Chapter 1471: "The Little Old Man (1)"
And it was only in that instant when he shifted his body that Jun Wu Xie saw, on the grass beside the brook, was a spotted deer that was barely still breathing.
Both the back legs of that spotted deer looked like it had been wounded by something sharp and red blood was flowing out from the wounds, staining the grass around its feet red. In the area close to where the deer's wounded legs lay, a mess of medicine was faintly spotted.
The little old man then plodded his way back with his walking stick to once again squat down beside the poor spotted deer, before he began messing around with the herbs he held in his hands.
"Little Spotty, rest assured. I will have you healed up in a while. Grandmother egg's, if I ever find out who was the one that hurt you like this, I will definitely give those scoundrels a hard time I tell you!" The little old man nagged and grumbled to himself over there as the spotted deer just lay there on the grass, not responding to him at all.
Jun Wu Xie stared at the strange sight before her eyes, and a corner of her eye twitched.
[Who can tell her from where had this dotty old man sprouted out from? Who told him that Blood Clot Grass can be applied directly onto an open wound just by chewing on it with one's mouth! ?]
Jun Wu Xie really thought she should just walk away and pretend that she did not see anything. But when she saw that the little old man began to pull out some unknown substance and was about to stuff it into the spotted deer's mouth, she suddenly felt a little..... unable to hold herself back anymore!
As a veterinarian in the past, she really couldn't force herself to stand back and watch animals being so badly "tortured".
"If you continue to do that, it wouldn't be able to live much longer." A cold and chilling voice suddenly rang out within that quiet and tranquil forest, immediately freezing the little old man who was holding a stick of some unknown substance and was trying to stuff it into the mouth of the spotted deer. He turned his head and stared at the rather good looking youth, and it was not known when he had come walking out from among the trees, his eyes looking highly displeased.
"From where has this wild kid come from? The is only one broad path leading up to the summit of Mount Fu Yao. Have you lost your way and was squatting there behind the trees?"
Jun Wu Xie swept her gaze past the old man, not intending to waste anymore of her breath on him. Towards the entire Middle Realm, she didn't really have a good impression of it.
The little old man had fully intended to properly interrogate Jun Wu Xie where she had crawled out from when he saw Jun Wu Xie suddenly walking over to the side of the spotted deer, and pulling out a handkerchief to wipe off the "unknown substance" cleanly from the spotted deer's wounds. He then saw Jun Wu Xie pull out a bottle of medicine, before opening it and slowly pouring the medicinal liquid onto the legs of the spotted deer.
"Kid! What are you doing to my Little Spotty! You cannot just haphazardly just give it any medicine you want!" Upon seeing Jun Wu Xie's actions, the little old man immediately came hobbling forward in complaint, wanting to stop the youth. But he had barely just taken two steps when he saw the gaping wounds upon the spotted deer's legs closing up, the blood that had been flowing out from the garish wounds already clotted up.
The little old man's eyes instantly flared wide, his eyes immediately fixing upon the bottle of medicine held in Jun Wu Xie's hand.
Jun Wu Xie checked the spotted deer's condition and after ascertaining that there were no other injuries, she stood up and was all ready to leave.
But then she noticed that the stern little old man was looking at the bottle of medicine she held in her hand with a kind of longing in his eyes.
"Ah, this little brother..... Er..... That..... That bottle of medicine..... Where had that come from?" The little old man asked highly hesitantly with his eyes absolutely shining.
"Is anything the matter?" Jun Wu Xie asked coldly.
The little old man rubbed his hands together and grinned sheepishly. "Erm, I have always been highly interested with things like this. You..... You don't judge me from my looks like this. I'll tell you this, I am actually a doctor!"
"Doctor?" Confusion rose in Jun Wu Xie's mind. She had heard the term doctor many times in the previous world, but never in this alternate world here.
Seeing the reaction Jun Wu Xie was giving, the little old man immediately became more excited. "Little brother, you do not know what a doctor is?"
Chapter 1472: "The Little Old Man (2)"
Jun Wu Xie shook her head in all honesty.
"A Doctor is one of the ranks for people in pursuit of Medicine. Beginning from the Disciple Healer to a Healer itself, then one moves on to a Doctor and then a Senior Doctor..... As for me, I am a Doctor, and I love to conduct research with herbs and its like." The little old man said with a chortle.
[Doctor? Him?]
Jun Wu Xie's cold clear eyes did not show the slightest emotion. Just by the way the little old man had handled the staunching of the deer's bleeding earlier, she guessed that any first year student she pulled out from medical college would do a much better job than whatever this old man did.
It could be that Jun Wu Xie's eyes had looked too much at peace which made the little old man think that she did not believe him at all. The little old man then frantically searched through his sleeves to pull out a green badge, a badge that had two wings carved out like a magnificent eagle with its wings spread wide, and within a circle in the middle of that badge, was an imprint of a maple leaf decorated with two five pointed stars below it.
