Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 6

by North Night (夜北)

  The whole inn fell into absolute silence. All eyes were fixed on the small tiny figure who had suddenly thrown out such a forceful attack.

  The youths outside were thrown into complete disarray and they saw stars under the midday sky. It wasn’t for a long while before they recovered themselves adequately to shout back: “Who are you! ? You dare to lay your hands on us! You must be tired of living!”

  They shook their heads to clear the dizziness from their heads. Their eyes fell on the tiny figure standing at the doors of the inn. The eyes on that face with its delicate features stared coldly at them, and fell on every single one of them in turn.

  “Didn’t all of you hear what the innkeeper said?” Jun Wu Xie said, her chilly gaze beginning to turn frosty.

  “Jun….. Jun Xie…..” One of the youths among them stammered, recognising the infamous character among the disciples of the Zephyr Academy. He had found himself suddenly frozen, when his eyes saw the tiny figure before his eyes.

  Whereas the youths in the other group that had been caught in the confrontation had paused when they saw the tiny figure, and broke out in smiles a moment after.

  “Little Xie! You’re here at last!” Qiao Chu put his foot back down and walked up with his face beaming.

  Jun Wu Xie glanced at him a brief moment and turned back to face the disciples dressed in the Zephyr Academy’s uniform. She lifted a tiny hand and rested it upon a marble pillar by the main doors of the inn.

  A loud crack split through the air and the cold hard stone beneath her hand crumbled into dust under the power of her concentrated spiritual power in her palm.

  The youths outside the inn shivered at the sight.

  “Scram.” Jun Wu Xie said softly.

  The youths scrambled to quickly get away from there. Jun Xie had a notorious reputation in the Zephyr Academy, and those rumours had carried with them on her great spiritual powers. All the disciples knew that she had broken through to the orange spirit level at the young age of fourteen, but they never would have dreamed it possible but they saw with their own eyes that the glow surrounding Jun Xie was brilliantly yellow!

  That was the glow of a yellow leveled spirit!

  Volume 6

  Chapter 541: “Chan Lin Town (4)”

  Not only the youths dressed in the Zephyr Academy’s uniform were frightened into running away, but even the other guests in the inn had stared in wide eyed horror and disbelief at the slowly dissipating yellow light from Jun Wu Xie’s hand.

  A fourteen year old yellow spirit…..

  Once news of this spread, it was sure to leave many people shocked!

  If they had not seen it for themselves, they would never believe it no matter how many people told them about it.

  Having gotten rid of the pesky flies, Jun Wu Xie returned back into the inn and threw out an ingot of silver to the innkeeper.

  The flustered innkeeper hurried forward to catch the ingot, his forehead covered in a sheen of sweat.

  “Compensation.” Jun Wu Xie said simply.

  The innkeeper nodded eagerly and did not say another word.

  Towards a youth who was so prodigiously gifted, the innkeeper would never dare to say a single word against him. Moreover, the youth was extremely generous and the compensation given was enough for him to purchase five of those marble pillars.

  “Little Xie, your methods are a little vicious.” Qiao Chu slunk up to come beside Jun Wu Xie. The other group of people involved in the confrontation with the Zephyr Academy’s disciples had been him, Hua Yao, and company.

  “Why should I waste my breath?” Jun Wu Xie asked, an eyebrow raised.

  Qiao Chu grinned like a fool.

  “Little Xie, these are your companions?” A slender figure stepped out from the crowd, carrying the little black cat and Lord Meh Meh in his arms, a wide smile beaming on his face. His gentle and friendly gaze swept over the group of youths standing beside Jun Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  “And this is?” Hua Yao asked, a quizzical look on his face.

  Fan Zhuo said with a laugh: “My name is Fan Zhuo, and I came here with Little Xie.”

  Hua Yao was surprised and Qiao Chu and the rest had a queer expression on their faces. They had heard Fan Jin mention about his own little brother before and now that Qiao Chu was seeing the person in the flesh, Qiao Chu’s face could not help but take on a look of sympathy.

