Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 22
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The couple of months passed in a blink, and the powers of Jun Wu Xie and the companions came to a peak. Even the Spirit Lord was greatly impressed with their current level of powers.
That one year had seemed long and endless, but in the passage of time, it was merely an unnoticeable moment.
On the last day before they were to part, the Spirit Lord booked the entire Spiritual Spirit Loft to hold a feast for Jun Wu Xie and the companions. He had also dragged Nalan Shan, Brownie, Flame Dragon and the previous Spirit Master as company.
“Are you guys really going to leave?” Brownie said as it sat on a special chair. Because it’s body was too massive, when it lowered its head to look at Jun Wu Xie, the Spiritual Bear was just like a giant. But within that pair of jet black eyes, they were filled with thick reluctance to part, looking highly aggrieved like those of a small child’s.
Although Brownie had already regained the power due to the Spiritual Bear, and was now capable of human speech, deep in its heart, it still felt extremely affectionate towards Jun Wu Xie and her companions who had helped it before. Speaking from its age as the Spiritual Bear, Brownie was still a very young spirit existence. The size of a fully mature Spiritual Bear would be one whole time bigger than the Ying Yang Bear.
It might be the deaths of the cheetah and the others that was making Brownie’s heart feel highly remorseful and uneasy. Despite the fact that peace had returned to the Spirit World, the unease in its heart had not dissipated.
Jun Wu Xie raised her hand up and rubbed Brownie on the head, the furry texture under her hand so comforting her eyes narrowed up.
“Can’t you just not go?” Brownie asked as it stared highly pitifully at Jun Wu Xie. Nalan Shan beside Brownie could not help but gave a sigh. Towards the young lady Jun Wu Xie, the longer he knew her, the more surprised he was with her. If not for her arrival into the Spirit World, Wu Jiu’s insidious scheme would have succeeded one fine day.
It was as if Jun Wu Xie was like a gift the Heavens had specially bestowed onto the Spirit World.
“I will still come back here in future.” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes turned soft and gentle. She then raised her eyes, to seemingly look askance at Jun Wu Yao.
Jun Wu Yao nodded his head slightly, like he was agreeing to the expectant look from her. “Really? Then when will you guys be coming again?” Brownie asked, its eyes shining brightly.
Jun Wu Xie was feeling rather helpless under Brownie’s adorable pair of eyes.
When they would be coming back to the Spirit World? She was not certain. If it was possible, she would naturally wish for it to be after she had dismantled at Upper Realm’s Sacrificial Array, as it would only be at that time that she would have the leisure to revisit old places.
But looking at Brownie’s highly eager eyes filled with so much anticipation, she could not bear to say all that aloud.
Qiao Chu at the side noticed Jun Wu Xie’s quandary and he immediately broke into a wide smile as he lifted his foot to discreetly nudge the Yin Yang Bear who was happily huddled beside him, chewing on bamboo.
Volume 22
Chapter 2132: We’ll Meet Again (2)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Rolly’s face was one of bewilderment from being kicked as its adorable face turned to look puzzledly at Qiao Chu, seemingly asking its own Master why he was interrupting its meal.
Qiao Chu signalled with his eyes towards Brownie, his lips pursed up and gesturing wordlessly.
Rolly turned its head to look at Brownie and then looked at Jun Wu Xie whose face was in some sort of a dilemma before finally staring at the half eaten bamboo in its paws…..
In the end, Rolly gave up on the bamboo it held in its paws and crawled lumberingly towards Brownie.
“Roar roar! !” With a great bear pounce, Rolly pushed Brownie who was one size smaller down into the ground and two bear spirits, one dark gold and the other black and white rolled together into a ball as Rolly clasped its paws affectionately around Brownie’s neck.
The sudden and unexpected show of affection shocked Brownie. Feeling the passion from Rolly’s embrace, the eager anticipation towards hearing Jun Wu Xie’s reply was then quickly diluted.
The kind of significance the Spiritual Bear was to Beast Spirits was naturally self evident. Since Qiao Chu and the others were going to leave the Spirit World, Rolly, the Double Headed Bone Snake and the others would naturally have to follow. Hence, towards the affection that Rolly was showing, Brownie had not suspected a thing.
It was not known, that all of that was however clearly seen by the eyes of Nalan Shan and the Spirit Lord. They had already noticed the hesitance in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes all along.
Although there was Jun Wu Yao with them who was able to freely bring them in and out of the Spirit World, but they were afterall not spirits who lived in the Spirit World. They were still very much alive, living beings that existed in the mortal realm. Their companions were not just these here in the Spirit World, but also family and friends outside the Spirit World, ties they could not sever just like that.
The Spirit Lord knew clearly that after Jun Wu Xie leaves the Spirit World, she would definitely investigate into the Upper Realm’s Sacrificial Array, and one need not need to even think to know the kind of danger she would be in. Not to mention being able to come back to the Spirit World often, just wanting to protecting herself would already be taking up a great big part of her energy.
And because of that, all the others merely looked on as Rolly diverted Brownie’s attention away and did not say a single word to expose Brownie’s actions.
