Jun Wu Xie put a finger to her lips in a gesture to remain quiet and then hooked her finger at him, indicating for Qiao Chu to come outside.
Qiao Chu instantly shot himself outside and the two of them took the opportunity that it was not yet light to find themselves a spot within the mountain woods where there was nobody around to sit down upon the grass.
His behind had just touched the ground when Qiao Chu could no longer wait to open his mouth to speak.
“Where could our little lass have disappeared to the entire night! ? I waited up the entire time and when I did not see you return, I thought that something had happened to you!” Qiao Chu lamented as he stared at Jun Wu Xie, his face highly sorrowful. When everyone had split up and gone on to find their own ways to sneak into Mount Fu Yao, they had all fully believed and had faith in each other’s powers. But he had just miraculously bumped into Jun Wu Xie yesterday and seen her for awhile even she had quickly gone missing that very same night. His poor little heart had really found that a little hard to take.
“I went to get some things done.” Jun Wu Xie then seemed to be thinking for a brief moment before she opened her mouth to call out: “Ye Sha, Ye Gu.”
As soon as her voice fell, the figures of Ye Sha and Ye Gu immediately appeared behind her.
“What instructions does Young Miss have for us?”
The two men immediately asked.
“When I was at the Spirit Jade Palace earlier, did the two of you detect anything?” Jun Wu Xie asked them.
However…..
Ye Sha and Ye Gu were silent.
“What?” Jun Wu Xie was quick to notice that their reactions were rather abnormal.
“Reporting to Young Miss, the rock that sealed the entrance was a little strange. The time it stayed open was too short and we were not able to get inside.” Ye Sha replied with his head lowered.
Ye Gu swept his gaze over Ye Sha, wishing he could sink his foot into that imbecile to kick him away.
Ye Gu had wanted to bash his way in at that time but Ye Sha had stopped him. Ye Sha had been following Jun Wu Xie for a longer period of time and he knew Jun Wu Xie’s temperament and her way of doing things much better. Jun Wu Xie had gone to the Spirit Jade Palace to seek herself an ally and not to stir up trouble. If they had struck at that moment, it would only disrupt Jun Wu Xie’s plans.
“Oh.” Jun Wu Xie nodded her head but did not say anything more.
Ye Sha felt Ye Gu’s piercing stare upon him and it made his skin crawl, thinking that he was going to be in hot soup later.
Qiao Chu was getting intrigued while listening to them from the side. He waved his hand before Jun Wu Xie’s eyes and asked: “Hey, Little Xie. What palace did you say it was?”
“Spirit Jade Palace.” Jun Wu Xie repeated. “You know of it?”
Qiao Chu scratched at his head. “Spirit Jade Palace….. Spirit Jade Palace….. I seem to have any impression of it but just can remember it.”
Ye Sha then said from the side: “Is the Spirit Jade Palace that Young Miss mentioned the one that once stood together with the Twelve Palaces?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
Ye Sha then said: “The Spirit Jade Palace was originally one among the Twelve Palaces and the Twelve Palaces were initially known as the Thirteen Palaces. The Spirit Jade Palace stood within the higher ranks among the Thirteen Palaces and there were not many palaces who were able to match up to them. Moreover, the criteria the Spirit Jade Palace had for accepting members was exceptional. They only accepted young girls below ten years of age to join and if anyone was beyond that she restriction or of a different gender, the Spirit Jade Palace rejected them without any exception. Besides that, the Spirit Jade Palaces had no other criteria for the young girls regardless of their potential or talents, where they would be accepted once they were selected. And because the disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace grew up from young within the palace, the Spirit Jade Palace was one of the most steady and unshakable among the Thirteen Palaces.”
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“But at one point of time very very long ago, the Spirit Jade Palace had for some unknown reason, suddenly suffered from some internal strife where it caused them to instantly fall from their position of being one of the strongest palace among the Thirteen Palaces. Although rumours about the Spirit Jade Palace were still heard after that, most of them were of them being persecuted by disciples of the Twelve Palaces, never once hearing about them reemerging back into prominence.”
