Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss

Chapter 2101 - 2120

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Chapter 2101:- The Lull Before the Storm (2)

Jun Wu Xie did not have an opinion on Flame Dragon's decision as this was afterall the Beast Spirits' affair, and hence, as a spirit outside of their race, she did not feel she should interfere with it too much.

Nalan Shan's condition gradually became more stable but Brownie was still unwilling to take a single step away. Wu Jiu was still in a coma and Jun Wu Xie handed him right over to Flame Dragon for them to deal with him.

Jun Wu Xie could not be certain whether the human spirits would retaliate but she must at least be prepared. Qiao Chu and the others did not leave but decided to remain here in the Beast Spirits' territory for the moment. They would go back and continue with their cultivation only after the Spirit Lord had passed his judgement.

The great battle had caused many among the Beast Spirits to be injured. Fortunately, their injuries were not that severe and they would all recover fully with just a little recuperation.

Brownie was worried sick. With everything that had happened that day, it was feeling highly guilt ridden. Back from that time outside the Spiritual Spirit Loft, not a single one among those five Beast Spirits that had saved him remained. The rhinoceros had died on the spot then and the cheetah and the others had sacrificed themselves in today's battle. The enormous sense of guilt almost crushed the Spiritual Bear that had undergone so many setbacks, its massive body sitting quietly in a corner, staying beside Nalan Shan without a word.

Jun Wu Xie saw the miserable state Brownie was in and her heart could not help but feel pained.

With conflict came death, and that was disaster that could never be avoided.

Qiao Chu and the companions were not able to rest with their hearts at ease and as they still had a bit more energy, they busied themselves by taking care of the injured Beast Spirits.

They were afterall comrades who had battled beside each other and the Beast Spirits who were originally rather resistant towards those few human spirits now saw Qiao Chu and the companions as one of their own. The three Ring Spirits together with the Yin Yang Bear had similarly been injured and they had now obediently gone back into their respective contracted owners' bodies to recuperate as well.

Early the next morning, Flame Dragon persuaded and reasoned with Brownie in every way it could to convince Brownie to go see the Spirit Lord together. Brownie looked on longingly, like it couldn't bear to leave the still comatose Nalan Shan behind, as it trudged out with Flame Dragon to go see the Spirit Lord, lugging the unconscious Wu Jiu along with them.

To prevent themselves from being stopped by human spirits or Weapon Spirits midway, Flame Dragon just went ahead and put Brownie and Wu Jiu upon its back, as they flew threw through the sky, with some flying Beast Spirits accompanying them as escort.

"Wu Jiu is sure to be finished this time. Even if the Spirit Lord does not kill him, I do not think that he will be let off easily. I would like to see how he can still continue with his misdeeds from here on." Having a night's rest, Qiao Chu was feeling a whole lot better. He was smoothing out the Yin Yang Bear's fur with a large comb and he prattled on as he combed.

"Wait till this matter comes to an end and we'll then be able to continue our cultivation in peace. I really had not thought that we would encounter something like this here in the Spirit World." Fei Yan was similarly smoothing out the Great Ape's fur and he was of the same mind as Qiao Chu, waiting for Wu Jiu to be executed.

Hua Yao was applying medicine onto his Double Headed Bone Snake's wounds at the side, Among their three Ring Spirits yesterday, the one that suffered the most serious injury was the most massive sized Double Headed Bone Snake. It had drawn the attention of the majority of the Weapon Spirits onto itself and its originally tough and resilient white bone body was now covered with injuries, with many of those bones cracked and broken. Hua Yao's brows were furrowed up tightly together, looking highly pained as well.

The medicine that Hua Yao was using, was an unknown herbal medicine that the Beast Spirits here had brought. According to what those Beast Spirits had said, that medicine was very useful for wounds suffered by spirit bodies.

Jun Wu Xie had been very interested in looking into what the medicine of the Spirit World would really be like but as Nalan Shan was still recuperating and she had promised Brownie that she would take good care of Nalan Shan, she had to remain there to keep watch upon Nalan Shan, unable to free herself up enough to research into the medicine. She had to wait till the dust settled around this entire matter before she would be able to look into it properly.

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Chapter 2102:- The Lull Before the Storm (3)

Fan Zhuo's Ring Spirit was a Weapon Spirit. This time, his and Rong Ruo's Hell Butterfly suffered the lightest injuries. Even Poison Ivy, Poppy and Drunk Lotus were wounded. After Jun Wu Xie sabotaged the first Serene Spirit Tower's Spirit Reinforcement runes, the little black cat had recovered and transformed into the black beast where it battled valiantly. It was now plopped in its little black cat form by Jun Wu Xie's feet, looking highly obediently.

Although Flame Dragon was not around, but the Beast Spirits were still sternly keeping watch, afraid that with their two leaders not with them, the human spirits would join hands with their Weapon Spirits and come stir up trouble. The Beast Spirits who had not gone to the first Serene Spirit Tower had already come to know Wu Jiu's insidious plot from their companions and they all hated Wu Jiu right into their bones.

All the spirits there were waiting, waiting for the Spirit Lord to provide them with a reasonable result.

But that wait went on for the entire day. Under the dim skies of the Spirit World, it was impossible to tell day from night, but to count the time passing with their fingers.

After waiting for a whole day, they did not see Flame Dragon and the others return and Qiao Chu was getting a little impatient.

"What happened? Didn't Flame Dragon say that it would come back after half a day at most?" Qiao Chu could not help but to go running out to the mouth of Flame Dragon's cave and glance around , his head tilted up towards the sky, hating the fact he could not magically wish them back.

"Wu Jiu has stirred up such a huge incident this time and the Spirit Lord must have flown into such a great rage that it wouldn't be abnormal that he wasn't able to calm himself down for quite awhile. That whatever Spirit Lord could very well be thinking how Wu Jiu is to be punished. We'll just wait for a while more, what's the rush." Fei Yan said as he swept his glance over Qiao Chu. As a spirit now or when he was a normal human, that dolt had not possessed much in the way of patience.

Qiao Chu pursed his lips in a pout, seemingly not calmed.

Jun Wu Xie glanced over at Qiao Chu, and her gaze finally fell onto Poison Ivy standing over there on the same side.

"Help me properly thank those Plant Spirits who stepped up to help yesterday." The battle yesterday had been intense but she had not forgotten those few unfamiliar looking figures. It had been because of those Plant Spirits that the situation in that battle had stabilized.

"Mm I've thanked them." Poison Ivy answered, but he seemed a little distracted.

"Poison Ivy."

"What?" Poison Ivy snapped back to his senses, to look at Jun Wu Xie in puzzlement.

"What are you worried about?" Jun Wu Xie's sharp instincts had detected that Poison Ivy was seemingly bothered.

Poison Ivy furrowed up his brows and paused a second before he said slowly: "I'm not sure."

"What are you not sure of?"

"Not sure whether what I am thinking is real."

"If you don't tell us, how would we know if it's real or not?"

Poison Ivy sighed, and then walked over to come beside Jun Wu Xie to sit on the ground. It might be due to the fact of his relationship as Ring Spirit and contracted owner with Jun Wu Xie, but Poison Ivy who had always detested coming into contact with humans did not seem to notice his proximity to a human spirit.

"I keep having the feeling that having Flame Dragon go see the Spirit Lord is not a correct decision."

"Before Flame Dragon left, you have been seemingly highly hesitant to speak your mind. Were you thinking of persuading him to not go?" Jun Wu Xie asked.

Poison Ivy nodded.

"I do not doubt the Spirit Lord's wisdom, but it's just that in the last hundred years, the feeling the Spirit Lord gives me is rather strange....."

The Spirit Lord is undoubtedly the ruler of the Spirit World. His existence not only symbolized supreme and unmatched power and authority, but he was also the creator of the Spirit World. Regardless of any spirit from any of the spirit races, they all held absolute respect and gratitude for the Spirit Lord. If not for the Spirit Lord's creation of the Spirit World, all of them as spirits would then have no choice but to enter the cycle of reincarnation, or to become wild wandering spirits. It could be said that the Spirit Lord was the benefactor of every one of those spirits.

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Chapter 2103:- The Lull Before the Storm (4)

Poison Ivy was just as respectful of the Spirit Lord as the Spirit Lord had an upright character and would never be biased towards any of the spirit races. But that kind of a situation had suddenly taken on a subtle change over the past hundred years. Logically, the four spirit races all had a equally relevant presence beside the Spirit Lord, just like the Spirit Master of the human spirits.

But it was not known from when it had started that the Plant Spirits, the Weapon Spirits and the Beast Spirits slowly lost the Spirit Lord's favour. The leaders of the three spirit races became more distant with the Spirit Lord and only the human spirit's Spirit Master Wu Jiu remained close by the Spirit Lord's side, gaining deep trust from the Spirit Lord.

The once balanced relationships had then been broken due to the bias shown by the Spirit Lord and the majority of the resources in the Spirit World began to lean towards the human spirits. It was until the construction of the Serene Spirit Tower, where the first Serene Spirit Tower occupied the territories of other spirit races that the original residents raised a protest up to the Spirit Lord. But the countless number of protests had seemingly sunk like rocks into the vast ocean, causing not even a significant wave upon the waters.

The first Serene Spirit Tower was completed, the second Serene Spirit Tower was completed, the third Serene Spirit Tower was completed.....

As the number of Serene Spirit Towers grew greater in number, the leaders of the three other spirit races besides the human spirits almost had no chance of even being able to see the Spirit Lord, where every audience that they sought did not come back with any response, like the Spirit Lord was fully determined to support the human spirits in their quest to become stronger.

