Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss

Chapter 1461 - 1480

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Chapter 1461:- Stick Your Face Out (3)

Ye Jie who had been completely silent on the side had upon hearing Jun Wu Yao's words which had barely just started to fade, instantly transformed into Ye Gu, who rubbed his fists in anticipation, all ready to kick up a huge whirl of a storm.

"Lord Jue you can be most assured that if they dare to stick their heads out, I guarantee that not a single one of them would be able to leave the Clear Breeze City alive." Ye Gu's face was one of bloodthirsty excitement. As the Commander in Chief of the Night Regime, he had guarded the tomb for too long and he had yearned for so long to engage himself in an exhilarating bloodbath.

Jun Wu Yao smiled and did not say anything else.

Outside the loft, Jun Wu Xie and the black clothed man were faced against each other. The initially highly arrogant Luo Xi had from the moment he saw the Purple Spirit glow upon Jun Wu Xie's body immediately clamped his mouth shut. Even with the black robed man's support, he didn't dare to go provoke a Purple Spirit directly!

"Which one of the palaces are you from?" The black clothed man asked as he stared at Jun Wu Xie. He didn't believe that anyone would be able to break through to the Purple Spirit at such a young age here in the Lower Realm. Although a Purple Spirit was able to retain a person's youth, but the youth they were able to maintain would not be to such a ridiculous extent. Even in the Middle Realm, those who were able to break through to the Purple Spirit at that young a age would be considered a rare prodigy few and far between.

"Which palace?" Jun Wu Xie sneered coldly. "I do not come from any of the palaces. Under these Heavens, not only you people from the Twelve Palaces are able to do as you please. These lands your feet are standing on belong to the Lower Realm and it is not a place for you people from the Middle Realm to meddle with!"

"Such audacious words! Do you really think having become a Purple Spirit means absolute might? Let me teach you now, the difference between one Purple Spirit and another Purple Spirit!" At the very moment the black clothed man's voice fell, he had already turned into a streak of purple light, speedily leaping straight towards Jun Wu Xie!

The figure of Jun Wu Xie had also turned into a purple streak at that same moment.

The glow from the two purple coloured spirit lights were like two flashes of lightning, crisscrossing over each other up in the air under the open sky!

The oppressive pressure that was flaring out from the two Purple Spirits locked in combat caused the refugees standing at the sides to feel it was rather hard to breathe.

Hidden within the shadows, pairs of eyes watched the great battle intently, paying attention to everything that was unfolding before them.

"Where had that kid come from? From the way he spoke, he didn't sound like he was from the Twelve Palaces, or should I say he didn't even sound like he was from the Middle Realm at all. And he's still so young, could it be that the Lower Realm had also produced such an astoundingly demonic prodigy as well?" A man said with a frown on his face as he continued to stare at Jun Wu Xie who was battling the black clothed man.

"If that is true, the demarcation of powers here in the Lower Realm will surely change. I have seen that black clothed man before and he is one of the Elders from the Palace of Flame Demons. Although his powers isn't among the most elite, he's still not someone we will be able to take on. But that kid is actually fighting him without falling into a disadvantageous situation, that point alone had really surprised me rather greatly." Another man then said, rubbing his chin.

A person that was able to fight on par with an Elder of the Twelve Palaces was uncommonly seen and this group of people who had hidden themselves within the Clear Breeze City had not made any moves because they discovered that the Palace of Flame Demons had sent out one of their Elders to take charge of this place.

With just the few of them, they would not be able to take down an Elder.

The same thought seemed to have sprouted within the minds of all the men from the Middle Realm hidden within the shadows. They watched on quietly at everything that was happening, not knowing that what they were witnessing was the very beginning of the rise of the Lower Realm!

The black clothed man and Jun Wu Xie had battled only for a few short minutes but they had executed no less than a hundred strikes. He had thought with his opponent's young age, even if he had broken through to the Purple Spirit, his powers would not be stable yet, but after cruising swords, the threat that Jun Wu Xie brought to him, went way beyond his expectations!

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Chapter 1462:- Stick Your Face Out (4)

The powerful strikes came one after another relentlessly, without the slowing down in the slightest!

It caught the black clothed man by surprise and if he had not seen Jun Wu Xie's countenance clearly before and knew his opponent's young age, the black clothed man would really have thought that Jun Wu Xie was an Elder from one of the other palaces in disguise.

But the black clothed man did not know that though Jun Wu Xie might be young, but her innate gift had truly been Heaven defying and added to that, she had pursued her cultivation in the Dark Emperor's tomb without rest throughout many days and nights, the efforts she had poured in was no less than anyone else.

Another thing that pushed her to such an extent besides her gift and hard work was due to her possessing the most tyrannical piece of magical artifact protecting and fortifying her strength, coupled with the mightiest and most powerful Dark Emperor of the Middle Realms' personal instruction in her cultivation. These two factors had caused Jun Wu Xie's powers to grow and elevate at a speed that far exceeded any other person could hope to achieve!

