But it was not completely without clues. Jun Wu Xie had marked out the few main areas around the spots the Poison Men had first appeared in the beginning and intended to start her search from those places.
Having just returned but was immediately about to part again, Qu Ling Yue’s heart was suddenly feeling highly reluctant, but she was not able to speak a single word urging her to stay, having to wish her success in her endeavours instead.
Qiao Chu and the other companions went about preparing for their own assignments while Ye Sha, Ye Mei and Ye Jie followed Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao. Before they left, Jun Wu Xie did not forget to make the Hell Rodent throw up another two batches of gold bars to let Rong Ruo and her other companions bring to the Qi Kingdom and the Buckwheat Kingdom, at the same time digging out a few magical artifacts for the gang to serve as extra protection.
When they were left the Fire Country, in order to deal with everything in the shortest time possible, Jun Wu Xie unabashedly used Jun Wu Yao as her mode of transportation as with Jun Wu Yao flying, his speed was more than ten times faster than a horse carriage.
In an extremely short time, Jun Wu Xie made her way to the spot where the very first incident had occurred. Those places were by now completely uninhabited and the houses had all fallen into ruin and disrepair and Jun Wu Xie did not manage to gather any useful clues from there.
Her initial guess was almost denied of any possibility at that moment and Jun Wu Xie had no other leads to continue to work on.
“We will definitely find it, do not be too anxious.” Jun Wu Yao soothed with a slight sigh when he saw Jun Wu Xie’s brows frown up. The worries in his little one’s heart was really becoming more and more.
“There must be a problem somewhere. It shouldn’t become like this.” Jun Wu Xie said as she sat down upon the dilapidated stone step. The city before her eyes was the place the Poison Men were first spotted and the entire city was completely abandoned where not a single person would be found within a surrounding ten mile radius of here. The city had been destroyed by the Poison Men and it lay here empty with a heavy silence hanging over it except for the sound of the wind blowing past her ears.
They had searched through more than ten places consecutively and it still had not yielded her any results. Jun Wu Xie kept having a feeling that she was misunderstanding something somewhere and she took out the map of the Lower Realm to spread it onto the ground. She then used a charcoal pencil to mark out all the places the Poison Men had appeared before one by one. She had visited every single place marked out upon the map and besides complete desolation, she had found nothing else from them.
Everything seemed to have bloomed from within the places the incidents had occurred themselves, done so cleanly that it would puzzle anyone.
Jun Wu Xie stared at the more than ten black dots before her and fell deep into thought.
“Actually, in this whole incident, there is something odd about it. The Twelve Palaces becoming anxious being pushed to the wall is understandable but why are they taking such great pains to do this? Do they seek to destroy the entire Lower Realm? All the places that Young Miss gathered the maps from previously have also been searched and nothing unexpected had happened in those places. When those people lost the maps, they did not go search for them after that.” Ye Sha voiced out his own doubts with his brows slightly furrowed.
“Not just a single palace had lost their map and if it was because of the map that made them unleash such a maniacal retaliation, then the culprit behind this would not be from just one individual palace alone.” Ye Mei added.
Ye Mei’s words fell into Jun Wu Xie’s ears and something suddenly seemed to flash within Jun Wu Xie’s mind. She immediately reached out her hand and picked up the map from the ground to carefully study it once again.
Volume 15
Chapter 1411: “Sly Rat (2)”
Suddenly, Jun Wu Xie discovered a place that was suspicious.
“Wu Yao, look here.” Jun Wu Xie said as she placed her finger on a spot upon the map.
Jun Wu Yao looked at the spot Jun Wu Xie’s finger was pointing at and his brow lifted slightly in thought.
The places that Jun Wu Xie had marked out did not focus on any particular area and it could even be said to be highly scattered. If one did not look very carefully, no one would discover anything wrong with it. But with just one point of the finger from Jun Wu Xie, everything marked out upon the map seemed to be calling out.
The black dots marked upon the map that numbered more than ten of them were placed on many areas but if one looked carefully enough, the black dots still seem to circle around a particular place, forming up a strange and irregular circle.
And right in the centre of that circle, was a virtually unheard of city, That city belonged to a little country called the Fan Country. They were not powerful and did not command much of a presence in the Lower Realm and that city was one that could be considered to be slightly large, not too prosperous but due to its proximity to a mine, it enjoyed rich resources, which gained it a little bit of fame.
Qu Ling Yue had initially carefully recorded the details of the places the Poison Men appeared and everywhere where that they had been spotted before, she had marked them out clearly. And when Jun Wu Xie saw the scrolls that Qu Ling Yue had recorded all the details in, she saw that the places the Poison Men had appeared was highly scattered and had not seemed to have any specific direction. But there was one point that stood out. The places that the Poison Men first attacked were all small countries who were incapable of putting up any significant resistance and they were carried out in places where the results would be thinnest before the calamity spread to the rest of the Lower Realm.
The Fan Country was also within their scope of attacks but what was strange was that the places where the Fan Country was first attacked was not at their borders, but from a city much further inside.
