Shen Chi’s heart jumped slightly in shock. Seeing the deceitful and cunning smile on Qu Xin Rui, he had to say although Qu Xin Rui was a woman, but when it came to such deep and exploitative scheming, the viciousness and merciless methods, none among the other three of them could compare to her. For a person who climbed up from the Lower Realm, and was still able to remain in the Soul Return Palace to achieve her current position today, it must be said that Qu Xin Rui’s methods, were beyond the average person.
“That is still a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast. Even if you and I were to join forces, taking it down would still pose a certain level of difficulty for us.” Shen Chi said.
Qu Xin Rui looked at Shen Chi with an eyebrow arched high up.
“Have you forgotten, where this place that we are at is?”
Shen Chi was stunned for a moment and a smile of understanding immediately came to show on his face.
“The Spirit Taming Bone Flute is held in the hands of Qu Wen Hao and with that thing, besides the Grand Chieftain of the Thousand Beast City, no one will be able to use it. Although Qu Wen Hao could still be considered to be rather obedient these few years, his resentment against you shouldn’t be overlooked. I’m afraid that he might just not be willing to undertake the risks of danger that comes with trying to control a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast.”
Qu Xin Rui then said with a cold laugh: “For his daughter, he will be willing to do anything.”
“You are truly, very cruel.” Shen Chi laughed. To even make use of her own blood kin, Qu Xin Rui was truly vicious!
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Chapter 1071: “Venomous Woman (4)”
“When man does not fight for himself to live, the world will come to an end. If I am able to gain a firm standing in the Soul Return Palace, to the Thousand Beast City, wouldn’t it be also a good thing for them?” Qu Xin Rui did not feel that she was being that cruel. To climb from the Lower Realm into the Middle Realm, just how enormous an amount of effort did she expend, how much she had had to sacrifice, and how much had she put out? Nobody would be allowed to impede her. Anyone who stood to obstruct her would have to die!
“To succeed in big things, how could one tie oneself down with such trivialities? Even if I have to tread over the bones of thousands, I will achieve a higher position for myself. Moreover….. when all of you agreed to work together with me, wasn’t this exactly the point that all of you liked in me? When the Elder asked all of you to seek an appropriate power in the Lower Realm but you secretly held on to the map and roped me in to take control the Thousand Beast City. Wasn’t that because you knew that I wouldn’t care in the least about the lives of all these people? Since we have all chosen to do it this way, there is nothing else here that I will find unbearable to exploit. If I succeed here, your own positions in the Soul Return Palace will be elevated exponentially as well!” Qu Xin Rui said, looking coquettishly at Shen Chi.
Shen Chi smiled. “You’re right. Since you are giving it all you’ve got, how could I stand back and not act accordingly? Rest assured. For the sacrificial offering, I will get it all settled tonight and you will be able to regain your youthful beauty tomorrow. As for the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, you will have to deal with it on your own, as it is….. Qu Wen Hao doesn’t like the idea of us getting to close to his Grand Chieftain’s Residence.”
“I will get that done.” Qu Xin Rui said, her eyes narrowing up.
…..
The dark night encompassed the Thousand Beast City and Qu Ling Yue was sitting within her room, holding a brand new handkerchief in her hand. On that pure white handkerchief, two graceful Chinese characters were embroidered beautifully upon it, small and exquisite, but filled with the weighty thoughts and feelings of a girl’s heart inside.
Qu Ling Yue’s eyes stared at the embroidered characters that read “Jun Xie” on the handkerchief and as she stared, a faint pink flush rose into her cheeks. She bit on her lip and covered her face with the handkerchief. With the handkerchief over her face, she gave out a soft and delight squeal.
The thought of a young girl was always so tenuous and unpredictable. Alone in the room and just by looking at the person’s name, she was suddenly overcome with a feeling of bliss, as if the person was currently seen through that layer of thin gauze, smiling at her with a gentleness she had never seen before.
Loss in that moment of bliss, a shadow blocked out the candlelight, shrouding Qu Ling Yue in darkness. Qu Ling Yue was suddenly shocked as she sat up hurriedly!
