Chapter 1851: "Flesh and Blood (4)"
Jun Wu Xie stared at that piece of flesh and based on Yue Ye's reaction and what she had said, Jun Wu Xie could roughly guess the origins of that piece of flesh. Her eyes narrowed up, murder filling up within.
"Ye Gu." Jun Wu Xie called.
"Your subordinate is here." Ye Gu immediately acknowledged.
"From today onwards, you keep a full watch on Elder Yue. No matter where he goes, and whatever he does, tell me every single thing." Jun Wu Xie said in a cold voice.
"Your subordinate has received his orders!" With that acknowledgement, the figure of Ye Gu then disappeared completely from the room in a flash.
So what if Elder Yue was a Silver Spirit?
Before the Commander in Chief of the Night Regime, he was nothing.
"Young Miss, this is Yue Yi's....." Ye Sha started to say softly, as he looked at Jun Wu Xie's darkened face.
"It should be." Jun Wu Xie said with a nod.
She had considered the fact that Elder Yue would exact revenge and act in retaliation, but she had not thought that Elder Yue's method would be so extreme. Even though Yue Ye had escaped from being under his control, which would then inadvertently lead to the level that he could manipulate Yue Yi reducing slightly, but as long as Yue Ye was still in the Shadow Moon Palace. Elder Yue would still be able to use her to threaten Yue Yi.
But with such extreme methods being employed by Elder Yue, it showed he intended to force Yue Yi and Yue Ye to their deaths, where he was not even willing to put up the slightest pretence of amicability.
Jun Wu Xie had underestimated Elder Yue's vicious nature and the extremes he would go to. Having thought that Yue Yi was the lone best chip he held in his hands, even when he had been played out by Yue Ye, he would surely not sacrifice Yue Yi. It could now be seen that Elder Yue's personality was more vicious than Jun Wu Xie had imagined.
"Young Miss, you asked the bossman to go watch Elder Yue, why not just capture and interrogate him instead?" Ye Sha asked, feeling a little puzzled.
Jun Wu Xie then replied: "With Elder Yue's personality being so extreme, even if we captured him, he would have taken his own life before I can make a move. Having him killed is not a problem, but before he is killed, we need to first find Yue Yi."
If it was any other thing, Jun Wu Xie would have dared to bring in the thunder. But as this matter concerned Yue Yi's life, once Elder Yue decides to break out of the net even if it kills the fishes, then they would never be able to find where Yue Yi was.
What Jun Wu Xie wanted, was to first save Yue Yi, and as for Elder Yue, he was already a dead man walking in Jun Wu Xie's eyes.
After having listened to what Jun Wu Xie said, Ye Sha immediately understood Jun Wu Xie's concerns. Elder Yue had a highly twisted personality and Jun Wu Xie's worry was not unfounded.
"After we rescue Yue Yi, will Young Miss then want to have Elder Yue killed?" Ye Sha then asked.
Jun Wu Xie gave a cold smile.
"Kill him just like that? Wouldn't that be too easy for him?"
Seeing that smile on Jun Wu Xie, Ye Sha could not help but feel a chill run through him. Jun Wu Xie had truly been angered this time.
Towards a disciple like Yue Ye, Jun Wu Xie was highly satisfied with her. And due to her having been influenced by Su Ya, Jun Wu Xie had learnt from Su Ya's overprotective nature towards their disciples. With Yue Ye having looked so wretched today, even Ye Sha had found it painful to watch, what's more for Jun Wu Xie?
At that moment, Ye Sha could only silently mourn for Elder Yue inwardly. Having angered Jun Wu Xie, his fate would surely be a hundred times worse than death!
Jun Wu Xie then composed her emotions and kept the brocade box properly away. She got up and returned to her room, to tend to Yue Ye's condition.
Yue Ye had taken too big a shock and added to that would be her worry for Yue Yi. Suffering from all that and getting herself drenched in the icy cold rain for so long, her body was extremely weak at that moment. Even after taking Jun Wu Xie's elixirs, her condition was still in very bad shape.
Jun Wu Xie possessed medicine to treat the body's pains and wounds, but she had no medicine to heal the wounds in Yue Ye's heart.
Nobody could possibly imagine, when Yue Ye saw that piece of bloodied flesh, the kind of hopelessness and despair her heart had felt.
Chapter 1852: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (1)"
Yue Ye slept through the entire night and in her sleep, she tossed and turned, her brows remained furrowed, like she was having a nightmare.
"Big Brother!" Yue Ye sat up on the bed suddenly, her body bathed in cold sweat from terror.
"Yue Ye." Jun Wu Xie's voice suddenly sounded in her ears from the side.
