Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 18

by North Night (夜北)

  He would never have thought that Jun Wu Xie would use just half a day’s time to resolve a problem he had faced for many years.

  “Aren’t you going to take a look?” Jun Wu Xie asked, her head tilted as she looked at Elder Ying.

  Elder Ying took the item but was in no hurry to open it up to see it. The hand he had pressed upon the brocade box might seem nonchalant, but Jun Wu Xie could feel his anxiety.

  He seemed to be afraid of the item in the brocade box.

  That jade pendant to him, must hold great meaning to him.

  Elder Ying took a deep breath, his gaze fixed upon the brocade box, his knuckles turned slightly white from tension as he slowly opened up the brocade box.

  In the brocade box, two jade pieces neatly cut apart lay quietly within. The two jade pieces had been placed joined together, leaving only a thin line through the middle where it was cut apart.

  With just one glance, the blood faded from Elder Ying’s face completely, his deep eyes hiding the surging tide within, his breathing becoming sluggish.

  This was a reaction that people showed when they were under extreme shock or rage…..

  “Ha….. Hahaha….. What a great Shadow Moon Palace, what a great Elder Yue….. Hahaha…..” All of a sudden, Elder Ying threw his head back and laughed. Not the slightest bit of joy in that laughter could be heard, but just rage that chilled a person’s heart.

  When one goes beyond rage, one laughs instead, as it was usually said.

  Elder Ying grasped the two jade pieces within his hand, gripping them tightly within his palm. He continued to laugh out loud, his hand tightening its grip little by little, and bright red blood droplets dripped from his hand.

  After continuing to laugh for a long while, Elder Ying’s laughter suddenly stopped. He lowered his head, his eyes turned bloodshot, that glaringly red pair of eyes staring unwaveringly at the blood stained jade pendant in his palm, those frightening eyes of his hiding grief and despair underneath.

  “Kid, do you know the origins of this jade pendant?” Elder Yue’s voice was a little hoarse, sounding highly repressed.

  “I do not know.” Jun Wu Xie had studied the jade pendant, but she did not find anything peculiar about it, and even Ye Sha had not known anything about the jade pendant.

  “Do you know of the Zhan Family Clan?” Elder Ying lifted his eyes, to look at Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie shook her head.

  Elder Ying then said with a bitter smile: “My real name is Zhan Miao, the Zhan Family Clan’s current Family Head. Our Zhan Family Clan had been in existence from a few thousand years ago in the Middle Realm and the successive generations of people in our clan had witnessed with their own eyes the changes the Middle Realm had undergone.”

  Volume 18

  Chapter 1798: “Zhan Family Clan (2)”

  The Zhan Family Clan was one of the oldest clans in the Middle Realm that had enjoyed grandeur for a time when even before the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces had been founded, they had gained a little fame for themselves. With the passing of time, the Zhan Family Clan had over the long winding river of time’s passage accumulated through generation after generation of its descendants, a highly impressive collection of treasures in their possession. And it was because of the large number of secret treasures they had, that the Zhan Family Clan had a unique cultivation method for spirit powers, where few within the Middle Realm dared to antagonize them.

  Although the Zhan Family Clan was not able to dominate the Middle Realm, they still possess the ability to protect themselves.

  After the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces were founded, the Middle Realm fell into endless fighting and strife, where wars were waged incessantly. The Zhan Family Clan only protected themselves, taking a detached stance and did not partake in any fighting.

  The Zhan Family Clan had once had its time of glory but after that, their numbers grew thin and when it reached Zhan Miao’s generation, he was the only heir among three generations, where even his grandfather’s generation only had his father as the only heir, without having even one sister.

  The Zhan Family Clan had always maintained a low profile but for some unknown reason, the generations of Family Heads had died before they were advanced in age and the offsprings they left behind were few. When it came to Zhan Miao, he enjoyed conjugal bliss with his wife for more than ten years and it was when he reached close to forty before he had a son, and his wife had passed away due to complications during childbirth.

  Leaving behind only one son, Zhan Qu.

  Zhan Miao had not remarried as he still missed his deceased wife and he focused only on bringing up and teaching his son Zhan Qu.

  “Zhan Qu is my only son, and the future successor of the Zhan Family Clan. Our Zhan Family Clan has a family rule, that we are not to join any other powers, and are not to have any dealings with other powers…..” When speaking till that point, Elder Ying’s gaze unconsciously sank downwards.

  The Zhan Family Clan’s family rules were strictly adhered to by the generations of Family Heads. This one family rule was set and handed down by the founding ancestor of the Zhan Family Clan and they did not know in detail why that was so but they just followed the ancestor’s will.

  But when on that day Zhan Qu brought back a beautiful girl and told Elder Ying that he wanted to marry the girl to be his wife, Elder Ying was initially ecstatic, until….. Elder Ying came to know that the girl was from the Nine Temples, and he flew into a quaking rage.

  Because of the family’s teachings, Elder Ying was highly against Zhan Qu’s marriage with the girl and tried to force them to sever their relationship completely.