Towards that, from initially feeling puzzled and aggrieved, the other spirit races then came to see that as the norm.

"I do not think that the Spirit Lord is completely unaware of the things happening with the Serene Spirit Tower. The Spirit Lord created this very Spirit World, and every single spirit in here cannot escape his senses. It is not possible that he does not know that the next Spiritual Bear had appeared and he could not possibly be unaware that the Spiritual Bear's powers was gradually declining....." All this time, a terrifying guess had always been swirling in Poison Ivy's heart where it even caused him to develop doubts against the trust he had in the Spirit Lord's impartiality.

That was a point that was absolutely not permitted to manifest in the Spirit World.

Hence, even if Poison Ivy had spoken his suspicions aloud before Flame Dragon had left, knowing Flame Dragon's unbending character, Flame Dragon would not have only refused to listen to Poison Ivy, but would have turned hostile against Poison Ivy for doubting the Spirit Lord.

Jun Wu Xie quietly listened to Poison Ivy's words, and a faint ominous feeling rose up in her heart.

For a sudden change to happen in any being, it always signalled that something unexpected has happened.

Whenever something turns suddenly abnormal it must be the devil at work!

"I could just be thinking too much into it. We'll know when Flame Dragon comes back." Poison Ivy said as he shook his head. For so many years in the Spirit World, his unconditional compliance to the Spirit Lord caused him to waver in his own suspicions.

"Or you might not be overthinking it?" Jun Wu Xie suddenly said.

Poison Ivy was startled.

"Help me watch Nalan Shan." Jun Wu Xie suddenly stood up, and walked over to her companions.

"Little Xie? You do not need to look after Nalan Shan anymore?" Qiao Chu asked with a smile as he looked at Jun Wu Xie walking over.

But there wasn't the slightest hint of a smile on Jun Wu Xie's face. She looked up at the dim skies of the Spirit World and her eyes narrowed slightly.

"Have Nalan Shan hidden away immediately." Jun Wu Xie then said.

"What?" Qiao Chu was taken aback. Hua Yao and the others then came walking over. Jun Wu Xie's words had drawn their attention.

"There could be a change in plans, and Nalan Shan's condition would not be able to withstand any further distress." Jun Wu Xie's voice had turned cold.

"Little Xie, what has happened? Why are you suddenly saying that?" Rong Ruo could detect the tension in Jun Wu Xie's tone.

Jun Wu Xie was just about to reply when a tiny speck of a shadow came hurtling down from high up in the sky!

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Chapter 2104:- Spirit Lord (1)

Jun Wu Xie and the companions immediately took a step back as they saw a magnificent eagle Beast Spirit crashing onto the ground before their feet.

Jun Wu Xie immediately recognized the eagle at a glance, as one of the Beast Spirits who escorted Flame Dragon and the others to go see the Spirit Lord!

But at that moment, the eagle before their eyes was far from being as majestic and valiant looking as the one they had seen that morning. Wounds so deep that its bones could be seen in its wings, the feathers badly battered and tattered. Sparkly dust were dissipating out from those wounds and its body was struggling to maintain its solid state!

It was hard to imagine how it managed to drag that burnt out and depleted body back here in flight.

"Leave! Leave here at once!" The eagle fallen on the ground could not even lift up its head, but it still managed to issue that broken and shattered warning from its mouth.

"What is happening here? Where's Flame Dragon? Where's Brownie?" Qiao Chu asked, his eyes wide with shock.

Hua Yao immediately squatted himself down, to smear some medicine he held in his hands upon the eagle's wounds.

"The Spirit Lord has captured Lord Flame Dragon and the Spiritual Bear. He is on his way here with his soldiers and all of you must leave quickly..... If you don't leave immediately, it might be too late! !" The eagle struggled to push itself up with its badly battered wings, to give that final warning.

The eagle's words caused Jun Wu Xie and the companions to stand there frozen in shock, unable to believe what they had just heard.

[Flame Dragon and Brownie have been captured?]

[And it was the Spirit Lord's doing?]

[The Spirit Lord did not punish Wu Jiu! ?]

[Just what exactly has happened! ?]

The astounding news immediately exploded within the minds of Jun Wu Xie and the companions. The eagle who had been too severely injured could not hold out any longer. It had broken through all its lines of defence and fought with everything it had within to rush back here, to inform Jun Wu Xie and the others to immediately escape from there. Its body scattered and dispersed into bits before the companions' eyes, disappearing bit by bit, leaving behind only its last words.....

"Just what is going on? Has that Spirit Lord gone mad? Not only has he not punished Wu Jiu, he has captured Flame Dragon and Brownie? What does he really want to do? Could it be that he has grown too old and his brain has been dotty! ?" Qiao Chu was in shock. What was really happening?

Jun Wu Xie's brows were tightly creased together. Poison Ivy's suspicions were about to come true!

"Go." Jun Wu Xie said immediately. It was not the time to stand there in a daze.

Jun Wu Xie did not have the time to move Nalan Shan at all. By the time the eagle brought in the news and in the instant that they were about to move.....

A loud explosion suddenly sounded not too far away!

Under the dim sky, a strange glow suddenly revealed itself, and that light was approaching at an extremely fast speed as it flew towards them.

The Beast Spirits that had been standing guards on the rocky mountain suddenly saw a large number of human spirits running towards them ferociously and they immediately took on an offensive stance. But in that instant when that ball of ice blue light flew over their heads, they were all immediately frozen in place.

The Spirit Lord!

It was already too late when Jun Wu Xie and the companions wanted to leave. Even though that ball of light still had not come close, they could already feel an enormous surge of power of the spirit gathering above their heads. They felt as if eyes that they could not see had locked onto them, and they would not be able to escape no matter where they went.

"What do we do Little Xie?" Qiao Chu's face paled. Though he did not know what was within that ball of light, but that powerful aura had already made him feel an enormously powerful oppression shrouding all around him.

Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes. Poison Ivy then seemed to notice something as he rushed over with a swoosh. When he lifted his head up and saw that ball of ice blue light, his heart immediately fell right down into the bottom of a pit.

"Spirit Lord. That is the Spirit Lord....."

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Chapter 2105:- Spirit Lord (2)

Poison Ivy's words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, that quashed the last sliver of hope in the hearts of Qiao Chu and the other companions.

Jun Wu Xie did not say a word, but just went charging inside Flame Dragon's cave with the fastest speed possible and pulled out the little awl she carried on her to immediately carve out a series of Spirit Reinforcement runes just beside Nalan Shan.

"Little Xie..... What are you doing?" Qiao Chu asked as he turned his eyes around to look at Jun Wu Xie, not understanding what she was still doing at such a critical juncture?

"We won't be able to escape and Nalan Shan must not be caught now or he will die." Jun Wu Xie carved out the last Spirit Reinforcement runes at the quickest speed possible without any expression. Adding that circle of Spirit Reinforcement runes would hide a person's aura for a short period of time but she had only tried it on a human and did not know whether it works on spirits. But with the way things have turned out, she had to give it a try!

She had promised Brownie that she would take good care of Nalan Shan and she would not go back on her word!

"Then, what should we do now?" Hua Yao asked with furrowed brows, as things had progressed to a stage where it had surpassed anything they could have expected.

All that waiting had not yielded them Wu Jiu being punished by the Spirit Lord but to give them such a result instead.

Jun Wu Xie took a deep breath as she stared at the gradually approaching light, her mind constantly searching for possible way to resolve this.

Unfortunately.....

She was not that familiar with things in the Spirit World, and knew absolutely nothing about the Spirit Lord, an opponent she knew nothing about, that deprived her of many conditions for her to make accurate judgements.

The ball of ice blue light came to a stop right in front of Flame Dragon's cave and he slowly descended, where all the Beast Spirits around the place fell to their knees in reverence and worship towards that light.

The creator of the Spirit World, the Spirit Lord.

The shade of Poison Ivy's face was not looking too good.

From within the light, a slender figure came walking out slowly. A handsome looking man appeared before the eyes of Jun Wu Xie and the companions. The man was tall, dressed in a light blue long robe, his head of long silver white hair looking extremely striking, but what surprised people the most was that pair of light grey eyes.

The man who had appeared right before them was the Spirit Lord who created the entire Spirit World, the reigning ruler over all spirits!

The Spirit Lord had not even opened his mouth to speak and a powerful oppressive aura was already shrouded around Jun Wu Xie and the companions. That intense oppression seemed to cause the power in their bodies to drain out in an instant, and the companions had to grit their teeth hard to prevent themselves from falling.

Poison Ivy's situation was the worst. His face had turned white, and his tall frame had gradually become bent and hunched over from withstanding that enormously powerful oppressive aura.

"Poison Ivy, why do you not kneel upon seeing me?" The Spirit Lord asked, the light grey eyes looking at Poison Ivy filled with complete arrogance.

Poison Ivy entire body was trembling uncontrollably under that stare, feeling as if endless streams of power were striking incessantly upon his body, rendering unable to stand, as he fell with a thud onto his knees on the ground.

"Poison Ivy pays his respects..... to the Spirit Lord....." Every single word, was a great struggle for Poison Ivy to say.

The Spirit Lord's gaze then turned away from Poison Ivy in satisfaction. His eyes were half narrowed as he then looked at Jun Wu Xie and her companions who were struggling to hold themselves up.

"Rather capable lot here. No wonder the Spirit Master Wu Jiu was defeated." The Spirit Lord opened his mouth to say.

