And this was the only reason that had allowed Fan Jin to live till then.
Just one true purple spirit had forced Ning Rui and Gu Ying to have to reassess the whole situation.
“Think of a way to make him leave.” Gu Ying said impatiently.
Ning Rui then said in reply: “I have already arranged for people to look into it. Wen Xin Han has a grandchild, who is currently inflicted with a life threatening disease. He used to work together with the Qing Yun Clan in order to save his grandchild and now that the Qing Yun Clan has completely disappeared, and only the Cloud Treading Peak’s Mu Chen is left. I have gotten people to go seek out Mu Chen. Once we find him, we’ll share that news with Wen Xin Han and he will surely let his own grandchild’s life take priority and leave the Zephyr Academy to go find Mu Chen.”
Gu Ying nodded and simply said: “Just settle it quickly.”
“Yes.” Ning Rui answered.
Gu Ying got up to leave and when he reached the door, his footsteps suddenly stopped. He turned his head to look at Ning Rui and asked smilingly: “That chair that someone died in, aren’t you finding it a little too comfortable to sit in?”
Ning Rui froze and Gu Ying left laughing loudly.
Volume 7
Chapter 694: “Ominous Clouds Loom (1)”
The tiny dwelling in the little bamboo grove was occupied once again but this time, the one living with Jun Wu Xie was not Fan Zhuo, but Gu Ying. It was not known what method Gu Ying used that he was able to make the loony Ah Jing really begin to serve him. Their daily three meals were prepared by Ah Jing and everytime Jun Wu Xie saw Ah Jing, Ah Jing would always glance just once fearfully at her and immediately lower his head. And whenever Gu Ying appeared, Ah Jing would just start to tremble violently.
“It has already been two days since Senior returned. Aren’t you intending to make a trip back to the Spirit Healer faculty to take a look?” Gu Ying had just pushed the door and entered Jun Wu Xie’s room without leave as he asked with a big smile on his face.
Jun Wu Xie ignored him and walked out the door on her own, going towards the Spirit Healer faculty. Gu Ying followed behind unperturbed and they met quite a number of the Zephyr Academy’s disciples along the way. When those disciples saw Gu Ying, they all bolted in different directions terror stricken, not unlike frightened birds seeing a cat, which only drew out laughter from Gu Ying.
When they came to the Spirit Healer faculty, all the disciples inside all just lowered their heads, not daring to lift their eyes when they saw Gu Ying.
Judging from the way the other disciples were reacting, Gu Ying must have caused quite a stir in the Zephyr Academy or why would the all the disciples in the entire academy be so fearful of him?
Jun Wu Xie remained silent throughout all of it and when she reached Gu Li Sheng’s door, she turned and said to Gu Ying: “I have things I need to say to him.”
Gu Ying raised an eyebrow.
“Senior should just go ahead and finish up with his business. I’ll just wait here outside.”
Gu Ying did not mind it in the least for Jun Wu Xie to meet with Gu Li Sheng alone. Throughout the entire Zephyr Academy, the only person that caused Gu Ying any concern was Wen Xin Han and Wen Xin Han only cared about Fan Jin’s life and he did not seem to be interested in meddling into any other affairs in the academy.
Both Jun Wu Xie and Gu Li Sheng were people they wanted to have remain behind and there was nothing for him to worry about.
Jun Wu Xie did not find Gu Ying’s cooperative demeanor strange. Through her observations, she had managed to get a good grasp of Gu Ying’s mind.
In Gu Ying’s mind, she and Gu Li Sheng might already be perceived as birds trapped in their cages.
Jun Wu Xie rapped her knuckles on the door to Gu Li Sheng’s office. It was silent for a moment behind the door before Gu Li Sheng’s voice rang out. Jun Wu Xie pushed the door open and she shut the door tight after she entered, isolating Gu Ying’s smiley eyes from them.
“Jun Xie!” Gu Li Sheng’s face had been filled with worry and anxiety in the office but even his eyes saw Jun Wu Xie, they lit up immediately. He quickly got up from behind his desk and strode over to Jun Wu Xie with wide long steps.
“Why are you back?” Gu Li Sheng’s voice wasn’t too loud, like he was purposely lowering his voice.
