The Soul Calming Jade was itself an artifact from the Spirit World and they were all spirit bodies inside the Spirit World. Hence, the Soul Calming Jade might just be able to help the little Emperor in some way.
The Soul Calming Jade had been split into two pieces. One was on Jun Gu’s body, and the other was placed with Jun Qing for safekeeping.
“Alright.” Grand Tutor He agreed as he quietly wiped the tears away from his eyes. If there was anyone he could still trust throughout these lands, that would only be Jun Xie.
Grand Tutor He stayed behind a little while more and he left thereafter. Qiao Chu and the others busied themselves in preparation for them to spread the news regarding the fall of the Condor Country.
“Ye Sha.”
“What instructions does Young Miss have for me?” Ye Sha replied.
“I will be bringing him back to the Qi Kingdom tomorrow. You remain here and after you have killed Elder Huang, bring his head back to the Qi Kingdom to look for me.” Jun Wu Xie ordered with her eyes narrowed. She was not going to spare Elder Huang for all that he had done.
Ye Sha seemed to want to say something, but when he saw the cold and icy profile of Jun Wu Xie’s face from the side, he quickly swallowed back the words which had been on the tip of his tongue.
“Yes! Young Miss’ wishes shall be carried out.”
Volume 13
Chapter 1262: “Returning (1)”
That afternoon, a piece of news tore through the Condor Country like a bolt out of nowhere!
The Condor Country’s name which had dominated for many years had suddenly disappeared from the lands. All of the lands of the Condor Country had been given as compensation to the Qi Kingdom and the Buckwheat Kingdom, the news completely unbelievable, and hard to accept to the Condor Country’s citizens.
Influenced by the fact that the Condor Country had enjoyed dominance for many years, the Condor Country’s citizens had developed an aggressive appetite for war and battle and prided themselves as a powerful people, to the extent they looked down on people from other countries except for those in the Fire Country. But now, even that arrogance had been mercilessly torn to shred.
It was still not that bad with the Qi Kingdom as they had the famed Rui Lin Army and it was rumoured that the Qi Kingdom was allied with the Fire Country. That was a point that was more or less still barely acceptable in their hearts.
But what was the Buckwheat Kingdom?
Based on what did they have to gift their lands away to the pitifully small Buckwheat Kingdom?
Against the citizens’ voices, no one bothered with it. Jun Wu Xie observed it all, and she knew. To have the people of the Condor Country truly integrate into the Qi Kingdom and the Buckwheat Kingdom, it would require a long period of assimilation.
“Are we going to depart today?” At the break of dawn, Qiao Chu stuck his head into Jun Wu Xie’s room to ask.
Jun Wu Xie was all packed and the little Emperor sat staring blankly at the side of the bed, not making a single sound. If not for the lack of life within those eyes, he might just be mistaken for being the highly obedient boy he had always been.
“Yes.” Jun Wu Xie replied.
“Then, the matter with the All Dragons Palace…..” Qiao Chu asked further, rubbing at his chin. The All Dragons Palace’s Elder Huang had escaped and if he had continued to remain in the Lower Realm, it was not known what kind of a ruckus he would stir up again. But if he returned to the Middle Realm , it was feared that the information about Jun Wu Xie and them would soon reach the ears of the Twelve Palaces. That was a point that would be disadvantageous to them at this point of time.
They had been secretive when they collected the maps before. Even if the Twelve Palaces had discovered things to be strange, they had no way of probing further into it. But this time, Jun Wu Xie had blatantly used her title as the Emperor of the Fire Country to do it. If that reached the Middle Realm, and attracted the attention of the Middle Realm, it might become rather troublesome.
“I have already gotten Ye Sha to deal with that.” Jun Wu Xie had naturally thought of that as well. She would not let Elder Huang have that chance to leave the Lower Realm alive.
Qiao Chu nodded, and did not say anything more, but went on to pack up his luggage with his companions, in preparation for the journey.
