Jun Wu Xie gritted her teeth, she didn’t want the Jun Family so helpless.
“You should go rest up.” Jun Xian sighed heavily. He was feeling very reluctant, but he was not prepared to risk the lives of his son and granddaughter.
Persecuted though no fault of theirs.
The noble Jun Family had to suffer such injustice.
If the Qing Yun Clan was aware that the other half of the Soul Jade was in the Jun Family’s possession. The Qing Yun Clan will come knocking in demand if the Jun Family did not surrender it.
Jun Wu Xie stood up, and left without a word.
She walked out of the study and looked up into the night sky. The bright round moon and the star studded sky could not stir up any feelings of appreciation.
“What’s on your mind?” A bemused voice rang out.
Jun Wu Xie did not turn her head, as she knew who that was.
“Jun Wu Yao.” She called, eyes fixed to the sky.
“Hmm?”
“Are you strong?”
The steps that were going towards Jun Wu Xie stopped. He did not rush up as he usually did, to put her in his embrace. He narrowed his eyes, and looked at the solitary back before him.
“I would think so.”
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Chapter 192: “I Need to Get Stronger (2)”
“How strong?” Jun Wu Xie asked still staring at the night sky.
Jun Wu Yao laughed, “How strong do you want me to be?”
“Strong enought to kill all those people, can you do it?” Jun Wu Xie finally turned, her clear eyes flashed with determination.
No one would understand, what she had felt when she saw the looks of helplessness and despair on Jun Xian and Jun Qing, and how much it had hurt her.
Her family, should not live so compromised.
Jun Wu Yao raised an eyebrow, this was the first time Jun Wu Xie had asked him to kill someone and he was surprised. He had always thought the little girl was not too interested in him.
“Whatever you long for, there is not much that can stop me.” Jun Wu Yao smiled.
“They want something from the Jun Family, but if we give it to them, my grandfather and uncle will be heartbroken.” Jun Wu Xie said, biting on her lip. She might still not understand much on the emotions involved in relationships between people, but the prickling pain in her heart could clearly be felt.
Jun Wu Xie did not know, why she was telling all this to Jun Wu Yao.
The man was mysterious, dangerous and savage. But somehow, she had a feeling that she just needed to ask, and he would deliver.
This inexplicable trust, confused her totally.
“If you don’t feel like giving it to them, then just keep it.” Jun Wu Yao saw a different Jun Wu Xie tonight. Her eyes showed confusion with the myriad emotions within, like she was thinking, and learning at the same time.
“The other party is too strong, much stronger than Lin Palace. If we refuse, they will strike at Lin Palace.” Jun Wu Xie was certain, Lin Palace was nothing in the eyes of the Qing Yun Clan. In fact, not just Lin Palace, they thought nothing of the whole Kingdom of Qi.
You could tell, from the way Jiang Chen Qing had treated Mo Qian Yuan, the Emperor of Qi.
Rise up in protest, or cower in subservience?
“Then, just kill them all.” Jun Wu Yao’s laughter was almost devilish, his easy tone of voice made it seem killing people mattered little to him.
“You are thinking whether to endure the pain to avoid the heavy repercussions that will come?” Jun Wu Yao asked when Jun Wu Xie remained silent.
Jun Wu Xie hesitated further before nodding slightly.
She acted as she did with the former Emperor and the Second Prince as she had complete confidence to root out the evil completely, without having to fear for any consequences. But she was not so sure with the might of the Qing Yun Clan.
It would not be difficult to kill the delegates here in the Imperial City, but the repercussions from their vengeance will be impossible to deal with.
Jun Wu Yao walked up to stand beside Jun Wu Xie. He raised his hands and held Jun Wu Xie’s shoulders and turned towards him to look at her straight into her misty eyes.
“To give in, will always be the choice of weaklings. You concede a step now, and you will get used to giving in. You do not feel like giving in one bit, right?”