Yue Ye turned her pale face and saw Jun Wu Xie sitting at her bedside. The air in the room was tinged with the faint fragrance of herbs, completely different from the rot and unbearable stench in her dreams. It had all been just a dream.
In an instant, Yue Ye became rather flustered. She was not able to differentiate whether all that had happened before was merely a dream or real. Her heart was wincing with pain as that dream had felt so real and the pain was tearing her heart apart.
"Master....." Yue Ye was a little dazed as she looked at Jun Wu Xie, her face that had been filled with vitality before now wan and sallow. Her voice was weak, almost pleading as she called out to Jun Wu Xie.
"I dreamt that Elder Yue captured my brother. It was just a dream right? I only had a nightmare and Big Brother is completely fine right?"
Jun Wu Xie looked at Yue Ye in silence, not knowing how to answer at that moment. Based on her experience, Yue Ye's nerves were at that moment on the brink of collapse. Yue Ye might have a strong will, but over the long span of ten years, her nerves had been stretched taut to the point of almost snapping. With such a great shock inflicted upon her now, the slightest misstep now might very well drive her over the edge and cause her mind to fall into complete collapse.
"Master..... Can you quickly tell me..... Big Brother..... is fine..... and I was just dreaming....." Yue Ye's voice was almost breaking as she looked pleadingly at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie then slowly opened her mouth to say: "It's just a dream. Yue Yi is still dealing with some matters outside and he can only be back a little later. He is fine."
Hearing Jun Wu Xie's words said with such calm, Yue Ye sat dazed for a moment before her pale face showed a weak but brilliant smile.
"So it was all just a dream....."
"You've caught a cold and you must remain here to nurse yourself for the next few days. When Yue Yi comes back, I will ask him to come here to see you." Jun Wu Xie's indifferent voice gave people a huge sense of relief, calm without a ripple of shock, sounding like nothing had ever happened before.
"Mm." Yue Ye nodded obediently as she hugged a corner of the blanket tightly, her legs curled tightly against her.
"I have your medicine here. Make sure you take it. I have some things to attend to and I will come back to see you again a little later." Jun Wu Xie said as she brought the medicinal soup she had prepared. The medicine had turned cold and she used her spirit powers to heat it up quickly. By the time she delivered it into Yue Ye's hands, the temperature of the medicine was just right.
Yue Ye took the bowl of medicinal soup, grasping it with both hands. When she saw her pallid reflection in the bowl of soup, she was a little surprised.
She stared at it for a while before she gulped down the bitter concoction completely.
Jun Wu Xie then took the empty bowl from her and was about to get up to leave.
"Master!"
Jun Wu Xie paused in her steps as she turned her head to look at Yue Ye calmly.
"Big Brother will really come back?" Yue Ye's lip was trembling slightly.
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head very slightly but determinedly, before she went walking out.
In the instant that the room's door closed, Yue Ye hugged the blanket close and lowered her head, trying her hardest to curl herself into a ball. If anyone were to see her at that moment, they would discover that the little girl who tried so hard to put on a brave front was hiding under the blanket and weeping soundlessly. She bit down hard upon a corner of the blanket, not wanting the softest sob to escape out from her mouth, but all the tears flowing over her cheeks had already drenched the blanket's corner.
Jun Wu Xie stood behind the door, hearing the sobs that were being suppressed, and she drew in a long deep breath.
Chapter 1853: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (2)"
"Young Miss!" The figure of Ye Gu suddenly appeared before Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie shot Ye Gu a meaningful glance and immediately went walking towards the other room just beside.
There were some things that she did not want Yue Ye to hear and although it was clear to her that Yue Ye knew everything had not been a dream, but she did not want the already weakened little girl to be provoked any further.
After Ye Gu followed Jun Wu Xie to walk into the room, he immediately said: "Your subordinate followed Elder Yue for the entire night and did not discover him doing anything different but to just remain within his own residence with most of his time spent in his study, staying in here till very late before going back to his room to rest, never leaving the courtyard once."
Ye Gu had kept watch over Elder Yue for an entire night and when he came to report back to Jun Wu Xie on Elder Yue's movements, he made Ye Sha continue to temporarily keep watch on his behalf.
"Never left the courtyard?" Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed.
"Yes. Your subordinate did not see anyone coming into the courtyard either, nor noticed him coming into contact with anyone." In regards to his observation skills, Ye Gu had absolute confidence and with the level of power he possessed, no one within the Twelve Palaces would be able to escape under his watch.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes lowered slightly to stare upon the marble floor, her mind processing the information that Ye Gu had brought in.
She was certain that Yue Yi was in Elder Yue's hands. Elder Yue was a person with a sly and twisted nature and after being betrayed by Yue Ye, he had become more cautious. Since he was using Yue Yi to threaten Yue Ye this time, it was a certainty that he would not reveal the location that Yue Yi was so easily.
