“Wu Xie, how confident are you with that poison?” Mo Qian Yuan asked cautiously. Poison that made one’s body explode was unheard of before, but if the poison came from the Qing Yun Clan, it must be potent.
Jun Wu Xie looked at Mo Qian Yuan, exasperated at his question.
“It’s child’s play. What do you think?”
“……….” Mo Qian Yuan felt he asked a senseless question as well. Jun Wu Xie had never cared about anything from the Qing Yun Clan. The Jade Dew Pills incident previously had Bai Yun Xian slapped silly by Jun Wu Xie. He couldn’t help but scratch his nose in embarrassment.
“But based on what you said, the poison transmits so easily, I’m afraid the number of people afflicted will become more than we can handle, by then what are we to do?” Mo Qian Yuan did not dare to imagine how many people have been poisoned. Even if Jun Wu Xie manages to concoct the antidote, as long as one person is still afflicted, the explosions will continue.
“It is not as scary as you think. The poison might spread easily, but the time span it stays in the air is very short, about one fifth of an incense and the poison loses its potency.” If it remains in the air, they would not have had to send fifty men to their deaths.
“I will do my best concoct the antidote fast, as long as the herbs do not run out, this does not come close to be able to stump me.” Know your place, Bai Yun Xian, you are asking to be humiliated.
“I will make sure all the herbs arrive safely.” Long Qi interrupted, this poison was targeted at the Rui Lin Army, and he will not allow to succeed!
“Leave the matter of the herbs to Uncle Fu, I have another task for you.” Jun Wu Xie looked at Long Qi, her eyes lit with the murder that had laid dormant too long.
Since they are tired of living, she would send them along, with pleasure!
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Chapter 151: “Know Your Place (2)”
The series of bodily explosions greatly affected the people of the Imperial City. Although with many of the Rui Lin Army soldiers’ reassurance, the people were somewhat appeased, for those who witnessed the explosion first hand, it was a gory sight that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Many of the eye witnesses took ill from the shock from the frightful sight that very afternoon. They came down with high fevers, and their spiritual powers seemed to churn and boil within their bodies, which brought about great agony. All physicians within the city were sought out, but none could identify the cause.
Burning up with the fever, many were soon bedridden, not knowing that they had been poisoned.
The effects of the poison surfaced later in persons with higher spiritual powers as when the poison amplified the spiritual powers, these people had a higher capacity to contain those powers. On the other hand, very few of the common people even achieved the basic red level of their spirits, and their bodies were not able to contain much amplification.
In the Lin Palace, carts and carts of herbs arrived endlessly. With the Imperial City under the control of the Rui Lin Army, the proprietors of the herbs stores and medical halls had no choice but to comply with their request, especially when fully armoured soldiers were standing in front of their doors, as they hurriedly emptied their warehouses.
And it was not as if they were giving it away for nothing, the Rui Lin Army soldiers had told them the herbs were requested by the Crown Prince and the corresponding payment will be sent to them in a few days.
That had the owners and proprietors do it a little more willingly.
Jun Wu Xie’s courtyard was stacked wall to wall full of herbs and the rapidly arriving herbs were carted to the courtyard that Mo Qian Yuan occupied as storage.
Jun Wu Xie had been cooped up in the dispensary all morning till midday, carrying out endless tests and analysis on the poison that afflicted the ten Rui Lin Army guards. From the small cup of blood that she drew from the soldiers, Jun Wu Xie finally made a breakthrough.
Night crept up, and the bright moon peeked out from behind the dark cover of clouds and its light bathed the land in a soft glow.
Jun Wu Xie had finally concocted the antidote and had the soldiers drink it before she checked their pulse. Their pulse had become stable and their spiritual powers no longer thrashed and churned, recovering to its usual calm.
“You are dismissed. And get me Long Qi.”
They saluted Jun Wu Xie and left immediately. Long Qi came in a moment later.
Jun Wu Xie had had a hectic day, and her legs were sore. She sat on a chair massaging her knees.
Long Qi walked up to her silently, poured a cup of warm water and offered it to her, head lowered.
Young Miss had always been quiet and did not speak much, her face a perpetual cold mask, generally rather unapproachable. But if she was willing to help, she completes the task beautifully. Long Qi had seen the soldiers before coming here. From their complexion and countenance, he saw that they have indeed recovered and Jun Wu Xie had successfully concocted the antidote.
He had been a military man all his life, and there was not much he can do for his Young Miss. He can only express his eternal gratitude, in his own clumsy way.
Jun Wu Xie did not act aloof but simply gulped down the water. Her dry throat was moisturized by the warm water and she lost a little of the fatigue.
“I had been useless, I made no headway in finding out the identities of the exploding bodies.” Long Qi hung his head in shame as he had failed to conclude anything with the investigation into the fifty cases of exploding bodies that Jun Wu Xie had tasked him with.
Jun Wu Xie was not surprised. “They exploded, normal.” Even the bones were shattered, unless they used equipment and technology from her past life, no one would be able to come up with anything.