“Right.” Jun Wu Xie nodded. The Jun Family had endured too much the past ten years, and she was not willing to allow her grandfather and uncle live under any form of suppression anymore. Handing over the Soul Jade might buy them some temporary peace, but the confidence the Jun Family won from the people after the tribulations fighting for the regime change, will be for naught and sink back into negativity.
“Then do not give in, I owe you a debt. So….. make use of me whatever way you like.” Jun Wu Yao gave her a wide smile, bowed deeply and took her small hand in his, and laid a gentle kiss on it.
“I can be the blade you wield, and be your shield from your enemies, you can choose to use me in whatever way you want.”
Jun Wu Xie stared at him, “Why?” They did not owe each other anymore, why was he willing to help her to such an extent?
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Jun Wu Yao laughed at her question: “It’s my pleasure.”
What an wilful and arrogant answer!
Jun Wu Xie stared silently, trying to fathom the man’s heart and guess what he was thinking.
“Just do what you want to do. I will be with you at all times protecting you. I am your brother, protecting my sister is to be expected. Right?” Jun Wu Yao raised a hand and ruffled her head and a thought came into his mind. If this little girl would speak to him civilly all the time like today, even without the embrace and kisses, it felt rather comforting.
Jun Wu Xie was surprised.
Brother?
That qualifies as family as well right?
Jun Wu Xie stood in front of Jun Wu Yao for a moment more, her eyes different from before. She nodded at Jun Wu Yao, and turned away, running to the study.
She was rushing to tell Jun Xian and Jun Qing, she didn’t want to dig up her father’s grave.
Even if it meant going against the Qing Yun Clan, the Jun Family will not bend their backs an inch!
Seeing Jun Wu Xie back disappearing from his sight in the distance, Jun Wu Yao could not stop smiling.
“This was the first time the little devil had spoken in such an amicable manner to me, it felt rather good.” Jun Wu Yao was in the courtyard alone, as if talking to himself.
A shadow appeared beside him, barely visible standing within Jun Wu Yao’s shadow.
“The Missy sees you treat her well, my Lord.” The man in black replied in a low voice, having witnessed everything earlier. He stole a peek at Jun Wu Yao, and felt that something seemed not right.
“Besides Jun Xian and Jun Qing, she had never spoken to anyone so amicably.” Jun Wu Yao was in a great mood, thinking how she had always bossed over the damned Crown Prince all over the place, and remembering the look in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes when she left, his stone cold heart gave a seldom seen flutter.
“The Miss places great importance on family.” The shadow reminded cautiously.
However, the Lord’s mood was almost ecstatic and did not catch it.
“Right.”
The shadow looked at the happy smile plastered on his Lord’s face and was nervously thinking whether he should remind his Lord, that this Miss change in attitude towards him might be taking a completely different direction from what his Lord is thinking?
The Miss had obviously heard and hung on to his Lord’s proclamation of being her ‘brother’!
Clearly the Miss had steered the relationship with his Lord toward the direction of being siblings!
His Lord was more inclined to be her lover than a brother…..
“Go find out everything you can about the tiny Qing Yun Clan.” Jun Wu Yao exhorted. I
f Jun Wu Xie decides to retaliate, exterminating the delegation from Qing Yun Clan will only be the beginning. The Jun Wu Xie he knew, will annihilate them by rooting them out completely.
“Yes, my Lord.” Seeing his savage and vicious lord, spurred on by this Miss’s ‘grateful’ eyes, starting to plan for her upcoming campaign, he did not know whether to laugh or to cry.
Being so sweet and meticulous, was never a trait he saw in his Lord.
“My Lord, your servant had heard that Qing Yun Clan had some links with one of the palaces. Look…..”
The smile on Jun Wu Yao’s face faded, and his great spirit balled up into a knot of hate.
“The Twelfth Palace sure has long arms, they are even interfering with affairs in the Lower Three Realms?”
The shadow saw his Lord’s face in gloom, and whispered to himself in his heart. ‘You claim they have long arms? Your arms are not that short either.’
“No matter which palace they are linked with, those that deserve death, will have death served.” Jun Wu Yao laughed chillingly.
