The Sacrificial Blood Rabbit nudged the hem of his pants, but it similarly did not get any response.
Without knowing why, the two innocent little beasts became rather depressed. They did not fuss anymore, but just laid themselves down by the little Emperor’s feet.
After Jun Wu Xie finished with her treatment for Grand Tutor He, she went on to check on the little Emperor’s condition.
Upon that pale little face, she could no longer see the expressions she had come to be familiar with, the face after having been drenched by the rain, still held the two streaks left from the tears of blood he had shed, so faint it almost could no longer be seen.
Jun Wu Xie held up the little Emperor’s arm, and carefully took his pulse.
The little Emperor’s pulse was very much like the young man’s from before, but with a difference!
That young man’s body had already been completely hollowed out, almost completely spent.
But within the little Emperor’s body, it seemed there were two opposing forces that were constantly clashing against each other!
“Young Miss!” Ye Sha suddenly appeared within the room.
Jun Wu Xie asked through narrowed eyes: “What is it?”
“Your subordinate might have a rather good idea on what is wrong with the body of the Buckwheat Kingdom’s little Emperor.” Ye Sha said while kneeling with one knee on the floor.
Jun Wu Xie was surprised and immediately turned her gaze upon him.
“You know?”
Ye Sha nodded.
“In fact, such instances had appeared in the Middle Realm before. Your subordinate had heard Young Master Fan mention it before, but what Young Master Fan knows of is not the complete picture.”
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Chapter 1236: “Scarlet Blood (1)”
This method where one’s spirit was sacrificed, to enhance one’s powers, had existed within the Middle Realm from a long time ago. And this method if it was to be further segregated, would be split into two types. The first type would be as what Fan Zhuo had mentioned, which was the most direct method, that would turn a person into a mindless puppet, greatly increasing one’s strength.
While the other type, was even more terrifying.
That method would raise a person’s powers to a completely new height, gaining them powers that could crush a Purple Spirit.
“To gain powers that was able to crush a Purple Spirit, that was not be what an average person was able to shoulder, as that called for more than just breaking through one’s limits. It was actually using a person’s own life force, where it would be drained highly excessively, to allow them to become an undefeatable entity of pure power. But there was a great limitation to having one’s life force depleted so excessively. Once that method was employed, then that person would not live past three days after that.” Ye Sha told Jun Wu Xie everything he knew about that. If not for the little Emperor’s red hair and scarlet eyes, he wouldn’t have been able to determine what had happened to the little Emperor.
And from what he saw, Ye Sha knew that only the second method would turn the little Emperor into such a state.
“Three days’ life left, in exchange for incomparable strength, created by a person who lost his entire home and family. His entire family was massacred, and he was severely poisoned. With nothing else worth living for, he had come up with this method where one sacrificed every last ounce of one’s life. Almost no one would choose to use such a method, as….. the time was too short, and to prepare one for all the prerequisite conditions, the efforts needed were also highly daunting. After calculating all that that would take, with the exception of those who were willing to give up their lives, no one would choose to put that method to use.”
“The method has a name for it, called Scarlet Blood. Anyone who used Scarlet Blood, would not live past three days.”
Every word that Ye Sha said, struck at Jun Wu Xie’s heart.
Jun Wu Xie turned her eyes to look at the blank faced little Emperor.
Counting the time that had passed, the little Emperor remaining life, was only left with a day and a half? !
That was a result that Jun Wu Xie would never be able to accept!
“I will take up the challenge.” Jun Wu Xie said through tightly gritted teeth.
Ye Sha was feeling rather helpless. Although he knew the Young Miss highly valued the little Emperor, but the Scarlet Blood’s poison, was not one that anyone would be able to neutralize! Although the Young Miss’ skills in Medicine was absolutely peerless, but to unravel the Scarlet Blood, might just be too difficult a task.
“Once Scarlet Blood is introduced into one’s body, the drain upon the life force takes effect immediately, and the spirit is constantly being burned up. To save him….. would be highly difficult.” Ye Sha said with a silent sigh.
The afflictions to one’s body might be easier to treat, but deficiencies in one’s spirit was the toughest to counteract. How many people under the Heavens would be able to find a way to repair a person’s spirit?
Although such a thing existed, how many held powers like Jun Wu Yao’s, who was able to retrieve it?
Jun Wu Xie was unwilling to give up just like that. The young man’s death had been like a branding iron, that had seared into her heart. That was the first time she had felt so helpless, where she could do nothing but watch on, as a person breathed his last and died before her eyes.
Such an incident, Jun Wu Xie did not wish for it to happen a second time, and wished even more that it would not happen to the little Emperor.
Even when Ye Sha said there was no hope, Jun Wu Xie still wanted to give it a try, fighting it with all her might!
She took the little Emperor’s pulse once again and detected that there were already symptoms of collapse and failure in the body, but they were happening more slowly than she had expected. Based on the rate it was happening, the little Emperor’s life should still last seven more days, and not one and a half.
That discovery allowed Jun Wu Xie to catch her breath a moment, but also made her more cautious.
When Ye Sha saw Jun Wu Xie being so determined, there was no more that he could say, but just to stand quietly on one side.