The light from the energy of spirit power streaked and flashed continuously, the multitude of resounding crashes reverberating within everyone's ears so hard they hurt.

Not even in his dreams would the black clothed man ever have thought that he, as a respected Elder of the Palace of the Flame Demons would one day be pushed back so hard by a young youth from the Lower Realm.

Having initially thought that he would be able to send Jun Wu Xie right into Hell within a short period of time, after they had traded multiple punches after countless strikes, the black clothed man realized that he had to summon every single ounce of his abilities in this battle. From the day that he became an Elder of the Palace of the Flame Demons, he had never encountered such an infuriating thing!

What made him even more frustrated was when he discovered that the kid's moves were becoming more smooth and more precise as the battle progressed, the strikes becoming sharper and his opponent's spirit power seemingly inexhaustible. Every strike was more ferocious than the one before and as his own spirit power drained, the black clothed man's heart grew agitated which messed up the execution of his moves.

Jun Wu Xie's eyes noticed all of it. After attaining the Purple Spirit, the amount of time she had been able to employ its powers were very short and hence she had not gotten a complete grasp of her Purple Spirit powers. But through this battle, she had been able to fill up and smoothen out those gaps she had not been familiar with and instead of saying that she was fighting with all might with the black clothed man, it might rather be said that she treated the opponent as a sparring partner, never having the intention of seeking to end the battle quickly, but more to maintain a situation where they would be equally matched.

Towards this point, it might not be obvious to others who were watching, but to the bunch of people from the other Twelve Palaces who were hidden in the Clear Breeze City, it couldn't be any clearer to them.

On the surface, the black clothed man looked to be evenly matched with Jun Wu Xie, but they had all been able to see that Jun Wu Xie was not using all her powers at all, looking like the kid was just toying with his opponent.

"There is no need to continue watching. Let's go back. The Palace of the Flame Demons have lost really dearly this time round. To think that such a demonic devil would appear in the Lower Realm. Our missions here in the Lower Realm from now onwards would surely be harder to carry on." A man who decided that he had seen enough said, before he immediately turned and departed.

Rather than to remain here and waste his time, he would rather bring this news back to the Elder back in the palace.

Very soon, the hidden members of the Twelve Palaces all left, silently and unnoticed. They weren't about to wait around for Jun Wu Xie to discover them and drag them out to give them a brutal thrashing.

Afterall.....

They were all not at the level of an Elder. If even that black clothed man was helpless against Jun Wu Xie, they would all be much less of a match.

All of that had taken place in secret, unknown to anyone.

The situation was becoming worse for the black clothed man. Jun Wu Xie had suddenly seemed to have had enough. At the moment that the black clothed man attempted to turn the situation around, Jun Wu Xie raised her spirit powers to its peak in that instant!

With a strong and powerful kick, she sent the black clothed man hurtling straight towards the ground!

A loud crash erupted!

The cloud of dust kicked up was immense.....

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Chapter 1463:- Stick Your Face Out (5)

The black clothed man shot like a arrow and struck the ground heavily, creating a wide and deep hole in the earth as copious amounts of blood spurted out from his mouth.

Luo Xi was flabbergasted with terror by the scene before his eyes and he fell back onto the ground with a crash, unable to believe everything that was happening.

The revered one had been defeated..... defeated by a youth.....

How was that possible! ?

The absolute belief in his heart had crumbled in an instant and Luo Xi's face was ashen as his teeth chattered helplessly.

That battle was not one that the average person was able to see clearly and everyone had only seen streaks of Purple Spirit light flash. Even till the battle ended, many of the people still had not recovered from their shock.

The gazes of the refugees then fell at the same time upon Jun Wu Xie.

The tiny figure stood silently upright upon the ground, his facial features delicately attractive, his gaze like frosty snow. He was obviously at just such a young age but he truly astounded the hearts of man.

In an instant, the area just in front of the lofts erupted with a raucous cheer!

The cheering shook the Heavens, celebrating Jun Wu Xie's victory.

Jun Wu Xie stared coldly at the black clothed man who had fallen to the ground and wasn't moving at all. She had not taken his life as she had some things she wanted to ask him.

The black robed man lay within a pool of blood, every single bone within his body feeling like they had been crushed to bits. He absolutely could not believe that he would be defeated so completely. There was no need to even mention being on par with Jun Wu Xie at all. When Jun Wu Xie had executed that last strike, he had been completely unable to defend against it at all.

And it was from that moment that he began to fully realise that all the way from the beginning, Jun Wu Xie had not been fighting with all of her powers!

Powers that would seemingly be able to go against the Palace Lords themselves!

That a youth that was just in his mere teens would possess powers capable of rivalling those of the Lords of the Twelve Palaces was just absolutely unbelievable.

The fall of the black robed man caused Luo Xi to become so badly gripped by terror his entire body was trembling. He had fallen to the ground as he watched Jun Wu Xie slowly approaching them, shivering as he shifted his behind, wanting to escape from the place.