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Chapter 194: “Unseal the Coffin (1)”
When Jun Wu Xie arrived at the study, Jun Xian and Jun Qing were already gone. Even Long Qi and a troop of guards were missing. Jun Wu Xie went to Uncle Fu, and got to know from him that Jun Xian and Jun Qing had decided to protect the safety of the Jun Family, and had immediately set out to Jun Gu’s tombstone.
His intentions were clear to see.
“Let’s go!” Jun Wu Xie threw the little black cat outside and it transformed into its black beast form. Its newfound badge of gold extended from its chest into a mane after the transformation, lending it a more majestic and commanding look.
The Jun Family had gone yearly to Jun Gu’s tombstone for prayers and Jun Wu Xie naturally knew the way to it. Under the starry night sky, Jun Wu Xie sat upon the black beast, while it sprinted towards Jun Gu’s tomb.
The Jun Family shall not bend their backs! And Jun Gu’s grave shall not be desecrated!
The beast ran out of the city, and brought Jun Wu Xie towards the graveyard. Many who were buried there used to serve as soldiers and officers under the Jun Family’s command. They were martyrs who had sacrificed their lives in battle, and were men of valour.
Jun Xian had said, brothers in arms and comrades of the Jun Family must be buried together, for them to remain together, even in the afterlife.
When Jun Wu Xie got to the graveyard, there stood two guards dressed in the liveries of the Lin Palace. They were shocked to see Jun Wu Xie and the black beast shot past them before the guards could open their mouths in greeting.
The flustered guards stood ramrod straight in salute, at nothingness as the beast zipped by before they reacted.
Deep within the graveyard, ten over Rui Lin Army soldiers stood around a tombstone, with burning torches in their hands, their faces in grief, their motions reluctant.
Long Qi led a team of men to dig up Jun Gu’s grave. With every inch of earth they dug up, their eyes reddened more.
Buried right at this spot, was the God of War of their hearts. This man, was the one they all most revered and idolised. And today, they are forced to desecrate his grave with their own hands, disturbing his eternal rest.
Jun Xian stood at the side with his eyes closed, unable to bear the sight, and Jun Qing stood solemnly beside his father.
“My son, for the sake of the Jun Family, I am forced to cause you further grief in your place of rest.” Jun Xian said in a low voice, feeling an overwhelming sense of grief.
Jun Qing lowered his head, fists tightly clenched.
Dust flew as the coffin was raised, Jun Xian took a glance and his tall frame staggered back a step.
“My Lord! Are we really…..” Long Qi, with his eyes rimmed in red, asked of Jun Xian, whose hands were trembling.
Jun Xian took a deep breath to calm the raging emotions within, and closed his eyes and gritted his teeth. “Open!”
Wu Xie had, in order to protect the Jun Family, even gone against the former Emperor. In this matter, he did not want to involve the poor child. Although when Jun Gu died, that child had been very young. But it was her father’s grave after all, he could not bear to make the child see her own father’s grave defiled and dug up from its place of eternal rest.
Jun Xian and Jun Qing had set off immediately after Jun Wu Xie left the study, and they had not intended to tell her about it.
Long Qi clenched his teeth together and pushed the heavy lid of the coffin with the soldiers around him.
The lid creaked loudly from the movement when a massive shadow suddenly pounced out of the shadows.
“Do not open the coffin!” Jun Wu Xie’s voice rang out. Jun Xian and Jun Qing looked up at the voice and saw Jun Wu Xie sitting atop the magnificent beast, her face tinged with anxiety.
“Wu Xie? Why are you here?” Jun Xian looked flustered and gave Jun Qing a look.
Jun Qing caught the glance and walked up to stop Jun Wu Xie from taking another step.
“Wu Xie! What are you doing here!? Go back now!” Jun Qing admonished Jun Wu Xie sternly for the first time. He did not want her to witness her father’s grave defiled like that.