“My business was finished and so I came back.” Jun Wu Xie replied.
Gu Li Sheng smiled bitterly and said: “You might as well not come back. The Zephyr Academy has completely changed and is no longer a place anyone should stay for long. Sigh.” Gu Li Sheng sighed as his eyes drifted towards the tightly shut door.
His eyes speaking much of what his mouth did not when he looked at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
Gu Li Sheng’s face was deathly pale.
“It is as I thought, I heard yesterday that that person had suddenly moved into the little bamboo grove and was thinking it was rather strange. Now that you are here, I know the reason for his actions now. “
“Do you know know who did it?” Jun Wu Xie asked softly.
Gu Li Sheng shook his head with a bitter smile. “He came to the Zephyr Academy more than half a month ago and initially it was claimed he was Ning Rui’s cousin. The Headmaster then had felt extremely guilty for Ning Xin’s death at that time Ning Rui and after Ning Rui came to plead with him for a long time, the Headmaster had finally agreed to allow that person to enter the Spirit Healer faculty. This was told to me by the Headmaster himself. At that time, I had not thought too much about it. Although I had felt it was a little strange, I did not want to make things difficult for the Headmaster and finally allowed him to be admitted into the Spirit Healer faculty as a disciple in name…..”
Volume 7
Chapter 695: “Ominous Clouds Loom (2)”
When Gu Ying first came to the Spirit Healer faculty, he had not displayed any abnormalities in his behaviour and he would even frequently approach Gu Li Sheng smilingly to ask many things about the Spirit Healing Technique. Although Gu Li Sheng did not really like Ning Rui, but he believed in never rejecting a smiling person’s plea for help. Gu Ying had been modest and polite and hence, Gu Li Sheng had given him some simple instructions and did not pay him much heed after that. It was a few days after Gu Ying was accepted into the Spirit Healer faculty that the Headmaster Fan Qi had suddenly died, and Fan Jin had been apprehended as the killer. If Wen Xin Han had not arrived in time, Fan Jin would have been executed by now.
And it was after that happened that Gu Ying’s behaviour changed to become impudent and recalcitrant, not even holding back on his deplorable actions even in the Spirit Healer faculty, having already killed two Spirit Healer faculty disciples.
And within the entire Zephyr Academy disciple body, the number of people who had died tragically under his hands had grown innumerable.
That was when Gu Li Sheng noticed that the always smiling youth was in fact a terrifying devil under that facade.
“Who did you say saved Fan Jin?” After Jun Wu Xie finished hearing Gu Li Sheng out, her eyes lit up.
“Wen Xin Han, a honourary dean of the Zephyr Academy. He was personally invited here by the Headmaster Fan Qi himself and I don’t know why he would come here all of a sudden at such a time. But it is fortunate that he is here or I don’t know just how much worse the situation in the Zephyr Academy would have gotten. It is rather strange though, Wen Xin Han was originally an indigo spirit before and he actually came back here this time having attained the purple spirit. That really astounded everyone.” Gu Li Sheng elaborated.
“Wen Xin Han…..” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed in thought. That name was not strange to her. Among the entourage of Qin Yu Yan’s highly skilled exponents, wasn’t there one person who went by that name? And at that time, with a word from Jun Xian, Jun Wu Xie had gifted Wen Xin Han with an elixir to ask him to leave the battle.
Never had she thought, after so long, she would meet Wen Xin Han here once more!
Gu Li Sheng wasn’t about to hide anything from Jun Wu Xie and he told her everything he knew.
Although Wen Xin Han was here, he did not want to interfere with the other affairs of the Zephyr Academy but on account of his friendship with Fan Qi, he was only fighting to keep Fan Jin alive and he did not want to involve himself in anything else.
“If it is said that Fan Qi was really killed by Fan Jin, I will never ever believe a single word of it. That boy Fan Jin has a heart just too honest and righteous, and he just isn’t capable of a deed so utterly devoid of conscience.” Gu Li Sheng sighed helplessly. If this was the same Zephyr Academy as before, he might still have been able to step forward to say a thing or two. But now, with Gu Ying frequently appearing in the Spirit Healer faculty nowadays, Gu Li Sheng was worried if he were to step out from the faculty grounds leaving the place unwatched, Gu Ying would not hesitate to massacre every single disciple in the Spirit Healer faculty.