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Chapter 1237: “Scarlet Blood (2)”
In her past life, how many people Jun Wu Xie’s hands had saved, or given the death sentence, even she herself could no longer remember, and in this life she still refused to be defeated by any assessment made by others.
Calming her heart, Jun Wu Xie discovered that something about the two opposing forces inside the little Emperor’s body were slightly abnormal. One of them was highly possible to be the Scarlet Blood that Ye Sha mentioned, which was quickly consuming up the little Emperor’s life force, like highly ferocious beasts.
There existed another force inside the little Emperor’s body. Compared to the Scarlet Blood, this other force was rather much weaker, that seemed to be in danger of collapse at any moment. But it was this seemingly frail force that was persistently holding back the Scarlet Blood from draining out the little Emperor, a power not from his own body, that slowly neutralized the Scarlet Blood’s ferocity bit by bit, sacrificing itself as replacement for the little Emperor’s life force, gradually being consumed by the Scarlet Blood.
This strange phenomenon made Jun Wu Xie’s heart jumped, because she discovered that the force resisting against the Scarlet Blood gave her a indescribable feeling of familiarity.
That feeling, was what she had experienced when she had just begun to learn the Spirit Healing Technique. The feeling when spirit power surged through the entire body, was the work of a spirit body!
“How could it be a spirit body…..” Jun Wu Xie asked with her brows furrowing up together. The little Emperor was merely just eight or nine years old and at that age, it was impossible for one’s ring spirit to awaken. But then she had thought back about the rabbit’s tail on the little Emperor’s behind. The excuse that Grand Tutor He had used at that ti
me was that it was a ring spirit…..
For her to know clearly about that source of power, Jun Wu Xie would have to ask Grand Tutor He about it. At that moment, she could only temporarily use some elixirs to try to protect the little Emperor’s life, to further slow down the Scarlet Blood’s drain.
The little Emperor did not seem to be aware of anything. When Jun Wu Xie brought the medicine to him, he did not react, and Jun Wu Xie had needed to forcibly feed it into his mouth.
The bitterness of the elixir spread within his mouth, but the little Emperor still did not feel anything.
There was no expression on his face.
Grand Tutor He regained consciousness a few hours later. In the instant he awoke, he immediately sat up in a hurry, looking all around for familiar faces.
However, when he saw the little Emperor sitting on one side, he was overcome in shock.
If not for the features of the face that was so dearly familiar to him, he really wouldn’t have believed that the red haired little boy with his scarlet eyes was His Majesty!
“Your Majesty….. Your Majesty…..” Grand Tutor He got off the bed and stepped onto the ground, tumbling and stumbling as he tried to run to come before the little Emperor to kneel. He hands trembled as he reached out wanting to hold the little Emperor’s hand, but when he saw those clearly unfocused eyes, it immediately caused him to crumble.
“ARGH! !”
The cry of despair rang out within the room, which brought Jun Wu Xie hurrying in when she heard the sound.
She saw Grand Tutor He wailing as he held the little Emperor’s legs, filled with sorrow and despair.
“Your old vassal is useless, your old vassal got Your Majesty into this….. Your vassal deserves to die….. Deserves to die…..”
When the little Emperor had previously not returned after night had passed, Grand Tutor He’s heart had already been filled with terror, and when his eyes saw the current state the little Emperor was in, he felt he had suddenly turned to ice!
Those eyes that looked so lifeless now, were so familiar to him. Back at that time, in order to protect the Buckwheat Kingdom’s soldiers, the previous Emperor had volunteered himself for the experiment with the poison, and had turned into that state. Grand Tutor He had never thought, that the same fate, would befall onto the little Emperor as well.
He was still just such a small child. How could the Emperor of the Condor Country bear to deal such an evil and treacherous hand upon him! ?
But no matter how much sorrow and regret Grand Tutor He felt, it did not elicit the slightest response from the little Emperor. He was just like a puppet, sitting there quietly, not making a single noise, and not moving in the slightest.
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Chapter 1238: “Scarlet Blood (3)”
Jun Wu Xie looked on in silence at Grand Tutor He’s sorrowful wailing.
“Young Master…..” Grand Tutor He noticed Jun Wu Xie’s presence and with tears running down his face, he did not forget Jun Wu Xie’s benevolence for saving their lives. He turned around and kowtowed to Jun Wu Xie in gratitude.
“Thank you Young Master for saving us! Thank you Young Master…..”
Such a similar situation, Jun Wu Xie had encountered many times in her previous life and she had thought she would be already numbed by such incidents. But this time, she felt her heart feeling rather suffocated.
Looking at the current state the little Emperor’s was in, Jun Wu Xie found it rather laughable. How could that be considered as having saved them?
“Stand up and speak. Your little His Majesty’s condition is currently highly critical and I need you to tell me some things truthfully.” Jun Wu Xie said as she drew in a deep breath. This was not the time for her to allow her thoughts to go astray.
As a doctor, if she was not able to maintain her calm at all times, and allow herself to be swayed by emotions, that would be highly undesired.
Grand Tutor He was taken aback and he raised his head to look at Jun Wu Xie.
