Volume 3
Chapter 212: “Coercion (3)”
After the Qing Yun Clan delegates left the main hall, Jiang Chen Qing wanted to quickly split them into two groups to retrieve the Soul Jade.
“How ridiculous is it? What was that little Emperor thinking? He thought he could still keep the Soul Jade!? Elder, do you think the Soul Jade was really buried together with their deceased family members?” The other Qing Yun Clan disciples could not hold back their grumbles and asked Jiang Chen Qing.
Jiang Chen Qing snorted in derision, “He dares? Qi is just a tiny insignificant kingdom, and if he has the audacity to deceive us, I will make him regret that he ever thought our Qing Yun Clan can be slighted like this.”
Qi was founded less than a century ago, their foundations were not strong and neither was their military might. Among the various powers, they were just a tiny kingdom. And the protection of their lands, was largely dependant on the Jun Family’s Rui Lin Army.
“The matter of the Jun Family’s Soul Jade having been buried with Jun Gu was previously mentioned by the former Emperor. It seems they do not know the true capabilities of the Soul Jade and buried it with their deceased.” Qin Yu Yan said softly.
She did not believe that Mo Qian Yuan possessed the guts to lie to them on the whereabouts of the Soul Jade.
“I had heard the Sovereign mention that, the former Emperor were not on good terms with the Jun Family. The former Emperor was worried that Jun Xian’s reputation with his merit in service overshadowed him, and he wanted to annihilate the whole Jun Family. He used the Soul Jade to enlist the help of the Qing Yun Clan to carry out the deed. I believe Mo Xuan Fei had the same intentions with his father, or Yun Xian would not have been won over so completely in the short time she was here. I suppose they had wanted to make use of Yun Xian to foster closer ties with the Qing Yun Clan.” Jiang Chen Qing sneered.
The other disciples were interested to hear more and asked curiously: “Was the Emperor so dumb? If the Kingdom of Qi did not have the Rui Lin Army’s garrisons, it would have been swallowed up by the covetous eyes of the other powers. Eradicating the Jun Family, the protector of their kingdom, when the kingdom had just begun to stabilise and flourish, wasn’t that suicidal?”
For a tiny kingdom to even survive among greater powers, it was impossible without a strong defence force at least.
The Jun Family’s Rui Lin Army was the sharp blade that was pointed at their enemies, they pushed back invasions, and defended their soil.
The former Emperor of Qi had wanted to destroy this blade of theirs, that was pure suicide.
“The minds of the muddled, will not be understood. I have no interest how the Kingdom of Qi will turn out. The former Emperor is dead, the terms in our deal with Qi can be altered. The pills had been delivered and we only need to retrieve the Soul Jade. Whatever happens to Qi in the future, is of no concern to us.” Qin Yu Yan said smilingly.
“What Eldest Miss meant was, the little Emperor does not know that in our deal with the former Emperor, it included the protection of their kingdom by our Qing Yun Clan for twenty years against any external invasions and harassments.” Jiang Chen Qing explained, with a laugh.
Qin Yu Yan smiled, “Get the Soul Jade, and let’s have nothing to do with this place anymore.”
Qin Yu Yan’s words made them smile and they split into two groups and headed towards their assigned destinations.
They Qing Yun Clan group had not noticed a tall handsome man carrying a petite young girl had been above their heads, who overheard every single word exchanged among them.
“Those were the people from the Qing Yun Clan?” Jun Wu Xie surveyed the backs of the figures as they grew smaller in the distance and her eyes grew cold. She had not been present at the main hall, but from their conversation that she overheard, she guessed that Mo Qian Yuan had not managed to squeeze out the tiniest gain from his encounter with those people.
“Those are just ants and are of no concern. When does my little darling want them dead?” The corners of Jun Wu Yao’s mouth curled up slightly. If the blood of those people can win him a smile from Jun Wu Xie, it should be an honour to them.
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Chapter 213: “Breakthrough (1)”
Jun Wu Xie turned her head back. “No hurry, if Mo Qian Yuan was to be schooled, let him go through the whole course.”
