Elder Lin’s words made Gu Yi fall deep in thought, thinking that those words were not spoken without reason.
The situation between the Blood Fiend Palace and the Flame Demons was on razor edge and both palaces were putting in every effort they could to outdo the other.
“The Flame Demons Palace got Qiao Chu and our Blood Fiend Palace had instead lost two of our highly talented disciples. In comparison, the Blood Fiend Palace’s strength is being constantly depleted.” Elder Lin continued to say.
Among the new and young talents, the powers of Xu Mu and Lin Hao Yu were most highly regarded.
Although Xu Mu was of humble birth, he was highly gifted. The Blood Fiend Palace had intended to let him continue to train his cultivation in the Cloudy Brook Academy for a while more and that was why they had not been in a hurry to summon him back.
In fact, with Xu Mu’s power, it wasn’t all that difficult for him to pass the Cloudy Brook Academy’s test but due to the Blood Fiend Palace’s decision, Xu Mu had now been reduced to become a person close to being a total vegetable!
Having all his meridians severed by Su Ya, even if the most precious and priceless herbs were used to save him, it would be impossible for him to recover to the state he was in before.
And Lin Hao Yu’s circumstances was even worse. Although he had not suffered that kind of severe injuries to his body, his mental mind had completely collapsed.
For Xu Mu, he could still be nursed to some extent and even if he was unable to make a full recovery to his former level of aptitude, he would be able to regain his powers somewhat. But as in Hao Yu had lost his mind, even if he possessed peerless power, a lunatic would still be as good as having lost all his fighting prowess.
The loss of two of their most prominent young talents had caused the Blood Fiend Palace endless frustration.
And these two incidents, one was done by the Cloudy Brook Academy and the other was committed by a member of the Flame Demons Palace.
With the kind of position the Cloudy Brook Academy held in the Middle Realm, even if the Blood Fiend Palace wanted to seek an explanation from them, it wouldn’t yield them much of a result.
But in Lin Hao Yu’s case…..
“How is Lin Hao Yu’s condition now?” Gu Yi asked.
Elder Lin sighed slightly and shook his head.
After Lin Hao Yu was brought back from the Blood Fiend Palace, Elder Lin had found found quite a number of physicians to come provide treatment and had even invited many powerful medical practitioners, thinking to heal Lin Hao Yu completely but the result had just made Elder Lin despair further.
No matter how many people came to check on Lin Hao Yu’s condition, the conclusion they gave was all the same.
There was nothing they could do!
Lin Hao Yu was frightened into his lunacy, it was not something that could be nursed or treated with medicines as it was a mental illness!
Elder Lin had practiced hard on his cultivation all his life and he had only gotten himself a son in his old age. But his son had been frail and sickly from a young age and even though Elder Lin had spent a fortune on countless priceless herbs to prolong his life, he still finally succumbed to illness in the end. Elder Lin’s son till death had only left a single offspring behind, the lone Lin Hao Yu. Elder Lin had brought him up and groomed him with utmost care, deeply worried that his grandson would have a life as short as his son.
Fortunately Lin Hao Yu had still been able to live up to expectations and had a rather healthy body constitution from young and his talents in spirit powers were rather high which made Elder Lin want to expend all resources at his disposal upon that lone grandson of his.
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Seeing with his own eyes his own grandson’s talents showing more and more, Elder Lin’s heart filled with pride and glee. But who would have thought that he would suddenly go mad not long after just having been accepted into the Cloudy Brook Academy!
And what made it even more unacceptable to Elder Lin was the fact that his grandson was beaten into lunacy by people!
Although they were unable to enter into the Cloudy Brook Academy, that did not mean that they knew nothing of the going ons inside. Disciples of the Twelve Palaces who were practising cultivation within the Cloudy Brook Academy would leave Mount Fu Yao on those days the academy opened their doors and bring news of the place to the respective points of contact to let those people bring it back to the palaces.
And it was in that manner that Elder Lin came to know that his grandson had suffered such harsh treatment within the Cloudy Brook Academy!
Flame Demons Palace, Qiao Chu.
Those five words had been branded right into Elder Lin’s heart.
The Blood Fiend Palace and the Flame Demons Palace were already at loggerheads before this and coupled with the fact that Qiao Chu was one of the most illustrious contestants in the last Battle of Spirits Grand Meet, Elder Lin had to pin the blame of this matter onto the Flame Demons Palace.
Otherwise with Qiao Chu not holding any grudges towards Lin Hao Yu, why would he set out to oppress Lin Hao Yu so much?
Although Elder Lin was trying his hardest to suppress the anger raging within, his hatred towards the Flame Demons Palace and Qiao Chu was growing by the day. Especially when he looked at the state of lunacy that Lin Hao Yu had fallen into, it just made his heart fill with pain and the grudge stronger.
Gu Yi looked at Elders gathered within the hall in silence.
The fact that Elder Lin had brought up the disadvantage the Blood Fiend Palace had suffered in the last Battle of Deities Grand Meet was more or less influenced by self serving interests but he had very cleverly not stated it too clearly but had put it across based on the interests of the Blood Fiend Palace which made it impossible for anyone to refute.