It was merely a simple statement, but it made Jun Wu Xie and her companions feel that the oppressive aura their bodies were withstanding under suddenly increase y several folds, their legs feeling like they could break off any moment.

"You are the Spirit Lord?" Jun Wu Xie forced herself to endure the highly intense oppressive aura, and her gaze was neither servile nor dominating as she looked at the man who reigned over the entire Spirit World before her.

"I am." The Spirit Lord responded with the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

"Do all of you know what you have done?"

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Chapter 2106:- Spirit Lord (3)

Jun Wu Xie wanted to open her mouth one more time but the surrounding spiritual aura suddenly grew more oppressive by another fold!

The oppression poured in from the front and it was like she had fallen ten thousand metres into the sea, her entire body feeling as if it was being crushed by extremely high water pressure and she was about to explode into pieces.

Qiao Chu and the other companions were in the same situation as Jun Wu Xie, the colour of their faces turning from white to green.

As someone who had created the entire Spirit World with only his own power of the spirit, the kind of power the Spirit Lord possessed was one that went far beyond what the companions could compete with!

The Beast Spirits surrounding them were in great agony under the oppressive aura being released. They raised their eyes up discreetly to look at Jun Wu Xie and the companions and saw that the Spirit Lord was treating Jun Wu Xie and the others as enemies. The highly loyal Beast Spirits just could not understand what was happening.

Jun Wu Xie and her companions had saved the Spiritual Bear and the Beast Spirits were indebted to them. The Beast Spirits had even found themselves liking these few simple and sincere human spirits. But the Spirit Lord was an existence that the Beast Spirits were unable to defy and the conflicting feelings caused all the Beast Spirits to be very much at a loss. They wanted to open their mouths to speak up, to beg the Spirit Lord to hold his hand, and spare Jun Wu Xie and the companions, but trapped under the intense oppressive aura, not to mention being able to open their mouths, they were all unable to even stand up at all.

[Everything..... has become so strange.....]

The Spirit Lord continued to pile on the oppressive aura upon Jun Wu Xie and the gang, to see them start to be unable to resist and waver and sway in their spots. There was no emotion in his eyes but for that high haughty arrogance, that seemed to see Jun Wu Xie and the companions as creatures as insignificant as mere ants.

Jun Wu Xie almost bit through her teeth to keep herself standing. The malice behind the ferociously intense aura being released could not be any clearer to her.

The Spirit Lord held great enmity against them!

The oppressive aura then suddenly intensified by ten folds!

The sudden and unexpected oppression that struck caused the spirits of Jun Wu Xie and her companions to fall into a dead silence. The youths did not even have the chance of even noticing anything before they descended into unseeing darkness, completely losing their consciousness!

Jun Wu Xie and the others suddenly fell, and the corners of the Spirit Lord's mouth curled up with a satisfied arc of a smirk before he then retracted all the spirit aura he was releasing completely. The human spirits who had rushed their way here now stood behind the Spirit Lord, and among them was the Second Disciple who had been driven off by the Beast Spirits.

The Second Disciple looked on in delight at the fallen figures of Jun Wu Xie and the companions, and seeing the unconscious state they were in, his face broke out with a wide smile in glee.

"The Spirit Lord is indeed brilliant. How could trash like these hope to stand against the Spirit Lord. For them to be able to set their eyes upon the Spirit Lord himself is already their greatest fortune." The Second Disciple just could not wait to fawn and grovel.

The Spirit Lord merely swept his gaze nonchalantly over him and then raised a hand to point at Jun Wu Xie and her companions to say: "Bring them back."

"Yes, Spirit Lord!" The Second Disciple almost could not wait to lead his men forward as they went walking towards Jun Wu Xie. The humiliation he had suffered before had caused him to hate Jun Wu Xie right to the bone and seeing Jun Wu Xie and her gang now unable to stand against the might of the Spirit Lord where they had fallen into unconsciousness, the expression on his face grew more gleeful.

The Spirit Lord's spiritual aura had mainly been directed upon Jun Wu Xie and her companions earlier and although Poison Ivy at their side had been in intense agony, he was still able to maintain consciousness. When he saw the Second Disciple suddenly coming forward and seeking to capture Jun Wu Xie, Poison Ivy bolstered up his courage and stood up, to place himself in front of Jun Wu Xie.

"Spirit Lord, what are you trying to do here?" Poison Ivy asked the Spirit Lord incredulously.

[The Spirit Lord would never employ such a forceful and high handed move on any spirit in the past. What has happened to him? !]

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Chapter 2107:- Spirit Lord (4)

"Poison Ivy, you can't even protect yourself here and you still want to stick your nose into other people's affairs?" The Second Disciple's eyes flashed with a moment of vicious malice and he immediately turned to say respectfully to the Spirit Lord: "Reporting to the Spirit Lord, Poison Ivy is involving himself into it."

The Spirit Lord's eyes narrowed up slightly and his gaze swept over Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy suddenly felt as if an unseen power had his throat clutched in its grasp, and it was highly agonizing.

"Bring him back as well" The Spirit Lord said coldly.

"Yes, Spirit Lord!" Without another word, the Second Disciple immediately got his men to bind up the prisoners with a wave of his hand.

Poison Ivy was not going to allow anyone to touch Jun Wu Xie and the companions and he fought against the oppressive aura the Spirit Lord had released to push his vines out, that speedily twirled and weaved into a web before Jun Wu Xie and the others.

"What audacity! Poison Ivy! Are are rebelling against the Spirit Lord! ?" The Second Disciple roared.

Poison Ivy did not even look at the Second Disciple at all, a fox borrowing on the ferocity of a tiger, but was looking with an unwavering gaze at the Spirit Lord, his eyes filled with doubt and disbelief.

"Spirit Lord, why are you doing this?"

The Spirit Lord turned to look at Poison Ivy. After a moment's silence, he suddenly opened his mouth to say: "Poison Ivy, what am I like in your heart?"

Poison Ivy lowered his eyes and then said feeling rather painfully and conflicted: "Spirit Lord, you created the Spirit World and gave us spirits a safe place to reside in. You are an irreplaceable benefactor in all our hearts and have always been righteous and impartial, benevolent and forgiving."

That was the impression all spirits had of the Spirit Lord in their hearts. What Poison Ivy said was just what all the other spirit felt.

The Spirit Lord suddenly laughed as he looked at Poison Ivy's conflicted expression before saying with a joyful laugh: "So, in all of your hearts, I am actually so perfect. I am truly very happy to hear that."

Seeing the Spirit Lord smile, Poison Ivy secretly heaved a sigh of relief inside. But before he could even recollect himself, a powerful surge of oppressive aura suddenly severed off his consciousness!

Poison Ivy fell to the ground without a sound, and the vines blocking the human spirits' way dissipated away together with that.

"If I am truly so great, then why do you not obey my order?" The smile on the Spirit Lord's face disappeared, to be replaced by a heart chilling callousness.

"Take them all away." The Spirit Lord tossed out that statement and then turned around to leave.

The Beast Spirits at the sides were unable to move, suppressed by the spirit aura. They could do nothing but to stare in incredulity at the Spirit Lord they found so unfamiliar to them before their eyes.

When did their Spirit Lord become so cruel?

The Second Disciple acknowledged the order given to him and went on to gleefully and arrogantly get his men to bind Jun Wu Xie and the others up tightly before dragging them away.

Under the countless pairs of eyes of the Beast Spirits, the group of human spirits blatantly dragged Jun Wu Xie and her companions away. Many of the Beast Spirits wanted to rush forward to stop them but they were all unable to move.

It was until the team of human spirits had disappeared from sight that the spirit aura that engulfed their bodies started to fade away.

"What is exactly..... happening here?" All the Beast Spirits began to stand up, their hearts filled with horror. They just could not understand what had happened in that scene they had just seen.

Just what was their Spirit Lord really doing?

While the mass of Beast Spirits were still stunned and frozen in their places, a dark shadow lay concealed within Flame Dragon's cave, its sharp gaze from its pair of eyes peering through the swathe of darkness inside to watch everything that was happening outside. The dark shadow then soundlessly took a step back, and looked at Nalan Shan who lay protected within two Spirit Reinforcement circles. It was clear that Jun Wu Xie's Spirit Reinforcement runes had worked and the Spirit Lord had not noticed Nalan Shan's presence.

Beneath the notice of all the other Beast Spirits, that little black shadow then shot out lightning quick from Flame Dragon's dark lair, carrying itself at its fastest speed in a mad sprint towards its intended destination.

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Chapter 2108:- Imprisonment (1)

Jun Wu Xie woke up from her coma and beneath her, the floor was icy cold. Her head was throbbing with pain which caused her memory before she lost consciousness to become a fuzzy mess. She tried very hard to recall everything and suddenly remembered the scene where she stood against the Spirit Lord. Her brows creased together and she sat herself up, where she then heard a series of clear clinks.

Four lengths of Soul Binding Chains shackled her four limbs, with the other end all linking to the wall, restricting all her movements.

Jun Wu Xie froze slightly and then noticed that she was locked up in a dark and dank dungeon, her power of the spirit sealed up by the Soul Binding Chains, where she was unable to summon any of her powers.

"How is it? Are you satisfied with your current accommodations?" A taunting laugh sounded suddenly from inside the dungeon.

Jun Wu Xie lifted her head. It was not known from when the figure of Wu Jiu appeared outside the steel bars. All the wounds on his body had healed completely and upon that effeminate and handsome looking face, was a smile that sent a chill through people.

