Within a little house within a forest, the Spirit Master was kneeling inside the house. Upon the low table before him, was place a wooden box. In that box, it contained some broken crystal shards, and the SPirit Master stared at the crystal shards for a rather long time.
“Grandmaster, hasn’t the Spirit Lord agreed to see you?” A little disciple at the side could not help but feel worried when he saw the Spirit Master looking so dejected.
The Spirit Master lifted his head and looked at the scenery outside the window, his eyes filled with worry as he shook his head.
“The Spirit Lord is still not willing to see me.”
Ever since the day after the crystal broke, the Spirit Master had immediately gone to seek an audience with the Spirit Lord, never expecting that they would close the door on his nose.
“Why is Grandmaster not willing to let Spirit Master, Wu Jiu go have a chat with the Spirit Lord?” The little bunny still did not understand everything.
The Spirit Master however waved his hand dismissively and the little disciples did not dare to ask too much while they quietly retreated away.
There was only the Spirit Master in the room and in that empty room, the Spirit Master gave a heavy sigh.
All of a sudden, a gust of cold wind blew past his face and in the instant the Spirit Master raised up his head, he immediately discovered a towering figure had appeared within his room without anyone knowing.
When the Spirit Master’s eyes met that pair of all too familiar violet eyes, his heart suddenly felt as if it had stopped for a moment!
The Spirit Master’s hands trembled helplessly as not even in his dreams would he have thought that he would see this person again.
Jun Wu Yao arched up an eyebrow to look at the stunned Spirit Master and the corners of his mouth curled up into a sinister smile. He walked slowly over to a chair at the side to sit down, his long slender legs crossed gracefully, his arms resting upon the armrests nonchalantly.
“Long time no see, Spirit Master. I trust you’ve been well?”
The voice he had not heard for a thousand years rang once again in the Spirit Master’s ears, and his heart filled with fear. At that very moment, his mind completely collapsed.The Spirit Master fell back to sit on the ground in panic as he stared at the man who was like a nightmare.
“Dark Emperor…..” The Spirit Master’s voice sounded like it had been caught, his gaze shifty, not daring to look directly into that pair of violet eyes.
It was one fine day a thousand years agos that the Dark Emperor set foot into the Spirit World, who completely shattered the tranquility in the Spirit World. With absolute might, he had suppressed all spirit bodies in the Spirit World and even the Spirit Lord had not been able to make him lower his head and submit.
Volume 21
Chapter 2019: I Trust You’ve Been Well (2)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Before Jun Wu Yao, the Spirit Master could not summon up the tiniest bit of courage. The two words Dark Emperor was like a curse, branded deep into his heart.
“What? Haven’t seen you for quite awhile and you’ve become so timid? This is so unlike that Spirit Master who pitted himself against me back then.” Jun Wu Yao looked at the Spirit Master nonchalantly, his eyes tinged with a teasing smile. He raised up a hand and shook his finger lightly, to make a cup of fine wine materialize in his hand with the power of the spirit in his hand. He took a whiff of the wine’s fragrance, his eyes narrowed, looking so sinister it sent chills into one’s heart.
The Spirit Master’s throat went mute. Jun Wu Yao’s words brought back memories of the past and they were not all that beautiful.
“I heard that after that time, you gave up your position as the Spirit Master? What? The Spirit Master I knew then had really become so cowardly?” Jun Wu Yao said as he looked smilingly at the Spirit Master. In the Spirit World, the only two entities he remembered were only the Spirit Lord and the Spirit Master. Spirit souls that could make Jun Wu Yao still remember them after a thousand years could not possibly just be any simple entities that existed.
The corners of the Spirit Master’s mouth then rose into a bitter smile.
“A Spirit Master should look out for the safety of the entire Spirit World but I did not even notice anything when you appeared back then, causing us to miss the most opportune time for us to defend ourselves. I caused the Spirit World to fall into your evil hands and it showed my incompetency. Since I committed such a grave mistake, how could I possibly still have the cheek to continue to assume the position of Spirit Master?”
