Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 2

by North Night (夜北)

  Mo Qian Yuan was nonchalant. Sitting on the throne, he was not exactly joyous.

  “Hmm….. Did you see Miss Jun?” Since that day at the main hall, Mo Qian Yuan had not seen Jun Wu Xie. The three imprisoned in the Imperial Palace dungeons had been left as they were, their lives at the mercy of Jun Wu Xie.

  “I did not.”

  Mo Qian Yuan nodded, he had sent the jars of Jade Nectar he had in his possession to the Lin Palace. He knew, Jun Wu Xie was interested in little else, but the jars of wine might mean something to her.

  Having been busy with the ascension, he did not have much time to spare. No matter what Jun Wu Xie was up to, he was assured, she would have thought things through more thoroughly than he could.

  In the Lin Palace, Jun Xian and Jun Qing sat facing Jun Wu Xie, unusually stern.

  Jun Wu Xie had not stepped out of Lin Palace for days, and her house arrest was all due to the “interrogation” of these two men.

  From forcing an abdication to regime change, the Jun father and son dug into every single detail, and as they got to know the simple brutality involved in the forced abdication, the details made them both break out in cold sweat.

  The Jun Family were courageous and unyielding. They were godly and giants in battles and warfare, but became midgets when it came to matter in court politics. Jun Wu Xie had in a matter of months, lifted the Jun Family out of their predicament that had plagued them for over a decade. It had happened too fast, too sudden, and the two men had no time to react, before they realised the dust had already settled…..

  “Have you really locked the previous Emperor in the dungeons?” Jun Xian’s heart was beating very fast. The Jun Family had been single mindedly loyal to the Imperial Family for generations, and how did they produce a resolute Jun Wu Xie, a little devil who viewed court decorum with disdain.

  “Yes.” Jun Wu Xie nodded in admission.

  Jun Xian and Jun Qing looked at each other, their eyes sharing a look of helplessness.

  “You have executed your plans for the Crown Prince perfectly. But in regards to what Bai Yun Xian had said, what do you intend to do?” Things were already set in stone, Jun Xian did not ask anymore on what had transpired. He was worried on Bai Yun Xian’s claim on the pending arrival of Qing Yun Clan.

  Qing Yun Clan, they are not to be trifled with!

  Volume 2

  Chapter 169: “Regime Change (3)”

  “Don’t worry, Grandfather. She will not say anything.” Jun Wu Xie assured him calmly.

  “She won’t?” Jun Xian looked skeptical.

  “I know what to do regarding that, and I will handle it after the ascension.” She will naturally keep Bai Yun Xian alive. Not just Bai Yun Xian, but even the former Emperor and the Second Prince. She will make them live in torment and yearn for the sweet release of death.

  They had made the Jun Family live under more than a decade of suffering, they cannot be let off so easily.

  With all that had been said, the Jun Family father and son had nothing more to ask. They had just one more thing weighing on their mind.

  Over the past few days, Mo Qian Yuan had sent numerous gifts to the Lin Palace. There were so much gifts that they were running out of space to store them. This unsolicited show of gratitude, was rather worrying.

  Jun Wu Xie was frequently with Mo Qian Yuan before, and now, she had even helped Mo Qian Yuan ascend the throne, and Mo Qian Yuan seemed to cater Jun Wu Xie’s every whim.

  It was odd, any way one looked at it.

  Mo Qian Yuan had grown to adulthood. All this time as the Crown Prince, he did not have any women by his side, he did not have an Imperial Crown Prince concubine, not a single concubine.

  He had little contact with women, only with the exception of Jun Wu Xie.

  As Jun Wu Xie had not been out of the Lin Palace, she did not know of the rumours swirling around. It was widely said that after the Crown Prince’s ascension to the throne, he will marry Jun Wu Xie who will become the Empress.

  With the Lin Palace and the Rui Lin Army behind her, there was no doubt Jun Wu Xie was the appropriate choice.

  Just that…..

  No matter how the Jun Family father and son looked at it, Jun Wu Xie had no such intentions.

