Xiong Ba was bathed in cold sweat. He had lifted his head up before hesitantly trying to say something but stopped himself when he saw the determined backs of the youths, the words right about to come out but stuck within his throat, unable to speak them no matter how hard he tried.
Fan Zhuo was the last one to walk into the Heavenly Cloud Chambers and his foot had just stepped over the Heavenly Cloud Chambers’ door threshold when his body paused a slight moment. He turned his head around and stared at Xiong Ba who was looking highly guilt ridden and tormented with worry before he said:
“Little Xie will save your Young Miss.”
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Author Bei: If supposedly….. such a thing had happened to erm….. that someone, what would you, Lord Jue do?
Lord Jue: Make those people regret they were ever born and give….. more love, so much love that she would not have any leisurely time to think of anything else. [You dare to even make such a hypothesis, are you seeking death?]
Author Bei: That was just a hypothesis! Note that I said supposedly!
Wu Xie: What was omitted from your sentences?
Author Bei / Lord Jue: Nothing!
Volume 12
Chapter 1120: “Crumble and Fall (1)”
Xiong Ba was stunned for a moment. He did not say anything but just bent his back and bowed deeply to Fan Zhuo.
When Qiao Chu and the others arrived at the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, Jun Wu Xie was tending to Qu Ling Yue’s wounds and when the youths saw the thin and pallid girl lying upon the bed, all of them tacitly did not open their mouths at all so that they would not disturb Jun Wu Xie’s treatment of Qu Ling Yue’s wounds.
They had all thought what Qu Ling Yue was put through really pained the heart but when they really saw how Qu Ling Yue looked now, they realised that what the girl suffered must have been worse than anyone of them could have imagined.
“I think….. I might not hate Qu Wen Hao that much anymore.” Qiao Chu said, rubbing at his nose.
Betrayals were intolerable, but when Qu Wen Hao was forced to witness his own daughter being humiliated in such a manner, he must have completely lost his mind then, and he had only made the only choice a father could have made at that time.
“I hope that she will recover fully.” Rong Ruo said with a frown, her eyes filled with sympathy.
For a full day and night, Jun Wu Xie sat at Qu Ling Yue’s bedside, her treatment of Qu Ling Yue’s wounds never stopping for a moment. It wasn’t till evening the next day, when dusk shone through the window, that the unconscious Qu Ling Yue’s eyes finally fluttered open.
What met her eyes was no longer the dim and dark cell, but an elegantly decorated room. Within the room, a faint fragrance of herbs hung in the air and the pain upon her body had seemingly faded away.
[Is this a dream?]
Qu Ling Yue blinked, staring at the smooth silk draped over the top of the bed.
“You’re awake.” A voice tinged with a slight raspiness sounded in Qu Ling Yue’s ear from the side.
Qu Ling Yue’s heart jumped, struggling a little as she turned her head. Jun Wu Xie’s cold countenance appeared within her eyes.
“Jun Xie…..” Qu Ling Yue immediately felt her face turn hot.
[Why had Jun Xie appeared beside her bed?]
In a panic, Qu Ling Yue wanted to bury her head under the blanket but when she lifted her hand and tried to pull the covers, a sharp pain suddenly shot through her from her wrist.
She saw very clearly that her two wrists, were wrapped up with rounds and rounds of bandages, the glaring white a huge contrast against the welts and bruises on the rest of her arms, which was like a sudden bolt of thunder, that woke her up rudely from her beautiful sweet dream!
Those long nights of unimaginable horrors and torment, the memories of those unthinkable scenes, surged like the tide into her mind. Her eyes flared wide open, the terrifying memories that drove her into despair, immediately threw her into a cold and freezing lake!
“Argh! ! !”
[That wasn’t a dream!]
[That had all been real!]
Qu Ling Yue’s emotions fluctuated between the extremes once more and she struggled in a fluster to try sit up, wrapping herself up tightly within the blanket, not willing to give Jun Xie another glance!
“Leave! Just leave!” Like an injured little beast, Qu Ling Yue did not want to see anybody, especially Jun Xie.
She had become like this. So dirty….. So very filthy…..
