Chapter 1291: "Settling the Score (1)"
"Who are you! ?" The man in green asked with his face creased up in a frown as he stared at Jun Wu Yao who had suddenly appeared. He carelessly assumed that the man was someone from the Lower Realm and the glow from his Purple Spirit flared out wide, fully prepared to eradicate this random person who was in their way.
But before he could make a move, Elder Hui who was standing right beside him suddenly held him down by his shoulder.
"Elder Hui?" The man in green questioned in puzzlement as he looked at Elder Hui.
Elder Hui's eyes narrowed up as he stared with his eyes fixed upon Jun Wu Yao.
"Don't make any rash moves." Elder Hui said in a cold voice.
"Why?" The man in green was confused. Even for the people from the Palace of All Life, they had immediately move to kill in the first instance. Facing just a man from the Lower Realm now and Elder Hui was asking them to not act rashly?
"Look there." Elder Hui stuck out his chin to point and the eyes of the man in green looked in that direction, his gaze moving down from Jun Wu Yao's face to his feet!
Suddenly, he realized that Jun Wu Yao's feet were not touching the ground, but he was levitating off the ground, about a palm width above.
With that one look, the man in green was immediately bathed in cold sweat.
The man from the Palace of All Life panted heavily as he stared at Jun Wu Yao, and he noticed the strange phenomenon upon Jun Wu Yao.
Just like the man in green, he was similarly shocked!
Levitation could only be used by extraordinary people and throughout the entire Twelve Palaces, besides the Twelve Palace Lords, none others are capable of that technique. Moreover, even for all the various Palace Lords, they could only levitate for short periods of time where it was achieved through gathering their spirit powers below their feet and they could only maintain it for very short periods. But the man before their eyes was blatantly using it as replacement for walking and what terrified him even more was that he was unable to detect the slightest trace of spirit power from the man.
In an instant, the people from the Flame Demons Palace and the Palace of All Life were made immediately aware, no matter what the identity of the man before them really was, he possessed power beyond that of their respective Palace Lords themselves!
That one point was enough to drive terror deep into their hearts.
Although the Twelve Palace Lords in the MIddle Realm were not considered to be peerless and invincible, but they were already considered to be part of the elites. There weren't many who could surpass them and anyone who did hold power stronger than them, would possess similarly powerful backgrounds.
Right at that moment, regardless whether it was the people from the Flame Demons Palace or the Palace of All Life, they were all not dumb enough to go challenge Jun Wu Yao in any way.
The clash and clatter of drawn weapons that had filled the area just a moment before, had immediately disappeared without a trace with the appearance of Jun Wu Yao.
"May I ask the identity of this esteemed stranger? The Flame Demons Palace had to deal with a little private issue today and if we've offended you in any way, allow me to ask for your understanding." The highly cold and arrogant Elder Hui suddenly turned highly deferential and his tone of voice became polite and amicable.
Jun Wu Yao's face had a devilish smile upon it and his gaze swept over the people from the Flame Demons Palace but did not say a single word.
His silence made the people standing atop the Heaven's End Cliff even more nervous.
After a while, Ye Mei and Ye Sha finally caught up and lined themselves on both sides of Jun Wu Yao.
However, the instant Ye Sha and Ye Mei appeared, the man in green and Elder Hui's faces immediately changed!
Isn't that man the black robed one who had imploded himself in sacrifice back at the Cloudy Peaks? Didn't he die that time when his body blew up into a million pieces? How..... did he come to appear here now?
The man in green was suddenly in a panic. He attempted to tell himself that the man he was seeing was not the same one he encountered back in the Cloudy Peaks, but no matter which way he looked at it, that man's face was exactly the same as the one he had seen back in the Cloudy Peaks! And even his clothes and demeanor was exactly the same!
What really made him even more fearful, were the words Jun Wu Yao then asked that man!
Chapter 1292: "Settling the Score (2)"
"Are those two men here?" Jun Wu Yao asked in a highly casual voice.
Jun Wu Yao's question caused the heart of the man in green rise to shoot up, lodging in the back of his throat, and making his entire body break out in cold sweat.
[Those two men?]
[What two men! ?]
That question had made the man in green to suddenly think of the time he and Elder Hui had attacked Ye Sha!
Ye Sha slowly raised his head and his chillingly cruel gaze swept over the man in green and Elder Hui before he said: "They're present." Immediately upon saying that, he raised his hand and pointed his finger at the man in green and Elder Hui.
With Ye Sha's finger pointed at them, it immediately caused the hearts of the man in green and Elder Hui to drop to the bottom of the ravine. They turned instinctively to look at Jun Wu Yao and they saw that corners of Jun Wu Yao's mouth had curled up into a chillingly devilish smile, a smile that sent shivers deep into their bones.