Having witnessed Gu Ying’s crazed and merciless cruelty, Gu Li Sheng did not doubt it in the slightest that he was capable of it.
Gu Li Sheng was caged in, his movements carefully scrutinised by Gu Ying.
Jun Wu Xie was silent for a moment, her mind considering all the clues she had gathered so far.
She had initially had her own doubts about the whole matter. Based on Ning Rui’s personality, after killing Fan Qi, he would not have allowed Fan Jin to survive till now. Gu Ying was cruel and merciless, and killing one more person would be easy as pie for him. In the entire Zephyr Academy, no one was a match for Gu Ying and it shouldn’t be a difficult task for him to execute Fan Jin. So why had Ning Rui left Fan Jin alive?
Now, Jun Wu Xie finally understood it.
It was because of Wen Xin Han!
For the past near hundred years, the appearance of the one and only honourary dean to have broken through to the purple spirit, had wrecked Ning Rui’s and Gu Ying’s plot, and Wen Xin Han‘s extraordinary power did not allow them to make any reckless moves!
Volume 7
Chapter 696: “Ominous Clouds Loom (3)”
Despite the ability to raise your spirit power level to attain the purple spirit employed by people in the Middle Realm, there would still be a huge disparity when compared to the power a true purple spirit commanded, and hence, that was why Gu Ying was reluctant to directly oppose Wen Xin Han.
“Is there a way, to meet with Wen Xin Han?” Jun Wu Xie said slowly.
“Only when Gu Ying is not around, can I leave here. I went out of the Spirit Healer faculty once before, and in the time that I was not here, he killed two of my disciples. Those boys had been with me for such a long time and had addressed me as their Master for just as long. I was really heartbroken that they died so senselessly in Gu Ying’s hands.” Gu Li Sheng replied.
“I will draw him away, and you can then go seek Wen Xin Han out. Go tell him, that someone from the Lin Palace wants to see him, and ask him to come to your office at noon tomorrow.” Jun Wu Xie said, looking at Gu Li Sheng.
[At this moment, she needs to ensure that Fan Jin remains safe before she can make her next move.]
“You’ll draw him away? But….. wouldn’t that be too dangerous?” Gu Li Sheng asked, looking at Jun Xie worriedly.
Jun Wu Xie shook her head. She might not be a match for Gu Ying, but she had not forgotten that she still had Ye Sha. Ye Sha had affirmed that he would be able to take down Gu Ying and Jun Wu Xie did not need to consider anything else.
“Al….. right….” Gu Li Sheng finally nodded solemnly. Although he did not know what Jun Wu Xie intended to do, but a voice inside him was telling him that he would not go wrong listening to Jun Xie.
Jun Wu Xie did not say anything else to Gu Li Sheng to prevent spooking the enemy. She came out of the office quickly and she found Gu Ying staring at her with a big wide smile on his face.
“Finished already?” Gu Ying asked, an eyebrow raised.
Jun Wu Xie looked at him calmly and asked: “You want to learn Spirit Healing?”
Gu Ying smiled and replied: “Of course, or why would I be here?”
“Alright, I’ll teach it to you.” Jun Wu Xie said and immediately walked down the stairs. Gu Ying stared at Jun Wu Xie’s back and a strange smile played over his lips before he took a step to catch up.
Gu Li Sheng stood by the window, seeing Jun Wu Xie leading Gu Ying out of the Spirit Healer faculty. Seeing Gu Ying leave, Gu Li Sheng finally realised that he had had his fists tightly clenched for a long while and his palms were soaking wet with sweat.
After making sure that Gu Ying was gone and he would not be back for some time, Gu Li Sheng quickly walked out of the Spirit Healer faculty. Before he left, he did not forget to leave instructions for all the disciples in the Spirit Healer faculty, to not mention a single word to anyone, that he had stepped out. He ordered all of them to go back into the faculty building and not to move around too much.
The disciples were all mortally terrified of Gu Ying and Gu Li Sheng was their only pillar of support. Gu Li Sheng’s orders, would definitely be obeyed.
