That’s right…..
That face was exactly the same as that of the Spirit Lord that Jun Wu Xie had seen before!
But a little more puerile and softer, his gaze completely different.
“Are you thinking of escaping?” The child gazed at Jun Wu Xie for a while, before he suddenly opened his mouth to say.
Jun Wu Xie was slightly taken aback.
“I overheard your entire conversation with Wu Jiu earlier. You must really want to save yourself and your companions right? I can help you.” The child said in a tone that belied his age, steady and composed, without the slightest immaturity. If she disregarded that voice that was still slightly youthful sounding, no one could have imagined that such a tone of speech could possibly come out from the mouth of such a young child.
“Who are you?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked at that strange child.
The young child’s eyes lowered, and the pair of light grey eyes glinted with a tinge of bitter laughter.
“If I were to tell you I am the Spirit Lord, will you believe it?”
The child’s words caused Jun Wu Xie to freeze, as her gaze stared unwaveringly upon that small little face that looked exactly like the Spirit Lord’s, her mind analyzing incessantly, the believability of that statement.
“It’s alright. It does not matter even if you do not believe it.” That child said as his lips stiffened, as his mouth revealed a bitter smile.
“I believe you.” Jun Wu Xie suddenly said.
The child immediately lifted his head up, like he had just grasped upon the last life saving straw of grass, the dimmed and lightless eyes suddenly rising up with a bright sparkle.
“You believe what I said? Why?” The sparkle in the child’s eyes did not fade away, seeming to be anticipating for something.
Jun Wu Xie then replied: “I am acquainted with a particular Plant Spirit, who told me what the Spirit Lord was like. But the current Spirit Lord is not anything like what he described at all and you also have a face that looks exactly like the Spirit Lord, except…..”
“Except that I am quite a bit younger?” The child said with a rather desolate laugh. He raised a hand to touch the chains upon himself, the slight movement tugging on the Soul Binding Chains that made a crisp clinking sounds ring out.
Within that dark and dank dungeon, that sound pierced the ears painfully.
“What is really happening? As the Spirit Lord, how did you end up in such a state? And who is that person out there?” Jun Wu Xie was willing to believe the child before her eyes was the real Spirit Lord but….. what was happening?
The child sighed lightly.
“Are you willing to hear me out?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.
The child’s measured voice then slowly rose within the dark and dank dungeon, unraveling the secret within the Spirit World.
Volume 22
Chapter 2112: Secret Within The Spirit World (2)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
The Spirit World was created by the Spirit Lord, for no other reason but for the fact that the Spirit Lord was a spirit body himself, an eternal spirit. He longed to create a place that could provide shelter and protect spirits, and hence, he made the Spirit World.
The entire Spirit World was formed from his very own power of the spirit, where it could be said that the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit surpassed that of any other spirit. Ever since he descended into this world, he had not possessed a flesh body but had always existed in a spirit state, where his might had never been doubted.
With the creation of the Spirit World, more and more spirits began to be selected to come into the place, where they would be like the Spirit Lord, to forever exist in the world as a spirit.
Just like what Nalan Shan and Poison Ivy had said before, the Spirit Lord treated every single one of the different races impartially, and in their eyes, as long as one was a spirit, there was no discrimination or differentiation in terms of hierarchy, where regardless of the race they were from, the Spirit Lord saw them all as equals.
In the vast Spirit World, the entire place was filled with mysterious and peculiar things, and all of that was built right upon the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit.
But after over the span of hundreds of years, thousand of years, or even tens of thousands of years, the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit was unknowingly being drained. For every day that the Spirit World existed, it was eating at the Spirit Lord’s powers, and all of that was not known by all the other spirits.
The Spirit Lord loved the entire Spirit World passionately. It was a home he had built single handedly, and he was not willing to destroy it, where he had then fought hard to maintain.
With the Dark Emperor’s appearance, the Middle Realm underwent a great round of changes, and the Spirit World was not spared from it. The Dark Emperor then paid a visit to the Spirit World, and although he did not embark upon a massacre, he still brought about great upheaval to the Spirit World. It was exactly because of that confrontation against the Dark Emperor that one time where it accelerated the drain upon the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit, that began to affect his form and the way he looked.
At that time, the previous Spirit Master had blamed himself for not noticing that the Dark Emperor had appeared and he asked to be able to step down from his position as the Spirit Master. The Spirit Master had tried to dissuade him in any way he could, but the Spirit Master was unable to change his mind.
The Spirit Master then went into seclusion, where his First Disciple Wu Jiu then replaced him, to become the new Spirit Master.
Initially, everything went on as per the norm. Wu Jiu took over his Master’s responsibilities and position, obediently following everything the Spirit Lord decided, where he then went on to draw the human spirits together more cohesively.
And it was from that time that the Spirit Lord gradually observed Wu Jiu less and less, his mind slowly being set at ease.
And the Spirit Lord was finding it hard to deal with his depleting power of the spirit in that period where his body began to degenerate bit by bit from an adult man’s form, to become a youth, and then a child…..