Moreover, what Elder Lin was saying was not false and the Blood Fiend Palace’s current situation was indeed a little awkward.
Throughout such a good and proper Battle of Deities Grand Meet and they had not been able to attract any of the several people they had set their sights on but had instead lost two of their highly talented disciples which made it rather perplexing indeed.
“When Xin Yan comes back, I will definitely ask her about what actually happened and if this matter had truly been an intentional act by the Flame Demons Palace, we, the Blood Fiend Palace will surely not let the matter pass so easily. Elder Lin you can rest assured that I will definitely make the Flame Demons Palace and that Qiao Chu give you and Lin Hao Yu an answer to it.” Gu Yi said.
Elder Lin nodded vehemently, an expression of gratitude on his face.
No matter how much the Twelve Palaces schemed against each other behind the scenes, when one seeked to openly go against another palace, they would still require the Palace Lord to decide. Regardless of how much hatred he harboured, he would still be unable to go against the Blood Fiend Palace’s rules and seek to deal with the matter privately.
“Your subordinate thanks my Lord on Hao Yu’s behalf.”
Elder Lin fell to his knees to offer his gratitude.
Gu Yi waved his hand indicating for him to stand up and spoke a little bit more with the other Elders before dismissing everyone.
Walking out from the hall, Gu Yi’s gaze turned to look at the handsome looking youth standing outside the doors.
“You heard everything clearly?” Gu Yi’s eyes turned slightly chilly.
Gu Ying who stood outside the doors shrugged his shoulders, his arms crossed over his chest as he leaned lazily against the door and said with a smile: “If you mean all that grumbling from Elder Lin then I had naturally heard it.”
Gu Yi then said sneeringly: “I made you go to the Cloudy Brook Academy to partly deliver medicine to Lin Hao Yu and also to look into what the situation is like inside the Cloudy Brook Academy. What kind of answer did you give me? All was peaceful and well? This is what you call peaceful and well?
Lin Hao Yu went mad the day right after you left. Gu Ying, is this what you mean as peaceful and well?”
Gu Yi’s gaze was turning chillier and chillier and at the moment his voice fell he actually sent a slap right across Gu Ying’s face. That slap had been extremely loud which immediately left a glaringly red five fingered palm print upon the clear face of Gu Ying’s!
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Gu Ying’s face was slapped hard and blood spilled out from the corner of his mouth. But there wasn’t even the slightest bit of anguish in Gu Yi’s eyes, his gaze remaining just as cold, not in the least bit like the eyes of a father looking at his child.
“Do you even realize your mistake in this at all?” Gu Yi asked in a frosty tone.
Gu Ying calmly tilted his head back to look straight into Gu Yi’s eyes with his face still showing a brilliant smile. But the trickle of blood spilling over the corner of his mouth looked highly horrifying. However, his eyes still filled with mirth like the person who had been struck was not him at all.
“I know my mistake now.” Gu Ying replied obediently.
“Useless piece of trash. Since you know you’ve done wrong, why haven’t you gone to receive your punishment?” There was the slightest tinge of sympathy in Gu Yi’s tone, the way he treated Gu Ying was vicious like the way he treated an enemy.
“I will obey.” Gu Ying nodded slightly, turning his back to silently walk away.
Gu Yi stared at Gu Ying’s back, his eyes filled with disdain.
Who would have thought that the Palace Lord of the Blood Fiend Palace would be on such bad terms with his own son?
Gu Ying slowly walked out from Gu Yi’s line of sight, the smile on his face not reducing in the slightest as he walked past disciples of the Blood Fiend Palace. When the disciples saw Gu Ying, they all subconsciously lowered their heads, not daring to stare at the wretched state Gu Ying’s face was in.
This was not the first time that such a situation had occurred and it was not known why the usually amiable Palace Lord was so hard hearted towards the Young Lord. It had been like this since Gu Ying was very young. Gu Yi had been extremely harsh and strict towards him, so much so that others who saw it felt their hearts wince. Initially, people had thought that the Palace Lord had seeked to mould his son to be a dragon among men and that was the reason he was being so strict. But Gu Yi wasn’t so harsh with his daughter Gu Xin Yan but acted like what a real father would. Although there were times he was strict as well, most of time he displayed great care and doting indulgence towards Gu Xin Yan.
Gu Ying walked through the Blood Fiend Palace like there was no one around, the glaringly red five fingered palm print and the streak of blood at the corner of his mouth causing others to not dare to look at him. He walked alone towards the Blood Fiend Palace’s dungeon, the place where disciples of the Blood Fiend Palace received their punishment.
Inside the dim and dank dungeon, were various chilling tools of torture. When the disciples within the dungeon saw Gu Ying appear, they immediately went forward to bow in deference.
Gu Ying ignored them completely and instead walked on his own towards the torture rack.
“I came to receive punishment.” Gu Ying said highly nonchalantly.
The men on duty at the dungeon looked at each other and then stepped forward without a word to help Gu Ying remove his outer robe, leaving him only with his thin under robe before strapping him onto the torture rack.
The crackling sounds of the whip reverberated within the dim dungeon, sounding unusually prickly to the ear under the silence of the place.