"Now, whose time is it to die today?" Jun Wu Xie asked as her gaze slowly fell onto Luo Xi's body, her eyes completely expressionless.

But that one look had made Luo Xi instantly stop breathing. His throat felt as if someone was strangling him, causing him to be unable to utter a single sound.

Jun Wu Xie's hand slowly lifted and a Purple Spirit light suddenly shot out towards Luo Xi's head!

All of a sudden!

Luo Xi forehead was pierced by that spirit light in between the brows, a bloody hole had appeared suddenly on his forehead. He did not even have time to scream out before he fell stiffly onto the dusty ground.

The thick bloody stench pervaded the surrounding air and Jun Wu Xie turned her gaze onto the unmoving black clothed man, not an ounce of pity within her eyes.

"Who.... Who are you actually?" The black clothed man asked weakly as he lay in a heap on the ground. He still could not accept just how utterly he had been defeated.

"Someone from the Lower Realm." Jun Wu Xie replied coldly.

The black clothed man then said through gritted teeth. "Kill me....."

"When I want you dead, I will then naturally kill you." After saying that, Jun Wu Xie turned around and walked away.

After she departed, the figure of Ye Sha quickly appeared and carried up the black clothed man, bringing him away.

After a astounding battle, peace returned. Everyone who witnessed the battle today deeply felt fear of the Purple Spirit's powers.

The black clothed man was dragged back to the loft that Jun Wu Xie occupied and guarded by Ye Sha. Although he was severely injured, those injuries would not yet cause him to lose his life for a period. Jun Wu Xie still had time to dig out everything she would want to know from the man's mouth.

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Chapter 1464:- Stick Your Face Out (6)

The black robed man was placed inside a room by Ye Sha. Jun Wu Xie made Ye Sha give the black robed man some medicine to stabilise his breathing so that he would not fall unconscious.

That black clothed man sat leaning against the side of the bed weakly, all his meridians sealed by Jun Wu Xie's spirit powers. He was only able to move his mouth now and his eyes were cold and hard, as they stared at Jun Wu Xie, looking like they wished for nothing more than to cut her up and swallow her raw.

"When your skills are proven inferior, you have to accept your fate." Jun Wu Xie said as she sat down upon a chair by the side, her chin propped up by one hand as she gazed nonchalantly at the black clothed man.

"Just who are you!" The black clothed man still could not believe that Jun Wu Xie was really a person from the Lower Realm. What the Lower Realm was like, was well known by them and if the Lower Realm really could produce such a powerful Heaven defying monster, they wouldn't have had to suffer being oppressed so badly by the Middle Realm for so many years.

"Who that is, is not something that you are even fit to ask about." A voice suddenly rang out.

Jun Wu Yao came walking slowly to appear at the door, the corners of his mouth curled up in a faint smile, his gaze not looking upon the black clothed man in the slightest but was fixed upon Jun Wu Xie.

However, at the moment that the black robed man was able to see Jun Wu Yao's countenance clearly, his eyes suddenly bulged out in an incredulous stare, red blood veins filling up his eyes as he continued to stare at Jun Wu Yao, looking like he had seen a ghost!

"Now you've frightened him." Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Jun Wu Yao lazily.

To which Jun Wu Yao replied: "I do not think that my looks will really have such a devastating effect."

"Maybe he recognizes you." Jun Wu Xie said with a lift of an eyebrow.

Jun Wu Yao merely smiled and did not say anything.

But the black clothed man's mouth was suddenly chattering incessantly and his face had immediately drained of all colour from terror, looking more horrified than he had looked when he found himself defeated by Jun Wu Xie!

"Dark..... Dark Emperor....." The two highly terrifying words stumbled out from the black clothed man's mouth as his face turned a deathly pallor while his eyes became fixed upon Jun Wu Yao who went to sit down beside Jun Wu Xie.

Jun Wu Yao's smile was calm and he did not react but it was Jun Wu Xie who instead arched her eyebrow up slightly and said: "He's addressing you."

Jun Wu Yao's face was one of confusion. "I didn't know that!"

"Pretender." Jun Wu Xie said as she swept a sidelong gaze over from Jun Wu Yao, but was not going to pursue whether he was going to continue denying his identity.

After the pitiable and unfortunate black clothed saw Jun Wu Yao, he was so terror struck he almost lost his mind. Before Jun Wu Xie, he was still able to put on a front of false bravado, but once Jun Wu Yao appeared, he immediately became like a deflated balloon and was shaking pitifully like willows in the wind.

It had been a long time since the Dark Emperor had fallen and the black clothed man had never seen the Dark Emperor's real countenance. But among the Twelve Palaces, they had always kept old portraits of the Dark Emperor, works of art that were highly lifelike, the only difference from the man before his eyes now was the colour of the eyes, and besides that, it was a complete match.

Although the Dark Emperor was no longer around, his unparalleled fame and glory had never disappeared from the Middle Realm, those two words were like a curse that remained within everyone's hearts.