"How pitiful. Such a beautiful young lady and you've actually been locked up in this dark dungeon that doesn't see the light of day. It's truly..... such a pity." Wu Jiu said as he looked at Jun Wu Xie smilingly. It was hard to imagine that he could actually recover so completely within such a short period of time.

Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes and looked at Wu Jiu who was absolutely filled with glee. Without even giving it a thought, she knew she was brought in here after she fell unconscious. She was unable to summon up any power of the spirit and she could not even probe one's spirit aura.

"Where are my companions?" Jun Wu Xie asked coldly. Qiao Chu and the others would have been imprisoned by the Spirit Lord like she was and since she was locked up in here, where would all of the others be?

The corners of Wu Jiu's mouth carried the hint of a smile as he crouched, bringing himself down to Jun Wu Xie's eye level.

"What if I told you that they are all dead?"

Jun Wu Xie's gaze was suddenly overflowing with chilling murder, the thick murderous intent causing Wu Jiu's eyes to widen. Immediately, he began to laugh even more gleefully.

"It was just a joke. With spirits who have reached the realm of Spirit Outflare, how could I possibly bear to kill them? Rest assured, they are all perfectly fine. Just like you, they have been locked up in other dungeons, and I will not harm them for now."

"What are you going to?" Jun Wu Xie asked as she stared coldly at Wu Jiu. She did not believe for a moment that Wu Jiu would really be so kind as to want to spare them. Otherwise, the Spirit Lord would not have appeared, and they would not be imprisoned.

Wu Jiu smiled widely at Jun Wu Xie and replied: "What? Didn't you want to save the Spiritual Bear? You know this as well. The Spiritual Bear is absolutely necessary for me to build the Serene Spirit Tower. But in order to make the Serene Spirit Tower more powerful, it is impossible to achieve with just one Spiritual Bear. I need more, more powerful spirits, and the lot of you, are the best sacrifices I am preparing to present to the Serene Spirit Towers."

Wu Jiu's eyes then flashed with a glint of lunacy.

"Just think about it. Six human spirits capable of Spirit Outflare, cleanly absorbed by Spirit Fire. What a wonderful thing that will be! With all of you being of such great use, how can I possibly bare to kill all of you? If all of you are to die, you can die after you have been sacrificed to the Serene Spirit Tower."

"You lunatic. The Serene Spirit Tower does not elevate anyone's cultivation at all. Everything that you are doing is merely just providing nourishment to feed the Spirit Fire on the twelfth level." Jun Wu Xie continued to look icily at Wu Jiu to say.

Wu Jiu gave a light laugh and then replied: "You are rather smart. Everything you've just said is correct, but what can you do? Your words will not be believed by any spirit and you can't even come out from this cell now. Does it even matter how much you know?"

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Chapter 2109:- Imprisonment (2)

"Jun Wu Xie, you really shouldn't be standing on the Beast Spirits' side. With your intelligence and capability, if you are to help me, I can give you everything that you could ever want." Wu Jiu said temptingly.

Jun Wu Xie snorted derisively and replied: "Everything I can ever want? Including having you dead?"

Wu Jiu was taken aback a moment, before immediately recovering to place the smile back on his face.

"You are still being too naive. Do you really think just one Spiritual Bear is all that important? Not to mention just one Spiritual Bear, even if it is the entire Spirit World, or the whole of the Middle Realm, so what? Compared to the three realms, it is so insignificant, and just utterly pathetic. If just by making a little bit of a sacrifice, you come to gain bigger and unmatched power, what does it matter?"

"You are thinking to absorb power of the spirit from the Spirit Fire?" Jun Wu Xie faintly detected a little of Wu Jiu's evil intentions.

However, Wu Jiu shook his head.

Regardless whether it is in the Lower Realm, Middle Realm, or Upper Realm, even the strongest person among all has a certain limit he can reach. But if there is a way to break through that limit, what will that bring for the future? That is something that you cannot even begin to imagine. Your sights are set too narrowly. It's just a tiny little sacrifice and you already cannot accept it. That has doomed you to be unable to achieve great things. You will never be able to experience just how magnificent a feat it is to shatter through void!"

"Shatter through void?" Jun Wu Xie repeated as she looked at Wu Jiu. She was hearing those words for the first time but she detected that everything that Wu Jiu was doing was linked to those three words.

"That transcends all power in this world, to become a true god." Wu Jiu's eyes were flashing with a fiery fervour.

Jun Wu Xie did not say anything more as she knew, even if she was to continue asking, Wu Jiu would not tell her anything more about that. She then shifted the topic. "So, you used shattering the void to draw in the Spirit Lord?"

Wu Jiu shook his head, his gaze shifting slightly to glance towards the cell opposite Jun Wu Xie.

Under that dim firelight, Jun Wu Xie saw a young child locked up within that shadowy cell. He seemed to be unconscious, and not only his four limbs were shackled by the Soul Binding Chains, but there were two more chains shackled around his waist and neck, and the Soul Binding Chains were at least double the thickness of the Soul Binding Chains on Jun Wu Xie.

"That's it. I've already said enough to you. I'll advise that you enjoy the final moments you have as..... you do not have all that much time left to be alive." Wu Jiu said as he stood up, seeming like he did not have anything more to say to Jun Wu Xie, slowly walking away to leave.

Jun Wu Xie's brows furrowed tightly together, as the situation before her could be said to be extremely bad.

She tried to summon out Little Lotus and Poppy from inside her soul but there was no effect at all after several attempts. The Soul Binding Chains had not only sealed her power of the spirit, it had also trapped Little Lotus and the others within her soul, unable to break free.

After attempting a few more times, she finally gave up. With the state she was in, she wasn't even able to use her power of the spirit to fabricate a metal wire to undo the Soul Binding Chains.

The only thing she had on her was the little awl and though that awl was small, to the keyhole in the Soul Binding Chain, it was slightly too big.

She was at the end of her tethers.

The only thing that was still fortunate was that she knew Qiao Chu and her other companions were currently not in any immediate danger. Wu Jiu had already stated his motives very clearly and he was keeping them for the Spirit Fire to absorb them, so they would at least still be safe temporarily.

Although they would be safe for the moment, but it would be a calamity for Brownie!

Having finally captured Brownie after so much trouble, Wu Jiu would not give up on his original plan. It wouldn't be long before Brownie would surely be brought to the fourth Serene Spirit Tower, to undergo the same agony he had gone through before.

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Chapter 2110:- Imprisonment (3)

The situation could not be any worse. Jun Wu Xie ordered herself to calm down as if she were to lose her cool, then there would be no possibility of her being saved.

Wu Jiu had dared to tell her so much only because Wu Jiu firmly believed that Jun Wu Xie would not be able to escape for calamity this time but only Jun Wu Xie knew that she still have a sliver of a chance.

Because the little black cat was not at her side!

What Jun Wu Xie wanted to do at that moment was to ensure her own survival and that of her companions, to make sure they last till a certain someone came to rescue them.

Her heart calmed, Jun Wu Xie then regained her usual composed self. She still had one last move, one that Wu Jiu did not know about. Besides waiting for them to be rescued in the very close future, she still had another way to save herself.

Jun Wu Xie raised her hand up to touch the Face of Selvan worn on her earlobe and her eyes flashed with a sharp glint. The Face of Selvan did not require her to summon any of her own power to use it, and if it came to the point that she was left with no other choice, she would use the Face of Selvan to ensure she and her companions would live, and what she needed to do now was only to wait.

Having thought through the chips she held in her hands, Jun Wu Xie was not feeling that worried anymore.

What really concerned her was the Spirit Lord himself.

Based on what Poison Ivy said, the Spirit Lord reigned over the Spirit World he created, and was a benevolent and impartial man. Why had he changed so drastically in a mere hundred years?

Not only had he sided with and favoured the human spirits, he had even covered for Wu Jiu when he clearly knew that Wu Jiu was using the Spiritual Bear as a sacrifice. Not only that, he had also incarcerated Flame Dragon..... All these signs, made Jun Wu Xie think that things were really strange.

If Wu Jiu did not hold something that was just too irresistible to the Spirit Lord, that it would mean that the Spirit Lord must have been possessed for him to believe a person like Wu Jiu who held such voracious ambitions.

Jun Wu Xie thought things through quietly. Besides all of that, she suddenly thought of something.....

She could still remember, back when she had met Jun Wu Yao for the first time, Jun Wu Yao had been shackled up with countless chains. As it had been pitch dark then, Jun Wu Xie had not been able to see properly, and as she had been in such a wretched condition at that time, she had not given things all that much thought. But now as she looked at the Soul Binding Chains around her four limbs, she could not help but to close her eyes, searching through her mind when her heart suddenly jumped in shock!

The feel of these Soul Binding Chains, were almost exactly like those shackled around Jun Wu Yao back then, except a little thinner.

Soul Binding Chains were effective only on spirit bodies as only spirits would not be able to summon up their powers because of Soul Binding Chains. But why had those Soul Binding Chains that affected only spirit bodies been on Jun Wu Yao?

Could that mean.....

A strange thought formed up in Jun Wu Xie's mind, but it was very quickly that she denied that very thought herself.

She had seen Jun Wu Yao's blood, which had been blood red.

And spirit bodies would not bleed.

Feeling a little lost by her very own guess, Jun Wu Xie then shook that idea right out of her head. The crisis before her eyes had not yet been resolved and she should not think too much about other things.

Just as Jun Wu Xie was going to consider how she should deal with her current circumstances, a bout of clinking sounds, the dragging of chains against the stone floor suddenly rang out, and the source of that sound was coming from right in front of Jun Wu Xie.

