“Tie her up and bring her back to the Spirit Jade Palace. Let the Spirit Jade Palace Lord see for himself clearly just how stupid his disciple is.” Jun Wu Xie said to Ye Gu at the side.
Ye Gu immediately went forward and picked Zi Jin up. At that moment, Zi Jin was feeling in her heart her spirit almost jumping right out of her body from fright by Jun Wu’s words.
“You are just lying to me! Haven’t you also chosen Yue Yi! ? Isn’t Yue Yi from the Shadow Moon Palace! ? Why is it that you can trust a person from the Twelve Palaces but I cannot choose to believe Gu Ying? Jun Wu! It’s clear that you are petty and narrow minded, cruel in your methods, but you are just justifying it all with such grand words! You killed Zhuge Yin! You framed Gu Ying! You and just an indiscriminate murderer! A devil! You claim to be the Spirit Jade Palace’s ally, but you used me to set up Young Master Gu! You are just a despicable cad!” Zi Jin still wanted to continue to rant, but Ye Gu was not going to give her the chance. He just gagged up Zi Jin’s mouth and tied her up securely, unable to create further ruckus.
Jun Wu Xie stared at Zi Jin who was acting like a rabid dog, not an ounce of pity in her eyes.
“Use you?” Jun Wu Xie shook her head. “I have never asked you to go reveal the plan to Gu Ying. And if not for the fact that you harboured ulterior motives, seeking to betray me, how could Gu Ying then possibly fall into the trap? Persistency in unrighteousness would only bring self destruction. Since you are feeling so aggrieved for him, then remember this. The current state that he is now in, is all due to your very own hand.”
Zi Jin felt like she had been struck by a bolt of lightning, completely frozen in spot.
That’s right. If she had not gone running to Gu Ying to tell him all that, why would Gu Ying have gone to find Zhuge Yin? And how would Jun Wu’s plot be able to succeed at all?
Jun Wu Xie had said all that, because it was intended to be the last test for Zi Jin. She had presented two paths right before Zi Jin then, and how she chose was entirely up to her.
If Zi Jin had not seeked to betray Jun Wu in her heart, then everything after that would not have happened…..
Volume 18
Chapter 1761: “Impossibly Stupid (4)”
To live or to die, brought about by just one single choice Zi Jin made.
No other words could strike a bigger blow upon Zi Jin. She had completely given up on remaining silent, but pummeled at her head and falling into deep regret.
Because of Zhuge Yin’s death, the conflict between the Dragon Slayers Palace and the Blood Fiend Palace grew more and more intense. The Pure Grace Palace were still unable to make a deciding judgement and though Gu Ying was saved by Gu Xin Yan leading their people to fully protect him, but by her doing that, it had completely angered the Dragon Slayers Palace’s disciples, which led to a bout of chaos to erupt within the Pure Grace Palace.
The disciples of the Dragon Slayers Palace began to incessantly attack people from the Blood Fiend Palace and the people from both sides were locked in constant battle. As the battles raged intensely, it spilled over and implicated youths from the other palaces where some youths who held just average powers were even killed or severely injured when caught within the turmoil.
Very soon, the Pure Grace Palace had blood flowing like rivers. The Pure Grace Palace Lord was no longer in the mood to celebrate his birthday and he had no choice but to mobilize the Pure Grace Palace’s might to apprehend the spread of the calamity.
The disaster caused the Pure Grace Palace to have no choice but to put a halt to all arrangements planned for the birthday celebration and begin to deal with the desperate situation. The disciples from the various palaces were asked to leave one after another and none of them dared to continue to remain in such a blighted place. Especially the palaces who held less significant might, they couldn’t wait to just quickly leave the place.
And Jun Wu Xie left with her delegation on the third day after the chaos erupted.
When they were leaving the Pure Grace Palace and Jun Wu Xie was seated in the horse carriage, she happened to see Gu Ying who was surrounded by a group of disciples from Blood Fiend Palace who were rushing to get into their horse carriage as quickly as possible, as the disciples from the Dragon Slayers Palace came running behind them in angry pursuit.