Although the number of time they were attacked was very little, but when compared to the multitude of other attacks they carried out, that fact began to stick out.
“They’re a bunch of really sly rats.” Jun Wu Yao said as a cold smile curled up the corner of his lips.
The city pointed out was close to the border and the first city that was first to be attacked was not too far off, and the places where the Poison Men had appeared right after that were also rather close to that city, forming up into an irregular circle.
Only for this one city that had never suffered a single attack from the Poison Men.
Based on reason, quite a number of places close to this city had been visited by the Poison Men before but they had miraculously missed out such a large target, which made it a little hard to explain. And the first places that the Poison Men had been places surrounding this place which made one can’t help but think there’s more to it than meets the eye about the place.
“If my guess is not wrong, inside this city, we might just gain a significant result.” Jun Wu Xie said with a slight curl of her lips. Regardless how sly a rat was, their tails would finally still betray them.
“Little Xie wants to go there?” Jun Wu Yao asked with a laugh.
“Naturally.” Jun Wu Xie replied.
Jun Wu Yao smiled and then said: “Alright, as you wish.”
Upon saying that, he suddenly carried up Jun Wu Xie horizontally in his arms, and with a tap of his feet, he went soaring up into the air.
And Ye Sha, Ye Mei and Ye Jie who had been standing at the side immediately saw their expressions twist up upon seeing Jun Wu Yao leave.
Their Lord Jue leaving just like that was a little too debonair and carefree. Although they were able to make use of the magical artifacts that enabled them to temporarily fly, but they had already depleted a good part of their strength the entire way and they really found that they were not able to be like their Lord Jue who could just “go on a trip” anytime and anyplace he wished!
Ye Jie silently touched the Spirit Shackle Mask and instantly turned into Ye Gu.
[Bloody bugger who abandoned us! Scoundrel!] The two men who were left behind cursed and swore miserably aloud.
Volume 15
Chapter 1412: “Sly Rat (3)”
The Fan Country’s Clear Breeze City was a city that had a little fame due to it having a vein of ore as resources and that fame was limited only within the Fan Country itself.
About a year ago, this place was not considered to be a rich nor comfortable but just that like any other large city, it stood on a larger piece of land and that’s all.
But now, the situation at the Clear Breeze City was wholly different.
When the Poison Men started spreading devastation, the Clear Breeze City became one piece of tranquil paradise within the Fan Country. The place had never had any Poison Man appear before and the inside of the city was the same as it was in the past. As the Clear Breeze City had a vast and wide area but the original inhabitants in the city was not that many, after the Poison Men started appearing everywhere else, quite a number of people from nearby cities began to head to the Clear Breeze City to seek refuge.
Although these people were escaping from calamity, what these people encountered was just small waves of attack from the Poison Men. They had sustained losses, but it had not hurt them right to their bones. After they came to the Clear Breeze City, they had spent quite an amount of money to settle down in there which made the situation in the Clear Breeze City take a big turn in fortune, to the extent that in certain aspects, they had even overtaken the Fan Country’s Imperial Capital in terms of prosperity.
The walls of the Clear Breeze City were high and mighty as it was originally the Capital City of the Fan Country when it was founded. Over time, as the Fan Country’s lands increased, the ruler had better choices and he had then moved the capital elsewhere. But having been once the Capital City, the construction of the Clear Breeze City was highly secure and that became one of the reasons that many people grew to firmly believe why the place would not fall under the attack of the Poison Men.
With the lands under the Heavens in chaos, refugees frequently escaped to the Clear Breeze City seeking protection and the soldiers guarding the city were highly used to seeing that. They would let a batch of people in everyday and would fish for bribes from there.
Outside the Clear Breeze City, it was filled with a dense squeeze of refugees who had escaped from disaster and these people were physically and mentally exhausted. No one had noticed that in the forested mountain not too far away, a suspicious black shadow had silently descended from the skies, to land within the dense forest.
Jun Wu Yao carried Jun Wu Xie and quietly fell among the trees. Jun Wu Xie peered through the gaps between the trees and saw that Clear Breeze City was blocked up by the the mass of refugees surrounding it.
Outside the Clear Breeze City, many simple and crude tents could be seen and many of the refugees have already erected a sort of temporary abode for themselves.
Jun Wu Xie watched those refugees and then looked at the set of clean and neat clothes upon her body. If they went over there like this, they would surely drawn a lot of attention to themselves immediately and that would not make for a good start for them.
But, when she turned around and saw the so tragically good looking Jun Wu Yao, her heart nearly made her vomit out a mouthful of blood.
She felt that she might be thinking too much about it but after having altered her own looks, standing beside such a brilliantly shining example of a man like Jun Wu Yao, she felt just as inconspicuous as dust.
“I think that there is a need for us to disguise and alter our looks a little.” Jun Wu Xie said.
In these matters, she had had a lot of experience but Jun Wu Yao…..
It seemed like with the exception of the colour of his eyes, his face had never changed by much before.
Jun Wu Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie and put on pained look as he lifted an eyebrow in an arch and said: “Could Little Xie have tired of looking at this bag of skin and now dislikes it?”
