No matter how small the houses in the Spirit World looked from the outside, the wide expanse of space after one walked inside was not something normal people were able to imagine.
In the house, Nalan Shan was seated behind his desk, conscientiously flipping through the books that lay open on the desk. Brownie was seated upon a carpet at the side, and it was not known from where it found a ball made of cane, as it toyed with the ball with its thick and heavy paws. The other three Beast Spirits besides the cheetah were just lying quietly at the side as they rested.
Hearing that someone had entered, Nalan Shan immediately raised up his head. As his gaze passed over Rong Ruo and the other familiar figures, his eyes finally rested upon the figure of Jun Wu Xie.
His eyes were tinged with a trace of surprise, as he did not seem to remember having seen this young lady before.
“It’s me.” Jun Wu Xie opened her mouth to say.
Hearing the familiar voice, Nalan Shan immediately breathed out in relief. He knew better than to go ask Jun Wu Xie how she had managed to change her looks but instead went on to say warmly: “Quickly take a seat first. How is the situation out there recently?”
Ever since that day that Nalan Shan had brought Brownie away in escape, they had found this little hut and had been hiding in here. To avoid being discovered by Jiang Yun Long, he had not once stepped out through the door throughout the entire period.
Not to mention just Nalan Shan, but even the cheetah and the other Beast Spirits had not dared to step outside as well, as they had shown their faces before Jiang Yun Long before.
“The situation has not yet become that bad, but Wu Jiu and Jiang Yun Long have really been just too much. When they could not find you, they then sought to capture Little Xie to interrogate her. Because of that, Little Xie had no choice but to change her looks. Those two fellas are just abominable.” Qiao Chu immediately vented his grouses without holding back.
When he heard that Jiang Yun Long wanted to capture Jun Wu Xie, Nalan Shan’s eyes flashed with a sliver of surprise. He stared in shock at Jun Wu Xie, his eyes seemingly apologetic.
“I’m sorry, I have dragged you into this.”
“Gurgle…..” Brownie who had been focused on playing with its toy seemed to understand what Qiao Chu and Nalan Shan were saying and it shifted its enormously rounded behind to come right next to Jun Wu Xie, as it raised up a furry paw to paw at Jun Wu Xie’s calf.
Jun Wu Xie rubbed Brownie’s large furry head and said in a calm voice: “There’s nothing to be sorry about. Even if it’s not because of you, I will still end up coming against them sooner or later.”
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Chapter 2043: Complicated Spirit Reinforcement (1)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Nalan Shan sighed. Even though Jun Wu Xie had said that, he still felt rather bad about it.
“There’s no need to continue to harp on all this. The construction of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower has suddenly sped up recently. Have you ever encountered such a situation before?” Jun Wu Xie said, revealing the main purpose she had come to find Nalan Shan.
Nalan Shan’s face turned to one of shock and he quickly shook his head to say: “Never before. The construction of the three Serene Spirit Towers before was done without any interruption from beginning till end. Only for this fourth Serene Spirit Tower had the construction slowed down midway, and it was caused Brownie’s escape.”
Jun Wu Xie then said: “I suspect that Wu Jiu has something up his sleeve.”
“Who do you mean?”
“If building the fourth Serene Spirit Tower did not require the Spiritual Bear, then why had he suddenly slowed down the construction of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower after the Spiritual Bear went missing? He has suddenly sped it up now but Brownie has not been caught by them. There must be some other reason behind this that gives him no choice but to speed it up.” Jun Wu Xie opened her mouth to say. This was a problem she had been thinking about for quite a while but as she was not all that familiar with the Spirit World, Jun Wu Xie had been stuck in many instances when she needed to make her deductions accurately.
“In that case…..” Nalan Shan fell deep in thought as well. From what he understood of Wu Jiu, Wu Jiu was definitely not a person that would change his original plans for no good reason. But as for what Wu Jiu’s intentions were now, he was not able to judge accurately immediately.