Jun Wu Xie recalled about the piece of "flesh over the heart" Yue Ye had brought back. As a medical practitioner, from the level of freshness in a piece of flesh, she could roughly gauge the time the piece of flesh had been cut out.
That piece of "flesh over the heart" had not been cut out for too long a period of time and that meant Elder Yue could not possibly have hidden Yue Yi outside the Shadow Moon Palace, but somewhere within the palace or the piece of flesh would not still be oozing blood when Yue Ye brought it in.
"Have you investigated into Elder Yue's study?" Jun Wu Xie then queried.
"When Ye Sha had been searching for the jade for Young Miss before, he had gone into the study. And in Elder Yue's study, there is a secret room. Your subordinate has asked Ye Sha and Ye Sha told me the secret chamber is not all that big. He also said there are also a variety of things piled up in there, which doesn't look like a place that could hide a person." Ye Gu replied.
"But in order to play it safe, your subordinate had gone to check the study and did not find Yue Yi in the secret chamber. Although..... upon the floor inside the secret chamber, your subordinate discovered some bloodstains. The bloodstains had already congealed but judging from its colour, they were left behind just a few days ago. Your subordinate suspects that Yue Yi had previously been locked in that secret chamber for a while and it is highly possible that the punishment had been carried out in that as well, but Yue Yi's current whereabouts is not known." As the Commander in Chief of the Night Regime, Ye Gu's observation of every single detail was seen to be highly thorough as he presented a perfect report to Jun Wu Xie, allowing Jun Wu Xie to sieve and process her thoughts more quickly.
"Continue to keep a close watch. From now onwards, both you and Ye Sha will watch Elder Yue. If you discover Elder Yue coming into any contact with anyone, one of you will then be able to follow the other person." Jun Wu Xie said with her eyes narrowed. No matter what, she was going to get Yue Yi out.
"But Lord Jue..... Err, Young Master Wu Yao left instructions that at least one of us must remain by your side." Ye Gu was feeling rather torn.
Jun Wu Xie then said coldly: "If you are not willing to heed my orders, then you can go seek him now."
Ye Gu was startled and he immediately fell onto one knee to say: "Your subordinate wouldn't dare! It shall be as the Young Miss has ordered!"
Chapter 1854: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (3)"
Jun Wu Xie nodded. She acknowledged the Night Regime's power, but no matter how powerful one's subordinate was, if they were not willing to obey her orders, then she would be better off without them.
Even when they were people that Jun Wu Yao had left behind, it would be the same.
Jun Wu Xie had her own set of standards.
"Now, bring me to Elder Yue's study." Jun Wu Xie said, narrowing her eyes. She needed to go take a look for herself.
At that moment, Elder Yue was dealing with some affairs of the Shadow Moon Palace and Ye Sha was secretly watching his every move while Ye Gu was keeping guard outside Elder Yue's study.
Jun Wu Xie went into Elder Yue's study on her own. According to what Ye Gu had told her about the hidden switch, Jun Wu Xie opened the secret chamber in Elder Yue's study.
It was a room that was about twenty square meters in size and tall wooden shelves stood against three sides of the walls. A variety of brocade boxes were placed on every level of the shelves, boxes of different sizes arranged neatly upon them, with some smaller brocade boxes stacked up together. The secret chamber was kept very clean but Jun Wu Xie who was very sensitive towards the smell of blood could still detect a faint scent of it.
Right in the middle of the secret chamber, a white jade bed carved out of nephrite lay across and on the bed's surface, some uneven depressions making long and thin marks could be seen. Within those depressions, she saw stains that had turned black and Jun Wu Xie used her silver needle to dig a little out to inspect. She then discovered that the black stuff with the thin crevices was actually blood that had dried for Heavens knew how long!
Nephrite was not as hard and they were more easily scratched. Jun Wu Xie stared at the several crack like marks upon the nephrite bed with the bloodstains that had dried up from long ago and she suddenly understood everything.
This room must be the place where Elder Yue abused children. Upon that clear white and beautiful nephrite bed, who knew how many naive children had suffered under that kind of nefarious abuse, these very crackline marks left behind by the struggling that the children would have put up at that time.
Just how agonizing it must have been for those children to leave these marks upon the nephrite bed?
The shouts and screams within this secret chamber, struggling in hopelessness and despair, nails scratching into the nephrite, to leave these dark marks.
Jun Wu Xie took a deep breath. Within that small little secret chamber, how many aggrieved spirits were wailing in there?
Closing her eyes, she could almost seem to hear the desperate cries of those young lives wailing in aggrievement.