“This incident of the Spirit Jade Palace happened too early and your subordinate was not here at that time. Hence, I do not know know the real reason behind it.” Ye Sha said.
Ye Gu was also nodding his head at the side.
“I remember it now!” Qiao Chu suddenly became highly excited. “I’m finally able to recall where I’ve heard about the Spirit Jade Palace! When I was young, my mother told me that the most beautiful woman in our entire Middle Realm was the Palace Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace. She said that the Spirit Jade Palace had beauties as numerous as clouds in the skies…..” That memory from such a long time ago made Qiao Chu unable to help himself but smile. He had been very young then and he did not know anything. When he held on to a little girl’s sleeve and refused to let go, that was how his mother had coaxed him, telling him that he would find the Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace in future, to allow him to pick a beautiful girl from there, for him to take as his wife.
[The Middle Realm’s most beautiful….. girls…..]
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes looked far into the distance. She was a hundred and one percent certain that that person back in the Spirit Jade Palace, was a guy! And a pure one!
“Why is it said that their Palace Lord was the most beautiful woman of the Middle Realm?” Jun Wu Xie asked, feigning innocence.
Qiao Chu replied: “I do not know. But with the Spirit Jade Palace being a place that only recruited female disciples, a lot of their members would naturally possess highly outstanding looks. With such a horde of beauties, wouldn’t their Palace Lord need to be a highly ravishing beauty to be able to hold them down?”
Jun Wu Xie really had to bow to the single cell organism that Qiao Chu was, defeated by his answer that was so brutally simple and honest.
“Actually, how the Palace Lord looks, or what his personality was like, no one knew. Besides the people of the Spirit Jade Palaces themselves, no one has seen the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s real countenance as he had never taken a step out from the Spirit Jade Palace.” Ye Gu recalled what he knew and spoke his thoughts aloud.
Putting it that way, then it might make sense. Jun Wu Xie then nodded her head thoughtfully.
“Ye Gu, Jun Wu Yao told me before that the Purple Spirit was just merely the foundation in the Middle Realm. Then, above this foundation, what is there?” Jun Wu Xie tilted her head to look at the youthful and clear faced Ye Gu.
Ye Gu then said in a highly earnest and serious tone: “It is separated into five levels above the basic Purple Spirit. Beyond those five levels will then be the Silver Spirit and after the Silver Spirit will be Gold, where both the two Gold and Silver Spirits are each separated into another five levels as well. The Elder from the Palace of Flame Demons that Young Miss fought back in the Clear Breeze City was a Purple Spirit at the third level and the Palace Lords of the Twelve Palaces should have all broken through to the Silver Spirit. Above the Purple Spirit, the disparity between each and every level would be like that of the clouds in the sky to the mud on the ground.”
“What level am I at now?” Jun Wu Xie asked.
“Young Miss is now at the Purple Spirit’s fourth level.” Ye Gu replied.
“What about me? Me?” Qiao Chu suddenly could not wait to go up and ask.
Ye Gu glanced at him and spoke candidly: “Young Master Qiao and the other Young Masters’ powers should be at the third level.”
“Har?” Qiao Chu was stunned.
“This….. Thi
s could be a mistake. We….. We are all one level below Little Xie?” Qiao Chu was suddenly feeling that his mind was being overtaxed. [When they had gone into the Dark Emperor’s tomb, Jun Wu Xie’s spirit powers had been weaker than all of them. In the end, it’s just been a while since they came out from there and she has already surpassed all of them…..
Qiao Chu was suddenly overcome with a feeling that he had nothing else to live for. He could still remember the first time when he had met Jun Wu Xie back in the Ghost City. She had been so tiny, so weak! !
And the cruel truth had now pouncing right upon him from the front!
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Chapter 1490: “So That’s How It Is (3)”
Qiao Chu immediately turned into a tomato covered in frost, brittle and would easily crumble.
“Mount Fu Yao is the place with the highest density of spirit energy concentration throughout the Middle Realm and our Young Miss might as well use the time spent here during the Battle of Deities Grand Meet to continue with her cultivation.” Ye Gu went on to say.