Jun Wu Xie was looking at Gu Ying outside the window when Gu Ying coincidentally turned to look over at that same moment and their gazes clashed together in the air.
A smile suddenly rose upon Gu Ying’s face, sinister and demonic.
While Jun Wu Xie merely tugged the corners of her mouth, and retracted her gaze.
This round, Gu Ying had lost completely.
Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao sat within the same carriage and similarly in there was Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit who had not been able to snuggle up to Jun Wu Xie for so long. The two adorable beasts had immediately jumped straight into Jun Wu Xie’s arms, putting on their most adorable and coquettish looks to seek cuddles from her. The little black cat had instead hidden itself in a far corner, its body curled up into a ball, its eyes still in trauma as it peeked at Jun Wu Yao who sat on one side with a faint smile playing at the corners of his lips.
[Those two dumb beasts must be tired of living! Can’t they see the great demon lord’s smile! ? How devilish it looks! He might very well stew the both of you this very night!]
Yue Yi and Ye Mei sat in the same carriage while Zi Jin was closely watched by both Ye Sha and Ye Gu as the Shadow Moon Palace’s carriages slowly rolled away from the gates of the Pure Grace Palace.
Gu Ying got into his carriage under the protection of his companions. The sounds of battle came in from outside the horse carriage and Gu Xin Yan who was seated in the same car had her brows slightly creased up in a frown as she urged the coachman to quickly move off.
“Having stirred up such a huge commotion this time, how are you going to explain it to Father when we get back?” Gu Xin Yan still had her brows furrowed together in anxiety. It wasn’t that she could not see the disparity in the way Gu Yi treated her and Gu Ying. With the incident this time having become so big, even if she had been the one responsible for it, she would think that she would be punished, much less the one being implicated into it now is Gu Ying?
At that moment, what worried Gu Xin Yan the most was what Gu Ying would have to face when they got back.
But Gu Ying did not seem to be the least bothered by it. He sat there by the window with his chin resting on the windowsill, as he stared at the carriages carrying the banners of the Shadow Moon Palace as they gradually grew distant in his sight, as the corners of his mouth curled up into a deep unfathomable smile.
“What is there to explain? Whether he wants me killed or skinned is up to Father’s wishes.”
Volume 18
Chapter 1762: “Sinners Must Not Live (1)”
After Jun Wu Xie departed from the Pure Grace Palace’s boundary of power, she did not immediately make their way towards the Shadow Moon Palace, but had instead stopped the convoy midway and stationed Yue Yi safely within the forest with Ye Mei remaining behind to keep a lookout for him, while she went on ahead with Jun Wu Yao and the others towards Mount Fu Yao, bringing Zi Jin together with them.
In the Spirit Jade Palace, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was lying lazily upon his soft lounge and sipping at fine wine as his disciples played melodious music, enjoying himself immensely.
Suddenly, the Spirit Jade Palace’s main door was opened up by someone and the Spirit Jade Palace Lord sat up in his comfy lounge, his eyes lifting up slightly to look to the front of the main hall.
Several figures slowly appeared before his eyes.
“Young Master Jun, what do you mean by this?” After the Spirit Jade Palace clearly saw the identity of the person coming in, his brows immediately creased together and the laziness in his eyes disappeared without a trace, to be replaced with a sharp and incisive glint.
He saw his own disciple Zi Jin, being held by a man sta
nding behind Jun Wu, the ropes tied around Zi Jin’s bodies highly stinging to his eyes. Her face was pale, her breath weak, obviously having sustained rather heavy injuries.
That scene, was one that the Spirit Jade Palace Lord would never have imagined even in his dreams.
Although he had outwardly shown great disdain towards the things Jun Wu had done before, deep in his heart he had actually greatly admired this quick witted youth, which was the reason why he had grudgingly consented to letting Jun Wu remain in the Spirit Jade Palace. Although his face had purposely shown displeasure, his heart had already accepted Jun Wu as one of their own, but the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had never expected that letting Jun Wu bring Zi Jin to the Pure Grace Palace would result in a reverse in the situation upon their return!
