Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 7

by North Night (夜北)

  On that piece of stone, someone had used some tool and scratched out several marks, seemingly separated into five per group.

  Volume 7

  Chapter 674: “Stone House (2)”

  “Are these marks, left behind by the owner of this stone house?” Jun Wu Xie asked herself as she lowered her head in thought, and continued to check the other stone blocks she could reach from her position. She moved her hand over several other pieces of stones and they were all densely marked by cuts similar to what she had just discovered. Five to a group, filling up the majority of stone blocks around her.

  “Little Black.” Jun Wu Xie called suddenly.

  The black beast stood up immediately.

  “Go see whether there are any markings on the stone blocks upon the structure.” From those markings, Jun Wu Xie was guessing that the owner of the stone house had used them to record time. If those marks had been etched out based on the number of days, that would mean that person had stayed here for as long as several years!

  It seems that the owner of the stone house must have lived here alone, or he wouldn’t have scratched out so many marks.

  Had he been trapped here? Or did he have some other objectives?

  After so much time had passed, Jun Wu Xie was unable to accurately guess at the reason reason from the scant clues she had.

  The black beast moved about in the room, using its furry tail to brush the dust off the stone’s surface. It stared carefully at the stone blocks one by one before it quickly turned to Jun Wu Xie and said: “There are some strange symbols and also some characters.”

  “Characters?” Jun Wu Xie asked, an eyebrow raised.

  “Mmm.” The black beast nodded in agreement.

  Jun Wu Xie then said: “Read it.”

  She was very curious what the owner of this crude stone structure had left behind.

  The black beast cleared its throat and it slowly read out the characters on the stone blocks.

  Those characters, instead of calling them the last words of the stone structure’s owner, were more like a record of his own memories of his life before he died.

  [It has been seven years….. and I still have not found a way to leave. Those terrifying monsters would always appear suddenly. I want to leave this accursed place but I don’t know how. Am I really doomed to die here?]

  [I had not ever thought, that the rest of my life would be spent here in such a place, not known to anyone and completely bare and barren, at the bottom of an impossible cliff. The human heart will never learn to be satisfied. If I had not lusted for stronger powers and might at that time, and did not agree to work together with them, I might have remained in the palace and continued to indulge in wearing fine brocaded robes, feasted on rare delicacies, consorted with beautiful women and revelled with fine wines.]

  [Purple Spirits….. Haha….. So what if I know how to raise my powers to reach the purple spirit level within a short period of time? Even the mighty purple spirit has been reduced to being trapped here like a rat in this accursed hell! I was too naive, I had thought that as long as both sides stood to benefit from it, those people would not cause me any harm. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. In their eyes, a ruler of a country was nobody to them. They did not give a damn about my country, my army at all…..]

  [I don’t think I can hold out any longer. There’s no water, no food….. I am now still living depending entirely on my spirit powers, green moss and dew….. To continue living like this, I would rather die. I had pursued singlemindedly to attain the purple spirit and that had ultimately still been unable to save me from this. I finally understand why they did not dare come here personally even when they were so outrageously powerful. It was because this place was just a living hell! Purple spirit….. purple spirit….. it was just merely the product of burning up one’s spirit power. I had actually given up all that I had for something like this. I have really been the world’s greatest fool.]

  [I will use my final vestiges of power to create a great raging inferno, to destroy everything. May my ancestors forgive me for my greed, and grant my soul salvation after my death.]

  Volume 7

  Chapter 675: “Stone House (3)”

  Those disjointed short passages almost seemed to fill an entire wall. They were not etched out at the same time but instead told of the owner’s slow and gradual decline into pure hopelessness and utter despair.

  What puzzled Jun Wu Xie was, the owner of the stone house was not someone from the Middle Realm. From the lines of words he had left behind, it was not hard to decipher that he was from the Lower Realm and had was a man who enjoyed a high and illustrious station in life, possibly a ruler of a country or a member of an imperial family.