"This is just a misunderstanding! Please hear us out and allow us to explain!" Suddenly overwhelmed with fear, the man in green quickly said in a hurry. For some reason, just looking at Jun Wu Yao's gaze had made him realize that he was doomed. Fear like he never felt before spread to every inch of his body which made his voice tremble slightly.
"Oh?" An eyebrow on Jun Wu Yao's face lifted, the sinister smile never once leaving his face, obviously in no hurry to make his move.
And Jun Wu Yao's single syllable query in reply was latched on by the man in green like it was his last ray of hope to live.
"We..... We were only seeking to capture that youth who possessed a plant spirit that day and we had absolutely no intention of making things difficult for our brother here, and had never even dreamed of wanting to hurt him at all! That day..... That day, although our Elder injured him, but we had never seeked to take his life but had merely wanted to stop him from interfering with our mission....." The man in green stuttered in a shaky voice, nothing like the arrogant person he was when he had been talking to the people from the Palace of All Life.
Jun Wu Yao just looked at him smilingly.
The man in green couldn't fathom what Jun Wu Yao was thinking and he did not dare to say another word.
The colour on Elder Hui's face had turned a highly ugly shade.
Jun Wu Yao remained silent for a while and then suddenly said with a laugh: "From what you've told me, both of you were only intending to kill that little youth who possessed a plant spirit?"
The man in green thought that he had just found a crevice to turn the whole thing around and he quickly nodded vehemently.
"That's right, our target had always been to only snatch that plant spirit and we've never wanted to hurt the innocent. The Flame Demons Palace would never allow us to act rashly but our brother here had chosen to self implode on his own that day....." At that moment, the man in green was just anxious to resolve the matter and he wanted to have absolutely nothing to do with this terrifying man before their eyes.
Hearing the explanation given by the man in green, the people from the Palace of All Life sneered in derision.
"The Flame Demons Palace would never allow you to act rashly? That must be the biggest joke I have ever heard! The Flame Demons Palace have always been arrogant in their ways and that is a fact that is widely known throughout the Middle Realm. Why had this brother here chosen to self implode? If you had not forced him into a corner with no other way out, how could he possibly choose to make such a choice!" The man from the Palace of All Living said in a voice dripping with contempt. Although he was no match for the people from the Flame Demons Palace here, but he was not a dumb person. The mysterious man from unknown origins obviously had some form of conflict with the two men from the Flame Demons Palace and he would naturally not miss this great opportunity to add fuel to the fire.
If he was able to anger the man enough to lash out and destroy the people from the Flame Demons Palace, then they would be saved from their crisis,
The man in green had tried so hard to finally appease the terrifying man and seeing the man from the Palace of All Life driving the wedge further with his venomous words, he immediately felt the scalp on his head crawl. He then rushed to shout loudly: "You must not shoot off your mouth so carelessly! Our Flame Demons Palace had always been careful to stay within the boundaries and would never pick a fight unnecessarily!"
He silently prayed fervently in his heart, that Jun Wu Yao would not believe the words of the man from the Palace of All Life.
Chapter 1293: "Settling the Score (3)"
" I'm shooting my mouth off? Ha ha, what a great joke! If the ways of the Flame Demons Palace could be termed to be within boundaries, then why had you attacked my people from the Palace of All Life here today?" The man from the Palace of All Life was not willing to let go of the fact that the Flame Demons Palace had taking advantage of the fact their more numerous group of people and were killing them indiscriminately.
The man in green then said angrily: "If not for the fact that you guys from the Palace of All Life had stepped out of line and snatched away what belonged to us, why would we have to resort to such drastic measures! ?"
"Ha! Snatch your things? That's just what you claim! When did we ever snatch anything of yours? It is obvious all of you are just falsely pinning this charge out of nowhere onto our heads! This is just a lousy excuse you are making for yourselves!" The man from the Palace of All Life was so angry he was spitting his words out through gritted teeth. They had never wanted to get into this brawl with the Flame Demons Palace but the Flame Demons Palace had suddenly lunged straight at them, catching them completely unprepared. If not for the sudden appearance of Jun Wu Yao, even the men they had left there would have been slaughtered by the Flame Demons Palace!
Although the Palace of All Life had once thought to steal the maps, but as the various palaces had always been highly secretive about the maps they possessed, they had not been able to find out to which power they had handed their map over to in the Lower Realm! Hence, even if they had wanted to steal the map, they didn't even know where they were to begin!
Against this accusation from the Flame Demons Palace, the Palace of All Life just found it completely ludicrous.
Both sides were unwilling to budge. The Flame Demons Palace were anxious to resolve their conflict with Ye Sha from before and on the other hand, the Palace of All Life was trying their best to muddy up the waters as they argued vehemently with each other. But due to Jun Wu Yao's terrifying presence there, they did not dare throw any more punches.