“We came here this time, on one hand, is to look at how all of you are doing, and secondly, we are thinking of going into the fourth Serene Spirit Tower to see what the situation is inside. Now that the Serene Spirit Tower is in such a sudden need for manpower, it provides us with a good chance to investigate.” Jun Wu Xie said.
Nalan Shan was a little worried. But when he saw how determined Jun Wu Xie was, he felt that there was nothing much he could say, but to remind Jun Wu Xie that she must act with utmost caution, to never stay in there for too long, and that she must immediately leave the moment she finds the situation taking a bad turn.
As the fourth Serene Spirit Tower’s construction need to be sped up, that requirement needed a large increase in the number of human spirits. Jun Wu Xie and the others took barely any effort before they all passed the entry requirements, to quickly go into the fourth Serene Spirit Tower’s construction site, as they started to work.
Jun Wu Xie and the companions, together with a bunch of human spirits who had just joined, were led by a man. They were allocated to a place where it was filled with bricks. Judging from the size of those bricks, it could be seen that the Serene Spirit Tower would be built with these bricks. But compared to the bricks used in the other Serene Spirit Towers, the surface of these bricks were smooth and neat, where it was clear that they did not have any runes carved into them yet.
“What all of you need to do is to follow these symbols here, and carve them into these stone bricks one by one, and then place them aside according to sequence.” The man in charge said, giving the newcomers their orders. Building up the Serene Spirit Tower itself would not require too many human spirits, but as every single brick required a corresponding rune to be carved into them, it required a lot of time. The runes needed to be carved into the bricks by hand and could not be substituted by bricks that were made with the power of the spirit.
The tools for the carving was a awl, and everyone was given one. The shape of the rune that they were to carve was then distributed to all the human spirits there.
The instant that Jun Wu Xie was given the awl, she had immediately detected there was something slightly abnormal about it. She could sense a faint trace of some power of the spirit within the small awl, and the kind of power of the spirit was not steady and stable like it should feel after an item had been created, but felt to be rather lively.
After the man in charge relayed his instructions, he then left. Everyone else each picked up a brick, and sat down on the ground to begin carving slowly the rune they had been allocated
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Chapter 2044: Complicated Spirit Reinforcement (2)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Jun Wu Xie secretly took note and remembered all the runes distributed and as every brick had its corresponding sequence, she committed the sequence to memory as well.
The process involved in the construction of the Serene Spirit Tower was dull and dry and Jun Wu Xie carved out a total of thirty whole bricks. These blocks of stone were then stacked up onto the Serene Spirit Tower in sequence, carefully placed neatly bit by bit.
And after witnessing with her own eyes the construction of the Serene Spirit Tower, Jun Wu Xie finally understood why she had not been able to decipher what was going on with the runes on the inside and outside of the Serene Spirit Tower. Because a brick had a total of six sides and when Jun Wu Xie had stood inside the completed Serene Spirit Tower before, she had only been able to see two sides, with its four other sides completely covered
by other bricks. All six sides of the bricks were carved with runes and the runes that had been hidden from sight had coincidentally made Jun Wu Xie felt them to be strange.
As the busy day wore on, the bricks accumulated when seen from the outside of the Serene Spirit Tower was starting to look rather impressive, and the human spirits responsible for the various stations took turns to rest.
Qiao Chu and the others took the opportunity when it was their turn to rest to come find Jun Wu Xie, asking her if she had discovered anything, but Jun Wu Xie merely told them that she was still not certain.
That round of infiltration had them going there for a whole fortnight. And in that half month, the immense number of human spirits finally completed carving all the bricks required for the construction of the Serene Spirit Tower. The Serene Spirit Tower was almost near to completion and the human spirits who had been recruited left after they collected a bronze badge. With that bronze badge, they would gain priority to enter the Serene Spirit Tower to practice cultivation in the future.
