Volume 7
Chapter 678: Escape from Heaven’s End Cliff (3)
Qiao Chu and the others approached the stone house slowly a step at a time, and just as they were about to reach the stone house’s door…..
The thick and heavy slab of door was suddenly slowly being opened!
In the same moment, Qiao Chu and the others all raised their spirit powers to the purple level at the same time!
Their spirit powers glowed purple, gathered in their palms, and they were all about to blast them right into the house!
However…..
A tiny face with delicate features peeked out and appeared before the eyes of the companions. And her body was surrounded by a light purple glow as Jun Wu Xie stared at all of them with a calm look in her eyes.
“…..”
Suddenly, all was silent.
The spirit powers gathered in the palms of Qiao Chu and the others had raged like a strong burning fire but were suddenly doused with a wave of cold water, fizzling out and then disappearing without a trace left.
“Lit….. Little Xie?” Qiao Chu was still rather dazed for another moment before he suddenly managed to somewhat regain his senses. He stared, still very much confused, at Jun Wu Xie whom they had all not seen for sometime, his wide shocked eyes fixed on the slowly dissipating purple glow around Jun Wu Xie’s body.
[Something’s really wrong with his eyes!]
[His eyes are really seeing things!]
[How could Little Xie be a purple spirit….. How long had it only been since they parted? Even if she was a god, there was no way she would be able to attain it so quickly…..]
“I must have overtired myself….. Am I still asleep?” Qiao Chu’s face was frozen as he pinched himself very hard on his own thigh, and it was so painful he was really tearing up.
[This is goddamned real! He’s not dreaming!]
Hua Yao finally recovered and he surveyed Jun Wu Xie carefully, his eyes filled with puzzlement.
“Little Xie….. How did you….. become a purple spirit?” Although Jun Wu Xie had been able to develop and advance her spirit powers really quickly all this time, but shouldn’t it be impossible for her to attain the purple spirit in just a matter of days!?
Not to mention this was in the Lower Realm. Even if this was in the Middle Realm, they wouldn’t be able to find such an unbelievable devil.
Fan Zhuo’s eyes showed some surprise, but he was able to recover quickly.
“Did you learn the Middle Realm’s method of pushing your spirit powers’ level up?”
Fan Zhuo’s words somehow managed to make Qiao Chu and the others to gain back their senses. Ye Sha had earlier mentioned that the person in the stone house was not a true purple spirit and that was why they had assumed that it was someone from the Twelve Palaces in it, having employed the method exclusive to people from the Middle Realm, to elevate their spirit power level temporarily to reach the purple level.
Never had they expected, that it was Jun Wu Xie in the stone house!
That also meant that Jun Wu Xie had been able to grasp the concept behind the ability of being able to temporarily raise one’s spirit power level to the purple level, but where had she learnt to do that?
Filled with endless questions and with shock still reverberating in their minds, they finally discovered Jun Wu Xie after days of searching but such a great change had come over her.
[Was this lass really human or devil?]
Jun Wu Xie looked at all her companions standing before the doorway and she was silent a moment before she said: “Come in and talk.”
It was too cold outside and it was not conducive for conversation.
Everyone entered quickly. As Ye Sha passed beside Jun Wu Xie, he stopped to say: “Young Miss, your subordinate had not been able to protect you properly and I have failed. I plead for my our Miss to mete out my overdue punishment.”
Jun Wu Xie shook her head and ushered Ye Sha into the house.
The house was a small structure, and after Qiao Chu and the others rushed in, it was getting rather cramped. Qiao Chu and the others were staring at the crude but practical “mattress” on the floor in a corner of the house. Lying upon the mattress, wrapped up in a bundle of clothes, was an unidentified black form, currently quietly curled up within the warm pile of clothes, sleeping soundly.
Fan Zhuo’s eyes widened in sudden recognition and he turned his head to ask Jun Wu Xie.
“Is that Lord Meh Meh?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
Fan Zhuo could not help himself but his eyes began to become slightly aggrieved. When Jun Wu Xie had stayed at the little bamboo grove, Lord Meh Meh had stayed there as well. Although Lord Meh Meh had not really been bothered with Fan Zhuo then, but when he saw such an adorable little thing like that reduced to such a pitiful state, Fan Zhuo’s heart went out to the little fella.
Volume 7
Chapter 679: “Escape from Heaven’s End Cliff (4)”
“You guys should see that.” Jun Wu Xie said, pointing at the wall behind all the others.
Qiao Chu and everyone else turned their heads to look, but saw nothing unusual at first. But Rong Ruo very quickly noticed that the stone blocks on the wall were filled with tiny characters etched into them.
“I can see characters on it.” Rong Ruo told the others.
Everyone went forward to look and they all finished reading all the tiny words carefully, sighing heavily at the end.
“I had not thought that the Twelve Palaces would use the method of forcibly raising your spirit power to lure people to work for them. That man was rather pitiful. Based on the writings he left behind, he must have held a very high position in the Lower Realm and he had squandered it all with a moment’s greed.” Rong Ruo sighed lightly, feeling a little sad for the owner of the stone house.
