Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 19
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Jun Wu Xie looked at Elder Ying’s back as he departed in a hurry, her eyes darkening as she turned to walk towards a tiny house in the yard.
In the instant that she stepped into the room, the thick stench of blood shot right up her nose.
Ye Sha who stood by the bed had his clothes already soaked in blood as he looked at Jun Wu Xie and nodded his head slightly.
Yue Yi lay quietly upon the bed, the bedsheets under him already stained a bright red. His body was filled with wounds all over, garish whip wounds covering his entire body and just terrifying to look at.
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Chapter 1860: “Stretch Your Face Over (1)”
Yue Yi was gravely hurt. Nothing like the light manner Jun Wu Xie had put to across to Elder Ying, but that point, was known only to Jun Wu Xie alone.
“Boil hot water.” Jun Wu Xie ordered of Ye Sha with just one statement before she immediately started on Yue Yi’s treatment.
Yue Yi’s injuries were really highly severe with a great amount of blood loss and he was suffering from dehydration. The wounds on his body were already starting to inflame and rot, with a highly bloodied gaping hole dug out from his chest. That wound had started to rot quite badly and it had turned dark and black.
Stem the bleeding, anti inflammation treatment, getting rid of the rot. Jun Wu Xie’s hands moved so fast they were a blur as she treated the wounds on Yue Yi’s body bit by bit.
Even Little Lotus was summoned out by Jun Wu Xie, who took out a lotus seed to make Yue Yi swallow it or Yue Yi would be stuck with a chronic condition even if he recovers from the treatment.
Ye Sha just stood at the side silently as he watched Jun Wu Xie carry out the treatment.
On the other side, Elder Ying had issued orders for all the disciples in the Hill City to strike immediately, not giving Elder Yue any opportunity to tidy things up at all. A large batch of people rushed in, quickly arresting all those people who had not been able to leave the Hill City in time.
With all preparations complete, Elder Ying had all news about everything that was going on sealed completely, only sending someone back to the palace to relay news of their success to Jun Wu Xie.
After Jun Wu Xie received the news from Elder Ying, she stood at the side of Yue Yi’s bed and stared at Yue Yi whose face was drained of all colour before burning up the letter in her hand cleanly into ashes.
“Young Miss.” Ye Sha took a step forward.
Jun Wu Xie drew in a deep breath and said: “It’s time. Have Ye Gu pulled back from over at Elder Yue’s. It is time for Elder Yue to have a taste of my “reciprocation” to him.”
“Yes, Young Miss!” Ye Sha immediately answered.
It was unusually quiet in the Shadow Moon Palace, and no one in there could sense the storm that was about descend.
Elder Ying returned to the palace triumphant and the Shadow Moon Palace Lord personally received him back. In less than a quarter of an hour, news came out from the palace, summoning Elder Yue to come into the main palace hall for a chat.
At that moment, Elder Yue was still immersed in joy from his revenge. When he received the summons from the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, he heard that Elder Ying would be there as well. He then purposely tidied himself up, changing into a lavish and dignified set of clothes before he set off towards the palace hall, eager for the moment he was to collect the fruits from the results from his scheme.
Within the Shadow Moon Palace’s grand hall, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord sat on the principal ruling seat while Elder Ying stood inside the hall, the atmosphere a little strange.
Elder Yue arrived moments later, a gentle smile hanging from his face. He walked into the palace hall and facing the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, he smiled and said: “My Lord, it is wondered for what reason my Lord has summoned your subordinate?”
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s face was highly darkened in an ugly shade. When he saw Elder Yue appear, he did not show the slightest hint of a smile but just threw a whole stack of letters right before Elder Yue.
“Take a good look at all of them!”
Elder Yue was slightly taken aback. The Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s tone of voice had rage hidden behind it which he did not understand at all. Staring at the pile of letters, his brows creased up together, as he secretly cast a glance at Elder Ying standing at the side.
Elder Ying merely stood quietly there in the palace hall, not looking at Elder Yue at all.