  But he had caught the eye of the people from the Twelve Palaces and offered an avenue to attain the purple spirit as a condition in exchange for becoming their puppet and led to come here to the bottom of the Heaven’s End Cliff.

  That man had not come to this place alone and there had been at least several hundred men that had come with him. But after coming to the Heaven’s End Cliff, his followers had died one after another and only he had fortunately escaped and managed to survive. However, he had lost his direction within the foggy mist and had been unable to find his way out. He finally gathered the stones he saw in the area and erected this simple and crude stone house as a temporary shelter.

  But his temporary stay had stretched out into years.

  Jun Wu Xie could not imagine just how much in despair the man must have been in before he died to have set such a big fire, to obliterate himself together with everything else. She did not know either, what method the man had employed, to be able to make the fire burn in such a wet environment.

  But judging by the dark and grey ground outside, he must have succeeded. The land had been so badly scorched that nothing would grow on it anymore, and it had remained a bare and barren place ever since.

  Jun Wu Xie was unable to deduce how long the man had been dead and she had not found any skeletal remains anywhere nearby. The constant low temperature of the foggy mist had cleansed the blackened surface of the stone dwelling and Jun Wu Xie could roughly gauge that it had been a rather long time ago since the man had died.

  But, what Jun Wu Xie was most concerned about, were the few lines that the man had carved into the stone just before his death.

  [Purple spirit was just merely the product of burning up of one’s spirit power.]

  Those few words had fully caught Jun Wu Xie’s attention.

  Qiao Chu and the others had said people from the Middle Realm were born with the ability to induce their powers to reach the purple spirit level. And since they were equipped with the ability from birth and the fact that they had been very young when they left the Middle Realm, they did not understand it much. Even Yan Bu Gui wasn’t entirely clear on how their inborn ability worked.

  According to the dying message from the man, the ability wasn’t exclusive to people from the Middle Realm, as that man had obviously been a person from the Lower Realm and through the guidance and instruction of the people whom that man had made an agreement with, the man had actually learnt how to temporarily achieve a breakthrough to attain a purple spirit! Those words had proven it all!

  “Purple spirit was just merely the product of burning up of one’s spirit power…..” Jun Wu Xie repeatedly pondered and mulled over those same words over and over again, trying to understand the meaning behind them.

  Although her spirit powers were growing and advancing at a very fast rate, but compared to the powers of her enemies, she was still quite a far way off. Attaining the purple spirit was just the first step towards her retaliation. When she had not known that people of the Lower Realm were also able to learn the technique to temporarily raise their spirit powers to reach the purple level, she had accepted it as fact that it was impossible for her. But now that she knew that the possibility existed, she would naturally not allow the opportunity to slip out through her fing
ers easily.

  Burning up spirit power, what did that really mean?

  Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes, deep in thought. She wasn’t able to move anyway, she might as well grasp tightly upon this critical hint, and attempt to see whether she would be able to achieve any breakthrough!

  Jun Wu Xie calmed her mind, and began to push and urge the spirit power within her body to circulate within her veins and arteries. When she had worked tirelessly to upgrade the Spirit Healing Technique before, she had undergone much training on the control of the spirit power within her body. Now that the experiment called for her to carry out tests on the spirit power within her, it can be said that it was now an incredibly easy task to her.

  Volume 7

  hapter 676: “Escape from Heaven’s End Cliff (1)”

  “Where could Little Xie be?” Within the dark foggy mist, a circle of light shone brightly, bringing forth a small area of illumination moving forward slowly.

  Qiao Chu was holding a long staff in his hand, as he struggled to walk over the damp and wet moss.

  The fluttering Hell Butterfly glittered as it came flying in from the gloomy darkness towards the light surrounding the companions, coming to a rest on Rong Ruo’s fingertip.