Making the fullest use of resources available, she had no more time to spare coaching an Emperor.
Jun Wu Yao raised an eyebrow but did not comment further.
“Let’s go back.” Jun Wu Xie said, having seen the people from Qing Yun Clan’s demeanor, the peace in the Jun Family’s graveyard will be broken very soon.
She had made Mo Qian Yuan find a death row convict’s body to be placed in the Royal Tomb as a substitute for the former Emperor, hence, she wasn’t too worried that the Qing Yun Clan would discover that the former Emperor still lived.
Back at the Lin Palace, Jun Wu Xie acted like nothing had happened and continued busying herself with the lotus in the basin which had now bloomed. The intoxicating smell of the wine weaved with the fragrance of the lotus into an alluring aroma. Jun Wu Xie’s spirit power cultivation was achieved as easily as that. The spirit power within her was growing as it gradually filled her veins,arteries and blood vessels. She had noticed, in the past few days, that her spirit growth had shown some signs of halting and she had not made much in the way of progress.
“Are you breaking the level barrier?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she observed the gathering red spirit glow within her palm. She could control the release of her red spirit’s energy outside her body well now, but she had absolutely no idea how to battle with her spirit energy.
Jun Wu Yao was seated on a chair on the other side, his long legs crossed, his chin resting in his palm, quietly observing Jun Wu Xie’s serious face.
Ever since Jun Wu Xie had addressed him as ‘big brother’, their meetings had a significant change in its patterns. At least when Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao were under the same roof, there were no longer any outbursts of expulsion or retreats.
“Plant spirits require unique cultivation techniques. Although they progress rapidly, their level barriers are much more difficult to breach.” Jun Wu Yao gently reminded his brash little devil.
Jun Wu Xie looked up, and she looked at Jun Wu Yao puzzled. She had felt her spirit level break for sometime now, but there had been no progress. She had even specially asked Jun Qing and Long Qi about it, thinking she had done it wrong somehow.
“Level barrier difficulties?”
For the average person, after they had spent years to train and develop, it was easy for them to breakthrough to the next level. They only need to achieve fulfilment of the spirit energy for the particular level and they would have a chance for a breakthrough. The difficulty for the breakthrough of the level barriers, increase exponentially as the levels go higher. But it was not too difficult to breakthrough the red level to ascend to level orange, unless that person was ill gifted in his innate talents, where their progress were halted.
When they claimed that one was ill gifted in innate talents, they meant that that person’s veins and arteries were unable to contain enough spirit power. A person’s resilience of their veins and arteries not only affected their speed of progress, it affected their accumulation of spirit energy.
The spirit energy within a person constantly develop and accumulate, the more innately talented one was, more spirit energy would developed and cultivated, and their veins and arteries would have more spirit energy to absorb. For those lacking in talents, the spirit energy grow at a slower pace, and their veins and arteries are unable to sustain the flow of spirit energies, resulting in a portion of the spirit energy accumulated from their training and development to leak and evaporate out of their bodies, and cause a lack of adequate accumulation of spirit energy to achieve a breakthrough of the level barrier.
But Jun Wu Xie’s body had undergone her own meticulou
s fortification and nurturing, and her veins and arteries were at peak conditions, and there was no remote possibility that they could not contain and carry the flow of spirit energy.
Jun Wu Yao raised his hand with a laugh and a black misty fog coalesced within his palm. He swung his hand down gently and the ball of fog flew towards Jun Wu Xie, and spread downwards from above her head.
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Chapter 214: “Breakthrough (2)”
The black fog spread around Jun Wu Xie as it gradually thinned and disappeared. With the thin black fog’s dissipation, a red glow started to emanate from Jun Wu Xie’s body. The red glow came from inside her and under her fair skin, her veins, arteries and blood vessels were visible, as they pulsated with a red glow.