She did not want Jun Xie to see her in such a miserable state. She would rather that she had died in that cell, then to let her person she treasured so in her heart to see her in her current state.
Jun Wu Xie looked puzzledly at Qu Ling Yue. Initially, Qu Ling Yue’s emotions had already recovered to normal but in an instant, she had broken down and crumbled once again, the helpless screams coming out from her, were so pitiful to hear.
Jun Wu Xie’s brows creased together as Qu Ling Yue incessant violent struggles had once again split the wounds she had just bandaged up and the blood had seeped through the bandages, showing up as bright red stains.
“Do not look at me….. I beg you….. Do not….. Do not look at me…..” Qu Ling Yue begged tearfully as she buried herself within the blanket, her entire body shaking in fear.
Volume 12
Chapter 1121: “Crumble and Fall (2)”
Qu Ling Yue had never once thought that she would fall into such a state one day. She had carefully protected her chastity and always thought that she would give to her beloved everything that was most precious to her, but that had been cruelly stripped from her, together with her dignity, her spirit, all ground into tiny broken pieces, never to be put back together again.
“I beg you….. Do not look at me….. Can you please leave….. I’m really filthy….. dirty….. I beg you….. go…..” The Qu Ling Yue of the past had yearned so hard to be able to interact with Jun Xie, but now, she felt she wasn’t even qualified to be in the same room as him. She didn’t want Jun Xie to see the such an ugly and hideous her and Jun Xie’s gaze only made her feel unimaginably ashamed of herself.
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes and looked at Qu Ling Yue’s trembling figure.
Suddenly, she knelt down on one knee by the bed, and pulled Qu Ling Yue out from under the blanket with a quick tug!
“No! !” Utter despair filled Qu Ling Yue’s eyes, but as weak as she was, she was unable to resist it. She was dragged out from under the blanket, her face all streaked with tears, her trembling lips revealing how terrified she was feeling.
“Don’t look at me….. Please….. Don’t look at me…..”
Jun Wu Xie ignored Qu Ling Yue’s begging plea and held Qu Ling Yue by the shoulder with one hand, the other lifting Qu Ling Yue’s head by the chin, forcing Qu Ling Yue to look at her in the eyes.
“What are you so afraid of.” Jun Wu Xie said.
Qu Ling Yue’s sight was already blurred by her tears and she wanted to break free, but she did not have the strength, but to only shake her head helplessly.
“I’m just so filthy….. so filthy….. I beg of you….. Do not come again. Will you please just go? I do not want you to see me looking like this…..” Why was she even alive? Why was she not dead instead? Qu Ling Yue already had no will to live and she would rather she had died in that cell than have to face Jun Xie again.
Qu Ling Yue’s eyes were red from crying and she was choking so hard on her sobs that she could only take intermittent breaths in between them.
Jun Xie held on to Qu Ling Yue’s hands and brought them up before her eyes.
The fair tiny hands were filled with many small cuts and wounds. The wounds have been carefully tended to and they have begun to scab.
“Who said you are filthy? I had you all washed and you are all clean now.” Jun Wu Xie said, her eyes fixed on Qu Ling Yue.
Qu Ling Yue turned away, refusing to even look at herself.
“Let me go….. Don’t even bother abo
ut me…..” She continued to plead helplessly.
The current her, even felt that her very soul had become absolutely filthy and she wished so much that she was already dead, or completely demented, so she wouldn’t have to face all of this now.
There was nothing, more than having Jun Xie see her in this state, that would drive her to become so traumatised.
“Your mother is dead.” Jun Wu Xie then said.
The struggling Qu Ling Yue suddenly froze completely, her eyes widening as she stared in disbelief at Jun Xie.
“Your mother had been severely ill from the early onset and Qu Xin Rui did not get anyone to give her any treatment and even ordered for her dead body to be disposed in the wild, leaving it there for wild beasts to feed.” Jun Wu Xie’s voice was so cold it would make people shiver.
Qu Ling Yue was overcome with shock. She sat staring blankly on the bed, tears rolling down her face uncontrollably.
