury.
Luo Xi had tried everything he could think of. When the poisoning of the wells did not work, he had proceeded to try to tamper with the vegetables that were sent to the city's north but the result had been the same as before, all the poison seemingly sunken to the bottom of the sea, where he heard nothing about it at all.
Seeing the number of refugees growing day by day and they were not able to bring out a single refugee out anymore, their plans had been completely disrupted.
With great food and drinks coupled with a nice place to live in, who would want to leave?
What Luo Xi feared most from before had come to pass as fact which caused him to become as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
Unable to tolerate it all any further, Luo Xi decided that he would go up to the city's north himself, and this time, he would make an appearance as the "great benefactor" he was known as.
The refugees in the city's north had all already changed completely. Although it had only been barely two weeks' time but after their most immediate needs of having warm meals and a proper roof over their heads settled, their temperament and the colour on their faces had greatly improved. And with the political lesson Jun Wu Xie had schooled them with the last time, the refugees had learnt to lend support and help to each other. If any of them got into a conflict with any of the original residents in the city, they knew they had to band together to protect their own people.
When Luo Xi arrived at the city's north and found that all he saw before his eyes was completely different from the last time he came here, the scene of thriving harmony pricked at his heart that made him wince, the smile upon his face suddenly stiffening quite a bit.
"Young Master Luo! You've come!" The refugees quickly recognized Luo Xi.
Luo Xi quickly pushed down the rage heating up inside and put on a wide smile to say: "I heard that everyone had come here and I was a little worried, so I came here to have a look myself."
Regardless what kind of personality Luo Xi really possessed, in the eyes of many of those refugees he was a very "kind" person, and hence the attitude of the refugees towards him was not that stiff.
"Young Master Luo, this place is great. Young Master Jun is a very good person and we eat and sleep well in this place. We even have warm clothes to wear here and Young Master Jun would even get people to tend to our illness if we happen to fall sick."
"Ya, that's right! Although Young Master Jun is a little cold as a person, but he his really good to us. A few days ago, my little bean back home had a fever and Young Master Jun brought us some medicine. My little bean recovered completely just after one dose!" When speaking of Jun Wu Xie, those refugees became highly excited and vigorous, each one competing with the next to sing their praises of Jun Wu Xie's kindness and unbelievable benevolence, like there was no greater person than Jun Wu Xie across these vast lands.
Luo Xi fought hard to maintain the feigned smile upon his face, as he patiently listened to the refugees sing Jun Wu Xie's praises, his heart almost bursting from the pent up rage that he wished he could just drag Jun Wu Xie out and chew her up alive.
"Is that so? So Young Master Jun is such a good person..... I wonder..... where will Young Master Jun be now? I happen to have something I need to discuss with him." Luo Xi said in an amicable tone although his heart was overflowing with anger.
Chapter 1456: "Undercurrents (1)"
The refugees immediately paused and hesitated a moment, none of them daring to say a word about it. With the previous lesson from the incident with the City Lord, they had all learnt not to speak carelessly anymore.
Luo Xi had thought that his image as the "great benefactor" would be of some use but he was made to realize that when it came to affairs that concerned Jun Wu Xie, his title was seen to be completely useless on these refugees.
No matter how much Luo Xi tried to persuade them, no one responded to him in the least. All the refugees suddenly came up with all sorts of excuses to escape from there. The previous incident had nearly brought a lot of trouble to Jun Wu Xie and the refugees had all been feeling very guilty about it. Now, none of them dared to say a single word about it.
In just a short while, the crowd of refugees who had gathered around Luo Xi suddenly dispersed, leaving him to stand there alone with his attendant to stare at each other in frustration.
Luo Xi was almost about to explode and his face turned a dark green shade.
Jun Wu Xie stood by the window of her loft unit, enjoying the sight of Luo Xi looking utterly exasperated.
"Young Miss, do you need me to go down there to have him dealt with?" Ye Sha said in a cold stoic voice.
Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
A lowly pawn like Luo Xi was not worth her attention and she had no interest in wasting time with him. She only need to force the situation hard enough and the one hidden behind the scenes would act.
Finding himself unceremoniously snubbed, Luo Xi could only storm off in a rage. He couldn't allow things to continue on like this and he immediately released a messaging pigeon when he got back, before plopping himself back onto a chair with his jaws tightly clenched together.
"You're inviting that person to come here?" The servant asked as he looked warily at Luo Xi.
