The other Elders at the side all showed high concern as well, however, there were several Elders whose faces looked a little nervous.
They were mostly people who whom Elder Ying was friendly with, and they had naturally known about “Chang Huan’s” outstanding abilities. To Elder Ying, what a fortuitous matter it was but before the joyous matter could even stabilize, such a fracas had already risen up from it. When they saw the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s face turning an uglier and uglier shade, the hearts of those Elders rose up into the back of their throats.
Because if “Chang Huan” was silenced at that moment, Elder Ying himself would be implicated as well, and for the bunch of them at that time…..
Thinking about that, the bunch of Elders could not themselves but cursed Jun Wu Xie a thousand times over.
The Palace Lord had already shown him mercy by just making him reflect on himself in the dungeon, why did he choose to break out from imprisonment at such a critical juncture?
Wasn’t that rushing forward to seek death! ?
The several Elders were feeling rather hot from anxiety but none of them dared to step up to the Shadow Moon Palace Lord to persuade him while he was seething with anger and they just stood there at the side to be eaten up with worry.
“Guards! As per the Palace Lord’s orders, immediately set forth to arrest Chang Huan! Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, you must find that wilful and unruly kid!” Not as cowardly as the other Elders, Elder Yue immediately picked up from where the Palace Lord had left off the moment the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s voice had fallen, to repeat the Palace Lord’s disjointed words once more in a loud voice.
[Kid, I would like to see how you can escape this time! ?]
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Chapter 1803: “Radical Turn of Events (1)”
“No need for so much trouble.” All of a sudden, a low and deep voice rang out within the sleeping chambers.
In the instant that Elder Yue heard that voice, he was slightly taken aback as a feeling of ominous premonition shrouded over his heart.
At the moment that Elder Ying’s voice fell, he stepped into the sleeping chambers.
Once Elder Yue saw Elder Ying, his face darkened in gloom.
“My Lord.” Elder Ying knelt down on one knee within the sleeping chambers.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s face was dark as he stared at Elder Ying kneeling before him and said in an unfriendly tone: “Elder Ying, you came at just the right time. There is a matter I need you to answer to me for!”
Elder Ying knelt upon the floor without moving in the slightest as he said respectfully: “I await for my Lord to enlighten me.”
“Cough cough….. Regarding the matter that Chang Huan injured the palace’s disciples, I had taken into account that he was very young and misjudged his strength when he struck. Which was why I spared him from heavy punishment and merely sent him into the dungeon to reflect on his actions. But how long has it only been? He had not even been able to hold his patience and broke out of the dungeon on his own accord! Elder Ying, is this the kind of disciple you are bringing up? That does not think anything of the words I have said! ?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord was really infuriated as he then swept his hand against the medicine bowl place on a stool by the bed to send it hurtling towards Elder Ying.
Elder Ying did not even flinch as the bowl crashed heavily onto the floor about half a meter in front of him, shattering immediately as the crash resounded crisply within the chambers.
“My Lord, appease your anger.” Elder Ying said with a low voice in persuasion.
“Appease my anger? How can I not be angry? Is it that all of you are seeing that my health is not like before and all of you think nothing of me now?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord roared out the fear lodged within his heart, a roar that made all the other Elders in the sleeping chambers to immediately fall to their knees in fright.
A whole bunch of them silent as cicadas in winter, trembling slightly.
“My Lord, it was thoughtless of Chang Huan in this matter, and I beg for my Lord to quell your anger. Chang Huan is young and ignorant and when this old man received news that my Lord had taken ill, I heard about it in the dungeon. This old man was reprimanding Chang Huan at that moment and the report was heard by the child. Initially, this old man had not paid it much attention, never thinking that Chang Huan would suddenly break out from the dungeon and plead with this old man to bring him here to see my Lord….. This old man deeply felt that it would not be appropriate as my Lord is currently recuperating and was afraid that he would disturb my Lord’s rest before deciding to imprison him in this old man’s courtyard.” Elder Ying said unhurriedly, every single word clearly articulated. Although his words sounded filled with reprimand, but when it reached the ears of others, the flavour of it changed somewhat.
“You are saying that the reason Chang Huan had escaped from the dungeon was because….. he wanted to see me?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord asked, in slight surprise. This result had shocked him quite a bit and the rage he had been feeling was gradually being eroded by the reason for “Chang Huan’s” escape from prison.
If Chang Huan had escaped because he had been indignant with the judgement made against him, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord would naturally be highly infuriated. But if it was because the kid had heard that he had taken ill and was overtaken with anxiety, then….. the meaning had become completely different!
Which Palace Lord wouldn’t want their position to be unparalleled in the hearts of their own disciples?
The moment Elder Yue saw the expression of the Shadow Moon Palace Lord softening, his heart immediately quaked with a thump and he quickly took a step forward to say: “Elder Ying, I know you indulge and dote on Chang Huan highly, but you cannot possibly come up with such a laughable story to exonerate him in this matter. The reason why he broke out of jail yesterday, is a point that besides he himself, something that no one else would know about. Moreover….. when the Lord feels unwell, although it is reasonable that he feels anxious, but having him escaping out of there so audaciously, what could he do that would help? It doesn’t sound all that reasonable, or does it?”
