Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 18

by North Night (夜北)

  Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  “They must have come here under orders. If the Shadow Moon Palace really wanted to punish me, they would get the disciples guarding the dungeon to carry it out, and not just send a few young teenagers here, which is not in accordance to the rules.” Jun Wu Xie just thought that it was all too laughable. Just how badly was the other party disregarding her intelligence?

  All the palaces had disciples who were in charge of meting out punishments and if someone committed a wrong, those disciples would then be the ones carrying it out, and not just randomly find a few people to do it.

  “Moreover, those few youths had obviously seemed to look rather guilty. Although the words that came out of their mouths were haughty and arrogant, but they had not dared to open the cell door at that time, showing that they were afraid that I would sense something amiss after getting out, and inflict harm upon them.” Jun Wu Xie said, as she stroked at the little black cat’s smooth fur.

  Hearing that, the little black cat immediately understood the subtlety within.

  “Meooow?”

  [Who would want to kill you?]

  “Besides him….. Who else is there?” Jun Wu Xie said indifferently.

  The several youths ran out from the dungeon like they were running for their lives, and after coming out from the dungeon, a figure appeared before their eyes.

  When the youths saw the figure, they immediately stood in their spots, not daring to make any careless movements. “Elder Yue.”

  Elder Yue creased up his brows in a frown and stared at the several pale faced youths. “Has the deed been done?”

  The youths turned to look at each other, and their faces twisted up mournfully, but could do nothing but shake their heads silently.

  “Good for nothings! He is now imprisoned inside the dungeon and all of you are not even able to teach him a good lesson? Of what use are the whole lot of you! ?” Elder Yue berated, his eyes glaring at them in rage.

  “Elder Yue….. It’s….. It’s not that we do not want to follow your orders, but….. but that kid Chang Huan seems to have completely changed into another person. Besides having become much more daring, his strikes have also grown to become highly vicious. We followed what you said to us and told him that he has already been kicked out of the Shadow Moon Palace but he did not show the tiniest bit of reaction. When we told him to come out, he just sat there, not moving in the slightest, and not even bothering with us at all. In the end, we did not dare to release him and we came up with a way to set fire to the jail cell, but…..” One of the youths said highly mournfully, telling Elder Yue about everything that had happened in the dungeon earlier.

  The more Elder Yue listened, the uglier the expression on his face became.

  To be able to use her spirit power to extinguish the roaring flames, it could be seen to what level of skill Jun Wu Xie had perfected her control of her spirit powers to. Such precise control and adaptability, was not something that could be achieved overnight.

  Elder Yue had initially been highly suspicious on how “Chang Huan” had suddenly become so highly skilled and had thought that Elder Ying must have relied on some secret method from his family clan to help “Chang Huan” attain that power. But now it seemed like “Chang Huan” had possessed that kind of power for a long time.

  “I really hadn’t thought that that kid would be so crafty.” Elder Yue said as he clenched his jaws hard discreetly. Thinking back to how Elder Ying had in the palace hall changed the Palace Lord’s impression of “Chang Huan” with just a few flowery words, Elder Yue’s heart grew to become more anxious.

  Yue Yi was a bargaining chip he held in his hand, which had brought him quite a bit of benefits. But now that Elder Ying had Jun Wu Xie, the state of affairs in the Shadow Moon Palace had turned into a different situation.

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  “That right….. Who would have thought that Chang Huan would hide such a hand. He had all of us completely fooled.” One of the youth said nodding his head vehemently.

  “It’s true. He was not even able to defeat me in the past and does not retaliate no matter how much we admonish or beat him, always putting on that smiling face before us. But now, he acts mighty peculiar, and so unbelievably arrogant…..”

  In the past, Chang Huan could be said to be very easily bullied in the Shadow Moon Palace. With that mouth that spouted flattery and licked boots all the time, he came to latch onto a large thigh that was Elder Ying, which caused quite a number of disciples to hold him in contempt. But who would have thought, that the weak and hypocritical Chang Huan would turn out to be secretly hiding such a big trump card.

