Jun Wu Xie turned her eyes back to the Snow Lotus and asked: “You can save it?” She was unable to sense Little Lotus’ and Drunk Lotus’ spirit essence from the Snow Lotus, but she somehow felt that the lone Snow Lotus in the pond seemed to possess a tiny bit more vitality than it had on that fateful day.
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The bearded man raised an eyebrow. “It will live if you leave it in there.”
“Where are Hua Yao and Qiao Chu?” Jun Wu Xie asked next.
“Fei Yan, bring him to them.” The bearded man said as he pointed with his chin.
As he watched Jun Wu Xie’s departing back, the bearded man raised his eyebrow deep in thought and took another long pull on the jar of wine. As the wine went down burning his throat, his eyes turned to look at the Snow Lotus in the pond.
“A plant spirit….. No wonder they attracted the attention of people from the Twelve Palaces. Such a nourishing plant spirit at that. If the Higher Realm are to hear about this, it will surely bring about another bloodbath.” He muttered to himself, and laughed at the futility of the situation.
Fei Yan brought Jun Wu Xie back to the courtyard and led her towards a locked door. She was about to knock when the door opened up.
A charming youth with a gentle disposition stood behind the door. His smiling eyes were replaced by surprise when he suddenly saw Fei Yan and Jun Wu Xie outside and he said laughing a moment later: “You’re here to see them Fei Yan? And this must be the friend Brother Hua brought back with him.”
Fei Yan hopped up to stand beside the youth. At a glance, the two of them seemed to be almost the exact same height.
“That’s him. He just woke up and he insisted on getting out of bed. I couldn’t stop him, and Master told me to bring him to see Brother Hua and Qiao Chu.”
The youth smiled, and that smile’s radiance seemed to be able to put a field of flowers to shame.
The youth was about to go on when from within the room, a familiar voice called out.
“Little Xie is here? Wait! I haven’t got my pants on yet!!” Qiao Chu sounded panicked.
Fei Yan who was still by the door scoffed with a laugh: “Your stupidity might be contagious, please keep yourself well covered.”
The youth laughed melodiously and looked at Jun Wu Xie and said: “Please wait a moment. My name is Rong Ruo. I heard Qiao Chu calling you Little Xie, would you mind if I addressed you like that as well?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.
Rong Ruo suddenly looked at the sky and her eyes suddenly seemed distant.
“When Brother Hua and Qiao Chu brought you back to us that day, we were greatly shocked. The black snake ring spirit that sent all of you here that day soon died after reaching here, and just left behind a pile of snake bones. I buried them in the hill behind the academy.”
Jun Wu Xie did not reply. Her memory had stopped at the moment that Ye Sha had sacrificed himself. She could not recall anything that happened after that.
That black snake might be the ring spirit of the man dressed in black. When people die, their ring spirits disappear and do not leave behind a pile of bones like the black snake did. That was rather puzzling indeed.
After a while, Qiao Chu called out again from inside the room.
“It’s okay now! Come in!”
Rong Ruo invited Jun Wu Xie in, polite and gentle.
Jun Wu Xie walked into the room and saw two beds on each side of the room, with Hua Yao and Qiao Chu lying helplessly on each one of them.
Half of Qiao Chu’s face was still wrapped in bandages and he wore a loose robe. He grinned toothily at Jun Wu Xie and Hua Yao just sat in his bed quietly, looking in a slightly better condition than Qiao Chu. When Jun Wu Xie’s gaze met his eyes, Hua Yao nodded in greeting but did not say anything.
“Carry it a moment.” Jun Wu Xie turned suddenly and handed the unconscious cat over to Rong Ruo. Rong Ruo was puzzled and he exchanged a glance with Fei Yan, and both saw the questioning eyes in each other.
The black cat must matter a lot to Jun Xie. Why had he handed it to Rong Ruo and not Fei Yan, who was the first person Jun Xie had seen when he first woke up?
The two of them did not really understand it.