Jun Wu Xie immediately raised her head up, and her gaze was met with a pair of light grey eyes.

Locked in the cell opposite Jun Wu Xie, the child who had been unconscious earlier had already come awake. He was dragging the Soul Binding Chains shackled around him as he came to lean against the metal bars of the cell door, his face expressionless as he looked at Jun Wu Xie opposite him.

The little child leaned himself slightly forward, and it allowed Jun Wu Xie to be able to see him more clearly.

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Chapter 2111:- Secret Within The Spirit World (1)

It was a little fella who had a face with handsome features, looking to be no more than seven or eight years old. His scrawny body was wrapped within loose clothes, skinny like a thin sheet of paper. But on that small little face, was a pair of eyes that did not fit his age, steady and calm. That pair of eyes, though the rest of him was looking rather wretched, gave people a feeling of composed elegance.

Although that description when used upon a child about seven or eight years of age was rather strange, described him perfectly.

Looking at that child made Jun Wu Xie unable to help herself but to think of Little Jue, the young bumbling little tyke. Back in the Dark Emperor's tomb, Jun Wu Yao had tried all ways and means to improve his deficient consciousness and thinking about him now, he should have recovered by this time. Growing up over the past few years, he might have now matured to become a adolescent youth from that young little child.

However, what really surprised Jun Wu Xie was this child's looks. Exquisitely good looking, and it could well be imagined how handsome a specimen of a man he would surely grow up into. But that very same handsomely featured face made Jun Wu Xie feel as if she had seen it before, like he was a younger version of the Spirit Lord.

That's right.....

That face was exactly the same as that of the Spirit Lord that Jun Wu Xie had seen before!

But a little more puerile and softer, his gaze completely different.

"Are you thinking of escaping?" The child gazed at Jun Wu Xie for a while, before he suddenly opened his mouth to say.

Jun Wu Xie was slightly taken aback.

"I overheard your entire conversation with Wu Jiu earlier. You must really want to save yourself and your companions right? I can help you." The child said in a tone that belied his age, steady and composed, without the slightest immaturity. If she disregarded that voice that was still slightly youthful sounding, no one could have imagined that such a tone of speech could possibly come out from the mouth of such a young child.

"Who are you?" Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked at that strange child.

The young child's eyes lowered, and the pair of light grey eyes glinted with a tinge of bitter laughter.

"If I were to tell you I am the Spirit Lord, will you believe it?"

The child's words caused Jun Wu Xie to freeze, as her gaze stared unwaveringly upon that small little face that looked exactly like the Spirit Lord's, her mind analyzing incessantly, the believability of that statement.

"It's alright. It does not matter even if you do not believe it." That child said as his lips stiffened, as his mouth revealed a bitter smile.

"I believe you." Jun Wu Xie suddenly said.

The child immediately lifted his head up, like he had just grasped upon the last life saving straw of grass, the dimmed and lightless eyes suddenly rising up with a bright sparkle.

"You believe what I said? Why?" The sparkle in the child's eyes did not fade away, seeming to be anticipating for something.

Jun Wu Xie then replied: "I am acquainted with a particular Plant Spirit, who told me what the Spirit Lord was like. But the current Spirit Lord is not anything like what he described at all and you also have a face that looks exactly like the Spirit Lord, except....."

"Except that I am quite a bit younger?" The child said with a rather desolate laugh. He raised a hand to touch the chains upon himself, the slight movement tugging on the Soul Binding Chains that made a crisp clinking sounds ring out.

Within that dark and dank dungeon, that sound pierced the ears painfully.

"What is really happening? As the Spirit Lord, how did you end up in such a state? And who is that person out there?" Jun Wu Xie was willing to believe the child before her eyes was the real Spirit Lord but..... what was happening?

The child sighed lightly.

"Are you willing to hear me out?"

Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.

The child's measured voice then slowly rose within the dark and dank dungeon, unraveling the secret within the Spirit World.

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Chapter 2112:- Secret Within The Spirit World (2)

The Spirit World was created by the Spirit Lord, for no other reason but for the fact that the Spirit Lord was a spirit body himself, an eternal spirit. He longed to create a place that could provide shelter and protect spirits, and hence, he made the Spirit World.

The entire Spirit World was formed from his very own power of the spirit, where it could be said that the Spirit Lord's power of the spirit surpassed that of any other spirit. Ever since he descended into this world, he had not possessed a flesh body but had always existed in a spirit state, where his might had never been doubted.

With the creation of the Spirit World, more and more spirits began to be selected to come into the place, where they would be like the Spirit Lord, to forever exist in the world as a spirit.

Just like what Nalan Shan and Poison Ivy had said before, the Spirit Lord treated every single one of the different races impartially, and in their eyes, as long as one was a spirit, there was no discrimination or differentiation in terms of hierarchy, where regardless of the race they were from, the Spirit Lord saw them all as equals.

In the vast Spirit World, the entire place was filled with mysterious and peculiar things, and all of that was built right upon the Spirit Lord's power of the spirit.

But after over the span of hundreds of years, thousand of years, or even tens of thousands of years, the Spirit Lord's power of the spirit was unknowingly being drained. For every day that the Spirit World existed, it was eating at the Spirit Lord's powers, and all of that was not known by all the other spirits.

The Spirit Lord loved the entire Spirit World passionately. It was a home he had built single handedly, and he was not willing to destroy it, where he had then fought hard to maintain.

With the Dark Emperor's appearance, the Middle Realm underwent a great round of changes, and the Spirit World was not spared from it. The Dark Emperor then paid a visit to the Spirit World, and although he did not embark upon a massacre, he still brought about great upheaval to the Spirit World. It was exactly because of that confrontation against the Dark Emperor that one time where it accelerated the drain upon the Spirit Lord's power of the spirit, that began to affect his form and the way he looked.

At that time, the previous Spirit Master had blamed himself for not noticing that the Dark Emperor had appeared and he asked to be able to step down from his position as the Spirit Master. The Spirit Master had tried to dissuade him in any way he could, but the Spirit Master was unable to change his mind.

The Spirit Master then went into seclusion, where his First Disciple Wu Jiu then replaced him, to become the new Spirit Master.

Initially, everything went on as per the norm. Wu Jiu took over his Master's responsibilities and position, obediently following everything the Spirit Lord decided, where he then went on to draw the human spirits together more cohesively.

And it was from that time that the Spirit Lord gradually observed Wu Jiu less and less, his mind slowly being set at ease.

And the Spirit Lord was finding it hard to deal with his depleting power of the spirit in that period where his body began to degenerate bit by bit from an adult man's form, to become a youth, and then a child.....

Wu Jiu was the first person to notice the peculiarity, and it was a hundred years ago that Wu Jiu discovered that the Spirit Lord's body was degenerating. He had been extremely worried and he then push up the suggestion to build the Serene Spirit Tower, only saying that he wanted to use the Serene Spirit Tower's Spirit Fire to raise the powers of all the spirits, so that they would be able to share the load with the Spirit Lord.

Because of his trust he had in the Spirit Master, and together with his observation of Wu Jiu in the past close to a thousand years, the Spirit Lord did not think too deeply into it and allowed Wu Jiu to attempt to build the Serene Spirit Tower.

The Serene Spirit Tower built at that time was not the first Serene Spirit Tower that Jun Wu Xie and the others had seen but it was built in a place far and highly remote, where none of the spirit races resided in.

In the beginning, the Spirit Lord did not discover anything unusual. But on one particular day, when he went to pay a visit to the Serene Spirit Tower, real calamity then struck!

In that Serene Spirit Tower, he saw another one of himself, looking exactly like him; a "Spirit Lord" who held an equally matching amount of power. Detecting that something was not right, the Spirit Lord wanted to leave immediately, but was wounded by the other "Spirit Lord", where he was then locked up in dark cell that did not see the light of day from that day ever since.

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Chapter 2113:- Secret Within The Spirit World (3)

From then on, the one that appeared before all the spirits was no longer him but that imposter.

Jun Wu Xie listened to it all quietly as she looked at the real Spirit Lord before her eyes. Putting together his words and those of Poison Ivy's and her doubts, the truth of things was immediately unraveled!

No wonder the Spirit Lord's character had changed so drastically in a short period of time. No wonder he had shown so much favour to the human spirits and Wu Jiu. The truth was that he was not the Spirit Lord afterall, but an imposter all along!

All the questions had their answers unraveled and the doubts from before dissipated together with the realization.

"Wu Jiu has played a really good game of chess." Even Jun Wu Xie had to admire the amount of thought Wu Jiu had put into this. According to what Nalan Shan had said, Wu Jiu had stayed at the Spirit Lord's side for about two thousand years' time and in the one thousand years before he took over the position of the Spirit Master, he was actually able to pretend to live under another guise so well that the previous Spirit Master had not even noticed his real personality at all. And after he assumed the position of Spirit Master, he had gone on to use another nine hundred years to bewitch the Spirit Lord, to make the Spirit Lord relax his guard before he usurped it all at one go!

Holding the Spirit Lord in captivity. Such a maniacal deed. It was thought that besides Wu Jiu, no one else would be capable of that!

"That's right, even I was taken in by him. He is indeed rather amazing." The Spirit Lord said with a bitter laugh.

"What is he really after?" Jun Wu Xie was getting more confused the more she thought about it. The Spirit Lord ruled over all spirits and even though Wu Jiu was able to dream all of this up, from where did he come to find someone who could hold as much power as the Spirit Lord himself in replacement?

