“Arghhhh!” A horrified scream erupted from Ke Cang Ju’s throat as he realised that the flesh was falling off from his face in pieces. His whole face was like molten lava, and the pain that assaulted him was unbearable.
“My face…..! My face…..!” The consuming pain drove Ke Cang Ju to his knees, and he crawled away in horror, wanting to hide his terrifying ordeal from people, as flesh and blood continued to fall. Ke Cang Ju made for a disgusting sight in the underground chamber then.
He had been born hideous, but he was nevertheless still a human. Ke Cang Ju could not imagine the horrifying fate he would have to face if his looks were to be further destroyed. It would be more merciful to just kill him now.
As ugly as he thought himself to be, Ke Cang Ju treasured his twisted features and looks. The slightest blemish or knick suffered on his face was an unbearable ordeal.
No one went up to stop Ke Cang Ju. Jun Wu Xie stood unmoving, her cold eyes staring as Ke Cang Ju scrambled and crawled to a basin of water on one side.
He looked just like a stinky bug, skittering across the floor, disgusting and nauseating.
When Ke Cang Ju got to the basin, he exerted all his strength to clamour up and kneeling, peered into the water. What met his eyes then, caused him to freeze in position, as shock ran through his entire being!
The rotting mess of flesh had disappeared completely and underneath the streaks of blood that remained, was smooth and fair skin. His puffy and saggy eyebags were gone, which had previously squeezed his eyes almost completely shut. He saw a pair of startling sparkling eyes, looking back at him in the reflection, in total disbelief at the face staring back at him.
‘This is me?’
‘Me???’
The man in the reflection, might not be described as handsome, but he was at least slightly good looking with even features. Compared to the hideous face he was used to seeing, this blood smeared face was exceptionally attractive to him.
At that moment, Ke Cang Ju forgot all the pain that wrecked his face, as he stared obsessively at his new face!
“This is me….. I….. I am so good looking…..” Ke Cang Ju cackled maniacally, he had lived his whole life deeply immersed in his hatred of other people’s good looks, and his jealousy had been due to his own hideous countenance.
All of that disappeared at that moment, as untold joy seeped into that cold unfeeling heart!
He had become handsome, that euphoric ecstasy drove any feeling of pain away from his mind.
When the last rotting piece of flesh had dropped off from his now flawless face, the eyes of the reflection on the water’s surface shone brilliantly with obsession and glee.
So obsessed was Ke Cang Ju that he did not notice Jun Wu Xie, who had been standing at the same spot all this while, had eyes that suddenly turned icy, glinting with frost.
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Chapter 289: “Beauty’s Facade (1)”
“Like what you see?” Jun Wu Xie asked suddenly, her voice exceptionally chillingly cold and it echoed within the underground chamber, sounding rather unreal.
Ke Cang Ju’s face parted in a smile, his eyes almost fanatic, and he did not hear what Jun Wu Xie said at all. He stared at the reflection, unable to tear his eyes away from the image, and lifted a shivering hand to gently wipe away the streaks of blood on that flawless face.
Beauty like this, cannot be allowed to be marred in any way.
He wiped off the blood gently, little by little, all the time marveling at his own exceptional good looks.
Suddenly, the reflection on the water’s surface showed a split on the handsome face. The paper thin skin cracked, and blood poured out from the split on that face!
“NO! NO! DON’T! DOONN’T!!!” Ke Cang Ju looked at the face in the water that had been flawless just a moment ago, as more splits appeared a little by little, and the look in those eyes turned from marvel to one of unbelievable horror. He held up his hands to his face trying in vain to hold the flesh together.
It was futile, and absolutely impossible. Ke Cang Ju’s skin on his face then was just like the skin stretched over a drum, and the paper thin skin was unable to withstand the pull, and had started to split apart.
Splits appeared all over Ke Cang Ju’s face, as though someone had slashed him with a razor blade, a stomach churning sight.
Ke Cang Ju lost his mind then, clutching at his face, feeling horror that he had never felt before!
His flawlessly handsome face cannot be marred!
“NOOO!!!”
“NOOOOO!!!”
