Such extortion and unreasonable seizure, blatantly disregarded the feeling of the people. The citizens of the Thousand Beast City moaned and complained, but before Qu Xin Rui’s tyrannical powers, the people had no choice but to swallow back their grouses.
Ever since she had been reborn, this was the most vile person Jun Wu Xie had met, blatantly abusing the people, and not bothering to hide her actions in the slightest.
Such arrogance and impunity, relied only on the fact that Qu Xin Rui had attained her Purple Spirit many years ago, and that she had gone to the Middle Realm. In Qu Xin Rui’s eyes, people in the Lower Realm, were no longer fit to be called humans at all.
All the people from the Middle Realm’s Twelve Palaces whom she had encountered and seen before, gave Jun Wu Xie this same feeling. In the eyes of those people from the Middle Realm, the lives of people in the Lower Realm were as worthless as insects, where they could kill as they wanted, beat up as they wished, never once seeing the people here as human at all.
Although the Middle Realm was powerful, but that was not what made them behave so imperiously and act completely without any scrupules.
Jun Wu Xie lowered her gaze, where she took her eyes off the interior of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers.
The little black cat was snuggled inside Jun Wu Xie’s arms, the tip of its nose quivering slightly, its eyes suddenly flashed with a strange glint.
When everyone came to the top floor of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, they saw the entire room adorned with blood red sheer silk, the white fox skin rugs that covered the floor entirely were scattered with rose petals, and an alluring fragrance permeated the surrounding air. A group of good looking young men dressed in light and thin clothes were seated on one side playing music while another group of men with their clothes not covering their bodies completely were kneeling around the long lounge chair.
Upon the long lounge, Qu Xin Rui was dressed in a bright red dress, her long elegant shapely legs faintly discernable under the dress, one foot held in the hands of an effeminate looking man, kissing it gently.
Qu Xin Rui’s head was rested on one hand as she leaned back upon the lounge chair. When she saw the group of men walking in, she did not get up in the slightest. Her legs exposed to the sight of the men merely shifted slightly, further revealing more flesh, without showing the slightest sense of shame.
However, all the men in the group did not dare cast another glance her way, but fell down to their knees, to offer their greetings.
Only Jun Wu Xie alone, stood upright among them.
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“Our respects to the Great Aunt.” Under the chorus of greetings from the group of men, Jun Wu Xie stood unmoving from her spot, and Qu Xin Rui’s gaze fell upon the youth.
The devilish looking pair of eyes swept over the figure of Jun Xie standing conspicuously in front, and Qu Xin Rui’s eyes narrowed slightly, her lips curling up into a faint smile.
She had sent people to investigate into Jun Xie’s background prior to this and had seen a portrait of the youth. She had thought that the figure in the portrait could at most be seen as delicately attractive looking and Qu Xin Rui had been rather disappointed. But when she saw Jun Xie in the flesh now, she was suddenly pleasantly surprised.
The face that still did not yet show full maturity was though not exactly outstanding, but upon that not too exceptional looking face, it was graced with a pair of eyes that captured your soul!
Like the icy waters of winter lakes, chilling and deep.
Having been used to seeing good looking young men around her, Qu Xin Rui was in that instant immediately attracted by Jun Xie’s eyes.
Qu Xin Rui completely ignored all the others who were kneeling upon the ground and just stared at Jun Xie standing upright before her and said: “Will this Young Master here, be the one that the others here address as Jun Xie?”
Jun Wu Xie looked at Qu Xin Rui. Qu Xin Rui was gorgeous looking and her skin was smooth and firm. She could not find a single sign of aging no matter where she looked. However you looked at her, she would be at most just slightly over twenty years old. But the age she looked like, was not even a fraction of her actual real age.
Jun Wu Xie knew that upon attaining the Purple Spirit, a person’s looks would recover some of the aging slightly, but that slight change would not be enough to let a saggy old woman regain their youth completely, to turn into a twenty year old young lady in her prime.
When Qu Xin Rui attained her Purple Spirit, her hair had already turned completely white and she was an old granny close to a hundred years old. But when she came back to the Thousand Beast City, she had transformed into an gorgeous looking young lady of twenty something, her looks no different from how she looked when she was younger. But that drastic change, had instead seemed very strange.
