“As an ally, during this period, I want to remain here to cultivate my powers.” Jun Wu Xie said. She had thought through that point. Mount Fu Yao was brimming with spirit energy and was most suitable for cultivation. But her cultivation must not be known by too many people and she had just simply decided….. that the Spirit Jade Palace was within Mount Fu Yao and it would be such a waste to not make use of the place.
The face of the Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace immediately turned a pale shade, his highly alluring almond eyes widened, his lips puckering up with his mouth hanging open in abject horror.
Volume 15
Chapter 1492: “Come Uninvited (2)”
“You can’t.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said with a stiff expression upon his handsome face.
“You cannot remain here.” His tone especially hard.
Jun Wu Xie arched up an eyebrow as she stared at the stiffened corners of the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s mouth. “Why?”
“The Spirit Jade Palace does not allow any males inside.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s voice grew stern.
Jun Wu Xie’s clear eyes then swept their cold gaze all the way from the head to the toes of the Spirit Jade Palace Lord, measuring him up slowly, her meaning couldn’t be any clearer.
The expression on Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s face did not change and he drew in a deep breath before he said: “Except for me.”
“I reject.” Jun Wu Xie said.
“…..” The Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace stared his eyes out at the impossibly stubborn little brat. [Isn’t the kid thinking a little too much of himself here? When did he ever say that the brat can reject it?]
“If you’re worried about your disciples within the palace, you can rest well assured. You will only need to give me a room and I’ll will not move about as I wish.” Jun Wu Xie opened her mouth to say. She had noticed the differentiation between males and females here and that was why she had not brought Dumb Qiao over.
The Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s mouth was stiffened very tightly, his foot itching to kick this arrogant and unyielding little brat right out of the place.
[You don’t realize this has absolutely nothing to do with his disciples at all! !]
“You still cannot!”
Jun Wu Xie swung her gaze to glance at the Spirit Jade Palace Lord. “People throughout the world are all saying that the Spirit Jade Palace has beauties as numerous as clouds and that their very own Palace Lord is even the most ravishing beauty throughout the entire Middle Realm. But no one knows that the Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace is actually a man instead. Could it be….. there’s a secret that cannot be made known to outsiders?”
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes were chillingly cold, almost as if they could see through people’s hearts.
Jun Wu Xie stared so hard at the Spirit Jade Palace Lord so hard that it made him feel that he had really done something too shameful to be known and his face turned a highly ugly shade.
“You little brat…..” His eyes narrowed to a slit. If it wasn’t for the fact that he saw that the kid had some capabilities he would have killed him with a palm and fed him to the fishes. “Stay if you want, but I am warning you now! You’re not allowed to get close to any single disciple of the Spirit Jade Palace. And! Anything that belongs to me, you’re not allowed to touch it in the slightest.”
Upon saying that, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord snapped his fingers and a white haired old woman came walking slowly in. Although her face was completely filled with wrinkles, there wasn’t the least bit of dottiness or senility from old age in her gaze.
“I’ll hand this kid over to you. Just get him any old place that doesn’t have anyone around and put him there. Have someone send him three meals a day and don’t let the other disciples get close to the place.” The shade on the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s face was a highly ugly one and although he had forced himself to accept Jun Wu Xie’s request, he had done it highly grudgingly.
[This little brat actually had the audacity to hint to him earlier that he might be immorally involved with his disciples in the Spirit Jade Palace!
If he had had any immoral intentions, he would have done it from way back before! Would be even need to have this kid come question him?
The Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace left with his face dark as thunder, while that old woman’s face was highly amiable, the eyes looking at Jun Wu Xie filled with smiles.
“This little Young Master, how should I address you?”
Jun Wu Xie replied politely: “Your junior is surnamed Jun.”
“Young Master Jun, my name is Yue. Just call me Granny Yue and it’ll do. With the age I’m already at, addressing me as Granny wouldn’t be taking advantage of you.” Granny Yue said as she laughed while looking at Jun Wu Xie. “Will Young Master Jun come this way with me please.” After saying that, Granny Yue then turned herself around and walked towards the inside of the palace.
When Granny Yue had appeared earlier, Jun Wu Xie had not detected anyone close by but with just a quick snap of the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s fingers, Granny Yue had immediately appeared. It was obvious that Granny Yue had not been physically too far away from them.
With Jun Wu Xie’s powers at the Purple Spirit’s fourth level and she had not been able to feel Granny Yue’s presence the slightest bit, that had made Jun Wu Xie think it rather astonishing.
Seems like the Spirit Jade Palace was a place that some dragons hid and tigers crouched.
Volume 15
Chapter 1493: “Come Uninvited (3)”
The Spirit Jade Palace was extremely huge. The last time Jun Wu Xie came, she had merely walked in the Outer Palace, passing through the long walkways filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, clear sparkling waters with more lotus blooms upon its surface than one could count. But although the underground cave was immense, one still could not see the skies in here. Jun Wu Xie noticed that the roof of the Spirit Jade Palace, the top of the cave, was filled with rows upon rows of purple coloured crystals. Those crystals seemed to have light hidden in them, lighting up everything within the cave.