Having experienced the power of the imposter herself, Jun Wu Xie did not think that it was just a superficial pretense of assuming the Spirit Lord's identity.

"He seeks to do something that will destroy the Three Realms." The Spirit Lord said as his eyes narrowed slightly.

"What?" Jun Wu Xie's exclaimed, her eyes widened.

"The Three Realms are made up of the Lower Realm Realm, the Middle Realm, and the Upper Realm. Although the Spirit World exists within the Three Realms, I myself, was from the Upper Realm. I am born from the Spirit Tree and before I created the Spirit World, I once roamed within the Upper Realm for a rather long time, and I would more or less know of quite a few things in the Upper Realm. From a very very long time ago, the Upper Realm had been hatching up a terrifying plot. They had wanted to present all living beings throughout the Three Realms up as a sacrifice, in order to deliver themselves up into another realm that no one is able reach, one that Wu Jiu mentioned earlier..... shattering the void."

"Sacrifice..... the Three Realms?" Jun Wu Xie's eyes flared wide. What the Spirit Lord said was really just too astounding!

"That's right. The true purpose of the Serene Spirit Towers is not anything else but a circle of power runes, totems set up for a sacrificial array. The Upper Realm seeks to use the Middle Realm as a link, to tie together all the power in the Three Realms, for them to achieve their aims for the sacrifice. When I first came to know about this, I thought that it was just a joke, as who could possibly achieve such a feat? A sacrifice of the Three Realms. How many lives would that be among all living beings? I had not believed it at all until the construction of the Serene Spirit Towers came about. That was when I finally understood that the Upper Realm's plot was truly beginning....." The Spirit Lord's eyes were tightly shut. The extent of such an apocalyptical calamity was not something a normal person could imagine.

Once the Sacrificial Array was completed, then the entire Three Realms would have all living beings be reduced to ash, and with the exception of people playing a part in this plan, all humans, beasts, spirits, creatures, would become sacrifices in this grand plot, without any chances of surviving it!

An uncountable number of lives, in exchange for peerless and unmatched power for just a group of people. Such a thing, just sounded too incredulous and unimaginable, so cruel that it sent chills running through people!

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Chapter 2114:- Secret Within The Spirit World (4)

Jun Wu Xie could never have imagined that the thing Wu Jiu was plotting would be so big, and it was not something that just the Spirit World alone could possibly stand against!

"To complete the Sacrificial Array, one hundred and eight totems is required to be established and this one hundred and eight totems will be spread out over the entire Middle Realm. When the totems are all completed and the medium for the sacrifice is done, disaster will then descend." The Spirit Lord related with increasing helplessness. Having been held captive for so long, the composure he was showing came not from resignation of never being able to regain his freedom, but from being unable to stop the disastrous calamity.

A gasp rose up within Jun Wu Xie's chest. This was a matter of the gravest importance.....

"In order to stop the plot, the totems must be destroyed. Your name is Jun Wu Xie right? I can help to free you from your restraints to let you leave this place. If you are able to, will you please do everything you can to destroy the Serene Spirit Towers in the Spirit World? I can't be bothered whether there are any other totems in existence in other parts of the Middle Realm but the Serene Spirit Towers were built up due to oversight on my part. And if I am not wrong, Wu Jiu and that fake Spirit Lord must have come from the Upper Realm and their objective is to construct the totems." The Spirit Lord said as he looked at Jun Wu Xie seriously. He had come to choose Jun Wu Xie because he could sense that Jun Wu Xie possessed a significant amount of power and from the conversation Jun Wu Xie had with Wu Jiu, he realized that Jun Wu Xie was not alone. She had her companions and they shouldn't be too weak as well.

But Jun Wu Xie shook her head instead.

The Spirit Lord was slightly taken aback.

"You are not willing?"

Jun Wu Xie then replied: "Not that I am unwilling, but the time is not ripe."

"Time is not ripe?" The Spirit Lord was a little confused.

Jun Wu Xie then said helplessly: "Even if you free me now and I am able to rescue my companions successfully, with the amount of power we have, we will not be able to stand against the imposter at all. You have seen it for yourself here. We were not able to stand against his might and that is why we have been imprisoned here. So even if I escape from here now, it is feared that before I am able to touch the Serene Spirit Tower, I would be recaptured by them. And being captured by them for the second time, I do not think that I will be allowed to live anymore."

It wasn't that Jun Wu Xie was unwilling to help, as the matter no longer only concerned the Spirit World, but was linked to the Three Realms, that included herself, and all the people that she cared about. So how could she possibly stand by and not do anything about it?

But just not now, as it was not yet the right time.

The Spirit Lord realized that he had been a little too hasty but.....

"From what you are saying, the right time might not ever come." The Spirit Lord said with a bitter laugh. If Jun Wu Xie had another way to deal with it, why would she have fallen into her current state?

"That's not entirely correct." Jun Wu Xie said with a shrug of her shoulders. She was captured within the Beast Spirits' territory this time. If it had been in another place.....

Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed slightly, and she suddenly opened her mouth to ask the Spirit Lord.

"Back when the Dark Emperor came to the Spirit World, did you fight him then?"

The Spirit Lord did not understand why Jun Wu Xie would suddenly mention the Dark Emperor. Thinking that she was merely curious, he did not think too much of it and just replied: "I have naturally battled him."

"Who won and lost?" Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.

The Spirit Lord didn't know whether laugh or cry as that puerile looking little face revealed a slightly abashed and bitter smile.

"If I had won, why would the Spirit World have submitted to the Dark Emperor back then?"

"Oh." Jun Wu Xie nodded and then went on to ask: "Lost very badly?"

"....." The Spirit Lord then felt like he just wanted to cry. Was all this digging up of old wounds really appropriate! ?

"Very badly. Completely not his match."

[Can you not ask anymore?] He was starting to pity himself a little

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Chapter 2115:- The Hero Saves the Damsel (1)

"Then how will the imposter compare to you?" Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.

"....." He did not feel like answering at all.....

"My power of the spirit had already weakened by quite a lot at that time. But if it was before I was weakened, then he would still pale slightly in comparison." The Spirit Lord answered despite the pain in his heart, fighting to maintain his composure.

"Then, there will not be a problem."

"No problem?" The Spirit Lord was getting more confused. [ Just what kind of medicine was Jun Wu Xie selling in that gourd of hers 1 .]

Jun Wu Xie did not say anything more but just sat inside her cell. The Spirit Lord had said quite a lot earlier and besides the Upper Realm's plot in seeking to offer the Three Realms up in a sacrifice in blood, there was another point that got Jun Wu Xie's attention, which was the Spirit Tree!

Jun Wu Yao had once planted a seed from the Spirit Tree into her body and the Spirit Lord said that his soul was born from the Spirit Tree. Would that then mean..... that the Spirit Tree was in the Upper Realm?

But how did the seed of the Spirit Tree come to fall into Jun Wu Yao's hands?

Doubts and suspicions grew layer upon layer, and Jun Wu Xie could not fathom things out clearly at that moment.

Wu Jiu was in an extremely good mood from having captured Jun Wu Xie and the others. After he went to see the imprisoned Qiao Chu and the others one after another, the then walked out from the dungeons and went off to seek an audience with the "Spirit Lord".

However, Wu Jiu's front foot had just stepped out from the dungeons when a dark shadow slipped fleetingly into the place. Before the two guards standing at both sides of the entrance even realized what was happening, they already found themselves completely engulfed by a black mist, and they fell to the ground unconscious.

"Has Little Xie even missed me at all?"

The voice that was tinged with smiles suddenly floated over from outside the dungeon. Jun Wu Xie who had her eyes closed in rest opened them up suddenly, as a delighted sparkle of surprise she did not even realize herself rising up within!

She saw a tall slender figure standing silently outside the dungeon, where the dim firelight shone upon that extraordinarily handsome countenance, and fell right into Jun Wu Xie's eyes.

"You're just too much. Didn't we agree that I was to wait for you at home? How could you have come running to such a place instead? People who break their promises should be punished you know?" The corners of Jun Wu Yao's lips had a lazy smile hanging from them as he stood leaning against the outside the jail cell, his devilish purple eyes filled with thick smiles.

"Wu Yao." Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao, her eyes then rising with a smile.

Jun Wu Yao then lightly touched the metal bars of the cage in front of him two times, and the three finger thick metal bars immediately broke right off!

Striding with a graceful gait, Jun Wu Yao walked into the jail cell and came to crouch down right in front of Jun Wu Xie, where he then held Jun Wu Xie's hands so naturally. Seeing the Soul Binding Chains around her wrists, his eyes flashed with an almost imperceptible glint of murder.

"These things are really..... such a huge eyesore."Jun Wu Yao's eyes narrowed slightly, and the palm holding Jun Wu Xie's small hand suddenly lifted up a finger, to lightly draw a line over the Soul Binding Chain.....

With a loud thunk, the Soul Binding Chain shackled around Jun Wu Xie's wrist actually snapped apart, and fell right onto the floor.

In the instant that the Soul Binding Chain came off, Jun Wu Xie could feel her arm recovering a bit of her power of the spirit.

Jun Wu Yao raised his hand and passed it over Jun Wu Xie's four limbs fleetingly, and all the Soul Binding Chains were broken open in an instant.

Having regained freedom, Jun Wu Xie immediately stood up.

Jun Wu Yao then stood up with her.

"For breaking a promise, you are going to punish me?" Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked thoughtfully at Jun Wu Yao. She had not forgotten what Jun Wu Yao had said earlier.