Jun Wu Xie calmed the surge of emotions within her heart, composing herself and her heart to allow her to continue to look for any other traces that might give her a clue. She found the marks of several drops of blood left behind under the nephrite bed. Compared to the bloodstains upon the bed, these marks were fresher. It was just as Ye Gu had guessed, these bloodstains were more recent and they were left there just a few days before.
Jun Wu Xie squatted down and she pulled out a medicine bottle from her Cosmos Sack. She then opened the cover and dripped the bottle's rice white coloured liquid upon the dried bloodstains. Very soon, the bloodstains dissolved into the liquid and Jun Wu Xie scooped up the blood and liquid together to store it in a new bottle. She kept the bottle away properly before she stood up and surveyed the surrounding shelves.
The jade pendant that Elder Ying wanted was found by Ye Sha in here. What kind of other things would Elder Yue keep in here?
Jun Wu Xie walked over to one of the set of shelves and pulled down a brocade box that was the size of a palm. Opening it, she only found a hair pin dotted with rust inside. The hairpin's workmanship was coarse and there were no jade stones embedded in it, a most plain and cheap looking piece.
But the size of that hairpin was a little different, a bit smaller than what most regular ladies would use, looking to be more like what a small child would use.
Chapter 1855: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (4)"
But the size of that hairpin was a little different, a bit smaller than what most regular ladies would use, looking to be more like what a small child would use.
Jun Wu Xie then looked through several more of those brocade boxes, to discover that they contained mostly more of such simple and and cheap little pieces. The condition of the items told of the long time they had been kept there and in terms of value, they were not worth a single cent.
But all those items had a common characteristic. They were basically things that would be found on a child.
Longevity lockets, silver bangles.....
Upon the shelves filling up three sides of the walls, were all trinkets meant for children.
Jun Wu Xie could almost be certain that the reason all these items were here was because of Elder Yue's nasty habit!
The owners of these items, should have suffered Elder Yue's torment within this little chamber where they had finally died in hopelessness and fear, and Elder Yue had kept these trinkets they owned as trophies within this secret chamber.
The truth disgusted Jun Wu Xie beyond words!
It was wondered what kind of an mindset did Elder Yue hold when he took these items off those corpses? How could he possibly enjoy any peace of mind with so many aggrieved souls lingering in here as he continued to commit such nefarious deeds?
Jun Wu Xie pushed down the utter disgust she felt in her heart and looked through all those items once. The position that those items were placed in seemed to be based according to the length of time they had been placed there.
On a shelf that was closest to the door, were several brocade boxes that looked slightly newer.
But there was one point that Jun Wu Xie found to be strange. When Ye Sha had previously stolen the jade pendant from here, he did not move the original brocade box that contained the pendant, but had used another box of his own when he brought it out, and the original brocade box that Elder Yue had placed the jade pendant in was still there upon the shelf. According to what she was told by Ye Sha, that brocade box was placed at the most front end among everything.
Jun Wu Xie located her target very quickly. But compared to the other brocade boxes, the box that contained the jade pendant was rather different in colour.
The other brocade boxes were made from black iron wood, and this one was rosewood.
Within the entire room, only the box that held the pendant was made from rosewood.
It shouldn't just be a coincidence, and it was not possible that it was because he had used up all the black iron wood boxes because Jun Wu Xie could see quite a number of black iron wood brocade boxes piled up in a corner of the room.
Moreover, the rosewood brocade box was not new, and judging from the appearance of the box, it would even seem to be well aged, in fact older than any of the other brocade boxes in the entire secret chamber.
Jun Wu Xie's brows creased up slightly, a terrifying conjecture suddenly rising up in her heart.
"Young Miss, Elder Yue will be coming back soon." As Jun Wu Xie was thinking things through, Ye Gu's voice suddenly sounded from outside the secret chamber. Jun Wu Xie immediately retracted her thoughts and restored everything in the secret chamber to its original state, like nothing had ever happened in there at all.
After Jun Wu Xie left Elder Yue's study, she did not return back to her residence immediately, but made a detour towards Elder Ying's residence instead.
Elder Ying had been happily idling and feeling highly at ease over the recent period. In reality, he held no interest towards the scramble for power and authourity within the Shadow Moon Palace. Back at the time when the Shadow Moon Palace Lord's health had deteriorated, he had joined in the struggle just to make things difficult for Elder Yue but now that the Shadow Moon Palace Lord had reacquired his control and authourity, the power held by the various Elders had all been reduced and Elder Ying could be said to be the happiest one among everyone, with more time freed up every single day.
Chapter 1856: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (5)"
Elder Ying was at that moment sitting highly leisurely in his courtyard as he admired the flowers and sipped at tea when he suddenly saw Jun Wu Xie appear. He was slightly taken aback and his face then went on to break into a smile.