In that two weeks, Jiang Yun Long had not given up on capturing Jun Wu Xie, but it had still yielded him no result.
After they departed from the fourth Serene Spirit Tower, Jun Wu Xie and her companions immediately returned back to the houses they were residing in and throughout that period, Jun Wu Xie did not step out through her door, but had instead locked herself inside, to repeatedly write out all the runes she had committed to memory, using different sequences to conduct her deductions, deciphering the real meaning behind those runes.
Qiao Chu and the others did not dare to go disturb Jun Wu Xie during that period but just hid in their own houses to continue with their cultivation.
Jun Wu Xie constantly attempted to unravel the meaning behind all these foreign looking runes. She tested them time after time, and discovered quite a number of them was actually similar to her Spirit Reinforcement. But most of the rune combinations did not have any effects manifest and some spells that did not show any peculiarities instead held another kind of power within.
Power that lay hidden within the spirit!
Jun Wu Xie researched into it incessantly again and again, while Jun Wu Yao sat quietly on one side to watch her intently, like there were only the two of them in the world wide world.
“I should have thought of this much earlier! I should have realized it!” After writing out a lengthy bunch of Spirit Reinforcement runes, Jun Wu Xie’s eyes suddenly flared wide. At her feet, she had countless Spirit Reinforcement runes forming a circle around her. There was no wind in the room, but standing within the circle, Jun Wu Xie’s hair suddenly rose up in a flutter, her clothes seemingly billowing in the wind. She raised her head, and looked at Jun Wu Yao.
“Spirit Reinforcement not only imbues additional abilities. Its true use was created specifically for spirit bodies!” Jun Wu Xie finally understood why most of the Spirit Reinforcement spells could only be used on spirits as it was created just for spirits in the first place!
No wonder that devil in her past life had been so obsessed with them. No wonder the Serene Spirit Tower was filled with such runes. When the runes were combined together, they brought about completely unexpected effects, and they were targeted right at spirit bodies!
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Chapter 2045: Complicated Spirit Reinforcement (3)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
“I understand the secret behind the Serene Spirit Tower now. Wu Jiu harbours evil intentions afterall, as he seeks to destroy the entire Spirit World!” Having come to understand the use of the Spirit Reinforcement runes, Jun Wu Xie was getting rather excited.
And the more she understood, the more she came to realize that the Serene Spirit Tower was not a place that was provided for human spirits to cultivate in.
It was just a great big slaughterhouse!
“Wu Yao, the Spirit Reinforcement runes in the Serene Spirit Tower is actually an enormous spirit sacrificial array! It constantly uses its own power to elevate the cultivation of the people that come in, making them stronger, till they have been strengthened to a certain level, they would be transformed into power of the spirit, to feed that ball of Spirit Fire inside!” Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Jun Wu Yao. She had not thought that the truth would be so shocking. She had initially arranged the Spirit Reinforcement runes based on those in the Serene Spirit Tower and had felt the same feeling that she had felt back in the Serene Spirit Tower before. The power of the spirit had surged into her body uncontrollably but she had known that was a sign of danger.
But when she reversed the sequence of the Spirit Reinforcement runes, what she then got was the true and proper way to elevate one’s power of the spirit!
The four Serene Spirit Towers, were essentially speaking, four enormous slaughterhouses. It constantly induced the human spirits who came inside to grow in strength, till they were powerful enough to be absorbed by the Spirit Fire on the twelfth level. Having understood the sequence of Spirit Reinforcement runes, and combined with Nalan Shan’s investigations, the truth then floated up to the surface.
“Sacrificial?” Jun Wu Yao’s eyes narrowed slightly. When that word fell in his ears, his eyes had unconsciously turned purple. Intense emotions then roiled within his eyes, and he forcibly suppressed the surge rising inside, to continue to listen to what Jun Wu Xie had to say.