To which Luo Xi answered: "Or what? We've come so far already. Or should I allow that kid to do as he please in this city? The City Lord is also a useless douchebag and when the revered one comes, I will make sure he pays!"
The system that they had managed to set up and develop within the Clear Breeze City had been turned into a mess when Jun Wu Xie appeared. And within all that chaos, someone had been watching all of it while keeping himself hidden.
"From which palace is that kid in the city's north from? He has really kicked up quite a storm the moment he came here." The man seated within the restaurant said, swirling the cup of wine in his hand with one of his eyebrows lifted as he looked at the handsome cold faced youth.
"Isn't it just so interesting? We have seldom met anyone so daring and the Palace of the Flame Demons had really lost quite a bit in this situation." The handsome youth turned himself around, the corners of his lips turned up in a bloodthirsty smile.
"I had not expected that you would be willing to come down to the Lower Realm as you had really given me a big fright the last time you returned back. I noticed that you seem to be looking for someone all this while, could it have anything to do with what happened the last time, Gu Ying?" The man asked inquisitively.
The handsome looking youth standing at the side was the very same person who had been wounded by Jun Wu Xie and had to be sent back to the Middle Realm, Gu Ying!
The man's words caused the smile on Gu Ying's lips to stiffen a little and his eyes to narrow as the image of a slender and delicate figure appeared in his mind.
[Jun Xie!]
The image of that figure had felt as if it had been branded right into his heart, where he would feel a throbbing pain everytime he thought of it. That was a humiliation that he would never be able to forget!
"If you have the leisure to care about my affairs, you should instead be using it to think how to deal with those guys from the Palace of Flame Demons. The guys from the Palace of Flame Demons had kicked up such a tumultuous storm down here in the Lower Realm and what they are seeking to achieve would surely not be something simple. The Twelve Palaces have each installed their own people here within the Clear Breeze City and if you are thinking of sitting back and wait to reap the benefits from the efforts of others, you'll also have to see if you possess the capabilities to do that." Gu Ying said sneeringly.
The man waved his hand dismissively. "We are not as mad as those people from the Palace of Flame Demons. But having all seven of the maps gone missing is rather unexpected. I had even gone to the Zephyr Academy before but did not manage to find anything. It seems like the person who stole the maps had left the place a long time ago. I think the situation over at the Palace of Flame Demons should be the same and I heard that they even sent one of their Elders who had then died at the Heaven's End Cliff. That must have driven the Palace of Flame Demons into rage and they had then stirred up so much trouble down here in the Lower Realm. If the Lower Realm really gets wiped out by them, wouldn't it then make it easier for us to search for the Dark Emperor's tomb?"
Chapter 1457: "Undercurrents (2)"
"That does not concern me at all." Gu Ying said as he narrowed his eyes. He had come back down to the Lower Realm for one thing, and that was only to find that person!
That person who made him suffer the worst humiliation throughout his entire life, Jun Xie!
The man looked at Gu Ying and he could not help but feel a chill creep into his heart. Gu Ying had always possessed a bloodthirsty personality and after experiencing that incident, Gu Ying had suddenly been felt to have become much more dangerous.
"It doesn't matter, we'll just wait and see. The search at the Heaven's End Cliff is still ongoing and the people from the other palaces who are hidden within the Clear Breeze City have not made any moves as well. If they do not move, I would naturally not go taint myself with these muddied water."
At that moment of the man's agreement, many pairs of eyes were already hidden in many places within the Clear Breeze City, witnessing everything that was happening in that city.
Nobody would have expected that in that unremarkable little city in the Lower Realm, there would be so many spies of the Twelve Palaces hidden within!
The message that Luo Xi send out was responded to very quickly. A man dressed in black clothes came walking in through the large gates of the Clear Breeze City, the powerful aura surrounding him immediately dispersing the crowd of refugees squeezed before the gates. The several guards at the gates had upon seeing that person's countenance, immediately fallen to their knees in a tremble.
The black clothed man's face was dark and solemn as he slowly walked into the Clear Breeze City, heading straight towards the Fortune Spring Hall.
When Luo Xi received news of the man's arrival, he immediately got up intending to go out to welcome him but that black clothed man had already appeared right before his room door.
"Greetings to the revered one!" Luo Xi immediately fell to his knees to pay his respects.
