If a person evolving an orange aura of the spirit to yellow took more than twelve years, it would be impossible for him to evolve his yellow aura in this life.
Volume 2
Chapter 136: “The Shaky Throne (1)”
Jun Wu Xie was still unfamiliar with the spiritual powers of this world, She was unable to judge how far she had come with her spirit’s red aura.
The situation at hand did not allow her to wait. Removing the threat to the Jun Family must take priority.
There wasn’t much time left.
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Within the Qi Imperial Palace, the Emperor sat within the study, his face threateningly dark.
Mo Xuan Fei sat meekly in a corner, keeping his head lowered.
All within one night, the men who ruled these lands tasted for the first time the bitterness of defeat, and had their pride and authority trampled into dust.
“You useless piece of trash! Look what you have done! How long had Jun Wu Xie been tagging behind you? You didn’t even realise what she was capable of. And now, she has kicked mud onto our faces! I have been humiliated!” The Emperor stared angrily at Mo Xuan Fei. He would not have ever dreamed, the lass that was detested and shunned by the people, would turn into the heroine revered by all.
The series of events that unfolded before them tonight, could not have been the work of a wilful and unruly little lass.
Mo Xuan Fei kept his head lowered. Ever since they stepped into the Imperial Study, he had been chided, and he could find no answer in rebuttal.
“I….. I don’t know how she turned out like this….. When she was with me, she was not dumb, not I wouldn’t call her intelligent. Or she would not have been deceived to go to the cliff.” Mo Xuan Fei tried to say in defence. How did she become so intelligent?
“You have the cheek to bring that up! I reminded you that no matter how much you disliked Jun Wu Xie, bear with it for the sake of the Lin Palace. And you showed your hand prematurely instead! You are lucky Jun Xian does not suspect you or he will not spare even you! What’s done is done, but Jun Wu Xie still survived! That was really dumb!” The Emperor raged on. He was not mad that Mo Xuan Fei struck them early, but angry at the fact he did not root out the crux of their problems! Jun Wu Xie still lives!
If Mo Xuan Fei had succeeded, tonight would not have happened.
“Father! If I had not made my move, how could I get close to Yun Xian? I disliked Jun Wu Xie, but you wanted me to play along, in view of not offending them. Then you wanted me to get close to Bai Yun Xian. As a disciple of the Qing Yun Clan, she would not even have looked at me if I was still caught in the engagement with Jun Wu Xie.” Mo Xuan Fei was dismayed that Jun Wu Xie could survive a fall from such a high cliff.
The Emperor stared angrily at Mo Xuan Fei, but knew he spoke the truth.
In fact, the Emperor was not entirely oblivious to Mo Xuan Fei’s actions, but had tacitly approved them.
Unfortunately, his scheme failed, and Jun Wu Xie survived, and underwent an earth moving change.
“With things having reached such a stage, it’s no use crying over spilt milk. Our hostility towards the Lin Palace has been plainly exposed as Jun Xian survived and there is no way we can change that fact. What Jun Wu Xie did tonight was just a prequel to bigger things to come. She had been in close contact with the Crown Prince, and has invited him to the Lin Palace. It seems they have formed an alliance.” The Emperor astutely concluded the gravity of the situation.
“Father, you mean….. Jun Wu Xie is planning a regime change with the Crown Prince?” and Mo Xuan Fei paled.
Volume 2
Chapter 137: “The Shaky Throne (2)”
The Emperor nodded heavily, just at that moment, an eunuch came to deliver a new message, after reading the scroll on hand, the Emperor’s face turned pale.
“This Jun Wu Xie dares to act so brazenly!!!” He clenched his fist till his knuckles turned white.
“Imperial Father, what is the matter?” Mo Xuan Fei was startled at his father’s outburst.
The Emperor flung the scroll angrily at Mo Xuan Fei, seething in rage. Mo Xuan Fei scrambled to catch it and his face also lost all colour after reading the contents.
“Sh..She actually had the entire Rui Lin Army blockade up the whole Imperial City? What is she up to now?!”