Before the moved out, Grand Tutor He came to see Jun Wu Xie, once again expressing his gratitude towards Jun Xie, and expressed his will that he would push to make his old bag of bones last, to manage the Buckwheat Kingdom. And after the little Emperor has recovered, he would then be able to hand a brand new Buckwheat Kingdom into the little Emperor’s hands.
Stepping onto the horse carriage, Jun Wu Xie stared at the Condor Country under the sun’s rays, and she seemed to be able to hear the dying wails of the Condor Country’s Emperor from within the Imperial Palace.
Although the Condor Country has been destroyed, the trouble that the Condor Country had brought to the Lower Realm still has not ended. The various rulers who had regained their freedom had spurred their horses at full speed back to their countries, hoping to stop the evil before it even began.
The wheels rolled and trundled, Jun Wu Xie sat within the carriage while the little Emperor sat quietly opposite her, his head lowered, not moving an inch.
Jun Wu Xie turned her gaze to look outside the window, staring at the Condor Country’s lands that now had new owners.
She had already sent out a homing pigeon, to inform the Lin Palace of all that had happened here, and it wouldn’t be long, that either her Grandfather or Uncle would received the news.
Thinking of the fact that not long from now, she would be able to return back home and be reunited with her family, the repressed emotions within Jun Wu Xie’s heart were finally alleviated a little.
Volume 13
Chapter 1263: “Returning Back (2)”
The moon was shaped like a wicked scythe, and under that night sky, red blood flowed freely. In a dense forest that was throbbing with the aftermath of a massacre, even the air felt like it was tainted with sticky blood.
Under the moonlight, a tall slender figure was standing upon the green grass that was soaked with bright red blood, his violet eyes twinkling with euphoria brought about by the slaughter.
“Lord Jue!” Ye Mei had found something from digging through the pile of corpses at the side and he delivered it into the hands of Jun Wu Yao.
Jun Wu Yao threw a cursory glance at it and then said: “Keep it properly.”
“Yes!” Ye Mei took the blood stained item and kept it safely within his robes and immediately said: “I received news that Ye Sha sent earlier saying the Young Miss had obliterated the Condor Country and had split the Condor Country’s lands between the Buckwheat Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom. Under the Young Miss’ orders, Ye Sha is pursuing a man from the All Dragons Palace and the Young Miss has already left for the Qi Kingdom.”
One of Jun Wu Yao’s brows arched up and the corners of his mouth curled into a devilish smile.
“The little one’s moves are becoming smoother and smoother. It’s just a country of insects, it doesn’t matter whether it gets destroyed or not.”
“Then Lord Jue, are we going back as well?” Ye Mei asked.
Jun Wu Yao hooked up a finger and all the blood upon the ground seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, gathering together in a swirl around Jun Wu Yao’s fingertip, to gradually coalesce into a sparkling clear bead of blood.
Jun Wu Yao sent the bead into his mouth, and lifted his eyes to stare at the moon hanging upon the glorious night sky.
“We will naturally have to go back.”
“There’s one more thing…..” Ye Mei hesitated. In regards to this matter, he did not dare to speak of it carelessly.
“Speak.” Jun Wu Yao ordered.
“Ye Sha discovered the presence of Scarlet Blood and Poison Men in the Condor Country….. The All Dragons Palace seemed to have wanted to use these two methods to gain control ov
er the powers in the Lower Realm.”
Ye Mei had just finished his statement when the surrounding air suddenly fell a few degrees lower!
Even the sound of the wind had suddenly disappeared.
Jun Wu Yao’s eyes narrowed, his violet eyes filling up with a chilling glint of murder.
“The trash from the Middle Realm still dares to put Scarlet Blood to use?”
Ye Mei drew in a deep breath to summon up the powers within to prevent himself from being wounded by Jun Wu Yao’s oppressive aura.
“The Twelve Palaces have harbouring their malicious intentions for a very long time. In those years when Lord Jue sealed the Scarlet Blood, they had all obeyed and not dared to act rashly but it seems that thoughts of dissent have started to rise in their heads once again. Lord Jue….. do we need to send this information to the Dark Regions?”