"Kid, you have finally found the leisure to come look for me already? Oh right, do you know that Elder Yue committed a big mistake in the last few days and has incurred the disdain of the Palace Lord?" Elder Ying said with a laugh. He had heard about things concerning Elder Yue around and only knew that someone had stirred up trouble in Hill City that Elder Yue had been in charge of where not only the branch had been destroyed, they had even lost quite a number of disciples, which could be considered to have swept right across Elder Yue's face.
As long as Elder Yue was unhappy, Elder Ying's heart would then be exhilarated.
"At which point of time did receive news of your son's death?" Jun Wu Xie looked at the smiling Elder Ying and then suddenly popped a question that made Elder Ying unable to smile anymore.
The smile upon Elder Ying's face froze up in an instant. He had been at such leisurely ease over the recent period but it seemed he was just trying to find some joy within suffering as the bitter end his son's family had long been an indelible pain lodged deep in his heart and the hatred between Elder Yue and Elder Ying had stemmed from that.
"Around ten years ago. Why would you ask about that?" Elder Ying asked with his brows creased together.
"When you came to the Shadow Moon Palace, were Yue Yi and Yue Ye already in the Shadow Moon Palace?" Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.
Elder Ying began to felt that something was not right and he straightened himself up in his seat as he tried his best to recall the past. It was after a moment before he said: "They were already here and Elder Yue brought them to come see me once. Yue Ye was very young then and she was mostly carried by people while Yue Yi had already gained an awareness of things but he seemed to be rather afraid of me, always lowering his head to not say a word whenever he saw me."
Due to the death of his own son, coupled with the fact that his daughter in law and grandchild had gone missing, the kind of turmoil affecting Elder Ying caused him to not pay much attention to the children in the Shadow Moon Palace.
"Why are you suddenly asking me this?" Elder Ying was feeling that Jun Wu Xie's words were hiding another meaning behind and his heart unconsciously quickened.
"I went into Elder Yue's study and I discovered a secret chamber within the study. Hidden inside that chamber, were things left behind from all of Elder Yue's victims, and the other half of the Zhan Family's jade heirloom you now hold was found from that place." Jun Wu Xie said.
Elder Ying's entire body quaked, the despair and sorrowful pain in his eyes almost causing him to collapse.
From the time he knew that the jade pendant had been found from Elder Yue's place, he had already felt highly uneasy about it. Knowing full well that his grandchild and daughter in law could very possibly have already fallen victim, he had been unwilling to think that things were really that bad. He chose to rather believe that Elder Yue had coincidentally picked it up than to imagine that his grandchild had been brought by people into the Shadow Moon Palace, who had then been tortured to death under Elder Yue's hands.
All of that, to an old man who had already lived past half a century, would almost be a mind blowing calamity to him!
"What are you trying to say....." Elder Ying's voice was trembling slightly.
"I want a drop of your blood." Jun Wu Xie then said.
Elder Ying stared at Jun Wu Xie with his mouth agape. "What are you really thinking of doing?"
Jun Wu Xie looked at Elder Ying coldly and said: "If you want to know whether your family members are still alive, then you'd better do as I say."
Elder Ying's heart shook, noticing the harsh chill in Jun Wu Xie's voice as he became flustered. But under that icy chill, he had instead sense a tiny sliver of hope!
He immediately stretched his hand out and pricked his finger with the dagger he carried around with him without the slightest hesitation.
Bright red blood flowed out from the wound and Jun Wu Xie took out an empty bowl and a flask of clear water from her Cosmos Sack before she poured some water into the bowl.
"Drip a drop in there." Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes up to look at Elder Ying and say.
Chapter 1857: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (6)"
Elder Ying glanced at Jun Wu Xie and then did according to what she said by dripping one drop of blood into the water. Thereafter, the figure of Ye Gu then appeared right beside Jun Wu Xie suddenly.
Elder Ying was slightly startled in the instant he saw Ye Gu and he was just about to make a move when he saw Ye Gu handing a jade white porcelain bottle over to Jun Wu Xie, who then disappeared quickly right before his eyes.
"That person is....." Elder Ying's eyes were incredulously wide. Although his spirit powers could not compare to Elder Yue's, it was not that low. But he had not sensed anything in the slightest on when Ye Gu had even come.
"One of my men." Jun Wu Xie said expressionlessly, as she opened the white jade porcelain bottle.
One drop of blood then slid out from the white jade porcelain bottle to drip into the water.
The two drops of blood then slowly melded together in the water.....
"This is....." Elder Ying stared at the two drops of blood melded together, and he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, his heart rate rising at the same time as his face flushed a red shade.
He lifted his eyes, to look at Jun Wu Xie extremely anxiously, his hands uncontrollably exerting strength, seemingly almost about to crush the slab of stone into pieces!