“The spirit power within you has reached it’s optimum within its boundaries. But the methods adopted to cultivate a plant spirit are unlike other contractual spirits. To achieve a breakthrough, it requires something else, besides spirit energy.” Jun Wu Yao said through narrowed eyes.
“What does it need?” Jun Wu Xie asked.
“Contractual spirit.”
“………..”
“Plant spirits’ spirit energies are like the growth of all living things, constant and endless. But it lacks the brute force required for a breakthrough of the level barrier. If you want a breakthrough, you will need to absorb other contractual spirits, and use its power to help you achieve it.” Jun Wu Yao explained.
Jun Wu Xie was stunned. “Me? Absorb spirits?”
His suggestion was just preposterous.
“Do you know why there was never a single plant contractual spirit here?”
“Why?” Jun Wu Xie was curious. Since she was reborn, she had not heard of another plant contractual spirit.
At least throughout her inherited memories, this world had only two types of contractual spirits. One was the weapon type contractual spirit, and the other type was the beast type contractual spirit. Little Lotus was the first and only plant spirit that she knew of.
Jun Wu Yao laughed, and explained further: “Before contractual spirits and people establish a link, they choose a suitable contractual spirit based on their physique and their bodily constitution. Under the skies, people who can absorb the spirit energy of contractual spirits are few and far between and plant spirits almost never descend to the world. If an occasional one appears, his master would not know how to achieve a breakthrough to the next level and it becomes a useless spirit. There were also people who did not even realise the awakening of their spirits and lived through a mediocre life dragging their plant spirit along carelessly.”
He had omitted one fact, and that was…..
The skies he had mentioned, only comprised of the skies in the lower three realms that Jun Wu Xie inhabited in, and not the real vast skies that he knew of.
“But you are different, you have a duo spirit constitution. Your little black cat has the ability to devour contractual spirits, and you can too.” Jun Wu Yao stood up, and walked over to stand before Jun Wu Xie. As he uttered the last word of his statement, he pointed his finger at Jun Wu Xie’s forehead.
“If you want to breakthrough, then devour a contractual spirit.”
Jun Wu Xie tilted her head to look past the finger on her forehead and saw the handsome face of Jun Wu Yao as he gave her an enigmatic devilish smile.
He knew! He knew little black cat’s soul was fused with hers!
“The stronger the spirit you devour, the more it will help with your breakthrough to the next level. Do not squander this opportunity for your breakthrough, and it will bring you unexpected results.” Jun Wu Yao lowered his head and the finger pressed upon her forehead and slid slowly down her nose, till it came to her tiny sharp chin. He hooked his finger under her chin and raised her head to look into her eyes before he said: “You don’t have to worry about it, as a big brother, I will prepare everything necessary for your first spirit level breakthrough. You will just have to absorb it and it will be done.”
The contractual spirit that plant spirits absorb the first time they achieve a breakthrough had enormous repercussions on the human masters. Jun Wu Yao did not want Jun Wu Xie to haphazardly pick a useless spirit to devour.
His little devil only deserved the very best!
“How do I absorb it?” Jun Wu Xie had no knowledge in this regard. Little black cat was the one who devoured the Golden Lion and not her. An absurd thing like absorbing a contractual spirit was already unheard of, needless to say of knowing how to carry it out.
“I will teach you.” Jun Wu Yao said as his mouth curled up at the corners. He saw the look of apprehension cross the face of Jun Wu Xie and he grew more amused.
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Chapter 215: “Breakthrough (3)”
Looking at Jun Wu Xie’s expression of confusion, Jun Wu Yao could not bear but to pull her into his arms, his chest against her back and rested his chin on her head. Jun Wu Yao cupped Jun Wu Xie’s hands together and placed a palm sized crystal ball in them.
“I have already prepared the contractual ring spirit for you and placed it in there.” Jun Wu Yao said smiling.
Jun Wu Xie stared at the crystal ball in her hands, it was sparkling clear and you could see through it. Upon closer inspection, she noticed there was something more inside. A trail of light seemed to swirl within and the light seemed to be alive.