  After the forced abdication, Jun Wu Xie had not met Mo Qian Yuan a single time.

  What was this girl thinking in that little head of hers?

  Jun Wu Xie had not thought about that at all, Mo Qian Yuan was just an ally in her plans to force an abdication, and a sharp blade able to protect her family. The real reason she had not gone out at all these past few days, was for none other than her little black cat…..

  That day, after the little black cat had devoured the Golden Lion, it had always been listless and tired, sleeping most of the time. It was sleeping sixteen hours a day.

  Seeing the little black cat like this, had deeply worried Jun Wu Xie.

  Having escaped from the Jun Family father and son, Jun Wu Xie went back to her courtyard. It was high noon and the sun was blazing. Atop the stone table, curled a black ball of fur, snoring softly.

  The golden sun rays shone on the sleek black fur, a slight reflection showing a tinge of gold.

  Jun Wu Xie strode over and carried the black cat in her arms. Having been under the scorching sun, the black cat’s body was warm. Jun Wu Xie carried it into her room and combed and groomed its fur gently.

  “Don’t feel well…..” The little black cat stirred slightly, its half opened eyes showing its discomfort.

  “What is it?” Jun Wu Xie asked.

  “I feel bloated, and hot.” The little black cat shifted and snuggled to find a comfortable position, but was unable to, its discomfort refusing to go away.

  Its spirit in its body seemed to be burning and was on fire, and the scorching heat did not allow it to sleep well.

  Jun Wu Xie frowned with worry, little black cat’s body was essentially amassed spirits, what could be making it feel like this? She checked the little black cat through carefully and only just realised that they were indoors, away from the sun. Why was the jet black fur, still slightly tinged with gold?

  That shade, seemed to closely resemble the gold sheen of the Golden Lion.

  Volume 2

  Chapter 170: “Spirit Seize (1)”

  Jun Wu Xie was overcome in worry, the little black cat’s spirit was not complete. Before its spirit had merged with hers, the little black cat was just a puppet without its own consciousness.

  The Golden Lion was transformed from a contractual ring spirit, more accurately, a form of spiritual energy. When the little black cat devoured the Golden Lion, it consumed its spirit, and not flesh and blood.

  In her past life with the various experiments and tests, Jun Wu Xie had learned a little about it. The symptoms the little black cat was complaining about, were the exact symptoms the chimaeras showed after having undergone the experiments.

  Jun Wu Xie subconsciously poured her energy into the little black cat, to help it allay the spirit of the devoured Golden Lion’s spirit.

  The little black cat fell into a deep sleep and dreamt. It was pitch dark, except for a tiny sliver of golden light that seemed to be growing, pushing back the darkness.

  “ROAR!!” The devoured Golden Lion stood proudly in the dream.

  The weakened black cat stared at the massive beast in fright. It wanted to transform into its black beast form but was unable to do it.

  The massive lion pounced on the tiny black cat!

  “MEOWRRR!!”

  A startled cry escaped from the tiny form in Jun Wu Xie’s arms. Jun Wu Xie looked down at the cat in her embrace and saw the tiny face scrunched up with its eyes still closed. It suddenly stiffened its legs and drew its claws, it tore through Jun Wu Xie’s sleeve and traces of blood showed on the snowy white skin.

  A golden light enveloped the cat’s body and grew in intensity. Jun Wu Xie took a deep breath and held the tiny body tightly in her arms, disregarding the flailing claws di
gging into her flesh, leaving bloody scratch marks on her body.

  It had in both her previous and present lives, been the only one, that was always by her side.

  She will not give up on the little black cat, no matter what.

  “You have one special contractual spirit.” An amused voice suddenly sounded right behind her ear. Before Jun Wu Xie could react, she was wrapped in a warm embrace. A huge hand picked the little black cat up from her arms, bringing the thrashing cat’s razor sharp claws away from her.

  “Give it back!” Jun Wu Xie stretched out her hands to the cat, but the strong arm that embraced her kept the cat beyond her outstretched arms.

  Jun Wu Yao rested his head on her shoulder, a lazy smile upon his face.