[The Twelve Palaces had never been easy to get along with.]
[Accepting their favours and getting oneself indebted to them was as good as stepping onto the path towards death. Even if that man had not died here and he finally found the Dark Emperor’s tomb in the end, he would still have ended up being killed just like their parents had been, under the persecution of the Twelve Palaces.
“Little Xie, what does any of this has got anything to do with you attaining the purple spirit?” Qiao Chu asked, scratching at his head. Had they not just asked Little Xie how she learnt the method of temporarily raising her spirit power level?
Jun Wu Xie walked over to the wall and pointed at a line right at the bottom corner.
Everyone looked at where Jun Wu Xie was pointing. They read it again and they all froze.
[Purple spirit was just merely the product of burning up of one’s spirit power.]
That short line of words was so completely innocent sounding and inconspicuous they had all thought nothing much of it when they had glanced through it earlier, and its meaning had not registered in their mind. But after Jun Wu Xie pointed it out, an outrageous idea formed in their minds!
“Don’t tell me that you actually understood and learnt how to temporarily raise your spirit power based on that one single short line…..” Qiao Chu’s eyes were wide and his face in shock and disbelief.
Those words might have been speaking the truth but it was really much too vague. They themselves wouldn’t have been able to understand the concept behind the technique of temporarily raising their spirit powers from it. In fact, they had not even linked them together at all!
Jun Wu Xie nodded and the room was suddenly filled with loud gasps.
Everybody had their eyes all trained on Jun Wu Xie, their shocked expressions looking like they were staring at a terrifying monster.
“When I had worked on improving the Spirit Healing Technique earlier, I had conducted research on the transformation of spirit power for a period. Although I have not fully understood everything about it, but I have nevertheless achieved a good grasp of the basics. Hence, in the past several days, I had been contemplating what did it m
ean to burn up spirit power and how to transform the burnt spirit power into the higher level purple spirit.” Jun Wu Xie said expressionlessly. Throughout that period, she had not once left that stone house.
Besides providing treatment for Lord Meh Meh and herself every single day, she had been incessantly trying to burn her spirit power.
Finally, it was just today, that she finally succeeded. Having just raised her spirit powers to attain the purple spirit, she felt completely different. The feeling of standing at the peak of spirit powers, whereby all her five senses were enhanced, was a feeling indescribable and words could not do it justice.
And it was entirely because of that, that she detected people approaching the stone house. She opened the door to check outside and she saw Qiao Chu and the others.
Jun Wu Xie’s voice was calm and unhurried. Although her soft voice was like a still lake, to the others who were listening, it was a hurricane, that stirred up waves which rocked their minds!
Just based on a vague and unclear line of words and she was able to understand and gain a full grasp of the Middle Realm’s most critical and profound phenomenon?
That was just too unbelievable!
Everyone knew Jun Wu Xie was highly intelligent, but they had not thought that her intelligence would reach such astounding levels.
Volume 7
Chapter 680: “Escape from Heaven’s End Cliff (5)”
The method they employed to raise their spirit powers, was not fully understood even by they themselves, as people from the Middle Realm. They had been able to use it all this time, but only as an ability that they had been born with. And if you were to ask them to dissect this unique ability and explain the entire concept to someone, that was something that would be completely beyond them.
If the concept behind that ability was so easily understood, then the gap between the powers of the people between the Middle Realm and the Lower Realm would not be that huge!
Not to mention mere young youths just like Qiao Chu and his companions, to even find people from the Twelve Palaces themselves who really understood the ability fully was difficult as there were only a rare few, and the Twelve Palaces had been rather reluctant to use something like this as a lure for the Lower Realm people to risk their lives for them.
With the exception of the owner of the stone house they were in, irregardless whether it was the Qing Yun Clan’s Ke Cang Ju or the Zephyr Academy’s Ning Rui, they had not learnt anything of the ability. That told Jun Wu Xie that the Twelve Palaces had not been entirely willing to impart that knowledge and have it spread into the Lower Realm. As once the people in the Lower Realm start to understand the basis and concept of the ability and began to spread the knowledge, the power of the Lower Realm would surely increase and narrow the gap of the mights between the two realms.
Even with something that even the mighty Twelve Palaces held so close to their chests and were so unwilling to part with, Jun Wu Xie had actually used just a few days to fully decipher and learn it all! ?
And that was just based on a line of words that vaguely mentioned about the ability that all the others had completely missed.
If all of them had not been travelling with Jun Wu Xie all this time, and knew that Jun Wu Xie was undoubtedly from the Lower Realm, they would have misunderstood her to be just like themselves, where they were all from the Middle Realm.
How did the Lower Realm produce such a heaven defying prodigious little devil! ?
Even Ye Sha was shocked by Jun Wu Xie’s unbelievable capabilities.
“I had thought Little Xie was a genius. It seems that I couldn’t have been more wrong. This girl is not human I tell you, she is just godly! !” Qiao Chu was completely humbled before Jun Wu Xie’s capabilities. Just based on a vague sounding line of words, to uncover the most critically held secret of the Middle Realm’s widespread phenomenon, and to learn it in a matter of days….. Under the Heavens, only Jun Wu Xie alone was capable of such a feat!
