Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 20
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Chapter 1982: Serene Spirit Tower (4)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Towards anything that made one dependant upon it, Jun Wu Xie instinctively felt that something was wrong.
Jun Wu Xie was thinking to walk over over to take a closer look but Poppy instead told her: “If Mistress wants to go take a closer look, then I’m afraid Mistress will have to go over by herself. Within a certain perimeter outside the Serene Spirit Tower, all spirits who are non human spirits are not permitted to step inside. If we are to go in there, it would only cause the Serene Spirit Tower’s guards to chase us away.”
The reason why the other spirit races were discontented with the human spirits was mainly because of the high handedness of the human spirits in certain areas.
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head and went walking over on her own.
Having come a little closer, that was when Jun Wu Xie then noticed that the Serene Spirit Tower was formed up piece by piece, from stone blocks with runes carved in them. Those runes looked highly familiar to her and Jun Wu Xie actually saw among them the same runes she had seen before in Spirit Reinforcement!
Could it really be Spirit Reinforcement?
Jun Wu Xie’s heart was feeling a little puzzled when at that moment, Meng Yi Liang and his group of people came returning back to the Serene Spirit Tower after the rather disappointing experience earlier at the Spiritual Spirit Loft.
“Eh?” Meng Yi Liang had been feeling rather gloomy from how Little Lotus and Poppy had enraged him when he saw that a figure of unmatched beauty had appeared outside the Serene Spirit Tower, and joy raised up the tips of his brows.
“Young lady, you’ve come? What do you think? The Serene Spirit Tower looks rather impressive right?” Meng Yi Liang flashed what he thought was his most handsome smile to say as he came to stand beside Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie glanced at him and did not say anything. With just the kind of disrespect that Meng Yi Liang had shown to Nalan Shan back at the Spiritual Spirit Loft, it had made Jun Wu Xie highly despise this person. Seeing him open his mouth to talk to her, she merely cast a highly fleeting glance at him and did not say a single word in reply.
Meng Yi Liang did not feel that there was anything wrong. Not to mention Jun Wu Xie merely casting such a brief and fleeting glance at him, with that face that could bring whole cities and entire countries down to their knees, even if she had glared fiercely at him, Meng Yi Liang would still feel his heart thumping wildly.
Human spirits who were able to come into the Spirit World, were mostly people who were highly powerful when they were alive, and had steady power of the spirit. Among these people, the number of females were comparably lesser in number and to have been able to attain a certain level of power, most of them were already advanced in age. Young and beautiful ones like Jun Wu Xie was beyond few, needless to mention one with looks as outstanding as Jun Wu Xie would be an existence as rare as phoenix feathers and dragon horns, which would naturally cause Meng Yi Liang’s heart to be moved.
Not feeling Jun Wu Xie’s cold indifference to him in the slightest, Meng Yi Liang went on to say obtusely: “The kind of increase in power that you can get by cultivating in the Serene Spirit Tower is beyond what you can imagine. This place is much more useful than what Nalan Shan is capable of. I still do not know how to address our young lady here. My name is Meng Yi Liang and I am the Spirit Master Wu Jiu’s disciple. Do you know about Wu Jiu the Spirit Master? He is the most powerful entity among us, the human spirits. The Spirit Lord trust my Master greatly and the Serene Spirit Tower here is also my Master’s idea. Not only has the Spirit Lord agreed to it, he has even given my Master great authourity.”
Meng Yi Liang was trying to paint himself as someone important before Jun Wu Xie and he repeatedly brought up the name of Wu Jiu again and again, oblivious to the fact that in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes, just how despicable a fella who acts like a dog threatening others with its Master’s name really was.
Still unable to elicit a reply from Jun Wu Xie, Meng Yi Liang could not help but feel a little anxious. Noticing that Jun Wu Xie was staring at the Serene Spirit Tower so intensely, an idea suddenly popped into Meng Yi Liang’s head as he went to stand right in front of Jun Wu Xie to say with a smile: “Are you thinking of going into the Serene Spirit Tower? It so happens that I am going into the tower to practice my cultivation and if you want to go inside, I can bring you in with me without needing to queue.”
