When all the palaces had sustained losses to their strength, the only palace that had remained whole and intact had naturally caused all of them to feel disgruntled, wishing they would be able to drag the Shadow Moon Palace into the muck as well, for them to feel more balanced.
Just as everyone was attacking the Shadow Moon Palace during the banquet, a disciple from the Flame Demons Palace suddenly came walking in, till he knelt in the middle of the banquet hall.
“Reporting to my Lord, the people from the Shadow Moon Palace ahve arrived.”
“Oh?” The Flame Demons Palace Lord queried with his brows furrowed up, as a sneer flashed within his eyes.
They have arrived just at the right time, when the various palaces were raising their opinion against the Shadow Moon Palace, they had suddenly arrived, to face the rage rising in everyone hearts.
“Qiao Chu, go receive the people from the Shadow Moon Palace. Make suitable arrangements for their disciples and then invite their Palace Lord to come here.” The Flame Demons Palace Lord ordered.
Qiao Chu was cursing the Flame Demons Palace Lord’s mother in his heart as he knew what the Flame Demons Palace Lord’s intentions really were. Although he was also thinking to go have a chat with Jun Wu Xie privately, but he did not harbour such impure intentions at all!
“Yes, my Lord.” No matter how contemptuous he was feeling inside his heart, Qiao Chu still forced himself to appear composed, as he walked out from the banquet hall.
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Chapter 1896: “Stunning Entrance (1)”
Qiao Chu went rushing to the city’s gates and following him was two other disciples of the Flame Demons Palace. The two disciples had grown up in the Flame Demons Palace from young and possessed rather good gifts but could not be compared to Qiao Chu. Towards the fact that the Flame Demons Palace Lord accepting Qiao Chu as his godson, they were feeling rather jealous in their hearts but they did not dare to show it.
“Qiao Chu, did the Shadow Moon Palace Lord mean anything to have you come receive the Shadow Moon Palace Lord?” A disciple asked probingly.
“I heard that the Shadow Moon Palace Lord is a young little lady, but I just don’t know what she looks like.” The other disciple chirped in together.
“It shouldn’t be too bad I think. They are siblings afterall and the previous Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s had been rather good looking.”
“Qiao Chu, with your outstanding looks, people might fall right straight for you, you know?” The two disciples said, sour with envy. The kind of talent Qiao Chu was blessed with was something they could never hope to have and even in the department of looks, they had been severely hit as well. In the Flame Demons Palace, the moment Qiao Chu came, he had attracted the attention of quite a number of young ladies and the senior and junior girls had fawned upon Qiao Chu quite a bit.
Qiao Chu’s face was dark and he could not be bothered to even look at the two dumb fools.
[Rather good looking?]
[Country bumpkins like you two haven’t seen what’s really good looking!]
[When he stands before Big Brother Wu Yao, he was as insignificant as weeds! To think that these two country bumpkins still think that he’s good looking.]
Walking towards the city’s gates, he could faintly make out several figures. Looking from afar, the tiny figure of a little girl had her back facing her, seemingly saying something to several people in front of her.
“It couldn’t be right? The Shadow Moon Palace only brought only such a small number of people?” When the two disciples saw the scant few figures at the city gates, their faces became incredulous.
For the Twelve Palaces’ Summit, which palace did not bring at least a thousand people? But from what their eyes were seeing, taking everyone into account at the city gates, there were only about ten people….. Could the Shadow Moon Palace’s delegation be any more wretched looking?
“What is actually happening with the Shadow Moon Palace? Could it be that the newly ascended Palace Lord is an idiot? Bringing just those few people here, they look just downright pathetic!”
The two disciples grumbled to themselves as they walked, but Qiao Chu’s eyes were faintly glowing with a heated fervour.
Among that group of people, he had seen several familiar faces!
Even when the three of them came walking up to the gates, the young lady at the lead of the Shadow Moon Palace still did not turn her head back.