“Your Father has gone mad. If you die, then I will leave him to continue with his madness. If you want me to cure your father, you will have to live on.” Jun Wu Xie said, looking at Qu Ling Yue very seriously, her tone of voice hard and unyielding.
Qu Ling Yue then looked up in shock at Jun Xie.
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Chapter 1122: “Crumble and Fall (3)”
Jun Wu Xie released her restraint on Qu Ling Yue and retreated to one side from the bed. There wasn’t a single expression on her face and the icy chill in her eyes were terrifying to look at.
“To live or die, you choose on your own.”
Qu Ling Yue was stunned. The news of her mother’s death and her father’s madness was just too shocking to her and she found that it was impossible for her to digest all of it within such a short period of time. She fell helplessly back to sit upon the bed and hit hard on the corner of the blanket, crying her heart out soundlessly as the grief and despair wrecked at her mercilessly.
Jun Wu Xie turned to walk out of the room and the instant she shut the room door, the sound of stifled crying could be heard behind the closed door.
Standing outside the door, Qiao Chu gulped noiselessly when he heard the crying. Everything that Jun Wu Xie had said to Qu Ling Yue earlier, he had heard every single word clearly.
The fact that Qu Ling Yue would have suicidal thoughts was something they had well expected. But even if you beat him to death, we would never have guessed that Jun Wu Xie would use such methods to stop Qu Ling Yue from killing herself.
Little Xie’s method was just too simply brutal by itself!
“Telling all of that to her like that, is that really alright?” Qiao Chu asked, seemingly rather conflicted inside as he looked at Jun Wu Xie. The one inside had just experienced an unimaginable nightmare and without even saying a single gentle comforting word, Jun Wu Xie had instead threatened her!
“If not, then?” Jun Wu Xie asked, looking at Qiao Chu with a frown on her face.
She had absolutely no idea how she was to comfort someone. Moreover, she did not think that those nice sounding words would have any effect. At this point, Qu Ling Yue completely detested and abhorred herself and no matter what reassuring words she said, Qu Ling Yue would definitely not hear a single word of it. So, she might as well employ a more direct method, to simply prevent her from taking her own life.
“Err…..” Qiao Chu was stumped by Jun Wu Xie’s retort and he did not know what to say. He had not tried comforting others as well and what’s more it was regarding a matter like this.
“You came to look for me for something?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she stared Qiao Chu who was still unable to speak.
Qiao Chu immediately remembered the reason he had come to look for Jun Wu Xie. “Er…. Big Brother Wu Yao discovered something within the Heavenly Cloud Chambers and he told me to come ask you to go there. It’s on the sixth level.”
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head and turned to walk away, leaving Qiao Chu to stand by the door alone, to listen to the sounds of crying coming out from inside the room, as he massaged his nose several times in helplessness.
The Heavenly Cloud Chamber, had now become temporary quarters for Jun Wu Xie to reside in. But after she had rescued Qu Ling Yue, she had not taken a single step out from that room and she wasn’t too familiar with her way around the place. All the favoured men who had been in the Heavenly Cloud Chambers had been chased out by Ye Sha and Ye Mei much earlier. Upon laying eyes on Jun Wu Yao’s malicious being, not one among all the timid favoured men dared say one word when given the marching orders and they had wasted no time in packing their things to quickly scramble out from the Heavenly Cloud Chambers in haste.
The sixth level was mainly empty where a wooden door blocked off a major part of the area. When Jun Wu Xie had come to the Heavenly Cloud Chambers for the first time to attend Qu Xin Rui’s birthday banquet, she had already noticed that door on the sixth floor. Through that wooden door, an indistinct faint scent of blood had been coming out from behind it and that stench was still present now.
Ye Sha and Ye Mei were standing at the door and when they saw Jun Wu Xie approaching they immediately fell on one knee to offer their greetings.
Jun Wu Xie raised a hand to ask them to get up and walked through the doorway on her own.
However, at the moment that Jun Wu Xie stepped over the threshold, a think bloody stench immediately hit her and what her eyes saw inside made her brows creased up together instantly.
Behind the door, the stone slabs beneath her feet were covered with a thick layer of congealed blood. The blood had filled every corner of the entire floor and as they had already congealed for a rather long period, the blood had already turned slightly black.