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Chapter 1804: “Radical Turn of Events (2)”
Elder Yue’s words were reasonable as well and the Shadow Moon Palace Lord wasn’t about to just take Elder Ying’s words for it. Now that Elder Yue had spoken the doubt he held in his heart, he would naturally just maintain his silence and wait for Elder Ying to explain.
For a disciple so young to be so anxious about the Palace Lord’s illness, if it was not for any specific reason, then it wouldn’t sound all that convincing.
Elder Ying let out a light sigh and said: “Just what exactly occured in this matter, I think if I am the one saying it, my Lord would not really believe me. Why don’t I let Chang Huan speak for himself instead.”
“Oh?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord arched up an eyebrow.
“My Lord, Chang Huan is now kneeling outside the bed chambers. With my Lord’s permission, he would immediately come in to seek forgiveness himself.” Elder Ying said.
At the side, Elder Yue’s eyes narrowed up, unable to fathom what Elder Ying and Jun Wu Xie had hidden up their sleeves. With the matter today, if it could not be perfectly resolved, he would not ever let it go. No matter how hard Elder Ying twisted his words, he would never let Jun Wu Xie live!
“Let him come in.” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord agreed to it after thinking it through for awhile. He knew very well the kind of person that Elder Ying was, and it could be said that he was one of the rare honest people in the Shadow Moon Palace. Though there were times his words grated on the ears quite a bit, he was at least perceived to be fair and impartial, never siding with people in discrimination.
“Chang Huan, aren’t you going to come in! ?” Elder Ying said with a low holler.
A thin figure came walking slowly in from outside the doors and Elder Yue’s eyes were fixed upon the p
erson approaching, hating that his gaze could not transform into sharp blades, to slice of a layer of skin.
“Disciple Chang Huan pays respects to my Lord.” Jun Wu Xie walked slowly into the bed chambers, and then greeted the Shadow Moon Palace Lord calmly.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord silently measured the youth. Before Jun Wu Xie revealed her Purple Spirit powers, he had not even noticed that there was such a disciple in the palace. Judging based on looks and gift, “Chang Huan” was so much more inferior compared to Yue Yi that he had not been able to attract the Palace Lord’s attraction at all.
But measuring him up carefully now, it could now be seen that this youth was much more petite in size than people of the same age, and if they did not know that the youth before their eyes possessed the powers of a Purple Spirit, it was thought no one would pay much attention to the kid’s existence at all.
“Earlier when you just returned back to the palace, you stirred up some trouble and I punished you to reflect on yourself in the dungeon. Why did you defy the order?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord words were admonishing, but his demeanor was not too harsh.
Before he got a clear picture of the matter, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord did not want to play the villain.
“Reporting to my Lord, your disciple had no choice but to escape from the dungeon. Because only by doing that, would your disciple be able to present the item to my Lord.” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes were lowered, not looking at the Shadow Moon Palace Lord at all, but just stared at the floor as she spoke.
“Oh? What is it that you want to present to me?” This is rather interesting. The Shadow Moon Palace Lord did not feel that a disciple of the Shadow Moon Palace could possibly give him anything all that great.
Elder Yue standing at the side could not help himself but spoke up: “Chang Huan, the matter with you having broken out from the dungeon of your own accord cannot possibly be smoothed over with just a few words from you. If you are not able to give an acceptable reason for your actions today, then the Shadow Moon Palace would no longer have a place for you to continue to remain in.
“Your disciple believes that this item is sufficient enough to appease my Lord’s anger.” Jun Wu Xie said, without giving Elder Yue a single glance, but just went on to pull out a palm sized porcelain bottle.
“What is that?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord asked a little doubtfully.
Jun Wu Xie replied: “This here is called the Melted Snow Elixir. It’s something that your disciple cultivated with what I managed to learn from a prescription handed down through the generations of the Zhan Family Clan.”
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Chapter 1805: “Radical Turn of Events (3)”
“Melted Snow Elixir? What is this?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s eyes turned slightly serious. The kind of things the Zhan Family Clan had accumulated was always of great interest to him and although Elder Ying had already offered up quite a number of them, but he still knew that Elder Ying still hid many more treasures in hand. And those things were what the Shadow Moon Palace Lord cared about most.
Jun Wu Xie then said: “The Melted Snow Elixir improves the blood’s Qi and revitalises the meridians, which is best for reinvigorating a person’s bodily health. Your disciple has long heard that my Lord was feeling unwell and I specially asked Elder Ying for this prescription. But as there were some herbs that were hard to get within the prescription, I had not been able to successfully cultivate it all this time. Fortunately when I was on my way to the Pure Grace Palace, I discovered the few types of herbs that were lacking and I have just managed to successfully cultivate it. I heard last night that my Lord had taken ill and your disciple had in a moment of anxiety impetuously escaped from the dungeon because I wanted to present the Melted Snow Elixir to my Lord, and I beg my Lord for atonement of my crime.”
Jun Wu Xie’s voice was neither hot nor cold, every single word spoken crisply clear. By the time she finished her sentence, the atmosphere in the entire hall had completely changed.