The other two disciples clicked their tongues discreetly, as they followed Qiao Chu to greet the guests.
“Could these distinguished individuals here be our friends from the Shadow Moon Palace? We are disciples of the Flame Demon Palace and we came here under the Palace Lord’s orders to welcome our esteemed guests into the city.” Qiao Chu said, suppressing the excitement in his heart to speak with feigned calm.
The attitude of the other two disciples were much more perfunctory. Their gazes unconsciously swept over the group of people from the Shadow Moon Palace and they saw that besides the person who had her back to them where her countenance could not be seen, there were another two females among the ten people.
One of them was very young, looking to be about twelve years of age and a pretty little thing while the other caused the hearts of the two disciples to flutter and palpitate.
The cold and proud lady stood among the group, the air of nobility highly moving. Her facial features though not entirely flawless, but she could still be considered to be beautiful and enchanting. It was mainly that cold and chilly elegance that caused the two disciples to be unable to take their eyes off her, subconsciously assuming her to be the new Palace Lord of the Shadow Moon Palace.
They had not thought that the new Shadow Moon Palace Lord could really look so enchanting.
“The Palace Lord has laid out a banquet and had been waiting for a long time. Can I invite the Shadow Moon Palace Lord to please come with us.” One of the disciples said directly to the cold and proud young lady standing within the crowd.
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Chapter 1897: “Stunning Entrance (2)”
“Oh? The banquet has started?” A cold and clear voice suddenly sounded out from the side, as the young lady who had her back facing the three people from the Flame Demons Palace slowly turned herself around.
It was just an instant, that the two other disciples standing beside Qiao Chu were turned into stone!
It was clearly already night, but in that instant they saw the young lady countenance, the two of them seemed to the sun’s rays brightening up the lands in their hearts, the faint candlelight that cast upon the lady, so beautiful it was as if they were laying their eyes upon divinity!
Under the Heavens, such a beautiful countenance actually existed…..
The jaws of the two disciples hung wide open, frozen in their spots in shock, their faces looking as if they had been struck by lightning, completely bedazzled and not moving an inch, their irises not shifting away in the slightest.
Qiao Chu looked contemptuously at the two country bumpkins who had never seen such beauty before. As the two of them were still standing there in a daze, Qiao Chu then turned himself around to wink at Jun Wu Xie who had dazzled people blind.
Even Qiao Chu would not have expected that Jun Wu Xie would show up with her real countenance and he could not remember how long it had been since he last saw Jun Wu Xie’s real countenance. Although he had become used to such devilish good looks, seeing it so suddenly right before him still took a toll on his poor little heart.
Jun Wu Xie swept her gaze fleetingly over Qiao Chu.
Qiao Chu then cleared his throat and did not bother himself with the other two country bumpkins as he forced himself to put on a composed front to say: “The banquet has just started and I wonder if the Shadow Moon Palace Lord has any other guests with her? Will the Shadow Moon Palace Lord first bring your Elders and several disciples to the banquet and you can hand over the rest of your other disciples to me for now, to allow me to arrange accommodati
ons for them.”
Those words were put across grandly, but what Qiao Chu really intended to say was…..
[Ho ho! Little Xie, tell me quick! How many of your iron blood ferocious lions did you bring?]
However, Jun Wu Xie just indifferently replied: “There’s no more.”
“Har?” Qiao Chu was slightly taken aback.
“It’s just the few of us here.” Jun Wu Xie said indifferently.
Qiao Chu was suddenly stunned.
[He knew that Jun Wu Xie was incredibly bold, but this…..]
[This time, isn’t she being a little too gutsy! ?]
[In the city there were large contingents from all the rest of the Twelve Palaces you know! ? Each palace with at least a thousand people! Like the Flame Demons Palace had already brought three thousand people, with just a casual count, the numbers of people in the city would easily number several tens of thousands! Wasn’t Jun Wu Xie intending to resolve the whole matter with everyone gathered here this time? Why…..]
[And she brought just these few people?]