Upon hearing those words, Jun Wu Xie then forced herself to let gaze pause upon the figure of Meng Yi Liang a moment before she nodded her head.
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Chapter 1983: Serene Spirit Tower (5)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Finally getting a reply from Jun Wu Xie, Meng Yi Liang smiled and said to himself in his heart.
[Even such a beautiful young lady would not be able to escape the allure of power. Hasn’t she finally still come to rely on him to enter the Serene Spirit Tower?]
“Then, I wonder if I might know the beautiful young lady’s name?” Meng Yi Liang said with a smile.
“Jun Wu Xie.”
“Jun Wu Xie, what a great name.” Meng Yi Liang smiled gleefully. “Then Wu Xie, please come into the Serene Spirit Tower together with me now and I believe that once inside the Serene Spirit Tower, it would not be long before you will be just like me, to possess a solid body.”
Jun Wu Xie swept her eyes to glance at Meng Yi Liang, not bothering with his self praise but merely went on to walk with him to come before the main doors of the Serene Spirit Tower.
Outside the Serene Spirit Tower, two men in light armour stood guard. Meng Yi Liang led Jun Wu Xie over towards them and nodded his head at them.
“Senior Meng.” The two men immediately greeted upon seeing Meng Yi Liang.
Meng Yi Liang nodded slightly. “Open the door.”
“Yes.”
The main doors of the Serene Spirit Tower opened before Jun Wu Xie’s eyes. The doors has just opened when power of the spirit came surging out intensely from inside the tower. The power was tinged with a slight warmth that hit them on their faces, as the human spirits queueing right at the front of the line were unable to help themselves but to narrow up their eyes and let out a sigh of comfort.
“Come on in.” Meng Yi Liang said to Jun Wu Xie, and Jun Wu Xie stepped herself inside.
Once the spirits queueing up outside the doors saw someone jumping the queue, someone immediately began to kick up a fuss in displeasure.
“How can the bunch of you just go inside like that! ?”
“That guy is the Spirit Master, Wu Jiu’s disciple, and this Serene Spirit Tower is built by the Spirit Master, so his disciple would naturally have the right to enjoy priority access.” The guard said with a sneer.
Every single one of those words fell into Jun Wu Xie’s ears. Meng Yi Liang thought that he had gained face before Jun Wu Xie and his smile grew more brilliant.
Inside the Serene Spirit Tower, balls of Spirit Fire was seen burning everywhere. The balls of Spirit Fire swirled within the vast interior of the tower, and on the first level, there was already a large number of people who were seated upon the ground, many balls of flaming Spirit Fire surrounding their bodies. They all had their eyes tightly closed, their faces seemingly reveling in enjoyment, looking like they were hopelessly addicted to this manner of cultivation and enjoying every moment of it.
Jun Wu Xie secretly took note of everything that she was seeing, her gaze passing over the surrounding walls. There were more Spirit Reinforcement runes carved into these walls and the runes used in Spirit Reinforcement formed up a massive pattern, extending from the walls right onto the floor, converging from all four sides to the centre of the floor, that looked very queer.
“This place is where normal people cultivate. In the Serene Spirit Tower, the higher you go up, the more intense and robust the power of the spirit is. Before t
he Serene Spirit Tower was built, we were all just merely hugging on to a single ball of Spirit Fire to cultivate. But in here, the number of Spirit Fire we have is more than you can imagine. Spirit Fire helps to temper our spirits greatly and here inside the Serene Spirit Tower, the higher you go up, the number of Spirit Fire increases as well, and the power of the spirit thicker, where only the disciples of my Master would be able to cultivate on the eleventh and twelfth level of the Serene Spirit Tower.” Meng Yi Liang said, highly pleased with himself as he chattered on uninhibitedly before Jun Wu Xie.
Unknown to him, watching from outside the Serene Spirit Tower, Poppy and Little Lotus saw exactly how Meng Yi Liang was trying to get close to Jun Wu Xie, their eyes fixed upon Jun Wu Xie as she walked into the tower with Meng Yi Liang as the corners of Poppy’s mouth subconsciously curled up with a sneer.