Jun Wu Yao narrowed his eyes in thought and lifted his hand slightly to shake it lightly.
“It is still not yet time.”
Ye Mei gritted his teeth and continued: “The Scarlet Blood was originally created by the morons of the Twelve Palaces who based it on Lord Jue’s Scarlet Darkness. The very existence of that insipid and inferior copy by itself is an insult to Lord Jue and if Lord Jue has no intentions to reveal the news to the Dark Regime, then I implore for Lord Jue to issue an order for your subordinate here to go deal with those thrash from the Twelve Palaces.”
[For the Lord to suffer humiliation, it was due to the incompetence of the underlings!]
[They can die, but they must never allow anyone to cause Jun Wu Yao to have to suffer the slightest tinge of humiliation.]
Jun Wu Yao looked at Ye Mei face filled with highly indignant rage, and he suddenly laughed out loud.
“At this time, I am not really in the mood to go toy with a bunch of insects. We must first return to the Qi Kingdom, and present this big gift to Little Xie instead. Isn’t she set on finding the Dark Emperor’s tomb all this time? The time just about right.”
Ye Mei suppressed his rage and bore with the frustration, but finally nodded his head and said: “Yes, my Lord!”
The night was quiet and soundless. The voices of Jun Wu Yao and Ye Mei disappeared from within the tranquility of the dense forest, leaving behind upon the forest floor filled with corpses. A gust of the night breeze blew past, and the sets of completely dried up corpses which had every single drop of blood drawn out from them instantly turned to dust under the light touch of the breeze, falling to sink into the grass underneath.
Volume 13
Chapter 1264: “Returning Back (3)”
Having just experienced baptism through the flames of war, the Qi Kingdom was gradually recovering from the wounds wrought upon them by the ferocious battles. The flames from the war had not burned up the will of the Qi Kingdom’s people as they strove to break free from the sufferings, rebuilding up their homeland with their own two hands.
The Rui Lin Army was the force that sustained the most severe losses. After most of their injured recovered, they began to recruit new soldiers to join them in the Rui Lin Army.
The youths who strove to protect their country, surged from all corners, wholeheartedly wanting to become a member of the Rui Lin Army, where they would one day be able to fight to defend their homeland.
During this period, it could be said that Long Qi was so busy his hands felt detached from his body everyday. Before this when the Rui Lin Army had not yet released the news, there had already been many highly passionate people who planted themselves within the Qi Kingdom’s Imperial City in wait. Now, the news of the Rui Lin Army accepting new recruits had just barely been released and the number of people coming forward to apply could only be described as coming in in tides.
Every single day, Long Qi would sit himself at the front of the Rui Lin Army’s camp, and carry out stringent assessments of the youths who had applied to join them, always so busy he barely even had the time to have a sip of water.
The soldiers that the Rui Lin Army were looking to recruit this time, had a requirement to be between sixteen to twenty two years of age. The Rui Lin Army had been established for many years and throughout the big and small battles, the old generation of their soldiers had fallen one by one with new blood filling up the gaps intermittently. But after the recent large scale war, the Rui Lin Army had lost more than half their men and it would require an extended period of time to be accumulated, before they would be able to rebuild the entire Rui Lin Army. Hence, Jun Xian had targeted for younger blood, and when their rough edges were honed to become sharp and keen edged blades, they would be at their most prime age.
And in this recruitment drive of the Rui Lin Army, there was one hard rule they would not bend in the slightest. Loyalty!
Weak powers could be slowed polished, bodies not strong enough could be improved through tough training regimes. But if one’s beliefs and character was flawed, then regardless how talented one was, the Rui Lin Army would never accept them.
As long as they were not critically ill, and their character passed the criteria, all would stand a chance to be enlisted into the Rui Lin Army.