“Little Xie, you can really sleep. It has been three days before you finally woke up.” Qiao Chu said with a laugh as he saw Jun Xie coming closer. With his every step, a wide smile was showing on that half of his face that was not covered.
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Jun Wu Xie walked towards Qiao Chu and stood by the side of his bed and without a word, she lifted the blanket that covered Qiao Chu.
Qiao Chu lay in the bed shocked.
Uncovered under the blanket, bloodied bandages and a variety of bottles of medicine lay, obviously hastily pushed together into a messy pile to be hidden under the blanket.
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes grew icy cold at the sight.
Qiao Chu gulped loudly and pulled the blanket back to cover the evidence completely.
“They had been thrown here for days and I was too lazy to dispose of them properly. Haha….. Ha…..” Qiao Chu laughed sheepishly.
Jun Wu Xie’s grabbed at Qiao Chu’s robe and opened it up widely. Under the robe, bloodied bandages covered most of his body, blood was still seeping through those bandages and the sight of them burned Jun Wu Xie’s eyes.
Qiao Chu gasped, but knew it was too late to hide his injuries. He did not move as he saw Jun Wu Xie’s face pale.
“Those….. will heal up….. real quickly.”
Jun Wu Xie ignored him and resolutely raised her head. She turned to Hua Yao who gave a long sigh helplessly before he opened up clothes in resignation and showed Jun Wu Xie his heavily bandaged upper body.
He had told the others earlier that Jun Xie was sure to find out.
“Scissors.” Jun Wu Xie asked in a chilly voice.
Qiao Chu had no choice but to dig into the mess on his bed and produced a pair of scissors, and handed it over, his heart heavy.
Jun Wu Xie held the scissors in her hand and with a few quick snips, skillfully cut the bandages away, exposing the countless wounds covering his whole body.
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed.
“I’m… alright…..” Seeing the intensity of the stare in Jun Xie’s eyes, Qiao Chu quickly said, trying to appear nonchalant about it.
“I have a thick hide, and wounds of this degree don’t matter much.”
Qiao Chu’s impishly handsome face was black and blue and blood still clotted on half of his face. The open wounds looked extremely garish.
The room fell deathly quiet. Qiao Chu’s wounds and injuries were much worse than he was claiming them to be.
Rong Ruo and Fei Yan stood on one side, feeling very helpless. When those two had just returned that day, their injuries were no lighter than Jun Wu Xie’s. It was just that Jun Wu Xie’s injury was inflicted more upon her soul and the treatment would be a lot more complicated. Upon arrival to the academy, both had only made one statement, and fainted thereafter.
They had said…..
Save Jun Xie.
The two of them had not known who Jun Xie was, but it became clear when it was found that the two of them were still holding on tightly to Jun Wu Xie.
They had not expected that the trip to the Qing Yun Clan would make Hua Yao and Qiao Chu come back with such heavy injuries.
Jun Wu Xie did not say a word but just proceeded to bring out the medicine she had on her. She pried Qiao Chu’s mouth open and started pouring it in.
Qiao Chu choked heavily in surprise and was about to protest when he saw the chilly expression on Jun Wu Xie’s face. He quickly swallowed back the words that had threatened to rush out his throat and just sat there quietly feeling sorry for himself.
After Qiao Chu swallowed the medicine, Jun Wu Xie started to work on his wounds.
Fei Yan and Rong Ruo just watched silently from the side at
first, and when they saw that Qiao Chu had so speedily looked visibly better under Jun Wu Xie’s quick movements, they were shocked speechless in awe.
“This….. is a little…..” Fei Yan blinked her eyes repeatedly as her eyes began to glow with adoration for Jun Wu Xie.
Her treatment, made their Master’s days of toil seem completely insignificant!
Rong Ruo nodded in agreement. Jun Wu Xie’s almost magical skills in medicine really opened their eyes and opened new horizons.
After the wounds were tended to, Jun Wu Xie rebandaged Qiao Chu and immediately turned to walk towards Hua Yao’s bed on the opposite side of the room.
Hua Yao eyed the bottle of medicine in Jun Wu Xie’s hand and quickly said: “I’ll do it myself.”