"Nah! I am not pulling your leg you see? This is my Doctor's Badge." The little old man said gleefully as he looked at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie swung her glance to look at him only very briefly, the expression on her face one of high disinterest, not looking like she wanted to continue listening to such nonsense any longer.
Seeing that Jun Wu Xie was going to leave once more, the little old man was suddenly in a panic.
"Ay ay ay! You tell me why are all you young people so impatient and short tempered? Can't any of you remain for a while to hear an old man say just a few words? Hey! ! Little brother, don't go! Can't I offer you something to trade then! ? I give you something in exchange for it!" The little old man said and he shot forward with incredible speed to come stand before Jun Wu Xie.
Although Jun Wu Xie's face did not show any reaction, her heart was involuntarily startled. The speed her steps were moving at was not slow but she had not detected it in the slightest when that little old man had overtaken her and now stood before her. She realized that this man's powers far exceeded her own!
She discreetly suppressed the surprise in her heart as she turned to look at the old man who had managed to cling on and said: "What are you giving me in exchange?"
She realized at that moment that the old man was not going to give up. If she did not give up the bottle of medicine she held in her hand, she would surely have a hard time trying to shake off this old man who was definitely more than he seemed to be.
The old man saw that Jun Wu Xie had relented by acknowledging and he immediately felt all over his body for awhile. With a messy clattering, his arm was quickly filled with a bunch of medicine bottles and he put all of them on the ground with a laugh before sitting himself down upon the ground. "You can choose any one of the medicine here as an exchange for yours."
Jun Wu Xie had just come to the Middle Realm and she was still not familiar with the kind of medical knowledge they had. Seeing the whole bunch of bottles and flasks upon the ground, she suddenly grew curious. Would the people of the Middle Realm be more skilled in Medicine than those in the Lower Realm?
In the end, when Jun Wu Xie opened the first bottle and a highly pungent odour wafted out from it, her face turned even chillier.
"Who made this medicine?" Jun Wu Xie asked in a cold voice.
The little old man's eyes flashed with a trace of secret delight as he said in a deliberately mystifying voice: "Isn't the medicine great? That is actually concocted by using Ever Grass, Cow Horn Leaves and Bitter Oak, specifically targeted for people with frail bodies to use.
Jun Wu Xie asked in a cold tone: "Has anyone taken any of this medicine?"
The old man's eyebrow arched up. "It's such a precious medicine. I wouldn't give it to just anyone to drink?" The expression on his face looking highly arrogant.
"Good that you haven't." Jun Wu Xie said.
"Har?" The old man was suddenly rather dizzy.
Jun Wu Xie then told him: "If someone had drunk that, wouldn't people come demanding for the life of the person who concocted that medicine?"
"Wh..... What..... do you mean?" The old man's face was one of utter shock.
"Mixing up three kinds of herbs with such strong effects together so carelessly, doesn't he know the principle when things reached an extreme, the effects would reverse?" Jun Wu Xie said, couldn't be bothered to even look at the rest of the myriad bottles on the ground.
The old man's face immediately turned a greenish white shade. "How do you know those herbs cannot be mixed together?"
Chapter 1473: "The Little Old Man (3)"
Jun Wu Xie swept a sidelong glance at the old man and raised up her own bottle of medicine to wave it before the old man's eyes.
"I concocted this myself."
The old man's eyeballs very nearly popped out of his head.
[That medicine was made by that little kid? How was that possible!]
"You have nothing there that I can use. I'll be going." Jun Wu Xie really wasn't in the mood to chat any longer with this eccentric little old man. With a flick of her hand she tossed her own bottle of medicine to that little old man and Jun Wu Xie then lifted her foot to go about on her own way.
The little old man caught the bottle deftly and was left in his spot a little stunned, to stare after Jun Wu Xie's quickly disappearing back.
Suddenly, a flurry of hurried footsteps came floating in from within the forest. The little old man who had been stunned in his spot quickly repressed the surprise on his face and his gaze grew deep as he looked towards the man that was just stepping out from between the trees.
"Why had my Lord come down the mountain again?" The man asked highly helplessly when he saw the little old man.
The little old man carefully placed Jun Wu Xie's bottle of medicine deep into his robes and then turned to the man to say: "What? I can't even come out to take a walk around? Moreover, I have only come down to the mid sections and it is not as if I have left the mountain. What are you getting so panicked about?"
The man repeatedly went yes yes yes, his gaze drawn to the scattered medicinal bottles on the ground.
"My Lord, you've..... been out here testing out the your medicines again?" The man asked very carefully.
The little old man's face immediately stiffened and grew dark.
"Will I need you to tell me how to handle my own affairs?"
"No, of course not!"
"Pick all these up for me. Hurry up!" The little old man snapped testily, recalling how Jun Wu Xie had disparagingly snubbed his "works of art" and his face quickly felt a burn spread over his face.