“What is she up to? Ah! This girl really wants to get rid of me! The whole Imperial City is now indirectly placed under the Rui Lin Army’s control, I can’t even get my forces in to protect me, she clearly wants me to abdicate! She wants me to abdicate! Using such tactics, she really is very heartless!” The Emperor felt as if there was a noose around his neck being held by Jun Wu Xie and she was slowly tightening it, as he found his breathing erratic and he started gasping for air.
“No wonder she invited the Crown Prince to return to Lin Palace with her, she was afraid that I might get rid of him if I had found out her intentions in advance. If there’s no candidate to ascend the throne, she won’t force this hand on me.” Thinking how intricate her planning was, the Emperor really wanted to vomit blood!
Mo Xuan Fei’s face turned as white as sheet, never in his wildest dreams would he have thought that Jun Wu Xie was so capable and to have exploited various reasons to put them in such a tight spot.
How did she pull it off? What was in that mind of hers? How could she think of so many plans?
“T..Then what should we do now? You can’t be thinking of handing everything over to her on a silver platter, without even putting up a bit of a fight?” Mo Xuan Fei started to panic, the relationship he had with Jun Wu Xie was now rotten to the extreme, since he had broken off the engagement. If she had designs on the Emperor’s throne, he would definitely get embroiled in it and he would have no means of escape.
“Stop panicking! Things won’t be going the way she planned, quickly, send some of our people to go out of Imperial City under the cover of the night in disguise.” The Emperor’s eyes were full of malice as he narrowed them, seething silently in rage.
The moon hung in the sky as the cold night breeze blew into the Imperial Study. The Emperor stood by the window as he looked out staring at the moon in deep contemplation. There were some shuffling movements at the door as an eunuch scrambled to bring him some news: All the people he had sent out had lost their heads, not a single soul made it out of Imperial City.
“All of them had beast contractual spirits!” The Emperor felt his heart ache as he bellowed at the poor eunuch who brought the ill news.
He had not expect that they would be so easily wiped out, he had actually made sure they were under the guise of the commoners, he did not think that the Rui Lin Army would actually dare kill commoners.
Won’t they afraid of arousing the wrath of the common people?
However, no matter what beasts they had, be it aerial or land beasts, Rui Lin Army had shot them down mercilessly.
The Emperor slumped onto his chair as his thoughts were thrown into disarray, cold sweat trickling down his forehead.
Nobody was allowed out of Imperial City, they had fully locked down the entire city and he had no means to get help from outside!
“Go! Quickly summon Bai Yun Xian!” The Emperor hollered, he suddenly remembered he still had a hidden card.
No matter what, Bai Yun Xian was still Qing Yun Clan Sovereign’s disciple and even he did not dare provoke them. Relying on their great influence, Bai Yun Xian was his hidden trump card! Only she had the power to reverse the situation!
Mo Xuan Fei quickly brought Bai Yun Xian to the Imperial Study.
Her face was black to the extreme, being awoken in the middle of the night, she was in a very bad mood. She was on a cold war with Mo Xuan Fei and now he actually dragged her out in the middle of the night while she was having her beauty sleep! She gave a perfunctory curtsy to the Emperor.
“May I know what is so important that Your Majesty had to invite me over so urgently for?”
“Miss Bai, time is at stake
, I really need you to extend your grace, we need to seek your assistance in some matters.” The Emperor resumed his dignified poise as he gave her a warm smile.
Bai Yun Xian was slightly startled, she had went to bed earlier today and had no idea of the huge changes the winds had brought about to the Kingdom of Qi.
Volume 2
Chapter 138: “The Shaky Throne (3)”
“What on earth happened?” Bai Yun Xian asked when she saw the pale faced duo and put aside her irritation for having her sleep interrupted.
The Emperor cast a glance from the corner of his eyes at Mo Xuan Fei and in tacit understanding, he put up a front of solemnity and related the night’s events. In his narration, he twisted the facts to drag Bai Yun Xian into the picture by saying that Jun Wu Xie’s incredulous actions were due to her jealousy and anger at being spurned by Mo Xuan Fei for Bai Yun Xian.
“Jun Wu Xie has locked down the Imperial City, to force me to hand you over to her. How can I bear to do that? Rest assured, even at the cost of my life, I will ensure you remain safe.” Mo Xuan Fei held Bai Yun Xian’s hands tightly in his, looking like nothing in the world mattered more to him than her lovely self.