In her shock, she saw a figure dressed in red, and realised it was the amourous Qu Xin Rui standing before her as the cotton handkerchief slipped off her face onto the floor.
“Great Grandaunt!” Qu Ling Yue immediately fell to a kneel upon the floor in nervousness, the pink tinge on her cheeks fading away instantly.
Qu Xin Rui looked at the pretty faced Qu Ling Yue kneeling on the ground. Qu Ling Yue’s features were not considered to be stunning, but when summed up together, it exuded a lively energy that only young girls possessed, where just a slight smile would be able to make people feel the as if the girl was as beautiful as a hundred flowers in full bloom. In terms of looks, Qu Ling Yue could not compare with Qu Xin Rui’s ravishing beauty, but the kind of innocent beauty that a young girl possessed would be beyond Qu Xin Rui’s reach for the rest of her life.
Qu Xin Rui narrowed her eyes as her gaze swung over to the handkerchief fallen to the floor. She bent down and picked it up and nervousness flickered in Qu Ling Yue’s gaze.
The two characters that read “Jun Xie” fell into Qu Xin Rui’s eyes and they immediately flashed with a sharp glint!
She looked up and saw Qu Ling Yue’s tiny face looking flustered and so very pitiful and Qu Xin Rui’s eyes burned with detest and hatred.
“Ling Yue, you are interested in little Young Master Jun?”
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Chapter 1072: “Venomous Woman (5)”
Having had her thoughts seen through with that statement, Qu Ling Yue’s quickly turned fully bright red. She lowered her head and seemed highly embarrassed as her hands tugged nervously at the corners of her clothes.
A young girl’s coy and shy demeanour, was the most beautiful adornment. That slight pink flush of the cheeks, had immediately lent to Qu Xin Rui’s not too exceptionally beautiful face an additional enchanting allure, which only drove the hatred in Qu Xin Rui’s eyes to suddenly turn into pure venom.
“You and little Young Master Jun first met in the Fire Country?”
“Yes.” Qu Ling Yue did not know why Qu Xin Rui had suddenly appeared within her room. Her room door was locked and she had not heard any sound of movements at all.
Although Qu Ling Yue had been trying very hard to avoid Qu Xin Rui all these years, but every time they met, Qu Ling Yue had always felt that Qu Xin Rui detested her in some way. The fact that Qu Xin Rui disliked her was a point Qu Ling Yue was well aware of by now, so why would Qu Xin Rui suddenly come here to seek her out in the middle of the night today?
And does her father know anything about this?
“And you are on very good terms with him?” Qu Xin Rui asked, in a voice that did not allow one to discern her intentions.
Qu Ling Yue’s head sank even lower.
“Young Master Jun….. saved my life then….. He….. he is my benefactor…..”
Qu Ling Yue stuttered softly in a gentle voice, scratching Qu Xin Rui painfully in the ears. Although she had regained back her beauty just like when she was in her twenties, but her demeanor and mannerisms would never once again be as moving and enchanting as the naive innocence of a little young girl.
“I have wondered why little Young Master Jun had been indifferent and unmoved but it is now clear to me.” Qu Xin Rui said as she gave a disdainful laugh.
Qu Ling Yue was startled by the amount of hatred in Qu Xin Rui’s voice and she looked up questioningly. In that instant, her chin was grabbed by Qu Xin Rui in a tight grip!
Qu Xin Rui’s long nails dug into Qu
Ling Yue’s flesh and blood flowed out from the wounds.
“What’s so great about this face? Besides being more youthful, in what other way are you comparable to me? You’re just a immature little girl that’s ignorant and doesn’t know a thing about passion. How could you be so shameless? Is that what your father has taught you? Slut!” Qu Xin Rui spat, with narrowed eyes, venomous words spilling out from her mouth.
She had not been able to comprehend why Jun Xie would spurn her intimate advances. She had such complete confidence in her looks that she was able to mesmerize any man but the very one, Jun Xie, that she wanted to control had treated her like she was plain air, and was completely unaffected.
It wasn’t until she saw Qu Ling Yue’s sickly sweet and godawful handkerchief that she it struck her. Jun Xie’s total disregard towards her could highly possibly be due to him having developed a liking to this immature little girl here!