"That's right, the Battle of Deities Grand Meet will begin soon and there will be a lot of people coming and going within Mount Fu Yao, which would also mean that there will be more dishonest people around as well. Go make sure all of them better behave themselves. Every single one of these non human lifeforms throughout the entire Mount Fu Yao belongs to me and tell those people from the Nine Temples and Twelve Palaces to watch themselves. If they want to cause a stir, do it on their own turf and they had better not come disrupt my peace! And! Go find out who is the one who injured Little Spotty and throw him out of Mount Fu Yao." The little old man said with his brows pinched up together.
"Little Spotty is injured?" The man's face showed a slight tinge of surprise and he was just going to check on the spotted deer's condition when he discovered that the deer was already able to stand on his own who was even walking over to come stand in front of them.
"My Lord..... Little Spotty doesn't seem to be hurt....."
"How is that possible? I saw with my own eyes....." The little old man had wanted to say something but when he turned his head and saw the spotted deer in such high spirits who was prancing around before his eyes, his eyes suddenly flashed with stunned amazement. His gaze then quickly swung to look at the wound on the spotted deer which had closed up completely.
[He had definitely seen that wound still bleeding just moments ago!]
"It's this medicine." The little old man suddenly seemed to have realized something. "Damn it! It's all your fault! You dingaling! I had wanted to "invite" that little brother to go have some tea!"
The man was completely baffled why he was suddenly being berated and did not know what to do.
The little old man stood in his spot and seemed to be thinking a moment when he suddenly asked: "Did the little imps from the Twelve Palaces say they will be holding the Battle of Deities a few days later?"
"Yes."
"Oh, then the people coming up the mountain these past few days are here to participate in the grand meet?"
"That's right."
"Alright. You go tell them to move the time to hold the Battle of Deities Grand Meet to half a month later." The little old man suddenly just spewed those highly shocking words from his mouth.
"Huh?"
"Huh your fat head! Aren't you gonna hurry up and go tell them what I said already! ?" The little old man glared with his eyes bulging at the man. [That little brother has quite admirable skills in Medicine and he would surely be snatched up by the people from the Twelve Palaces in the Battle of Deities Grand Meet. He wasn't about to let go of that fat piece of meat almost in his mouth.]
Chapter 1474: "Past Sin (1)"
The summit of Mount Fu Yao was a wide expanse of space and as its peak was flat and even, its terrain wide, the entire summit of the mountain looked just like a vast city. Up on the mountaintop, there were not only a dazzling array of merchant shops, there were also all kinds of inns with restaurants that supplied lodgings.
But the bustle on Mount Fu Yao would only last for just a few days. Once the Battle of Deities ended, the entire Mount Fu Yao would once again be cut off from the rest of the world, where access into the place would be denied to anyone. Even for the disciples of the Cloud Brook Academy at Mount Fu Yao's summit, it was only at specific times every month that they were allowed to descend down the mountain, while at all other times, regardless of the reason, anyone who dared barge into Mount Fu Yao would turn into fertilizer that nourished their vast lush expanse of land. Any disciple that dared to leave on their own accord would be put on the Cloud Brook Academy's blacklist.
It was rumoured that the Cloud Brook Academy was established by the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces, two big major powers. But happenings that occured after that was rather interesting to note. No matter how badly the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces fought, not a single person among the two powers dared to touch the Cloud Brook Academy at all. Even though the Cloud Brook Academy sat right atop Mount Fu Yao which was the place that held the highest concentration of spirit power in its air, not one dared make the slightest move against the place.
Jun Wu Xie found herself a guest room at the summit of Mount Fu Yao to stay in and based on her calculations of the time that had passed, the Battle of Deities Grand Meet would begin in a few days. When that time came, not only the multitude of young talents throughout the Middle Realm would congregate here, even people from the Twelve Palaces would be mobilized.
Afterall, the reason this Battle of Deities Grand Meet was brought forward, had been the Twelve Palaces' idea.
But.....
Although the summit of Mount Fu Yao was vast, the places that people could actually reside in was highly limited and that had created a sudden inadequate amount of guests rooms to house everybody. When Jun Wu Xie was led by the waiter to her room, that room already had three other youths sitting in there. The room that was not too big nor too small had four beds placed in it and it seemed a little squeezy.
Jun Wu Xie's gaze swung over the faces of the three people and she quickly sat down upon her own bed.
As they were all youths of similar age, there was naturally no need for them to ask the reason they had come to this place.
As opponents who were secretly competing against each other, there wasn't much love or courtesy to even speak of.
After having sat down for a while, the room was still filled with silence. Two of the youths left the room one after the other, and when the room's door was shut, only Jun Wu Xie and a tall handsome looking youth was left in the room.
Jun Wu Xie sat at her bedside, quietly stroking the little black cat's fur.
The youth who had the bed by the window then suddenly stood up, and then walked towards Jun Wu Xie.
In that room with its closed door, he reached both of his hands out and with a heave, he.....
Carried up Jun Wu Xie.