Suspicion rose within Elder Yue’s heart, left with no choice but to go pick up the stack of letters and look through them.
With that one look, Elder Yue’s heart immediately jumped straight up into the top of his throat, the smile upon his face disappearing completely, and his face turning deathly pale.
“What else do you have to say for yourself! ?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord slammed his hand down upon the table in rage as he glared angrily at Elder Yue.
Elder Yue fell onto his knees with a thud, cold sweat running down his back as he said hurriedly: “My Lord! The….. The things written here are all not true! Your subordinate’s loyalty to the Shadow Moon Palace can be vouched by the sun and moon! Someone is surely intentionally framing your subordinate here my Lord! You must really believe me in this!”
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Chapter 1861: “Stretch Your Face Over (2)”
Scattered upon the floor, the written content in all those letters pointed to his relationship with a certain person, where it clearly recorded that Elder Yue ordered people to set fire to the Hill City’s branch, murdered the disciples of the Shadow Moon Palace and many other kinds of infraction.
That whole stack of letters had been delivered straight up right before the Shadow Moon Palace Lord and when he finished looking through them, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s mind was just about to explode!
“Believe you? How can I believe you! ? Elder Yue, do you think I have already lost my mind? That I have become so muddle headed that I cannot recognize your handwriting? You mustn’t forget! When I was young, you were the one who taught me calligraphy yourself! Your handwriting, is something deeply entrenched in my mind!” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord was so angry his face had turned a little pale. If this had been done by someone else, it wouldn’t be this bad. Although he had restricted Elder Yue’s authourity to a certain extent recently, but among all the Elders throughout the entire Shadow Moon Palace, the one he trusted the most had been Elder Yue!
“My Lord! It’s not me! It really isn’t me! These letters, must have been written by someone who imitated my handwriting!” Elder Yue was in a panic. Never would he have dreamt that these letters would fall into the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s hands.
The contents upon the letters had indeed been written by Elder Yue’s own hand. In order to exact vengeance upon Yue Ye so that he could regain control over her, he had dreamed up such a scheme for him to capture Yue Yi, and those people in the Hill City were links he used to communicate with people from other powers. All those power were just anxious to win the Shadow Moon Palace’s favour but they never had the chance. With this line thrown out by Elder Yue, they had all eagerly jumped on it, thinking to use Elder Yue to gain themselves the inside track into the palace, while Elder Yue had made use of that very mindset of those people, to use them as a force of his own outside of the Shadow Moon Palace.
In order to ensure that his plans came to fruition, he had used letters to communicate with them. But he had reminded them repeatedly every single time, that they were to burn up the letters immediately after reading them, in the end…..
This time, Elder Yue was shocked silly. When he had written those letters, as he had only intended for those letters to be seen only by those people who sought his favour, the words he used had been arrogant and filled with disdain. These things, must not be seen by anyone in the Shadow Moon Palace, and never ever should they be seen by the Shadow Moon Palace Lord.
He could almost imagine the kind of rage and shock that the Shadow Moon Palace Lord must have felt wh
en he saw them.
“Good! So you are not going to admit it?” Instead of rage, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord laughed. He was so angry he was visibly trembling as he raised a finger to point at Elder Ying and said: “Elder Ying, go bring in those people right now! I will then like to see how this traitorous ingrate can still continue to deny it!”
Elder Ying’s face was completely calm, without the slightest sign of glee or rage, but just a stoic expression as he carried out the task going by the book.
Elder Yue’s heart grew even more panicked. Even if he was a complete idiot, he should be able to tell that all these letters were brought in by Elder Ying. But he had clearly made prior preparations for everything, so how did these things come to fall into Elder Ying’s hands?
And what worried Elder Yue more at that moment was…..
Those people…..
Who are those people?
Elder Yue remained kneeling on the floor not daring to move an inch, his heart drumming like thunder as an ominous feeling rose up within.