“I have not thanked you properly for all that happened before. If not for you, I fear I would already have disappeared.” Nalan Shan said with a smile on his face as he turned his gaze away from Brownie, lifting up the wine glass before him to look at Jun Wu Xie.
That day, he was so severely injured by Wu Jiu that even he himself had thought he would undoubtedly die this time. He had not thought that he would still wake up to see another day till the moment he discovered himself hidden within darkness and his hand felt the Spirit Reinforcement runes carved into the ground around him. That was when he knew clearly that he was really still alive.
Everything after that made Nalan Shan realize that the reason he was able to still live was all due to Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie had used Spirit Reinforcement to stabilize its gradually dispersing soul and had made use of those final moments just before the fake Spirit Lord reached them to inscribe Spirit Reinforcement runes that concealed spirit aura around him. Otherwise, with the state that he was in, not to mention whether Wu Jiu who hated him to the bone would have immediately taken his life, even if he was just thrown into the dungeon and left on his own, it wouldn’t even be an hour before he would succumb and die from his injuries, without any possibility for revival!
To him, Jun Wu Xie was the benefactor who saved his life, and that was a debt of gratitude he would never be able to forget.
Unfortunately…..
With the level of powers he possessed, it was not enough to help Jun Wu Xie much.
Jun Wu Xie picked up the cup of clear tea before her and clinked it lightly against Nalan Shan’s raised cup before she finished it in a single gulp. With everything that have happened in the Spirit World, some were good and some were bad, but regardless of that, she would never forget it.
Volume 22
Chapter 2133: Back to the Middle Realm (1)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
With a song, and a cup of wine, this night, was to be their final time of revelry in the Spirit World.
The Spirit Lord spared no expense with his own power of the spirit to magically create the best wine, and the most delicious food.
The Hell Butterfly fluttered around in a dance within the loft, the Double Headed Bone Snake slid and slithered it nimble body happily on the floor, their movements coming together to form a
beautiful and mystical dance.
As Jun Wu Xie saw song and dance rising up, her heart was comforted by a strong feeling of tranquility. What she looked forward to the most, was for life to be like this, where there wasn’t all that much of ups and downs, plain and simple, like a narrow stream that flowed a long way, that was real life for her.
“In the future, we’ll come back.” Jun Wu Yao said, his hand grasped around Jun Wu Xie’s under the table.
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.
The day of parting finally arrived and the fiery skeleton horse appeared once again before Jun Wu Xie and the others. Stepping onto the carriage, it also signalled the end of their trip here to the Spirit World.
As the skeletal horse trod upon the blazing flames and went further away, Brownie who stood in its spot could finally no longer hold back as it let out a roar of sadness.
…..
Upon boundless grass plains in the Middle Realm, a wild wind howled that blew over the fresh green grass sending ripples to wash over the fields. The iron shod hooves of the stallions pumped through the waving grass in full sprint, and upon the two white stallions, a stunning male and female pair urged their horses forward.
The gracefully elegant figures were like two white streaks of light, quickly disappearing like two flashes of lightning.
One year ago, the Twelve Palaces were struck by heavy disaster. All the Palace Lords were wiped out completely and the Summit of the Twelve Palaces that had many people gasping in awe back then had now become the Twelve Palaces’ turning point into decline and decay. From then on, the Twelve Palaces had disappeared from everyone’s sight, and in their place, was now the Spirit Jade Palace that the Twelve Palaces had oppressed for a thousand years.
The Spirit Jade Palace had emerged as a strong force to be reckoned with where they swept out all remnants of the Twelve Palaces. Under their oppressive powerful might, they captured and assumed all of the Twelve Palaces’ forces, to become the final beneficiary of the Twelve Palaces’ demise in a single bound. They consolidated all the remaining strength of the Twelve Palaces and people who did not want to leave from the Twelve Palaces were taken in and reassigned by the Spirit Jade Palace. The conflict and strife that had plagued the Twelve Palaces for a thousand years was finally brought to an end by the Spirit Jade Palace.
The demise of the Twelve Palaces brought success to the Spirit Jade Palace, where the Spirit Jade Palace had merely taken just one year to become a tremendous force powerful enough to stand against the Nine Temples.
Initially, the disparity between the might of the Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples was not considered to be all that great but because of the Twelve Palaces’ refusal to give in to each other, bringing about constant fighting that increasingly drained them internally, which caused them to be unable to catch up with the Nine Temples’ pace.
And now, with divided forces gathered together as one, even if they were unable to surpass the Nine Temples within a short period of time, they had become far stronger than the previous Twelve Palaces who were locked in a constant struggle for supremacy.
Towards the Spirit Jade Palace’s rise, rumours in the Middle Realm were rife and they differed greatly. Before the Summit of the Twelve Palaces, no one could have ever thought that the Spirit Jade Palace that had been backed into a corner with no way out would actually still be able to see the day they could spring back and rise again!
