Jun Wu Xie watched everything in silence, until the black robed men had finished with their task and left silently.
She then strolled down unhurriedly, making her way straight towards the well nearest to her. She drew out a bucket of water and checked it through.
Moments later, that pair of icy clear eyes were filled with disappointment.
Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly tossed two bottles of elixirs to Ye Sha.
“Drop two pills into each well.” Upon saying that, Jun Wu Xie immediately walked away, her enthusiasm waning.
Volume 15
Chapter 1454: “I’ll Play With You (3)”
Ye Sha watched Jun Wu Xie’s back that was slowly becoming smaller with distance in silence.
[Just how inadequate was the poison in these wells that it could cause his Young Miss to become so sorely disappointed, that drove out every ounce of fight in her! ?]
Within the Fortune Spring Hall, Luo Xi stood just outside of the candlelight’s glow, his face filled with satisfaction.
“Has everything been completed?”
“Yes.”
“Very good.” Luo Xi nodded his head and turned around to gaze at the flickering lone candle flame, his eyes filling up with vicious venom. “There might be quite a number of deaths occurring within this city tomorrow, I think the prices of coffins are going to rise quite a bit.”
“Young Master is unparalleled when it comes to his schemes and that poison was even concocted by the Young Master yourself. The poison is highly lethal and no one throughout the lands will be able to counter its effects. You will surely succeed!”
Luo Xi smiled slightly and waved his hand dismissively. “Alright, it’s good that you know that. Let’s just wait to watch the show tomorrow then. One more thing, prepare more straw mats so that I can give them to all those “poor” refugees tomorrow to wrap up the dead bodies. Hahaha…..”
Early the next morning, Luo Xi was full of anticipation as he sat with his face full of smiles in his manor to await news of the many deaths that would occur in the city’s north. But…..
He sat there till the sun reached its zenith and he did not receive a single report of any death!
Feeling highly puzzled, Luo Xi immediately sent people up to the city’s north to check on the situation and when his subordinate returned, the news he brought back immediately stunned Luo Xi.
“What did you say! ?” Luo Xi’s eyes were wide with incredulity as he stared at his subordinate kneeling before him.
The man said mournfully: “Your servant stayed and watched the city’s north for four whole hours and saw many of the refugees drawing water from the wells, but….. I did not see any one of them showing any symptoms of having been poisoned.”
That man was almost about to cry. There was no need to even mention anyone dying. Having seen how those refugees held large scoops and drinking directly from the well’s water where they looked so carefree and uninhibited had stunned him good and proper earlier. He had seen with his own eyes just how lethal the effects of Luo Xi’s poison was and one only needed a little to be swallowed into their belly before the poison had killed a healthy and strong specimen of a man in mere moments, what’s more for those weak and frail refugees?
But against all reason, such a strange phenomenon had exactly happened!
“What really happened! ? Have your eyes gone blurry! ?” Luo Xi could not accept such a result at all. That poison of his had worked every single time he had used it and it had never once failed him.
The servant shook his head and said: “I had been afraid that I might be seeing things and I went around to see the situation around the other wells, but the situation was the same at every single one of them.”
Luo Xi fell back into his chair with a crash, the colour on his face turning an ugly shade.
“How did it turn out like this….. How could it have turned out like this….. It is absolutely impossible! My poison….. How could it have no effect….. Go! Go out there and bring in a man to test out the poison. I just can’t believe that the fault lies with my drug!”
Very soon, a scrawny little youth was dragged into Luo Xi’s room, He was forcefully fed the poison and within two minutes, that youth lay dead upon the ground with blood flowing out from all seven orifices.
Staring at all the blood upon the floor, Luo Xi was becoming more and more puzzled.
There was obviously no problem with the poison, so why hadn’t a single one of those refugees in the city’s north died?
“All of you will go there once more tonight! Triple the amount of poison and pour them all in!” Luo Xi spat through gritted teeth.
“Yes!”
However…..
Under the deep night sky, after the sneaky bunch of black robed men had left, Jun Wu Xie went once again to the well to inspect it for a while. This time, she did not even bother to say a single word before she tossed two bottles of elixirs to Ye Sha in disappointment, quickly returning back to bed to sleep.
Ye Sha stood there holding the elixir bottles, his face looking highly mournful. At that moment, he really felt like running over to Luo Xi to go tell him to come up with a poison a little higher class and more magnificent to use next time. Look at how this clumsy poison he used here had made the Young Miss lost all interest that she couldn’t even be bothered to give it another glance!
Volume 15
Chapter 1455: “Asking to be Humiliated Again (1)”
For several consecutive days, Luo Xi still did not give up, but everyday only brought him a heavier blow as the days passed. All the heaps of poison thrown into the wells had been for total naught, causing not even a ripple which enraged him greatly as he harshly berated his subordinates one time after another.
But the situation was even becoming worse.