It could be that Jun Wu Yao's presence had truly terrified the black clothed man as his reactions after that became more retarded. Although when Jun Wu Xie asked him about some things, he had truthfully revealed everything he knew. It wasn't that he had no backbone, but.....

Before the Dark Emperor, no one dared to resist or defy him in the slightest. The Dark Emperor's exploits, were still well talked about in the Middle Realm till this day.

The black clothed man wouldn't want any instances that he might be thought to be uncooperative to draw the Dark Emperor's "attention" to him. The Dark Emperor's wrath was not something he was prepared to face at all!

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Chapter 1465:- The Rise of the Lower Realm (1)

The interrogation progressed very smoothly, so smoothly that Jun Wu Xie could not help but start to think that she would not have to do anything else henceforth. She would only need to push Jun Wu Yao forward and place him before the people of the Twelve Palaces which would then bring all of them to come flying over to grovel and fawn before them?

But of course, she was just merely giving that a thought. The fact that Jun Wu Yao had not revealed his real identity all this time told her that he had his own reasons for it. Moreover, Jun Wu Xie was not willing to depend on another person all that much.

From the dark clothed man's mouth, she had come to realize that just like the two men back in the Cloudy Peaks, they had come from the Palace of the Flame Demons and the kind of poison they had forced into the bodies of the refugees was different from that in the Condor Country. The one they used now had been specially modified from the previous poison used.

The Palace of Flames Demons had taken so much effort to strike this time because the Middle Realm had become much less peaceful and the Palaces of Flame Demons wanted to take the chance to bolster their powers and position, seeking to oppress the other eleven palaces. They had then decided to strike the Lower Realm. After they unified and gained control of the Lower Realm, they would be able to gain monopoly towards the search of the Dark Emperor's tomb, and obstruct the other palaces from their missions down here.

"The Middle Realm is becoming less peaceful? What does that mean?" Jun Wu Xie asked as her eyebrow lifted with interest.

The black clothed man then explained it to her honestly.

The Middle Realm had always been demarcated into One Region, Four Sides and Twelve Palaces. But because the Dark Region went into reclusion, the originally balanced powers gradually broke down as the years passed. The Twelve Palaces seeked to suppress the powers of the Nine Temples and the Nine Temples did nothing to stop them, which just encouraged the Twelve Palaces to become more aggressive.

If fact, besides the Palace of Flame Demons, the level of activity in the other palaces had been growing as well but just that their methods and objectives were different.

The strength of the Palace of Flame Demons among the Twelve Palaces had grown stronger day by day which emboldened them to create such a big ruckus while the other palaces only dared to make their moves discreetly.

The Four Sides had always been steady and stable, always remaining aloof from worldly affairs while the Nine Temples had always held the Twelve Palaces in check. The individual palaces among the Twelve Palaces had since been consolidating their strength to prepare themselves to suppress the Nine Temples in retaliation as after the Dark Region went into reclusion, the only ones that would vie for the reigning position were only the Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples. The Four Sides had always remained low profile in their actions and they never got themselves involved in any conflict.

The Palace of Flame Demons had wanted to win themselves a big advantage this time round but Jun Wu Xie had suddenly appeared to completely disrupt their grand plan.

The black clothed man had truthfully revealed everything that he knew and when Jun Wu Xie had sent him on his way to meet his maker, his eyes had actually showed relief that was tinged with a sense of liberation.

"Looks like the Middle Realm might have become rather tumultuous as well." Ye Mei said rather ruefully. Having not gone back for so long, he didn't really know what the Middle Realm had changed into.

"Isn't this a good opportunity for us now?" Jun Wu Xie asked with an eyebrow slightly lifted, a cold glint shining within her eyes. She had initially wanted to become strong in order to protect the people she cared about. Now that she possessed the power, placed before her eyes at that moment was not just her own safety alone.

As the Twelve Palaces were seeking to seize the reign of the Middle Realm, they would definitely drag the Lower Realm into their schemes. The Lower Realm currently did not possess sufficient power to go against the Middle Realm and though Jun Wu Xie did not want to immerse herself into these muddied waters, her family however existed here within the Lower Realm. After witnessing the Middle Realm treating people here in the Lower Realm as mere pawns, she felt that she could not tolerate it any longer.

"Since the Middle Realm seems to be in the midst of undergoing a major reshuffling, why don't they..... count us, the Lower Realm, in as well." Jun Wu Xie said with the corners of her mouth curled up in a sinister looking smile.

Jun Wu Yao arched up an eyebrow and turned to look at Jun Wu Xie. "What are you thinking of doing?"

Jun Wu Xie relied: "Nothing much. Just to make them not continue to see people in the Lower Realm as mere ants that they can exterminate at will, that's all."

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Chapter 1466:- The Rise of the Lower Realm (2)

The scheme the Palace of Flame Demons were carrying out, was crushed by Jun Wu Xie. Everything within the Clear Breeze City returned to normal. The City Lord was picked up and brought before Jun Wu Xie who gave him an unforgettable and sobering education where he swore to carry out his responsibilities dutifully, and even coughing out all the riches he had gobbled up previously to provide aid to the refugees. The restriction of allowing only three hundred refugees into the city daily was also lifted and huge batches of refugees surged into the city.