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Hurriedly taking the bottle of medicine from Jun Wu Xie’s hand, Hua Yao emptied it into his mouth and removed the bandages completely from his body on his own accord. Sitting on the bed quietly, he surrendered his body over to Jun Wu Xie without a word.
Hua Yao’s injuries were a little different. Most of them were inflicted on his bones, and Jun Wu Xie spent a little more time tending to him but was speedy in her treatment just the same.
Right after Jun Wu Xie’s healing hands, Hua Yao and Qiao Chu seemed to have regained a bit of colour in their cheeks.
“Thank you.” Hua Yao said simply.
Jun Wu Xie replied by shaking her head and walked a little pale faced over to Rong Ruo, retrieving the little black cat back into her arms.
Seeing Jun Xie’s face turning white, Qiao Chu and Hua Yao were acutely aware that Jun Xie had not recovered much himself but had insisted on providing treatment for the two of them. Jun Xie might not have said anything about it but they understood his unspoken intent.
Jun Xie was thanking them for their unhesitating support in his very own way.
“Erm, Little Xie, you might as well stay here with us for awhile and return home only when you are feeling a little better.” Qiao Chu said suddenly.
“No rush.” Jun Wu Xie replied softly. Hua Yao’s Teacher had said that the pond here would be able to save Snow Lotus, and she was in no rush to leave.
Little Lotus had sacrificed an arm to save her life and had morphed into Drunk Lotus forcibly without the aid of alcohol. His spiritual essence had then been greatly devastated by the white robed man. Jun Wu Xie did not know how to save Snow Lotus and if the bearded man could do it, Jun Wu Xie was willing to give up everything for it.
Jun Wu Xie was greatly troubled. After undergoing such a traumatic episode, she was forced to realise that this world was more complicated than she had imagined. The two mysterious men’s power way surpassed them and even when Hua Yao and Qiao Chu had fully released their purple leveled spiritual powers, they were still not a match for the white robed man. Moreover, the grey robed man’s powers had even been above the white robed man’s.
Many powerful exponents existed in this world and might greater than the purple leveled spiritual powers were clearly out there. Before those overwhelming strengths, her poisons would not be effective enough.
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes, and they flashed with a chill.
She had barely escaped this time, at the expense of the sacrifice of another person’s life. If that black robed man had not appeared in the nick of time, and created an explosion with his own body, she would already be dead.
And next time?
Their enemies’ target had been to capture her Snow Lotus and as long as the Snow Lotus stayed with her, she would definitely meet them again, and she might not be that lucky the next time!
She did not know why they wanted the Snow Lotus for, but she absolutely refused to remain a sitting duck.
She must become strong!
This must never, ever, happen again!
Jun Wu Xie stood up suddenly. Her earlier silence had quietened the other four people in the room and all four pairs of eyes looked at her as she stood up.
“Bring me to where you buried the snake’s bones.” Jun Wu Xie said, looking at Rong Ruo.
Rong Ruo hesitated a moment but nodded his head after and he led Jun Wu Xie out of the room.
Within the room, Qiao Chu who had been trying his hardest to maintain a nonchalant front in Jun Wu Xie’s presence immediately slumped weakly into the bed.
The wounds on their bodies were more serious than what they had tried to portray. They had been fortunate to have received Jun Wu Xie’s miraculous treatment earlier, or they would have fallen into a dead faint by now.
“We’re really lucky to be still alive.” Qiao Chu said suddenly, as he lay on the bed weakly.
Remembering that fateful day, he had accepted that his life would end on that mountain.
“We cannot afford to die just yet.” Hua Yao stared blankly at the ceiling, and his eyes flashed with hatred briefly.
Fei Yan sighed heavily, and the brilliant smile disappeared from her face. “If you still remember the oath we took, you must treasure this life of yours. We will all die one day, but this is not the right place.”
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Chapter 352: “I’m Here Now (1)”
In the hill behind the Phoenix Academy, a new unmarked grave lay. Beneath the soil, there was no body, but only a pile of broken snake bones.