  “There is nothing you can do. It devoured the Golden Lion, it must overcome the spirit with its own strength. I had not expected to see a spirit seize in a place like this.” Jun Wu Yao closed his eyes, inhaling deeply the mild herbal fragrance that lingered on Jun Wu Xie.

  “Spirit Seize?” Jun Wu Xie stopped struggling.

  Jun Wu Yao had been a mystery all this time, but he had not once harmed her, and he knew much more than the father and son of the Jun Family.

  “Seizure of the spirit of others, and have their own contractual spirit devour it. That can greatly increase the powers of their contractual ring spirits and absorb the abilities of the devoured spirit.” Jun Wu Yao explained good naturedly, his mood greatly improved by the comfort brought about from his embrace of Jun Wu Xie.

  Seizure of the spirit of others?

  Jun Wu Xie was stunned, she would never have thought such a thing possible!

  The fact that the little black cat devoured the Golden Lion was already beyond her imagination. Judging from the reactions of Mo Qian Yuan and the others there, it was unheard of in this world as well. Why was Jun Wu Yao not surprised by all this and made it sound all too natural to him.

  “It was not for you people to know, but….. this contractual spirit seems to have been born with this ability. That saves me a lot of trouble.” Jun Wu Yao smiled, enjoying his embrace of the beauty in his arm.

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  Chapter 171: “Spirit Seize (2)”

  Jun Wu Yao had no intention of releasing Jun Wu Xie from his embrace. Seeing Jun Wu Xie’s furrowed brow, Jun Wu Yao lightly brushed the nape of her neck and murmured softly: “If you are interested, I can explain it to you.”

  Jun Wu Xie tilted her head away from his face in an attempt escape the intimacy, but it was in vain. She was caught, his arm circled around her, and she was unable to escape.

  “Go on.” She calmed herself.

  “Contractual spirits live in the Spiritual World, some of them originated from ancient spiritual beasts, and some originated from ancient celestial soldiers. After their physical bodies disappeared, their spirits returned to the Spiritual World, living as contractual spirits, till it’s destined person appears, and they are summoned to that person, where their spirit & souls harmonize and are linked till that person dies. People die, but not the contractual spirits. The contractual spirits then return to the spiritual domain, to await the next destined person. But there have been exceptions…..”

  Jun Wu Yao looked at the profile of Jun Wu Xie and noticed that her frown was gone, and her eyes grew serious. He smiled happily and continued: “Although the contractual spirits do not die when the person they harmonized and linked with die, that does not mean the link cannot be broken. In some places, they have developed a way to strip a contractual spirit from the soul of a person, where they seize the contractual spirit from another person, and feeds it to his contractual spirit.”

  “When contractual spirits leave the Spiritual World, the speed that their training progresses is slowed down greatly. To speed up the progress, you either find a medium that evolves their powers, or you achieve it by devouring other contractual spirits.”

  Jun Wu Xie thought to herself, she was sure that no one in the Kingdom of Qi knew about what Jun Wu Yao had just told her, and she remembered that he mentioned: “It was not for you people to know”.

  “What the little black cat did was a spirit seize?” Jun Wu Xie asked.

  Jun Wu Yao shook his head, his face against her cool soft hair, and replied: “A spirit seize is not achievable by the contractual spirit alone, your little black cat is special and I have never witnessed it. No beastial contractual spirit can strip off other contractual spirits and devour them. This is unique, just like you are.”

  “The process for a spirit seize has been greatly simplified. But to completely devour and overcome the power of other contractual spirits was never easy. It was lucky to have devoured a level five beast contractual spirit, if it was beyond level seven, I am afraid its physical body might not be able to contain it.”

  “Level five? Level seven?” Jun Wu Xie was getting confused.

  Jun Wu Yao laughed softly, and explained it patiently to her.

  “Over here, the contractual spirits, have a maximum of seven levels, hence the difference in grades or ranks are not obvious. I will tell you at a later time how to differentiate the grades between contractual spirits. If your little black cat successfully absorbs the Golden Lion spirit, it’s power will be increased.”