Jun Wu Yao laughed lightly and lowered his head as he lifted up the wisps of hair that had fallen over the side of Jun Wu Xie's face to his nose to take a whiff, his enchanting eyes slightly narrowed.

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Chapter 2116:- The Hero Saves the Damsel (2)

"That's right. Why not..... you cajole and wheedle a little for me to spare you?" Jun Wu Yao said with an absolutely roguish augh.

Jun Wu Xie glanced up at him and then said indifferently: "No need."

Her voice had just fallen when her arm hooked around Jun Wu Yao's neck and pulled his head down hard, as she pushed herself up on her toes to plant a great kiss onto his lips.

"....."

Against Jun Wu Xie's brash and unrestrained self that appeared out of the blue from time to time, Jun Wu Yao gradually went from flabbergasted shock to it gradually becoming diminished surprise..... If Ye Mei and his gang were here to see Jun Wu Yao in that state, they would have been speechless.

"Is that enough?" Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly pulled away from Jun Wu Yao slightly, the bright sparkling eyes reflecting his face in them.

Which was still slightly tinged with pink.....

"Cough....." A cough suddenly sounded.

Jun Wu Xie turned to the source of that sound, and happened to see the Spirit Lord directly opposite her cell looking at her and Jun Wu Yao with an expression showing great hesitation to speak.

Those eyes seemed to be protesting their "lovey-doveyness".

"When you said that there will not be a problem, was it because you were certain that someone would come rescue you?" The Spirit Lord's gaze was conflicted as he looked at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao. Because Jun Wu Yao had swooped in too fast and the light inside the dungeon was too dim, the Spirit Lord had completely been unable to see what Jun Wu Yao looked like at all, merely able to see that a tall man was standing beside Jun Wu Xie.

Because his power of the spirit was sealed by the Soul Binding Chains, the Spirit Lord was not even able to sense the man aura at all.

But he could be certain of one point.

The man who had suddenly appeared in here was definitely not weak!

The intricate Soul Binding Chains had not been able to withstand his power in the slightest and the Spirit Lord was not even certain he could accomplish that when he was at his peak.

"Mm." Jun Wu Xie had no intention of hiding anything and she nodded her head.

The Spirit Lord's eyes then had a glint of surprise rise up in them.

Jun Wu Xie turned her head and tugged at a corner of Jun Wu Yao's sleeve.

"He....."

"I know, the Spirit Lord." Jun Wu Yao did not wait for Jun Wu Xie to speak and just went ahead to reveal the Spirit Lord's identity.

Thinking about it quickly, as Jun Wu Yao had at least fought the Spirit Lord before, Jun Wu Xie then thought it was quite normal that he was able to recognize the Spirit Lord.

But the Spirit Lord was rather surprised that his identity had been recognized so readily. But with the circumstances he was in, there wasn't much time for him to think too much about that.

"Qiao Chu and the others were also captured. Wu Jiu and that imposter are hiding insidious intentions....." Jun Wu Xie briefly told Jun Wu Yao everything she had heard from the Spirit Lord about sacrificing the Three Realms in blood, and Jun Wu Yao quietly listened to everything she had to say without showing the slightest surprise.

"That is indeed the style of the Upper Realm. Let's not talk about these things here. Let's get the lot of you out of here first." Jun Wu Yao said with a laugh, as if the earth shattering plot he just heard was nothing significant at all.

Jun Wu Xie nodded in agreement. If they were going to rescue people, they would naturally not abandon the Spirit Lord. She tugged at Jun Wu Yao's sleeve and Jun Wu Yao immediately understood what she meant. He walked out from the cell and went right before the Spirit Lord's cell door.

The Spirit Lord's face was still filled with joy as he had not expected that Jun Wu Xie would really have such a trump card hidden up her sleeve. Having been trapped in this dark dungeon for so long without having ever seen the light of day, he had already lost all hope. He had never thought that his fate would actually be rewritten right from this moment on.

However, before the Spirit Lord's joy had subsided, in the instant when that tall figure gradually came to be revealed under the sparse amount of light, the smile at the edges of the Spirit Lord's lips congealed at that very moment and his eyes bulged as he stared at Jun Wu Yao who was just an arm's length away from him, his face twisting up in disbelieving incredulity!

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Chapter 2117:- The Hero Saves the Damsel (3)

"Dark..... Dark....." The Spirit Lord was staring at that devilishly handsome countenance. Even if that face had been turned to ashes, he would still be able to recognize it!

That was obviously the Dark Emperor! !

Jun Wu Yao raised up his brow slightly as he looked at the Spirit Lord who was overcome with shock and he went on to say teasingly: "Having not seen you for so many years, I would not have thought that you would turn into such a shortie"

The Spirit Lord's face flushed a deep red immediately and it was not known whether it was from rage or humiliation.

[What kind of a joke was that?]

[Jun Wu Xie's trump card is actually the Dark Emperor?]

"You are not dead afterall." The Spirit Lord was finally able to regain his composure after a long while and he said thoughtfully as he stared at that countenance that had not changed for a thousand years.

Jun Wu Yao just laughed but did not respond.

The steel bars could not stand against Jun Wu Yao at all and the thick Soul Binding Chains immediately broke apart under a casual touch of Jun Wu Yao's finger.

Having been imprisoned for a hundred years, the Spirit Lord was finally freed from his bonds and the suppressed power once again returned to his entire body. The feeling made him want to roar out in exhilaration and never in his dreams had the Spirit Lord ever thought that the one to break him free from his predicament would turn out to be Jun Wu Yao!

"I still need to..... thank you." The Spirit Lord expressed his gratitude to Jun Wu Yao a little bashfully.

The corners of Jun Wu Yao's mouth curled up into a devilish smile that just made the Spirit Lord's skin crawl.

"That little tyke is really the Spirit Lord?" The little black cat that had followed Jun Wu Yao here leapt up onto Jun Wu Xie's shoulder. Back when Jun Wu Xie and her companions had been captured, only the little black cat had not appeared, but had remained hidden within the Flame Dragon's cave. Only after the imposter had left, it had then rushed back to Jun Wu Xie's house in the shortest time possible and extended an invitation for this great demon lord to come.

"Mm." Jun Wu Xie nodded her head.

The little black cat's gaze that was looking at the Spirit Lord then turned thought provoking.

But Jun Wu Xie did not have the leisure to discuss the Spirit Lord's "miniature" stature further with the little black cat but to immediately drag Jun Wu Yao to go rescue Qiao Chu and the others.

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In the Spirit Palace's grand hall, Wu Jiu stood on the lower segment as he looked up at the imposter seated up upon the throne, a strange smile upon his face.

"The Spiritual Bear is now in our hands. Now, the fourth Serene Spirit Tower's construction must continue immediately. There must be no further delay." The imitation "Spirit Lord" said as he stared gravely at Wu Jiu from his seat high above.

Wu Jiu then replied with a smile: "Rest assured my Lord, the matter will be resolved very soon. It won't only be about completing the fourth Serene Spirit Tower. We have not only captured he Spiritual Bear this time, but we've also gotten Flame Dragon, Poison Ivy, and Jun Wu Xie together with her companions. With that, the fourth Serene Spirit Tower's Spirit Fire will be able to grow very quickly and stabilizing the totems is now well within sight."

The imposter nodded his head slightly, seemingly highly satisfied with the current situation.

"We have already spent so much time in the Spirit World. In order to come into the Spirit World, the price you and I have paid should be very clear to you. If we do not get everything completed as soon as possible, both of us will definitely find it hard to answer or it in future." The imposter continued to say.

Wu Jiu replied: "Now that everything is within our grasp, there will be not be anymore accidents cropping up. Throughout the entire Spirit World, who could possibly be a match for my Lord? But there is one matter that I have yet to be able to report to my Lord.

"Oh? What is it?" The imposter asked.

"Among the human spirits that my Lord managed to capture, the only young female among them, which would be Jun Wu Xie, she carries the Face of Sylvan on her." Wu Jiu said with his eyes narrowed. How could he be able to forget the scene where Jun Wu Xie had used the Face of Sylvan to defeat him?

If not for the great might of the Face of Sylvan, how could he possibly have been defeated?

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Chapter 2118:- The Ruler of Face Slap Returns (1)

"Face of Sylvan? Are you certain?" Hearing the three words, Face of Sylvan, the imposter's eyes suddenly lit up.

"I could not have been mistaken. For something that could morph and change into so many forms, besides the Face of Sylvan, no other magical artifact is like that." Wu Jiu said with clear certainty.

The imposter then creased up his brows.

"Hasn't the Face of Sylvan already been taken away by that person? There was a rumour in the Middle Realm before that after that person was captured, his subordinates had mistakenly thought that he had fallen in battle and buried all his treasures into his tomb. Why would..... it suddenly show up on a human spirit?"

"That's right, I had thought that it was rather strange as well, but now that Jun Wu Xie has already been caught by us, this matter about the Face of Sylvan will be cleared up sooner or later." Wu Jiu went on to say. "That person had taken away quite a number of the Upper Realm's magical artifacts and the Supreme Lord was greatly infuriated by that. Unfortunately the whereabouts of all those magical artifacts are still not known and if we are able to establish a breaking lead through the Face of Sylvan, we might just be able to bring back an extra gift to the Supreme Lord."

"If that is true, that would naturally be for the best." The imposter then replied.

Just as the two of them were secretly scheming up their plot, a cold clear voice suddenly came floating into the grand hall!

"What will be for the best? Why not tell me about it as well?"

In almost the same instant, Wu Jiu snapped his head up and looked towards the source of the voice, to see a figure that had appeared at the doors into the grand hall suddenly!