As the refugees in the city's north were all still feeling highly grateful to Jun Wu Xie's great benevolence and kindness, all of them were not aware that their benefactor had already stepped upon her journey home.

The Poison Men's source had collapsed and as the numbers of the Poison Men army would no longer increase, Jun Wu Xie with Jun Wu Yao and his men began immersing themselves into the major battlefields, cleaning out the scourge the Poison Men army was.

All over the Lower Realm, reports of victory were being received. The countries then combined their might to fight against the enemy. With the mastermind controlling them behind the scenes, the Poison Men were like ants who had lost their antennas, completely unable to form themselves up as an effective force. The armies of the various countries rode on their momentum, morale high on successive victories, to completely eradicate the Poison Men from the face of the Lower Realm.

This war, from start to finish, had taken an entire year's time. It was only until the very last Poison Man had been taken down that everyone was finally able to heave a sigh of relief.

The occurrence of the catastrophe, had shattered the peace the Lower Realm originally enjoyed, and the demarcation of powers between the countries had been stirred up into a chaotic mess.

Many of the countries had suffered very heavy losses where even of the rulers had fallen in the chaotic battles and there were also quite a number of small countries that were wiped out by the Poison Men. The arrival of victory had also brought them to face up to the many wounds the war had left behind.

Originally, the loose scattering of countries that made up the Lower Realm had numbered over a hundred in total. But after having suffered the charge from the Poison Men army, the countries that still remained had not even been half of the original number. Even if their rulers were still present, their country had been changed to be beyond recognition from the fiery war. The Poison Men were created with the living as their foundation, meaning both the Poison Men that died and the soldiers who were killed in the war were all people from the Lower Realm, hence this was a truly great disaster that completely broke the tranquility the Lower Realm had mostly enjoyed for so long.

In regards to the situation, the three country alliance with the Fire Country taking the lead, took the initiative to send out an invite to all the rulers of the individual countries, inviting them all to gather together in the Fire Country's Imperial Capital.

After having undergone this disastrous catastrophe, all the countries that had been fortunate enough to still remain, almost all of them had received the favour of reinforcements from the three country alliance. The trust they had towards the three country alliance now far exceeded what they had previously given to any other country in the past.

All the rulers in the Lower Realm gathered in the Fire Country's Imperial Capital and they remained in the city for seven whole days. In those seven days, what the rulers heard and seen, was not made known to anyone else.

The only thing everyone throughout the lands knew, was ever since that seven day meeting ended, the entire face of the Lower Realm changed completely!

After all the rulers returned to their countries, they all announced in the first instance that they were giving up all rights and authourity over their countries, and the individual countries would no longer exist. From that day onwards, there was only one country in the eyes of all of the people in the Lower Realm. The Land of Emergence.

The Lower Realm was combined into one, where there was no longer any division between countries. All the original rulers of the respective countries gave up on the reverence due to their Imperial Crown, to become Elders in the Land of Emergence.

Meanwhile, the identity of the person leading the entire Land of Emergence was highly mysterious. The entire Lower Realm only knew they still had one ruler, but they did not know who that person was.

When the Land of Emergence was born, the people of the Lower Realm received a highly astounding piece of news at the same time. All of them would have the chance to experience the might of the Purple Spirit!

A type of mysterious technique was spread to many places all over the Lower Realm. The secret that was once exclusively known only to the Middle Realm had its mysterious veil uncovered at that moment, to be revealed to everyone in the Lower Realm.

The Lower Realm was quietly changing and all of this was not noticed by the Middle Realm, as the Middle Realm themselves were also welcoming a wave of transformation themselves.

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Chapter 1467:- The Rise of the Lower Realm (3)

Just as the people in the Lower Realm were still learning to get used to all of this, a band of people were instead quietly moseying their way out from what had originally been the Fire Country's Imperial Capital.

"I'll say..... Do you really think that it's nice for you to just dump such a mess here and then slipping away in escape like this?" Qiao Chu asked as he adjusted the cloth bundle upon on his back with a doubtful look upon his face before climbing up onto the carriage.

The Lower Realm was torn apart and reassembled to become singularly whole. Jun Wu Xie had used her name as the Emperor of the Fire Country to invite all the rulers to gather together and revealed to them the existence of the Middle Realm, and all that they had done in the Lower Realm in all those years past. The Lower Realm was weak and if they did not unite as one, in future, they would only end up like poultry that the Middle Realm could slaughter at will.

If not for the catastrophic attack by the Poison Men this time, the rulers might not even believe Jun Wu Xie's words. But after having experienced it themselves, they understood that that was strength that they could never hope to fight against.

Dissolving all existing country boundaries and divisions and leaving behind only the characters that read "Land of Emergence". The Lower Realm when cohesively aggregated into one, their combined strength would become a force that was not to be underestimated. And Jun Wu Xie had also taught all the rulers the method to temporarily elevate their spirit power levels, obviously seeking to use the quickest way to shorten the disparity in power between the Lower Realm and the Middle Realm.