As he spoke, from within Ye Gu’s robe at his chest, a tiny head then poked out suddenly, going “meh meh~” at Jun Wu Xie.
Hearing Lord Meh Meh’s voice, the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit whom Ye Sha had stuffed in his robes on the other side could not help but burrow its head out as well. The two dumb beasts then went on to cry out for Jun Wu Xie’s attention, so noisy were they that Ye Sha and Ye Gu had no choice but to put them down, leaving them in Jun Wu Xie’s hands to coax and appease them.
Jun Wu Xie had not intended to bring these two dumb beasts here into the Middle Realm. But as she really could not endure the incessant attacks on her heart from these two adorable little fellas, she had had no choice but to temporarily shove them into the care of Ye Sha and Ye Gu for the moment.
It wasn’t that bad for Ye Gu. Although he had an explosive temperament, his appearance was still that of a young boy. Hence, even when he carried such a cute and adorable little Spirit Beast within his arms, he did not attract that much attention from others.
But for Ye Sha, who besides being tall and towering in stature, had an extremely cold face with a chillingly stern expression. Seeing him carry the tiny palm sized Sacrificial Blood Rabbit around made people could not help but feel a kind of mystifying endearment towards him.
Jun Wu Xie and the two dumb beasts indulged themselves for a while as the sky gradually brightened, and the number of people coming out and about on the mountaintop began to grow. Qiao Chu and Jun Wu Xie then stood up to leave, readying themselves to go back to find out what was going on first.
Based on their calculations of the time, it was only a few more days to the Battle of Deities Grand Meet itself. But when Jun Wu Xie and Qiao Chu returned back, they received a piece of news.
For some unknown reason, the Battle of Deities Grand Meet had suddenly been pushed back by half a month, and that piece of news immediately caused a flurry of delight and sorrow from all the youths who had come from all over. Delight for those who felt they had more time to prepare themselves, sorrow for those who were so nervous about the meet and they would have to suffer the torture for another two weeks.
Moreover…..
The cost of things at the summit of Mount Fu Yao was a little brutal as well!
At the first instance after Jun Wu Xie heard the news, with a wave of her hand at Qiao Chu, she immediately abandoned him, leaving him to his own devices to decide whether he would live or die on his own, while she herself then went on her own way onto the path that led down Mount Fu Yao.
Ye Sha and Ye Gu followed her the entire way, till their eyes saw Jun Wu Xie actually slipping into the cave that housed the entrance to the Spirit Jade Palace.
“The Young Miss is intending to…..?” Ye Sha was suddenly a little nervous.
“During this period, I will temporarily be staying at the Spirit Jade Palace for my cultivation. Two weeks later on the day before the Battle of Deities Grand Meet commences, I will come here. Within this period, the two of you….. can go free and easy.” Jun Wu Xie said with a calm expression as she looked at Ye Sha and Ye Gu.
The jaws of the two men immediately dropped to the ground!
“Young….. Young Miss….. This….. This is……” Ye Gu could only stutter, the half of his face that was exposed outside the mask becoming red from holding back. He had not served Jun Wu Xie for that long a period of time, but Lord Jue had left strict instructions for him and Ye Sha to take good care of Jun Wu Xie, and to also obey Jun Wu Xie’s command. But the current situation had thrown the one tracked mind Ye Gu into a helpless bundle in shock.
“Young Miss, without holding the key to this place, you will also not be able to move that rock at the entrance.” Ye Sha reminded Jun Wu Xie calmly.
Jun Wu Xie swung her gaze onto the two of them and then turned to walk up to the rock. She then felt about in her sleeve and pulled out an exquisitely made white jade key, looking exactly the same as the one they had seen hung around Zi Jin’s neck the last time, with even the string that was tied around the key looking just as alike!
“Young Miss, when did you…..” Ye Sha was equally stunned in shock.
But Jun Wu Xie had no intention of giving them that much time to digest the information and she quickly slipped herself through the crevice that had opened up behind the rock.