“That’s a contractual spirit within?” The ball’s surface will cold and hard and felt just like beautiful crystal, but different. She could not identify what material that was.
“It is called a Spirit Prison, it is used to confine spiritual bodies. Two hours after a contractual ring spirit’s master dies, they return to the spirit world. Capturing the contractual ring spirits has to be carried out within that time. Trap them within the Spirit Prison and they will not be able to escape.” Jun Wu Yao’s mind was not on the Spirit Prison, he had it prepared when he first discovered Little Lotus as he believed that his little darling will need it one day.
“What kind of a contractual ring spirit is in here?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she peered into the Spirit Prison. The swirling stream of light was another form of the spirit body when trapped, and its original form was not visible now.
“Soaring Serpent.” Jun Wu Yao replied through narrowed eyes. It was an ancient spiritual beast that was born at the beginning of time when the heavens and earth were created.
“Although completely absorbing the Soaring Serpent would be difficult with your current powers, but the first contractual ring spirit that you absorb is of paramount importance. Do not worry, I will help you with the breakthrough. Remember, no matter how painful it becomes, you will have to persist and hold on. Once the absorption begins, you cannot give up on it or you will be engulfed by the spirit that you wanted to devour.” Making a red level spirit absorb such a powerful contractual ring spirit like the Soaring Serpent was risky, but Jun Wu Yao did not want any other alternatives.
For people with plant spirits, the first time they went through a spirit level breakthrough, the contractual ring spirit they absorb was fused into the spirit energy of the person. This was the most complete ring spirit that Jun Wu Xie could absorb and Jun Wu Yao did not want Jun Wu Xie to miss out on the opportunity.
The Soaring Serpent might be powerful, but its power would bring Jun Wu Xie’s future development to greater heights.
It was worth the risk.
WIth him around, his little darling will be fine.
“You, trust me?” Jun Wu Yao asked.
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly and she realised she could not see Jun Wu Yao who was behind her and answered affirmatively.
“Yes.”
Jun Wu Yao was ecstatic. Jun Wu Xie who had lowered her walls towards him made him want to hold her tight in his arms all the more.
“Open the Spirit Prison.”
Jun Wu Xie followed Jun Wu Yao’s instructions and placed her hands on the top and bottom of the Spirit Prison and turn them in opposing directions
at the same time. The perfectly seamless crystal sphere turned under her hands, and the struggling Soaring Serpent within found its only avenue of escape and pushed its spirit out through the tiny crack.
“Do it now! Like you do daily with the Snow Lotus’s spirit energy, draw in the Soaring Serpent’s spirit into your body but do not be hasty. Slowly let its spirit meld into your veins and arteries, and refine it bit by bit.” Upon the release of the Soaring Serpent, Jun Wu Yao had immediately set up a powerful spirit barricade around him, to entrap and seal the escaping ring spirit within.
Jun Wu Xie closed her eyes, and began to draw in the soul of Soaring Serpent into her body.
When it began, Jun Wu Xie felt an exceedingly violent spirit, rampaging within her body!
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That was the spirit energy of an unfamiliar spirit, it was completely tyrannical, and filled with marauding destructive power. The moment Jun Wu Xie started to draw in the spirit, her mind had become chaotic and her nerves had felt like they were about to snap in the next moment!
Sweat beads formed on her body and her clothes were soon drenched.
Pain felt in the soul was indescribably tormenting, far worse than any physical pain ever felt.
Jun Wu Xie was never averse to pain, but the torment she was under, made her turn pale.
Physical pain could drive a person to a momentary faint, but the agony from the torture of the soul would never make one lose consciousness. When a person’s soul is under torture, his consciousness would in fact be heightened. At that moment, Jun Wu Xie’s senses were heightened and amplified so much that a gentle tap on her would have felt like a boulder that had smashed on her.
The petite body within his arms grew hot and the colour drained from her face. Jun Wu Yao did not do anything besides carefully cradling Jun Wu Xie within his embrace.
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