Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 20

by North Night (夜北)

  “Little Ye, you want to go home with Granduncle?” Saying that, he put his hand out before her.

  Yue Ye looked at Jun Qing rather nervously before raising her head to look at Jun Wu Xie. Seeing Jun Wu Xie nod her head, she then carefully stretched out her tiny hand, and placed it within Jun Qing large open palm.

  “Granduncle…..”

  “What a good girl.” Jun Qing said as he looked smilingly at the obedient Yue Ye. His very own little niece had grown up so fast and did not need him to worry or take care of her at all, never sticking around for long, which filled Jun Qing with regret.

  “Big Brother, I’m leaving.” Yue Ye said with her hand held in Jun Qing’s, as she turned her head around to look at Yue Yi standing behind Jun Wu Xie. Yue Yi will be remaining behind in the Middle Realm, to follow Elder Ying back to the Zhan Family.

  Yue Yi nodded his head. Although he could not bear to part, he was still happy for Yue Ye. Having lived their lives with only each other to rely on for so many years, how could he not see the self abasement hidden deep in Yue Ye’s heart?

  Yue Ye looked at Yue Yi one final time as she was led towards the horse carriages by Jun Qing.

  Standing beside Yue Yi, Elder Ying looked longingly at Yue Ye’s departing back, wanting to say something several times before stopping himself.

  Seeing Yue Ye climb into the horse carriage and the door shut, Elder Ying’s eyes filled up with disappointment.

  “Grandfather.”

  The voice rose suddenly, and Elder Ying raised his head up in surprise.

  Yue Ye poked his head out from the carriage’s window, her face a little shy as she looked at Elder Ying to say timidly: “Grandfather, I’m leaving. Goodbye.” Upon saying that, she did not wait for Elder Ying to react as she hid herself back inside the horse carriage.

  Just that one call of “Grandfather”, had already moved Elder Ying to have tears streaming down his face.

  Volume 20

  Chapter 1962: “Making Their Way Towards the Spirits (8)”

  Just as Qu Ling Yue was stepping onto the horse carriage, her gaze fell onto the figure of Jun Wu Xie at the very last second, to bid her a silent farewell.

  At that same moment, Bai Yun Xian was seated in a carriage, to look at Mo Qian Yuan who was seated by the window. Her gaze hovered upon him, hiding feelings that no one knew about. But those feelings were tinged with a sliver of helplessness, similar to what he was feeling through the window, as he looked upon Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie stood shoulder to shoulder beside Jun Wu Yao outside the city, to see off the Lower Realm’s army of fifty thousand, family and companions as they departed.

  It was a grand contingent, as they marched into the horizon under the setting sun, to gradually disappear from Jun Wu Xie’s sight.

  That night, Jun Wu Xie slept deeply. In her dreams, she seemed to have returned to the Lower Realm, back to the Lin Palace. She thought she might have seen Jun Xian seated within the main hall, his face filled with a harmonious smile and felt as if she had seen another soul behind him that was named as “Father”.

  It was the same night that Jun Wu Yao could not find peaceful sleep. He sat under the moonlight in the courtyard, his brows tightly locked together.

  “Lord Jue, could Young Miss’ soul be…..” Ye Mei asked as he looked at the expression on Jun Wu Yao’s face, feeling a little worried.

  With Jun Wu Yao’s powers, how could he possibly become tired just from dragging out a few souls from the companions?

  There must be some issue concerning the Young Miss’ soul.

  “Little Xie is the same as me.” Jun Wu Yao suddenly raised his head up to say as he looked up at the bright moon hanging high above in the sky, a sliver of delight rising up among the frustration in his eyes.

  He finally understood why their short period of interaction had caused him to not want to leave her anymore.

  It had seemed so right from the start, they were the same.

  “What?” Ye Mei was slightly taken aback.

  “This information must not be spread, and it must not be mentioned to her.” Jun Wu Yao’s eyes glinted sharply as he ordered.

  Ye Mei immediately fell to one knee and said: “It will be as my Lord has ordered.”

  Early the next day, Jun Wu Yao came into Jun Wu Xie room. Jun Wu Xie was already all prepared as she looked at Jun Wu Yao coming in, feeling rather excited.