The black clothed man's face was cold and hard, and he glanced at Luo Xi from his higher vantage point a brief moment when he suddenly lifted a foot to send Luo Xi flying with a kick. Luo Xi crashed heavily into the chair behind him and the chair was smashed into pieces. Excruciating pain filled his entire body but Luo Xi could only continue to kneel on the ground in a shivering heap, the blood flowing down freely from the corners of his mouth but he did not even dare to groan in the slightest.
"Useless trash! You can't even deal with such a small matter, what use are you to me! ?" The black clothed man admonished as he glared at Luo Xi with a frown, his eyes filled with contempt.
Luo Xi then said, his body still shaking: "I plead for the revered one to calm your anger! I have already tried everything within my means but that kid up in the city's north seems a little strange. All the great heaps of poison I threw in there had no effect and assassins I sent there did not even return."
If he wasn't left with no other choice, Luo Xi would not have dared to agitate the revered one carelessly as the revered one's rage was not something he would be able to endure. But all the underhanded tricks and schemes he had devised against the city's north had been of no use. From the initial attempts of using poison till the last time he sent assassins to kill the youth, they had all failed just as miserably. In the end, when even the men who had only gone close to the city's north to keep watch had not been able to return alive, Luo Xi decided that he had no other choice but to invite the revered one here.
"So, what happened here?" The black clothed man asked as he sat himself upon a chair, his brows furrowed as he stared at Luo Xi.
Luo Xi immediately told the black clothed man about everything that had happened in the Clear Breeze City throughout this period and spiced up the part when he spoke about the City Lord's lack of action and effort towards it.
"Luo Xi has disappointed the revered one's trust in me and Luo Xi is utterly ashamed! But that Young Master Jun's identity is truly rather suspicious and is not someone I am able to deal with. Being left with no other choice, I could only beg for the revered one to intervene."
"Young Master Jun?"
"Yes, his identity is highly mysterious and I have not been able to dig up anything at all."
"From what you are telling me, it means that you have not even sent a single one of the "medicine man" out throughout this entire period?" The black clothed man's voice suddenly became chillier.
The medicine men he mentioned, meant refugees who had been fed the poison.
"That..... That's..... right....." Luo Xi stammered with a gulp, his head sinking even lower onto the ground.
"What a bunch of useless trash!" The black clothed man shot to his feet in rage with a flick of his sleeves. "I am rather keen to see what kind of a person dares to stir up such turmoil here in this place!"
Chapter 1458: "Undercurrents (3)"
Inside the loft unit in the city's north, Jun Wu Xie was playing a round of chess with Jun Wu Yao. As she put down the chess piece, to take out one of Jun Wu Yao's chess pieces, Jun Wu Xie raised her head up and saw.....
Someone's focus was completely not on the chessboard and was instead looking at her with an amused expression.
"If you lose one more time, your punishment will be to go sweep the floor." Jun Wu Xie said as her eyebrow arched up.
Jun Wu Yao was slightly taken aback and then laughed in spite of himself. "As long as you want it, I can go sweep even without having to lose."
Ye Sha and Ye Mei kept their gazes looking stoically outside the window. With the subtle changes coming over Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao's relationship, the two of them had to face this display of affection that felt rather awkward for them, making them start to really envy Ye Jie who was busying herself downstairs.
However, just as Jun Wu Xie was about to open her mouth to respond, she suddenly felt a powerful presence approaching her at an extremely high speed!
Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed and she turned her head to look out of the window.
"The big fish is finally biting."
"Is Little Xie going to test out your powers?" Jun Wu Yao asked as he held up his chin resting upon his palm, his eyes fixed on the side of Jun Wu Xie's face.
"Why not?" Jun Wu Xie replied with her eyebrow arched up.
When Qiao Chu and the gang were at the Heaven's End Cliff, they had fought with people from the Twelve Palaces then. But as she had concentrated fully on her cultivation, she had not truly gone up against anyone from the Twelve Palaces. The only opportunity she had to use her powers was only against the Poison Men.
She was rather curious herself how she would fare against people from the Twelve Palaces.
Jun Wu Yao gave a light laugh.
"As you wish, but this one is not an average opponent. From what I am able to feel, his powers should be similar to that Elder from the Palace of Flame Demons." Although he was not going to be involved, Jun Wu Yao still did not forget to remind Jun Wu Xie of the opponent's powers.
"If you can defeat him, then among the people throughout the Twelve Palaces, not many people would be a match for you."
Throughout the Twelve Palaces, the Palace Lords were the ones who held the greatest power, followed by the Elder ranked ones. Elder Hui from before had been one of them and he had possessed very strong power or otherwise Ye Sha would not have succumbed at his hands that day. The person fast approaching them today actually possessed powers of a similar level to Elder Hui!