Jun Wu Yao's smile did not change in the slightest but his eyes had darkened without anyone noticing.
Just as the man from the Palace of All Life was in a hurry to push the men from Flame Demons Palace deeper into the abyss, a dark shadowy flash suddenly shot past his neck!
In an instant, that man lost his voice. His eyes flared wide in disbelief as a thin red line appeared upon his neck. Blood then gushed out from that thin red line to immediately turn his entire neck red. His shocked eyes were staring straight at Jun Wu Yao, seemingly unable to accept what was happening to him!
A thud then sounded!
The man's head rolled upon the ground and blood sprayed out from the wide open wound! Warm red blood rained down upon the area around his now dead body.
And under that bloody rain, the man's corpse fell in his own blood.
Till death, he still did not know what wrong he had committed. Why Jun Wu Yao had not only not raised his hand against the people from the Flame Demon Palace but had instead lopped off his head without even moving!
The leader of the men from the Palace of All Life had died in a blink!
The rest of the people from the Palace of All Life stood rooted in their spots woodenly. They had not even seen when Jun Wu Yao had struck and their leader was already dead without even making a sound!
The warm blood splattered upon their faces but it instead chilled them to their bones!
That man's death had been completely unexpected and had taken everyone by surprise. Even the people from the Flame Demons Palace were stunned.
Hadn't this mysterious man come here seeking to settle scores with them? Why had he lashed out but it was a man from the Palace of All Life who died instead?
The man in green whose heart had been lodged in his throat all this time finally secretly breathed out in relief and a tinge of delight rose within his heart. He immediately went walking forward and he clasped his hand over his fist respectfully before Jun Wu Yao to say: "Let me express my gratitude for Senior's help. Such despicable people should rightfully fall to such a fate. Senior is truly a esteemed man with a sense of justice. I apologise for any offence caused from the misunderstanding between us before and we are willing to offer our sincerest apologies to our brother here once again, hoping that the matter can be resolved henceforth."
Chapter 1294: "Settling the Score (4)"
When Jun Wu Yao killed the man from the Palace of All Life, it made the man in green assume that Jun Wu Yao no longer had the intention to made things difficult for them and that assumed discovery secretly delighted him but he was unable to hide the sparkle of joy that came into his eyes.
However, before the man in green was finished congratulating himself in glee, several dark shadowy flashes shot past his shoulders, shooting behind behind he stood!
In a blink, every single person from the Twelve Palaces standing upon the top of the Heaven's End Cliff suddenly had all their heads spiralling away, separated from their bodies!
With the exception of the man in green who had his smile frozen upon his face and Elder Hui, everyone from the Flame Demons Palace and the Palace of All Life were all killed without a sound in an instant!
Several tens of people had their heads lopped off at the exact same moment and great sprays of blood burst out from the open wounds upon their necks.
The blood fell, a fine red drizzle as it dotted the land drop by drop, the still warm and sticky blood instantly soaking into the clothes of the man in green and Elder Hui's.
The man in green and Elder Hui suddenly stared with their eyes wide and incredulous, in utter disbelief as they turned to look at Jun Wu Yao, the glee from before dissipating into nothing in that instant. They could not understand at all why the man had done that.....
If it was for revenge, why had he killed the people from the Palace of All Life as well?
If not for revenge, why had he carried out this instantaneous massacre! ?
On this trip to the Heaven's End Cliff, both the Flame Demon Palace and the Palace of All Life had sent out quite a number of powerful fighters and although the Flame Demons Palace had Elder Hui leading them, it would still pose them some difficulty to annihilate the entire group from the Palace of All Life in a short period of time.
But the incredibly handsome and devilishly looking man standing before their eyes had merely wiggled his fingers nonchalantly and he had immediately claimed the lives of several tens of people from the two different palaces with many powerful fighters among them!
Such absolutely peerless and dominating power threw the man in green and Elder Hui into a helpless state in that instant!
"Senior..... Senior, what are you doing....." The clothes of the man in green were now thoroughly soaked through with the blood from his comrades as his eyes stared in pure horror at Jun Wu Yao.
He was still smiling, though his hands were already stained with the blood of murder.
Seeing him through that rain of blood, while he stood before their eyes, that was no longer a man, but a bloodthirsty demon!
"You were just saying earlier that you were seeking to kill a little fella....." Jun Wu Yao's eyes narrowed up, and his jet black irises were slowly in tandem with his deepening smile, gradually filling up with a brilliant violet light.
"Apologies, the little one you were seeking to kill is actually my sweetheart."
In the instant that the violet light completely filled the irises, a ball of black mist suddenly appeared beside Jun Wu Yao! The mist swirled incessantly behind him, like malevolent claws and fangs, ready to tear anyone up in shreds in an instant!