  Zhan Qu resisted it endlessly where in the end, he did not hesitate to sever his ties with the Zhan Family Clan and brought the girl to go far far away.

  When he was leaving, Elder Ying had a big fight with Zhan Qu and Elder Ying cut through the jade pendant that was the Zhan Family Clan’s heirloom handed down through the generations and the broken jade pendant was taken away by Zhan Qu.

  It was several years after Zhan Qu left that the rage in Elder Ying’s heart finally subsided bit by bit and when he looked at the empty Zhan Family Clan, he kept thinking back on whether he might have done wrong. Why must he force his only son away just because of the family’s teachings?

  Remorse spread within Elder Ying’s heart and in the fifth year after his son left, people from the Shadow Moon Palace found him and also handed one half of the jade pendant over to Elder Ying.

  It was at that moment that Elder Ying came to know that his son Zhan Qu had died three years ago and Zhan Qu’s wife’s and his child’s whereabouts were unknown, or whether they were dead or alive!

  Volume 18

  Chapter 1799: “Zhan Family Clan (3)”

  That piece of news, was like a bolt out of a clear sky, that caused Elder Ying’s heart which had sunk so deep into remorse to completely crumble. He anxiously seeked out people from the Shadow Moon Palace to ask how his son had died, and where his daughter in law and his grandchild had gone.

  The people from the Shadow Moon Palace only said that they had accidently stumbled the matter and did not know much about the cause or things that happened after. Moreover, the Zhan Family Clan had no relations with the Shadow Moon Palace at all and there was no need for them to spend too much effort to help him investigate into the truth behind it.

  There was no one else in the Zhan Family Clan and even if Elder Ying wanted to investigate, he did not have enough power to do it. With the hint from the Shadow Moon Palace, Elder Ying decided to abandon his family’s teachings and he joined the Shadow Moon Palace, presenting to them a whole batch of the Zhan Family Clan’s secret treasures, in exchange for the Shadow Moon Palace to help him search for his daughter in law and grandchild.

  That one search continued on for a stretch of ten years. In the beginning, the Shadow Moon Palace would still send people to go search. But as time went on, that matter became old news and if not for the fact
that Elder Ying sent men out on his own to go search, the entire matter would have been completely forgotten by Shadow Moon Palace.

  But after having search for so many years, Elder Ying had gotten nothing out of it, unable to find out anything about the death of his son.

  Were it not for the fact that no one could replicate the family heirloom jade, Elder Ying would really have thought that all of that was just a scheme cooked up by the Shadow Moon Palace.

  After looking into it for so long, Elder Ying was also feeling that things were rather suspicious and he turned his sights from all over the Middle Realm onto the Shadow Moon Palace itself. Surrounding the death of his son, there were just too many mysteries. How did the Shadow Moon Palace so coincidentally see it happen? And how did the Zhan Family Clan’s jade pendant come to fall into the hands of the Shadow Moon Palace? And how was the Shadow Moon Palace able to ascertain the origins of that jade pendant and come to seek him out?

  From the start, Elder Ying had been highly flustered by the death of his son. But over so many years, as he came to understand the Shadow Moon Palace more, he could not help but have a strong feeling that his son’s death that many years ago was intricately linked to the Shadow Moon Palace.

  And the thing that worried him the most, was about the daughter in law and grandchild that he had never met.

  The reason that he would turn his sights inward upon Elder Yue, was because all the most insidious deeds committed by the Shadow Moon Palace were mainly all plotted by Elder Yue’s hand and towards the certain kind of reprehensible habits that Elder Yue was prone to that was not know to others, Elder Yue knew about it clearly.

  It was hard for him to even imagine. If his own grandchild had fallen into that monster’s hands, what kind of a pitiable state it would be!

  Elder Ying’s heart had been highly conflicted. Although he wished to be able to find traces of a clue from Elder Yue’s side, but he was also very worried that if he really discovered it, it would mean that his grandchild had fallen victim to Elder Yue’s monstrous claws.

  All of that, made Elder Ying highly worried and torn. But when he saw the brocade box that Jun Wu Xie brought in, the highly taut string within his heart finally snapped.

  Two clear streams of tears fell from Elder Ying’s eyes. He just could not accept all of this. After waiting for more than ten years, he was getting himself such a result. He just could not accept it.

  “Kid, what is your objective in coming to the Shadow Moon Palace?” Elder Ying’s eyes narrowed to a slit. He held only hatred towards the Shadow Moon Palace.

  It was now clear that the Shadow Moon Palace had come to entice him to join them, was only because they were eyeing the Zhan Family Clan’s treasures and unique cultivation method. Over the years, he had taken out quite a number of his clan’s secret treasures to present to the Palace Lord to show his loyalty to the palace. But only he knew the level of disgust he held hidden against the Shadow Moon Palace.

  At the very moment he saw the Zhan Family Clan’s jade pendant, his hatred immediately reached new heights!

  Jun Wu Xie looked at Elder Ying’s eyes that were filled with nothing but pure hatred, and her eyes flashed with a glint of understanding.

  What Elder Ying seeked to do, had come to match her objective unplanned.

  “I want to destroy the Shadow Moon Palace.”