“What did you give me!?” Ke Cang Ju turned to Jun Wu Xie, as he realised the change had started right after he had swallowed the Bone Rotting Pill from Jun Wu Xie!
Jun Wu Xie stood with her hands crossed before her, as she looked expressionlessly at Ke Cang Ju.
“You called that the Bone Rotting Pill yourself didn’t you? Was that not it?”
Ke Cang Ju was speechless, he had indeed thought that what Jun Wu Xie had fed him was the Bone Rotting Pill as it had looked exactly like it and had also smelled just the same.
But now, he believed he had been undeniably naive.
The elixir had already taken effect within his body and it was definitely nothing like the Bone Rotting Pill.
“What was that!? What exactly did you feed me with!? My face!!! Give me back my face!!!” Ke Cang Ju’s hands were still clutching at his face as he stared at Jun Wu Xie, with blood flowing down his hands, with pieces of thin flesh mixed in.
Jun Wu Xie replied in a soft and unhurried voice:
“Beauty’s Facade.”
“What?” Ke Cang Ju was puzzled. He had never heard of anything named thus.
“The pill I gave you is called the Beauty’s Facade. No matter how ugly a person was, as long as they swallowed the pill, they will gain a beautiful face.” Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes, and her smile grew as radiant as the sun at the break of spring. “But, that beauty lasts only for a short time.”
Very short, just slightly longer than a blink.
Ke Cang Ju looked in disbelief at Jun Wu Xie. He had initially thought the pill Jun Wu Xie showed had been the Bone Rotting Pill, but it had turned out to be something he had not even heard of before….. Beauty’s Facade…..
And the Beauty’s Facade had forced him to face a fate more agonising than death!
“Give me back my face….. Give it back…..” The pain on his face was growing more and more intense, and Ke Cang Ju started to twitch as he fell to the floor. He could not shield his face any longer and he crept, struggling at every step towards Jun Wu Xie, his hair a tangled mop, his face a bloody mess, looking nothing like the arrogant and malicious Elder within the Cloudy Peaks just a day ago at the recruitment’s final assessment.
“Whatever you want, I will give it to you. Just give me back my face….. If you would give it back to me…..” Ke Cang Ju had never been so frightened. The face he had yearned for had just finally become his, but had been destroyed after just a fleeting moment, and made him look even more hideous than before now.
Having had a taste of possessing good looks, he could not stomach the heart rending loss and would never be able to accept this even more hideous countenance now!
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Chapter 290: “Beauty’s Facade (2)”
Jun Wu Xie looked down at the grovelling figure at her feet, her half lowered eyes frosty with biting cold. She mercilessly retorted:
“That face was never yours.”
“NO! That is mine! Mine! Please return it back to me! Whatever you want, I will give it to you! I will listen to whatever you say! Please!” Ke Cang Ju pleaded pitifully, his tears mixed into the blood, as the skin on his face split and bled further, and some flesh hung precariously from bits of skin still remaining.
Jun Wu Xie turned just before Ke Cang Ju could almost touch the end of clothes and walked away, heading towards the already teetering Qiao Chu.
“Swallow this.” As Jun Wu Xie held out an elixir within h
er palm.
Qiao Chu popped it into his mouth without hesitation and swallowed it immediately. The next moment, the burning pains suffered from the Lone Smoke started to fade, and except for his face being still a little pale, he did not feel any other discomfort.
“You sure enjoy hanging around, don’t you?” Jun Wu Xie raised an eyebrow, as she glanced at the tall slender Hua Yao still hanging upon the wall.
Hua Yao closed his eyes a moment, and breathed out slowly, while he freed himself from his shackles.
The moment he stood upon the ground, Jun Wu Xie threw an elixir to him.
Hua Yao swallowed it without a word, and immediately felt the pain all over his body start to fade. He then proceeded to pull out the metal stakes lodged in his body while he said to Jun Wu Xie: “Thanks!”
After having shaken off the effects of the poison completely, the two youths went to look at Ke Cang Ju.