[That’s not true!]
Jun Wu Xie rubbed at her temples. At times like this, only he would still be in the mood to joke around.
Seeing Jun Wu Xie looking like she was beginning to get a headache, Jun Wu Yao began laughing without restraint and in the end, he received a sharp strike on his abdomen from Jun Wu Xie’s elbow!
“Stop fooling around.”
Jun Wu Yao rubbed at his belly, not feeling any pain but liked it rather much instead.
“As per your command my Young Miss. This highly reprehensible countenance of my humble self shall be placed in your hands, and to be dealt with as you deem fit.” Jun Wu Yao said with a smile as he held Jun Wu Xie’s tiny hand up, to place it upon his face.
Volume 15
Chapter 1413: “Getting Into the City (1)”
Jun Wu Xie stared at the mirth hidden deep within Jun Wu Yao’s eyes and sighed slightly exasperated. She then took a slight step back and crossed her arms before her chest as she stared unruffled at Jun Wu Yao feigning docility.
“Then…..”
“Take off your robe first.”
Jun Wu Yao was immediately stunned in his spot.
After working on it for a while, Jun Wu Yao’s handsome face was transformed under Jun Wu Xie’s experienced hands to turn into a cultured and refined face, suddenly stripped of some of that blinding handsomeness, and looking a little bookish instead. He then changed into a light blue robe that Jun Wu Xie threw at him with a folding fan hanging from his hip. At one glance, he looked completely like a scholarly and gentle intellectual.
From being an almighty and powerful demon lord to become a frail and modest scholar, that transformation completely caused the little black cat watching on the side to feel its skin crawl in horror.
Under the entire Heavens, it is thought that only its Mistress alone would dare to mess around on that face.
Compared to the change that Jun Wu Yao had undergone, it had been much simpler for Jun Wu Xie. She only needed to adjust her features that she had already altered and just grabbed a robe to change into.
In the process of her changing, before Jun Wu Xie could prepare herself, Jun Wu Yao lifted his hand in a wave, which gathered all the leaves from all the surrounding branches to fall in a spiral ringing around Jun Wu Xie, that shielded her within a simple and independant space, a space where even Jun Wu Yao himself was excluded without.
By the time Jun Wu Xie changed and came out, she had turned into a delicate youth who looked like he was down and out.
The two of them were dressed in coarse and crude clothes, their faces unremarkable, and they would blend in inconspicuously within the crowd.
The cautious Jun Wu Xie then proceeded to slightly mess up Jun Wu Yao’s hair as he looked smilingly at her, putting on a tormented and aggrieved look to ask: “Little Young Master, why humiliate your servant like this? Could your humble servant have done anything inappropriate?”
Jun Wu Xie immediately rolled her eyes at him, thinking that he was really enjoying himself too much.
Jun Wu Yao saw Jun Wu Xie roll her eyes and did not mind that expression of disdain in the least, but instead felt very warm inside. [The little one’s expressions has become more and more expressive nowadays hasn’t it?]
After the two of them were finished with their disguise, they went out of the forest and followed the road to come to the outside of the Clear Breeze City. The gates of the Clear Breeze City was densely packed with refugees seeking to enter the city, with layers upon layers of people before it.
“We don’t even know whether they will let a few more people in today.”
“I have been waiting here for several days! This Clear Breeze City only allows that small number of people to enter everyday. Sigh. But there’s one good thing though, they give priority to t
he elderly and the young children, which shows that the Lord of the city has a bit of a conscience.”
In times of crisis, humanity would often be put to the test. Even for people who know each other if not blood related are faced with the risk of their lives, might not choose to care for each other. At times like this, the younger and stronger are usually prioritised but the Clear Breeze City seemed to still hold that bit on conscience who did not only not reject the elderly and very young, but were instead giving priority to these frail and weak ones to enter the city, a point that won quite a bit of praise from many people.
Jun Wu Xie listened those words spoken by the people around but did not immediately draw her conclusion but just merely watched the densely packed crowd of people. Based on the speed that she was seeing, it would take more than just a while for them to be able to gain entry into the city.
Jun Wu Xie fell deep in thought for a moment and then blinked her eyes at Jun Wu Yao. Jun Wu Yao smiled faintly, immediately understanding Jun Wu Xie’s intentions.
“Who dropped this leaf of gold?”
Someone among the crowd suddenly shouted loudly and slivers of glittery golden leaves were seen to be scattering down from the sky, quickly falling into the crowd. The refugees immediately started screaming as they bent their bodies down to pick them, instantly loosening up the crowd as spaces freed up among the people.
Volume 15
Chapter 1414: “Getting Into the City (2)”
Jun Wu Xie pulled on Jun Wu Yao as they slipped to come before the city gates when the crowd opened up some space.
The soldiers at the city gates were a little stunned when they saw the commotion within the crowd, never having thought that leaves of gold would really fall from the sky out of nothing.
When they turned their heads and saw Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao standing right before them, the brows of the soldiers immediately creased together.
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