“Oh? So that’s why you gave up your position of Spirit Master to that disciple of yours? What? You feel that he is more suitable to be the Spirit Master than you?” Jun Wu Yao asked, his chin cradled in his palm.
The Spirit Master’s face changed. He had naturally known who Jun Wu Yao was talking about.
Jun Wu Yao did not wait for the Spirit Master to say anything but went on to say: “Back then in this Spirit World, there were no more than a few spirits that could even capture my attention, and you were one of them. I can still vaguely remember that you were beaten by me till your soul was almost about to disperse and scatter but you still stood before that little brat and shielded him, so stalwart and righteous that it was astounding. I had thought that you would never submit to force, but it seems I have judged wrongly. That all you’ve amounted to in the end.” Jun Wu Yao’s eyes flashed with a contemptuous glint.
The Spirit Master was pricked by Jun Wu Yao’s words and his entire body stiffened. His jaws were clenched when he looked at Jun Wu Yao, forcibly suppressing the grief and indignation in his heart.
Jun Wu Yao did not see his indignant hatred at all, his eyes looking upon a wooden box at the side.
“Look likes you have learnt something afterall. You should have already discovered that I have come before this right? Why have you not gone to notify your Spirit Lord and prepare yourselves properly?” Jun Wu Yao said with a smile.
The shade on the Spirit Master’s face was becoming uglier and uglier.
“The Spirit Lord refuses to see me.”
“Is that so?” Jun Wu Yao said with a light laugh.
“The Spirit Lord that trusted you in everything in the past has now begun to despise you? Or should it be said that your disciple has gained his favour more? Unfortunately, your disciple does not seem to really remember this Master of his all that well.”
“Dark Emperor! You came all the way here to look for me. What is it that you really want to tell me! ?” The Spirit Master asked loudly as he glared at Jun Wu Yao.
Jun Wu Yao shrugged his shoulders.
“Just catching up with an old friend for old time’s sake.”
“I do you think that you and I could be termed as friends.” The Spirit Master retorted.
“As long as I consider that we are, then it is fact.” Jun Wu Yao arched up an eyebrow, to say in a surprisingly overbearing tone.
“Forget it. Since you do not wish to chat, I will be straightforward with you. I came to find you here today because I want to ask you, what is really going on with those Serene Spirit Towers that your beloved disciple suggested to be built?” Jun Wu Yao asked, his eyes narrowed.
“Serene Spirit Towers…..” When the Spirit Master heard those three words, his eyes suddenly flashed with a tinge of restraint before he then said with feigned indifference.
“I do not know what Serene Spirit Towers are. I went into seclusion a thousand years ago and I do not know anything about what Wu Jiu had done.”
Volume 21
Chapter 2020: I Trust You’ve Been Well (3)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
“Oh?” The ends of Jun Wu Yao’s lips then curled up with sinister mirth. He raised a hand slightly, and then hooked up his finger towards the Spirit Master lightly.
Suddenly, a stream of black mist shot out of Jun Wu Yao’s finger to curl
around the Spirit Master’s neck, and lifted the Spirit Master off his feet.
“I have no interest in hearing your lies. I only need to hear things that I want to know.”
Spirit bodies did not need to breathe but that stream of devil spirit energy still brought great agony upon the Spirit Master. His face turned gradually green and his body was wrecked with uncontrollable spasms.
“I….. do….. not….. know….. Anything…..” The Spirit Master squeezed out those few words through tightly clenched teeth.
Jun Wu Yao was not flustered, but just looked at the Spirit Master with an indiscernible smile.
“How laughable. Your disciple is seeking to do something to destroy the Spirit World and you are trying to conceal it for him. This is what you have degraded into?”
The Spirit Master’s entire being quaked. He stared at Jun Wu Yao in disbelief.
Jun Wu Yao opened his mouth just a little and said some words to the Spirit Master that he would never forget throughout his life.