“I wonder what wrong Zi Jin could have commited that calls for Young Master Jun treat her in such a manner?” Although the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s face revealed discontent, but based on what his understanding of Jun Wu, he would not treat Zi Jin like that for no good reason.
With that question from the Spirit Jade Palace Lord, it greatly pleased Jun Wu Xie. She had initially thought that if the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was going to unilaterally decide to argue with her without even distinguishing right from wrong, then whether the alliance between them should continue on forward, would have to be carefully reconsidered.
Fortunately, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was not dumb.
Jun Wu Xie gestured by lifting her chin slightly and Ye Sha immediately pushed Zi Jin down to the floor before the Spirit Jade Palace Lord.
The bunch of Spirit Jade Palace disciples who were seated in the main hall when made to see their own senior fellow disciple being treated in such a manner, immediately caused rage to show upon their faces, every single pair of their eyes looking at Jun Wu turning unfriendly.
“Why have you tied up Senior Zi Jin! ?”
“This is too much! Release Senior Zi Jin now!” A bunch of young girls started screaming at Ye Sha in a noisy clamour, demanding that he release their senior.
Ye Sha did not even grace them with a single glance out from the corner of his eyes but just stared at Zi Jin with a cold expression on his face who was kneeling before the Spirit Jade Palace Lord.
“All of you keep quiet! The Palace Lord is present, this is no place for any of you to be making such a din! Where are all your manners! ?” The stalwart Granny Yue slammed the staff she held in her hand onto the floor, her deep voice immediately overpowering the screaming shrieks of the young ones.
In an instant, the disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace no longer dared to open their mouths, but the gazes they looked at Jun Wu with were highly repulsive.
“As to what happened, I believe that it would be more appropriate for the Palace Lord to ask her yourself.” Jun Wu Xie replied, standing with her hands behind her back, as she nodded her head at Ye Sha.
Ye Sha then freed Zi Jin from her bonds, and then released her mute acupoint.
Regaining her freedom all of a sudden, Zi Jin felt weak for a moment and she fell down to the ground. The wretched state that she was in, made the hearts of her fellow Spirit Jade Palace disciples at the side wince in pain.
Volume 18
Chapter 1763: “Sinners Must Not Live (2)”
“My Lord…..” Zi Jin raised up her head weakly, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at the Spirit Jade Palace Lord.
The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was also feeling mighty stuffy in his chest as Zi Jin was afterall a disciple he had brought up personally and it was not easy for him to see her like this.
“Zi Jin, what exactly happened to all of you on this trip? Why would Young Master Jun do this to you?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord opened his mouth to ask.
Zi Jin’s lips stiffened.
The group of young girls at the side became anxious.
“Junior Zi Jin, whatever kind of grievance you’ve suffered, tell it to our Lord quickly! Our Lord will definitely seek redress for you!”
“Senior Zi Jin, you do not need to fear! You’re already home, and we will all protect you. Just tell everything. If anyone has bullied you, our Lord will surely make them pay the price!” The group of girls said indignantly one after another. If not for Granny Yue standing at the side and holding them down, they would all already have been unable to help themselves and rushed forward to help Zi Jin up.
“My Lord…..” Upon hearing those familiar voices and seeing once again the very place she had grown up in, Zi Jin could not help but feel her heart wrenching up, hot tears immediately flowing down her cheeks.
Seeing Zi Jin reacting like that, some of the young girls quickly became similarly covered with tears, the palace hall immediately filling up with the sounds of sobbing.
However, Jun Wu Xie eyed the entire farce with a cold gaze, the corners of her mouth curled up with a sneer.
“My Lord, when I went with Young Master Jun to the Pure Grace Palace, it was initially going fine, but….. My Lord! Young Master Jun is a vicious and merciless person, and is really unsuited candidate for us to be allied with! He is highly unscrupulous in order for him to achieve his goals, even to the extent of implicating completely innocent people into it. He kills people wantonly….. and is not a good person at all. I beg for my Lord to be the judge!” Zi Jin wailed, like she had suffered a grave injustice.