Having suffered the blows from being snubbed and rejected by Jun Xie repeatedly, it had formed to become a huge sense of humiliation in Qu Xin Rui heart, and when she saw Qu Ling Yue’s shy and alluring demeanor earlier, she had been suddenly overcome with an urge to dig out that endearing looking pair of limpid eyes!
“Great Grand….. aunt….. What….. What are you….. saying…..” A deeply ominous feeling rose within Qu Ling Yue’s heart, as the pain from her chin grew more and more intense.
Qu Xin Rui suddenly laughed almost hysterically, the laughter sounding highly cruel.
“What I said? Don’t you like little Young Master Jun a lot? Then for the sake of his future, you should be willing to anything right?”
Qu Ling Yue stared at Qu Xin Rui in terror. She wanted to scream, but was slapped by Qu Xin Rui to fall into a dead faint, and her body crumpled onto the floor in a heap.
Qu Xin Rui’s eyes were narrowed into a dangerous slit as she stared at the figure of Qu Ling Yue on the ground, her eyes shining brightly with intense jealousy and rage.
At that moment, she no longer simply wanted to just use Qu Ling Yue to blackmail Qu Wen Hao. As she stared at Qu Ling Yue’s unconscious little face, an even more highly venomous and insidious plan formed in her mind.
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Chapter 1073: “Lure the Tiger Away from the Mountain (1)”
In the next few days, Qu Xin Rui did not send anyone to go invite Jun Xie over and Jun Wu Xie was able to enjoy a few days’ peace.
This day, Jun Wu Xie woke up bright and early and she received news that Qing Yu brought in to her.
“Young Master Jun, the Grand Chieftain would like to invite you to make a trip to the Grand Chieftain’s Residence. He said he has something he wants to discuss with you about.” Qing Yu said as he stood in front of the door to Jun Xie’s room, but not daring to take a single step inside, as in that room at that moment, a great demon lord sat.
Jun Wu Xie was smoothing out Lord Meh Meh’s wool and suddenly hearing Qing Yu’s words, she lifted her head and asked: “Qu Wen Hao?”
“That’s right.” Qing Yu nodded.
Jun Wu Xie could not help but creased her brows. Although she had privately established an agreement with Qu Wen Hao, but all their conveyance of information and news were only done through Qu Ling Yue and Xiong Ba. Besides that day at the birthday banquet, she had never directly communicated with Qu Wen Hao and all that was done to avoid Qu Xin Rui from becoming suspicious.
That was a point that she knew well, and Qu Wen Hao as well.
But today, Qu Wen Hao had suddenly extended an invitation to her and it was after she had rejected Qu Xin Rui, which made Jun Wu Xie can’t help it but to feel that it was all rather strange.
“Is it mentioned what this is about?” Jun Wu Xie asked.
Qing Yu shook his head. “It was not mentioned, but I was told that it was about something important and he needs to speak to you personally.”
Jun Wu Yao had his chin rested in his upturned palm as he looked at Jun Wu Xie. In regards to the situation in the Thousand Beast City, he had gained a better understanding of everything in the past few days.
“Going?” He asked.
Jun Wu Xie was silent a moment before she nodded her head.
Qu Wen Hao’s invitation was definitely strange but she still had to go find out what it was.
“I”ll go with you.” Jun Wu Yao stood up gracefully. When Qing Yu at the door saw Jun Wu Yao stood up, he was so shocked that he fell back two steps. In the past few days, Jun Wu Yao had not shown up much within the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall but every time that he saw Jun Wu Yao, Qing Yu would always be so terrified to become like a terrified little chick. Xiong Ba had simply decided that he would not even take a single step into this courtyard himself, wishing that he would never ever have to see that devilish demonic lord ever again.
“Alright.” Jun Wu Xie nodded.
Qing Yu then hastily retreated.
Jun Wu Yao saw the room door close before he said: “It’s Qu Xin Rui’s doing?”