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes slightly, and said in an unaffected tone: “The humble Jun Xie, wishes Miss Qu good health.”
To make Jun Wu Xie address Qu Xin Rui as a Great Aunt, you might as well kill her then.
Jun Xie’s address of Miss Qu, almost caused Qu Wen Hao and the rest kneeling upon the ground to suffer a heart attack. In the entire Thousand Beast City, no one had dared address Qu Xin Rui in that manner!
Lin Feng was secretly sniggering in his heart, waiting to see Qu Xin Rui show her rage against Jun Xie for that disrespect.
However, Qu Xin Rui had after a brief pause of surprise, suddenly laughed out loud. That sound had not exhibited the slightest tinge of rage but had instead been filled with delight.
“Young Master Jun is really good with his words. At my age, how can I be addressed as a Miss? The term, Miss, has not been heard by me for over a hundred years.” The corners of Qu Xin Rui’s mouth were curled up in a smile, the ends of her eyes lifted slightly, seemingly in a rather good mood.
Under the Heavens, not a single female would be pleased to be addressed to be older than they were. Even Qu Xin Rui who was already an old woman over a hundred years old but had changed her appearance to look like this, removing all signs of age and the passage of time from her body, would be deemed a person highly concerned about her looks and age.
And Jun Wu Xie’s address of her as a Miss, had made Qu Xin Rui highly pleased, instead of anger.
Although Jun Wu Xie did not know much about interaction between people, but she had heard that women usually had such a preference from someone.
“When I heard that Wen Hao had praised you as being young and highly talented, and that you cured the lass Ling Yue’s injuries, as their senior, I had naturally wanted to thank you. If Young Master Jun does not mind, then come sit here beside me.” Qu Xin Rui raised up a hand slightly, pointing at a low table nearest to her.
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Jun Wu Xie did not decline but walked over on her own and sat down at the low table beside Qu Xin Rui. All the favoured men serving Qu Xin Rui cast Jun Xie a look, their eyes filled with disdain.
Seeing Jun Xie sitting down at the table, Qu Xin Rui then turned her attention to the group of men still kneeling upon the ground.
“All of you rise.” She said lazily.
Qu Wen Hao and the rest of them finally got up, and found themselves places to sit down at.
Lin Feng stared at Jun Xie. He had thought that Qu Xin Rui would throw a fit at the youth impudence and had not expected for Jun Xie to be treated so cordially, to even be granted a seat right beside Qu Xin Rui.
It must be known, that that seat had never been occupied by Qu Wen Hao, but was always taken by Lin Que, his father. The treatment that Jun Xie had been showered with was equivalent to Jun Xie having usurped his father’s position.
Lin Feng still could not understand after thinking it through, not understanding why Qu Xin Rui had suddenly become so forgiving. His father had told him that he was coming here to see Qu Xin Rui to pin all the blame for the incident with the Devious Wyvern
upon Jun Xie’s head. But when Lin Que returned home, he had only continued to ground him and asked him to reflect on his own actions, refusing to mention another word about it. Lin Feng had assumed that Qu Xin Rui had dealt with Jun Xie at that time but when he saw Jun Xie appear at the banquet today, he realised he had been mistaken.
The fact that Qu Xin Rui had not pursued the matter for the loss with him, he could still attribute it to his father’s favoured position with Qu Xin Rui, which had persuaded Qu Xin Rui to spare him in leniency. But who does Jun Xie think he is? On what basis should the tyrannical Qu Xin Rui let that nobody off that easily? To the extent that she was even being so cordial to Jun Xie today?
Unwilling to accept that Jun Xie had stolen all the limelight, Lin Feng immediately stood up. He lifted his wine glass and said to Qu Xin Rui: “Greetings to the Great Aunt, Lin Feng would like to convey well wishes to the Great Aunt on her birthday, wishing Great Aunt fortune, longevity and good health every single year.”
Qu Xin Rui’s attention was fixed on Jun Xie and with the sudden toast from Lin Feng, she snapped back to her senses.