"Good and bad news, one piece each. Which do you want to listen to first?" Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes to look at Elder Ying to ask.
"Tell me! Tell me quickly! Whose blood is this! ?" Elder Ying said, unable to hold himself back.
Jun Wu Xie then said: "Yue Ye."
The blood was what Jun Wu Xie had instructed Ye Gu to go fetch when she was leaving from Elder Yue's courtyard.
Elder Ying stared at Jun Wu Xie with his eyes widened and mouth hanging open, his body trembling uncontrollably.
"Proving kinship through drops of their blood is not entirely accurate but I added some drugs into the water and only those who share the same bloodline would see the blood meld." As a doctor of the modern society, Jun Wu Xie had always snorted in disdain towards such a primitive and ancient method of proving kinship. To really test whether there was a blood bond, it could only be done by checking on their deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. But as there wasn't any appropriate equipment in this world, she could only replace it with drugs and medicine.
"You are saying..... Yue Ye..... is..... is my granddaughter?" Elder Ying's mind was suddenly filled with a loud humming.
"Both Yue Ye and Yue Yi are." Jun Wu Xie said.
Elder Ying gasped loudly. No other answer pained him more than this.
He knew very well the kind of bitter suffering Yue Yi and Yue Ye underwent in the Shadow Moon Palace. But never in his dreams would he have ever once thought that they were his very own grandson and granddaughter!
That terrifying truth almost suffocated Elder Ying!
"You already know the good news. Your grandson and granddaughter are still alive. But now, there is a piece of bad news I need to tell you." Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed up, not feeling all that surprised with the result.
"Wh..... What kind of bad news?" Elder Ying clutched at his chest.
"Elder Yue captured Yue Yi, to threaten Yue Ye....." Jun Wu Xie told Elder Ying about Yue Yi having been captured very simply.
It was just an instant, but Elder Ying's mind was almost going to explode after he heard everything!
He then shattered the stone table with a single palm strike, his eyes glaring wide!
"He actually dared! ! ?"
Having known that his grandson and granddaughter were still alive, it gave Elder Ying both pain and a sense of hope. But Jun Wu Xie last few words had pushed him right over into the deep ravine!
"To save him now, you need to move in tandem with me." The reason Jun Wu Xie had come to find Elder Ying, was not as simple as merely letting them acknowledge their relationship.
"Just say it! Whatever you want me to do! I want that beast, Elder Yue to die! ! !" Elder Ying spat those words out through tightly clenched teeth, his gums bleeding from the force of his bite.
At that moment, he thought back to the day when he had just come to the Shadow Moon Palace, realizing how big a ridicule he was when Elder Yue had brought Yue Yi and Yue Ye to come see him!
Chapter 1858: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (7)"
That day, Elder Ying went to seek an audience with the Shadow Moon Palace Lord about the destruction in Hill City, speaking frankly of the shock and rage he felt and he went on to state that he was willing to conduct a full investigation into the entire incident. Moreover, he went on to say that as Yue Yi had gone missing, Elder Yue being his "grandfather" would be swayed by emotions and he requested for the Shadow Moon Palace Lord to hand over the matter to him to deal with.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord was initially still a little hesitant, but after hearing that Yue Ye had fallen ill from heartbreak and was being placed into Jun Wu Xie's residence for them to allow Yue Ye to recover, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord then made a firm decision.
He decided to hand the entire matter at Hill City over to Elder Ying fully, and also bestowed upon Elder Ying a certain level of authourity.
When Elder Yue knew about it, he was greatly shocked.
The Hill City's incident implicated many other things. Once it was handed over to Elder Ying, it would definitely take away a certain portion of the authourity and power he wielded. At that moment, Elder Yue became as anxious as ants on a hot pan as he had wanted to deal with the matter but was now unable to do it due to the Shadow Moon Palace Lord's displeasure towards him.
"Damn it. What is Elder Ying really trying to do?" Elder Yue muttered as he sat in his room with a dark expression on his face.
"Elder Yue, the Lord has already decided to hand over the Hill City's incident over to Elder Ying together with the control of some of the branches surrounding the Hill City as well. What do you think we should do now?" A trusted aide of Elder Yue's could not help but begin to worry.
"I would like to see what he can come up with." Elder Yue said with a cold laugh. The entire incident in the Hill City had all been engineered by him all along and there hadn't been any troublemakers stirring up trouble there at all. He did not believe that Elder Ying would really be able to resolve the matter at all!
"Yue Ye seemed to have fallen ill from the shock and she had been sent to Chang Huan's residence....."
Elder Yue's brows creased up. "I had really underestimated that little wench. Never have I ever thought that she is in cahoots with Chang Huan. I should have noticed it when she had bit the hand that fed her back then. Chang Huan is Elder Ying's disciple and that little wench truly knows how to use people, to be able to realize that the only person that was able to stand against me was Elder Ying, but she is afterall still too green. She might be able to hide for a time, but it won't be forever. I shall wait and see how long she can hold out until, unless she has no intentions of saving her brother."