That moment, the man in green and Elder Hui were stunned in immobility.
Their eyes stared locked upon Jun Wu Yao's pair of violet coloured eyes and a body numbing terror immediately gripped upon their hearts!
Under the Heavens, the lone possessor of such a pair of demonic violet eyes was just one man!
"Dar..... Dark..... Emperor....." All strength immediately drained out of the man in green and he fell with a crash to sit unceremoniously upon the ground, his face filled with hopeless despair!
Demonic violet eyes, black shadowy spirit power.....
The devilishly enchanting man standing before them was actually the Dark Emperor of legend, the lone one man who unified the entire Middle Realm!
How could this be possible!
The man in green completely lost all will to resist, his heart only filled with fear and panic.
While Elder Hui's face was a white sheet, without the slightest tinge of colour in it.
Although he was an Elder in the Flame Demons Palace and possessed highly dominating power, but from the moment he saw that pair of demonic violet eyes, all of that suddenly held no more meaning.
The Dark Emperor.....
The Middle Realm's true Emperor!
Chapter 1295: "Settling the Score (5)"
The Dark Emperor's glorious fame had spread far and wide and was well known within the Middle Realm for a long time. Even though he had already passed on for many years and the Middle Realm's hierarchy of power had changed drastically, but not a single person, not anyone..... dared to deny the Dark Emperor's power, or dared to disparage the Dark Emperor in the slightest.
Although the Dark Emperor had fallen, but the Night Regime still existed. Though the Night Regime did not involve themselves in any of the affairs in the Middle Realm, if something that was linked to the Dark Emperor came about, they would not let it go unheeded.
Even if it was just a word that badmouthed the Dark Emperor, the culprit would be relentlessly persecuted by the Night Regime!
The man in green and Elder Hui would not even in their dreams, truly expect to have the Dark Emperor who rocked the entire Middle Realm, who unified every single faction under him, to suddenly appear before them at that moment.
[The Dark Emperor had not died! He was still alive!]
"Dark Emperor please spare our lives! Please spare us! ! !" The man in green was shaking like a leaf in the wind, and he could not be bothered with the fact that his heart had leapt up right into his throat but had immediately fallen to his knees within a puddle of blood to kowtow in apology continuously before Jun Wu Yao.
If it had been anybody else they had met, they might still have a chance of surviving.
But if it was the Dark Emperor.....
The scythe of Death, was already held right against their necks.
The name of the Flame Demons Palace was of no use in that situation. So what if they were from the Twelve Palaces? It would not save their insignificant lives in any way!
"Dark Emperor....." Elder Hui was similarly on his knees, unable to summon up any strength to resist at all. His eyes stared in terror, unable to believe everything that was happening to him.
Jun Wu Yao's eyes narrowed to a slit as he stared at the two men who had lost their souls upon seeing him, and the smile upon his lips curled up further.
"It seems that the two of you had taken extra good care of my Little Xie before."
That voice was highly magnetic, like it was the voice of the gods, but when it reached their ears, to Elder Hui himself, it sounded like death's knell had tolled.
"Dark Emperor have mercy, Dark Emperor please spare my life..... I will never do it again..... Never ever again....." The man in green was crying so hard he was howling like an injured dog, cowering upon the ground and not even daring to even lift his head. He was scared. He was truly terrified.
No one could possibly be the Dark Emperor's match. He wasn't, and Elder Hui wasn't. Whoever offended the Dark Emperor would come to only one end.
And that was the unchanging law that had stood almost forever in the Middle Realm!
Ye Sha stared chillingly at the two men who had once driven him and Jun Wu Xie to those highly dire straits before. They were now worse than unwanted strays, kneeling and kowtowing before Jun Wu Yao, begging for their lives. That scene merely elicited a chilling smile from Ye Sha's lips as he remembered just how arrogant those two men had been, when they had almost forced the Young Miss to lose her life.
But at that moment, when before Lord Jue, they were acting worse than abandoned dogs!
Before absolute might, they were nothing but insects to be quashed.
"No need to get so nervous. I will not kill both of you." Jun Wu Yao said with a smile, his devilish looking violet eyes smiling at them.
The man in green raised his head shakingly, his tear streaked face looking highly wretched as he asked: "Rea..... Really....."
Jun Wu Yao gave a light laugh. "To put it more accurately, I will not kill you so quickly."
The eyes of the man in green suddenly bulged in horror, his frantic arms and legs suddenly scrambling in his last ditch attempt to escape this unbearable hell. But before he had even turned his body around, he was suddenly picked up and lifted into the air by an invisible force!