It was not known how the refugees who were allowed into the Clear Breeze City daily became aware of the situation in the city’s north and all of them who had just come in for only a few hours would immediately pack up their things from the refugee camp and head towards the city’s north. Such a situation caused Luo Xi to be unable to remain sitting back and doing nothing about it where he stormed right into the City Lord’s Manor to chide the City Lord for his lack of action.
The City Lord expressed that he had already been trying very hard as well but with such good conditions in the city’s north, only an idiot would reject it. He had sent people to stop the refugees from moving but they had failed utterly, and the City Lord was saying that he was feeling entirely helpless on what else he could do.
The City Lord had even claimed that despite his injury, he was really mentally and physically exhausted, infuriating Luo Xi so badly his face went from white to green in fury.
Luo Xi had tried everything he could think of. When the poisoning of the wells did not work, he had proceeded to try to tamper with the vegetables that were sent to the city’s north but the result had been the same as before, all the poison seemingly sunken to the bottom of the sea, where he heard nothing about it at all.
Seeing the number of refugees growing day by day and they were not able to bring out a single refugee out anymore, their plans had been completely disrupted.
With great food and drinks coupled with a nice place to live in, who would want to leave?
What Luo Xi feared most from before had come to pass as fact which caused him to become as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
Unable to tolerate it all any further, Luo Xi decided that he would go up to the city’s north himself, and this time, he would make an appearance as the “great benefactor” he was known as.
The refugees in the city’s north had all already changed completely. Although it had only been barely two weeks’ time but after their most immediate needs of having warm meals and a proper roof over their heads settled, their temperament and the colour on their faces had greatly improved. And with the political lesson Jun Wu Xie had schooled them with the last time, the refugees had learnt to lend support and help to eac
h other. If any of them got into a conflict with any of the original residents in the city, they knew they had to band together to protect their own people.
When Luo Xi arrived at the city’s north and found that all he saw before his eyes was completely different from the last time he came here, the scene of thriving harmony pricked at his heart that made him wince, the smile upon his face suddenly stiffening quite a bit.
“Young Master Luo! You’ve come!” The refugees quickly recognized Luo Xi.
Luo Xi quickly pushed down the rage heating up inside and put on a wide smile to say: “I heard that everyone had come here and I was a little worried, so I came here to have a look myself.”
Regardless what kind of personality Luo Xi really possessed, in the eyes of many of those refugees he was a very “kind” person, and hence the attitude of the refugees towards him was not that stiff.
“Young Master Luo, this place is great. Young Master Jun is a very good person and we eat and sleep well in this place. We even have warm clothes to wear here and Young Master Jun would even get people to tend to our illness if we happen to fall sick.”
“Ya, that’s right! Although Young Master Jun is a little cold as a person, but he his really good to us. A few days ago, my little bean back home had a fever and Young Master Jun brought us some medicine. My little bean recovered completely just after one dose!” When speaking of Jun Wu Xie, those refugees became highly excited and vigorous, each one competing with the next to sing their praises of Jun Wu Xie’s kindness and unbelievable benevolence, like there was no greater person than Jun Wu Xie across these vast lands.
Luo Xi fought hard to maintain the feigned smile upon his face, as he patiently listened to the refugees sing Jun Wu Xie’s praises, his heart almost bursting from the pent up rage that he wished he could just drag Jun Wu Xie out and chew her up alive.
“Is that so? So Young Master Jun is such a good person….. I wonder….. where will Young Master Jun be now? I happen to have something I need to discuss with him.” Luo Xi said in an amicable tone although his heart was overflowing with anger.
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Chapter 1456: “Undercurrents (1)”
The refugees immediately paused and hesitated a moment, none of them daring to say a word about it. With the previous lesson from the incident with the City Lord, they had all learnt not to speak carelessly anymore.
Luo Xi had thought that his image as the “great benefactor” would be of some use but he was made to realize that when it came to affairs that concerned Jun Wu Xie, his title was seen to be completely useless on these refugees.
No matter how much Luo Xi tried to persuade them, no one responded to him in the least. All the refugees suddenly came up with all sorts of excuses to escape from there. The previous incident had nearly brought a lot of trouble to Jun Wu Xie and the refugees had all been feeling very guilty about it. Now, none of them dared to say a single word about it.
In just a short while, the crowd of refugees who had gathered around Luo Xi suddenly dispersed, leaving him to stand there alone with his attendant to stare at each other in frustration.
Luo Xi was almost about to explode and his face turned a dark green shade.
Jun Wu Xie stood by the window of her loft unit, enjoying the sight of Luo Xi looking utterly exasperated.
“Young Miss, do you need me to go down there to have him dealt with?” Ye Sha said in a cold stoic voice.
Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
A lowly pawn like Luo Xi was not worth her attention and she had no interest in wasting time with him. She only need to force the situation hard enough and the one hidden behind the scenes would act.
Finding himself unceremoniously snubbed, Luo Xi could only storm off in a rage. He couldn’t allow things to continue on like this and he immediately released a messaging pigeon when he got back, before plopping himself back onto a chair with his jaws tightly clenched together.
“You’re inviting that person to come here?” The servant asked as he looked warily at Luo Xi.