  “Alright, all of you can go now. Today’s incident, take it as it never happened before. If I come to hear any news of today’s events, all of you can forget about continuing to remain here in the Shadow Moon Palace.” Elder Yue said sinisterly.

  The youths quickly acknowledged and then ran away as fast as they could with their heads lowered.

  Elder Yue’s mood plummeted down into the bottom of the gorge. Jun Wu Xie was currently still imprisoned in the dungeon. It might not be that obvious yet, but once Jun Wu Xie was allowed to walk out of the dungeon alive, then Elder Ying’s authourity would quickly climb and grow in influence.

  That was a point that Elder Yue could not help but worry about.

  With the kind of power Jun Wu Xie held, even if Yue Yi were to strike, it was still impossible to get rid of Jun Wu Xie. And Elder Yue was not willing to strike with his own hand, as once he did that, the Palace Lord would immediately be able to detect that something was odd, and he would not be able to find an excuse to brush it all off.

  But, Elder Yue would definitely still not allow Jun Wu Xie to walk out from that dungeon alive.

  When mealtime came, the jailors sent food to every prisoners within the jail cells. A few steamed buns were placed at Jun Wu Xie’s cell and the jailor who brought the things in left immediately after putting the things down, like he had not noticed that Jun Wu Xie’s cell was filled with scorch marks left behind from a big fire at all.

  Jun Wu Xie brought the buns in and sniffed at them, and her eyes flashed with a chill before she went on to calmly eat them quietly, a bite at a time.

  The jailor who was hidden in the shadows watched Jun Wu Xie swallow the bun, and then immediately went running out, straight towards Elder Yue’s courtyard.

  At that moment, Elder Yue was seated in his study, telling Yue Yi about some things. When he saw the jailor rushing in, he halted his conversation with Yue Yi, and Yue Yi silently retreated to one side.

  “Reporting to Elder Yue. Chang Huan has eaten it.”

  Elder Yue arched up an eyebrow, his face breaking into a smile.

  “Did you see him swallow it down with your own eyes?”

  The jailor replied: “I saw with him swallow half a bun with my own eyes and after eating it, he did not discover anything amiss.”

  Elder Yue nodded his head in satisfaction, and then dismissed the jailor with a wave of his hand.

  Waiting till the jailor had left, Elder Yue sank himself into the back of his chair and crossed his arms over his abdomen, his face filled with smiles.

  But Yue Yi’s emotions had become highly conflicted inside. Having served under Elder Yue for so long, he knew Elder Yue’s methods better than anyone else, and the jailor’s words earlier had made his heart jump.

  “Elder Yue.” Yue Yi could not help himself as he said.

  “Hm?” Elder Yue was seemingly in a rather good mood.

  “You want to get rid of “Chang Huan”?” Yue Yi pushed down the anxiety in his heart, looking like he was just asking casually.

  Elder Yue then said sneeringly: “If I do not get rid of him now, should I then wait till he comes out of that dungeon, and boosts up Elder Ying’s influence?”

  Yue Yi’s heart turned cold.

  Elder Yue then said: “The kid’s powers had indeed been be
yond anything I expected. I had sent people there to make him suffer some pain, but I had not thought that he would be so sharp, and not fall for it.”

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  Chapter 1791: “Conspire To Murder (5)”

  “But he’s afterall still too young and no matter how meticulous that mind of his is, he’s still too green. He might have been able to avoid the punishment, but hasn’t he still ended up eating that bun spiked with poison? Haha…..” Elder Yue was feeling mighty pleased with his scheme.

  To make someone die without a trace, he had many methods at his disposal.

  “Poisoned bun? But Purple Spirits by themselves possess a certain level of resistance against poison…..” Yue Yi’s heart was already filled with fear, his fists secretly clenched up but not allowing his face to show the slightest bit of nervousness.

  As one’s spirit cultivation grew higher and higher, the spirit power that infused the entire body’s organs provided them with a strong protection, where even if they were to ingest poisoned things, the effects of the poison would be greatly weaker than it would be for regular people.