In just awhile, Elder Ying came into the palace hall leading several of the Shadow Moon Palace’s disciples.
A clinking clatter then reverberated within the palace hall. Behind those disciples, more than ten wretched looking men with their hands and legs bound in chains were being led into the palace hall, looking highly dispirited.
“Upon seeing the Palace Lord and you’re all not on your knees? !” Elder Ying shouted in a cold voice.
With shivering legs, all the men uniformly knelt down before the Shadow Moon Palace Lord, their bodies trembling as they said: “Respects to my Lord.”
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Chapter 1862: “Stretch Your Face Over (3)”
Once Elder Yue saw those people, his mind exploded in that instant, his entire person slumped in a daze, not moving at all.
“Tell the Palace Lord who you people are, and what kind of a relationship you have with Elder Yue.” Elder Ying said in a deep voice.
With their backs well bent, the men looked upon the Shadow Moon Palace Lord in abject terror.
“My Lord, I am the Maniac Sect’s Deputy Chief. The Chief asked for me look into our sect joining up under the revered Shadow Moon Palace and as your humble servant was unable to see my Lord, I went through other avenues and managed to be linked up with Elder Yue. Elder Yue then told us that for us to be able to join the Shadow Moon Palace, we must first show our sincerity by doing what he tells us to do.”
“My Lord, I am the Maple Pavilion’s…..”
My Lord…..”
More than ten men knelt on the floor as they introduced themselves. They were all from different sects and powers, but they were all similarly seeking to gain the favour of the Shadow Moon Palace and they had all been linked up with Elder Yue.
Elder Yue had basically hinted the same thing to all of them, which was to do as per his orders, and his orders were what the Shadow Moon Palace Lord wanted. Only by doing as they were told, would they then show the Shadow Moon Palace Lord their sincerity.
The more the Shadow Moon Palace Lord heard, the darker his face turned to become. Under Elder Ying’s interrogation, those people had not only revealed they fact that they had followed Elder Yue’s orders to attack the Hill City’s branch, they also told of treasures that they had presented to the Shadow Moon Palace Lord through Elder Yue.
And as for those treasures, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord had never even seen them even once before.
In whose hands had all those things fallen into? One immediately knew without even having to think.
“Elder Yue, you’re truly a great Elder of mine. I had thought of you as the most senior Elder of the Shadow Moon Palace Lord. You had served my grandfather, my father, and I had trusted you so much. But what have you done? You joined hands with outsiders to oppress the other Elders of our palace and it was not enough that you stuffed your own pockets, you had even gotten these people to murder my palace disciples! What are you trying to do! ! ?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord was filled with rage. Towards the minor deviant thoughts and slight infractions the various Elders committed, he had mostly chosen to close an eye towards them. But when one carried it so far to this extent and he continued to ignore it, wouldn’t it be as good as him presenting the Shadow Moon Palace on a platter to someone else! ?
“My Lord….. I’ve been wrongly accused….. Your subordinate’s loyalty to the Shadow Moon Palace can be vouched by the sun and moon. These people….. These people must have been brought in by Elder Ying to frame me. My Lord is aware that Elder Ying has already been at odds with me and his eagerness in taking up the investigation in this incident was purely aimed at sending me to my doom! I have already served the Shadow Moon Palace for so many years and never have I once harboured any intentions of betrayal at all! My Lord! You must definitely believe me! If I truly harboured such thoughts of treachery, why would I need to wait till now? When the late Palace Lord was gravely ill, my Lord was still very young and your subordinate had served and supported my Lord with everything I had, never ever thinking about anything else. If I had really thought that way, wouldn’t that have been the best time for me to strike?” Elder Yue said, claiming innocence in a loud voice. He knew, that if today’s events concluded as things stood now, it wouldn’t matter how much he had done for the Shadow Moon Palace before, the only path ahead of him would only be death!