"No! Do not kill me! I have realized my mistake..... I have really realized my mistake....." The man in green wailed with tears and mucus running down his face freely. If he had known that that little kid had links with the Dark Emperor, however much guts he could possibly possess, he wouldn't dare touch one hair upon the kid.
However, his highly desperate pleas did not manage to convince Jun Wu Yao to show any mercy.
Jun Wu Yao raised a hand and the man was lifted in the air by an invisible force. He then raised his other hand and a thread the colour of blood slowly extended out from the tip of his finger.
Chapter 1296: "Settling the Score (6)"
That blood red thread shot speedily to burrow into the chest of the man in green. The man in green struggled as his eyes flared wide and his body began to convulse!
The skin's surface that was not covered by his clothes showed lines upon lines of the blood red thread beginning to cover over it, the threads glowing faintly red, looking like a dense spider web that tightly meshed up over his entire body.
In an instant, the little finger on his right hand started to turn into a blob of blood, his bones and flesh slowly being melted, to turn into thick and sticky blood, dripping drop by drop onto the ground.
"ARRRGH! ! !"
The highly mournful wail tore out from the man throat. He could very clearly feel the excruciating pain of his flesh and bones slowly being rotted and melting away. The unimaginable pain almost pushed his mind into a faint, but he found that he was instead held clearly conscious against his will.
Every single bit of that agony was being clearly pulsed through his nerves throughout his entire body!
"Blood Fiend..... Blood Fiend....." Elder Hui stared as the man in green's finger rotted away into blood and his own body involuntarily began to shiver.
Blood Fiend.....
A unique ability only the Dark Emperor possessed, which could instantly turn anyone into a pool of blood. But he could control and manipulate the speed of the rot, making the person feel every single moment of the agonizing torment of having his body slowly rot away bit by bit, while fear and terror wrecked at the person's mind.
That was a torment that no one was able to endure.
There was a legend that told of a man at the pinnacle of power in the Middle Realm. When the Dark Emperor unified the Middle Realm, that man had vainly thought that he could challenge the authourity of the Dark Emperor and that man had then been "bestowed" with a taste of the Blood Fiend.
Once the Blood Fiend infiltrated the body, one was doomed to a fate worse than death. That man was tortured from the entirety of three days and three nights, beginning from the tip of his fingers to spread continuously. First, it was the fingers, then came the palm, moving up the arm, shoulder and it spread downwards after that, from his chest to his legs. In the end, only his head was left and what made it all the more terrifying was till the end, even when the man had only a head left, he had still been alive.....
The horror of the Blood Fiend greatly terrified the people of the Middle Realm and no one else dared anger the Dark Emperor from that moment on.
They were all frightened, and terrorized.....
But Elder Hui would not even in his dreams have thought, that he would one day experience the horrors of the Blood Fiend.
All temperature seemed to leave his body in an instant, his ears filling with the incessant wails coming out from the man in green. It was such a heart rending scream that made his heart jump. Even before he had experienced that torment, he had already been scared witless.
It was said that as the Blood Fiend was being carried out, the person afflicted with the Blood Fiend would be able to clearly feel every single bit of that excruciating pain as all his own internal organs were being slowly rotted away.
Just thinking about it was making his scalp crawl.
Elder Hui stared blankly at it and at that moment, he made a highly determined decision!
He suddenly gathered all his spirit energy onto his palm and he brought his arm up to smash it down upon the crown of his head!
He was sure to die, but he really did not dare to have a taste of the kind of agony the Blood Fiend would bring to him.
But before his palm had even touched his head, his entire body was suddenly numbed but a sudden force. He felt as if someone was holding him, and he could not move himself a single inch.
"Have I allowed you to die?" Jun Wu Yao's voice suddenly sounded, that voice so filled with mirth, was like his worst nightmare that reverberated within his ears.
He wanted to beg, but he was unable to move his mouth. Hence, he could only used his eyes that were filled with terror to stare at Jun Wu Yao.
"Enjoy the spectacle fully as he dies slowly, as it will your turn next." Jun Wu Yao said as the corners of his mouth curled with into a smile, like one from a bloodthirsty demon.
Chapter 1297: "Settling the Score (7)"
That devilish pair of violet eyes, were now not tinged with mirth, but the gaze from them was filled with sharp chilling murder.
At that time, when Jun Wu Yao found Jun Wu Xie, he had not said anything, nor asked much about it. But that incident had not been erased from his memory at all.
That was the time that he had very nearly lost her.
That had made him feel panic, an emotion that he had never experienced before, and he had felt it very clearly then.
He would not allow them to die so easily. Regardless whether it was for the the pain Jun Wu Xie had suffered, or the panic that he had felt, he wasn't about to let them die off so easily.
Only by inflicting this torture upon them, would he be able to appease the sense of panic he had felt in his heart when he had almost lost Jun Wu Xie.