  Jun Wu Xie bit on her lip, the mystery surrounding Jun Wu Yao was getting thicker and thicker.

  The words he used, “over here” indicated he was not from nearby regions, and it was not the first time he had done that.

  Seemingly to have read her thoughts, Jun Wu Yao laughed, “Don’t worry, no matter where I am from, I will never harm you.”

  “You can let me go now.” Jun Wu Xie looked down at the arm holding her. This man is rather queer, everytime they met, he is always hugging her.

  Jun Wu Xie was not uncomfortable with the close proximity, but she didn’t like it that much either.

  Volume 2

  Chapter 172: “To Tease (1)”

  Nevertheless, Jun Wu Yao was not letting her go. He smiled and tightened the grip on his arm.

  “How heartless, you want to be rid of me right after using me?” He dropped the little black cat on the table and lifted Jun Wu Xie off the ground.

  “What are you doing?” Jun Wu Xie glared, at the handsome smiling face.

  “When someone is hurt, they need to apply medication.” Jun Wu Yao looked at the wounds the little black cat had inflicted on Jun Wu Xie’s arms.

  “No need.”

  “Yes, you do.” Jun Wu Yao coaxed the figure in his arms, still smiling.

  “………” He wouldn’t listen no matter what she said anyway.

  Seeing that Jun Wu Xie had stopped struggling, Jun Wu Yao happily carried her over and sat her on the bed. He pulled a little wooden box out from under the bed and took out a jar of cream.

  A gentle fragrance wafted out from the pale white cream as it was opened and Jun Wu Yao lifted her sleeves and gently applied the cream on the cuts and gashes.

  The little black cat had not been aware of its actions, though not deep, but it had left many glaringly bleeding cuts on her arms. The cream felt cool from Jun Wu Yao’s light fingertips, but it also brought about a slight stinging pain. It was slightly ticklish and numbing at the same time.

  Jun Wu Xie looked down at Jun Wu Yao, patiently applying the cream on her cuts, not sparing a single one however tiny.

  With the cream applied on all the cuts, Jun Wu Yao left her sleeves up to avoid having them wipe off the cream. He held Jun Wu Xie’s hand within his and toyed with the fingertips.

  “You can let go now.” Jun Wu Xie was feeling a little stiff in her back, as Jun Wu Yao was hugging her from behind, with her hands clasped in his. Her petite frame was made smaller by the strongly built body that enveloped her.

  She could feel from her back, the rhythm of his heartbeat from the chest that was pressed against her.

  Jun Wu Yao laughed as he noticed that Jun Wu Xie stiffened her back.

  Was that a reaction?

 
“You are a really callous girl, I cleared your doubts and applied medicine for you. After having used me, you are just driving me away like this? And I take the effort to wash and change before I come see you every time. Sigh…..” Jun Wu Yao whined as if he had suffered great injustice. But his face remained close to her neck, his chin rested on her shoulder.

  “Not true.” Jun Wu Xie was getting a headache. She had never wanted to initiate contact with Jun Wu Yao as he had always been shrouded in mystery and danger, and she had not wanted to court danger.

  She had wanted to go their separate ways, but he had always appeared whenever she was in need.

  “What is not true? Little devil, do you detest me that much?” His low voice sounded despondent and was sounding really sad.

  “I do not.” Jun Wu Xie didn’t know what to say. She was not angry with him, they had helped one another in order to leave from the cliff, She said she didn’t like him, but she didn’t detest him either.

  What’s more, Jun Wu Yao had saved the life of her grandfather, and she was indebted to him, how would she detest her benefactor?

  Volume 2

  Chapter 173: “To Tease (2)”

  Jun Wu Xie had in both her past and present lives, been a cold and unfeeling person. The number of people she cared for in her heart, could be counted off with one hand.

  These people were comrades with whom went through life and death with her, and her blood related family who truly genuinely cared for her.

  But for Jun Wu Yao, she did not know where to place him.

  He was not a comrade to her, and neither are they blood related.

  But he had always appeared in her time of need, and disappear without a trace after. He cannot be found, but it seemed he was everywhere as well.