When Jun Wu Yao’s voice fell, he then waved his devil spirit away and the Spirit Master fell down to sit on the floor, his face suddenly haggard and filled with shock. Endless terror surged in his eyes as he clutched at his chest and he raised his head to stare at Jun Wu Yao in shock, his trembling lips stuttering out words brokenly.
“What….. What you said….. is….. is the truth? You are not lying to me?”
“Jun Wu Yao then laughed and said: “Are you even qualified to have me lie to you?”
The shade on the Spirit Master’s face turned pale, the words Jun Wu Yao said reverberating in his head, words that he would not be able to forget.
“If what you said is true, then back at the time when you fell, it was the work of the same group of people?”
Jun Wu Yao nodded slightly.
“No wonder….. I see…..” The Spirit Master mumbled to himself, and after a moment, he then said: “About the Serene Spirit Tower, I do not know much about them. It was all done under Wu Jiu’s suggestion. Wu Jiu was originally one of my disciples, highly intelligent and incredibly gifted. Back when I had yet to pass down my position as the Spirit Master to him, he was a dutiful disciple. But not long after I handed down the position to him, he suddenly seemed to change into a completely different person. He suggested to the Spirit Lord to build the Serene Spirit Towers and I did not feel that there was anything wrong at first. I just thought that he had developed a new way of cultivation until later when my Second Disciple Nalan Shan came to seek me out, and told me that the Serene Spirit Towers were not as safe as they looked on the surface.”
“I went to the Serene Spirit Tower myself once, and found the things there to be very strange. The runes that filled the inside of the tower held a peculiar kind of power. That power was able to incite Spirit Fire, causing the Spirit Fire to constantly release power of the spirit at its greatest limit, and the runes within the Serene Spirit Tower would guide all that power of the spirit to enter directly into a spirit body, regardless of whether you are willing to accept it or not.”
The Spirit Master drew in a deep breath. He had not wanted to speak about the Serene Spirit Tower because that was something that went beyond his level of understanding and not because he wanted to cover for Wu Jiu.
“I really do not know what is happening in the Serene Spirit Towers but the one thing I can tell you is that every single brick used to build the Serene Spirit Towers are inscribed with spell runes, and all those runes were carved into the bricks under Wu Jiu’s orders. Only he would know the real purpose behind those runes.”
Volume 21
Chapter 2021: I Trust You’ve Been Well (4)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
After the Spirit Master discovered the peculiarity of the Serene Spirit Tower, he had gone to see Wu Jiu. But Wu Jiu no longer showed him any respect and the Spirit Master had noticed a hidden side of darkness in Wu Jiu. This was something that the Spirit Master had not noticed before and it was clear by then that the Master disciple relationship between them had truly died at that moment.
“Truth to be told, when I discovered your arrival here in the Spirit World earlier, I had wanted to report it to the Spirit Lord in the first instance. Unfortunately, the Spirit Lord is now not even willing to see me at all. I do not know how Wu Jiu managed to achieve it but I can be certain of one thing. The trust the Spirit Lord has in him has long surpassed me.” The Spirit Master lamented with a bitter smile hovering at the edges of his lips. Having brought up such a white eyes wolf who had turned around to bite the hand that fed him, a bite that tore his flesh right off, so painful there were no tears as he cried.
Jun Wu Yao listened quietly till the Spirit Master finished, and he was silent for quite a long while before he slowly got up, and was about to leave.
Looking at the man who had once brought him endless nightmares, the Spirit Master could no longer hold himself back but ask: “Dark Emperor! You know of a way don’t you? Are you able to stop all of this?”
Jun Wu Yao did not turn around. With his back to the Spirit Master, he said.
“Perhaps.”
After saying that, Jun Wu Yao then left.
The Spirit Master was left kneeling on the floor, his heart not relieved in the slightest by Jun Wu Yao’s departure, but felt great despair swirling strongly in his heart.
[Is there really no way to turn things back around?]