Rong Ruo brought Jun Wu Xie to come before the unmarked grave. Jun Wu Xie stood before it and stared at the blank gravestone, her eyes expressionless.
SInce her rebirth, her hands had been stained full of blood. To protect the Jun Family’s sanctity, and to ensure that the Lin Palace stood tall within the Kingdom of Qi, she had killed many people.
She did not kill the black robed man, but that man had died because of her.
Yet she could not even provide him with a decent burial as his body had blown to bits. Within this grave, there was only a pile of snake bones.
Jun Wu Xie owed him her life. Although he had done it under Jun Wu Yao’s orders to protect her, she felt responsible for his death.
To protect her, he had ended his own life.
Is this what loyalty is?
Jun Wu Xie stood before the unmarked grave for a long time, and the wind in the hills blew at her long dark hair. She raised her head and looked into the light rain that had started to fall, and the rain ran down her body, drenching her completely.
Her body turned cold, but was nothing compared to what her heart was feeling.
“Let’s go back first.” Rong Ruo looked at Jun Xie with sympathy. Jun Xie was still very weak and was now drenched in the cold rain. His petite frame might not be able to withstand it.
Jun Wu Xie did not reply and only continued to stare into the sky. The raindrops splattered on her face and ran into her eyes. The cold rain felt refreshing but the chill was beginning to seep into her bones.
“If I do not keep my eye on you, how much more torture would you put yourself under?” A deep enigmatic voice sounded suddenly.
Jun Wu Xie’s body stiffened and before she could turn her head, she was wrapped into a warm and familiar embrace.
Rong Ruo stared in shock at the man who had suddenly descended from the skies. Just like a god’s descent, soundless but impossible to mistake as anything else, as he could feel the overwhelming aura that the man gave out that drove unexplainable fear and dread deep into his heart and Rong Ruo found himself unable to get any closer.
“My darling, do not know how heart wrenching it is from me to see you like this?” The familiar voice came from right behind her and Jun Wu Xie just softly murmured: “Big brother?”
He turned Jun Wu Xie petite frame to face him and Jun Wu Yao’s perfectly handsome countenance reflected in her eyes.
The slight patter of the rain wet Jun Wu Yao’s jet black hair and flowed down the flawlessly attractive face, down the deep set grooves along the sharp and perfectly shaped features.
“My darling, you have nothing to fear now. I’m here now.” He hugged Jun Wu
Xie tightly within his arms and comforted her in a soft voice.
Just a few months apart almost became an eternal parting. Jun Wu Yao’s eyes held tender cherishment for Jun Wu Xie, and hidden below that was an unbelievable rage and urge to murder.
No matter who it was, if they dared to inflict any harm on his dear little darling, they must be prepared to face his unimaginable wrath.
It could have been that she was too tired, and it could be due to her serious injuries. Jun Wu Xie suddenly fell unconscious in his arms without another word.
Jun Wu Yao cradled her up in his arms and the air suddenly swirled around him forming a perfect sphere. The swirling air stream evaporated the rain from the two figures within the sphere and the rain did not penetrate any further, creating a magical sphere that kept the cold chilling rain off Jun Wu Xie.
With Jun Wu Xie in his arms, Jun Wu Yao leapt and flew straight to the Phoenix Academy.
Rong Ruo stood speechless in the rain as he stared at the departing figures, getting smaller in the distance, and only snapped back to his senses moments later after the figures disappeared.
“That man….. Is he from the Middle Realm?”
Realising the possibility, Rong Ruo was suddenly alarmed and the gentle expression faded from his face at that moment and rushed straight back to the Phoenix Academy.
Sitting lazily by the pond, and enjoying his wine sheltered from the cold rain, the bearded man was suddenly shocked when he felt an overpowering force approaching at an alarming speed. The lazy and carefree eyes suddenly steeled and glinted sharply!
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Moving like a streak of lightning, a flash brought a strong gust of wind into the Phoenix Academy. Jun Wu Yao followed the trail of Jun Wu Xie’s lingering essence and came to a courtyard.
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