Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 17
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“Jun….. Jun Wu…..” One of the youths immediately identified the person standing right before them!
Volume 17
Chapter 1659: “Borrow to Use (2)”
“Jun….. Jun Wu…..” One of the youths immediately identified the person standing right before them!
The tiny little youth placating the horse was no one else but truly the very same Jun Wu who had trained in cultivation within the Cloudy Brook Academy just like they had!
The several youths there were coincidentally disciples who had just been released from the Cloudy Brook Academy and had not been in the Shadow Moon Palace for all that long. Hence, they had naturally been able to recognize the one with the “resounding reputation”, Jun Wu!
“Jun Wu….. Why are you here?” The youths were stunned to suddenly see Jun Wu and their gazes quickly darted nervously around to see if there were any other ambush. But searching a circle around them, they did not discover anyone else around.
That allowed the youths to finally ease their hearts in relief.
They had naturally known very clearly what Jun Wu’s acceptance into the Cloudy Brook Academy had been based on and they knew that Jun Wu possessed merely an average amount of spirit power. So, strictly speaking, Jun Wu would not be a match for them. But they still did not understand why Jun Wu would suddenly appear here, and how did their companion that had fallen to the ground even died?
They all did not think that Jun Wu would be able to kill their companion with the meagre power the kid had.
Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes up slowly and looked at the several youths, her eyes calm and placid, chilly as an icy lake.
“How did he die?” One of the youths asked Jun Wu with his brows creased together.
Jun Wu Xie turned her eyes to glance at the body on the ground but did not say anything.
“I’m asking you a question!” The youth became impatient when he did not get an answer but he did not dare make any rash moves as who knew whether there would be any other traps laid around here?
“I feel this kid gives me the creeps so let’s just go.” A youth who was a little more timid said nervously.
If it was said that there was only Jun Wu here alone, they would naturally not be afraid. But they did not think that Jun Wu had the capability to kill their companion at all.
Jun Wu was a member of the Spirit Jade Palace and with the Spirit Jade Palace having been oppressed by the Twelve Palaces for so many years, who knew what they would do? It could very well be that people from the Spirit Jade Palace were hiding in places where they could not see in ambush, awaiting for the right opportunity to strike.
Several of the youths felt a chill in their hearts and immediately did not dare to remain there, anxious to want to climb into the carriage to continue on their way.
But right at that moment, Jun Wu Xie’s voice suddenly sounded.
“Hold it.”
The bodies of the youths froze as they turned their heads to look at Jun Wu, their gazes highly wary as they peered all around them, fearful that people would jump out in a sneak attack.
“Did I say that you can go?” Jun Wu Xie’s chilling voice rang out upon the wide thoroughfare.
“Jun Wu! What do you mean by that! ?” The youths’ hearts were chilled as they looked nervously around, nagged by a feeling that people from the Spirit Jade Palace hiding in ambush would jump out at them at any moment to take their lives.
“Jun Wu, there are no grudges between us and back in the Cloudy Brook Academy, we have never provoked you before, why do you need to do this?”
The faces of the youths were all turning an ugly shade. Who knew who was the one who killed their companion? They could only feel fear in their hearts at that moment.
“Get off.” Jun Wu Xie said chillingly.
The youths really felt like crying, but they did not dare defy Jun Wu’s words, and could only come climbing down the carriage obediently, but not daring to stray too far away from it, one by one sticking their backs against the side of the carriage.
“Jun Wu, at the very least, we trained together at the same time in the Cloudy Brook Academy, will you….. will you be able to find it within yourself to spare us on account that we were from the same batch of disciples?” A youth whose knees were knocking themselves together begged mournfully.
Volume 17
Chapter 1660: “Borrow to Use (3)”
Jun Wu Xie stared coldly at the bunch of youths who were on the verge of breaking into tears and she flippantly tossed a bottle of medicine at their feet.
“One pill each.”