Jun Wu Xie got up slowly. "Then I should really give it a good test."
After having fished for so long and she had finally gotten a bite, how could she miss it?
On the outside in the city's north, a black clothed man that was exuding a terrifying and murderous aura came. When the refugees nearby saw that person appear, they subconsciously gulped. Instinct made them unable to take another step forward and they all scattered to hide away carefully.
The black clothed man's cold eyes surveyed the surroundings and he suddenly raised up a hand as Purple Spirit energies shrouded his entire body. A ray of Purple Spirit light shot out from his palm and immediately blasted against one of the lofts right before him!
A resounding crash rang out in an instant and the tall loft building was smashed in an instant!
Anguished wailing could then be heard in that instant!
The refugees who had hidden themselves watched the scene before them with eyes wide and mouths agape. There were several hundreds people living in that block of lofts and with one loud crash, the lofts had toppled, pieces of rubble large and small scattering all over the ground, to kick up a billowing cloud of dust. Under that resounding crash, they could clearly hear the mournful cries that hailed from death!
A thick foul stench of blood immediately spread through the air within the entire northern edge of the city, where several hundred lives had been destroyed together with the lofts in an instant.
The refugees stared in disbelief at the loft building that lay a heap of rubble, terror creeping deep into the hearts of everyone there!
Chapter 1459: "Stick Your Face Out (1)"
The black clothed man stood watching everything. Under the cloud of dust flying, he stood with his eyes narrowed, his low and raspy voice suddenly reverberating within everyone's years.
"I do not care who you might be. Today, if you do not appear, I will kill every single person here!" The black clothed man's voice was filled with intense murder, at the moment he opened his mouth, he had charged straight towards a refugee, holding the person within a tight grip.
Luo Xi had followed behind and arrived here in a rush. When he saw the highly tyrannical ways of the black clothed man, his heart filled up with delight!
He knew that the black clothed man held immense powers and everything he saw at that moment greatly relieved him.
"The revered one is truly powerful." Luo Xi hurriedly stepped forward to bootlick.
The black clothed man however just snorted in disdain.
The refugee gripped in the black clothed man's hand had his face filled with terror and the others people around them were immensely shocked by the enemy's strength.
A Purple Spirit!
Even if every single one of them pounced on him, it would not be enough to take on that one man.
What shocked all the refugees even more was the presence of Luo Xi beside the black clothed man. In the hearts of the refugees, Luo Xi was a good person and they would never have thought that the "great benefactor" they respected so highly would bring such a demon to this place.
"Hey! That one named Jun! If you are going to continue to be a tortoise who hides within your shell today, then you shall see all these pieces of trash die right before your eyes!" With the black robed man on his side, Luo Xi's courage was immediately boosted as he stood upon the ground and shouted loudly.
That highly arrogant demeanor, made all the refugees feel like jumping forward to tear that hypocrite into shreds.
They must have been blind in the beginning, to actually think this sly jackal was a good person!
"Smashed my lofts and you're still barking?" Suddenly, a cold chilly voice was heard by everyone's ears.
All the refugees immediately turned their heads in search for the owner of that voice, expressions of joy brightening up the people's faces.
The black clothed man's eyebrow raised up as he looked at the white clothed youth walking slowly in approach. That youth was small in stature and his countenance was unremarkable and looked mediocre, but the youth possessed a pair of extremely icy pair of eyes, which made one unable to forget them after seeing them once.
"You are that Young Master Jun these people talked about?" The black clothed man said as he stared at Jun Wu Xie before him.
He had not thought that the person who had driven Luo Xi and the City Lord to their wits end would actually be such a emaciated looking youth.
"Yes." Jun Wu Xie answered, her eyebrow arching up. She could clearly feel how intense the Purple Spirit energy that was emanating from the black clothed man was.
[Not an average character indeed.]
"Good, at least you have the guts to admit it." The black clothed man said with a cold smile.
The Clear Breeze City is not a place that you can stir up so much trouble. No matter who you are, you will have to die here today."
"Oh?" Jun Wu Xie's eyebrow lifted, her chilly eyes swinging over to the black clothed man. "Stir trouble? Instead of saying that I stirred up trouble, you might as well say that I disrupted your grand scheme."
Jun Wu Xie turned the point around, her eyes flashing with a frosty chill.