The pitiful and mournful howls in Jun Wu Yao's ears, sounded as moving as a song sung in praise.
The thick stench of blood that pervaded the air all around, almost seemed to have pulled him back to the past, to the bloody fields of merciless massacre!
Elder Hui wanted to plead for death, but was unable to, but could only watch on wide eyed as the body of the man in green slowly rotted away under the Blood Fiend. The screaming howls coming out from the man in green were highly piercing to the ears, his throat almost broken by the incessant screams, but he was still unable to make it all end for him.
The agony was like the bottomless abyss. The mind of the man in green was almost crumbling under that unbearable pain and torture, but the most terrifying aspect of the Blood Fiend was that made him, at all times throughout the ordeal, remain conscious with crystal clear clarity.
Only by remaining conscious, would the torture be able play out to its extreme!
Ye Sha and Ye Mei stood quietly behind Jun Wu Yao, a heated fervour filling their eyes.
Having followed closely beside Jun Wu Yao for a long time, the two men could clearly feel just how intense the murder that Jun Wu Yao was feeling right at that moment. They had not felt such strong murder coming from their Lord for a long time which seemed to have brought them back to all those years when they had stood with Jun Wu Yao when they rained massacre everywhere they went.
The blood that had cooled for a long time boiled in renewed fervour right at that moment.
This was their Lord they had swore allegiance to, and the celestial entity that had created them!
Within the Night Regime, there was no right or wrong, nor was there truth or lies.
The Night Regime only knew to abide by Lord Jue's orders.
All and any orders!
From the beginning to the end, Jun Wu Yao's face exhibited that same devilish smile, like all of this was not merciless slaughter, not a bout of torture, but just an interesting game. The pitiful cries of the man in green, and the fear emanating from Elder Hui, were just playthings just to entertain him.
.....
Within the dense forest, the group who had remained in wait heard that highly tragic cries completely devoid of hope, the sounds sending chills to run through their bodies.
And the suffocating stench of blood that wafted into the dense forest thereafter was so thick that it nauseated them.
"Big Brother Wu Yao..... what did he do?" Qiao Chu gulped loudly and asked. Staring into the thick foliage of the forest in that direction, just hearing the sounds coming to his ears, and smelling the scent that wafted through the air, which chilled him right to the bones.
"I would strongly suggest that you keep that curiosity away and it will do you good." Fan Zhou said as he drew in a deep breath, trying very hard to quell the thumping of his heart. He could feel a very strong and intense murder that was suffocating him, that was slowly spreading over the entire forest.
If his guess was correct, that intense murder was coming from Jun Wu Yao.
Murder that was so intense to feel, and from such a far distance away, already made him highly uneasy. If they went closer to it, he was afraid that all of them would not be able to withstand such an oppressive aura.
Jun Wu Xie did not say a word. She merely sat on one side quietly, carrying the little black cat in her arms.
This bout of slaughter, was a dance that he had choreographed for her.
She would not go stop it, and neither did she want to stop it.
Just as the group were deeply immersed within that terrifying atmosphere, Little Jue who had squatted silently on the side all this time, suddenly stood up without anyone noticing him, and opening his short legs in stride, he walked towards the direction of the Heaven's End Cliff.
Chapter 1298: "Settling the Score (8)"
Upon the top of the Heaven's End Cliff, the man in green could no longer make a noise. The larger part of his body had already been turned into a pool of blood and their was only his head still left. That blood smeared head hung suspended in the air, its nostrils flaring slightly.....
He had not yet died, he was still alive.....
At that moment he wished for nothing more than to be dead, where he would no longer have to suffer this seemingly endless torment.
His body was being slowly rotted away, eaten away bit by bit, suffering an agony that was beyond anything that a human was able to endure.
He would rather he had never lived, than to have to endure through such a terrifying nightmare.
Jun Wu Yao watched on with a smile. If not for the fact that Jun Wu Xie and her companions were rushing to go down to the bottom of the Heaven's End Cliff, with his ability to control the speed of the Blood Fiend, he would be able to make him suffer a more torturous death.
A month, or maybe a year.....
Crush his bones and scatter his ashes, but it would not be enough to quell the hatred in his heart.
Elder Hui who was made to witness the entire process had his heart now in shambles. After the man in green died, it would be his turn next.
If possible, he would rather he be dead now, and even if he was to die under a thousand cuts, it would be a quicker death that the torture the Blood Fiend would inflict on him!
Jun Wu Yao's gaze then slowly turned, to fall upon the figure of Elder Hui, and with a voice that sounded like the tolling of the death knell, he then said.
"You're up."
Elder Hui was suddenly lifted up to be suspended in midair. Under Jun Wu Yao's oppressive aura, he found himself unable to move at all, unable to even utter a muffled moan.