All the men whose age had passed the limit, were all mournful. Some of them had even gone up to ask Long Qi where they needed men on the back end in logistics, and they would accept it even if they were only assigned odd jobs or just as a cook for the Rui Lin Army…..
All these queries, really drove Long Qi almost to lunacy where he did not know whether to laugh or cry.
He was still busying away when Long Qi received news brought to him by a Rui Lin Army soldier. In the instant he heard it, he immediately got up and handed over his duties for the recruitment to another soldier, before turning around to go further inside the Rui Lin Army camp.
Upon the parade square, Jun Qing was training a new batch of soldiers who had just enlisted. The reason the Rui Lin Army had become such a powerful force, was not just because of the halo from the three characters that read “Rui Lin Army”, but it was also achieved through constant rigorous training, never cutting any slack, that preserved the enduring fame of the Rui Lin Army.
Glaring at the new recruits who had just joined their army and were already made to undergo the highly intensive training, the wasn’t the slightest bit of mercy in Jun Qing’s eyes. Only with the hardship they suffered at present, would it gain them a bigger chance of coming back alive from the battlefields they would face in the future.
Whether these youths who had made it through the preliminary selections would finally still be able to remain with the Rui Lin Army was still not known, as after the upcoming one year period was up, the Rui Lin Army would conduct another round of screening for those personnels who did not meet the mark. All those who fail to meet the requirements would then be made to leave the Rui Lin Army.
“Young Lord!” Long Qi suddenly came rushing inside in a hurry, and whispered a few words into Jun Qing’s ears.
Jun Qing’s stern face suddenly beamed with a show of delight, and immediately ordered the new recruits to continue with the training, before turning himself around to leave the parade square hurriedly.
The group of youths who had been mercilessly drilled by Jun Qing, raised their weary heads as they panted for breath to see Jun Qing depart, their faces looking highly puzzled.
Volume 13
Chapter 1265: “Family (1)”
Jun Qing might look gentle and elegantly attractive, but when he was training the soldiers, he didn’t show the least bit of benevolence or mercy. The youths who had in the beginning felt that the young lord looked rather gentle completely changed their view of Jun Qing after just half a day under Jun Qing’s hand!
Truly a member of the Jun Family. Under that gentle exterior, lay a strong and hard personality!
Several of the more timid youths, would even break into tears with just a stern glare from Jun Qing.
The glare from those eyes that had witnessed endless cold merciless slaughter, was not something that the green and
still bumbling youths were able to stand up to.
“I thought I might have seen the Young Lord…. smile? Was I hallucinating?” A youth who was sweating buckets said as he scratched his head. Ever since they had been enlisted into the Rui Lin Army, they had never seen Jun Qing once smile at them.
This iron faced Young Lord’s smile, was to them an extreme rarity to see.
“Actually….. I feel that our Young Lord, looks better when he smiles.” Another youth said with a bitter laugh.
The Rui Lin soldiers standing on the side maintained their stoic faces, forcing their expressions to remain unchanged as they stared at the bunch of fledging new recruits.
But they were chortling inside their hearts.
The Young Lord’s smile was rare to see?
Once out of the Rui Lin Army’s main encampment and back in the Lin Palace, the Young Lord would then be smiling all the time! Sheer ignorance.
“Stop yapping over there and get on with the training! Stop spouting all that nonsense or you can be certain the Young Lord would give you guys a good thrashing when he comes back!” The Rui Lin Army soldiers admonished lightly, their faces stern.
The youths who had barely just got some rest immediately stiffened in alertness and quickly jumped up to continue with their training.
Jun Qing and Long Qi drove their horses hard as they rushed the entire way back to the Qi Kingdom’s Imperial Capital. When the horses almost skidded to a stop before the Lin Palace’s gates, the two men immediately flipped their bodies to dismount, quickly slipping their way inside.
Inside the main hall of the Lin Palace, a familiar figure fell within Jun Qing’s sight and his face immediately broke into a wide smile that rose straight right from within his heart.
“Little Xie has come back.”
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