But.....

Though everything had progressed smoothly, at the end of it all, Jun Wu Xie had suddenly been pushed by the whole bunch of immensely grateful rulers who were almost on the verge of tears to assume the lone throne as the only Emperor, which was completely unforeseen by Jun Wu Xie.

Resulting in.....

Her dragging her whole gang of companions and comrades to quickly take flight to seek safety.

Jun Wu Xie paused a slight moment before she said: "For the Lower Realm to reach the levels the Middle Realm is at, it will require another period of time. And that period of time that they need, will be what we are going to fight to get for them." Jun Wu Xie had dragged all her little comrades out and was prepared to head straight towards the Middle Realm. From what the Elder from the Palace of Flame Demons had said, the Middle Realm hadn't been too peaceful recently which would suit their purposes perfectly.

"Why am I feeling that this all sounds just like an excuse?" Qiao Chu asked as he stole a glance at Jun Wu Xie. The hasty way she was carrying this out felt too much like they were just running away.

After Jun Wu Xie climbed onto the horse carriage, she realized that Jun Wu Yao was still standing outside and had not followed her inside. Her eyes immediately filled up with doubt.

Jun Wu Yao smiled at her and said: "You go first. I still have some unfinished business to deal with."

Although he wished that he could accompany her by her side, he could only choose to temporarily part with her.

Jun Wu Xie stared at Jun Wu Yao, like she wanted to brand that countenance deep into her heart. She finally nodded her head and sat back down in the carriage.

Watching the horse carriages slowly departing, Jun Wu Yao stood with his hands behind his back.

Ye Mei stood behind him. This time Jun Wu Yao sent Ye Sha and Ye Gu to stay by Jun Wu Xie's side, to ensure her safety.

"Lord Jue." Ye Mei looked at the side of Jun Wu Yao's face, and he could faintly feel that Jun Wu Yao's eyes seemed to be tinged with a faint trace of melancholy.

[Lord Jue actually..... must have wanted to accompany the Young Miss very much.....]

"Ye Mei, Little Xie has only just left. Why do I miss her already?" Jun Wu Yao said as he stared at the horse carriage gradually going further away, the smile on his face slowly fading as a stifling feeling choked up in his chest.

Ye Mei lowered his head, only able to sigh soundlessly.

Jun Wu Yao was silent for a while and he finally averted his gaze away.

It wasn't that he was not willing to accompany her to the Middle Realm, but if he appeared in the Middle Realm at her side, those people would surely pick up on his trail. If it was just he himself, it would be fine, but he did not want to implicate Jun Wu Xie into that kind of danger.

"It's is really rather tiresome." Jun Wu Yao said as he raised his hand, a glint of murder flashing briefly in his eyes.

[Really wish to quickly send those people right into Hell.]

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Chapter 1468:- The Middle Realm (1)

Upon the lush green mountains, clear waters meandered through, and birds sang among fragrant flowers.

A convoy of horse carriages rolled towards a mountain stream, the cars filled with a number of highly exuberant youths.

"I wonder how many more earth shaking prodigies would appear in this year's Battle of Deities Grand Meet." A youth said excitedly as he stared at the scenery outside the window, his eyes filled with anticipation.

The Battle of Deities that the Middle Realm held once every ten years had suddenly been brought forward to this year.

The Battle of Deities extended their invitation to everyone below twenty five years of age, open to all youths and young men who were not aligned to any powers to participate. The Battle of Deities Grand Meet held many different types of competitions. From spirit power to ring spirits, medical skills to forging for example, as long as one was able to come out tops, they would gain themselves extremely good prospects to advance their crafts.

The Battle of Deities that was held once every ten years had become a tournament meet that attracted the most attention. Countless people had cracked their brains to come up with ways to squeeze themselves into it, fighting for a chance to show off their abilities, a gamble for greater prospects for their future.

The people throughout the world all knew that the powers of the Middle Realm was mainly divided into One Region, Four Sides, Nine Temples and Twelve Palaces. The kind of power the One Region held in those years past, was something nobody had forgotten. But when the Dark Emperor fell, the One Region had gone into reclusion and no longer involved themselves in the Middle Realm's worldly affairs. The Four Sides had always maintained a highly neutral stance for the longest time and had never initiated any kind of provocation against anyone, also never allowing anyone to join their ranks as well.

And in the recent few years, the Nine Temples had seemingly not expanded much and were gradually being overtaken by the Twelve Palaces. Having the Battle of Deities Grand Meet brought forward this time had also been the doing of the Twelve Palaces.

Everyone knew it clearly in their hearts that the Twelve Palaces were seeking to use this opportunity to fish for more talented individuals to boost their powers but it was thought that the Nine Temples would definitely not allow them to have it their way so easily.