Jun Wu Xie put Lord Meh Meh on the floor and then said slowly: “Qu Wen Hao would not initiate such direct contact with me as that would only cause Qu Xin Rui to be alerted. I had just refused Qu Xin Rui’s invitation a few days ago and although things have been calm and uneventful since, I’m thinking there’s still trickery up her sleeve. Today’s invitation must be the work of Qu Xin Rui.”
“If someone is seeking her own path to death, I wouldn’t mind granting her wish.” Jun Wu Yao said as a smile slowly blossomed at the ends his mouth. He had promised Jun Wu Xie that he would not interfere with this but if Qu Xin Rui was in such a hurry to seek her death, he thought it wouldn’t be nice for him to refuse her.
Jun Wu Xie glanced at Jun Wu Yao, but did not comment. They tidied up a little and went out the door.
The guards sent from the Grand Chieftain’s Residence were waiting outside the doors of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall. Jun Wu Xie carried the little black cat in her arms and left with the guards with Jun Wu Yao beside her.
Xiong Ba waited till the figures of Jun Xie and Jun Wu Yao had completely disappeared from before the doors of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall before he came out sneakily from inside.
Qing Yu was speechless as he looked at his own Clan Chief, the look on his face showing contempt for the cowardly act.
“Why is the Grand Chieftain suddenly looking for Young Master Jun?” Xiong Ba was feeling rather puzzled. If the person who brought the news to them was not Qu Wen Hao’s trusted aide, he really would have assumed that it was just a fake information that Qu Xin Rui had ordered people to come give them.
Qing Yu couldn’t understand the rationale behind it as well.
Just as the two of them were still cracking their heads over it, a towering figure suddenly came to the main doors of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall.
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Chapter 1074: “Lure the Tiger Away from the Mountain (2)”
While still struggling in his mind, Xiong Ba had upon getting a clear view of the person who just came in, immediately stared with his eyes so wide, they almost popped out of his head. He then said in utter disbelief: “Grand Chieftain? Why….. Why are you here…..”
Coming towards the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, was not anyone else, but the one who should be at the Grand Chieftain’s Residence waiting for Jun Xie, the Grand Chieftain of the Thousand Beast City, Qu Wen Hao!
Qu Wen Hao’s complexion was rather pale and his demeanour seems rather different from usual. He came walking with his face dark and gloomy to stand right before Xiong Ba.
Xiong Ba immediately exclaimed: “Didn’t you invite Jun Xie….. Argh! It’s Qu Xin Rui! That Qu Xin Rui sent fake news! Quick! Send someone quickly to bring them back!”
If Qu Wen Hao was here, then the news they received earlier must have been fake and Xiong Ba had immediately thought that all of this could very possibly be a ploy by Qu Xin Rui.
Qing Yu was just about to go chase them back but Qu Wen Hao suddenly raised up a hand to block Qing Yu’s way forward.
“Gra
nd Chieftain?” Qing Yu asked, looking in great puzzlement at Qu Wen Hao.
Qu Wen Hao’s eyes were dark ringed and his demeanor felt strange.
“No need to go.” He said softly.
“Wh….. Why?”
Qu Wen Hao lifted his eyes and looked at Xiong Ba’s and Qing Yu’s puzzled faces. “I was the one who sent people here to invite Young Master Jun to go to the Grand Chieftain’s Residence.”
Qing Yu and Xiong Ba were immediately stunned.
Qu Wen Hao had really invited Jun Xie to go to the Grand Chieftain’s Residence, but….. why had Jun Xie just barely left the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall and Qu Wen Hao had appeared here? Shouldn’t he be waiting at the Grand Chieftain’s Residence for Jun Xie to arrive?
The two men were suddenly feeling highly confused.
“Where is Jun Xie’s room?” Qu Wen Hao asked suddenly.
Xiong Ba was further shocked as he replied: “The eastern little yard.”
“Did he bring along her Spirit Beast when he left?” Qu Wen Hao asked again.
Xiong Ba scratched his head and said: “Only the little black cat. For the other two Spirit Beasts, I don’t often see her bring them out.” [This is strange, why does it feel like something is wrong with the Grand Chieftain today?]
Qu Wen Hao did not say another word but just walked off on his own towards the inside of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall.
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