"Hahahaha! Little Xie! This must be fate! !" The tall youth said with a goofy grin on his face, spinning in circles within the room.
Jun Wu Xie rolled her eyes as she was being spun around and without any other choice, she tapped the overly excited youth upon the head.
"Dumb Qiao, put me down."
Qiao Chu had really not thought that after he was separated from his companions, he would actually encounter such a great coincidence when he got himself a bed at this inn, to really bump into Jun Wu Xie like this! It must be known that in the instant that he saw Jun Wu Xie earlier, he had almost wanted to leap up into the air with pure joy.
Fortunately Jun Wu Xie had shot him a cold gaze which immediately made him realize the situation they were in.
In order for them to infiltrate into the Twelve Palaces, the fact that the several "Soul Purging Nails" knew each other well must definitely not be exposed. Hence, in front of outsiders, they all need to maintain themselves as complete strangers or they wouldn't have needed to split themselves up and come to Mount Fu Yao through different avenues.
Chapter 1475: "Past Sin (2)"
After Qiao Chu had kicked up enough of a fuss, he put Jun Wu Xie down. He continued to look at Jun Wu Xie's face whose looks had been slightly altered, and continued to show a foolish grin on his face.
"If you had not been carrying Little Black all this time, I might not have been able to recognise you."
Qiao Chu had seen the level of disguise Jun Wu Xie was capable of. She would only need to slightly change each of her facial features a little and she would immediately transform into a completely different person. Even people who were on highly familiar terms with her had almost not been able to recognize her. Fortunately, not many people would carry a little black cat around with them as they moved everywhere in this world and Little Black also sported a ring of golden fur around its neck, so Qiao Chu had been certain that he had not been mistaken.
Jun Wu Xie threw a glance his way but did not say anything, but.....
To be able to see Qiao Chu in this place, she was rather glad about it as well.
"Have you seen any of the others?" Jun Wu Xie asked as she propped her chin up on one hand.
Qiao Chu shook his head. They had followed what Jun Wu Xie had told them and split themselves up to go to six different places, where they set off at different times. With such a great number of people here that came to Mount Fu Yao, being able to meet Jun Wu Xie like this was just a stroke of pure luck.
"Haiz! Having returned back to my homeland, why do I feel that everything is so highly unfamiliar?" Qiao Chu lamented as he laid back onto his bed, his eyes narrowing up as he stared at the ceiling. When he was young, his family had been forced through drastic changes and he had fortunately been saved by Yan Bu Gui which allowed him to escape out of it alive. His memories from that young age had gradually faded away and everything in the Middle Realm that he saw now was strange and highly unfamiliar to him.
"It doesn't matter if you find the place unfamiliar. Do you still remember your objective?"
Jun Wu Xie asked.
Qiao Chu clenched his jaws together and his eyes that had been nonchalant grew hard.
"Palace of Flame Demons. How could I forget?"
After saying that, Qiao Chu fell silent a moment before he suddenly sat up.
"On my way here, I encountered a convoy of horse carriages from the Palace of All Life. It seems that the Twelve Palaces had really sent their people here to Mount Fu Yao. Your deductions were just spot on."
Jun Wu Xie then replied: "The Twelve Palaces had created such a ruckus and had even struck at the Lower Realm. It is impossible that they will not seek the talents in the Middle Realm. Since they were the ones who asked for the Battle of Deities to be brought forward, they would naturally not miss such a great chance. When the times comes, you and Brother Hua will just have to grab that opportunity and make the Twelve Palaces lead the wolves into their houses themselves and that will do."
"Lead the wolves into their houses? I like the way you put it!" Qiao Chu said eagerly, the hatred he kept deep within his heart almost exploding out of him.
"At that time, do not slip up." Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Qiao Chu. She was confident of her plans, but she was still a little worried whether Qiao Chu and her other companions would be able to hold down the hatred simmering in their hearts when they were once again faced with the murderers of their parents.
"Rest assured. I will not cause any disruption to your plans." Qiao Chu said with a snicker.
Jun Wu Xie spoke a little while more with Qiao Chu and then walked out from the room. It was different for her when compared with Qiao Chu and the others as everyplace in the Middle Realm was strange to her. She had never been here before and she knew nothing about the place. Everything that she knew was what she had been told by Qiao Chu and her other companions.
The area on Mount Fu Yao that had been temporarily opened up to everyone consisted mostly of merchant shops and inns, but what was different was that the shops' merchandise were mainly weapons and elixirs, basically catering to the youths who had come to take part in the Battle of Deities Grand Meet.
Jun Wu Xie walked around among them. She did not know much about weapons, but she knew a lot about elixirs. She purchased a few bottles of elixirs that boasted high prices and inspected them at a place without people around. After which.....
All those elixirs were mercilessly tossed by Jun Wu Xie into a little ditch at the side.