Even as an Elder of the Flame Demons Palace, he was reduced to become a helpless trembling mess, his lips white with fear.
Jun Wu Yao released the Blood Fiend once more, and right at the very instant that the Blood Fiend pierced into Elder Hui's Body!
A fiery red figure suddenly pounced onto him!
Ye Sha and Ye Mei were surprised and were immediately about to move when Jun Wu Yao suddenly raised a hand to stop them.
Upon Elder Hui's body, a tiny figure had latched on tightly right in front of his chest!
Upon that pair of tiny fair skinned hands, sharp nails had suddenly grown out of them, which had pierced right through Elder Hui's chest!
Copious amounts of blood flowed out from the gaping wound which stained the little figure upon his chest red.
It was a child, with a highly innocent and guileless face, but for that pair of deep scarlet eyes and his head of fiery red hair!
"It's Little Jue." Ye Mei quickly recognized that little figure and his face filled up with an expression of surprise.
The corners of Jun Wu Yao's lips lifted as he looked at Little Jue.
At that moment, Little Jue's eyes were devoid of that bumbling ignorance they usually exhibited but were filled with a pure bestial urge to kill. His irises had turned to vertical slits, like the eyes of a snake and the adorable little fangs in his mouth had now grown longer, razor sharp.
He stared at the pale faced Elder Hui and opened his mouth, to clamp those fangs down upon Elder Hui's chest!
In the next instant, a chunk of flesh was mercilessly ripped out from Elder Hui's chest!
On that large gaping wound, with more flesh ripped away from it, blood flowed out and his ribs within that chest became clearly visible! Under those ribs, a wildly beating heart could be seen!
"Lord Jue....." Ye Sha immediately spoke upon seeing that.
Jun Wu Yao however folded his arms across his chest to stare calm and unruffled at Little Jue who was filled with murderous rage.
"Looks like I am not the only one who wants to avenge Little Xie afterall."
Chapter 1299: "Settling the Score (9)"
Crunch crunch.....
The sound of teeth crunching through bones floated through the air atop the Heaven's End Cliff as Little Jue bit through Elder Hui's exposed ribs.
Elder Hui could not make a sound, but the pain shot through every single nerve in his body distinctly, the agony turning his face pale as a sheet, his eyes immediately red and bloodshot.
The ribs were bitten through one by one under the crushing force of those teeth and the heart that just lost his last line of defence lay widely exposed to the air.
'Piak!'
Little Jue's little hand grasped the still beating heart within his palm and with his claw like nails sharp as blades, he tugged at it violently!
The nails cut through all the arteries joined to the bright red heart as it continued to pulsate, suddenly digging it out from the chest!
Upon Elder Hui's chest, was a large gaping hole, blood gushing out of it endlessly to flow down the length of his body, as it all finally dripped off his down pointed toes onto the ground.
Little Jue's tiny figure then nimbly flipped backwards to land agilely on his feet, Elder Hui's heart clasped within his hand as he stared at it with a bestial gaze, eager for a kill.
Upon that clear little face, splatters of blood smeared upon its surface, lending to that innocent and childlike face, a look of a ravenous and ferocious beast.
He did not even give Elder Hui another look but just carried the heart within both of his hands to walk towards the dense foliage of the forest.
"Lord Jue, should I follow him?" Ye Sha asked in a solemn voice as he carefully observed Little Jue's actions.
Jun Wu Yao however shook his head and said: "Leave him be. Anyway....." His gaze then fell back onto the blood soaked body of Elder Hui. "This man will not be dying yet for quite a while more."
With his heart mercilessly ripped out, Elder Hui was miraculously still breathing, but the torment from the Blood Fiend still wrecked at him. As long as Jun Wu Yao wished it, he would not die, but neither would he be able to live!
Jun Wu Xie and her companions were still waiting within the forest and although Qiao Chu was highly curious about what Jun Wu Yao had done, his sensibilities was however telling him, that curiosity killed the cat and things will not turn out well if he persisted in that. He then sat himself down in resignation and lit a fire as the companions gathered around, to rearrange the things they would be using to climb down to the bottom of the Heaven's End Cliff.
Jun Wu Xie then started to distribute the elixirs she kept with her Cosmos Sack to her companions. Before she set forth on the journey, she had cultivated several types of elixirs based on all the different situations she had seen of the Heaven's End Cliff from before.
"Little Big Brother....."
Suddenly, Little Jue's voice sounded from behind Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie turned her head around and immediately froze.
