That highly subtle hint, had immediately upon Jun Wu Xie’s appearance, after just two short profound sentences, been pulled to the surface, rising within the hearts of everyone there.
Never in his dreams would Zhuge Yin ever have thought that things would turn out like this. He looked at the gazes of all the youths staring at him, filled with strong animosity, every single pair of those eyes highly critical.
The Dragon Slayers Palace had always been secure with their third ranked position among the Twelve Palaces. They never strove to overtake the reign from the Blood Fiend Palace and the Flame Demons Palace while possessing sufficient might to hold the other palaces back. Such safe and conservative behaviour, was done to allow them to gain the biggest benefits from all the struggles among all the other palaces.
But all of that, had been pricked open up with just a few words from Jun Wu Xie.
All that had happened today, would definitely be brought back to their respective palaces by all these youths when they go back, to reach the ears of their Elders. And the position of the Dragon Slayers Palace that stood within the hearts of the other palaces would be greatly altered.
From being a power that one did not have to guard against, to become a highly threatening enemy!
Volume 18
Chapter 1707: “Torture Ones Heart Over Killing Him (3)”
From being a power that one did not have to guard against, to become a highly threatening enemy!
Beat Zhuge Yin to death and he would never have thought that his own personal grievance would actually bring so much trouble onto the Dragon Slayers Palace. The smile on his face was already non existent but had been replaced with a kind of worry and unease.
Unfortunately, Jun Wu Xie was not going to give him anymore time to even think.
Young Lord Zhuge. Whether you are going to kill or release him, is entirely up to you. I will wait right here for your decision. Jun Wu Xie said highly calmly, looking like he was awash with cold and utter despair, after having seen the situation with crystal clarity, and was wrought with pure and complete helplessness.
Jun Wu Xies words, had sparked worry in the hearts of many in there, and the gazes they threw upon Zhuge Yin grew sharper and sharper.
In an instant, Zhuge Yin had suddenly been pushed into a highly awkward position.
The stares everyone was giving him made him feel rather flustered, and his mind to go blank.
And right at that moment, aiming just for that right instant, Fei Yan took a quick step to jump onto the arena stage, blocking himself between Zhuge Yin and Yue Yi as he stood with a wide smile before everyone.
Its just a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding. There are times that a slip cannot be avoided and our Young Lord here had absolutely no intentions of making things difficult for our friend from the Shadow Moon Palace at all. Our little brother here, is there a need to make things sound so melodramatic? Our Young Lord is merely joking with you.
Upon saying that, Fei Yan turned to look at Zhuge Yin.
Zhuge Yin started slightly and his mind was still whirring with a faint humming. He couldnt be bothered with anything else now as the only thing on his mind now was the crisis he had brought upon the Dragon Slayers Palace with his own actions.
It must be known that this place was filled with disciples from all the Twelve Palaces and anything that caused a stir, however small, would surely reach the ears of every single Palace Lord throughout the Twelve Palaces. Moreover, he had openly snubbed Qiao Chu from the Flame Demons Palace earlier, not giving him any face. With that, the Flame Demons Palace might very well start to think that the Dragon Slayers Palace were seeking to overtake them.
Though unconsciously, he had planted such a bad seed for the Dragon Slayers Palace this day. That was a consequence that even Zhuge Yin would not be able to answer for!
With Fei Yan jumping in so abruptly, Zhuge Yins mind suddenly could not function for that moment. He could only see Fei Yan signalling at him with her eyes and Zhuge Yin did not have any time to think at all as he said stiffly: It was all just a misunderstanding. I am merely playing a little with the disciple from the Shadow Moon Palace. Fei Yan, quickly help Young Master Yue over there.
Fei Yan immediately picked up Yue Yi who had already fallen into semi consciousness, and calling out for another two disciples from the Dragon Slayers Palace to carry Yue Yi off the arena stage.
A bright garish trail of blood, following the path Yue Yi was moved, stood out blindingly red against the floor.
