The oppressive pressure that was flaring out from the two Purple Spirits locked in combat caused the refugees standing at the sides to feel it was rather hard to breathe.
Hidden within the shadows, pairs of eyes watched the great battle intently, paying attention to everything that was unfolding before them.
“Where had that kid come from? From the way he spoke, he didn’t sound like he was from the Twelve Palaces, or should I say he didn’t even sound like he was from the Middle Realm at all. And he’s still so young, could it be that the Lower Realm had also produced such an astoundingly demonic prodigy as well?” A man said with a frown on his face as he continued to stare at Jun Wu Xie who was battling the black clothed man.
“If that is true, the demarcation of powers here in the Lower Realm will surely change. I have seen that black clothed man before and he is one of the Elders from the Palace of Flame Demons. Although his powers isn’t among the most elite, he’s still not someone we will be able to take on. But that kid is actually fighting him without falling into a disadvantageous situation, that point alone had really surprised me rather greatly.” Another man then said, rubbing his chin.
A person that was able to fight on par with an Elder of the Twelve Palaces was uncommonly seen and this group of people who had hidden themselves within the Clear Breeze City had not made any moves because they discovered that the Palace of Flame Demons had sent out one of their Elders to take charge of this place.
With just the few of them, they would not be able to take down an Elder.
The same thought seemed to have sprouted within the minds of all the men from the Middle Realm hidden within the shadows. They watched on quietly at everything that was happening, not knowing that what they were witnessing was the very beginning of the rise of the Lower Realm!
The black clothed man and Jun Wu Xie had battled only for a few short minutes but they had executed no less than a hundred strikes. He had thought with his opponent’s young age, even if he had broken through to the Purple Spirit, his powers would not be stable yet, but after cruising swords, the threat that Jun Wu Xie brought to him, went way beyond his expectations!
Volume 15
Chapter 1462: “Stick Your Face Out (4)”
The powerful strikes came one after another relentlessly, without the slowing down in the slightest!
It caught the black clothed man by surprise and if he had not seen Jun Wu Xie’s countenance clearly before and knew his opponent’s young age, the black clothed man would really have thought that Jun Wu Xie was an Elder from one of the other palaces in disguise.
But the black clothed man did not know that though Jun Wu Xie might be young, but her innate gift had truly been Heaven defying and added to that, she had pursued her cultivation in the Dark Emperor’s tomb without rest throughout many days and nights, the efforts she had poured in was no less than anyone else.
Another thing that pushed her to such an extent besides her gift and hard work was due to her possessing the most tyrannical piece of magical artifact protecting and fortifying her strength, coupled with the mightiest and most powerful Dark Emperor of the Middle Realms’ personal instruction in her cultivation. These two factors had caused Jun Wu Xie’s powers to grow and elevate at a speed that far exceeded any other person could hope to achieve!
The light from the energy of spirit power streaked and flashed continuously, the multitude of resounding crashes reverberating within everyone’s ears so hard they hurt.
Not even in his dreams would the black clothed man ever have thought that he, as a respected Elder of the Palace of the Flame Demons would one day be pushed back so hard by a young youth from the Lower Realm.
Having initially thought that he would be able to send Jun Wu Xie right into Hell within a short period of time, after they had traded multiple punches after countless strikes, the black clothed man realized that he had to summon every single ounce of his abilities in this battle. From the day that he became an Elder of the Palace of the Flame Demons, he had never encountered such an infuriating thing!
What made him even more frustrated was when he discovered that the kid’s moves were becoming more smooth and more precise as the battle progressed, the strikes becoming sharper and his opponent’s spirit power seemingly inexhaustible. Every strike was more ferocious than the one before and as his own spirit power drained, the black clothed man’s heart grew agitated which messed up the execution of his moves.