“That’s right. Sacrificial. The real purpose of this combination of Spirit Reinforcement runes is sacrifice. It sacrifices spirits that grow to become powerful enough, to provide more power to the Spirit Fire.” Jun Wu Xie said, drawing in a deep breath. No wonder Wu Jiu had never been willing to cultivate in the Serene Spirit Towers. He must have known the truth behind the Serene Spirit Towers and that was why.
All spirits that went inside would be affected by the Spirit Reinforcement runes from the first time they stepped in there and even after they have left, that effect would not be severed. Like Little Black’s current condition, their power of the spirit would be unknowingly absorbed. No matter how far they went away, they would not be able to cut off that link and the only way to completely eradicate those effects would be to destroy the Spirit Reinforcement runes in the Serene Spirit Tower.
Having unraveled the Serene Spirit Tower’s secret, Jun Wu Xie had however fallen deep into another big question.
Based on this arrangement of the Spirit Reinforcement runes, the power of the spirit that was absorbed by the ball of Spirit Fire would not be able to be withdrawn. Even Wu Jiu would not be able to horde the power of the spirit for his own use. So why was he doing this? He had racked his brains to build the Serene Spirit Towers and had even abandoned his own disciples. What could his motives really be?
“No matter what he is thinking of doing, it will not be anything good.” Jun Wu Yao said with his eyes narrowed.
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head. Now that she knew the real truth, then the only way to save Little Black would be to completely destroy the Spirit Reinforcement runes in the first Serene Spirit Tower completely. Otherwise, even if Jun Wu Xie and her companions had already left the Spirit World, the little black cat would still not recover from its condition.
“I need to go to the first Serene Spirit Tower once more.” Jun Wu Xie said.
“You’re sure?” Jun Wu Yao asked as he looked at Jun Wu Xie with an eyebrow raised.
Jun Wu Xie replied: “Only I am able to use Spirit Reinforcement, and only I will be able to reverse the Spirit Reinforcement array in there!”
Volume 21
Chapter 2046: Chaos in the Spirit World (1)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
After Jun Wu Xie came to a decision, she immediately went to find Qiao Chu and the others, to tell them about the Serene Spirit Tower’s secret.
And during this period that Jun Wu Xie was researching into the Spirit Reinforcement runes, the Spirit World descended into a bout of chaos.
With the construction
of the fourth serene Spirit Tower completed, it created quite a stir that rocked the Spirit World. While the human spirits in the ever present snaking queues outside the three other Serene Spirit Towers waited for their turns, Wu Jiu suddenly released out the news.
The fourth Serene Spirit Tower would not just be enjoyed exclusively by human spirits, but could be handed over to the other spirit races to use as well.
It must be known that the construction of the three Serene Spirit Tower from before had pushed the disadvantaged human spirits up to new peaks. Be it Beast Spirits, Weapon Spirits or even the Plant Spirits, they were all looking at the human spirits with envy. For all living beings under the Heavens, who didn’t want to pursue stronger power? And in the Spirit World, one’s strength or weakness in the power of the spirit was the only standard, that was able to provide for everything.
And the fourth Serene Spirit Tower would now be made available for for spirit races other than human. That piece of news immediately quaked through the entire Spirit World.
The animosity felt against the human spirit race by the other spirit races and their resistance towards the Serene Spirit Towers were mainly due to the fact that they could not use them, only allowing the human spirits to grow stronger. But now, with the completion of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower, it changed the entire situation completely!
But…..
Complete authourity over the fourth Serene Spirit Tower was still held by the human spirits race alone. At that moment, a clash fighting over the rights of attribution for the fourth Serene Spirit Tower immediately kicked up an immense storm that swept over the entire Spirit World.
Although the human spirits were displeased that the newly constructed Serene Spirit Tower would not be kept exclusively for their own use, but when they thought that they already had three Serene Spirit Towers, they did not protest against Wu Jiu’s decision too much in order to not create too much strife.
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