  The reason why Purple Spirits are considered to be highly powerful, besides the fact their battle prowess was greatly elevated, would be the many other minute changes that came together with it. The extension of their lifespans and the transformations in their bodies’ constitution were be the more obvious changes among them.

  Hence, to want to kill a Purple Spirit, if one seeked to succeed in it with poison, would only stand a chance only by finding a highly lethal poison, or otherwise, all regular poisons would not be enough to kill a Purple Spirit at all!

  Elder Yue glanced over at Yue Yi, and said with a sneer: “Do you think I will not know that? What I gave him, isn’t any regular poison, but something that is concocted with the Soul Severing Flower. Not to mention that he is merely a Purple Spirit. Even when a Silver Spirit ingests that drug, would not be able to walk out of that dungeon alive.”

  “Soul Severing Flower…..” Yue Yi’s eyes quaked with shock!

  The Soul Severing Flower was a poisonous flower that grew in the Middle Realm. Not only its petals were poisonous, even its roots contained lethal poison. No need to even talk about ingesting such a flower, even if one had only swallowed water that had its petals soaked in them before would cause a person to bleed through the seven orifices to result in death!

  In the place where the Soul Severing Flower grew, besides anything of the same species to the Soul Severing Flowers, no other plant life could survive. One would only need to plant one seed on Soul Severing Flower within a forest, and it would not take long before all plant life closest to the Soul Severing Flower would quickly wither…..

  But as this type of flower was too vicious, it was very rare even within the Middle Realm, hard to seek for, and Yue Yi had only ever heard of it himself.

  But Yue Yi had never ever thought that Elder Yue would use the Soul Severing Flower to deal with Jun Wu Xie!

  At that moment, Yue Yi’s heart jumped straight up into the back of his throat.

  “Once that Chang Huan is dead, I would like to see for how much longer Elder Ying can continue to be wrapped up in his glee!” Elder Yue said with his eyes narrowing up sinisterly. “That old dog is rather smart though, to know that he had to get Chang Huan to hide his powers, to act like a fool that deceived everyone in the palace.”

  From the beginning, Elder Yue had never suspected that “Chang Huan” had been switched with an imposter.

  Yue Yi’s mind was whirling from what he had heard and he was unable to say a single word.

  “Elder Yue, the Palace Lord asks for you to go over.” Right at that moment, a Shadow Moon Palace guard came into Elder Yue’s study.

  “I’ve got it.” Elder Yue nodded his head, and immediately stood up.

  “I’m going to see the Palace Lord. You go back and get some rest for now. Your injuries have not fully healed so don’t go to Little Ye’s courtyard yet, lest she gets worried when she sees you in such a state.” Elder Yue ordered.

  “Yes…..” Yue Yi fought back the rage rising up within him, and answered in a low voice.

  Elder Yue glanced at Yue Yi, and did not notice anything unusual. He then got up and followed the guard out. Elder Yue’s front foot had just stepped out not long and Yue Yi was already searching frantically through the study. After managing to find a wooden box, he immediately hugged it and rushed towards the dungeon!

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  Chapter 1792: “Conspire To Murder (6)”

  Yue Yi sprinted as fast as he could the entire way, till he reached outside the dungeon. Before he went into the dungeon, he forced a mask of calm upon his face and hid the wooden box properly away, before he went walking inside.

  “Junior Yue Yi, what brings you here?” The jailor quickly hurried forward to greet, when he saw Yue Yi.

  Who in the Shadow Moon Palace didn’t know that Yue Yi was Elder Yue’s adopted grandson?

  Elder Yue had no children of his own, and only had two grandchildren Yue Yi and Yue Ye. Seeking to win the favour of Elder Yue, many people in the palace would treat Yue Yi highly politely.

  Yue Yi nodded his head coldly.

  “Grandfather asked me to come take a look. If there is nothing, do not let anyone come disturb me.” Yue Yi said.

  “Yes, yes. Junior Yue Yi, you just take your time. I will now go to the entrance and keep a lookout for you. If any of Elder Ying’s people come, I will help you hold them off.” The jailor thought Yue Yi had come under Elder Yue’s orders, to see how miserable Jun Wu Xie was, as he quickly complied.

