Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 20

by North Night (夜北)

  After Nalan Shan heard about it, his face was one of shock. A thing like two souls being in one body was not entirely unheard of. The Spirit Soul race was one example of people born with two souls in one body. But he had never heard of any human spirit who shared a body with a Beast Spirit.

  “Can you let me have a look at it?” Nalan Shan recovered his senses, to look at Jun Wu Xie to say.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded and Nalan Shan immediately checked the little black cat’s condition. His brows creased together as he looked at the unconscious little black cat and he said in a grave tone: “It seems that what I thought had been correct.”

  “What did you think it was?” Jun Wu Xie jumped onto Nalan Shan’s muttering to himself.

  Nalan Shan turned to look at Jun Wu Xie and the rest of her group behind her. “All these things, can be further discussed in my house. This is not a good place for us talk.”

  Jun Wu Xie nodded her head and Nalan Shan gesticulated to the new brown bear spirit again. The brown bear was still unable to grasp what Nalan Shan was trying to convey and upon seeing that Nalan Shan was going to leave, it just foolishly followed behind Nalan Shan.

  Volume 20

  Chapter 1998: Spirit Fire that Grows (1)

  Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations

  Helpless, Nalan Shan had no choice but to let the brown bear follow them into the house.

  There wasn’t all that much furniture in Nalan Shan’s room except for row after row of bookshelves and a study table that was piled up with books.

  The brown bear just sat itself down upon the floor, its two furry bear paws dangling over the ground, its pair of black glassy eyes wide opened as it looked at Nalan Shan.

  Nalan Shan could not do anything about it but just let it sit there, as he went on to discuss about more serious business with Jun Wu Xie.

  “Actually, it’s just a guess I’m making. When the Serene Spirit Tower had just been built, I was not yet at odds with Wu Jiu. His suggestion to build the Serene Spirit Tower was news that I only came to know later. I should be one of the first batches of human spirits who went into the Serene Spirit Tower to cultivate. The speed our cultivation progressed in the Serene Spirit Tower was very fast and I was initially drawn in by the shocking speed in advancement. At that time, human spirits still did not know much about the Serene Spirit Tower and most people were still following the ancient way of cultivating in the Tranquil Dream Forest, hence I was able to remain within the Serene Spirit Tower to cultivate for full days in a row. But as time passed, I began to discover that something was not right…..”

  Initially, Nalan Shan respected Wu Jiu highly. Wu Jiu was his senior fellow disciple and after their Master went into reclusion, Nalan Shan had then lived following Wu Jiu.

  But as the time Nalan Shan stayed in the Serene Spirit Tower grew longer and longer, he suddenly discovered that the Serene Spirit Tower was not as simple as he had imagined. Cultivating in the Serene Spirit Tower, time seemed to pass very quickly. Progressing from the Serene Spirit Tower’s first to twelfth level, Nalan Shan had taken less than a month. At that time, his power of the spirit had advanced by leaps and bounds and if not for something that happened after that, he could very well still be hopelessly obsessed in it.

  “Which level did you manage to reach in the Serene Spirit Tower?” Nalan Shan asked as he looked at Jun Wu Xie.

  “The twelfth level.” Jun Wu Xie replied.

  Nalan Shan’s face showed a sliver of surprise. “You managed to climb up to the twelfth level the first time you went there? That….. really surprised me. Since you went up to the twelfth level, then did you see the ball of Spirit Fire on the twelfth level?”

  “I did.”

  “How big was it?”

  Jun Wu Xie glanced around Nalan Shan’s room a moment before she pointed at the room and then onto the floor.

  “It can reach these two ends.”

  Nalan Shan gasped loudly. After falling into silence for a long while, he then asked: “Do you know the size of that ball of Spirit Fire initially?”

  Jun Wu Xie shook her head.

  Nalan Shan stretched his hand out and with his power of the soul, he made a tiny little soya bean appear in his palm.

  “Only this big.”

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes glinted with a sliver of shock.

  A faint bitter smile than rose up onto Nalan Shan’s face.

  “Don’t you think that is just too incredulous? Spirit Fire in the Spirit World is formed up by power of the spirit. They do not have the capability to grow, but would only turn smaller and smaller when spirit bodies constantly use them for their cultivation, till it disappears. I had never ever seen a ball of Spirit Fire that was able to grow, till I saw the one in the Serene Spirit Tower.”

  Spirit Fire that was just the size of a soya bean, if in the world outside, it would be too small for any spirit bodies to want to use it.