Qiao Chu’s whisper to the others made Jun Wu Xie suspicious.
“Have I said anything wrong?” Jun Wu Xie thought over everything she had said earlier, and did not find anything wrong.
[But, why is everyone looking at her so strangely?]
Rong Ruo finally laughed out loud and shook her head.
“But I am still not too adept at the ability yet. That was just my first successful attempt earlier and to be able to use it just like all of you, I will still require a period of time.” Jun Wu Xie gave up on deciphering her teammates’ strange expressions. The only thing on her mind now was the newly acquired ability of temporarily raising the level of her spirit power.
If she was able to succeed, then that ability would not be used just by her alone in the Lower Realm.
Her Grandfather, her Uncle, the Rui Lin Army….. After she was well versed in it, she would be able to record it down in detail and send it to the Lin Palace!
Qiao Chu and the others took quite a while to fully accept that Jun Wu Xie had so quickly been able to learn how to temporarily raise her spirit power level. Just recovering from their shock, with everyone all together in the safety of the stone house, and their incessant worry for Jun Wu Xie‘s disappearance finally resolved, the crushing weariness and agonising pain from their injuries, finally erupted and came over them hard.
In moments, several of them had fallen to the floor, gasping heavily while sitting upon the ground.
Jun Wu Xie stared at all of her teammates who were just roaring with life moments ago, but suddenly sitting on the ground all pale faced, she suddenly understood that the past few days that her companions had experienced should have been very much different from what she had gone through.
This crude stone house that Drunk Lotus had discovered, had turned out to be a good place for Jun Wu Xie to rest and recover, and although rather lacking, it had still kept out quite a bit of the dangers around.
Volume 7
Chapter 681: “Escape from Heaven’s End Cliff (6)”
Qiao Chu and all the others had not been that lucky. They had gathered to come together one after another and they could only use elixirs to stabilise their injuries temporarily, dragging their completely wearied bodies to carry on with the search and their bodies should have collapsed but they had bravely soldiered on, sustained purely only by the deep worry they held for their missing teammate.
Jun Wu Xie inspected her teammates’ condition without a word and was relieved to find that they had not sustained injuries that were too severe and would recover fully with proper rest.
“We cannot continue to stay here at the Heaven’s End Cliff. We will need to go back.” Fan Zhuo said, staring at his arm that Jun Wu Xie had just bandaged up for him.
They were now fully aware of the treacherous dangers that filled the Heaven’s End Cliff through this expedition and they knew that without a full map, finding the exact location of the Dark Emperor’s tomb under the blinding misty fog was next to impossible.
Back when their parents had found the Dark Emperor’s tomb, they had no come to the Heaven’s End Cliff alone, but with other companions. There had been eight of them and they had been from seven different palaces, making a total of seven teams altogether. But the number of people who had managed to locate the tomb in the end had only been eight.
To have been chosen by the Twelve Palaces for the search, they were all without exception the topmost ranked fighters they had. Even when the Twelve Palaces had sent their best of the best, the majority of the people they sent had not survived. Besides the eight from seven different palaces who managed to make their way to the tomb, five whole teams from the test of the palaces had all been completely wiped out.
Qiao Chu and the others were now considered to be very powerful in the Lower Realm, but when faced with the traps put together by the Dark Regime, they were suddenly so insignificant.
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
They had achieved what they came here for, to find out more about the Heaven’s End Cliff.
They knew for sure it was impossible for them to locate the end destination at this point and they had not intentions of dragging it out.
Fan Zhuo and the others calmed their hearts and allowed their bodies to rest, as they prepared to leave the Heaven’s End Cliff.
The teammates rested for three full days in the stone house and they finished up the last of their rations and supply of water, having decided to depart from this living hell.
Jun Wu Xie was carrying Lord Meh Meh in her arms, the last one to step out from the stone house when she turned back and looked at the crude stone structure. She quietly handed Lord Meh Meh over to Ye Sha before she once again faced the stone house from which she had gained a lot from.
Qiao Chu and the others stared at Jun Wu Xie in puzzlement when they saw that a silver ring had suddenly appeared in her hand. Jun Wu Xie’s head was lowered as she looked at the old and unused ring she held.
That ring had been found in a corner asking the wall and was assumed to have belonged to the previous owner of the stone house. When he had died, the ring spirit had also departed and the ring was now just an ordinary ring without any spirit power.
Jun Wu Xie rubbed at the shiny surface of the ring and kept silent for awhile before she suddenly put the ring onto her finger.
The next moment, she was suddenly kneeling upon the ground!
And facing the stone house, she solemnly bowed and hit her head three times loudly upon the ground.
“I know not of your name, but you had still imparted knowledge to me and is now acknowledged as a revered Master of Jun Wu Xie. Although you are no longer living in this world, I would still like to bring you out of the Heaven’s End Cliff as was your wish.” Jun Wu Xie’s voice was solemn and steady, her clear eyes steely and determined.
Although it had been just a short line, it had allowed her to acquire an important skill. No matter from how long ago the man had died, he would forever be her Master!
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