The youths then wailed more pitifully.
The Shadow Moon Palace had absolutely no intention of giving the Pure Grace Palace any face at all and hence, they had sent out this bunch of youths with highly average powers who had just come into the palace recently. They were all merely in their teens and they had been so terror stricken by the bloody and gory scene before their eyes, so how could they still be able to think straight at that moment? When they saw the medicine bottle rolling at their feet, they immediately took it to be poison and they wailed out to the Heavens, thinking that they were sure to die this time.
Jun Wu Xie was getting an headache from the noise and her brows immediately furrowed up.
Suddenly, two black shadows leapt out from the shadows and they knocked the youths squatting on the ground and were wailing noisily out out one by one.
The noisy clamour immediately quietened down.
“Have them swallow the medicine.” Jun Wu Xie said.
Ye Sha and Ye Gu immediately picked up the medicine bottle and fed each youth one pill in their mouths.
Those were not any kind of poison, but something that Jun Wu Xie concocted that would confuse a person’s memories for a short period of time. She had merely intended to “borrow” the Shadow Moon Palace’s carriages and birthday gift to use and had not wanted to do anything against that bunch of rascals.
But that one who had first come down from the carriage had his face filled with contempt when he saw Jun Wu, and he had arrogantly stabbed at Jun Wu with his cutting words. Without waiting for Jun Wu Xie to say a word, Ye Gu had already sliced his neck.
In the end, it had frightened the youths who had come down after almost out of their wits.
After the youths had been properly dealt with and thrown into the bushes at the side, Jun Wu Xie stood before the horse carriage and stared at the tightly shut door.
“You want to come out on your own or do you want me to drag you out?” Jun Wu Xie’s voice was slightly chilly. She could sense that there was one more person within the carriage.
Moments later, a pale faced youth came walking slowly out from the carriage. The youth had eyes that was slightly different from normal people. They had an extremely light amber colour, very attractive looking but in that clear pair of eyes, there was no life in them.
The youth’s gaze swept indifferently over the pool of blood on the ground before they finally rested upon Jun Wu Xie.
“You want to kill people from the Shadow Moon Palace?” The youth opened his mouth to ask, his tone questioning.
Jun Wu Xie arched up an eyebrow. This youth had not been from the Cloudy Brook Academy. His aura was highly foreign, seemingly weak but in actuality powerful. Such a chaotic aura made Jun Wu Xie feel it to be rather strange but at that moment, she could not identify what was so strange about it.
“Then can you kill me?”
“…..” Jun Wu Xie widened her eyes slightly, as she stared at the youth who uttered such startling words.
[Did he say….. kill him?]
Jun Wu Xie had seen her fair share of lunatics but had never seen one like this. One who did not resist nor struggle but instead beg for death.
“If you are an enemy of the Shadow Moon Palace, then just kill me. If you do not kill me, then I will definitely come kill you in future.” The youth said nonchalantly, his tone calm and unhurried, like he was speaking of something of no impor
tance at all.
The moment the youth’s voice fell, the figure of Ye Gu had already soundlessly appeared behind the youth, and the dagger in his hand was already pressed against the back of the youth’s neck.
The youth felt the cold chill on the back of his neck and he calmly closed his eyes, seemingly awaiting the arrival of death.
[He really wasn’t going to resist?]
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed slightly as she stared at the youth, and a strange feeling rose within her heart. A guess then suddenly grew in her mind.
Volume 17
Chapter 1661: “Borrow to Use (4)”
“Bind him.” Jun Wu Xie tossed her order out and then climbed into the carriage.
The youth was slightly surprised and before he could react, he was tightly bound up by Ye Sha and carried up to be dumped into the second carriage where the birthday gift was put in.
As the coachman had been thrown into the bushes by Jun Wu Xie, the two horse carriages had to be driven by Ye Sha and Ye Gu.