"But now that she has gone to hide in Chang Huan's place, we have no way of seeking her out. So the matter with Yue Yi....."
"There's no need to fret. Elder Ying is pouncing onto my mistake and seeking to checkmate me this time. Unfortunately for him, he does not know that the entire incident in Hill City was all just a plot I engineered. There is no way he will be able to produce any result. He took the initiative to go ask the Palace Lord to let him deal with the matter and if he comes out empty handed, I would then like to see how he's going to answer for it. You go get all those people in Hill City to withdraw. Do not give him a single opportunity. Once he messes up with the way he handled this matter, he would naturally lose all face before the Palace Lord and I will then take over thereafter, to give the Palace Lord his answer. The gap between him and me will then widen, and he will not be able to shield Yue Ye anymore." Elder Yue's eyes narrowed up slightly, flashing with a cold venomous glint.
"He is protecting that little wench, doesn't he know that that little wench is an insatiable white eyed wolf, just a heartless ingrate? With Yue Yi in my hands, Yue Ye will not be able to escape. When that times comes, I will have Elder Ying know just how dangerous keeping a white eyed wolf by his side really is."
"With Elder's divine strategy, Elder Ying would never be a match for you." The disciple immediately hurried to butter Elder Yue up.
Elder Yue laughed, feeling highly pleased with himself as he said: "Alright. You do not need to worry too much about this. I'd rather you go take a look at Yue Yi, and also prepare a "little gift" for Yue Ye on the way, in case she has forgotten about her elder brother."
Chapter 1859: "Jun Wu Xie's Revenge (8)"
After hearing everything that Elder Yue said, the disciple immediately went on to carry out his tasks.
A dark shadow followed soundlessly behind that disciple as he left.
Elder Ying stood outside Jun Wu Xie's room door and looked through the window at Yue Ye who was staring blankly into the mirror, her eyes seemingly brewing with endless sorrow.
"I should have thought of it long ago when both of you look so much like her but I am instead almost forgetting what that lady looked like when I should be remembering." Elder Ying's voice was slightly raspy and looking at Yue Ye's wan and sallow little face, his eyes could not help but turn red around the rims.
Jun Wu Xie stood beside Elder Ying, following Elder Ying's gaze to look inside.
"Tell me, if I had noticed that they looked so much like their mother, would they..... not have had to suffer so much hardship all these years?" Elder Ying had never hated himself so much like he did at that very moment.
Jun Wu Xie did not open her mouth, and she did not know what to say at that moment as well.
Elder Ying drew in a deep breath and stepped back from the window into the yard, not saying a word for a rather long while. After being silent for a stretch, he kept his head lowered as he said in a low voice: "I will definitely make the Shadow Moon Palace pay the price. I'm waiting for your plans to commence. I must make them pay for it with their blood!"
Jun Wu Xie looked at Elder Ying's hate filled eyes, and she gave a light sigh.
She couldn't fully understand the kind of regret and sorrow Elder Ying was feeling at that very moment, but she knew that he must be in great pain.
A lone Ink Snake came shooting in without a sound from outside the yard, its flexible body slithering over to come just beside Jun Wu Xie's foot. Jun Wu Xie squatted down and reached her hand out to carry the Ink Snake in the palm of his hand. She then poked at the Ink Snake's bloated belly and it spat out a wax ball from its mouth.
Crushing the wax ball with her fingers, a written note appeared before Jun Wu Xie's eyes. Jun Wu Xie read the contents on the note speedily, a cold smile curling up at the corner of her mouth.
"Yue Yi has already been found. Our plans can now begin." Spirit power lit up in Jun Wu Xie's hand, burning the note to a crisp.
Elder Ying immediately raised his head, his face anxious but also tinged with a sliver of delight as he stared at Jun Wu Xie.
"He's been found? How..... How is he now?"
"He's been brought to a safe place but he's still rather weak. I will go treat him in awhile." Jun Wu Xie said expressionlessly.
"Then..... then can I go see him?" Elder Ying asked, sounding a little anxious and eager.
Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
"Having brought him back, Elder Yue will definitely find out about it very soon. What you need to do now is to push on with our plans quickly. Otherwise, once Elder Yue gathers himself up, we will not come across chances like this easily anymore."
Elder Ying was a little hesitant at first, but after giving it a thought, he became highly determined.
"Alright! I shall make the arrangements now. Rest assured, I will not allow that scoundrel Elder Yue to ever be able to turn himself around this time!" The hatred and anger in his heart quickened Elder Ying's footsteps as he left Jun Wu Xie's courtyard immediately after saying those words.