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes noticed all of it. After attaining the Purple Spirit, the amount of time she had been able to employ its powers were very short and hence she had not gotten a complete grasp of her Purple Spirit powers. But through this battle, she had been able to fill up and smoothen out those gaps she had not been familiar with and instead of saying that she was fighting with all might with the black clothed man, it might rather be said that she treated the opponent as a sparring partner, never having the intention of seeking to end the battle quickly, but more to maintain a situation where they would be equally matched.
Towards this point, it might not be obvious to others who were watching, but to the bunch of people from the other Twelve Palaces who were hidden in the Clear Breeze City, it couldn’t be any clearer to them.
On the surface, the black clothed man looked to be evenly matched with Jun Wu Xie, but they had all been able to see that Jun Wu Xie was not using all her powers at all, looking like the kid was just toying with his opponent.
“There is no need to continue watching. Let’s go back. The Palace of the Flame Demons have lost really dearly this time round. To think that such a demonic devil would appear in the Lower Realm. Our missions here in the Lower Realm from now onwards would surely be harder to carry on.” A man who decided that he had seen enough said, before he immediately turned and departed.
Rather than to remain here and waste his time, he would rather bring this news back to the Elder back in the palace.
Very soon, the hidden members of the Twelve Palaces all left, silently and unnoticed. They weren’t about to wait around for Jun Wu Xie to discover them and drag them out to give them a brutal thrashing.
Afterall…..
They were all not at the level of an Elder. If even that black clothed man was helpless against Jun Wu Xie, they would all be much less of a match.
All of that had taken place in secret, unknown to anyone.
The situation was becoming worse for the black clothed man. Jun Wu Xie had suddenly seemed to have had enough. At the moment that the black clothed man attempted to turn the situation around, Jun Wu Xie raised her spirit powers to its peak in that instant!
With a strong and powerful kick, she sent the black clothed man hurtling straight towards the ground!
A loud crash erupted!
The cloud of dust kicked up was immense…..
Volume 15
Chapter 1463: “Stick Your Face Out (5)”
The black clothed man shot like a arrow and struck the ground heavily, creating a wide and deep hole in the earth as copious amounts of blood spurted out from his mouth.
Luo Xi was flabbergasted with terror by the scene before his eyes and he fell back onto the ground with a crash, unable to believe everything that was happening.
The revered one had been defeated….. defeated by a youth…..
How was that possible! ?
The absolute belief in his heart had crumbled in an instant and Luo Xi’s face was ashen as his teeth chattered helplessly.
That battle was not one that the average person was able to see clearly and everyone had only seen streaks of Purple Spirit light flash. Even till the battle ended, many of the people still had not recovered from their shock.
The gazes of the refugees then fell at the same time upon Jun Wu Xie.
The tiny figure stood silently upright upon the ground, his facial features delicately attractive, his gaze like frosty snow. He was obviously at just such a young age but he truly astounded the hearts of man.
In an instan
t, the area just in front of the lofts erupted with a raucous cheer!
The cheering shook the Heavens, celebrating Jun Wu Xie’s victory.
Jun Wu Xie stared coldly at the black clothed man who had fallen to the ground and wasn’t moving at all. She had not taken his life as she had some things she wanted to ask him.
The black robed man lay within a pool of blood, every single bone within his body feeling like they had been crushed to bits. He absolutely could not believe that he would be defeated so completely. There was no need to even mention being on par with Jun Wu Xie at all. When Jun Wu Xie had executed that last strike, he had been completely unable to defend against it at all.
And it was from that moment that he began to fully realise that all the way from the beginning, Jun Wu Xie had not been fighting with all of her powers!
Powers that would seemingly be able to go against the Palace Lords themselves!
That a youth that was just in his mere teens would possess powers capable of rivalling those of the Lords of the Twelve Palaces was just absolutely unbelievable.
The fall of the black robed man caused Luo Xi to become so badly gripped by terror his entire body was trembling. He had fallen to the ground as he watched Jun Wu Xie slowly approaching them, shivering as he shifted his behind, wanting to escape from the place.