Qiao Chu was immediately stupefied.
[These tens of thousands of men were not just ordinary soldiers. They are the most elite fighters from the various palaces!]
[Just the number of Purple Spirits among them was already astounding, and if they were to fight them…..]
Qiao Chu just did not dare to imagine.
“Is….. Is that right…… You’re sure?” Qiao Chu’s voice was a little weak.
“I’m certain.” Jun Wu Xie said deceptively.
A corner of Qiao Chu’s mouth twitched and the two country bumpkins finally managed to regain their senses, but their eyes only saw the figure of Jun Wu Xie alone, their ears only able to hear Jun Wu Xie’s voice. As for what Jun Wu Xie had said, nothing really registered in their minds.
They finally came to understand what the words, “bring down cities and ruin countries” really meant!
Qiao Chu could not do anything but to steel himself as he led Jun Wu Xie and the others towards the banquet, muttering to himself in his heart. Alas, with the two other deadweights beside him, he had no chance to ask Jun Wu Xie anything.
The other two disciples trailed slightly behind at both sides of Jun Wu Xie, their faces completely besotted, drool almost dripping out from their mouths.
Till they came to the doors outside the banquet, Qiao Chu then bolstered himself up to stand upright, forcing a stoic and solemn look upon his face before he said: “Allow me to go announce your Grace’s arrival.”
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Chapter 1898: “Stunning Entrance (3)”
Qiao Chu then went into the banquet hall dragging two rather dazed disciples behind him.
The atmosphere within the banquet had warmed up somewhat and the moment Qiao Chu went inside, he immediately heard people from the various palaces throwing dirty water upon the Shadow Moon Palace Lord in order to divert the fiery anger against each other and a sneer quickly rose up within his heart.
[I’ll see how much longer all of you can continue to be so self absorbed in glee.]
“Qiao Chu, did you manage to receive the guests?” The Flame Demons Palace Lord immediately asked when he saw Qiao Chu came in.
“Reporting to my Lord, I have brought the guests in.”
“Oh? Then why are all of you back here? Didn’t I tell you to leave two people behind to make arrangements accomodations for the Shadow Moon Palace’s disciples?” The Flame Demons Palace Lord queried with his brows slightly furrowed up.
Qiao Chu replied: “My Lord, the Shadow Moon Palace only brought ten people here and I really do not know whether to first arrange accommodations for them and so I have brought them all here instead.”
Qiao Chu’s voice had just dropped when the throughout the entire banquet, many voices raised in debate.
“What? Only ten people?” The Flame Demons Palace Lord was taken aback. Never had he thought that after waiting for so long, he would be met with such a result.
For this Summit of the Twelve Palaces, which palace among all of them had not picked the most elite of their disciples to come attend it? Moreover, in the past half year, the various palaces had all suffered significant losses and only the Shadow Moon Palace had kept themselves aloof, having not been involved in the turmoil. Hence, based on that reasoning, with the Shadow Moon Palace’s strength preserved and kept well intact, everyone had thought that the reason the Shadow Moon Palace had been so late in arriving was because they knew that all the other palaces had much of their might decimated and they were putting together a highly elite force to shock everyone well and proper.
In the end…..
The entire banquet erupted with voice raised up in discussion. No one could have thought that the Shadow Moon Palace would come attend the Twelve Palace’s Summit in such a manner.
“What does the Shadow Moon Palace mean by this? No matter what, they shouldn’t just show up with just a mere ten people.”
“Compared to all of us, the Shadow Moon Palace might have kept their numbers intact, but the number of skilled fighters in the Shadow Moon Palace had never been all that many.” Everyone was feeling rather curious what kind of arrangements the Shadow Moon Palace had made, and none of them had any idea what the Shadow Moon Palace was planning.