The tiny and innocent little fella, was just standing behind her unmoving. But upon his body, face, and hands, they were all completely stained with bright garish red blood. Upon that face filled with bloodstains, was a innocent and brilliant smile. He just stood there, his hands clasped around a still fresh and bright red heart, his eyes filled with anticipation as he looked at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie looked at Little Jue in surprise, staring at the little figure all covered in blood, a complete contrast to the image of the timid and bumbling little Emperor that was still fresh in her mind, but that smile upon that face was just as familiar as she remembered.
Jun Wu Xie was frozen, while Qiao Chu and the others were equally stunned when they saw the state Little Jue was in.
Who would have thought that the little one who had always run away crying with just a glare from Fei Yan would suddenly appear before them looking like that.
The blood on him was still wet and the sticky liquid was dripping down through the gaps in his fingers onto the ground.
In that moment of quiet, the sound became extraordinarily clear within their ears.
Feeling like the sound of every drip drummed right upon their hearts.
"Little Big Brother, a..... gift for you" Little Jue said with those innocent eyes wide and sparkling, the hands holding the gory heart raising a little as he struggled to bring it before Jun Wu Xie's eyes as the corners of his mouth broke into a guileless smile. But that display of innocence, was soaked in bright garish blood.
Chapter 1300: "Pure and Innocent Heart (1)"
Jun Wu Xie had never once felt that the sight of blood could be so garish to her as she stared at the smiling Little Jue and her brows creased up together.
"This....." Qiao Chu and the rest of the gang suddenly did not know what to say as the sight of Little Jue all covered in blood was nothing like the image of the timid and innocent little fella who was just a glutton in their minds.
Jun Wu Xie walked up to him in silence as he looked at Little Jue whose face was full of anticipation. She used her own sleeve to wipe off the blood from that little face as Little Jue blinked blankly at her, his incomplete soul causing him to be unable to understand why Jun Wu Xie was reacting so strangely at that moment.
Jun Wu Xie continued to wipe away the blood carefully and took the heart that had gone cold from the little boy's hands to throw it onto the ground.
A worried look came onto Little Jue's face but Jun Wu Xie still did not say a word as she went on to wipe at his tiny hands.
"Go change out of your clothes." Jun Wu Xie said coldly.
Little Jue shrunk his head into his shoulders and did not dare say anything against that but just looked at Jun Wu Xie with a tinge of aggrievement in his eyes before slowly climbing up into the horse carriage to change out of his blood soaked clothes.
It was only after Little Jue went into the horse carriage that Qiao Chu and the others opened their mouths to speak.
"Little Xie, Little Jue is..... still very young, so maybe you shouldn't be too harsh on him." Qiao Chu said a tad cautiously. Having stuck around around Jun Wu Xie for quite a period, he had been able to get a good idea of Jun Wu Xie's likes and dislikes.
He could sense that Jun Wu Xie was in a rather bad mood at that moment as her eyes had turned slightly more cold than usual.
"Cough..... I think he must have gone to seek vengeance for you? He must have heard everything that we were talking about earlier." Fei Yan chipped in hurriedly, in an attempt to plead on Little Jue's behalf. They had not noticed Little Jue's unusual actions earlier as the kid was completely different from any other kid and the amount of words he knew that was his entire vocabulary could be counted with the number of fingers they had. Who would have thought that the little fella who had not regained back all his awareness would suddenly go out and commit such a garishly bloody deed?
The several youths there were all not that dumb and they had quickly linked Little Jue's actions to what they had talked about earlier to realise the reason behind it.
And they strongly sympathised with the little boy in their hearts.
Jun Wu Xie was silent for a moment before she opened her mouth to say softly.
"I brought him here, not for him do such things."
She still remembered when she had seen the Little Emperor for the first time. He had been so lovably timid and the slightest shock would reduce him into a trembling mass. But now, that Little Jue who had come in washed in blood was completely different from the little Emperor she remembered as his nature at its core had never liked such gore and she did not want the kid's hands to be stained with blood.
He would only need to continue to live his life in innocence and after his soul was healed, he would then be able to be the comfortable and easy Emperor he was, without having to face the bloody gore and deceit, without having to taint his hands at all.
The little Emperor was the most pure and innocent child Jun Wu Xie had ever met before who had though been born into an Imperial Family, still maintained such a guileless character.
A pure and innocent heart was most rare and Jun Wu Xie did not want to taint the little Emperor's base personality.
"People created under the Scarlet Blood, would all be filled with an innate urge for slaughter. Little Jue is usually highly obedient and adorable and today's incident must have been because the matter was linked to you which had then aroused the effects of the Scarlet Blood within him. Don't take it to heart. Wait till he recovers and all this might just fade away completely." Rong Ruo said with a sigh, as she could roughly understand how Jun Wu Xie was feeling at that moment.
Jun Wu Xie and the little Emperor were not related in anyway but she had gone all out to help the little boy just because a pure and innocent was just too rare and precious.