This year's seemingly innocuous Battle of Deities Grand Meet was actually filled with hidden dangers but all of that were not things that the youths in that convoy of horse carriages could grasp or understand. They had all come from a little faraway town in the Middle Realm where the townsfolk had pooled together the money to get these few horse carriages to send their youths to the Battle of Deities Grand Meet. The townsfolk did not yearn for the youths to come out tops in the tournament but just thought that letting the youths go there would gain them some knowledge and experience which would be a good enough result for them.

Just as the group of youths who were all getting pink cheeked from the rush of excitement, a small petite figure sat quietly without making a sound in a corner of the carriage car. Her eyes were lowered and she just looked silently at the little cat in her arms, seemingly not paying any attention to the excited chatter around her.

"Meow." The little black cat purred, looking at Jun Wu Xie as it swished its tail lazily.

[Mistress, between us, Dumb Qiao and the others, who do you think will reach the Battle of Deities Grand Meet first?]

Jun Wu Xie just shook her head silently.

The few of them had arrived in the Middle Realm five days ago. The route that led to the Middle Realm from the Lower Realm had been strange. When they were just at the fringe areas, they had only seen some small villages scattered around. But grab any one of the youths from any of those small villages and one would find that their powers far exceeded any similar aged person one saw in the Lower Realm.

Not long after they had just settled themselves in those small villages, they had then heard the news about the Battle of Deities Grand Meet, which quickly made Jun Wu Xie's small team of youths split themselves up completely.

With just the powers of the few of them, thinking to obliterate the entire Twelve Palaces would not be that simple a task.

But if they were able to lodge a Soul Purging Nail deep into the Twelve Palaces' critical meridian, then it would all become easy for them.

Jun Wu Xie and her companions split themselves up six ways, seeking to complete a near impossible task.

The corners of Jun Wu Xie's mouth curled up into a chilling smile.

The Twelve Palaces had been stirring up so much turmoil in the Lower Realm for so many years. It was high time the wheel of fortune was turned against them now.

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Chapter 1469:- The Middle Realm (2)

The Battle of Deities Grand Meet was to be held at the summit of Mount Fu Yao. The wheels on the horse carriages turned and rumbled the entire way, and when they came to the foot of the mountain, the carriages had to stop there, where its passengers would then have to walk up on foot.

Jun Wu Xie followed the small group of youths and stopped at the foot of the mountain with them, everyone of them carrying bundles of luggage big and small upon their bodies, looking highly conspicuous. It was obvious that these youths here had come from faraway tiny little villages. Their clothes were simple and plain and while they had not seemed out of place before, now that they were here at the foot of Mount Fu Yao, looking at all the other people in the crowd who were of rather similar ages lavishly dressed in smooth silk and fine satin, this group of children suddenly felt a little ill at ease, standing out quite a bit differently.

Of course, those feelings of ill ease did not include Jun Wu Xie.

Jun Wu Xie came down from the horse carriage carrying the little black cat. Her dress was highly common and her face was that of a youth after she altered it, looking like she would immediately be completely overlooked, the moment she fell into the crowd.

Mount Fu Yao was named a mountain, and its surface area was highly vast. The vegetation along the mountain streams were said to hold dense levels of spirit energy.

When Jun Wu Xie arrived here in the Middle Realm, she had immediately discovered that the spirit energy in the air here was denser than it was in the Lower Realm. Regardless whether it was the water source or its food, the spirit energy they had held was several times the levels it was in the Lower Realm. People in the Middle Realm grew up and cultivated from a young age under such conditions where spirit energy was so plentiful, hence, their basic foundations far exceeded that of the people in the Lower Realm.

Especially for people like her who possessed plant ring spirits, where they were able to feel the spirit energy surrounding them more distinctly. Although she had already broken through to the Purple Spirit, upon setting foot into the Middle Realm, Jun Wu Xie discovered that even if she did not intentionally cultivate her powers, she was still able to achieve a good amount of increase of her powers.

"Little Xie, we'll be starting up the mountain in a while. It is said that it's a long way from the foot of the mountain up to the top. Will it really be alright for you to go up there like this with your hands all empty? Aren't you going to prepare a few things at least?" Her little companions on this journey had readied themselves and were about to set forth. One of them had noticed that Jun Wu Xie was carrying nothing but just that little black cat with her and could not help but ask a little worriedly.

They only knew that the small sized "boy" before them was called Little Xie and he had only suddenly appeared in their village not long ago. As to where he had come from, none of them knew anything about it.

Jun Wu Xie shook her head.

The young youth scratched his head and was feeling a little helpless on what else he could say. Another one of the youths then pulled on his sleeve and whispered to him: "Why are you being such a busybody? If he doesn't want to prepare anything, then leave him be. What are you being so worried about?"

Hearing the whisper, several other youths nodded in agreement. They were not ostracising Jun Wu Xie but it was just that Jun Wu Xie had really not spoken much to all of them. Throughout the long journey here, she had not opened her mouth even ten times to speak. Faced with such a cold little companion on their journey, the group of youths really couldn't make themselves come to like the little youth.