Ye Sha and Ye Gu could do nothing but stare as the rock moved back in place to seal the entrance shut, their minds suddenly a complete blank.
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Chapter 1491: “Come Uninvited (1)”
Jun Wu Xie had never really thought that the day would come when she learnt this pickpocket skill by sleight of hand from a certain someone would come in so handy!
The little black cat soundlessly slipped into Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder, and couldn’t help feeling there had been no other choice towards Jun Wu Xie’s highly convenient acquisition of the key from Zi Jin.
Inside the Spirit Jade Palace, melodious music played like before, but the sounds of delighted laughs from yesterday were no longer heard but had been replaced by a soft sobbing, and several voices in hushed whispers.
Jun Wu Xie seeked out the sounds and slowly walked towards them. She then saw Zi Jin seated by the pond as she wiped at her tears. The little ladies bedside her were taking turns to speak, trying their best to comfort the little girl.
The bunch of young ladies were huddled together when they suddenly saw Jun Wu Xie on the opposite side of the pond and they all immediately broke into another bout of hysteria, the bunch of little ladies scattering like a flock of startled birds, like Jun Wu Xie was some kind of terrifying monster.
It ended up with Zi Jin being left standing alone by the pond’s edge, to stare in frozen surprise at Jun Wu Xie.
“It’s you! You! How dare you still come here!” Zi Jin was so furious her eyes immediately turned red and she pulled out the leather whip hanging from her hip in that instant, her red eyes staring straight at Jun Wu Xie, her face filled with rage from humiliation.
“…..” Jun Wu Xie calmly looked at Zi Jin who was acting a little strange.
“You actually dared to use mystifying drugs on me yesterday, leading me to bring you here into the palace! You….. You are just too…..” Zi Jin was becoming angrier the more she thought about it. After she had come in contact with Jun Wu Xie yesterday, her mind had become drowsy and highly hazy, where she was unable to determine fully what had happened yesterday no matter how much she tried to recall it. She could only remember some fragmented images which just threw her mind into even greater confusion.
The Spirit Jade Palace had never allowed any males into the place but she had very rashly brought Jun Wu Xie in here. Although the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had not admonished her at all about it, Zi Jin nevertheless blamed herself. And what really caused Zi Jin to cry was the fact that she had never even held a boy’s hand but among the fragmented images within her mind, there was an instance where Jun Wu Xie had come forward and held h
er hand!
Jun Wu Xie continued to look at Zi Jin, feeling slightly confused.
Zi Jin was both angry and frustrated as she waited for Jun Wu Xie, which just mystified Jun Wu Xie even further.
Although she had made use of Zi Jin to infiltrate into the Spirit Jade Palace at first, but she had already managed to reach an agreement with the Spirit Jade Palace Lord for them to cooperate, so looking at it from a certain perspective, Zi Jin had not only not committed a wrong, but had done something right instead.
[But….. why does the expression on her face look like something isn’t right?]
Jun Wu Xie was completely unaware that the drug she had given to Zi Jin, would leave only those images of things that had happened in her mind, but in terms of voices and sounds…..
Hence, to Zi Jin’s memory at that time only contained….. Jun Wu Xie pulling on her hand, to place onto Jun Wu Xie’s chest.
“Zi Jin!” Just as Jun Wu Xie was feeling completely mystified on what was happening, a lazy sounding voice suddenly rang out.
Zi Jin jumped, slightly startled before turning to kneel before the approaching figure.
“My Lord.”
“Your body’s still not recovered. Go get some rest.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said, looking at Zi Jin.
“Yes, my Lord.” Zi Jin said, biting her lip slightly as she left without another sound.
Till Zi Jin had left, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s gaze then shifted onto Jun Wu Xie. He arched an eyebrow up slightly and stared at the youth who had so brashly intruded in here once again.
“Kid, why have you come here again today?”
Jun Wu Xie looked right at the Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace and replied: “The Battle of Deities Grand Meet has been postponed to half a month later and the mountain’s summit is filled to overflowing with people.
“So?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord suddenly felt an ominous feeling creeping into his heart.
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