Like a palace that had been constructed from crystal.
Jun Wu Xie followed behind Granny Yue as they walked, occasionally passing by some of the Spirit Jade Palace’s disciples. Those little ladies had been clustered together in laughter and when they saw Jun Wu Xie behind Granny Yue, they all immediately dispersed in fright.
That scene, made Jun Wu Xie subconsciously feel her own face.
[Could it be that the looks she had altered on her face been too ugly this time? And that frightened off that bunch of young girls?]
“Young Master Jun must not mind them. Those kids had not stepped out from the Spirit Jade Palace much and had not had much contact with outsiders, hence they will be feeling a little lost when faced with a male.” Granny Yue said amicably.
“They had never stepped out from the Spirit Jade Palace?” Jun Wu Xie was suddenly feeling rather curious how the Spirit Jade Palace had preserved itself to remain till this day.
Granny Yue said: “Some have gone out, some have come here and never left since. Since Young Master Jun came from outside, you should know that the Middle Realm currently has no place for the Spirit Jade Palace to stand firm upon. These children are not highly gifted and their powers are mediocre, living under the protection of the Palace Lord all this time. If they were to go out there brashly, they might be exposed to unknown provocation.”
The Spirit Jade Palace’s position was currently rather awkward. Although the Nine Temples still acknowledged their existence, the Twelve Palaces were highly against them, to the point that they were always seeking to exterminate them completely.
The Spirit Jade Palace when recruiting their disciples, did not look at talents nor aptitude, but only one lone criteria. They must be female.
“These children are pure and innocent. Young Master Jun can rest assured that I will remind them to not come cause you and disturbance, and I will have people sending you your three
meals daily.” Granny Yue said as she brought Jun Wu Xie to come to a quiet little courtyard. There was a tiny little pavilion within the courtyard and there was just one house here, highly peaceful and tranquil.
“You’ll find everything you need here. Young Master Jun should take a rest and if there’s anything you need from us, just shake this bell. When the bell is heard, someone will then come here.”
Jun Wu Xie nodded and said: “Thank you for the trouble.”
Granny Yue smiled, and did not tarry for much longer before she stepped out from the room, even pulling the door closed behind her as she left.
Jun Wu Xie looked around at the entire room bursting with pink, filled with the flavours of a room that belongs to a young girl. Finding nothing wrong or out of place with the room, Jun Wu Xie then leisurely sat herself down inside it.
“The Spirit Jade Palace underwent a huge change a thousand years ago, and their position became unstable. How many of the Spirit Jade Palace’s disciples had remained behind at that time? Within this palace, how many of the disciples were recruited after that?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed. The more she came to know about the Spirit Jade Palace, the stranger she thought this Spirit Jade Palace was.
[Granny Yue’s powers were stronger than hers, while her own powers were higher than that of an Elder in the Palace of Flame Demons.]
Jun Wu Xie did not know how many more of such powerful entities the Spirit Jade Palace hid, but no matter which way she looked at it, she did not think that the Spirit Jade Palace had really chosen to go into reclusion because they were weak.
After thinking it through for a while, Jun Wu Xie did not want to spend any more time thinking about it. She gathered herself together and then stood up to walk to the side of the table, to bring out the basin that she kept the lotus in from within the Cosmos Sack, to begin with her cultivation.
Volume 15
Chapter 1494: “Fragrance of Women (1)”
Within the Spirit Jade Palace, the Lord of the Spirit Jade Palace sat upon his chair and his handsome almond shaped eyes were at that moment staring fixedly upon the parchment used for drawing in melancholy.
“My Lord.” The figure of Granny Yue appeared before the door outside.
“Young Master Jun’s accommodations have been arranged for. My Lord does not have to worry about that anymore.”
“Mm.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord nodded his head slightly.
“Your subordinate can see that Young Master Jun possesses a cold personality with a pair of clear eyes without subterfuge. He doesn’t look like a person with sinister intentions and would most probably not disturb the other disciples within the palace.” Granny Yue told the Palace Lord.
“I know that.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said rather despondently as he massaged his temples. “If he was really someone with undesirable intentions, I would not allowed him to even set foot within the palace. I am not worried that he would do anything to the disciples in the palace, but the reason I do not want him remaining in the palace is something Little Yue surely knows.”
Granny Yue’s gaze were staring at the ground. That address of her as “Little Yue” might sound highly strange that it would be used on such a highly wizened old lady like her, but it was a form of address she had heard used upon her from this man throughout the majority of her life.
“My Lord’s worries is clearly understood. Your subordinate will have people watching closely to make sure Young Master Jun does not touch any of my Lord’s belongings.”
“Mm, you go get yourself some rest as well.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said with a lazy wave of his hand.
Granny Yue immediately retreated from the room.
The Spirit Jade Palace Lord sat alone within his room, to stare at the blank parchment before him as he let out a long sigh.
Jun Wu Xie had settled herself inside the Spirit Jade Palace by now and as per her “agreement” (though under threat) with the Spirit Jade Palace Lord, three meals were delivered to her daily and most of the time there would just be a quick knock on her room’s door where Jun Wu Xie would only see a fleeting figure speeding away who would have left behind a lunchbox placed right in front of the door.