Chapter 1476: "From Past Sin (3)"
When night fell, the mountaintop at Mount Fu Yao was aglow with the light from lanterns put up. Not just the youths who had come to participate in the Battle of Deities Grand Meet wandered around, even the Cloud Brook Academy allowed their disciples a temporary rest at that time and so within the crowded sea of people, it was not hard to spot youths dressed in their white uniforms trimmed with blue at the edges chattering happily away.
To be able to be admitted into the Cloud Brook Academy, it can be said that they were the most elite bunch of prodigies among the Middle Realm's rookies. They had stood out tops in previous meets of the Battle of Deities and have received the invitation from the Nine Temples and Twelve Palaces in order for them to gain entry into the Cloud Brook Academy. The Battle of Deities Grand Meet was held once every ten years and every time the Battle of Deities Grand Meet commenced, it was time for the Cloud Brook Academy to accept new disciples. But as the last Battle of Deities Grand Meet was held just four shorts years before, these youths wearing the uniforms of the Cloud Brook Academy were all people who had gained the top spots in the last meet and had been picked by the Twelve Palaces and Nine Temples.
It it was said that the Zephyr Academy represented one of the top three most elite academies of the Lower Realm, then the Cloud Brook Academy's position in the Middle Realm had surpassed all other academies and not a single academy could hope to compare with it.
Within the Cloud Brook Academy, there wasn't a single commoner in there. From the moment they were admitted into the Cloud Brook Academy, upon their back would be branded with the brand of the Twelve Palaces or the Nine Temples.
That had allowed the disciples of the Cloud Brook Academy to see themselves as greater and more privileged than others.
Jun Wu Xie watched the bunch of youths dressed in the uniform of the Cloud Brook Academy from within the crowd. If things went according to plan, then Qiao Chu and her other companions would soon attract the attention of the people from Twelve Palaces in the upcoming Battle of Deities Grand Meet and she did not have to worry about them being unable to infiltrate inside.
But as to the arrangements to be made for herself, Jun Wu Xie still had not fully decided.
Naturally, she could do it just like Qiao Chu and the rest of the gang, to use their spirit powers to attract their attention. But once she used her spirit powers, she would be discovered by others that her ring spirit was a plant spirit.
Jun Wu Xie wanted to be the hunter this time and not to be hunted. Hence, she would have to come up with another way out.
She had come to the Battle of Deities Grand Meet this time with two purposes. One was to scout out more about the Twelve Palaces and secondly, she was rather interested in the segment where people competed in healing. Based purely on healing, she would not have any problems without having to summon up a single bit of spirit power.
But, Jun Wu Xie had no intentions of being subservient to the Palace Lords of the Twelve Palaces.
Without a concrete decision made in her head, Jun Wu Xie walked around in a weapons shops at the side, checking to see if they were any any different from those in the Lower Realm.
As she stared at the various lumps of steel, Jun Wu Xie could not help but feel a headache coming on. She could faintly ascertain that the spirit energy within these swords were denser than those in the Lower Realm but she was however not that sharp in the aspect of detecting spirit energy. If she had brought Little Jue along, it would have made things like this a whole lot easier.
When that thought came to mind, Jun Wu Xie could not help it as her eyes lowered a little, the scene when she was leaving the Fire Country's Imperial Capital coming back to her mind. The image of that tiny figure wailing incessantly as he ran after the horse carriages rolling away.
Little Jue's spirit had just been beginning to recover and Jun Wu Xie did not want him to wade into these dangers and moreover, she had also discovered a way that could revive Jun Gu back in the Dark Emperor's tomb. Coming here to the Middle Realm, she firstly wanted to crush the might the Twelve Palaces held, and secondly..... It was to go to the Spirit World to seek for Jun Gu's spirit.
The Soul Calming Jade had protected Jun Gu flesh body by preventing it from rot and decay, allowing his corpse to maintain its condition as it was the moment just before he died. Once she was able to find Jun Gu's spirit, she would then be able to let Jun Gu be revived!
Chapter 1477: "Spirit Jade Palace (1)"
The Soul Calming Jade had protected Jun Gu flesh body by preventing it from rot and decay, allowing his corpse to maintain its condition as it was the moment just before he died. Once she finds Jun Gu's spirit, she would be able to let Jun Gu be revived!
And to find Jun Gu's spirit, she would have to go to the place that spirit bodies gathered, the Spirit World!
However, the demarcation of powers in the Middle Realm was extremely strange. The Dark Region sat in the most center of the Middle Realm and surrounding it were the Four Sides. The next outer layer was the Nine Temples' domain of power while the Twelve Palaces took up the area in the outermost perimeter.
And Mount Fu Yao where Jun Wu Xie and her companions were now at was situated at the boundary line where the borders of the Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples met. It could be said that a single step taken a foot forward at this place could very well place a person in a completely different division of power.
Jun Wu Xie went one round through the weapons shop to take a look but was unable to conclude anything useful. She was just about to lift her foot to take a step out of the shop when a black shadow suddenly came flying straight towards her from the front, which made Jun Wu Xie instinctively dodge to the side.