Little Brother, I am handing your Senior over to you now, so make haste and hurry on back. Do not keep todays misunderstanding in your heart as our Young Lord always like to joke around. Fei Yan came up before Jun Wu Xie and said, making a show of cordial amiability.
Zi Jin hurried forward to hold up Yue Yi, her hands quickly becoming covered in blood from coming into contact with Yue Yi, her eyes immediately turning red rimmed.
Alright! This matter shall henceforth be forgotten. Fei Yan said with a laugh, showing a nonchalant indifference to everyone, as he discreetly shot a meaningful glance to Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes slightly.
After Yue Yi was carried off the arena stage, Zhuge Yin stepped off as well. Even though he kept his eyes looking straight ahead, he could still feel just how incisive the gazes being heaped upon him from all sides was.
Zhuge Yin tried his best to disregard all those prickly stares coming in from all directions as he subconsciously quickened his steps, almost to the point like he was running away, to leave the stares of everyone there behind him.
Fei Yan then led the others from the Dragon Slayers Palace to follow.
But their leaving did not bring the slightest ounce of relief to the tense atmosphere in there.
Volume 18
Chapter 1708: “Torture One’s Heart Over Killing Him (4)”
All around the arena stage, it had turned quiet. The heavy stench of blood tingling everyone’s noses, the long trail of blood stretching from the top of the stage to below it drawing everyone’s eyes where they were unable to turn away from it.
[A joke? A misunderstanding?]
[The Dragon Slayers Palace who had said those words must be the one that’s joking instead!]
They were all not such dimbulbs, not blind to see for themselves.
Zhuge Yin’s actions that drove Yue Yi helplessly into a corner, could not have been all because of a joke.
It was all just due to the pairs of eyes fixed upon him, that had awakened him and in an attempt to not blow up the matter any further, he had quickly tried to brush the entire matter off.
At that moment, everyone was secretly feeling fortunate that they had not continued to be blindsided, but to see the tyrannical arrogance the Dragon Slayers Palace was showing. That had then made the Dragon Slayers Palace restrain themselves. If not for that, after that disciple from the Shadow Moon Palace was killed today, it might very well be their turn next.
“What happened here?” An Elder from the Pure Grace Palace exclaimed as he came rushing in leading a group of their disciples. These battles at the arena were just supposed to just create a distraction for all the disciples from the other palaces and the Pure Grace Palace had not paid it much attention but trouble had erupted from it!
The Pure Grace Palace’s Elder had just come walking in when he saw the copious amount of blood upon the arena platform, a bright garish red which caused him to immediately gasp in shock!
That amount of blood could not possibly have been spilt from any minor wound!
Unease quickly rose within the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder’s heart. Regardless of which palace the disciple was from, the fact that it happened in the Pure Grace Palace would definitely drag the Pure Grace Palace into the muck, which was the last thing that they would want to see.
Very quickly, the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder noticed Yue Yi who was being held up by Zi Jin and he quickly went over to them, his expression highly flustered as he asked: “Ho
w is our little young brother? He’s so severely injured. Send him back to his room quickly and I’ll immediately send someone over to have a look at his wounds.”
Jun Wu Xie raised up her head and looked at the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder who was looking highly concerned and she told him coldly: “We wouldn’t want to trouble the Pure Grace Palace. The Shadow Moon Palace can take care of our own people. As for what happened here?”
Jun Wu Xie raised up an eyebrow, the ends of her mouth curled up in a sneer.
“Seeing that the Elder came here in such a rush, could you possibly not know what happened here at all?”
Jun Wu Xie’s words caused the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder to stiffen up. He had not thought that the tiny and delicate looking youth before him could be so prickly with his words.
Indeed, he had already received reports earlier from their disciples in the Pure Grace Palace who said that Zhuge Yin and Yue Yi were matched against each other but he had not paid it much attention. It was until a disciple from the Blood Fiend Palace came rushing to them, and telling them that someone was going to be killed that made the Elder jump up, and rush himself over here.