Not a single reigning ruler, could possibly allow a person to collude with other powers to weaken their own power and authourity.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord drew in a deep breath, the rage in his heart not diminished in the slightest, but Elder Yue’s words had made him recall about many things from when he was still very young.
His father had been gravely ill when he was still very young. At that time, Elder Yue had the perfect opportunity to gain control over the ruler, to hold reign, but Elder Yue had not done it. Within his rage, the Shadow Moon Palace Lord regained a sliver of calm after hearing Elder Yue’s words, though the look on his face did not improve in the slightest.
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Chapter 1863: “Stretch Your Face Over (4)”
Elder Yue detected that he still had space to wiggle and he began to recount all the things that he had done for the Shadow Moon Palace in detail, and brought up the many chances he had to usurp authourity, to prove his loyalty.
Elder Ying stood on the side and remained silent without a word, but a sense of unease grew in his heart.
Elder Yue’s contributions and standing in the Shadow Moon Palace was deep and profound and he had brought up the Palace Lord under his watch. If he was allowed to bring up more of these things of the past, there was no guarantee that the Palace Lord’s heart would not soften.
At that moment, Elder Ying’s gaze unconsciously turned to look towards the outside. He was waiting.
Waiting for Jun Wu Xie’s next move.
Under Elder Yue’s tear jerking persuasion, the expression on the Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s face finally softened, his heart yielding to the scene after scene of memories elicited as he looked at the aged Elder Yue kneeling within the palace hall, his heart could not help but be moved.
Elder Yue saw that the Shadow Moon Palace Lord was showing signs relent and he secretly heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, but his face still looking highly sorrowful and emotional.
“Grandfather, aren’t you afraid of Heaven’s wrath by saying these words! ?” Suddenly, a clear and ringing female voice sounded within the palace hall.
The eyes of everyone within the hall were all drawn to the voice.
It was not known from when that Yue Ye, with her face pale, had appeared there just outside the doors of the Shadow Moon Palace Hall.
“Little Ye?” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord was taken aback in surprise a moment when he saw Yue Ye.
Elder Yue stared with his eyes wide, looking in disbelief at Yue Ye.
“My Lord, Little Ye has something to say.” Yue Ye said, her sad eyes looking at the Shadow
Moon Palace Lord.
“You can speak your mind.” The Shadow Moon Palace Lord quickly said.
Yue Ye took a deep breath, and walked into the palace hall, to kneel straight backed and stoic beside Elder Yue.
Elder Yue’s eyes glared at Yue Ye, wishing he could swallow her alive.
It had been Yue Ye’s betrayal that caused the Shadow Moon Palace Lord to look upon him in a bad light for the first time. In the instant that he saw Yue Ye, Elder Yue immediately felt a tinge of trouble inside.
Yue Ye pretended not to have seen Elder Yue’s furious gaze but just went on to raise her head up to look at the Shadow Moon Palace Lord. She then prostrated herself down deeply to kowtow, and after raising her head, she then opened her mouth to say: “My Lord, Little Ye has come here today to plead punishment from my Lord for my crime.”
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord looked at Yue Ye in puzzlement.
“Little Ye’s health is still not fully recovered and there is no need for you to kneel. Quickly get up.”
Yue Ye however shook her head.
“I beg for my Lord to allow Little Ye to finish what I have to say while kneeling, as Little Ye is guilty, guilty of an unpardonable crime.”
“Yue Ye! You have no business being here!” The sense of unease in Elder Yue’s heart grew more and more intense, the voice deep in his heart telling him that he must not allow Yue Ye to continue to speak, or it would all be over.
“What are you afraid of?” Yue Ye asked, looking at Elder Yue coldly. At that moment, Yue Ye’s eyes did not show the slightest bit of her usual timidness but a cold callousness.
Elder Yue’s heart was chilled by that single glance from those eyes.
“My Lord, please allow Little Ye to finish what I have to say.” Yue Ye turned to look at the Shadow Moon Palace Lord once again.
The Shadow Moon Palace Lord could do nothing but nod his head helplessly.