  Fan Zhuo was looking rather puzzled, not knowing why Qiao Chu and the others were looking at him so weirdly.

  It made him feel that Qiao Chu was pitying him.

  “So you are Fan Zhuo, you’re so pitiful my brother.” Qiao Chu exclaimed with a sigh and patted Fan Zhuo on the shoulder, as if he couldn’t be anymore obvious.

  So, this is the poor guy who is the fiance of that black widow of a woman. What a poor guy!

  Fan Zhuo didn’t know how to react to Qiao Chu’s melancholy greeting, thinking that Qiao Chu was pitying him for his weak body and could only manage a weak smile as he said: “I’m feeling much better now, all thanks to Little Xie.”

  But the pitiful look on Qiao Chu’s face did not diminish in the slightest.

  Fan Zhuo was even more puzzled.

  Fan Jin had arranged for a room for each of them and after the six of them have gathered, they separated and each went to check out their own rooms before congregating once again back together in Jun Wu Xie’s room.

  Fortunately, the room was big enough or they would have a hard time squeezing so many people in.

  “Come come come, hand over your spirit stones.” Qiao Chu sat down at the table and threw out all the spirit stones he had, scattering them on the table. The pile of spirit stones grew, a myriad of colours, as Fan Zhuo stared at them with his mouth agape.

  Within the pile of spirit stones, there were quite a few of them that belonged to high grade Spirit Beasts and those were so precious that no amount of money could buy them.

  But Qiao Chu had so nonchalantly thrown so many of them onto the table and that had shocked Fan Zhuo quite a bit.

  But Fan Zhuo was in for quite a bit more of a shock as following Qiao Chu’s lead, Hua Yao, Fei Yan and Rong Ruo followed suit and took out their share of spirit stones as well. Even Jun Xie took out a bunch, and they all heaped upon the table.

  As he watched the pile getting higher, Fan Zhuo’s eyes grew wider.

  “These….. are all from the Spirit Hunt in the Battle Spirits Forest?” Fan Zhuo asked in amazement, looking at Qiao Chu and the others.

  “Just a small part. Most of it was contributed by Lord Meh Meh.” Qiao Chu replied with an easy laugh, not forgetting to flatter Lord Meh Meh lying flat with its hooves splayed out by Jun Wu Xie’s feet, throwing the sheep a look of adulation.

  Lord Meh Meh immediately stuck its chin up arrogantly, its little wooly ball of a tail wagging in approval.

  Volume 6

  Chapter 542: “Chan Lin Town (5)”

  Lord Meh Meh? Fan Zhuo was getting more and more confused.

  “Wait.” Jun Wu Xie said suddenly, after she took out her share of the spirit stones. Under the eyes of Qiao Chu and the others, she reached out and picks out several high grade spirit stones.

  “These, I want.”

  High grade spirit stones were rare and Jun Wu Xie did not intend to go exchange them for money. The spirit stones would be better used if they were used to forge new rings for their ring spirits, or even brought back to be given to the Rui Lin Army.

  Not a single one among the group in the room protested Jun Wu Xie’s actions in the slightest. They allowed Jun Wu Xie to slowly pick from the pile and even helped to pick out a few to place them before Jun Wu Xie.

  None of them even bothered to ask Jun Wu Xie what she intended to use those precious spirit stones for.

  Jun Wu Xie selected a few out from the high grade spirit stones they had picked out from the pile and handed the rest to Qiao Chu and the others.

  Qiao Chu blinked in confusion at Jun Wu Xie’s queer acti
ons and asked confused: “Little Xie, what are you doing?”

  Didn’t she just pick them out? Why was she returning them back to him?

  “Rings.” Jun Wu Xie said, looking at the ring on Qiao Chu’s finger, linking him to his ring spirit.

  It finally dawned on Qiao Chu. Although the spirit rings they wore on their fingers were formed from the ring spirits themselves, there existed a special method where one could enhance them. And the most critical part of the process was to set a spirit stone onto their spirit rings whereby it would increase the ring spirit’s powers, this method was handed down through the ages.