“Now, whose time is it to die today?” Jun Wu Xie asked as her gaze slowly fell onto Luo Xi’s body, her eyes completely expressionless.
But that one look had made Luo Xi instantly stop breathing. His throat felt as if someone was strangling him, causing him to be unable to utter a single sound.
Jun Wu Xie’s hand slowly lifted and a Purple Spirit light suddenly shot out towards Luo Xi’s head!
All of a sudden!
Luo Xi forehead was pierced by that spirit light in between the brows, a bloody hole had appeared suddenly on his forehead. He did not even have time to scream out before he fell stiffly onto the dusty ground.
The thick bloody stench pervaded the surrounding air and Jun Wu Xie turned her gaze onto the unmoving black clothed man, not an ounce of pity within her eyes.
“Who…. Who are you actually?” The black clothed man asked weakly as he lay in a heap on the ground. He still could not accept just how utterly he had been defeated.
“Someone from the Lower Realm.” Jun Wu Xie replied coldly.
The black clothed man then said through gritted teeth. “Kill me…..”
“When I want you dead, I will then naturally kill you.” After saying that, Jun Wu Xie turned around and walked away.
After she departed, the figure of Ye Sha quickly appeared and carried up the black clothed man, bringing him away.
After a astounding battle, peace returned. Everyone who witnessed the battle today deeply felt fear of the Purple Spirit’s powers.
The black clothed man was dragged back to the loft that Jun Wu Xie occupied and guarded by Ye Sha. Although he was severely injured, those injuries would not yet cause him to lose his life for a period. Jun Wu Xie still had time to dig out everything she would want to know from the man’s mouth.
Volume 15
Chapter 1464: “Stick Your Face Out (6)”
The black robed man was placed inside a room by Ye Sha. Jun Wu Xie made Ye Sha give the black robed man some medicine to stabilise his breathing so that he would not fall unconscious.
That black clothed man sat leaning against the side of the bed weakly, all his meridians sealed by Jun Wu Xie’s spirit powers. He was only able to move his mouth now and his eyes were cold and hard, as they stared at Jun Wu Xie, looking like they wished for nothing more than to cut her up and swallow her raw.
“When your skills are proven inferior, you have to accept your fate.” Jun Wu Xie said as she sat down upon a chair by the side, her chin propped up by one hand as she gazed nonchalantly at the black clothed man.
“Just who are you!” The black clothed man still could not believe that Jun Wu Xie was really a person from the Lower Realm. What the Lower Realm was like, was well known by them and if the Lower Realm really could produce such a powerful Heaven defying monster, they wouldn’t have had to suffer being oppressed so badly by the Middle Realm for so many years.
“Who that is, is not something that you are even fit to ask about.” A voice suddenly rang out.
Jun Wu Yao came walking slowly to appear at the door, the corners of his mouth curled up in a faint smile, his gaze not looking upon the black clothed man in the slightest but was fixed upon Jun Wu Xie.
However, at the moment that the black robed man was able to see Jun Wu Yao’s countenance clearly, his eyes suddenly bulged out in an incredulous stare, red blood veins filling up his eyes as he continued to stare at Jun Wu Yao, looking like he had seen a ghost!
“Now you’ve frightened him.” Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Jun Wu Yao lazily.
To which Jun Wu Yao replied: “I do not think that my looks will really have such a devastating effect.”
“Maybe he recognizes you.” Jun Wu Xie said with a lift of an eyebrow.
Jun Wu Yao merely smiled and did not say anything.
But the black clothed man’s mouth was suddenly chattering incessantly and his face had immediately drained of all colour from terror, looking more horrified than he had looked when he found himself defeated by Jun Wu Xie!