Ke Cang Ju was lying in a heap on the floor, his body in spasm from the unbearable pain. His eyes were bloodshot red, and looked extremely miserable. When he saw Hua Yao and Qiao Chu completely recovered from the poison’s effects after taking Jun Wu Xie’s elixirs, his eyes widened in disbelief and he opened his mouth wanting to say something, but at that moment, a wave of agony swept through his body, and the pain made him clench his jaw suddenly, which made him bite through his own tongue!
Blood spurted out from his mouth as his mouth filled and his shock made him gasp, which brought the blood into his lungs!
He clawed at his throat and chest, struggling to breathe and his spasms intensified.
The three youths just watched on calmly, quietly witnessing death come to claim the insidious Ke Cang Ju slowly.
Till the last moment, Ke Cang Ju had regret and despair written in his eyes…..
If Jun Wu Xie had not let him see his own flawless and handsome face before he died, had not granted him his life’s greatest desire for that fleeting moment, he would not have understood the sense of loss and not felt such regret. He had finally firmly grasped his most prized good looks after so many long torturous years, only for it to be mercilessly snatched from his clutching fingers and destroyed bit by bit, slowly, right before his very eyes…..
If he had not known heaven, he would not have known the suffering in hell.
The black beast sat silently through it all, and licked at its paws.
[My mistress’ wicked sense of humour, hasn’t changed at all…..]
[Whatever her enemies treasured most, and prized above everything else, would always be the very thing her mistress crushed to dust, bit by bit, right before them.]
[It was just too wicked!]
Ke Cang Ju died, and died in regret and despair. He had died bringing with him, his most treasured face a gory mess, which could not even be described as merely ugly.
Qiao Chu stared at Ke Cang Ju’s ravaged dead body, and gulped in fright as he stared at Jun Wu Xie.
“Little Xie, this thing you said was called Beauty’s Facade….. You made it?” It was just too horrifying!!
Leading people right to the edge of the abyss and giving them no choice but to jump in was definitely much more cruel than a clean slice to the throat!
“I have more here if you are interested to give it a try.” Jun Wu Xie asked puzzled, but was willing to share it good naturedly, as she offered it to Qiao Chu.
Qiao Chu turned white as a sheet immediately and shook his head till it almost fell off!
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Chapter 291: “Beauty’s Facade (3)”
“I am rather pleased with my face at the moment. Please keep something so precious for people who need it. Please.” Qiao Chu politely declined in a hurry as he pushed Jun Wu Xie’s proffered hand far away from him.
He did not want to touch that “medicine” even with a ten foot pole, especially after witnessing the way Ke Cang Ju had died. It had given him goosebumps like never before and Ke Cang Ju’s face looked absolutely horrifying.
Jun Wu Xie’s Beauty’s Facade had not only Ke Cang Ju, but would haunt Qiao Chu in his nightmares for a long time!
He realised now, men shouldn’t be so obsessed with their looks!
Only then, did Jun Wu Xie finally keep the Beauty’s Facade.
Qiao Chu heaved a heavy sigh in relief, but…..
Did Little Xie just crack a joke and made fun of him? That was a rare sight.
The black beast observed Qiao Chu silently, as Qiao Chu’s thoughts were clearly written all over his face. The black beast really wanted to tell the naive youth that its mistress would never ever crack a joke. If Qiao Chu had dared to nod his head, Jun Wu Xie would have fed him the Beauty’s Facade!
Without a doubt!
“What do we do now?” Qiao Chu cleared his throat in haste, wanting to change the subject in a hurry.
“The Hidden Cloud Peak does not allow any outsiders to come in. Ke Cang Ju seldomly interacts with the disciples of the Hidden Cloud Peak, but he shows his face daily. The disciples here had seen him enter the building and if he did not appear for a long period, they will start to suspect something amiss.” Hua Yao frowned as he thought. He did not feel any loss for Ke Cang Ju’s death, but expected trouble to come from here onwards.
He then remembered Jun Wu Xie’s words and he turned to look at the tiny figure at the side, somehow feeling Jun Wu Xie had more up his sleeve.
“Ke Cang Ju is not dead.” Jun Wu Xie said slowly.
Qiao Chu stared at Jun Wu Xie, speechless as he pointed at the gory corpse on the floor, trying very hard to say something, but he could not find the words.
