Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 9

by North Night (夜北)

  What he wanted, had never been the throne, he had just wanted those who seeked to manipulate him go to hell!

  “Your Highness! You think His Majesty will really allow Jun Xie to continue to remain within the Fire Country? If he does not leave, His Majesty will undoubtedly kill him off!” Wen Yu could not help himself but to pour a bucket of cold water over Lei Chen.

  Lei Chen instead gave a chilling laugh and said: “Even if other do not know, would I not be aware of what Jun Xie is capable of? I believe that he will definitely not be harmed by Father’s scheming plots!”

  Volume 9

  Chapter 893 : “ Covert Strike (1)”

  “And he seeks revenge for all injustice suffered. Once he knows that Father has developed the intention to kill him, he will undoubtedly initiate the first strike to catch him unawares!” Lei Chen’s eyes burned with wicked mirth. His complete trust towards Jun Xie had made him imagine the scene a day in the near future, where he could see that man kicked right off the throne.

  Wen Yu could only shake his head helplessly. Although he was aware that Jun Xie possessed highly outstanding abilities, even to the extent that he was considered to be a devilish monster, but….. He was still just a youth afterall. How could he hope to stand against the ruler of the country?

  Back in the Imperial Palace, the Emperor was feeling highly restless and needled as he paced circles within the Imperial Study. The black robed man then appeared in the Imperial Study and when he saw the nervous and flustered expression on the Emperor, he did not dare open his mouth to say anything.

  The Emperor’s heart was in an endless fluster. He had not thought that the possessor of the Ring of Imperial Fire would really exist.

  It had been many years since the late Emperor passed on and the decree the late Emperor had drafted had always remained within the Empress Dowager’s hands. It wasn’t that the Emperor had never entertained the thought of snatching the decree and then destroying it, but he had not been able to do that because around the Empress Dowager, were several extremely powerful secret bodyguards, and the skills that those hidden guards possessed was not something the Emperor’s own subordinates were able to take on. He had once even tried to secretly steal the Imperial Decree, but all the men he had dispatched were all killed within the Empress Dowager’s Palace, quietly and soundlessly. It must be known that among the men the Emperor sent out, five of them were highly skilled blue spirit pugilists!

  But even then, those five people were killed and not even their bodies could be found. Ever since then, the Emperor had stayed far away from the Empress Dowager, thinking that the possessor of the Ring of Imperial Fire would never appear anyway, and he gave up on that idea.

  However, seeing the Ring of Imperial Fire on Jun Xie’s hand this very day, had forced the Emperor to choose to take the road of no return.

  Jun Xie was on highly close terms with Lei Chen and although the Empress Dowager seldom showed herself within the Imperial Palace, she doted very much on her eldest grandson, Lei Chen. Or else the Emperor would never have allowed Lei Chen to sit on the throne of the Crown Prince for so many years.

  The Emperor was worried that if the Empress Dowager came to know about this matter, the throne of the Fire Country would really have a change of its owner!

  What distressed the Emperor even more was that the Grand Adviser Wen Yu seemed to have already noticed the Ring of Imperial Fire on Jun Xie’s hand as well and although Wen Yu had always maintained a neutral stance against the power struggles, he was however once Lei Chen’s Master and though Lei Chen had severed the Master disciple ties between them, the Emperor was however still worried. If Wen Yu was to tell Lei Chen about the matter, then it would all be over for him!

  The only option left for him to take was to take quick decision action to get rid of the knot tangled up. He needed to eradicate Jun Xie as soon as possible to snatch the Ring of Imperial Fire from him to ensure it would not bring him any trouble!

  “You! I need you get something done for me!” The Emperor finally came up with an idea in his head and he looked the black robed man kneeling on the ground through eyes narrowed to a slit.

  “ I await Your Majesty’s instructions.”

  “I want you to….”

  At that same moment, things had turned highly chaotic in the Empress’ Palace.

  By the time Lei Fan was carried back there, he had already lost consciousness, but his hands were still tightly held over his face. When the Empress saw him in that state, she dismissed all the retainers and with only a few of her closest aides remaining within the palace, she then pulled Lei Fan’s hands down.

  What she immediately saw made the Empress’ heart almost jump out of her.

  Lei Fan’s looks had completely changed. His good looking and smiley features had completely disappeared and the boy lying upon that bed now, no matter which way you looked at it, looked so much like the Empress herself.

  Still in shock, the Empress immediately summoned for her people to check on Lei Fan’s condition.

  It was only about two hours later that Lei Fan finally stirred awake groggily.

  And the first thing he said upon awakening was…..

  “Mother! I want Jun Xie killed! I want him to be killed! He saw my face! Saw my real face!”

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  Chapter 894 : “Covert Strike (2)”

  The Empress sat staring helplessly as she sat at the side of the bed, looking at Lei Fan who was crying so hard and she spoke out trying to comfort him.

  “Little Fan don’t cry. What exactly happened? Didn’t the Imperial Physician just give you the medicine just a few days ago? Why did your face suddenly change back?”