  To reforge a spirit ring, besides picking out a suitable spirit stone, a highly skilled craftsman was needed to carry out the forging process to fully amplify the ring spirit’s power from the spirit stone’s enhancements.

  Forging a spirit ring was commonly carried out by ordinary jewelers and even though they did not possess the highest skills, the effects were nevertheless already outstanding.

  It wasn’t that Qiao Chu and his gang had not thought of doing that before but they had lived being embarrassingly short on money and before they met Miss Moneybags Jun Wu Xie, they could not even afford to buy clothes for themselves, not to mention even thinking of forging spirit rings. They might be able to find a way to hunt for the spirit stones but the cost of setting them in spirit rings were impossibly high and beyond their means. Hence, when they got their hands on these spirit stones, the first thought that entered their minds was to sell them all for money and did not for a moment think of using it on themselves.

  Their line of thought had become habitual and they had neglected to consider their own needs.

  But the idea had not escaped Jun Wu Xie.

  Needless to say, with their current depleted financial situation, the money needed for the forging of the rings would have to be paid by Jun Wu Xie once again.

  “Erm….. Should we use this period of time to find someone to forge the rings for us?” Qiao Chu was deeply grateful but seeing how close they all have gotten, he was feeling slightly too awkward afraid that he would seem a little soft to outright express his gratitude.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  The strength that the high grade spirit stones would provide was extremely high and there was never enough of a supply in the market. But not being able to find a Guardian grade spirit stone was Jun Wu Xie’s main regret.

  The power a Guardian grade spirit stone would give them, would make the enhancements a high grade spirit stone gave absolutely insignificant.

  “If you need someone to forge spirit rings, maybe I can help.” Fan Zhuo who had been silent all this while suddenly spoke up, a wide smile beaming on his face.

  “Huh? Little Zhuo, you know of a way?” Qiao Chu said, looking at Fan Zhuo with eager anticipation.

  Fan Zhuo smiled gently at him and nodded.

  “If all of can trust me, I can forge the spirit rings for all of you. What do you say?”

  Once Fan Zhuo finished with his statement, Qiao Chu and the others suddenly stared at him in wide eyed wonder.

  Did he just say he will forge our spirit rings himself and did not mean that he would be getting someone else to do it?

  “Little Zhuo! You know how to forge spirit rings!?” Qiao Chu asked with a loud gulp, as he surveyed Fan Zhuo’s slender and thin frame.

  That skinny arm and stick thin legs are capable of lifting a hammer?

  Volume 6

  Chapter 543: “Chan Lin Town (6)”

  Fan Zhuo replied, beaming brightly: “I know a little.”

  “Then we’ll leave it all to you.” Without another word, Qiao Chu handed the spirit stone allocated to him to Fan Zhuo.

  Fan Zhuo was surprised. He had thought that Qiao Chu and the others would ask him a more on it before they would be properly assured to leave the forging to him as forging a spirit ring was no small matter and if the ringsmith had any ulterior motives and employed a little trickery in the forging process, it would cause great harm to their ring spirits. But Qiao Chu and his gang had simply asked whether he knew how to do it and had fully entrusted the highly important task to him. That had been beyond Fan Zhuo’s expectations.

  Following right after, Hua Yao and the others handed their spirit stones over to Fan Zhuo as well, without a moment’s hesitation.

  “I trust Little Xie’s judgement of people.” Qiao Chu told him with a laugh.

  Their little companion was extremely sharp and astute and if she did not trust this person, she would not have brought him along on the trip.

  Fan Zhuo laughed, the laughter shining in his eyes.

  “I will not disappoint you guys. But to forge your spirit rings, I will need a few more things. I’ll see if they have anything suitable at the auction.” Fan Zhuo didn’t want to explain too much, he felt that the best reward for their unhesitant trust was to do a good job of it for them.

  After the plans were firmed up, the companions starting chatting merrily. With the addition of Fan Zhuo, Qiao Chu played the jester once again and laughter roared within the room.

  Hua Yao and the others all similarly felt, compared to the straight laced and unbending Fan Jin, this smiley Fan Zhuo was a lot more pleasing to the eye.