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“I have prepared the antidote, we do not have the exact numbers of people poisoned, hence I prepared enough for everyone. After all the Rui Lin Army soldiers have taken the antidote, get them to deliver it into the hands of everyone.”
The poison spread over a very wide area, and Jun Wu Xie was unable to provide a diagnosis for everyone, so it was decided to have everyone take the antidote, which would be more efficient.
“Consider it done.”
“I assume I do not have to tell you how to do it?” the cold eyes looked at Long Qi expectantly.
“I will not disappoint you!” Long Qi replied resolutely.
On the day after the exploding bodies, more people fell sick. With the physicians clueless on where to start, the people started to panick.
On that same afternoon, a notice was put up all over the city. The people who read it were furious and the news spread like wildfire to all corners of the city.
The culprits who have been hiding in the city have not given up the fight and have used poison to spread fear in the Imperial City. The fifty exploding bodies the day before was caused by the poison that they used.
Within moments, the people were cursing and swearing everywhere in the city and people with family members taken ill from the poison were sobbing with worry.
While panic ran high among the people, the Crown Prince Mo Qian Yuan brought the Rui Lin Army out, and handed out the antidote to the masses, a concoction in a tiny bottle, that neutralises the poison in their bodies.
Eighty thousand of the Rui Lin Army were deployed, incessantly handing the antidote into the hands of the people. Those afflicted with the poison saw instant improvements after they consumed the antidote and in half a day, word of Mo Qian Yuan’s gesture of kindness was on the lips of everyone, singing his praises in deep gratitude. On this day, the Crown Prince’s standing and popularity shot high beyond the clouds, support for him even overshadowing the current sitting Emperor.
A state of emergency was again declared, and those who were resistant to the initial lock down of the city had by now hated the perpetrators to the core and became fully supportive of the Rui Lin Army.
The people
were in a fervour, not only the Crown Prince had his reputation drastically raised, but the Rui Lin Army were now embraced as the protectors of the people.
The scheme that could have annihilated the whole of the Imperial City was foiled cauldron by cauldron, with Jun Wu Xie’s antidote that the Rui Lin Army distributed bottle by bottle into the hands of the people that neutralised the poison in their bodies, totally eradicating this threat to the Imperial City.
The speed at which this was carried out did not allow time for the news to reach the Imperial Palace. Besides the initial fifty deaths on the first day, there were no other casualties from the poison.
In order to identify the culprits’ hideout, the Rui Lin Army investigated into the identities of the fifty dead. They were blown to bits and it was impossible to investigate based on their looks. They started to investigate on families with missing persons.
In the Lin Palace, Jun Qing looked on as Jun Wu Xie busied herself with her pills, his expression thoughtful.
“You had Long Qi declare that the people responsible for the poison were the same culprits still hidden within the Imperial City, what was the purpose of that?” Jun Qing was unable to fathom the intentions of his own niece. With the uproar on the poison, it had given the Rui Lin Army a stronger reason to maintain control in the Imperial City, but Jun Wu Xie did not intend to end the issue here, how far does she intend to bring this?
Jun Wu Xie was still busying herself with the pills as she replied: “Things that have been hidden, naturally must be uncovered.”
Jun Qing thought to himself, Jun Wu Xie got the Rui Lin Army to investigate into the identities of the fifty dead with the people. But with the way they died, it was an impossible task. With such a big number of citizens in the city, it will not be easy to find that out, even as missing persons.
“Under normal circumstances, it would have been tough to find out their identities. It is different now. With the people worried about the poison, the people will look into the safety of all their family members, including those members who have been conscripted into public service.” Jun Wu Xie explained, a bunch of herbs in her hands.
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Jun Qing was startled, Jun Wu Xie intends to divert the people’s anger towards the powers that be?
“How can you be sure, those fifty dead were from the Imperial Palace?” Jun Wu Xie was right, under normal circumstances, the families of people working in public service would not get involved. But with the poison affecting the whole Imperial City, they will be worried about family members who stay within the Imperial Palace walls and inquire into their safety.
Moreover, it was made clear by Long Qi and his men, that the antidote was distributed only to the people, and not to the Imperial Palace.
The families of public servants have since carried the antidotes to the Imperial Palace, to ensure they are safe.
In this aspect, Jun Wu Xie had not needed to lift a finger to have news brought to her but the people will do it on their own accord.
“To carry out such an insidious deed, would they dare use the common people?” Jun Wu Xie pointed out matter of factly. A deed that dragged in the whole city’s people, even as the Emperor, he will be dethroned by the angry populace. With the stakes, they will not risk it.
If it wasn’t palace maids or eunuchs, it had to come from the Imperial army guards, the Yu Lin Army, and Jun Wu Xie was certain of this.
“But if this was found out…..” Jun Qing dared not imagine the repercussions if the people found out, that the initial fifty carriers of the poison, had come from the Imperial Palace.
“You would use the anger of the people, against the Emperor?” Jun Qing asked.
Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
“In matters of revenge, I like to do it myself.”
If done with the hand of others, it would never be as satisfying…..
And, with a raging mob, against the might of the Emperor, it loses much of the impact.