“I am suddenly very curious that if the Dark Emperor comes to know that someone is being so eager to please the Mistress, would he smash that person’s spirit into flight and his soul to disperse into naught.”
One who dares to antagonize Jun Wu Xie must first weigh himself properly!
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Chapter 1984: Serene Spirit Tower (6)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Inside the Serene Spirit Tower, Meng Yi Liang still did not know that he was courting death, as he continued to show off his position as a disciple of the Spirit Master to Jun Wu Xie with a brilliant smile on his face.
Going up from the first level of the Serene Spirit Tower, the higher the level they went up to, the greater number of Spirit Fire they saw, with the intensity of the power of the spirit becoming stronger, and the higher they climbed, the number of people on the level also grew less.
When they came to the fifth level, the number of people on that floor had already diminished by half and Meng Yi Liang discreetly cast a quick glance to look at Jun Wu Xie, puzzlement rising up in his heart. New souls were in most urgent need of the power of the spirit but on the other hand, as the spirit of a new soul had just been recently formed, they were extremely fragile, and would not be able to remain inside the Serene Spirit Tower for too long due to its exceptionally intense power of the spirit. For new souls that had newly arrived at the Spirit World before, they would at most only be able to reach up to the third level or so. Going up any further, the intensity of the power of the spirit in those levels only made them feel uncomfortable and it could even cause harm to their spirits.
But Meng Yi Liang had already led Jun Wu Xie up here to the fifth level but he had not noticed Jun Wu Xie showing the slightest sign of discomfort, where she did not seem the least affected by the increasingly robust power of the spirit surrounding them.
“Cough, the higher you go up, the stronger the power of the spirit will be. If you are feeling uncomfortable, you can just tell me. Whichever level you want to go to, I’ll make the necessary arrangements for you.” Meng Yi Liang opened his mouth to say, thinking that Jun Wu Xie merely did not understand the situation.
Jun Wu Xie merely nodded her head, but did not express anything else to him.
A corner of Meng Yi Liang’s mouth twitched, and as he looked at Jun Wu Xie, he found that she did not look uncomfortable in anyway. But such a situation had never occurred before. When had a brand new soul ever come straight up to the fifth level and did not feel the slightest tinge of discomfort?
In actual fact, not only did Jun Wu Xie not feel the tiniest bit of discomfort, she was instead absorbing the robust power of the spirit in there at a very fast speed, with every minute she was there in the Serene Spirit Tower, it felt as if an endless stream of power was surging right into her soul, quickly filling up her empty and hollow spirit.
At such an insane speed, and not needing any cultivation to be done. It was like all that was needed from her was to just stand there inside the Serene Spirit Tower and it would be enough.
Jun Wu Xie followed Meng Yi Liang to continue to climb their way upwards. She then unconsciously lowered her head and looked at her hands, to see that her originally half translucent pair of hands were turning more and more solid. In just a matter of a few short minutes, Jun Wu Xie had actually started to progress towards having a solid body.
Such a speed was really astounding but there wasn’t the slightest sliver of joy in Jun Wu Xie’s heart. Power that one could gain without even needing to cultivate was just somewhat too much of an exaggeration.
Meng Yi Liang then stood there stunned as he stared at Jun Wu Xie walking up to the twelfth level. Up on the twelfth level, an enormous single ball of Spirit Fire could be seen. Across the entire Twelve level, there was just one lone ball of Spirit Fire burning, but the size of it went far beyond any ball of Spirit Fire there ever was. It was so massive that one end of it was stuck up against the roof and its other end was pushed down against the floor. She had just stepped in when she felt a burning heat surging straight towards her.
At the bottom of that enormous ball of Spirit Fire, a series of Spirit Reinforcement runes surrounded the flame in a circle, with thin lines of runes stretching out from the circle in twelve directions till it reached the walls at the edge.
Beside the Spirit Fire, two human spirits were seated on opposing sides with their eyes closed in cultivation. The moment Meng Yi Liang stepped into the twelfth level, the colour on his face was showing he was feeling a little unwell as he stared in shock at Jun Wu Xie standing there like she did not feel anything and his face immediately twisted up in bewilderment.