The palace hall was immediately filled with voices raised in debate.
The disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace were not on familiar terms with Jun Wu although Jun Wu had stayed in the Spirit Jade Palace for a period, they had not interacted with the youth much. Compared to Jun Wu, the words of Zi Jin, a fellow disciple they had all grown up together with would carry much more weight.
“What do you mean?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord calmed himself down to continue to ask.
Zi Jin then said: “In order to incite chaos among three palaces, he thought nothing of killing people, and even pushed the blame for it onto a completely innocent person!”
“Who did he kill?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord took a deep breath, bugged by a nagging feeling that something did not feel right.
Zi Jin opened her mouth and then seemingly realizing something, she clamped her mouth shut.
But at that moment, Jun Wu Xie turned her gaze onto the figure of the silent Zi Jin and then slowly said: “What? Not going to cry and complain anymore? Or do you need me to say it for you?”
“Jun Wu! What do you mean by that! ? Zi Jin is a member of our Spirit Jade Palace, and this is the Spirit Jade Palace where your impudence will not be overlooked!” A young girl who was on close terms with Zi Jin shouted out from the side.
“Silence!” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord roared in admonishment, before he lifted his head to look towards Jun Wu.
“Young Master Jun, the reason behind all this, would you please explain in detail? If Zi Jin had indeed committed a wrong, I will naturally deal with it.”
Jun Wu Xie arched up an eyebrow and said: “Everything she said is the truth.”
The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was suddenly stunned. [The kid has actually admitted to it all so cleanly and easily like this? This isn’t his style of doing things!]
“I killed someone, that person’s name is Zhuge Yin, and he is the Dragon Slayers Palace’s Young Lord.” Jun Wu Xie said indifferently.
With a loud thump, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s jaw dropped to the ground.
[Zhuge Yin…..]
[Isn’t that the only son of the Dragon Slayers Palace Lord?]
[Jun Wu had actually….. killed him?]
[This kid’s abilities are just too heaven defying! ! ! !]
Volume 18
Chapter 1764: “Sinners Must Not Live (3)”
As to who Zhuge Yin was, it was afraid that no one within the Spirit Jade Palace was unaware of. The bunch of noisy girls immediately shut their mouths.
This…..
Jun Wu might have indeed killed someone.
But the person he killed was so
meone who was an enemy whom cannot coexist under the same sky with the Spirit Jade Palace!
They could still remember sorrowfully, when one of their Spirit Jade Palace disciples had similarly gone outside but had never returned ever since. It was only half a year later when the people the Spirit Jade Palace had sent out to investigate finally discovered that that disciple had coincidentally encountered Zhuge Yin while she was outside and because of her beauty, it had drawn the eyes of Zhuge Yin, who began to harbour ulterior motives against her. That disciple had resisted to the death who finally jumped into the lake to end her own life…..
That incident had once boiled to a fervour within the Spirit Jade Palace and many of the disciples hated Zhuge Yin to the bone, detesting the fact that the Spirit Jade Palace had fallen into such dire straits, and were unable to seek redress for the blood debt owed to their senior!
Now that Jun Wu had killed Zhuge Yin, not only was there absolutely no wrong done in their eyes, he had even exacted deep blood vengeance on their behalf.
That one point, caused all of them to be unable to say a single word against Jun Wu’s actions.
“I killed him, and then pinned the crime upon the head of Gu Ying, the Blood Fiend Palace’s Young Lord.” Jun Wu Xie said indifferently.
The Spirit Jade Palace Lord immediately gasped in surprise!
[Heavens be damned!]
[From where had this kid sprouted out from! ?]
[In one stroke of genius, he had actually schemed against the Young Lords of two major palaces in one fell swoop. Is this fella even human?]
Hearing Gu Ying’s name, Zi Jin immediately could not hold herself back. She raised her head up on a fluster and stared at the Spirit Jade Palace Lord to say anxiously: “My Lord! Young Master Gu is a good person! He is completely different from the other evil people in the Twelve Palaces. He is kind and gentle, an highly righteous character, definitely not…..”
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