  Chan Lin Town had only one auction house and it was simply called the Chan Lin Auction House. They held an auction every three days and today happened to be the day that an auction would be held. After having their dinner, the six companions stepped out of the inn. Compared to daytime, Chan Lin Town was much busier at night. Fire torches shone, lighting up the streets in the dark of night. Bright merry lanterns were lit, hoisted up high, decorating the bustling streets and little alleys.

  Many more interesting things were added Chan Lin Town scene at night. Stages featuring various circus acts and opera performances popped up and more hawkers filled the streets peddling all kinds of wares.

  The main street was so crowded it was hard to move through it and disciples of the Zephyr Academy made up for a large part of them. People from the various powers had also come seeking these Zephyr Academy disciples. Although the disciples of the Zephyr Academy still had not stepped out into the world, but due to the highly revered reputation of the Zephyr Academy, their youths were already seen to be the cream of the crop. The different powers intended to win the young youths over while they were still inexperienced and guileless, and after they graduate, they would have gained themselves another formidable strength.

  It was due to that reason, that Chan Lin Town became especially crowded at these times.

  The six youths, melded into the sea of people and were quickly completely swallowed up.

  Due to the tight squeeze, Jun Wu Xie did not bring Lord Meh Meh out with her but had left it back at the inn together with the little black cat, forcing the black cat to act as a little custodian.

  Along the way, Fan Zhuo wished he had more eyes to absorb more of the sights that surrounded them. The heavy bustle of the endless sea of people made Fan Zhuo’s joy gradually grow. Fortunately for Qiao Chu’s tall and strong frame, he was able to shield Fan Zhuo and Jun Wu Xie, and that had prevented his two companions, one frail and weakly and the other small and petite, from being separated from the group, with the endless waves of trudging people.

  Even with their efficient human shield, when the group reached a part of the street where it was less crowded, the clothes on Fan Zhuo were nevertheless rather badly creased.

  “This place is really bustling with people!” Fan Zhuo exclaimed excitedly, his face smiling widely.

  “You like it?” Qiao Chu asked, panting heavily as he looked at Fan Zhuo. They did not know that he had very nearly lost his shoe as he had waded through the sea of people.

  “Not exactly, but it’s a new experience!” Fan Zhuo piped happily.

  “We need to cross two more streets before we get to the auction house. If we rush over now, we should be able to still take part in the second half of the auction.” Fan Yan said, referring to the map he h
eld in his hands, comparing the landmarks on the map to the area they were standing at.

  Volume 6

  Chapter 544: “Mysterious Black Stone (1)”

  Due to its proximity to the Zephyr Academy, a large portion of the Chan Lin Auction House’s clientele were disciples from the Zephyr Academy. People who could afford to enroll into the Zephyr Academy were from rather established families or significant powers. Common trinkets would not be able to catch their attention. Hence, the Chan Lin Auction House had no lack of uncommon treasures, hordes of merchants came here, bringing with them many rare and precious goods.

  The Chan Lin Auction House’s auctions starts at dusk. The skies were already fully dark now and the auction was already half done.

  When Jun Wu Xie and her companions arrived at the auction house, they were just bringing a new item onto the stage and a fiery bidding war had already started.

  They had private rooms in the Chan Lin Auction House and they were situated on the second level. The individual rooms were specially provided for guests who did not like to be disturbed and one can enjoy the use of these private rooms by paying a fixed fee. Jun Wu Xie paid up and the six companions went straight up to the second level.

  The room wasn’t too big with three surrounding walls. The fourth side facing the stage was closed up with a beautiful wood carved low rail.

  Light refreshments were provided and after the six companions were seated, they turned to look at the item displayed on the stage.

  Many of the items put up for auction now were mostly spirit stones and medium grade ones were set as the minimum grade and anything lower than that were all rejected by the auction house.

  Jun Wu Xie watched the auction proceed on quietly. Nothing brought onto the stage was able to pique her interest. Neither the next few items auctioned off had caught her attention as well.