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Jiang Yun Long sent his men to keep watch in the Tranquil Dream Forest for many days, but still did not see any sign of Nalan Shan, which frustrated him greatly.
Losing the Spiritual Bear had thrown his Master, Wu Jiu into a rage where even his fellow disciples were also under great pressure. For the past few days, the shade of Jiang Yun Long’s face had not been pretty and Meng Yi Liang who followed at his side had to tread very carefully.
“Eldest Senior, was Master really very angry this time?” Meng Yi Liang asked Jiang Yun Long fearfully, his head shrunk into his shoulders.
Jiang Yun Long furrowed his brows and said coldly: “If the Spiritual Bear is not found, then the construction of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower cannot continue, so Master is naturally angry.”
“But, haven’t we already sent out so many of our people to look for the Spiritual Bear and Nalan Shan? And we still have not received any news…..” Meng Yi Liang said.
“No news means they’ve failed. If we are still unable to find Nalan Shan quickly, then we will not be able to locate the Spiritual Bear. When the time comes, both you and I will have have to face consequences more than we can swallow!” The expression on Jiang Yun Long’s face was looking rather ugly.
Meng Yi Liang became more nervous. Afterall, he had also been present when they lost the Spiritual Bear.
“Has there been any news from the men watching the Tranquil Dream Forest?”
Meng Yi Liang nodded.
“Nalan Shan is just too sly. I think that he was most probably already in cahoots with those Beast Spirits and the three Beast Spirits with the Double Headed Bone Snake must have been brought in by him!”
Jiang Yun Long then said: “There is no use in talking about that now. We must mobilize all our might and no matter how we do it, we must find Nalan Shan as quickly as possible!”
“Yes!” Meng Yi Liang quickly said. He then suddenly thought of something and his eyes lit up.
“Eldest Senior! I might know a particular human spirit who could possibly know where Nalan Shan had gone!”
“Who?”
“Jun Wu Xie! She is a new spirit soul. When I first saw her, she was with Nalan Shan. And on the day just before the Spiritual Bear appeared, she had been sitting at the same table as Nalan Shan as well! I am guessing that she should be learning the cultivation method from Nalan Shan and through her, we might just be able to find Nalan Shan!”
Volume 21
Chapter 2022: Surrounded (1)
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations
Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
“Jun Wu Xie…..” Jiang Yun Long narrowed his eyes and tried to recall the situation in the Spiritual Spirit Loft back on that day, immediately remembering the young lady with her astounding looks.
“You are sure that she is a new spirit soul?” Jiang Yun Long asked with her brows creased.
“Sur….. Sure… The first time when I first saw her, she was still in a half translucent state, what could she be if not a new spirit soul?” Meng Yi Liang did not know why Jiang Yun Long would ask these questions.
“When was it that you saw here for the first time?” Jiang Yun Long then continued to ask.
Meng Yi Liang thought about it a moment and then replied: “About half a month ago. It was also at the Spiritual Spirit Loft and she was with Nalan Shan. But after I told her about the Serene Spirit Tower, she then went there after just a while where I then brought her into the tower. Oh right. When I brought her up into the twelfth level, Eldest Senior and Second Senior were also there cultivating. And as I was afraid we’ll disturb you, I did not dare make any noise. But she did not come back anymore after that time and it seemed that she had gone to follow Nalan Shan to practice cultivation. I do not know what that lass is thinking, to actually leave the Serene Spirit Tower unused, choosing instead to take such a winding path.”
“Half a month ago?” Jiang Yun Long’s eyes suddenly narrowed.
“Meng Yi Liang, are you a moron? Have you ever seen any new spirit soul that could solidify his body completely so quickly just after arriving into the Spirit World! ?”
Meng Yi Liang was properly shaken by that roar and it was a moment before he suddenly recalled that when he saw Jun Wu Xie next, Jun Wu Xie had already completely solidified her body, looking completely unlike a new spirit soul who had just come here into the Spirit World for just half a month.
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