Bai Yun Xian was stunned in silence and looked blankly at Mo Xuan Fei.
“You said, Jun Wu Xie wants you to hand me over to her?” Her eyes wide with shock.
Jun Wu Xie dares to mess with me!?
Does she not know the might of the Qing Yun Clan!?
“Yun Xian! I will not let her have her way! That lunatic will get to you only over my dead body!” Mo Xuan Fei hugged Bai Yun Xian tightly, unwilling to let go.
The Emperor looked on in approval, and taciturnly nodded at Mo Xuan Fei.
Mo Xuan Fei smiled, his face hidden away from Bai Yun Xian.
“Jun Wu Xie has overestimated herself, she thinks she had rendered me helpless by locking down the city? It’s just the Rui Lin Army!” Bai Yun Xian pushed Mo Xuan Fei away in anger. She was touched by the Mo Xuan Fei’s deep feeling for her, but Jun Wu Xie’s actions were an affront to her dignity.
A mere Miss from the Lin Palace to face her? What a joke!
Seeing that she had bought the story, the Emperor and Mo Xuan Fei felt like rubbing their hands in glee, but they kept their facades on, looking aggrieved for the affront to Bai Yun Xun.
“Yun Xian, you have a plan?” Mo Xuan Fei asked.
Bai Yun Xian nodded and raised her hand. Worn on her index finger, a shiny gold band started to shimmer in a white glow, and a white glowing butterfly coalesced with that light, flapping its translucent wings, a beautiful sight to behold.
This is my contracted spirit. Butterfly of Compassion, The Min Butterfly. It is capable of transformation. In the night, it will not be seen. The Rui Lin Army has the Imperial City locked down? That remains to be seen!” Bai Yun Xian laughed. She had harboured a deep dislike for Jun Wu Xie all this while, and now she dares to go openly go against her?
That works out just fine for her. It is time the Young Miss of the Lin Palace learnt her place and realise how miniscule the Lin Palace is. She can crush them with a wag of her finger!
“That’s fantastic! With the Min Butterfly, no matter how capable Jun Wu Xie is, she cannot stop us from sending for reinforcements! Yun Xian, it is all in your hands! A hundred and fifty miles southeast from here, there is a garrison. Once you send the news out, the army will deploy and the Rui Lin Army will not be a threat!” Mo Xuan Fei lit up with joy. He was right to choose Bai Yun Xian! No matter how brutal Jun Wu Xie was, she commands only an army of a hundred thousand here. With the rest of the Jun Family’s army stationed at the borders, they will not back it back in time even if they rode their horses to death!
Bai Yun Xian glanced at Mo Xuan Fei and prodded her butterfly. It fluttered its wings and flew out the window, the translucent wings blending into the dark of night, invisible to the eye and seemed to have disappeared.
“Garrison? No, I informed my master.” She will let Jun Wu Xie learn the hard way, the Qing Yun Clan is not to be trifled with!
Volume 2
Chapter 139: “The Shaky Throne (4)”
The Emperor and Mo Xuan Fei were devastated.
Inform the Qing Yun Clan?
The Qing Yun Clan was far distance from the Kingdom of Qi. How long did they have to wait?
If they had sent for help from the nearby garrison, it would have only taken days at most for reinforcements to arrive. Now, help will only arrive from Qing Yun Clan eight hundred miles away…..
How long will their journey take!?
During that period, what atrocities would Jun Wu Xie put us under!?
“Yun Xian! It would be inappropriate to trouble Qing Yun Clan over such a trifling matter. As a guest of the Kingdom of Qi, we should resolve these issues ourselves.” Mo Xuan Fei panicked. By the time Qing Yun Clan gets here, they might all not be alive anymore.
Bai Yun Xian replied: “The Min Butterfly is incapable of speech and only my master can decipher the message which I sent through the butterfly. If I had sent it to the garrison, no one would have understood.”
Mo Xuan Fei’s shoulders slumped, he just remembered that spirits generally can only communicate with their owners, and not to any other.
Only just realising that, Mo Xuan Fei was deflated.
For a moment there, he had thought they were saved but the chances seemed really slim right now.