  “Didn’t find anything.” Rong Ruo reported with her brow frowned in a deep crease. Ever since the day that they were attacked by the monster, they were suddenly separated when a powerful whirlwind had caught them in it, flinging them all in different directions. When Rong Ruo awoke, she had immediately released her tiny Hell Butterflies to search through the blinding mist for any signs of her companions.

  It had been half a month since that day, and Rong Ruo had followed her Hell Butterflies’ lead, to finally reunite with Qiao Chu and the others. Even Ye Sha and Ye Mei had been located under the Hell Butterflies’ lead but they still had not been able to locate Jun Wu Xie. She had seemingly disappeared entirely into the misty fog and no matter how many Hell Butterflies she sent out, they had still not found any sign of Jun Wu Xie.

  Surrounded by the sinkholes, their progress became painfully slow, and the anxiety that gnawed at their hearts was making them all feel terribly restless.

  Before they had been scattered, they had clearly witnessed Jun Wu Xie under the attack of that monster. Fortunately, Lord Meh Meh had stepped up at the most critical moment but none of them could be certain whether Jun Wu Xie had lived through it.

  Their hearts were all heavy, trying to avoid thinking of the worst. But no matter how slim the chance was, not a single one among them was about to give up on their search for Jun Wu Xie. They did not believe, refused to believe, that their little incredibly strong willed devil, would lose her life in this place.

  “Our Little Xie is incredibly strong. She will be able to fend for herself.” Fan Zhuo wasn’t too sure, whether he was reassuring his companions or consoling himself.

  Jun Wu Xie always had the black beast and Lord Meh Meh, her two mighty and powerful bodyguards beside her, and was deemed the safest individual among them all. But on that fateful day, Lord Meh Meh had been engulfed in flames in order to save Jun Wu Xie. Though they had not been able to clearly ascertain the extent of Lord Meh Meh’s injuries, but the sight of that blackened body, had however been branded right into their minds.

  They knew in their hearts, that Lord Meh Meh would not be able to protect Jun Wu Xie at that moment.

  The team were all unwilling to give up hope. They searched persistently for any signs of Jun Wu Xie. They had all decided, before they find her, they would not take a single step out from the Heaven’s End Cliff.

  Moreover, Ye Mei and Ye Sha were even more anxious than any of the others. If Jun Wu Xie were to lose her life here at the bottom of the Heaven’s End Cliff, they dared not imagine the kind of rage their Lord would surely blow up into!

  “This cannot continue on as is. I need to make a move first.” Ye Mei finally gritted his teeth to say. The traps around the tomb that the Dark Regime had designed and built was more complicated and extreme than they thought. He and Ye Sha had attempted to make a break through the foggy mist but the result had been abysmal.

  At this moment, the two of them were not in their peak conditions. They had been gravely injured at that time and they had yet to fully recover from their injuries, rendering them too weak to overcome the crisis at hand.

  “You want to go find our Lord?” Ye Sha stared at Ye Mei, accurately guessing at his intentions from the expression on his face.

  Ye Mei nodded.

  “Here, only our noble Lord, will be able to traverse unimpeded.”

  Ye Sha frowned as he considered it seriously, and he finally handed a little black snake over into Ye Mei’s hand.

  “When it dies, that means we have already found the Young Miss.”

  Ye Mei accepted the black snake and nodded. After bidding his farewells to Qiao Chu and the others, he immediately disappeared into the foggy mist.

  Although they were having difficulty moving forward in their exploration of the bottom of the Heaven’s End Cliff, leaving it though, was a relatively easy task.

  Surrounded by the endless dangers in all directions, they had no choice but to bring Jun Wu Yao into the picture. Otherwise, the unpardonable crime of losing Jun Wu Xie, was a charge no one in the world would be able to shoulder.

  Volume 7

  Chapter 677: “Escape from Heaven’s End Cliff (2)”

  Qiao Chu and the others did not give too much of a reaction to Ye Mei’s departure. After they had been flung out from the whirlwind, they had all sustained injuries. Fortunately for them, before they had descended down the Heaven’s End Cliff, Jun Wu Xie had allocated some medicine and elixirs to each of them and hence, that had allowed them to at least recover adequately in a short period of time, allowing them to carry out the search that quickly.