This was already the twelfth level!
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Chapter 1985: Serene Spirit Tower (7)
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On this level, even Meng Yi Liang was feeling strangely uncomfortable from the surging power of the spirit assaulting his body. How could Jun Wu Xie actually show no reaction at all?
That was just too strange!
“Those two are my senior fellow disciples and they are the earliest two disciples my Master accepted. The intensity of the power of the spirit on the twelfth level here is not something any normal spirit soul is able to withstand. Why not….. I bring you to another level for you to cultivate a little?” Meng Yi Liang was feeling unwell all over under the burning surge of the twelfth level’s enormous ball of Spirit Fire. It was hard for him to imagine that after becoming a spirit body, heat could actually still bring him so much discomfort.
Jun Wu Xie stood unmoving in her spot, but her gaze wasn’t upon the enormous ball of Spirit Fire, but was instead fixed on the circle of Spirit Reinforcement runes. She was now certain that the runes were the same as those in Spirit Reinforcement without a doubt as within the circle, she had discovered a series of spell runes she was familiar with.
“Wu Xie?” Meng Yi Liang could no longer endure the high heat in the twelfth level and his face was turning more and more pale, driving him to have no choice but to say in urge.
Jun Wu Xie recovered to her senses as she looked at Meng Yi Liang who was forcing himself to tolerate the searing heat and she then lowered her eyes slightly to say: “There’s no need. I am feeling a little unwell and would like to go back first.”
“Is that so?” Meng Yi Liang secretly heaved a sigh of relief inside. If a new soul did not feel any discomfort having come straight up to the twelfth level, then that would be too unbelievable. Jun Wu Xie’s words had made Meng Yi Liang think it to be entirely expected.
“You’re still a new soul and it is natural that you will feel uncomfortable coming to the Serene Spirit Tower for the first time. When you come back here again, you will only need to mention my name to the guards before the doors into the tower to come in. The power of the spirit in here is extremely intense but I am already able to cultivate in the eleventh level now. Your spirit is still a little weak and it will be more suitable for you to start cultivating from the first level.” Meng Yi Liang said in self absorbed glee, failing to even notice the chi
lliness emanating out from Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head and Meng Yi Liang was all ready to escort her back but was rejected. He had merely sent her down to the first level of the Serene Spirit Tower and it was only after he saw Jun Wu Xie stepping out through the tower’s main doors that he was finally able to heave a big sigh of relief.
A pity Meng Yi Liang was completely unaware that the reason Jun Wu Xie was in such a rush to leave was not because she could not withstand the power of the spirit within the Serene Spirit Tower. If Meng Yi Liang had been more observant, he would have discovered that Jun Wu Xie’s spirit had become a lot less translucent than before she went into the Serene Spirit Tower, almost about to fill up completely from her half translucent state.
Jun Wu Xie departed from the Serene Spirit Tower and silently walked towards Poppy and Little Lotus who had been waiting outside.
“Mistress, what’s the situation inside? Why have you come out so soon?” The moment Little Lotus saw Jun Wu Xie, he immediately went tottering forward in welcome, ready to give Jun Wu Xie one great big hug.
And he had not thought that his pouncing leap would really come to make contact with Jun Wu Xie’s body. Little Lotus bounced off Jun Wu Xie’s legs as he fell two steps back, his large eyes widening up in surprise.
“Mis….. Mis….. tress….. I….. I managed to touch you?” Little Lotus stared at Jun Wu Xie in astoundment, his face incredulous.
It must be known that back when Jun Wu Xie had just become a spirit body, Little Lotus had not been able to touch Jun Wu Xie at all!
But now, Little Lotus had just firmly knocked himself into Jun Wu Xie’s solid body. How was that possible?
Just ten minutes ago, before Jun Wu Xie had gone into the Serene Spirit Tower, Little Lotus had still not been able to touch Jun Wu Xie!
Poopy standing on one side similarly showed a tinge of surprise. As one of the older spirits in the Spirit World, he had naturally known how long a period of cultivation would be required before a new soul could advance to achieving a solid form from semi translucency.