Jun Wu Xie and Zi Jin sat within the horse carriage and Zi Jin’s gaze was a little flustered.
She had just witnessed something that was very much like “robbery”, and was feeling that there should be something wrong with what had been done. Zi Jin had not known how Jun Wu was intending to go to the Pure Grace Palace and looking at the current situation, she finally understood it.
Jun Wu was intending to use the Shadow Moon Palace’s name to go send birthday well wishes to the Pure Grace Palace Lord!
Looking throughout the lands under the Heavens, for someone who was able to so easily rob people from the Twelve Palaces, it was thought that there should only be this one here.
“We are going to impersonate people from the Shadow Moon Palace to go to the Pure Grace Palace?” Zi Jin asked while seated within the carriage, looking warily at Jun Wu, thinking that Jun Wu today gave her a highly different feeling from before. She had thought that Jun Wu was a ice glacier who did not care about anything but this mountainous glacier seemed to be capable of deeds that would have shocked many people.
“Mm.” Jun Wu Xie nodded her head. She then pulled a human skin mask out from her Cosmos Sack and handed it to Zi Jin.
“Wear it.” Upon saying that, Jun Wu Xie then pulled out another one for herself and then put in on.
These masks were acquired from the auction houses when she was in the Lower Realm and compared to altering one’s looks with medicine, this one lasted for a longer period of time, but slightly uncomfortable to wear. Going to the Pure Grace Palace, Jun Wu Xie could not be certain that no one would be able to recognize her and in order to avoid any unexpected accidents, covering her looks completely would be the best option to take.
Zi Jin obediently put the mask on and in the next moment, that pretty countenance changed to become one of a delicate young girl, diminishing a little of her beauty which would not draw people’s attention to her so much.
Jun Wu Xie’s outlook was still one of a average looking youth, but her facial features all changed slightly.
After putting on the mask properly, Zi Jin just looked at Jun Wu quietly, unable to fathom what kind of intentions Jun Wu had in mind.
“Why did you….. want to keep that youth with us?” Zi Jin could not hold herself back from asking.
When Jun Wu had led Ye Sha and Ye Gu to carry out the “robbery” earlier, she had just froze in shock at the side, unable to react at all. But the words the youth from the Shadow Moon spoke, she had heard them highly clearly.
That youth had definitely said that if Jun Wu did not kill him, he would come kill Jun Wu in future. So why would Jun Wu still want to keep the person with them?
“Useful.” Jun Wu Xie said indifferently. What Zi Jin did not know, was that Jun Wu Xie had seen a kind of numbed and jaded dimness in the youth’s eyes that she was highly familiar with. It was not important what the youth said as what Jun Wu Xie was concerned about was the lifeless eyes on the youth, like life and death in this world had nothing to do with him at all.
Such a feeling was not foreign to Jun Wu Xie. In her past life, when she had been imprisoned inside the cage, she had experienced that before. Life or death, happiness or agony held no meaning to her. Everything her eyes saw was grey and white, without a single tinge of colour.
That was when one was oppressed to the point of utter despair.
Jun Wu Xie was certain that the youth was different from the other disciples of the Shadow Moon Palace and keeping him with them would be useful to her.
Without needing to speak about anything else, just that pair of eyes alone would be enough to make Jun Wu Xie want to spare his life.
Volume 17
Chapter 1662: “Opportunity of One’s Own Choice (1)”
Zi Jin looked on at Jun Wu, seemingly unable to understand what the youth before her eyes was thinking in his mind even more. Zi Jin had a feeling, that even if she opened her mouth to ask more about it, she wouldn’t get the answer that she wanted.
Curling both her legs close, her arms wrapped around her knees, Zi Jin looked at the side of Jun Wu’s face, quietening herself down.
It was the Pure Grace Palace Lord’s birthday and the Pure Grace Palace had buntings and lanterns hanging everywhere, in celebration of the Palace Lord’s upcoming birthday early before it arrived.