  “Can it be done today?” Jun Wu Xie was rather disappointed that the soul extraction had failed yesterday.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded.

  “Give me your hand.” Jun Wu Yao said suddenly.

  Jun Wu Xie did not understand but did as she was told, placing her small and fair hand upon Jun Wu Yao’s palm.

  It was not known from when Jun Wu Yao had a sharp dagger in his hand. He pressed its edge against Jun Wu Xie’s arm and drew a shallow vertical line of blood. A slight trace of blood spewed out of the very shallow wound, but Jun Wu Xie did not feel any pain.

  Jun Wu Yao then dabbed his fingertip into Jun Wu Xie’s blood, and drew a talisman seal mark between her brows.

  “Is this all…..” Jun Wu Xie was going to ask something more but in that instant, a dizzy spell hit her, and she immediately lost consciousness to fall into Jun Wu Yao’s arms.

  Jun Wu Yao narrowed his eyes as he looked at the unconscious Jun Wu Xie. Right before his eyes, Jun Wu Xie’s body was becoming translucent bit by bit, and the clothes upon her body then passed through her body to fall to the ground.

  “Ye Jie.” Jun Wu Yao called out coldly.

  Standing in wait outside, Ye Jie immediately burnt up the paper clothes with Jun Wu Xie’s birth details written on it within a bronze basin after hearing Jun Wu Yao’s voice. The moment they were all burnt up, the clothes drawn by Ye Jie appeared on Jun Wu Xie’s spectral figure.

  When Jun Wu Xie woke up still feeling rather groggy, she found that her soul had already been taken out from her flesh body and the little black cat was plopped down beside her asleep, while Jun Wu Yao sat at the side to look at her, seemingly thinking about something.

  Volume 20

  Chapter 1963: “Making Their Way Towards the Spirits (9)”

  Jun Wu Xie tugged at the collar of her clothes. The feel of the clothes was rather strange. She could clearly feel them but there didn’t seem to be anything under her hand. Though the clothes were translucent they didn’t expose one’s body. She pulled her clothes and peered inside at her chest. Two flowers sat there quietly in bloom, and under the flowers was a black coiled dragon slowly fading.

  It’s the Soaring Serpent!

  The Soaring Serpent had been rather quiet over the recent period and had not come out to stir any trouble. Compared to Little Lotus and Poppy, signs of the coiled dragon was very faint. A golden cloud swirled within her chest, seemingly supporting the faintly showing flowers.

  Jun Wu Xie suddenly remembered the golden seed Jun Wu Yao had implanted into her body, thinking the golden cloud should be from that golden seed.

  “Is there anything wrong? Let me take a look.” Jun Wu Yao suddenly came beside Jun Wu Xie, trying to look down the collar Jun Wu Xie had pulled open slightly.

  Jun Wu Xie immediately covered herself up properly.

  Jun Wu Yao feigned innocence as he looked at Jun Wu Xie. “I merely want to see if you’re feeling unwell anywhere.”

  “No. Everything’s good.” Jun Wu Xie already had Jun Wu Yao’s character all figured out and she was naturally not going to believe a single bit of what Jun Wu Yao just said.

  Jun Wu Yao laughed out lightly though his heart was tinged with regret.

  Just a bit more and he would have seen it.

  “Where’s my flesh body?” Jun Wu Xie’s gaze swept one round throughout the room, but did not see any sign of her flesh body, but just a set of clothes that she had worn before wearing tossed aside on the floor.

  “I got Ye Jie to help you keep it away. The Hell Rodent cannot swallow anything that is alive and hence we n
eeded to change your flesh body into a special suit of clothes before it could be done.” Jun Wu Yao said with a smile.

  [Does that mean her flesh body is not in the Hell Rodent’s stomach?] Jun Wu Xie was a little surprised by that.

  But staying at Jun Wu Yao’s side, outrageous things such as this had happened before and over time, Jun Wu Xie did not think there was anything amiss.