  But inside the Serene Spirit Tower, that ball of Spirit Fire was instead gradually growing, slowly becoming bigger and that strange phenomenon had drawn Nalan Shan’s attention to it. He had gone to seek Wu Jiu and he raised his doubts with him. But Wu Jiu had just brushed it off quickly with a few words, asking him not to think too much about it.

  When the first seed of suspicion is planted into the heart, then many things that one did not notice before would then gradually rise to the surface…

  Volume 20

  Chapter 1999: Spirit Fire that Grows (2)

  Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations

  Nalan Shan came to discover that Wu Jiu’s disciples were mysteriously disappearing and one of the first few who disappeared was Wu Jiu’s first disciple that he favoured the most. That person possessed great gift and the speed of his progress in cultivation had already surpassed Nalan Shan. But it was not known when it was that that disciple had suddenly disappeared without a reason.

  There had been no signs before that person disappeared. Nalan Shan had not noticed that the person had disappeared in the beginning. But as the days passed one by one, the number of human spirits that disappeared increased in succession, and that was when Nalan Shan came to notice that something was wrong.

  Nalan Shan went to find Wu Jiu, but this time, he was not even willing to meet with him at all.

  Since then, Nalan Shan then fearfully felt the danger in the Serene Spirit Tower and he no longer wanted to take a step inside.

  “Human spirits who cultivate in the Serene Spirit Tower will disappear? !” Qiao Chu stared with his eyes wide in disbelief. The stakes for the game those people played were just too high!

  Nalan Shan then said: “I had initially not been certain whether they really had disappeared. After I left the Serene Spirit Tower, I went to investigate the homes of those human spirits who had disappeared. For just about more than an entire year’s time, they had not appeared. I think, that they must have really gone missing.”

  Spirit Fire that constantly grew, human spirits that disappeared mysteriously. All of the many signs undoubtedly gave Nalan Shan a signal of of extreme danger.

  “Spirit Fire that promoted the growth of human spirits was just like making fruits grow. When fruits ripen, they are swallowed….. Are you saying that those people who disappeared were absorbed by the ball of Spirit Fire?” Rong Ruo was shocked by her own guess. Spirit Fire in the Spirit World was absorbed passively. If the day came that it became the side to take the initiative to become spontaneous, then the consequences would be unthinkable.

  Nalan Shan shook his head. “I cannot be certain what the situation inside the Serene Spirit Tower is like exactly, but based on what I know, there is a high possibility that it could be as what you’ve said.

  “Heavens be damned! And that’s not bad enough?” Qiao Chu was shocked.

  Nalan Shan then replied: “That situation is only present within the Serene Spirit Towers. The Spirit Fires in the Tranquil Dream Forest and other places have not shown any s
igns of growing, nor have they caused any human spirits to disappear. Hence, I think that the problem is only with the Serene Spirit Towers.” As he spoke, Nalan Shan stood up, and picked up a pile of hand written notes from the study table and the shelves. He then unfurled the notes one by one, and laid them spread out upon the table before Jun Wu Xie and the others.

  “This is from when I first discovered that human spirits had gone missing, and this is the size of the Spirit Fire at that time.” Nalan Shan pointed out on the piece of parchment, that recorded in detail the time and identity of the first human spirit he discovered had gone missing, and placed beside it for comparison, was a description of the Spirit Fire’s size at that time.

  “This is the second…..”

  “This here is after I left the Serene Spirit Tower, where I observed the Spirit Fires in various places. I observed them for five years, and never found a single Spirit Fire showing any signs of growing in size.”

  “And here are the records of the sizes of the Spirit Fire in the Serene Spirit Tower received from people who went into the Serene Spirit Tower.”

  “I also have these for the second and third Serene Spirit Towers.”

  Data stacked up in a mountainous pile was placed down with a crash before Jun Wu Xie and the others. Nalan Shan was acting as if he was possessed by lunacy, revealing the hundred years’ worth of detailed data before Jun Wu Xie, the complicated script seemingly weaving up into a humongous spider’s web in Jun Wu Xie’s heart.

  “I took several decades’ time to verify what I was guessing. Every one of those Serene Spirit Towers had human spirits unknowingly disappearing from them. Besides the Spirit Fire in the twelfth level of the Serene Spirit Tower, no other Spirit Fire throughout the Spirit World was able to grow in size!” Nalan Shan said sternly with both his palms pressed down upon the table.