A shiver ran through Jun Qing as he looked upon Jun Wu Xie. He did not know exactly what Jun Wu Xie had up her sleeve, but he was crystal clear on one thing. Whoever her target was this time, that person was already a dead man walking!
“You said the poison was the doing of Bai Yun Xian? Wu Xie, there is much about the Qing Yun Clan that you might not know, I would like to point out that, if your target is the Emperor, you can achieve it with legitimacy and glory under Mo Qian Yuan’s banner as the Crown Prince. But if your target is Bai Yun Xian, you would have to very cautious as she has Qing Yun Clan behind her. Killing her alone would not pose much difficulty, but having to deal with Qing Yun Clan after that will be very tough.” Jun Qing cautioned. After Jun Wu Xie told him that both the poison that afflicted Lin Yue Yang and the one that killed the fifty men this time round were from Bai Yun Xian, he knew, Jun Wu Xie would never spare her.
Jun Wu Xie knitted her brows in thought. She did not know much about Qing Yun Clan, only through bits and pieces heard from people around her that they built their might throughout the lands with their knowledge on medicine. Qing Yun Clan’s medical prowess was acknowledged and revered by many kingdoms and various mighty powers, few went against them, not in fear of their might, but in fear of loss of access to their medical know how.
Everyone fears death, and everyone hopes to receive the helping hand of Qing Yun Clan at these critical times.
This reliance, did not seem like much. But if and when Qing Yun Clan sound a clarion call for borrowed might, what will be scary to their enemies, will be the thunderous throng of answers from all who were indebted to Qing Yun Clan, and from those who seek their expertise.
Besides the various kingdoms, nomad forces in the outerlands were not to be underestimated, and not forgetting the power of revered reclusive hermits.
These were some of the forces and might, at the disposal of the Qing Yun Clan.
If the Qing Yun Clan were to raise its hand against the Jun Family, it would be the toughest battle they had faced, amplified a hundred times!
The might of many armies and various forces closing in from all sides, would not be stoppable by a single army of a mere several hundred thousand!
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Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed, thinking that to avoid facing that scenario, there were only two choices. The first one was to give up on the revenge on Bai Yun Xian, and the second was to not let Qing Yun Clan know the truth of the matter.
Spare Bai Yun Xian?
That was impossible for Jun Wu Xie.
Anyone who hurts her grandfather, must die!
“Uncle, don’t worry, I have my plans all thought out.” Jun Wu Xie had thought the whole thing through.
Jun Qing stared at Jun Wu Xie, hoping to get some clue from her expressions on what she was planning, but the cold expressionless face betrayed nothing.
This girl was too deep, if she refuses to say anything, nobody can guess what she is up to.
“Just be careful, but do remember, if you come into any danger, the Jun Family and the Rui Lin Army will stand behind you!”
“Yes, I know.”
And soon, the answer she was waiting for came, from the commoners in the Imperial City.
It was the middle of night, about twenty over families were kneeling in front of the Lin Palace with torches in their hands, crying and sobbing.
Long Qi went up to them and found out that all those families were the families members of soldiers in the Yu Lin Army. When they heard that the poison spread throughout the whole city this afternoon, they got the antidote from the Rui Lin Army. The various families gathered together to deliver the antidote to the Yu Lin Army camp.
Many other families managed to hand the antidote to their family members, but they did not even get to see their family member. They panicked and kicked up a fuss at the gates of the encampment, and were driven away. They were worried after hearing about the poten
cy of the poison and have come here to the Lin Palace, to implore that the Crown Prince help.
When Long Qi presented the families to Mo Qian Yuan, Jun Wu Xie who had received the news was already seated at the side, looking at the sobbing and crying group and she shot Mo Qian Yuan a meaningful glance.
For the initial fifty men who died, all investigations into their identities had yielded no results. And now, the Yu Lin Army suddenly has at least over twenty soldiers missing. Seems to be too much of a coincidence.
Jun Wu Xie had her own conclusions validated and she sat back unmoved at the scene in front of her.
Mo Qian Yuan caught the hint from Jun Wu Xie and expressed deep concern for the families present, and thumped his chest that he would address their concerns. With that, he immediately led a group of Rui Lin Army soldiers, and went banging on the doors of the Yu Lin Army.
Having tasted the mettle of the Rui Lin Army soldiers’ prowess in battle, the cowered Yu Lin Army practically invited the group through their gates.
Mo Qian Yuan brought the sobbing families into the encampment, and sat down with his legs propped up and forcibly demanded the Yu Lin Army commander to hand over the army name list.
A detailed check through the list showed that in the past few days, the Yu Lin Army suddenly had fifty soldiers missing for no reason. The commander had been red in the face, as he did not know nor could he explain the whereabouts of the fifty soldiers.
At that moment, the families of the missing Yu Lin Army soldiers created a big ruckus.
It was too much of a coincidence! We just had fifty bodies that exploded in the city, and at the same time, the Yu Lin Army has fifty soldiers missing!?
Before daybreak, the news had reached the ears of everyone in the city!
They all knew, deep down inside, the fifty bodies that exploded, were the missing fifty Yu Lin Army soldiers!
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