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Chapter 195: “Unseal the Coffin (2)”
Jun Wu Xie jumped off from the black beast, looked at Jun Qing who had on a stern expression, and said: “Uncle, I will not hand over the Soul Jade, don’t touch the grave.”
“What?” Jun Qing asked in shock.
At that moment, Long Qi let out a shout of surprise!
“My Lord! Come look!”
He had opened Jun Gu’s coffin, and he was in shock.
The three Jun Family members rushed over to see.
What they saw when they looked into the coffin left them speechless in astonishment.
“How is this …..” Jun Xian was still in shock and the trembling did not stop.
A handsome man laid within the coffin, his face at peace. The moment the Rui Lin Army soldiers around the tomb saw the face, all of them felt a strong surge of emotions deep within and almost fell to the ground.
Ten years!
Ten whole years!
They had not seen that face for ten long years. They had all bemoaned that they will never be able to lay their eyes on that face they had respected and revered ten years ago when they laid his body to rest, and will only forever become a memory.
None of them had expected, a decade later, when they unsealed his coffin, he would lie there looking exactly just as he did when they laid him to his eternal rest, like he was just asleep.
If they were not at the graveyard, and Jun Gu was not lying in the coffin they had just dug up themselves, they might very well believe he was alive and well and was just fast asleep.
A decade long, the ageing would show even on people alive, but time had not touched this man who laid dead, and buried deep underground after all this time.
Jun Gu who lay before them looked just as he had ten years ago at his burial. His bronze skin full and taut, his jet black hair stretched out beneath his body, his eyes closed, his brows as striking as ever. Below his straight sharp nose was his mouth, slightly open, holding half a piece of clear green jade. His hands were overlapped on his abdomen, holding the sword that had won him countless battles and slain countless enemies.
The sword glowed coldly under the moonlight, though hidden for ten years, it was still as sharp as ever.
Jun Xian and Jun Qing held back their tears at the sight.
Time left no trace on Jun Gu’s body, in fact he looked younger than Jun Qing, who was several years his junior.
“How did this happen? Jun Gu’s body….. Ten years….. Why is the body kept so well?” Jun Xian had a lump in his throat, as he was brought back to the time ten years ago at the funeral.
They had suffered the ravages of the past decade but Jun Gu had been frozen in time.
It was unheard of to see a body untouched by rot and decay over a dec
ade, unless it was kept in extreme cold, under the freezing snow and ice the day they died.
Jun Gu’s body was buried in the ground.
The stifling oppression they felt having to unseal the coffin to retrieve the jade melted away when they saw Jun Gu looking the same from before. The Jun father and son, and all the Rui Lin Army soldiers included, wiped away tears that slipped out from their eyes.
The man might have left the world, but he had not left from their hearts.
Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Gu who lay in the coffin, her eyes a mix of emotions.
Jun Gu and Jun Qing shared only a slight resemblance in looks, and was better endowed with his handsome features. If Jun Qing had taken more after his father in terms of looks, Jun Gu must have taken after more after his mother.
Sharp distinct features, sharp nose, handsome looks.
Jun Wu Xie looks, was definitely passed down from her father, distinct features, beautiful.
When Jun Gu passed on, he was only twenty eight, a young man.
Ten years ago, Jun Qing was twenty, and from what they can see now, Jun Gu definitely looks somewhat younger.
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Chapter 196: “Unseal the Coffin (3)”
It was the first time she saw her ‘father’ and Jun Wu Xie had mixed feelings about it.
If his body had decomposed into a pile of bones, her emotions might not be stirred up much. But looking at that face that so closely resembled hers, it was hard for Jun Wu Xie to brush it off completely.
“Let me have a closer look.” Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Qing as she suppressed her raging emotions. They did not have much knowledge or technology on preservation in this age, and Jun Gu had been dead for ten years, buried underground. His body should be a pile of bones by now, but he looked just as he did, unblemished, like he had just passed away.
Jun Qing made way for Jun Wu Xie immediately. After so much that had happened recently, Jun Qing had somehow developed a blind trust to Jun Wu Xie’s words.
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