Lin Feng possessed rather outstanding looks and Qu Xin Rui always had a weakness towards good looking men, which made her a little more accommodating towards Lin Feng.
“Little Feng grew a little taller this year, and you are looking more and more outstanding. That little mouth of yours seems as if it had been smeared with honey.” Qu Xin Rui said with a smile.
Lin Feng was secretly gladdened in his heart and he downed the glass of wine in one gulp.
Qu Xin Rui drank a cup as well but upon putting her wine cup down, her gaze went back to looking at Jun Xie.
“I heard that Young Master Jun has a Spirit Beast, and it is a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast that is rare to see even in a hundred years. That is really impressive, so why did our little Young Master Jun not bring it here today?”
Jun Wu Xie replied: “That beast is too rowdy.”
Qu Xin Rui laughed. “It might be a little too rowdy indeed. I previously heard that little Young Master Jun had brought that Spirit Beast to the Spirit Beast Arena and created quite a stir. But Guardian Grade Spirit Beasts are all proud magnificent beasts impossible to harness and the fact that little Young Master Jun is able to tame it is an extraordinary feat by itself. All below the Guardian Grade are useless and it’s such a pity for that Devious Wyvern of mine. I had actually other uses for it and I did not think that it would be brought to the Spirit Beast Arena, where it ended up being swallowed up by your own Spirit Beast entirely, without even leaving any of its bones behind.”
Qu Xin Rui looked mournfully at Jun Xie and although her real age was already over a century, but as her looks were still gorgeous and youthful, her mannerisms were highly alluring. It was a little more genteel than younger looking girls, and those eyes slightly lifted at the corners moving together with the movement of her irises, was a gaze that seemingly would be able to ensnare a man.
Instead, Jun Wu Xie just said: “I just got to this place and I did not know that the Devious Wyvern belonged to Miss Qu. I only saw that it was brought in by a young youth who came up to challenge me and I just accepted it.”
Lin Feng had not thought that Qu Xin Rui would bring up the topic about the Devious Wyvern at that moment and when he heard Jun Xie answer the way he did, his heart suddenly sank.
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Chapter 1033: “Birthday Banquet (8)”
Before this, Lin Que had made Lin Feng collaborate their statements and when he had come to report the matter to Qu Xin Rui, Lin Que had pinned the entire blame for the incident onto Jun Xie. They had thought that Qu Xin Rui would not pursue the matter any further after that and they had gotten away scot free. But Qu Xin Rui had suddenly brought up the matter now and Jun Xie had replied in such a manner…..
Lin Feng was immediately feeling highly worried. If Qu Xin Rui started to become suspicious on whether his father had spoken the truth, and found out that he had actually been the one who had arranged for the Devious Wyvern to be brought in to stir up trouble with Jun Xie, it would become extremely hard for him to answer for it.
When Qu Xin Rui heard what Jun Xie said, her eyes narrowed up and her gaze swept over to Lin Feng who had his head lowered and his entire body completely tensed up. She did not say anything to him but turned back to Jun Xie and said smilingly: “It must have all been an understanding. Although the Devious Wyvern was highly precious to me, but since it is now gone, then it’s gone, and Young Master Jun does not have to feel guilty about it. But I am wondering, after your Spirit Beast swallowed up the Devious Wyvern, did it show any strange reactions? The Devious Wyvern is no ordinary Spirit Beast and its unique abilities is not known by the average person.”
Jun Wu Xie’s expression changed a little. Qu Xin Rui’s words did not feel like she was trying to find fault with her but was instead expressing goodwill. It was a sign that Qu Xin Rui wasn’t going to pursue the matter any further and from the words that Qu Xin Rui had earlier said in their conversation, Jun Wu Xie realised that Qu Xin Rui was even thinking of telling her about the Devious Wyvern’s unique ability!
In regards to the Devious Wyvern, Jun Wu Xie did not know much about it, but she had been able to make a rather accurate deduction that the Devious Wyvern was not just any ordinary Spirit Beast.