In truth, though the Pure Grace Palace did not want anyone dying within their territories on their watch, they were also highly reluctant to gain the ire of the Dragon Slayers Palace. Hence, they had no intentions of probing into the incident but just wanted to divert everyone’s attention away from it.
Never would he have thought that their intentions would be so mercilessly seen through by Jun Wu Xie immediately.
The Elder’s face quickly froze completely.
“Zi Jin, bring Yue Yi back.” Jun Wu Xie did not even look at the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder as she turned to go back the way she had come.
Seeing the backs of the group of people with Jun Wu Xie, the brows of the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder creased up together, disliking the sharp retort within the Shadow Moon Palace’s words.
“It’s a whole bunch of young and energetic people here and a momentary slip of judgement is unavoidable. There’s no need for all of you to be nervous about this and I would like to suggest that everyone go back to get some rest.” The Pure Grace Palace’s Elder said, not wanting to think anymore about it but to down play the entire incident, but the eyes of the people there looking at him turned a little strange.
Volume 18
Chapter 1709: “Played (1)”
It seemed nobody took the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder’s words to heart. The look that all the youths gave the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder made the Elder unconsciously feel overcome with self guilt.
In truth, there was nothing wrong with the Elder’s actions from the Pure Grace Palace’s perspective. The Pure Grace Palace had absolutely no intentions of offending any of the other palaces and regardless of how wrong Zhuge Yin had been this day no matter how one looked at it, the Shadow Moon Palace did not have any special relationship with the Pure Grace Palace either. Hence, the neutral stance that the Pure Grace Palace was taking was quite understandable.
If this had happened under normal circumstances, those words might have been deemed a little bit more acceptable.
But the problem was that Jun Wu Xie had incited everyone against Zhuge Yin’s actions earlier and all the youths were at that moment very much against Zhuge Yin’s overly cruel methods. For the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder to come forward trying to smooth out the situation at that moment, it left a rather sour taste in the mouths of the youths.
It just felt like it was because he feared the Dragon Slayers Palace’s might, that he was siding with Zhuge Yin.
The bunch of youths had taken quite a fright from Zhuge Yin’s methods and now they are seeing that the Pure Grace Palace was siding with the Dragon Slayers Palace. That just reminded all of them even more strongly of the Dragon Slayers Palace’s fearless tyranny, and the Pure Grace Palace’s inaction against it.
Thinking that they would still have to remain in the Pure Grace Palace for quite a period, the youths were feeling rather displeased at the Pure Grace Palace’s refusal to do anything about it.
This did not assure them of their safety here in any way, having been invited here to the Pure Grace Palace but unable to receive any protection from them. That realization was then lumped together with the feelings they held against Zhuge Yin, dragging the Pure Grace Palace into it as well.
Feeling highly conflicted, the faces of the youths shown to the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder did not look good at all as they fell into groups to depart from the place, the look within all their eyes causing the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder’s face to stiffen up.
He wasn’t a dumb block and he couldn’t possibly miss the kind of the displeasure the youths felt towards him. But there was no reason for all that animosity which greatly confused the Pure Grace Palace’s Elder, causing him to feel rather aggrieved.
They had taken the effort to arrange something for these dastardly kids and in the end, they created trouble by themselves and were blaming it upon the Pure Grace Palace. To what end were the Pure Grace Palace be doing all this for?
The battle arena ended unhappily with no one the winner within the Pure Grace Palace. The Dragon Slayers Palace had not even seen them put forth a neutral stance and the disciples from all the other palaces had mistaken them for cowering before the Dragon Slayers Palace’s might.
Zhuge Yin was highly flustered and filled with frustration when he returned to his room, his mind chaotic.
On the arena stage earlier, he had clearly seen the eyes of the youths from the other palaces. The wariness he had seen in their gazes gave him a highly ominous feeling in his heart. He had not thought that his one single moment of glee today would end up bringing the displeasure of all the other palaces upon the Dragon Slayers Palace, a point he had never expected to happen.