  With Jun Wu Xie’s soul extraction successful, Qiao Chu and the other companions looked at each other in the courtyard, still rather curious about being in a spirit state like this. Ye Jie had drawn up more then ten sets of clothes for Jun Wu Xie throughout the night and she had even included a Cosmos Sack among her drawings, in order to make it more convenient for Jun Wu Xie to store her things.

  Qiao Chu was filled with envy seeing that and he wanted to beg Ye Jie to draw up a few more sets of clothes for him as well but had been rejected by Ye Jie saying she needed “grasp the every moment she had to draw the Young Miss’ clothes” as a reason, so Qiao Chu had been left with no choice but to go bug Ye Sha and Ye Mei.

  In the end, Ye Sha and Ye Mei instead revealed a cruel truth to him.

  Only Ye Jie had the power to merely draw upon plain parchment like that and give it to them by burning. If anyone else wanted to do that, they would have to burn the things before the intended recipient’s “corpse”.

  The flesh bodies of Qiao Chu and the others had already been taken away and naturally there was no chance for them to do that.

  Ye Jie was fully focused on drawing out all kinds of strange and queer things, and the rotund Hell Rodent just plopped there beside Ye Jie, hugging a chestnut as it nibbled on it vigorously.

  Jun Wu Xie’s gaze could not help but fall onto the rounded little belly of the Hell Rodent. The Hell Rodent was not used to being stared at and it hugged its chestnut tightly in its arms to turn itself around to let his furry little behind face Jun Wu Xie instead.

  Jun Wu Xie’s heart almost melted as she saw that.

  With everything all prepared, Jun Wu Yao informed everyone that they will be setting off towards the Spirit World the next day. That night, the excited youths just could not sleep, and after be turned into spirit forms, they suddenly discovered that they did not feel the least bit sleepy. Like the night before for example, the few of them had their eyes wide open till daybreak.

  There were great differences between being a spirit body and a normal human, and before they reached the Spirit World, they would all have to get used to all of that.

  Volume 20

  Chapter 1964: “Spirit World (1)”

  Spirit World.

  As the name suggests, only spirits of the netherworld were able to set foot in there.

  Of the Four Sides, only the Spirit World was difficult to go into.

  When the Middle Realm fell into chaos, only this place remained peaceful, cut off from the rest of the realm in solidarity. Only the Dark Emperor had set foot inside the Spirit World and besides that, no other person alive had ever taken a single step within.

  The Four Sides had never came out easily. Even the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces knew very little if anything of the Four Sides. In the Middle Realm, instead of saying that the Four Sides were four sets of powers they might very well be known as four legends. Few knew anything about them but lingered on in the minds of people, full of mystery and miraculous.

  Everyone only knew that the Spirit World was one among the Four Sides but no one knew where the road leading to it was.

  In the dim Spirit World, one did not see daylight, the brilliant did not shine, nor were there white fluffy clouds, and there was certainly no clear blue sky. The place was like a world in perpetual night, the sky dark but no stars could be seen.

  There were strange houses, and the material they were built with could not be identified, which looked like crystal clear coloured glass that could however still block out one’s sight. Green and orange lights littered the streets and at one glance, the place looked highly mystifying.

  It was beautiful and dazzling to see.

  The black skeleton steeds came treading upon deep red flames as they stirred up still dust, indiscernible dark strips of either flesh or leather hanging from every single one of the black bones on their ribcages. Blood red eyes filled with an untamable wildness numbering four in total, with two in front and two behind as they pulled the black horse carriage to weave through the wide street.

  The carriage wheels trundled and turned, the bronze bells hanging from the roof of the carriage tinkling clearly.

  Upon the street, if one looked carefully, one would be shocked beyond words.

  Who would have ever seen a resplendent looking halberd twisting itself up as it hopped and jumped to go into a little shop with a sign that read “Wine”? Or would have ever seen a long steel studded mace wearing a waiter’s apron carrying a wine flask made of gold diligently weaving his way around inside the wine house.

  A mountain axe was seated at a table and conversing with a heavy mountain shield with a strange voice as a flying claw at the same table clawed a wine cup, to pour it upon its body…..