She then heard a loud crash. The black shadow crashed right into a shelf behind Jun Wu Xie that had been used to display various kinds of weapons and a series of loud clatter erupted.
"I'll tell you this! If you let me hear you saying anything bad about the Spirit Jade Palace again, I will tear your mouth up!" A youthful girl shouted in a rage as she walked out from among the crowd, as she glared at the man that had fallen to the ground, her hand gripped tightly around a leather whip.
The young girl's countenance was pretty with exquisite features, but her clothes were rather plain, and the eyes were shining brightly ablaze with fiery rage.
The man on the floor climbed to his feet rather nervously as he stared at the young girl holding the whip with a slight trace of fear in his eyes.
"Under these Heavens, is there still such a place called the Spirit Jade Palace? Why do I not remember it at all?" A clear and audible voice suddenly sounded from behind the crowd and three youths wearing the uniform of the Cloud Brook Academy were seen walking slowly over. The one in the lead, was the person who had spoken.
Seeing that there was someone was taking his side, the man who had been beaten immediately jumped out.
"That's right! What dog's fart Spirit Jade Palace? It's been so many years since they were completely eradicated by the Twelve Palaces and only you bunch of little lasses would still hold the Spirit Jade Palace so dearly in your hearts. Who would even know what kind a damned place the Spirit Jade Palace is even nowadays?"
The young girl's face turned livid and everyone saw that she was going to lash out with her whip when she was blocked by the youth from the Cloud Brook Academy. The youth's had a fair skinned face, his features attractive looking, but just that the corners of his eyes were tinged with something that made people feel rather uncomfortable. He scanned his eyes over the highly furious young girl from head to toe and his lips curled up sightly at the side.
"Little lady, why are you so angry? Could it be that you are really a member of the Spirit Jade Palace?"
"Don't think just because you are wearing the uniform of the Cloud Brook Academy and have the backing of the Twelve Palaces and the NIne Temple that you can be say whatever you want! The Spirit Jade Palace has never been eradicated!" The young girl shouted indignantly.
"Ha ha. How can a young lady like you speak in such a manner? I am just a little ignorant here and have never heard of the name Spirit Jade Palace that's all. If the Miss here has time, why don't you tell about about the origins of the Spirit Jade Palace?" As he spoke, the youth had actually reached out his hand, wanting to stroke the back of the young girl's hand, seeking to take advantage of her.
But just as the youth's hand was about to touch the back of the young girl's hand, the whip held in the young girl's hand suddenly swung up, forcing the lecher who was thinking to grab a feel to back away.
"A tongue slippery as a snake. Neither are you up to any good!" As she spoke, the young girl cracked her whip and sent its tip swooshing straight towards the youth.
In just a blink of an eye, the area just outside the weapons shop had broken out into chaos and Jun Wu Xie carried the little black cat in her arms as she turned to leave calmly.
Chapter 1478: "Spirit Jade Palace (2)"
Jun Wu Xie has not much interest in fights between youths in the Middle Realm. Their movements from what she saw were too slow and only people in the Elder levels from the Twelve Palaces would pique her interest. But one thing that the young girl mentioned when she said "Spirit Jade Palace" had caused her a little puzzlement.
Qiao Chu and the others had specifically told her all the twelve names the Twelve Palaces went by and she had not heard them mentioning anything about a Spirit Jade Palace.
Jun Wu Xie casually abducted a big goofy looking passerby and poured a vial of her truth serum "medicine" down his throat to make him spill out everything he knew about the Spirit Jade Palace.
In truth, more than a thousand years ago, the Middle Realm did not only have Twelve Palaces. There had been another thirteenth palace, the Spirit Jade Palace.
But the Spirit Jade Palace was slightly different from the other palaces as from the top ranked member all the way to the bottom, the Spirit Jade Palace only accepted females. Back in the days before the Spirit Jade Palace had fallen, within a ten mile radius around the palace, they did not allow any males to set foot in there. The Palace Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace had also been infamously eccentric, never ever having taken one single step out from the Spirit Jade Palace. It was once rumoured that the Spirit Jade Palace's Palace Lord was actually the most powerful one among all the other Palace Lords.
The Spirit Jade Palace had once been highly influential for a time but just because of one time's internal strife, it had greatly diminished the powers of the entire Spirit Jade Palace as many of their disciples lost their lives during that incident and the Spirit Jade Palace at that time had been cleanly razed to the ground.
Only the Palace Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace had brought a few of the palace's most trusted aides out and no one knew where they had hidden themselves. And it was from that time onwards that the Spirit Jade Palace was gradually removed from being part of the Thirteen Palaces subconsciously, resulting in only the current Twelve Palaces to exist.
After the Spirit Jade Palace went into decline, many people from the other palaces continued to hit them when they were down and out, even openly going against the disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace, constantly trying to suppress the Spirit Jade Palace's powers that prevented them from returning back to their former glory.