Fan Jin had been imprisoned in his own room, and Wen Xin Han’s room was right next to it. As Fan Jin was suspected of the grievous crime of having murdered the Headmaster, the entire floor had been cleared out and all the other disciples had moved away from there. When Gu Li Sheng went there, there wasn’t a single soul present and all the disciples were in their respective classes at that time.
Based on his own memory, Gu Li Sheng came to a door in the center of the third floor. He drew in a deep breath before he knocked on the door.
The door was quickly opened and an old man with a head of fully white hair appeared before Gu Li Sheng. Although his hair had already turned all white, the old man did not display a single sign of frailty and his eyes were even shockingly sharp and penetrating.
“You are?” Wen Xin Han stared at the slightly familiar young man before his eyes and tried to recall his identity.
Gu Li Sheng quickly replied: “I am Gu Li Sheng from the Spirit Healer faculty. I have been entrusted with the task to come pay my respects to Senior Wen. I implore Senior Wen to allow me to step in to talk.”
Wen Xin Han’s brow creased up slightly and he said unaffectedly: “No matter who entrusted you with it, I have no interest in the affairs of the Zephyr Academy.” Immediately after saying that, Wen Xin Han quickly wanted to close the door.
Volume 7
Chapter 697: “Ominous Clouds Loom (4)”
Gu Li Sheng panicked and hastily blocked the door, his face breaking out with a layer of cold sweat.
“It’s someone from the Lin Palace! Someone from the Lin Palace asked me to come see you!”
Wen Xin Han’s expression changed slightly, and a strange look showed in his eyes. He was silent for a moment before he took a step back and finally said: “Come in and talk.”
Gu Li Sheng’s heart leapt. He had not been sure Jun Wu Xie’s words would actually work, but when he noticed Wen Xin Han’s reaction when he heard the words “Lin Palace”, hope immediately blossomed in his heart.
Gu Li Sheng went into the room and Wen Xin Han invited him to sit down on a chair.
“Is it really someone from the Lin Palace that asked you to come look for me?” Wen Xin Han asked, staring suspiciously at Gu Li Sheng, his sharp gaze on Gu Li Sheng almost making him feel like daggers were flying towards him.
Gu Li Sheng could feel an invisible force suddenly enveloping his body, and he found himself sweating profusely from fear.
[Is that what the oppressive aura from a purple spirit feels like?]
[It’s just terrifying!]
“I….. I can’t be sure, but that is what he told me to tell you.” Gu Li Sheng did not dare tell any lies before Wen Xin Han. The consequences of deceiving a purple spirit was not something he was prepared to receive.
“He?” Wen Xin Han’s brow lifted. “Who’s
he?”
“Jun Xie, his name is Jun Xie and he is a disciple of the Zephyr Academy.” Gu Li Sheng hastily replied.
When Wen Xin Han heard the words “Jun Xie”, his eyes flashed strangely once again.
[Jun Xie….. Jun Wu Xie…..]
[Could it be that the person Gu Li Sheng was talking about is really the Young Miss from the Lin Palace?]
Wen Xin Han would never be able to forget, that little lass’ cold and determined eyes.
“How old is that person?” Wen Xin Han asked cautiously.
“Around fourteen to fifteen…..”
“Looks and features?”
“Delicate and attractive…..”
“Delicate? Attractive?” Wen Xin Han’s eyes narrowed to a slit. The young lady he remembered had been mesmerizingly beautiful, although that tiny face had still not fully grown, but her unbelievably captivating and enchanting features could already imprison entire cities, capturing the people’s heart with rapture.
Looks aside, the age was however exactly right, and the name differed only by one word.
Wen Xin Han did not say a single word and he remained quiet as his mind whirled.
“Senior Wen, his only request is for you to meet up at the Spirit Healer faculty at noon tomorrow.” Seeing that Wen Xin Han had fallen deep in thought, Gu Li Sheng discarded all of his various misgivings and just blurted Jun Wu Xie’s words straight out.
“Just for a meet up?”
“Yes.”
“Alright, I’ll agree to it.” Wen Xin Han finally nodded.
Throughout the entire land, the people who knew that he had any link with the Lin Palace had all been buried six feet underground and turned into wandering ghosts.
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