  “Heavens be damned! I’ve really broadened my horizons today! !” Inside the fiery skeleton horse carriage, Qiao Chu’s eyes flared wide as he stared at the scene within the Spirit World.

  Weapons that could move and talk, and they possessed their own consciousness.

  Animals that spoke human, and that graceful willow tree with its flowery vines crossing the street alluringly…..

  It was till this age that Qiao Chu realized that there was such a amazing and mystifying place under the Heavens.

  Weapon Spirits, Beast Spirits, and Plant Spirits. Ring Spirits that people had once possessed, freed from the restraint of humans, living their own lives here, in a world that belonged to them, with absolute freedom and in such a marvelous manner.

  “It’s really just too amazing.” Rong Ruo stared at everything outside in shock. They came here in a carriage drawn by skeleton steeds, and throughout the entire journey, Jun Wu Yao had not allowed them to look outside. It was only after a rather long time before Jun Wu Yao permitted them to look out and with that one look, they were stunned by what they saw.

  They had felt that they had only left the Twelve Palaces’ Summit venue barely half a day, how did they come to reach the Spirit World so fast?

  Seeing those strange living beings that could not possibly appear in normal life, the entire bunch of youths had absolutely no doubt about where they had come to.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at the mysterious Spirit World that was filled with the unknown. As calm and composed as she usually was, even she could not help but widen her eyes, as she gazed at this mystifying realm that no outsider had stepped into before.

  Volume 20

  Chapter 1965: “Spirit World (2)”

  “Big Brother Wu Yao, when people die, all their souls will come to the Spirit World?” Fan Zhuo turned his head to ask Jun Wu Yao, his heart tinged with anticipation.

  Jun Wu Yao shook his head and said: “When normal people die, they just die off and their souls would enter the cycle of reincarnation. Only those with extremely strong power of the soul are able to enter the Spirit World.”

  After a person dies, the soul would then dissipate from his body. They might still be able to retain some of their consciousness initially but for those whose power of the soul are too weak would not be able to take on a form, unable to retain their memories from when they were alive and their consciousness would start to disappear, to then step into the cycle of reincarnation in a muddle.

  Only those who power of the soul was steady and strong whose consciousness did not get eroded by death would be able to set foot into the Spirit World, to become one of their members.

  The Ring Spirits that people possessed, all came from the Spirit World. Instead of saying that Ring Spirits were a unique life form, they were more like souls with strong spirit who did not wish to perish and could not bear to leave, not wanting
to be forgotten and choosing to remain behind, to become Ring Spirits, as companions to people.

  And among the many numerous Ring Spirits, only the human spirits were exempted from becoming one.

  It was because humans were the most complicated beings under the Heavens and even after they’ve died, feelings of joy, anger, grief, and happiness, causing emotional upheaval were not what other spirit souls could compare with. Their complexity made them unable to accept the kind of unwavering loyalty required of Ring Spirits and because of their prior links to the world, returning back to the mortal realm would only cause them to develop even more complicated feelings. Hence, the Spirit Lord of the Spirit World had denied the suggestion that human souls could become Ring Spirits.

  “So that’s how things are.” Fan Zhuo was slightly disappointed.

  “In the Spirit World, if one’s power of the spirit is not steady enough, even if they came here, they would still gradually disappear as their strength weakens. To want to continue to live here, one must constantly temper and refine one’s spirit.” As Jun Wu Yao spoke, he raised a finger and pointed at a corner of the street, where there was a fuzzy and faded spirit soul, looking almost completely transparent.

  The spirit soul looked extremely faint and thin, like it was almost going to disappear, and through its body, they could clearly see other spirit bodies coming and going behind it.

  “That is a new spirit soul. He might have been highly powerful when he was alive and possessed a strong and resolute will. But in the initial stages of being a new spirit soul, if one’s heart wavered, it would disappear from this place very soon.” Jun Wu Yao’s voice was flat and expressionless.

  The Spirit World was paradise for spirit bodies but they had their own rules.

  In here, the number of souls disappearing everyday were countless and only those spirit souls who were really strong would be able to cultivate themselves into gaining a solid form, and only those who achieved a solid form could qualify to become a Ring Spirit, and return to the mortal realm.