  Yue Yi grunted in approval, and then walked himself towards the cell Jun Wu Xie was in.

  In the dark and dank dungeon, a moldy smell hung in the air. This place was rather unfamiliar to Yue Yi as with Elder Yue around, he had almost never come to the dungeon before.

  The path within the dungeon was clearly very short, but Yue Yi seemed to feel every single he took was pure torture. He was afraid. Afraid that he would be met with a scene that would make him crumble.

  “Why have you come?” A slightly cold voice suddenly rang out within the quiet dungeon.

  Yue Yi drew in a deep breath, and turned his head around to seek out the voice.

  In a scorched and blackened jail cell, Yue Yi saw the shape of a familiar figure.

  Jun Wu Xie wa seated upon the dry straw, safe and sound, as she stared calmly at Yue Yi.

  “You’re alright?” Yue Yi was slightly taken aback, as he stared at the perfectly fine Jun Wu, his eyes showing a tint of surprise.

  The Soul Severing Flower poison takes effect very quickly and Jun Wu Xie should be affected by the poison by this time but he did not detect a single trace of anything unusual on Jun Wu Xie.

  “What can happen to me?” Jun Wu Xie asked, lifting an eyebrow slightly as she stared at the rather pale Yue Yi.

  Yue Yi immediately walked over to the bars, and squatted himself down to ask in a soft voice: “Did you eat any of the buns the jailor gave you earlier?”

  Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  Yue Yi took a deep breath, and immediately pulled out the wooden box he had hidden away, and pushed it on the floor to the side of Jun Wu Xie’s feet.

  “That jailor is one of Elder Yue’s people and he took Elder Yue’s orders to slip poison into your food. I know that you are skilled in Medicine but that poison isn’t any regular kind of poison. It is concocted from the Soul Severing Flower and the Soul Severing Flower is lethally poisonous, where even a Silver Spirit would not be able to withstand against its effects. I do not know where he has hidden the antidote. There are many bottles here and since you know Medicine, search through them quickly to see if the antidote is there.” Although Yue Yi had already lowered his voice down by quite a lot, he was still not able to hide his anxiety and nervousness.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at Yue Yi’s taut and highly stiffened face and then lowered her head as she opened the wooden box by her foot. A whole bunch of bottles
and flasks had been stuffed into the wooden box and she opened them up one by one to sniff at them before she placed them back.

  “How? Is the antidote there?” Yue Yi asked anxiously.

  “There isn’t an antidote, but I found the poison that you mentioned.” Jun Wu Xie said as she pulled out a red medicine bottle.

  Yue Yi almost fell before Jun Wu Xie’s knees.

  “Why would you look for the poison? You….. Is the antidote really not in there?” Yue Yi was almost frantic with anxiety as no one could be certain when the poison in Jun Wu Xie’s body will take effect and he was feeling highly worried.

  “No.” Jun Wu Xie said with a shrug of her shoulders.

  “Then I’ll go back and search again. You wait here!” Yue Yi said, already about to get up.

  “No need.” Jun Wu Xie said suddenly instead.

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  Chapter 1793: “Conspire To Murder (7)”

  Yue Yi stared in incomprehension at Jun Wu. [The Soul Severing Flower’s poison was so strongly lethal. How could he still be so calm?]

  Jun Wu Xie did not answer directly but closed the wooden box before returning it to Yue Yi.

  “Young Master Jun….. What are you doing?” Yue Yi asked a little anxiously.

  Jun Wu Xie then answered indifferently. “The poison has no effect on me.”

  “?” “no effect?” Yue Yi’s eyes opened wide.

  With how lethal the Soul Severing Flower’s poison was, without the antidote, only the Medical Saint would be able to treat it. As for how good Jun Wu’s medical skills were, Yue Yi wasn’t too clear about that. But there was one point that Yue Yi knew very well. Throughout the Middle Realm, only one person had attained the rank of Medical Saint. With Jun Wu being so young, even if he possessed outstanding gift for Medicine and had learnt it from young, it would still be difficult for him to reach the realm of a Medical Saint.