The sounds went on for half a day, and it only stopped when it was deep into the night.
The disciple meting out the punishment had already retreated out from the dungeon and in that dim dungeon, only Gu Ying who was covered all over in blood was there all alone strapped upon the torture rack, his head drooping down, the thin inner robe torn to shreds by the countless lashes of the whip, the crisscrossing wounds with his flesh torn and turned outwards, blood congealed upon the gaping wounds. Only on that handsome face was there no trace of a wound, but was extremely pale and drained of all colour.
Gu Ying eyes were both closed and his hair slightly messed up. He looked like he had fainted but was still tied to the torture rack with the ropes around his hands.
Suddenly, a black shadow walked out from under the dim flickering light, to look at Gu Ying tied up upon the torture rack and his brows creased together slightly.
“Young Lord.”
Gu Ying’s eyes opened slowly as he raised his head, revealing a long lash mark around his neck running down all the way from his ear to his collarbone.
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Suddenly, a black shadow walked out from under the dim flickering light, to look at Gu Ying tied up upon the torture rack and his brows creased together slightly.
“Young Lord.”
Gu Ying’s eyes opened slowly as he raised his head, revealing a long lash mark around his neck running down all the way from his ear to his collarbone.
Under that dim darkness, Gu Ying’s eyes glinted with a terrifying chill. The corners of his mouth curled up and the red blood streaked lips looked highly devilish.
“Hmm?”
“Why would the Young Lord need to suffer such agony? Would the Young Lord need your subordinate to…..”
Gu Ying shook his head, and laughter escaped from his mouth.
“Agony? This little bit of injury is just barely scratching the surface. If I am unable to even withstand this little bit, then I would have died thousands of times over so many years.”
The huge number of torture apparatuses the Blood Fiend Palace would have people drawing a deep breath of astoundment. Even throughout all the Twelve Palaces, it would be difficult to find any one of them who would be able to match up to. Almost no one would be able to endure through all the tools of torture here but to Gu Ying, he had had a taste of every single one of them, all those tools having left a deep mark upon his body, where it could be said that he knew everything in that place more intimately than the guards and executors of torture.
Gu Ying was the only one who had undergone all the forms of punishment, and had not died from it.
The man’s brows creased up even tighter together.
“Instead of talking about this, shouldn’t you be sending people to watch the Cloudy Brook Academy? With them having released all their disciples suddenly, they could only be up to no good. The group of people I sent to the Cloudy Brook Academy before had not a single one come back alive, and I fear that the Cloudy Brook Academy might have discovered something. There must be a reason for their unnatural decision. If you do not wish to have that thing slip out from right beneath your eyes, you’d better send people to watch them closely.” Gu Ying seemed to not be feeling the pain upon his body and was telling all this to the black robed man with a cheerful voice.
“Your subordinate has already sent people to watch them. But the Cloudy Brook Academy has quite a number of powerful experts within and the people we sent over have either met with an untimely end or lost their lives within Mount Fu Yao. It would not be easy for us to watch them closely at all.” The black robed man responded, his voice tinged with helplessness.
Gu Ying stiffened the corners of his lips. “It’s just that all of you have been too gentle with them. If only you had struck earlier. Based on the style of the Cloudy Brook Academy, you will only have to gain control over their disciples in training within the academy and those guys at the Cloudy Brook Academy would have to be highly careful with you.”
From Gu Ying’s perspective, in order to achieve his objective, it had to be done through any means possible, unscrupulous and without mercy.
“Yes, Young Lord.” The man accepted Gu Ying’s admonishment, chastened.
“Forget it. The monk can run away but th
e monastery will remain. Since you’re unable to go into the Cloudy Brook Academy, just station people at the foot of the mountain and pay close attention. There’s no need to get too close as we will only need to know where they are going.” Gu Ying said.
“I understand my orders.”
“Alright, you can be dismissed. I want to rest.” Upon saying that, Gu Ying shut his eyes, like he wasn’t inside the dungeon at that moment, and there weren’t any of those terrifying and garish wounds on his body.
The man disappeared into the shadows and in mere moments, there wasn’t a single trace of his presence anymore, the vastly empty dungeon having only Gu Ying as its lone occupant.
Ten days later, the disciples who had been released from the Cloudy Brook Academy returned back to the Blood Fiend Palace.
Gu Yi had even personally gone out to receive them outside the gates, welcoming Gu Xin Yan back to the Blood Fiend Palace. Along the way, the father and daughter pair were highly jovial as they chatted with each other, Gu Yi’s eyes filled with the concern and indulgent adoration towards Gu Xin Yan.
From the beginning to the end, Gu Ying just followed silently at the side, quietly looking at Gu Xin Yan who was showered with Gu Yi’s doting love, the smile never once fading from his face.
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From the beginning to the end, Gu Ying just followed silently at the side, quietly looking at Gu Xin Yan who was showered with Gu Yi’s doting love, the smile never once fading from his face.
Gu Xin Yan’s return put Gu Yi in a extremely good mood and he held a great welcoming feast on that very same day, inviting all the disciples that came back to gather together, celebrating the fact that Gu Xin Yan had come back.
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