Wu Jiu was the first person to notice the peculiarity, and it was a hundred years ago that Wu Jiu discovered that the Spirit Lord’s body was degenerating. He had been extremely worried and he then push up the suggestion to build the Serene Spirit Tower, only saying that he wanted to use the Serene Spirit Tower’s Spirit Fire to raise the powers of all the spirits, so that they would be able to share the load with the Spirit Lord.
Because of his trust he had in the Spirit Master, and together with his observation of Wu Jiu in the past close to a thousand years, the Spirit Lord did not think too deeply into it and allowed Wu Jiu to attempt to build the Serene Spirit Tower.
The Serene Spirit Tower built at that time was not the first Serene Spirit Tower that Jun Wu Xie and the others had seen but it was built in a place far and highly remote, where none of the spirit races resided in.
In the beginning, the Spirit Lord did not discover anything unusual. But on one particular day, when he went to pay a visit to the Serene Spirit Tower, real calamity then struck!
In that Serene Spirit Tower, he saw another one of himself, looking exactly like him; a “Spirit Lord” who held an equally matching amount of power. Detecting that something was not right, the Spirit Lord wanted to leave immediately, but was wounded by the other “Spirit Lord”, where he was then locked up in dark cell that did not see the light of day from that day ever since.
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Chapter 2113: Secret Within The Spirit World (3)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
From then on, the one that appeared before all the spirits was no longer him but that imposter.
Jun Wu Xie listened to it all quietly as she looked at the real Spirit Lord before her eyes. Putting together his words and those of Poison
Ivy’s and her doubts, the truth of things was immediately unraveled!
No wonder the Spirit Lord’s character had changed so drastically in a short period of time. No wonder he had shown so much favour to the human spirits and Wu Jiu. The truth was that he was not the Spirit Lord afterall, but an imposter all along!
All the questions had their answers unraveled and the doubts from before dissipated together with the realization.
“Wu Jiu has played a really good game of chess.” Even Jun Wu Xie had to admire the amount of thought Wu Jiu had put into this. According to what Nalan Shan had said, Wu Jiu had stayed at the Spirit Lord’s side for about two thousand years’ time and in the one thousand years before he took over the position of the Spirit Master, he was actually able to pretend to live under another guise so well that the previous Spirit Master had not even noticed his real personality at all. And after he assumed the position of Spirit Master, he had gone on to use another nine hundred years to bewitch the Spirit Lord, to make the Spirit Lord relax his guard before he usurped it all at one go!
Holding the Spirit Lord in captivity. Such a maniacal deed. It was thought that besides Wu Jiu, no one else would be capable of that!
“That’s right, even I was taken in by him. He is indeed rather amazing.” The Spirit Lord said with a bitter laugh.
“What is he really after?” Jun Wu Xie was getting more confused the more she thought about it. The Spirit Lord ruled over all spirits and even though Wu Jiu was able to dream all of this up, from where did he come to find someone who could hold as much power as the Spirit Lord himself in replacement?
Having experienced the power of the imposter herself, Jun Wu Xie did not think that it was just a superficial pretense of assuming the Spirit Lord’s identity.
“He seeks to do something that will destroy the Three Realms.” The Spirit Lord said as his eyes narrowed slightly.
“What?” Jun Wu Xie’s exclaimed, her eyes widened.
“The Three Realms are made up of the Lower Realm Realm, the Middle Realm, and the Upper Realm. Although the Spirit World exists within the Three Realms, I myself, was from the Upper Realm. I am born from the Spirit Tree and before I created the Spirit World, I once roamed within the Upper Realm for a rather long time, and I would more or less know of quite a few things in the Upper Realm. From a very very long time ago, the Upper Realm had been hatching up a terrifying plot. They had wanted to present all living beings throughout the Three Realms up as a sacrifice, in order to deliver themselves up into another realm that no one is able reach, one that Wu Jiu mentioned earlier….. shattering the void.”
“Sacrifice….. the Three Realms?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes flared wide. What the Spirit Lord said was really just too astounding!
“That’s right. The true purpose of the Serene Spirit Towers is not anything else but a circle of power runes, totems set up for a sacrificial array. The Upper Realm seeks to use the Middle Realm as a link, to tie together all the power in the Three Realms, for them to achieve their aims for the sacrifice. When I first came to know about this, I thought that it was just a joke, as who could possibly achieve such a feat? A sacrifice of the Three Realms. How many lives would that be among all living beings? I had not believed it at all until the construction of the Serene Spirit Towers came about. That was when I finally understood that the Upper Realm’s plot was truly beginning…..” The Spirit Lord’s eyes were tightly shut. The extent of such an apocalyptical calamity was not something a normal person could imagine.
Once the Sacrificial Array was completed, then the entire Three Realms would have all living beings be reduced to ash, and with the exception of people playing a part in this plan, all humans, beasts, spirits, creatures, would become sacrifices in this grand plot, without any chances of surviving it!