Seeing Mo Xuan Fei forlorn and downcast, Bai Yun Xian said with knitted brows: “The Min Butterfly is very fast, my master will send help in two weeks if all goes well.”
Considering the distance they had to travel, that was fast.
“But with the Rui Lin Army under Jun Wu Xie, if she makes her move…..” Mo Xuan Fei was terrified, having witnessed Jun Wu Xie’s bloody massacre, he was afraid of her next move.
“She might think she possesses the capability to harm me! Get some men to prepare these, I know how to drag this out.” Bai Yun Xian’s eyes narrowed dangerously.
“What are you going to do?” Mo Xuan Fei had never seen Bai Yun Xian so cold, and felt a little jittery about it. He felt a cold wave of apprehension.
Bai Yun Xian’s lips curled in malice, her eyes dripped with venom.
“You said Jun Wu Xie has garrisoned her Rui Lin Army within the Imperial City? If I can render the whole Rui Lin Army here immobile, wouldn’t her army of a hundred thousand become useless? Do not forget, the poison you gave Lin Yue Yang, came from me.”
Mo Xuan Fei jerked up. To capture Jun Xian, he had gone to Bai Yun Xian for the drug. It first messes up the mind, driving them to lunacy and introduces violent poison into the body, inducing the person to bloat and explode. Remnants from the poison dissipates into the air after the explosion makes anyone who smells it weak, losing their strength.
Poison like this, was unheard of and Mo Xuan Fei had it tested on people to verify the claimed effects before he gave it to Lin Yue Yang.
It was due to the poison that they were able to capture Jun Xian that easily.
Nevertheless, it was very potent malevolent poison and even Mo Xuan Fei was shuddered at its effects.
Mo Xuan Fei had a pretty good guess what Bai Yun Xian’s was planning. “Yun Xian, you have a plan in mind to incapacitate the Rui Lin Army of a hundred thousand soldiers?” Mo Xuan Fei asked, his eyes bright with fervour.
Bai Yun Xian smiled coldly: “Piece of cake. The Qing Yun Clan uses poison as well as they can administer medicine.”
Volume 2
Chapter 140: “Intoxicated Lotus (1)”
With the Imperial City locked down, the people were filled with unease. They were not aware of the struggle between the Lin Palace and the Imperial Family. They were told the attackers who ambushed the Second Prince have not been completely eradicated and the sealing of the city was necessary to prevent their escape.
With the people restless, Mo Qian Yuan started to mingle among them frequently, caring for them, addressing the popular sentiment. Within a few shor
t days, Mo Qian Yuan’s standing and reputation improved by leaps and bounds and had totally overshadowed Mo Xuan Fei, becoming the prince of choice by the populace.
Jun Wu Xie laid low during this period, shutting herself up in cultivating her spiritual powers.
“Mistress, shouldn’t you strike while the iron is hot?” The little black cat laid by the edge of the lotus pond, swishing its fluffy tail back and forth over the water.
Jun Wu Xie sat at the stone table, observing the gradually blossoming lotus, replied: “It is not time yet. To allow Mo Qian Yuan to take the throne legitimately, he needs to garner the support of the people.”
If she had wanted to forcefully plant Mo Qian Yuan on the throne, she would have done it on that night.
The Emperor was a vicious man, but he enjoyed good support from the populace. She clipped his wings and sealed his escape, and allowed the Emperor to stay on the throne to allow Mo Qian Yuan time to ease himself into the throne.
If she was to be the hand behind the change of regime, she wanted it done legitimately and with the approval of the people.
It was not for Mo Qian Yuan, but for the good of Lin Palace.
It did not matter who sits upon the throne, as long as the Lin Palace was not threatened.
The little black cat nodded in understanding, its mistress was a genius. She sees things to the littlest detail in her plans to protect the Lin Palace, but a complete dolt in the other aspect.
The little black cat was deep in thought, whether to broach the topic on relationships between men and women when it suddenly screeched in surprise!
“MEOWWW!!”
The black feline leapt away from the pondside in a flash, and while still airborne, it noticed a chubby little doll clinging on its tail.
Jun Wu Xie stared in surprise, as Little Lotus bit determinedly on the cat’s tail holding on while the little black cat dragged him all over the courtyard…..
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