Jun Wu Xie finally understood why those disciples from the Cloud Brook Academy would suddenly come out and provoke that little girl from the Spirit Jade Palace. That bunch of scoundrels from the Cloud Brook Academy must have seen that she was a member of the Spirit Jade Palace and had wanted to take her out!
A power from a thousand years ago that had been in decline till this day. It was not that hard for Jun Wu Xie to see that the little girl just now was completely not a match for that bunch of lechers.
It would only take a few rounds and that little lass would definitely be taken advantage of.
"This one step, should I take it or stay back?" Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed up as she tossed the oversized goof against the wall as she gazed at the cold and pale moon, the multitude of stars filling up the night sky, every little twinkling speck turning into a chess piece within Jun Wu Xie's eyes.
The Spirit Jade Palace. A chess piece that had suddenly appeared out of the blue. Should she use it or give up on it?
Jun Wu Xie drew in a deep breath, her heart having already made a decision.
No regrets once the piece is placed.
The situation over there near the weapons shop was turning out just as Jun Wu Xie had predicted. The young girl and the youths from the Cloud Brook Academy had exchanged blows for a couple of rounds and then she had found herself unable to resist against them. Her body was marked with quite a number of wounds and her opponents obviously could have struck her down with one well placed strike but they had instead looked like they were just toying with her, shredding up her clothes into a highly disheveled state, to reduce her into such a wretched looking state.
That kind of a trauma when suffered upon a girl, was more unbearable than anything else!
"Little lady, don't get so angsty. If you get your body wounded, it's just going to pain my heart." The flippant youth said with a arrogant laugh. Up here at the summit of Mount Fu Yao, no one would dare to strike at disciples of the Cloud Brook Academy. There wasn't even a need to mention that they were upon Mount Fu Yao which was where the Cloud Brook Academy itself was situated, as just the fact that these youths had been fortunate enough to be picked by the powerful Nine Temples and notorious Twelve Palaces would be enough to make common people refrain from getting into any conflict with them.
"Utterly shameless!" The young girl's face flushed red, hating the fact that she could not strangle that youth to death.
Chapter 1479: "Spirit Jade Palace (3)"
The flippant youth completely ignored the young girl's curses and surrounded her together with his companions. When the passersby saw that disciples of the Cloud Brook Academy were involved, they all were furious but did not dare speak up, their eyes avoiding the commotion.
"I would like to see whether you will be still have such a sharp tongue in a while." The youth said and stretched his hand out towards the young girl to grab at her.
But in that instant that his fingers had just touched a corner of the young girl's clothes, a powerful blast of spirit energy suddenly shot straight towards the youth!
Glowing bright purple, the blast of spirit power swept past like a streak of starry moonlight, forcing the three youths to back away in retreat!
However, before everyone around could see clearly everything that was suddenly happening before their eyes, a black shadow came out from behind a pile of weapons and flashed past to quickly disappear, together with that young girl who was almost going to lose her clothes, who was now nowhere to be seen.
The three youths who had been forced to jump back still had not recovered from the shock as they stared at the spot they had just been standing at a moment before. A long crack had appeared in the ground that spread the entire way up onto the wall, where even the steel blades that had been hanging upon the wall earlier now lay snapped in two from that great blast of spirit power.
The depth of the crack quickly caused everyone in the surrounding crowd to stare helplessly with their mouths hanging open.
In the Middle Realm, Purple Spirits were not that rare to see. The people were able to tell the difference between a faked Purple Spirit and a true Purple Spirit. Moreover, there is also a huge gap between a strong and weak Purple Spirit hence just the colour of one's spirit power did not mean much anymore.
Just now, that person's speed had been quick like lightning, avoiding the notice of everyone present, and that kind of a speed was not something an ordinary person would be able to achieve.
"Who..... Who was that just now....." One of the disciples from the Cloud Brook Academy stammered as his knees shook, and his teeth chattered. If he had moved just a split second slower earlier, his head might be separated from his body now.
The flippant youth who was the leader blew out a long breath, his heart still in shock. "That person wasn't trying to kill us and his intention was just to force us to retreat. It might have been someone from the Spirit Jade Palace. Forget it, just take it as that little lass got lucky today!"
The flippant youth said all that in a feigned indignant tone, although his heart had been shocked by that black shadow rather badly. That blast had been more powerful than what their teachers back at the academy were capable of. He was just someone who had been picked by the Dragon Slayers Palace and still had not completed his cultivation training here. He had not even attained the true Purple Spirit so how would he be able to go against that shadow?"
No matter who that person was, he was not someone the few of them would be able to take on. The three youths who had just moments before aggressively surrounded the little girl then immediately ducked their heads and blended themselves into the crowd miserably, disappearing quickly from sight.
Under the pale moonlight streaming down, a purple coloured shadow flashed like a light streak, a shadow that blended into the night, silently coming to a stop within a dense forest.