Without much else to do, Jun Wu Xie would remain inside her room to cultivate her spirit powers. Although Masters and Mistresses of plant type ring spirits were not able to receive the speedy progress in their cultivation in a place with such high concentration of spirit energy like most people, Jun Wu Xie had discovered from long ago that though she was unable to absorb the spirit energy directly, she was able to increase the speed of the conversion through cultivating the Imperial Snow Lotus, which also greatly sped up the growth of the Imperial Snow Lotuses as well.
Although cultivating the Imperial Snow Lotus using Water of Heaven’s Spring did not give her as great an effect as cultivating from Little Lotus’ body itself, but by the manner of ingestion, it could still give her effects that the most top notch elixirs wouldn’t even be able to achieve, which was best for building and nurturing the body’s constitution. Jun Wu Xie had planted several blooms of Imperial Snow Lotuses over this period as the objectives for this trip to the Middle Realm this time, besides giving the Twelve Palaces a hard time, Jun Wu Xie had also intended to go to the Spirit World to seek her father, Jun Gu’s spirit. Before that was achieved, she had to ensure that Jun Gu’s body remains whole and unaffected and hence she had cultivated those several blooms of Imperial Snow Lotus into elixirs and mixed them with water to pour down Jun Gu’s throat that would greatly increase the effect.
“A pity that my seeds cannot be cultivated by Mistress herself. Or I would have really liked to see Mistress paying my seeds the same kind of looks of intense concentration you are giving those lotuses now.” It was not known from when Poppy had slipped out and was languidly plopped upon the bed, his protruding neck bone drawing a highly alluring neckline.
The little black cat threw a glance towards Poppy, inborn with seductivity, and went on to lick its paw.
[This scoundrel must be being so gutsy because he knows that that Great Demon Lord is not by Jun Wu Xie’s side and both Ye Sha and Ye Gu were shut out from the Spirit Jade Palace, rendering them both unable to go carry tales, so he had quickly reverted back to his old ways now!]
“If you continue to jabber such nonsense here, would you believe that I can make you find yourself unable to get out of bed for the next three days?” Drunk Lotus leapt onto a chair at the side with a whoosh, a wine gourd held loosely in his hand, his slightly flushed face pink as he stared at Poppy.
The little black cat immediately palmed its own little face.
[Those words! Absolutely too filthy!]
Volume 15
Chapter 1495: “Fragrance of Women (2)”
Within the Spirit Jade Palace, besides the Palace Lord himself, all the rest of the disciples were female. There were bumbling young girls who knew nothing about the world outside, there were also gentle and graceful ladies with beautiful warm smiles. There was also no lack of highly alluring women who tugged at heartstrings of men and white haired wizened grannies with amiable gazes in their eyes.
Throughout the entire Spirit Jade Palace, and deep inside Mount Fu Yao itself, few people ever went inside the palace, with the lone male within always just the Palace Lord himself all this time.
However, in the hearts of all his disciples, the way they saw their Palace Lord had long transcended all boundaries and distinction between genders. He had become the firmest form of faith their hearts relied on, their only belief in worship.
But now things have taken a strange turn. The Spirit Jade Palace suddenly had a delicately good looking youth living in there. That had terrified many of the young little girls who had never taken a single step out from the Spirit Jade Palace’s doors.
It wasn’t that bad for disciples who occasionally went out to move about like Zi Jin as they had seen quite a number of other males out there and they couldn’t care less about the situation. But
to those young females who had since the moment they came to the Spirit Jade Palace had never once interacted with the opposite sex with the exception of the Palace Lord, it greatly mattered to them, and was a very big deal.
From the first day that Jun Wu Xie had come into the Spirit Jade Palace, the voices raised in debate continued to rise and had not stopped a single moment.
The first time when Jun Wu Xie had tricked Zi Jin into bringing her into the Spirit Jade Palace, many disciples had been gathered within the palace’s main hall and had seen this strange little youth, but they had never expected that that very youth would so suddenly become a neighbourly resident of theirs!
Some were afraid, some were rather nervous, and there were even some feeling rather curious about it. All those bumbling and highly innocent little lasses all carried apprehension in their hearts as they squatted around on the outside of Jun Wu Xie’s courtyard, hoping to catch a glimpse of this highly novel young boy youth.
If Jun Wu Xie had known that her moment of laziness that had prevented her from explaining that she was actually a girl would lead to her becoming an exotic specimen that everyone in the Spirit Jade Palace would surround to watch and admire, she would have declared in the very first instant she stepped into the Spirit Jade Palace that she was a girl, a pure female through and through!
“Senior Zi Jin. Is Young Master Jun really your benefactor who saved your life?” A little girl who had two buns tied on her head asked as she lay plopped close to the ground outside Jun Wu Xie’s courtyard asked, her head tilted towards Zi Jin who was standing right behind her.
Zi Jin’s face creased up into a frown and said: “Who told you he is my benefactor? !”
The little girl blinked her eyes blankly. “Wasn’t it Young Master Jun who saved you from the clutches of those bad guys from the Twelve Palaces?”
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