Jun Wu Xie looked at Elder Ying's back as he departed in a hurry, her eyes darkening as she turned to walk towards a tiny house in the yard.
In the instant that she stepped into the room, the thick stench of blood shot right up her nose.
Ye Sha who stood by the bed had his clothes already soaked in blood as he looked at Jun Wu Xie and nodded his head slightly.
Yue Yi lay quietly upon the bed, the bedsheets under him already stained a bright red. His body was filled with wounds all over, garish whip wounds covering his entire body and just terrifying to look at.
Chapter 1860: "Stretch Your Face Over (1)"
Yue Yi was gravely hurt. Nothing like the light manner Jun Wu Xie had put to across to Elder Ying, but that point, was known only to Jun Wu Xie alone.
"Boil hot water." Jun Wu Xie ordered of Ye Sha with just one statement before she immediately started on Yue Yi's treatment.
Yue Yi's injuries were really highly severe with a great amount of blood loss and he was suffering from dehydration. The wounds on his body were already starting to inflame and rot, with a highly bloodied gaping hole dug out from his chest. That wound had started to rot quite badly and it had turned dark and black.
Stem the bleeding, anti inflammation treatment, getting rid of the rot. Jun Wu Xie's hands moved so fast they were a blur as she treated the wounds on Yue Yi's body bit by bit.
Even Little Lotus was summoned out by Jun Wu Xie, who took out a lotus seed to make Yue Yi swallow it or Yue Yi would be stuck with a chronic condition even if he recovers from the treatment.
Ye Sha just stood at the side silently as he watched Jun Wu Xie carry out the treatment.
On the other side, Elder Ying had issued orders for all the disciples in the Hill City to strike immediately, not giving Elder Yue any opportunity to tidy things up at all. A large batch of people rushed in, quickly arresting all those people who had not been able to leave the Hill City in time.
With all preparations complete, Elder Ying had all news about everything that was going on sealed completely, only sending someone back to the palace to relay news of their success to Jun Wu Xie.
After Jun Wu Xie received the news from Elder Ying, she stood at the side of Yue Yi's bed and stared at Yue Yi whose face was drained of all colour before burning up the letter in her hand cleanly into ashes.
"Young Miss." Ye Sha took a step forward.
Jun Wu Xie drew in a deep breath and said: "It's time. Have Ye Gu pulled back from over at Elder Yue's. It is time for Elder Yue to have a taste of my "reciprocation" to him."
"Yes, Young Miss!" Ye Sha immediately answered.
It was unusually quiet in the Shadow Moon Palace, and no one in there could sense the storm that was about descend.
Elder Ying returned to the palace triumphant and the Shadow Moon Palace Lord personally received him back. In less than a quarter of an hour, news came out from the palace, summoning Elder Yue to come into the main palace hall for a chat.
At that moment, Elder Yue was still immersed in joy from his revenge. When he received the summons from the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, he heard that Elder Ying would be there as well. He then purposely tidied himself up, changing into a lavish and dignified set of clothes before he set off towards the palace hall, eager for the moment he was to collect the fruits from the results from his scheme.
Within the Shadow Moon Palace's grand hall, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord sat on the principal ruling seat while Elder Ying stood inside the hall, the atmosphere a little strange.
Elder Yue arrived moments later, a gentle smile hanging from his face. He walked into the palace hall and facing the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, he smiled and said: "My Lord, it is wondered for what reason my Lord has summoned your subordinate?"
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord's face was highly darkened in an ugly shade. When he saw Elder Yue appear, he did not show the slightest hint of a smile but just threw a whole stack of letters right before Elder Yue.
"Take a good look at all of them!"
Elder Yue was slightly taken aback. The Shadow Moon Palace Lord's tone of voice had rage hidden behind it which he did not understand at all. Staring at the pile of letters, his brows creased up together, as he secretly cast a glance at Elder Ying standing at the side.
Elder Ying merely stood quietly there in the palace hall, not looking at Elder Yue at all.
Suspicion rose within Elder Yue's heart, left with no choice but to go pick up the stack of letters and look through them.
With that one look, Elder Yue's heart immediately jumped straight up into the top of his throat, the smile upon his face disappearing completely, and his face turning deathly pale.
"What else do you have to say for yourself! ?" The Shadow Moon Palace Lord slammed his hand down upon the table in rage as he glared angrily at Elder Yue.
Elder Yue fell onto his knees with a thud, cold sweat running down his back as he said hurriedly: "My Lord! The..... The things written here are all not true! Your subordinate's loyalty to the Shadow Moon Palace can be vouched by the sun and moon! Someone is surely intentionally framing your subordinate here my Lord! You must really believe me in this!"