Zi Jin had thought that she would have fallen into the hands of those lechers today but unexpectedly, someone had suddenly appeared at the last moment to bring her away from there. She still clearly remembered what that person had whispered in her ear in that instant he had come to whisk her away.
"Don't move."
It was so cold her bones had felt the chill, yet at the same time, it had been highly reassuring.
Zi Jin was put down under a tree, without any unnecessary touch, which put her greatly at ease.
Jun Wu Xie swept her gaze over the torn and tattered clothes upon Zi Jin body and with a flick of her hand, she tossed the cape she used to hide from unfriendly eyes and ears to the little girl.
"Thank you....." Zi Jin whispered gratefully. She could not see her benefactor's countenance and was only able to see that back which looked a little thin, standing against the moonlight, His stature was not tall, it was even that tiny bit shorter than she was.
"I wonder why Senior would lend a hand to save me? My humble name is Zi Jin and I wish to express to Senior my gratitude for saving my life."
Chapter 1480: "Spirit Jade Palace (4)"
Zi Jin's powers had not broken through to the Purple Spirit yet but she could feel that the person standing before her held very great power.
But when that person slowly turned his head around and the moonlight illuminated that fair skinned countenance, Zi Jin was suddenly stunned.
Not even in her dreams would she ever have thought that the Senior with such unfathomable powers right before her eyes would actually possess the looks of such a young youth.
[How come it's such a young youth?]
Astonishment was written all over Zi Jin's face.
Jun Wu Xie's brows furrowed up slightly together as she looked at Zi Jin who had a rather strange expression on her face, but she still went on to ask softly: "You are a member of the Spirit Jade Palace?"
[A shock ran through Zi Jin's entire body. The other party's countenance had been completely not what she expected. For what reason had the other party saved her? Because she was a disciple of the Spirit Jade Palace?]
Seemingly having detected Zi Jin's nervousness, Jun Wu Xie continued to say in a soft voice: "Don't worry, I am a friend and not a foe of the Spirit Jade Palace."
"Senior words are not very clear to me. Can Senior please elaborate?" Zi Jin knew that she was no match for Jun Wu Xie, and there was no chance she would be able to escape. Hence, she herself upon the ground, and lifted up her head to look at the cold and icy Jun Wu Xie.
"The Spirit Jade Palace was once counted among the Twelve Palaces but now has to even suffer the bullying from youths of the Twelve Palaces who are still in training. I am thinking that couldn't possibly have felt good right?" Jun Wu Xie said monotonously, her words unhurried.
Zi Jin could not help it as her face turned an uglier shade, both her hands clutching tightly the grass upon the ground.
"Angry?" Jun Wu Xie looked calmly into Zi Jin's eyes that were ablaze and then said slowly: "Once reigning over them but now fallen into a state where your the opponent continues to beat at a drowning dog. Haven't you guys ever thought of retaliating?"
Zi Jin clenched her jaws tightly together. Although she should not be saying this to a stranger, but every one of Jun Wu Xie's words had pricked at a nerve.
"Who wouldn't want to retaliate! ? You're not us, how do you know the Spirit Jade Palace had not tried to fight back! ? But those scoundrels from the Twelve Palaces had really been too much!" Due to that incident in the Spirit Jade Palace back then, it had greatly reduced their might. They had not even had time to breathe and recuperate when the Twelve Palaces had began oppressing them. After a thousand years, the Spirit Jade Palace which had once enjoyed great fame now no longer existed, just as Jun Wu Xie had said. When disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace like them came out from the palace, Master would always remind them carefully to not reveal their identities as members of the Spirit Jade Palace, deeply afraid that they would be persecuted by the Twelve Palaces.
This time, Zi Jin had coincidentally passed through the Battle of Deities Grand Meet's venue and was just checking out the situation when she overheard someone loudly spewing highly insulting words without restraint about her sisters from the Heavenly Peak Pavilion and she had not been able to hold herself back.
"Now, if there is an opportunity for all of you to exact vengeance upon your enemies, would that make you happy?" Jun Wu Xie squatted down to say, her gaze looking right into Zi Jin's eyes.
Zi Jin could see herself reflected within that cold pair of eyes, highly clear.
"Who are you really?" Zi Jin suddenly felt her body turning chilly. Those eyes had been tinged with such icy chill.
"It is not important who I am. What matters is that I can help all of you get what you want." Jun Wu Xie straightened herself up and lifted her right hand. On the fingers upon her right hand, there was one red and one white glow wrapped around them.
Zi Jin stared in surprise at the two strange glowing light. She knew that familiar glowing energy very well. That was the energy from spirit rings.
[But..... In this world, how can someone possibly possess two ring spirits at the same time?]
[That was just impossible.]
"Spirit Jade Palace..... doesn't..... doesn't receive male guests....." Zi Jin swallowed with a gulp, taking a long while to stammer those words.
Jun Wu Xie's eyebrow lifted up and immediately pulled up Zi Jin small hand to place it right upon her chest!