Someone had once said that the rise of the Spirit Jade Palace was only because they managed to find themselves a mysterious and powerful ally. And it was the Spirit Jade Palace’s mysterious ally that had used oppressive might to overwhelm everyone during the Summit of the Twelve Palaces and sent the Twelve Palaces straight into Hell. From then on, the words Twelve Palaces were then pushed right out from the books of history. The Spirit Jade Palace’s return to power, the Twelve Palaces’ history irrecoverably altered, the powers that previously submitted to the Twelve Palaces all at the feet of the Spirit Jade Palace. In an instant, the Spirit Jade Palace had suddenly become a hot and burning might among the Middle Realm’s powers.
With all that said, why had they done that and where had that powerful and mysterious army come from? Why had they disappeared without a single trace after the Twelve Palaces had been destroyed? All these doubts and questions remained in the minds of everyone, but no one knew the answers to them.
Volume 22
Chapter 2134: Back to the Middle Realm (2)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
The wind whistled through the place that had once originally been the Flame Dragons Palace. The once sacred and glorious Palace had been flattened completely, and a new stylishly elegant building now stood over its original location. It was the Spirit Jade Palace’s branch for the region. Although the Spirit Jade Palace consolidated all of the Twelve Palaces’ forces, it did not do like what the Twelve Palaces did, forcing their subordinate powers to offer up tributes.
They had even handed the land where the people lived, back to the citizenry, benefits that the Twelve Palaces had once seized.
Immediately, the people in the territories of all the Twelve Palaces were feeling deeply grateful to the Spirit Jade Palace as back when they were living under the oppression of the Twelve Palaces, all of them could barely even eke out a living. For so many long years, the Twelve Palaces had been constantly locked in their struggle to locate the Dark Emperor’s tomb. Throughout that period, the amount of manpower and material resources depleted had been hard to imagine, with the money required for such an expedition squeezed out from the common citizens and their various vassal powers.
With the Spirit Jade Palace taking over the position of the Twelve Palaces, it allowed the oppressed people to enjoy great reprieve, to live a more peaceful life.
In that instant, the Spirit Jade Palace’s reign had then not only not encountered any resistance, they even enjoyed a great deal of support where some of the citizens had even taken the initiative to help the Spirit Jade Palace capture the Twelve Palaces’ surviving remnants.
In the city that the Flame Dragons Palace once stood, the citizens were all filled with respect and gratitude towards the Spirit Jade Palace.
“Miss Xue Er, you’ve come. These are some fruits we have just harvested this year. Will you bring some back?” When the citizens of the city saw one of the young ladies from the Spirit Jade Palace, they immediately crowded around her, everyone of them holding fresh produce in their hands, eagerly offering them as a gift to her.
Although those things were not worth a lot of money, but they were gifts that well represented the gratitude in their hearts.
The young lady named Xue Er, looked to be only about eighteen or nineteen years of age and her rosy little face was filled with complete helplessness at that moment. It wasn’t just her. As long as any of their sisters from the palace came out on a trip, they would all be met with such a passionate reception from the citizens. Such hospitality, quickly caused the young ladies who had not had much interaction with the outside world before to become flustered and helpless.
Having been persecuted by the Twelve Palaces for a thousand years, how many of the Spirit Jade Palace disciples had lost their lives mysteriously out here in the world? How could they have imagined that they would see a day where they could really come out from that dim cave within Mount Fu Yao? They would never have imagined that they would be able to be just like any regular person, to be able to stand at ease under the sun’s rays, to interact with people out there in the world.
Towards such passion, the disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace went from feeling panic to gratitude. The people who were truly grateful were them. They were finally able to live freely and in contentment just like a normal person.
Before the passionate citizens, Xue Er politely refused all their offerings as she tried to escape from them.
After the Spirit Jade Palace assimilated all of the Twelve Palaces’ forces, the first thing they did wa
s not to build a palace for the Spirit Jade Palace themselves, but to gather all of their existing disciples together, to order them that they were not to use the Spirit Jade Palace’s might to bully or oppress the citizens, and that they were not allowed to carelessly accept gifts from the citizens, or they would be immediately thrown out of the Spirit Jade Palace, never to return.
Towards this warning from the Spirit Jade Palace Lord, every single one of the ladies remembered in deep in their hearts. They were ladies of simple and honest character and to be able to freely walk out from Mount Fu Yao was already the greatest fortune to them and they did not need to ask for more.
Finally walking out from the city after much difficulty, Xue Er blew out a breath of relief and raised her head, to look up at the slender figure on top of a slope before the city gates.
That figure was petite and thin, looking a little grim. The wind blew her hair up, the black hair fluttering freely behind her as she stood facing the strong breeze, where she looked like she stood apart from the rest of the world.
Volume 22
Chapter 2135: Back to the Middle Realm (3)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Xue Er looked at the lonely figure and her eyes flashed with a sliver of sadness and helplessness. But very quickly, she pushed back the look in her eyes and put on a brilliant smile on her face as she walked herself towards the figure.
The figure remained standing in its spot, not moving an inch. Xue Er walked over to the figure’s side and she still did not show any reaction. On her face, she wore a dark bronze mask. The mask covered her entire face, revealing only a pair of calm but slightly expectant eyes.
“Senior, life is really great now. I had never thought that we will ever be able live like this. The past one year has been the happiest time of my life.” Xue Er said as she followed the other girl’s gaze that was looking a far way off, her little round face rosy, looking very much like an apple.