  Lei Fan said through gritted teeth: “Your son is not sure what happened either. I only know that a beast in the Imperial Garden had suddenly splattered something all over my face and when I could react, I was already experiencing the symptoms that came when the effects of the medicine wears off.”

  “Did anyone happen to see how you looked at that time?” The Empress was terrified. If anyone was to have seen Lei Fan’s face at that moment, then everything would be over for them!

  Lei Fan immediately said: “Only Jun Xie!”

  The Empress bit down on her lip as she contemplated the situation a moment and she said: “The Jun Xie you are talking about is the same youth your Father had wanted you to win over previously?”

  Lei Fan nodded his head, his eyes were red rimmed from crying and they were now burning with hatred. “That’s him! Your son had been invited him politely many times but he had repeatedly rejected it. He must have allied himself with the Crown Prince! And now that he has seen your son’s real face, he will surely tell that to Lei Chen! Once Lei Chen gets to know about it, he will undoubtedly report it to Father! Mother! Mother, you have got to save your son!”

  The Empress’ heart jumped in shock. This incident that had suddenly happened was beyond any of her expectations. She had initially thought up this ploy to swap out the real prince which would put her own life on the line. If the truth of the matter was discovered, then what awaited all of them would only be certain death.

  “Little Fan, rest assured that Mother will resolve the whole matter appropriately. There is no need to get so worried. You had just suffered a bout of agonizing torment and what you need now is good and proper rest. “The Empress said, her eyes looking highly pained as she gazed at Lei Fan. All these years, Lei Fan had gained much of the affection of the Emperor and the Emperor was just beginning to move to depose the current Crown Prince and install Lei Fan as the heir. At such a highly critical juncture, she would not allow a mere youth to destroy the plot she had carried out for so many years!

  Lei Fan looked sobbingly at the Empress and finally laid back on the bed to rest quietly. But his heart was at that moment filled with terror and a overwhelming urge to have Jun Xie killed.

  After the Empress managed to calm Lei Fan down, she immediately wrote out a letter, detailing all that had occurre
d that day. After that, she handed the sealed letter to a guard, one of her most trusted aides.

  “You must immediately make your way to the Prime Minister’s Residence and hand this letter to the Prime Minister personally. Tell him this. To prevent any future nightmares, we must settle the matter appropriately, and it….. must not leave a single trace, not a single mistake is allowed!”

  The guard nodded vehemently and went to change into a set of dark clothes, before immediately setting forth to go outside the palace.

  Just a short two hour state banquet had stirred up successive waves of chaos within the Fire Country. And the common people in the Imperial Capital who were already in their dreams were completely unaware that the Fire Country was about to see a wave of change crashing down upon them!

  Within the Immortals’ Loft, Jun Wu Xie and her companions had just come back and they all went to their own rooms to wash off the stench of alcohol on them, not gathering together to discuss the night’s events that had occurred, but to get themselves some restful sleep.

  Only Jun Wu Xie laid on her bed completely awake. In her mind, scenes of events that had happened at the banquet tonight kept playing repeatedly from her memory.

  The Emperor’s and Wen Yu’s reaction had made her very curious. She raised up her hand and stared at the silver ring on her finger.

  This ring was picked up from within the stone dwelling at the bottom of the Heaven’s End Cliff. What kind of a secret did it hold? That it could attract the attention of both the Fire Country’s Emperor and Grand Adviser in one night?

  Jun Wu Xie closed her eyes, her mind recalling the words scribbled into the walls of the stone dwelling back then.

  She suddenly opened her eyes. The silver coloured ring before her eyes was at that moment reflecting the light from the candle!

  Volume 9

  Chapter 895 : “Assassination (1)”

  Time went by quietly, the moon was hidden behind the clouds while a sliver of light brightened the eastern horizon very slightly.

  It was the time when people were deep in sleep. The bustling Fire Country’s Imperial Capital was returned to silence at that moment. Only those candle flames that had not yet extinguished threw out their flickering light.

  At that moment of lonely silence, a team of men were dressed in all black, quietly appearing behind the back wall of the Immortals’ Loft. They nimbly leapt over the wall, and infiltrated to the inside of the inn.

  The waiter manning the place for the night was sitting in the backyard of the inn and he looked tired and sleepy. His half opened eyes were sleep filled and had no life in them. HIs head drooped like he was asleep. A gust of chill breeze blew past him and he was shocked awake. Against the faintly lightening sky, he suddenly saw a group of dark robed men leaping into the yard!

  The waiter’s eyes widened and he was just about to scream out when one of the dark robed men had already leapt behind him and had his hand clasped over the waiter’s mouth and he gave the head a hard twist with a snap of his wrists!

  The crisp crack sounded and the waiter’s neck was immediately broken, his last cry forever trapped within his throat.

  The dark robed man put down the waiter’s limp body to the ground without a sound.

  Another one of the dark robed men made a gesture with his hand and the whole group immediately leapt into the inn.

  In the dim light of dawn, the inn was deathly quiet. The people were sound asleep still in their dreams and were not aware that their nightmare had already soundlessly descended upon them without warning.