Volume 12
Chapter 1123: “Spirit Absorbing Pearl”
In the dimly lit room, Jun Wu Yao stood leisurely in the middle of the room. In his hand, he was holding a crystalline clear blood red gem. Hearing Jun Wu Xie’s footsteps, he turned slowly around and the gem in his hand scintillated with a devilish gleam under the firelight.
“Still remember that Ye Sha once told you that when he came here to the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, he discovered something interesting?” Jun Wu Yao asked as he looked at Jun Wu Xie, his head tilted, the corners of his mouth arced up with a devilish charm.
“It’s this thing?” Jun Wu Xie asked, her gaze upon the blood red gem. The gem was obviously translucent but Jun Wu Xie could not help having the feeling that that thing was a ball formed from coalesced fresh blood.
“Among the Twelve Palaces, there is one named the Soul Return Palace, and they are most adept at using spirits to experiment different things. In the Soul Return Palace, there are many magical spiritual artifacts and among them, there is one called the Spirit Absorbing Pearl, that uses a living person’s blood as a medium, to be used as an offering to sacrifice the person’s spirit to the Spirit Absorbing Pearl, which infuses power into the Spirit Absorbing Pearl. With certain limitations, the Spirit Absorbing Pearl will be able to preserve a person’s youthful looks, but its true purpose isn’t just for this.” Jun Wu Yao said as he toyed nonchalantly with the blood filled Spirit Absorbing Pearl.
“This was what Qu Xin Rui used to preserve her youthful looks of a twenty something?” Jun Wu Xie immediately understood. No wonder she had always felt that there was something not quite right with how Qu Xin Rui looked.
“She should have used this. But the true purpose of the Spirit Absorbing Pearl is meant for a person’s spirit and not their looks. To think that there would be someone in the Soul Return Palace that would be so dumb as to waste the use of the Spirit Absorbing Pearl, that’s really quite….. interesting. Does Little Xie know, how the sacrifice that this Spirit Absorbing Pearl requires, is carried out?” Jun Wu Yao’s eyes narrowed slightly, his devilish gaze sweeping over the blood covered stone slab floor under their feet.
Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
Jun Wu Yao then said with a smile: “It needs the blood of a living human to nourish it, and it has to be the blood of a youn
g male. When making the offering, they need to cut the sacrifice open from the chest to the abdomen, spread open the ribs to expose the chest and place this Spirit Absorbing Pearl into the sacrifice’s opened chest, to allow the blood to give it its nourishment, as it slowly absorbs the sacrifice’s spirit and life. And throughout the entire process, the sacrifice is still alive, till the Spirit Absorbing Pearl has absorbed all his spirit and life’s blood, before he breathes his last.”
Jun Wu Xie’s heart jumped. Qu Xin Rui had been so highly concerned with her looks and to preserve her youth all these years, she must have made quite a number of men as sacrifices. Within this blood tainted place, how many people have struggled before death claimed them, and how many young men from the Thousand Beast City had their lives taken away from them here?
“In actual fact, this Spirit Absorbing Pearl, is most suitable to be used on unstable spirits or people with spirits which are lacking. To have been used to preserve one’s looks, was just such a waste.” Jun Wu Yao said with a wide smile, he gaze upon Jun Wu Xie. Seeing the spot between Jun Wu Xie’s brows tense up, he asked: “Does Little Xie detest this highly demonic artifact?”
Jun Wu Xie did not say anything but Jun Wu Yao’s eyes glinted. He suddenly clutched five fingers together and instantly crushed the Spirit Absorbing Pearl!
The clear sound of an explosion rang out within the room and the broken Spirit Absorbing Pearl turned into a glittery dust that fell from Jun Wu Yao’s fingers.
“If Little Xie doesn’t like it, then there is no need for this thing to exist.”
Jun Wu Xie was a little surprised. She had always felt that Jun Wu Yao’s words were a little strange, but she could never put her finger on it.
Jun Wu Yao walked over to stand before Jun Wu Xie and lifted a hand to rub Little Xie on her head.
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