  Having searched relentlessly for so long, they were all feeling the toil in their legs as the chilling damp and freezing cold air continued to assault at their bodies, not helping the injuries they carried one tiny bit.

  Progressing slowly under the unending cloud of misty fog, they finally saw a change of terrain as they came upon a stretch of land that wasn’t covered in green moss. On that scorched and blackened ground, they even saw that there was a pile of rocks, gathered and built up to resemble a simple and crude sort of house!

  “Is that a house? Are my eyes playing tricks on me?” Qiao Chu rubbed at his eyes vigorously and blinked hard. [Was the toil already causing him to develop hallucinations!? It was impossible for a house to appear in the bottom of the unbelievably uninhabitable Heaven’s End Cliff!]

  “I’m not kidding. Your eyes should still be fine, because….. I am seeing it too!” Fei Yan said, grabbing Qiao Chu on his arm.

  The stone house’s sudden appearance had piqued all their interest and just as they were about to approach it, Ye Sha suddenly stood in their path, blocking their way forward.

  “Brother Ye Sha, what is it?” Fan Zhuo asked, noticing that Ye Sha’s expression was rather wary.

  Ye Sha narrowed his eyes as he stared at the stone house.

  “Someone is in that house.”

  No light reached the bottom of the cliff and they were still a distance away from the stone house. They suddenly realised that the stone house was not within the circle of light thrown out from their Spirit Fire Globes, but they could see the structure clearly. Slivers of light had escaped and were shining out through the cracks from inside, allowing the stone house to dimly show itself in the darkness before them.

  Ye Sha’s words made the companions freeze in their tracks.

  Qiao Chu almost immediately exclaimed excitedly: “It’s Little Xie! It must be Little Xie! I was thinking why we couldn’t find her, so she had actually found herself a place like this!” Qiao Chu was already strutting happily towards the stone house when he found himself suddenly pulled back by Ye Sha.

  “The person within the house holds a purple spirit.” Ye Sha said with a cautious frown. When
his eyes had first fallen upon the stone house, his first thought had been the same as Qiao Chu. But just as he was about to rush up, he detected the presence of a purple spirit in there. The spirit power’s aura he felt was undoubtedly that of a purple spirit.

  “What!?” Qiao Chu was suddenly shocked.

  Jun Wu Xie was only a yellow spirit. If it was indeed a purple spirit in there, that person was most definitely not Jun Wu Xie!

  “Not exactly a true purple spirit, but that person must have employed certain methods to push his spirit powers to reach the purple level.” Ye Sha’s eyes were flashed with a cold gleam as he spoke.

  After hearing Ye Sha’s words, the smiles on the faces of Qiao Chu and the others immediately stiffened.

  To be able to induce their spirit powers to reach the purple level must be someone from the Middle Realm!

  “Someone from the Middle Realm…..” Hua Yao said, his eyes fixed on the house.

  “It should be.” Ye Sha nodded.

  “Avoid?” Fan Zhuo asked with an upraised eyebrow. Although he said that, his expression was nevertheless cold and his eyes murderous.

  The only people from the Middle Realm that would come to the Heaven’s End Cliff would be from the Twelve Palaces. All the companions harboured irreconcilable animosity against the Twelve Palaces and with their hated enemy right before them, how could they hold themselves back!?

  “Such a nice quaint stone house should not be wasted on the trash from the Twelve Palaces.” Qiao Chu said in a sneering tone.

  At that moment, the companions immediately came to the same conclusion and gathered their spirit powers, before they approached the stone house at the same time!

  Ye Sha had said that there was only one person in the house and he had not attained a true purple spirit. Hence, even in the bad state their bodies were in, the few of them together should still be more than a match!