"Allowing weak and frail refugees into the city and then feeding them with lethal poison to turn them into puppets to be manipulated under your hands, to finally carry that terrifying poison to various places throughout the lands in order to create more Poison Men..... What a great ploy! Treating people's lives trifling dirt! Who gave you that right to do whatever you please so arrogantly?"
Jun Wu Xie's words were like a bolt of lightning that flashed down from clear skies, striking the hearts of all the refugees . Their eyes stared widely, unable to believe what they were hearing.
Luo Xi looked at Jun Wu Xie and banking on the fact that he had the black clothed man supporting him, he took a step forward to say in a sneer: "To be able to serve the revered one should be their honour."
Chapter 1460: "Stick Your Face Out (2)"
"What can these pieces of trash even do? They're just a completely useless bunch. They should be grateful to the Heavens that they are even of use to the revered one. Otherwise, if they are all left outside the city, I wonder how many days longer they would even be able to live. Letting them live as freeloaders within the city walls for so long would already be a gift of benevolence to them." Luo Xi's words were extremely harsh which angered the refugees so much they were shaking in rage, their hearts yearning to rip that man up into a million pieces.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed slightly, murder creeping into them.
"Whether a person lives or dies, is not to be decided by people like you."
"Ha! I'll say! Isn't this little kid thinking a little too much of himself? To think that you are still able to care about the affairs of others. You are going to die here today and I'll like to see how much longer that mouth of yours has to spew such garbage!" Luo Xi said triumphantly.
The black clothed man had no intentions to waste his breath on Jun Wu Xie and he immediately raised his hand wanting to strike the refugee he held in a tight grip to death!
But in the instant that his palm fell, the figure of Jun Wu Xie disappeared from her spot.
A streak of Purple Spirit energy suddenly struck the hand that the black clothed man had raised up.
The sudden strike that came caught the black robed man completely unawares. His palm took a hit and the pain stung greatly. In that moment that he was caught in surprise, the figure of Jun Wu Xie had reached right beside him, suddenly snatching the refugee he held in his other hand away, quickly delivering the refugee a distance off to safety.
By the time Jun Wu Xie was once again standing firmly upon the ground, her body was already entirely shrouded in a flare of Purple Spirit power glow!
Luo Xi stared in flabbergasted shock at the Purple Spirit energy swirling around Jun Wu Xie's body. He could absolutely not believe his own eyes! That the little youth of unknown identity would actually be.... a Purple Spirit!
This time, not only Luo Xi was astounded. The eyes of the black clothed man were equally filled with surprise when he saw the Purple Spirit energy upon Jun Wu Xie's body.
He realized that he had actually not detected what level of spirit power Jun Wu Xie really possessed earlier. It had been as if the spirit power in Jun Wu Xie's body had been shielded under some strange force and the black robed man had thought that the youth before his eyes was just another piece of trash that possessed spirit power too low for him to detect, never having once expected that the opponent would turn out to be a Purple Spirit as well!
"Who will die today, has not been decided." Jun Wu Xie said softly, her chin slightly lifted as she stared at the ashen faced Luo Xi.
The sudden appearance of two powerful Purple Spirits immediately caused a stir among all the hidden eyes within the city. All of them immediately rushed towards the spot the presence of two Purple Spirits had appeared!
"Lord Jue." Ye Sha and Ye Mei appeared behind Jun Wu Yao.
"Hmm?" Jun Wu Yao's gaze did not shift away from Jun Wu Xie in the slightest.
"There are quite a number of powerful energies headed towards us here and they are all deemed to be at the Purple Spirit level." Ye Sha said in a cold stoic tone.
The corners of Jun Wu Yao's lips curled up. "Seems like this Clear Breeze City has quite a few small shrimps and little fishes inside and they can now smell the news so they're all rushing over."
"Would Lord Jue want the few of us to go take them....."
"No need." Jun Wu Yao waved his hand dismissively as he continued to look at Jun Wu Xie and the black clothed man staring at each other and then said: "Little Xie would face up against the Twelve Palaces sooner or later. She is no longer the same as before and she can use this battle here today to serve a warning to the Twelve Palaces that the Lower Realm now has a new owner."
"But if the others were to strike as well....." Ye Sha could not help but still feel a little worried.
Jun Wu Yao instead told him: "Nobody will want to do such a thing that does not benefit them at all. The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. No one will want to play the mantis and let people from the other palaces to reap the benefits. But just in case, if they really dare to show their faces, then let Ye Gu go warm up a little."