‘This is not dead?’
‘This is so dead that it cannot be any more dead!!’
However, Hua Yao’s face lit with understanding as he said: “You want me to replace Ke Cang Ju?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
Qiao Chu’s eyes widened, not believing what he just heard.
“You want Brother Hua to become this hideous monster? Brother Hua can change his bones, but he can’t do anything with his skin.”
Ke Cang Ju was already rather advanced in age, and his rotten skin would not be what our smooth and fair skinned Hua Yao be capable of replicating.”
“I know of a way.” Jun Wu Xie replied.
Qiao Chu was silenced. He had thought Jun Xie was only prodigious with his elixirs, and now it seemed that the little kid had a lot more than meets the eye!
With Jun Wu Xie’s affirmation, Hua Yao did not see the need to say anything more as he had guessed Jun Wu Xie had thought this through and Jun Wu Xie had just confirmed it for him.
Having been tortured by Ke Cang Ju for more than half a month, Hua Yao had every little detail of Ke Cang Ju’s looks burned into his brain and changing his bone structure to be exactly the same as Ke Cang Ju was a piece of cake to him.
Soon, Hua Yao’s body underwent a great change. His tall slender frame changed gradually as his bones shifted and shrank, and his facial bones became less prominent and distinct.
Jun Wu Xie observed silently as Hua Yao went through the transformation, her interest highly piqued. She was skilled in changing her outlook, but nothing close to the complete transformation that Hua Yao was capable of. A person would be able to make use of various medication to make minute changes to their bone structure, but the overall body size and shape could not be changed. Hua Yao was not only able to shift his bones, he could even shrink or enlarge their size.
This phenomenon was way beyond even modern medicine.
The whole transformation process did not take long. Hua Yao transformed into a hunchbacked ugly figure, but his smooth and fair skin did not look any bit like Ke Cang Ju’s rough and wrinkled one.
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Chapter 292: “Substitution (1)”
The pretty youth’s transformation into a crooked ugly figure was too much for Qiao Chu to take and his eyes flipped from the stark contrast.
“And then, what comes next?” Not bothered by how ugly he had become, Hua Yao turned t
o look at Jun Wu Xie, waiting for her to complete the transformation.
Jun Wu Xie did not say a word and pulled out a few bottles of medication from the cloth bag slung across her body.
What happened next almost made Qiao Chu’s eyes fall out of his head.
The various weird and unknown medicinal mixtures were applied to Hua Yao’s face. In a blink of an eye, his smooth skin turned rough and wrinkly, the fair shade turned dark and spotted. The skin around the pretty eyes swelled and puffed up before dropping down in sacks turning the eyes into narrow slits. Jun Wu Xie then proceeded to smeared more of medicinal mixture onto Hua Yao’s neck, hands and any other area that would be exposed under a robe and subjected the skin to the transformation.
Moments later, Hua Yao became “Ke Cang Ju”.
“Change into his clothes.” Jun Wu Xie said, pointing to Ke Cang Ju’s corpse lying in a heap on the floor.
Hua Yao showed Qiao Chu an expression of disgust, but he then walked head lowered in resignation, and picked the clothes of a corpse…..
Changed into the dark long robes, Hua Yao stood before Jun Wu Xie and Qiao Chu, the spitting image of the Elder of the Hidden Cloud Peak, Ke Cang Ju himself! Be it the height, body shape and facial features, he looked every inch just like him. Qiao Chu stared for a long while before he could utter a word.
“Looking at you really gives me the urge to jump over and give you a good thrashing.”
Ke Cang Ju was left looking even more miserable in his underclothes, lying upon the ground, his face frozen in an expression of deep regret and despair.
Jun Wu Xie retrieved a bottle of body dissolving chemical from a shelf at the side and poured it onto Ke Cang Ju’s body.
Ke Cang Ju’s body rapidly decomposed and dissolved and was finally reduced into a bloody pool, disappearing into nothing.
“Come on, it’s time you go look at your Hidden Cloud Peak, Elder Ke.” Jun Wu Xie cast a glance at Hua Yao, her radiant smile faded, and turned into the cold expressionless petite youth once again.
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