“Dark….. Dark Emperor…..” The two highly terrifying words stumbled out from the black clothed man’s mouth as his face turned a deathly pallor while his eyes became fixed upon Jun Wu Yao who went to sit down beside Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Yao’s smile was calm and he did not react but it was Jun Wu Xie who instead arched her eyebrow up slightly and said: “He’s addressing you.”
Jun Wu Yao’s face was one of confusion. “I didn’t know that!”
“Pretender.” Jun Wu Xie said as she swept a sidelong gaze over from Jun Wu Yao, but was not going to pursue whether he was going to continue denying his identity.
After the pitiable and unfortunate black clothed saw Jun Wu Yao, he was so terror struck he almost lost his mind. Before Jun Wu Xie, he was still able to put on a front of false bravado, but once Jun Wu Yao appeared, he immediately became like a deflated balloon and was shaking pitifully like willows in the wind.
It had been a long time since the Dark Emperor had fallen and the black clothed man had never seen the Dark Emperor’s real countenance. But among the Twelve Palaces, they had always kept old portraits of the Dark Emperor, works of art that were highly lifelike, the only difference from the man before his eyes now was the colour of the eyes, and besides that, it was a complete match.
Although the Dark Emperor was no longer around, his unparalleled fame and glory had never disappeared from the Middle Realm, those two words were like a curse that remained within everyone’s hearts.
It could be that Jun Wu Yao’s presence had truly terrified the black clothed man as his reactions after that became more retarded. Although when Jun Wu Xie asked him about some things, he had truthfully revealed everything he knew. It wasn’t that he had no backbone, but…..
Before the Dark Emperor, no one dared to resist or defy him in the slightest. The Dark Emperor’s exploits, were still well talked about in the Middle Realm till this day.
The black clothed man wouldn’t want any instances that he might be thought to be uncooperative to draw the Dark Emperor’s “attention” to him. The Dark Emperor’s wrath was not something he was prepared to face at all!
Volume 15
Chapter 1465: “The Rise of the Lower Realm (1)”
The interrogation progressed very smoothly, so smoothly that Jun Wu Xie could not help but start to think that she would not have to do anything else henceforth. She would only need to push Jun Wu Yao forward and place him before the people of the Twelve Palaces which would then bring all of them to come flying over to grovel and fawn before them?
But of course, she was just merely giving that a thought. The fact that Jun Wu Yao had not revealed his real
identity all this time told her that he had his own reasons for it. Moreover, Jun Wu Xie was not willing to depend on another person all that much.
From the dark clothed man’s mouth, she had come to realize that just like the two men back in the Cloudy Peaks, they had come from the Palace of the Flame Demons and the kind of poison they had forced into the bodies of the refugees was different from that in the Condor Country. The one they used now had been specially modified from the previous poison used.
The Palace of Flames Demons had taken so much effort to strike this time because the Middle Realm had become much less peaceful and the Palaces of Flame Demons wanted to take the chance to bolster their powers and position, seeking to oppress the other eleven palaces. They had then decided to strike the Lower Realm. After they unified and gained control of the Lower Realm, they would be able to gain monopoly towards the search of the Dark Emperor’s tomb, and obstruct the other palaces from their missions down here.
“The Middle Realm is becoming less peaceful? What does that mean?” Jun Wu Xie asked as her eyebrow lifted with interest.
The black clothed man then explained it to her honestly.
The Middle Realm had always been demarcated into One Region, Four Sides and Twelve Palaces. But because the Dark Region went into reclusion, the originally balanced powers gradually broke down as the years passed. The Twelve Palaces seeked to suppress the powers of the Nine Temples and the Nine Temples did nothing to stop them, which just encouraged the Twelve Palaces to become more aggressive.
If fact, besides the Palace of Flame Demons, the level of activity in the other palaces had been growing as well but just that their methods and objectives were different.
The strength of the Palace of Flame Demons among the Twelve Palaces had grown stronger day by day which emboldened them to create such a big ruckus while the other palaces only dared to make their moves discreetly.
Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 15 Page 17