The anger on the Shadow Moon Palace Lord had already quietly faded away without leaving a single trace, replaced by a look of surprise.
Jun Wu Xie’s words caused everyone that was present to become frozen in surprise as they had all thought that Jun Wu Xie had escaped from the dungeon because she refused to submit to discipline, and Elder Ying’s words earlier had only been an excuse that he made up, where even if there was anything really presented, it would merely be doing it for show. But looking at what Jun Wu Xie had presented up now, it was actually from one of the Zhan Family Clan’s ancient secret prescription, which was even aimed to directly treating the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s illness!
With this, Jun Wu Xie’s escape from the dungeon yesterday had become highly understandable and reasonable.
Elder Yue stared slightly dazedly at Jun Wu Xie. Beat him to death and he would not have thought that Jun Wu Xie would be able to use something like this to cover over the situation. He couldn’t make himself believe that Jun Wu Xie would really be able to find such a perfect excuse.
“What Melted Snow Elixir? Why have I never heard of it before? Whether such a thing is even effective is one thing, but how can we carelessly let the Palace Lord take this thing we know nothing about? This is such a joke!” Elder Yue said contemptuously, snorting with utter derision.
Towards Elder Yue’s questioning, Jun Wu Xie had been prepared for it. She lifted her eyes slightly and asked Elder Yue: “I have only managed to cultivate one pill of the Melted Snow Elixir and if you are doubtful, are you thinking to have someone else try it first? And if it works, Elder Yue can then have a second pill cultivated?”
A corner of Elder Yue’s mouth twitched slightly. “And if it causes harm to my Lord, who will then be responsible?”
Jun Wu Xie replied: “I can vouch for it with my life, that if there are any side effects after my Lord takes it, even to the extent that if it does not help my Lord’s illness in any way, this life of mine would be discarded here today, to be dealt with in anyway Elder Yue deems fit.”
Jun Wu Xie’s words were powerful and resonating, using her own life as guarantee. To the extent that even if Melted Snow Elixir had no effect on the Shadow Moon Palace, it would still be death for her. Those words were spoken with absolute conviction with no other way out.
And those very words stumped Elder Yue completely, turning mute with nothing he could say. He would never have expected that Jun Wu Xie would be so extreme to gamble on this with her own life.
“I can also vouch for Chang Huan as well. This prescription is from the Zhan Family and if the medicine is ineffective, I am willing to take responsibility for the consequences.” Elder Ying stood forward at that moment, to shoulder the risk together with Jun Wu Xie.
If it was said that Jun Wu Xie’s word alone still did not carry enough weight, then with Elder Ying’s added on to it, no one present there would dare to question another word about it!
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Chapter 1806: “Radical Turn of Events (4)”
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord looked at Jun Wu Xie and Elder Ying through narrowed eyes. Although the origin and the said effects of the Melted Snow Elixir was highly tempting, it could not be denied that he still held a certain level of suspicion about it. But now that even Elder Ying had stood forward, and was using his own life to vouch for it, the degree of credibility had increased by quite a bit.
Suddenly, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord laughed out loudly.
“There is no need for Elder Ying to do this. I would naturally trust you completely. Chang Huan, bring me the Melted Snow Elixir.”
“My Lord! You must not take the medicine so casually!” Elder Yue exclaimed as his heart silently screamed in dismay. Even though he did not believe that there would be any medicine that would be able to effectively treat the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s illness as countless physicians had already treated it for so long without being able to come up with any accurate diagnosis afterall, but to prevent any unexpected accidents, h
e would still stop them in any way he could.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord however waved his hand dismissively and said: “Elder Yue need not be so anxious. I can trust Elder Ying.”
Elder Yue was driven into a complete loss for words by that statement from the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, and could only watch wide eyed as Jun Wu Xie held the medicine bottle as she went walking over to stand before the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, his fists clenched up so tightly his knuckles crackled, wishing for nothing more than to be able to rush forward to smash that bottle to smithereens!
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord took the medicine bottle from Jun Wu Xie’s hands and he raised his eyes to look at Jun Wu Xie, his gaze seemingly searching and probing.
“Chang Huan, I had not known that you are actually able to cultivate medicine!” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord said, an eyebrow raised up slightly. Although he was not too familiar with Chang Huan, but he had never heard that Chang Huan was able to cultivate medicine.
Jun Wu Xie was unaffected as she replied: “With the large number of physicians in the palace, there was never ever a need for your disciple at all.”
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord laughed lightly and recalling that Chang Huan had even hid his Purple Spirit powers from everyone, it wasn’t all that strange that he would also not show that he possessed the ability to cultivate medicine.
“I trust Elder Ying, and I trust you too. I hope you will not disappoint me.” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord said it in a highly gentle tone. He opened the cap on the bottle and one single pill of the Melted Snow Elixir fell into the palm of his hand.
At the moment that the elixir was exposed, the entire room was filled with a faint fragrance. The fragrance was extremely gentle but the scent could not be ignored as just the slightest whiff of it cleared up the groggy minds of everyone there who had stayed awake throughout the entire night.
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