"I was just feeling that he looked rather pitiful that's all. My mother always told me, we are all born from the same land and it is always good if we can look out for each other."

"In what way is he pitiful? He obviously can't even be bothered with us and we should not poke our noses into his affairs." Several of the other youths started to say and they began dragging the friendly big fella away, leaving Jun Wu Xie to stand there alone to watch the densely packed crowd of people all around.

Jun Wu Xie lifted her head to look at the green mountain before her. Mount Fu Yao was abundant with spirit energy, more plentiful than others places and in her mind, she quickly recalled everything Fei Yan had tutored her in, about things in the Middle Realm.

Fei Yan and her other companions had still been very young when they were in the Middle Realm and everything they knew about the place was only what they had heard from others, never having gone to the places themselves. She had been told that Mount Fu Yao was said to be one of the most famous places in the Middle Realm.

As Mount Fu Yao was filled with an abundant amount of spirit energy, it was a place most suited for cultivation. But as Mount Fu Yao had previously belonged to the Dark Region, only people who had the permission from the Dark Region were allowed to practice cultivation within the mountain.

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Chapter 1470:- The Middle Realm (3)

And after the Dark Region retreated into reclusion, the land of this place was split up to be under the purview of the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces.

Upon Mount Fu Yao, besides it being used to hold the Battle of Deities every ten years, there was also a highly unique academy. That academy was jointly built by the Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples for the purpose of making it more convenient for them to develop talented members. And to gain entry into this academy, there was only one prerequisite. One only had to receive the invitation from either one of the parties between the Nine Temples or the Twelve Palaces.

As a whole, the academy was seen to be only for the Nine Temples and Twelve Palaces to acquire more gifted individuals, using the Battle of Deities as a source for them to discover more talent.

That was why so many people throughout the Middle Realm would crack their heads so hard just to show their faces at least once in the Battle of Deities Grand Meet.

Jun Wu Xie then retracted her gaze. Back at the Clear Breeze City, when she had battled the Palace of Flame Demons' Elder, she had then defeated him with ease, but Jun Wu Yao had told her that she was still a way off from the Palace Lords of the Twelve Palaces. Mount Fu Yao was a place that was highly conducive for her to cultivate her powers and if she could, she wouldn't really mind using this period of time to become even stronger!

The Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples had highly stringent criteria in accepting members and even if they were winners in the Battle of Deities, they were still required to cultivate for a period on Mount Fu Yao before they would be considered as one of their members.

Jun Wu Xie's objective in coming here this time was very simple. She had already arranged for Qiao Chu and the rest of the companions to be sent out here to claim a ranking within the Battle of Deities for themselves. With the level of powers they currently possessed, coming out strong within the grand meet would not be too difficult for all of them. And when anyone from the Twelve Palaces actually extended an olive branch to them, they would then accept the offer to infiltrate inside.

And they would then become the Soul Purging Nails that Jun Wu Xie had buried deep inside the Twelve Palaces!

As for herself, Jun Wu Xie really wasn't against the idea of her having some fun toying with the people from the Twelve Palaces but a pity she possessed rather unique ring spirits and it was not guaranteed that someone from the Twelve Palaces would discover that she possessed plant ring spirits, hence, she decided that she would just temporarily advocate from behind the scenes, where they would first observe the various powers in the Middle Realm before they decide further.

The figure of Jun Wu Xie quietly disappeared into the crowd of people, slipping through the throngs of people, to slip into the forest that was highly difficult to traverse.

Having slipped out of sight from other people, the body of Jun Wu Xie turned into a streak of purple light, weaving speedily up the side of Mount Fu Yao!

If she had depended solely on her legs to go up to the summit, it would have taken her at least one whole day's time. But Jun Wu Xie had taken merely less than one hour before she reached midway up the side of the mountain.

Compared to the spirit energy at the foot of the mountain, it was much denser here. Jun Wu Xie stopped her steps within a thick clump of trees, to feel the pristine air within the mountain wilderness.

Suddenly, a burning smell came wafting over from not too far away. Jun Wu Xie's eyes immediately turned, seeking out the place the smell was coming from as she walked towards it.

Within the green mountain, tiny brooks trickled through the dense trees, flowing slowly down the mountainside. At the side of a brook with its running crystalline waters, Jun Wu Xie could faintly spot a little figure seemingly highly flustered and exasperated as he squatted upon the grass, a pile of withered grass that had turned black at his feet.

"ARRRGGGH! ! Why is it still not working! ?" A exasperated cry could be heard coming from over there, as Jun Wu Xie saw that it was a little old man already past fifty years of age, his back bent, his size rather scrawny. At first glance, he could have been mistaken to be a child of about ten years old but that long scraggly beard and his face that was full of wrinkles gave his age away.

The little old man was holding a walking stick in one hand, as he stared forlornly at a pile of withered grass turned black. He stared at it for a long while before he hung his head and turned around with a long sigh, to pull out a large clump of herbs from a big basket at the side.

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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?"

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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?"

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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.]

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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.

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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.

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Chapter 1476:- 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!

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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!

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