To which Luo Xi answered: “Or what? We’ve come so far already. Or should I allow that kid to do as he please in this city? The City Lord is also a useless douchebag and when the revered one comes, I will make sure he pays!”
The system that they had managed to set up and develop within the Clear Breeze City had been turned into a mess when Jun Wu Xie appeared. And within all that chaos, someone had been watching all of it while keeping himself hidden.
“From which palace is that kid in the city’s north from? He has really kicked up quite a storm the moment he came here.” The man seated within the restaurant said, swirling the cup of wine in his hand with one of his eyebrows lifted as he looked at the handsome cold faced youth.
“Isn’t it just so interesting? We have seldom met anyone so daring and the Palace of the Flame Demons had really lost quite a bit in this situation.” The handsome youth turned himself around, the corners of his lips turned up in a bloodthirsty smile.
“I had not expected that you would be willing to come down to the Lower Realm as you had really given me a big fright the last time you returned back. I noticed that you seem to be looking for someone all this while, could it have anything to do with what happened the last time, Gu Ying?” The man asked inquisitively.
The handsome looking youth standing at the side was the very same person who had been wounded by Jun Wu Xie and had to be sent back to the Middle Realm, Gu Ying!
The man’s words caused the smile on Gu Ying’s lips to stiffen a little and his eyes to narrow as the image of a slender and delicate figure appeared in his mind.
[Jun Xie!]
The image of that figure had felt as if it had been branded right into his heart, where he would feel a throbbing pain everytime he thought of it. That was a humiliation that he would never be able to forget!
“If you have the leisure to care about my affairs, you should instead be using it to think how to deal with those guys from the Palace of Flame Demons. The guys from the Palace of Flame Demons had kicked up such a tumultuous storm down here in the Lower Realm and what they are seeking to achieve would surely not be something simple. The Twelve Palaces have each installed their own people here within the Clear Breeze City and if you are thinking of sitting back and wait to reap the benefits from the efforts of others, you’ll also have to see if you possess the capabilities to do that.” Gu Ying said sneeringly.
The man waved his hand dismissively. “We are not as mad as those people from the Palace of Flame Demons. But having all seven of the maps gone missing is rather unexpected. I had even gone to the Zephyr Academy before but did not manage to find anything. It seems like the person who stole the maps had left the place a long time ago. I think the situation over at the Palace of Flame Demons should be the same and I heard that they even sent one of their Elders who had then died at the Heaven’s End Cliff. That must have driven the Palace of Flame Demons into rage and they had then stirred up so much trouble down here in the Lower Realm. If the Lower Realm really gets wiped out by them, wouldn’t it then make it easier for us to search for the Dark Emperor’s tomb?”
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Chapter 1457: “Undercurrents (2)”
“That does not concern me at all.” Gu Ying said as he narrowed his eyes. He had come back down to the Lower Realm for one thing, and that was only to find that person!
That person who made him suffer the worst humiliation throughout his entire life, Jun Xie!
The man looked at Gu Ying and he could not help but feel a chill creep into his heart. Gu Ying had always possessed a bloodthirsty personality and after experiencing that incident, Gu Ying had suddenly been felt to have become much more dangerous.
“It doesn’t matter, we’ll just wait and see. The search at the Heaven’s End Cliff is still ongoing and the people from the other palaces who are hidden within the Clear Breeze City have not made any moves as well. If they do not move, I would naturally not go taint myself with these muddied water
.”
At that moment of the man’s agreement, many pairs of eyes were already hidden in many places within the Clear Breeze City, witnessing everything that was happening in that city.
Nobody would have expected that in that unremarkable little city in the Lower Realm, there would be so many spies of the Twelve Palaces hidden within!
The message that Luo Xi send out was responded to very quickly. A man dressed in black clothes came walking in through the large gates of the Clear Breeze City, the powerful aura surrounding him immediately dispersing the crowd of refugees squeezed before the gates. The several guards at the gates had upon seeing that person’s countenance, immediately fallen to their knees in a tremble.
The black clothed man’s face was dark and solemn as he slowly walked into the Clear Breeze City, heading straight towards the Fortune Spring Hall.
When Luo Xi received news of the man’s arrival, he immediately got up intending to go out to welcome him but that black clothed man had already appeared right before his room door.
“Greetings to the revered one!” Luo Xi immediately fell to his knees to pay his respects.
The black clothed man’s face was cold and hard, and he glanced at Luo Xi from his higher vantage point a brief moment when he suddenly lifted a foot to send Luo Xi flying with a kick. Luo Xi crashed heavily into the chair behind him and the chair was smashed into pieces. Excruciating pain filled his entire body but Luo Xi could only continue to kneel on the ground in a shivering heap, the blood flowing down freely from the corners of his mouth but he did not even dare to groan in the slightest.
“Useless trash! You can’t even deal with such a small matter, what use are you to me! ?” The black clothed man admonished as he glared at Luo Xi with a frown, his eyes filled with contempt.
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