From what Jun Wu Xie could see, the demarcation of power between the Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples was very much like the demarcation between countries back in the Lower Realm. Every palace among the Twelve Palaces possessed their own territories under their jurisdiction. Places within a particular jurisdiction, everyone in there had to obey the respective palace where they would receive protection in return.
With the Pure Grace Palace Lord’s birthday fast approaching, more and more people were coming to the Pure Grace Palace to bring well wishes.
It was not just the other eleven palaces. In the Middle Realm, besides the One Region, Four Sides, Nine Temples and Twelve Palaces, there were also many smaller powers scattered around. The might those powers possessed naturally could not be compared to on equal standing with the highly powerful Twelve Palaces and the reason they could survive till this day was because firstly, they were careful not to break the rules and secondly, it was because they were “harmonious” with the Twelve Palaces.
Whenever the time came when there was a need to, they would spare no effort in presenting up all kinds of treasures, and because of their “obedience”, the Twelve Palaces had silently consented to their existence.
Jun Wu Xie and their horse carriages slowly drove inside the Pure Grace Palace’s territories. On the wide road, they were many more horse carriages carrying all sorts of banners, most of the carriages filled with birthday gifts that were to be presented to the Pure Grace Palace Lord.
The youth bound up by Jun Wu Xie was rather cooperative, never fussing or creating a ruckus along the entire journey. He ate what he was given, and drank what they gave him, so cooperative that it made people subconsciously forget that he was a hostage that Jun Wu Xie had taken from the “robbery”.
Before going into the Pure Grace Palace, Jun Wu Xie temporarily stopped the horse carriages in one of the nearby cities, to find them an inn to stay in.
Although it was within the territories of the Pure Grace Palace, the banners of the Shadow Moon Palace made many of the citizens feel fear and trepidation. When the servant at the inn saw the banners on the horse carriage, his legs immediately started to shake and even the innkeeper hurried himself forward to go welcome them. After a good period of fawning, the innkeeper then respectfully led Jun Wu Xie and her delegation to the best room they had.
Zi Jin went back to her room first to rest, and Jun Wu Xie got Ye Sha to bring the youth they had bound up for quite a period into her room.
The youth suddenly raised his head but found himself faced with a youth with an unfamiliar face, but for the pair of eyes which made her feel like she had seen them before, instantly understanding the
changes on Jun Wu’s face.
Having brought to come before Jun Wu, the youth still did not kick up a fuss but just stood there without moving in the slightest, his eyes showing no hatred nor fear, but just complete indifference.
Jun Wu Xie propped up her chin on her palm, to look at the youth with a cold and indifferent expression on his face. She could almost see her past self in the youth before her.
“You have a grudge against the Shadow Moon Palace?” Jun Wu Xie asked suddenly.
The youth was slightly taken aback, his brows creasing up slightly as he looked at Jun Wu with a rather complicated gaze.
“How does it feel to have to risk your life serving one’s own enemy?” Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.
The youth’s brows furrowed up even further, but he still did not deny the point brought up.
“I do not know what kind of animosity you have against the Shadow Moon Palace, but I can offer you an opportunity right now, an opportunity to be able to exact revenge for yourself. Whether you want it, would depends on what you choose of your own accord.” Jun Wu Xie said slowly as she raised her eyes to look at the youth.
Volume 17
Chapter 1663: “Choose Your Own Opportunities (2)”
Surprise finally appeared on the youth’s face but reverted back to it had very quickly. He lowered his head slowly and said in an almost inaudible whisper: “I do not have a choice.”
“Oh?” Jun Wu Xie arched up an eyebrow.
The youth raised his head and his gaze met Jun Wu Xie’s.
“i do not have a choice. Whoever he wants me to kill, I have to kill.”
“If you do not choose, how do you know you have no choice?” Jun Wu Xie said.
“My sister is in his hands.” The youth stated.