An uncountable number of lives, in exchange for peerless and unmatched power for just a group of people. Such a thing, just sounded too incredulous and unimaginable, so cruel that it sent chills running through people!
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Chapter 2114: Secret Within The Spirit World (4)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Jun Wu Xie could never have imagined that the thing Wu Jiu was plotting would be so big, and it was not something that just the Spirit World alone could possibly stand against!
“To complete the Sacrificial Array, one hundred and eight totems is required to be established and this one hundred and eight totems will be spread out over the entire Middle Realm. When the totems are all completed and the medium for the sacrifice is done, disaster will then descend.” The Spirit Lord related with increasing helplessness. Having been held captive for so long, the composure he was showing came not from resignation of never being able to regain his freedom, but from being unable to stop the disastrous calamity.
A gasp rose up within Jun Wu Xie’s chest. This was a matter of the gravest importance…..
“In order to stop the plot, the totems must be destroyed. Your name is Jun Wu Xie right? I can help to free you from your restraints to let you leave this place. If you are able to, will you please do everything you can to destroy the Serene Spirit Towers in the Spirit World? I can’t be bothered whether there are any other totems in existence in other parts of the Middle Realm but the Serene Spirit Towers were built up due to oversight on my part. And if I am not wrong, Wu Jiu and that fake Spirit Lord must have come from the Upper Realm and their objective is to construct the totems.” The Spirit Lord said as he looked at Jun Wu Xie seriously. He had come to choose Jun Wu Xie because he could sense that Jun Wu Xie possessed a significant amount of power and from the conversation Jun Wu Xie had with Wu Jiu, he realized that Jun Wu Xie was not alone. She had her companions and they shouldn’t be too weak as well.
But Jun Wu Xie shook her head instead.
The Spirit Lord was slightly taken aback.
“You are not willing?”
Jun Wu Xie then replied: “Not that I am unwilling, but the time is not ripe.”
“Time is not ripe?” The Spirit Lord was a little confused.
Jun Wu Xie then said helplessly: “Even if you free me now and I am able to rescue my companions successfully, with the amount of power we have, we will not be able to stand against the imposter at all. You have seen it for yourself here. We were not able to stand against his might and that is why we have been imprisoned here. So even if I escape from here now, it is feared that before I am able to touch the Serene Spirit Tower, I would be recaptured by them. And being captured by them for the second time, I do not think that I will be allowed to live anymore.”
It wasn’t that Jun Wu Xie was unwilling to help, as the matter no longer only concerned the Spirit World, but was linked to the Three Realms, that included herself, and all the people that she cared about. So how could she possibly stand by and not do anything about it?
But just not now, as it was not yet the right time.
The Spirit Lord realized that he had been a little too hasty but…..
“From what you are saying, the right time might not ever come.” The Spirit Lord said with a bitter laugh. If Jun Wu Xie had another way to deal with it, why would she have fallen into her current state?
“That’s not entirely correct.” Jun Wu Xie said with a shrug of her shoulders. She was captured within the Beast Spirits’ territory this time. If it had been in another place…..
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed slightly, and she suddenly opened her mouth to ask the Spirit Lord.
“Back when the Dark Emperor came to the Spirit World, did you fight him then?”
The Spirit Lord did not understand why Jun Wu Xie would suddenly mention the Dark Emperor. Thinking that she was merely curious, he did not think too much of it and just replied: “I have naturally battled him.”
“Who won and lost?” Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.
The Spirit Lord didn’t know whether laugh or cry as that puerile looking little face revealed a slightly abashed and bitter smile.
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br /> “If I had won, why would the Spirit World have submitted to the Dark Emperor back then?”
“Oh.” Jun Wu Xie nodded and then went on to ask: “Lost very badly?”
“…..” The Spirit Lord then felt like he just wanted to cry. Was all this digging up of old wounds really appropriate! ?
“Very badly. Completely not his match.”
[Can you not ask anymore?] He was starting to pity himself a little
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Chapter 2115: The Hero Saves the Damsel (1)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
“Then how will the imposter compare to you?” Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.
“…..” He did not feel like answering at all…..
“My power of the spirit had already weakened by quite a lot at that time. But if it was before I was weakened, then he would still pale slightly in comparison.” The Spirit Lord answered despite the pain in his heart, fighting to maintain his composure.
“Then, there will not be a problem.”
“No problem?” The Spirit Lord was getting more confused. [ Just what kind of medicine was Jun Wu Xie selling in that gourd of hers 1 .]
Jun Wu Xie did not say anything more but just sat inside her cell. The Spirit Lord had said quite a lot earlier and besides the Upper Realm’s plot in seeking to offer the Three Realms up in a sacrifice in blood, there was another point that got Jun Wu Xie’s attention, which was the Spirit Tree!
Jun Wu Yao had once planted a seed from the Spirit Tree into her body and the Spirit Lord said that his soul was born from the Spirit Tree. Would that then mean….. that the Spirit Tree was in the Upper Realm?
But how did the seed of the Spirit Tree come to fall into Jun Wu Yao’s hands?
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