It was a petite little figure, but as it fell into Wu Jiu's eyes, it kicked up a Heaven stirring wave inside him!

"Jun Wu Xie? How did you come to be here! ?" Wu Jiu stared with incredulous disbelief at Jun Wu Xie who had appeared at the doors of the grand hall, unable to believe what he was seeing.

A mere half an hour ago, he had just spoken to Jun Wu Xie down in the dungeons and he clearly remembered that Jun Wu Xie's limbs had been securely shackled up with Soul Binding Chains. With her power of the spirit sealed, how could she possibly have escaped out from the dungeons? And how did she come to appear here?

Jun Wu Xie walked into the grand hall calm and composed, her gaze sweeping over Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord.

"If my memory serves me correctly, didn't you "invite" me to come?"

The fake Spirit Lord narrowed his eyes and stared calmly at Jun Wu Xie, as a glint of malice flashed within his eyes.

"I have underestimated you. I had not thought that you would be capable of shaking off the binding restraints of the Soul Binding Chains and escaping from the dungeons. But just as well, as I have a few things I want to ask you about." The fake Spirit Lord said as he looked at Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly. From his point of view, Jun Wu Xie was just so insignificantly small, and also so foolish. It did not matter how she had managed to escape out from the dungeon, but even when she knew that the difference between their powers were so far apart, she had not gone into hiding nor try to run away, instead sending herself to her own doom, which was just so laughable.

Even though she had escaped, the fake Spirit Lord was certain that he would be able to throw her back into captivity once again

"Oh? What could it be about?" There wasn't the slightest bit of nervousness on Jun Wu Xie's face.

"You have the Face of Selvan on you?" The fake Spirit Lord asked.

Jun Wu Xie was silent for a moment before she suddenly nodded her head.

"That's right. I hold the Face of Selvan."

"Where did you get the Face of Selvan from? If you come clean without any subterfuge, I might make things a little easier for you, or I might just choose to allow you to leave. However you are going to choose, depends entirely on you." The fake Spirit Lord was employing the stick and carrot, seeking to coax out information about the Face of Selvan from Jun Wu Xie's mouth.

Jun Wu Xie was no fool, and she could naturally see the interest the fake Spirit Lord was showing towards the Face of Selvan.

But.....

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Chapter 2119:- The Ruler of Face Slap Returns (2)

Jun Wu Xie was not intending to tell them about the origins of the Face of Selvan.

"Oh? What if I refuse to tell you?" Jun Wu Xie said rather fearlessly.

The fake Spirit Lord narrowed his eyes, and a sneer hung over the ends of his mouth.

"You really are not afraid of death are you? You're just a tiny little human spirit and you dare to speak to me like this. Are you aware that the entire Spirit World is created by me? And you here, are just a mere ant in my hand whom I can kill whenever I want. How are you even able to stop me at all? I am giving you a chance here and you do not care for it at all. Are you tired of living?"

"This Spirit World is created by you?" Jun Wu Xie raised an eyebrow slightly, and the eyes looking at the fake Spirit Lord seemed as if they was staring at a joke.

The fake Spirit Lord hated to see those eyes very much. He just could not understand why a tiny insignificant human spirit that he could easily crush to death would come challenge his might with complete disregard for her own life.

"If not me, could it then possibly be you?"

Jun Wu Xie laughed lightly, but but continued to look at the fake Spirit Lord with those eyes filled with ridicule.

Suddenly, a slightly young and childish sounding voice rang out within the grand hall!

"As to who was the one that created the Spirit World, I think, no one knows it better than I do."

The moment that voice fell, a small little figure suddenly came walking into the grand hall from outside, to stand right beside Jun Wu Xie!

When that figure appeared, it immediately caused the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu to stare with their eyes wide, incredulity rising to show within them!

The person standing beside Jun Wu Xie was not anyone else but the one that had been imprisoned by Wu Jiu for a hundred years, the real ruler of the Spirit World, the Spirit Lord!

"You....." The fake Spirit Lord stared at the face he had not seen for such a long time, high crashing waves surging within his heart. The Spirit Lord had been held in captivity for a hundred years, and restrained by six thick lengths of reinforced Soul Binding Chains. Not to mention that the Spirit Lord's current power was already far from being as strong as before, but even when the Spirit Lord was at the peak of his power, he would still not have been able to break those restraints.

But, the person who should not have appeared the most was now standing there blatantly right before them, and that scene was something the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu had least expected!

The Spirit Lord's icy gaze swept over the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu, the suffering of having been imprisoned for a hundred years causing a sliver of hatred to grow from his heart for the first time. His seemingly weak and frail body then suddenly burned with a raging spirit fire, and the air within the grand hall immediately turned thick and heavy!

"You had not expected this have you? I've regained my freedom." The Spirit Lord said in a cold voice, his words filled with so much rage and aggrievement it was terrifying to see.

Wu Jiu stared in shock at the Spirit Lord that had suddenly appeared, his gaze suddenly turning towards Jun Wu Xie. On Jun Wu Xie's face, a faint smile rose up, and though it was faint, it felt highly taunting and filled with ridicule.

"It's you! You were the one that freed him? Impossible..... How could you possibly be capable of that." Wu Jiu asked as he glared with Jun Wu Xie. He had thought that with Jun Wu Xie locked up in the dungeon, the fate that awaited her was only for her to be absorbed by the Spirit Fire. Never could he ever have thought that his casual handling of the matter would bring such dire consequences.

It was as if anything that happened when it came to Jun Wu Xie, would no longer be normal.

Jun Wu Xie merely looked at Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord calmly, her eyes not showing the slightest emotion.

"A hundred years' imprisonment. What you have given to me, I will definitely return it all to you today!" The Spirit Lord said, his eyes flashing with intense hatred. He could no longer tolerate how he had been locked with in solidarity, and could no longer tolerate the fact that Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord was seeking to use the Spirit World to initiate such a maniacally cruel blood sacrifice!

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Chapter 2120:- The Ruler of Face Slap Returns (3)

"And you think you can?" The fake Spirit Lord recovered from his shock and he stared at the Spirit Lord who looked to be only about seven or eight years old through narrowed eyes, suddenly laughing out loud.

"Just how laughable is this? So what if you have regained your freedom? Do you really think the current you are qualified to stand against me? For me to crush you to death, it's as easy as crushing an ant. I spared you your dog's life for so many years only to use you to maintain the Spirit World, or otherwise, I have thousands and thousands of ways to make you disappear from this world. Do you really think that I do not dare to kill you? Since I was able to throw you into captivity once, I will be able to capture you another time." The corners of the fake Spirit Lord's lips hooked up into an extremely cruel smile, an icy chill rising up into his eyes. The venomous pair of eyes narrowed and his gaze slithered over the Spirit Lord's frail figure, overflowing with contempt.

"I can only say that you're so foolish. You had foolishly treated Wu Jiu as your most trusted aide in the beginning, to foolishly fall into my trap. So many years have passed and not only have you not learnt anything from it, you have become even more foolish instead. Having regained freedom and you did not even think of running away but come here with delusions of fighting me? Hahaha..... How could such a foolish spirit like you have possibly created the Spirit World?" The fake Spirit Lord had been greatly pricked by the words he heard and he was using the most venomous words he could to slice into the Spirit Lord's heart. "But it is to be expected. It is exactly because of your foolishness that it has made all the spirits in the Spirit World become as incurably foolish as you. Or, how else would they be driven to split apart into such disunity?"

"What a bunch of sad and pitiful bunch of spirits, for them to be unable to even recognize their own Spirit Lord. It merely took a little it of scheming and trickery and I was able to make them go at each other's throats. Tell me..... spirits that are so stupid, what use would they be alive? Why not just feed them to the Spirit Fire where they would at least have done something impressive which would make them more useful." The fake Spirit Lord said highly arrogantly.

The shade of the Spirit Lord's face changed. Even though he had been trapped within the dungeons all these years, but Wu Jiu had gone to see him frequently, most likely with the aim of ridiculing him for his incompetence, and more to brag and flaunt their achievements. So, even though he had not been able to leave the dungeons, the Spirit Lord still knew very much about the things that had been happening in the Spirit World.

The human spirits had thought that the Serene Spirit Towers would bring to them great powers and they wrecked their brains wanting to enter into the Serene Spirit Towers to cultivate, not knowing that they would end up becoming nourishment to feed the Spirit Fire in the Serene Spirit Towers.

And the construction of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower had even caused the Weapon Spirits and the Beast Spirits to become entangled in battle.

And all of this was known by the Spirit Lord, as Wu Jiu had seen that to be a form of torment for the Spirit Lord, where he frequently sent people to go gossip into his ears.

"Aren't you afraid of retribution by doing all this! ?" The Spirit Lord just could not imagine that anyone could be so hard hearted and merciless under the Heavens where they could really take the lives of others to be used as chips to achieve their aims.

"Retribution?" The fake Spirit Lord raised up an eyebrow. He then looked with a pitying gaze at the ashen faced Spirit Lord and said: "Talking about retribution, you're really so childish to bring up such a ridiculous argument. Instead of throwing such a superfluous concept like retribution at me, why not think about yourself instead? You have so wholeheartedly striven to create a paradise for spirits, but what did you get in the end? Having your spirit weakening as the days passed, to harbour a bunch of fools with malice in their hearts. Tell me..... could this be punishment from the Heavens for your foolishness? All those ignorant spirits have no right to live in this world and allowing them to become sacrifices to achieve the grand plan would be a deed of inestimable honour for them."

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