The decision to torment Yue Yi had just been his own personal matter but in the end, with just a few words, Jun Wu Xie had elevated the incident to become one where the Dragon Slayers Palace were using their might to bully others. Moreover, Zhuge Yin had not even been able to utter a single word in rebuttal. Earlier on the arena stage, Zhuge Yin had not been able to react immediately to all that was happening, but on his way back to his room, he had analysed every single word that Jun Wu Xie had said back and forth and that was when he realized something.
That kid had pretended to be servile and helpless which just showed his arrogance and fearlessness more greatly in contrast. Zhuge Yin had originally thought that that was Jun Wu Xie’s personality, a hopeless weakling, but it suddenly felt as if there was something rather fishy about it.
“Damn it! I had actually been played out by that scoundrel!” Zhuge Yin said angrily as he sat within a chair, feeling so incensed he slammed his fist onto the table which immediately caused the surface of the sturdy rosewood table to be covered with a web of cracks.
If not for those few words and that frail demeanor from Jun Wu Xie, why would the people from the other palaces even begin to implicate the Dragon Slayers Palace into all of this?
Volume 18
Chapter 1710: “Played (2)”
Fei Yan came into Zhuge Yin room after awhile and the moment he stepped in the door, he saw Zhuge Yin angry with his jaws clenched tight, which just made Fei Yan think it funny secretly inside.
From young, Zhuge Yin had been pampered and carefully held in the palm by everyone. He possessed great powers, was greatly gifted, but his mind was not as nimble like Jun Wu Xie was. With just a few words, Jun Wu Xie had not only made Zhuge Yin stop with his cruel torment of Yue Yi, but had even pushed both Zhuge Yin and the Dragon Slayers Palace right into the eye of the storm! And Zhuge Yin was not even given any opportunity to retaliate at all, truly killing two birds with one stone, without even getting any blood on her hands.
With Zhuge Yin’s kind of temperament, thinking of pitting himself against Jun Wu Xie would just be courting death. Aggrievement, was a bitter pill he had no choice but to swallow this time!
; Not just him alone, but even the Dragon Slayers Palace had to swallow it as well!
“Young Lord.” Fei Yan called out as he quelled the mocking smile rising up within his eyes, to look at Zhuge Yin with a look of obedience.
Zhuge Yin was feeling rather testy and seeing Fei Yan come in, the gloominess on his face did not fade in the slightest. “I shouldn’t have allowed that kid from the Shadow Moon Palace spout all that nonsense! Before that scoundrel arrived, I should have finished Yue Yi off! Letting that kid come to the arena to utter all that nonsense, it caused the situation to turn out rather awkward for me.”
Zhuge Yin became more infuriated the more he thought about it. He had never had to swallow a bitter pill like this. Being pinned with such a big hat upon his head and he was not even given a chance to explain himself at all.
If it had happened at any other time, he would have killed that big mouthed kid with a single strike of his palm.
Today’s incident, was a result that had come about due to Zhuge Yin’s pomposity and arrogance. If he had killed off Yue Yi earlier, even if Jun Wu Xie came to the scene, she wouldn’t be able to do anything to change the situation. He would have been able to walk away unscathed, and not have to face Jun Wu Xie at all, which would give her no chance of finding fault with him, nor the opportunity to say those words at all. And if he had immediately fought Jun Wu Xie the moment they met, without taking the same bullying attitude, Jun Wu Xie would also not be able to use her words to incite the fear within all the other youths.
But all of this, Zhuge Yin did none of it. He had only single mindedly thought of tormenting Yue Yi in every possible way, to use Yue Yi to humiliate Jun Wu Xie, which was what gave Jun Wu Xie that one chance to retaliate back against him.
“There is no need for the Young Lord to be angry. The matter with the Shadow Moon Palace is just a small thing and we have something more important we need to deal with at hand.” Fei Yan said gently, knowing that Zhuge Yin had truly began to harbour hatred from Jun Wu Xie.
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