“Forget it. I think that as the Shadow Moon Palace Lord has just assumed the position of Palace Lord and not only is she very young, she is just a little girl. Having been kept within her palace chambers all along and suddenly made to take over the reins of the Shadow Moon Palace, how could she possibly be able to handle everything well and proper? I think everyone should extend a little bit of leeway to the little girl.” The Flame Demons Palace Lord suddenly spoke up to persuade everyone, seemingly in defence of the Shadow Moon Palace, but was actually reminding everyone of the new Shadow Moon Palace Lord’s naivety and incompetence.
Every time the Twelve Palaces congregated, besides their individual palace’s reputation, the other thing they competed with each other in was the might of the contingents they brought with them.
Only with heavy military might in hand, would they be able to speak with resonance, and hence, all the palaces had brought with them their most elite this time. No matter how heavy their losses had been, they must not lose in this show of might before the other palaces.
Except for the Shadow Moon Palace, who chose not to taken the well trodden path.
Without even having seen the new Shadow Moon Palace Lord, the various palaces had all formed a approximate impression of her.
She must be one ignorant little lass, not to be taken seriously.
“Alright, Qiao Chu. Invite our friends from the Shadow Moon Palace in.” Seeing that the effects that he sought had been achieved, the Flame Demons Palace Lord said with a laugh.
Qiao Chu looked at all the different looks of contempt upon the faces of everyone in the banquet and a cold sneer filled in his heart as he turned to walk towards the outside of the grand hall.
“Looks like the previous Shadow Moon Palace Lord is truly gravely ill, otherwise why would he hand the Shadow Moon Palace to such an ignorant little sister?” The Purple Thunder Palace Lord said with a faint smile on his lips.
“That’s right! I am very curious how the new Shadow Moon Palace Lord really looks like! As this will be the first she’ll be seeing such a large congregation, she had better not cry from fright.” An Elder from the Zen Void Palace quipped, laughing as well.
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Chapter 1899: “Stunning Entrance (4)”
The hall was filled with guffaws of laughter. Everyone was waiting to see that new and ignorant little Shadow Moon Palace Lord come in looking shook with stagefright.
Under all that malicious laughter, the doors into the hall were pushed open once again.
A petite figure led the way to come walking into the grand hall.
In an instant, all sound within the great hall came to a sudden halt. The eyes of everyone from the various palaces
were all fixated upon the young lady walking into the great hall at that moment.
Shock and sheer astoundment rose within every single person’s eyes. Even the Flame Demons Palace Lord who sat waiting to watch the show had at the moment he saw the person, froze in place, the wine in his mouth almost spilling out from the corner of his mouth.
To have become the Palace Lord of the respective palaces, the people they’ve heard of and met were more outstanding and extraordinary than most people. They’ve always boasted of having seen a countless number of beauties and were already highly immune and indifferent to them. But no one could have ever expected that this would be the day that their calm and indifference would be shattered into so many pieces.
The petite little lady walked elegantly into the great hall, within the sights of everyone there, with steps light and unhurried, without a single sound, but every step felt as if she was treading upon everyone’s hearts. Upon that countenance that was able to bring cities and countries to their knees, seemed to have winter’s ice that wouldn’t melt formed upon it, cold and distant, but those eyes were so exquisite it drew people to them, despite knowing it was just harsh and chilling winter’s ice, but made people unable to help themselves to want to look at them, regardless of the fact that they would be pricked by the razor sharp icicles.
A silence fell upon the entire hall like the shroud of death, whatever they had been thinking in their minds earlier all gone fuzzy and forgotten. Everything else around them seemed to have disappeared, their eyes only seeing just one lone figure of peerless beauty.
“My humble self is the newly succeeded Palace Lord of the Shadow Moon Palace. Greetings to everyone.” Jun Wu Xie stood in the middle of the great hall, her clear voice tinged with a slight chill ringing out from her. She stood neither servile nor overbearing as she stood before everyone’s eyes, her chin slightly lifted up, tinged with a faint hint of pride and self confidence, without showing the slightest sign of timidity and fluster that everyone were maliciously guessing that she would show.
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