“You….. You mean….. His Majesty….. His Majesty, he….. can….. can still be saved?”
“It’s not certain, but we will give it a try.” Jun Wu Xie said.
Grand Tutor He’s face that was filled with despair suddenly showed a sliver of agitated excitement.
“Young Master, you must save His Majesty! If you can really save His Majesty, you will be the Buckwheat Kingdom’s benefactor, and this old man will slog tirelessly for you, to repay your immeasurable benevolence!”
Jun Wu Xie then made Grand Tutor He stand up.
“What do you want to ask….. Everything that I know….. I will tell you….. everything…..” Grang Tutor He had already given up, and had never thought that Jun Wu Xie would offer him this sliver of hope to turn things around.
Jun Wu Xie said: “What is the truth about his ring spirit?”
Grand Tutor He was slightly surprised, never expecting that Jun Wu Xie would be asking about this.
“How can a child at the age of eight or nine years old have a ring spirit?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked at Grand Tutor He.
Grand Tutor He was shocked and his eyes showed a tinge of sorrow. He lowered his head and with a weak and trembling voice, he said: “The rabbit’s tail on His Majesty’s behind….. is indeed a ring spirit…..”
Jun Wu Xie’s brows creased together.
However, Grand Tutor He continued on: “Only….. that ring spirit, does not belong to His Majesty himself, but….. but to his elder brother, who was also the Buckwheat Kingdom’s previous Emperor.”
Transferring a ring spirit, that was the first time Jun Wu Xie was hearing about it, but she did not doubt the veracity of Grand Tutor He’s words. Afterall, when she had checked the little Emperor’s condition earlier, she had ascertained that the other spirit force was a ring spirit as well, but just that its presence in there was strange, which did not coincide with the little Emperor’s young age.
“A year ago, the throne of the Buckwheat Kingdom was still held by the previous Emperor. He was His Majesty’s elder brother…..”
The Buckwheat Kingdom at that time, had the little Emperor’s elder brother inherit the throne, to become the ruler of the kingdom. The young ruler held great aspirations and magnificent goals. He personally selected his own team of Imperial Guards, and trained together with them, not showing the tiniest sliver of a ruler’s loftiness.
In the Buckwheat Kingdom, he was well loved by the people.
But such a young Emperor who was just like the rising sun, suddenly met with a mishap!
A delegation from the Condor Country had then suddenly visited upon the Buckwheat Kingdom, with the Condor Country’s Emperor having come personally, which made everyone within the Buckwheat Kingdom think it rather strange. The previous Emperor was careful in his dealings and treated them with politeness. Unexpectedly, the Condor Country’s Emperor had then said he knew of a method, that could make a person extremely powerful and that he wanted to use the Imperial Guards of the Buckwheat Kingdom to experiment on it.
In order to prevent the Imperial Guards from falling to harm, the previous Emperor volunteered himself to take their place, and he was set to be consigned to eternal damnation from that moment henceforth!
His body might not have died, but his spirit was destroyed. The previous Emperor’s ring spirit did not disappear, but instead, transferred itself to remain within the little Emperor’s body.
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Chapter 1239: “Scarlet Blood (4)”
Although ring spirits were innately linked with the people they were matched with, but many ring spirits develop close feelings of attachment with their owners and become unwilling to depart, thinking of various ways to remain around their owners. They were linked to their owner’s spirit and resides within the owner’s body. Although the little Emperor’s elder brother’s spirit had been destroyed, but the body still remained in this realm. His ring spirit had then thought of a way to move itself into the little Emperor’s body, to
protect his owner’s most beloved little brother.
It then dawned upon Jun Wu Xie, and she finally knew, from where the strange force inside the little Emperor’s body had come from.
That was the little Emperor’s elder brother’s ring spirit and it was using its own spirit power to protect the little Emperor from being harmed by the Sacrlet Blood.
“It’s all thanks to it.” Jun Wu Xie said softly.
“What?” Grand Tutor He did not understand.
“It saved the little His Majesty’s life.” Jun Wu Xie was not going to waste the time to wait any longer. Every second longer that the little Emperor lived, the ring spirit was using its own spirit force and life in exchange for it.
That ring spirit wasn’t that powerful, and the gradual drain upon it would not allow it to last much longer.
Jun Wu Xie would need to use this small window of time, to find a cure of the little Emperor’s condition, or everything would finally come to naught.
Just as Ye Sha had said, the Scarlet Blood’s toxicity was highly lethal and if not for that ring spirit resisting it, with the little Emperor’s young age, he would not have lasted even one day. Although the Scarlet Blood was within the little Emperor’s body at that moment, it had not spread too deep inside as a large part of the toxins had been kept back by the ring spirit, which had delayed the little Emperor’s impending death.
If the situation had been like that young man, where the poison had spread throughout his entire body and seeped into the bones, even if Jun Wu Xie wanted to save him, it would require her to have adequate time and the little Emperor would not be able to last that long a period.
But now, things had become somewhat easier. As the poison had not spread into the little Emperor’s body entirely, and the ring spirit was currently working to shield the little Emperor’s heart meridian, it gave Jun Wu Xie enough time.
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