  The waiter sleeping in the main hall of the inn had not even woken up from his dreams at all before a blade had slit his throat. The hot red blood had flowed and spilled over the joined up tables below him to pool on the floor.

  Drip drip drip…..

  Jun Wu Xie had not slept throughout the night. She lay upon her bed and she had removed the ring from her finger to carefully inspect the ring carefully several times. On the inner wall of the silver coloured ring, she saw a tiny engraving. There was only one Chinese character engraved upon it. Fire!

  Suddenly, she detected a faint scent of blood. That familiar scent was very faint and she sat up immediately, her cold gaze locked onto the tightly locked door of the room.

  The inn’s kitchen was in the backyard and the morning breakfast at this inn never served meat or fish. Moreover, it was too early at dawn for the workers in the inn to start busying themselves.

  “Meh?” Sleeping beside Jun Wu Xie, Lord Meh Meh was woken up by Jun Wu Xie’s movements. It shook its four tiny hooves and very slowly stood up upon the bed. Having regained back quite a bit of its wool, its body was slowly taking on its round spherical shape once again.

  It tilted its head and looked at Jun Wu Xie who had gotten dressed and gotten off the bed.

  “Meow~” The little black cat slipped onto Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder with a swoosh, its nimble body slightly arched, its eyes narrowed to a slit.

  [I hear people.]

  A cat’s ears was several times more sensitive than a human’s and those sounds that Jun Wu Xie could not hear, it had heard those noises clearly.

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed and her mind suddenly thought back to the words Wen Yu had told her back in the Imperial Garden last night.

  [The Imperial Capital conflicts with Young Master Jun’s signs. To avoid any more unfortunate things happening, Young Master Jun should leave here as soon as possible.]

  The corners of Jun Wu Xie’s lips curled up into a cold smile. Wen Yu’s heart was clear as a mirror. He must not have expected that “unfortunate things” would happen so quickly, not even allwoing her the time to leave.

  Her spirit power gradually gathered as Jun Wu Xie’s eyes stared unwaveringly at the tightly locked door.

  The dark robed men who came up to the second level lightened their steps and the leader among them waved his hands and the men immediately positioned themselves before the doors of the other rooms on the second level.

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  Chapter 896 : “Assassination (2)”

  Several of the dark robed men immediately stood before the other guest rooms on the second level, turning their heads to the side, ears towards the door to listen for any sounds of movements within. When they were sure that all the rooms were quiet and the people inside still sound asleep, they all nodded their heads at the leader!

  Besides several of the dark robed men standing before the other rooms, the remaining ten men were all gathered together before one the rooms. They quietly used the tip of a blade to pry open the bolt on the door, and suddenly pushed the door wide open!

  But when they rushed into the room, with the weak flickering light of the candle, they found that the entire room was completely empty, the messy bed clothes on the bed showing no sign of their target either.

  Just as they were all still feeling puzzled, the door leading into the room behind them was suddenly shut!

  With a creak from the door, the dark robed men who had come into the room immediately turned their heads to look behind!

  They saw a youth with delicate features standing right in front of the door, staring at them through narrowed eyes.

  “Who sent you here?” Jun Wu Xie’s stared coldly at the unwelcome guests gathered in her room. When these men had come in, their steps had been light and fast. But the little black cat had still been able to hear them and ascertain their numbers. Besides the ten men who had rushed into her room, there should still be more than ten of them standing guarding outside the rooms of Hua Yao and the others, but were not intending to enter.

  It was obvious that the target of the dark robed men for this unexpected visit was her!

  The dark robed men looked at Jun Xie highly astonished, the blades they held in their hands gleaming coldly from the low light. There was no one else besides the youth and faced with their sudden appearance, the youth was showing not a single sign of panic or terror, but instead she was showing a highly natural sense of indiffe
rence and composure.

  “Someone who wants to take your life.” A dark robed man said in a low voice, immediately gesturing to his companions with his hand.

  The next instant! All the dark robed men in the room charged at Jun Xie at the same time!

  The figure of Jun Wu Xie flashed and at the moment she brushed past those men, she noticed that among the men in black, there were actually several of them who were at the level of green spirits as well! There were even some at blue!

  Advancement in spirit power was highly difficult and people without power or authourity would not be able to send out a team of green and blue spirits as an assassination team easily!

  The Emperor? Or the Fourth Prince?

  As Jun Wu Xie dodged, she quickly considered and identified her list of suspects for this incident.

  The dark robed men had known before they came here that the youth they were faced against this time was not an ordinary target, hence they had assembled a team such as this, to be entirely sure that this youth who had attained the green spirit level would definitely be taken out!

  But the moment they made their move, surprise had showed within the eyes of the dark robed men’s leader. Although he had known that the youth named Jun Xie was a green spirit user, but he really had not thought that faced with so many enemies who held power of a similar level to him, and with some higher than her, the youth would be able to dodge their combined attacks!

  With such nimble agility, it would not be easy to take him on.

  But he believed, that Jun Xie would not be able to sustain that for long. Seeing that the youth was using so much of his spirit power to concentrate on dodging, the drain of her spirit power would be enormous and he would soon run out of spirit power. At that moment, that would be when death would claim the youth!