Or, why would it be able to induce these people from the mighty Twelve Palaces to make a move on it, and cause the Soaring Serpent and the golden seed within her body to stir so restlessly?
The Soaring Serpent wanted the Devious Wyvern, and it had been very anxious about it.
Jun Wu Xie had felt that the Soaring Serpent had not truthfully revealed the entire truth and since Qu Xin Rui was seemingly willing to clear the doubts for her, what reason would she have to refuse?
“My Spirit Beast had not shown any unusual reactions recently but if Miss Qu is willing to instruct me a little, the humble Jun Xie would listen most attentively.” Having sensed that Qu Xin Rui was showing goodwill towards her, and although Jun Wu Xie did not know the reason behind it, she at least knew this…..
If someone was so eager to offer assistance, why shouldn’t she accept?
Qu Xin Rui saw that Jun Xie was hooked and she continued on to say with a smile: “The Devious Wyvern molts its scales a total of three times in its life. In the beginning, the Devious Wyvern is merely just a high grade Spirit Beast. But after its repeated molting of its scales, it will be promoted to become a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast. Throughout the world, an ability like this is unique only to this Spirit Beast. Does little Young Master Jun know from where did the Devious Wyvern gets this special ability from?”
Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
Qu Xin Rui said: “According to legend, it is said that the Devious Wyvern is a Spirit Beast born from all spiritual bodies in both Heaven and Earth and it is born with a spirit stronger than its mortal flesh. Every time it molts its scales, its mortal flesh would undergo a round of shock. The Devious Wyvern’s spirit is different from other Spirit Beasts and it is rumoured that within the Devious Wyvern’s spirit, a mystifying power lays hidden, a power that would enable humans to gain an entryway that leads to the Spirit World…..”
“Spirit World?” Jun Wu Xie was slightly surprised. That term was not strange to her as Little Lotus had mentioned it a few times. But Little Lotus had not spoken very clearly about it and Jun Wu Xie had only been able to get a good guess out of it. The Spirit World should be the realm that ring spirits reside in before they are awakened.
Jun Wu Xie had not thought that she would ever hear the words, Spirit World, coming out from Qu Xin Rui’s mouth!
“The Spirit World. That was a place that nobody had gone to before. Only spirits are allowed to enter that place.” Qu Xin Rui was smiling faintly, her fingertips lightly brushing over her chest, her demeanor looking highly alluring!
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“Someone had once said. If
a person was able to devour a Devious Wyvern’s spirit, then that person would be able to breakthrough those barriers and possess more ring spirits.” Qu Xin Rui said, her eyes slightly narrowed up. The Devious Wyvern only existed in the Lower Realm and she herself had only gotten to know about it when she heard it mentioned by an Elder in the Soul Return Palace, which had made her ask Lin Que to seek out the Devious Wyvern here in the Lower Realm.
Powerful ring spirits, would at any time, regardless of the time and place, to absolutely anyone, be an irresistable temptation.
The Lord of the Soul Return Palace had once tried to seek for the Devious Wyvern in the Lower Realm but had not managed to find it. Qu Xin Rui had actually intended to gift the Devious Wyvern that Lin Que had found to the Palace Lord and win for herself even bigger rewards.
Unexpectedly, the Devious Wyvern had been swallowed up by a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast!
Fortunately the Devious Wyvern was something that Qu Xin Rui had only wanted to do as a secondary task at her convenience and the first and foremost task she seeked to achieve was actually to locate the Dark Emperor’s tomb. If she did not know that Jun Xie was the Fire Country’s ruling Emperor, she would have immediately torn the youth into pieces right at the beginning!
Jun Wu Xie was greatly shocked in her heart, but her face was still completely calm.
[Devouring the Devious Wyvern’s spirit would gain one an entryway into the Spirit World? And win them more ring spirits?]
That piece of information startled Jun Wu Xie with a rather big shock and she immediately understood why the Soaring Serpent had been so anxious to get the Devious Wyvern. The Soaring Serpent must have known about the secret of the Devious Wyvern and it had wanted the Devious Wyvern, not to heal its own spirit, but to actually find a way to get out of Jun Wu Xie’s body!
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