“You want my ring spirit so badly? Sure! I’ll give it to you! When you are dead! I’ll surely give it to you!” Jun Wu Xie was right beside the white robed man and she lifted her head, her cold eyes were frighteningly chilled in determined and unshakeable resolve.
As those bitingly cold eyes stared at him, the white robed man found himself unable to move!
The black beast’s fangs pierced further into flesh, opening up a channel into the white robed man’s soul.
Jun Wu Xie and the little black cat were joined souls and when both their souls were aflame and burning, it brought about a destructive blow directly onto a person’s soul, and circumvented the person’s spiritual power’s prowess.
The white robed man completely overpowered them, but an attack on his soul would not be that easily avoided!
Jun Wu Xie made the black beast play dead, just to win them this tiny opening!
She would rather sacrifice herself to bring down the enemy with her than cause the deaths of her comrades fighting to protect her!
Not anymore! No one must die protecting her ever again!
Not even once! She would shoulder it all!
Volume 4
Chapter 345: “Fight to Live (1)”.
Every moment that their souls burned, it ate into Jun Wu Xie’s and the black beast’s life force. An assault that burned up their life force was unstoppable.
It was Jun Wu Xie’s ultimate finisher, and she could only use it once in her life.
The white robed man’s soul was extremely strong and for Jun Wu Xie and the black beast to restrict his movement, they had expended a great amount of their life force. In a blink of an eye, Jun Wu Xie’s body was covered in perspiration, and her face was extremely pale, completely drained of colour. The black beast’s fur had lost its shine and every strand had turned dry and brittle.
Hua Yao and Qiao Chu could see that Jun Wu Xie was looking extremely unwell. They wanted to get close but an unseen force pushed them back.
When Jun Wu Xie used her soul to attack, a soul shield formed and encapsulated her body, that did not allow anyone to come close.
“Little Xie! You’ll really die! Stop it now!” Qiao Chu panicked and shouted at Jun Xie. He did not know what Jun Xie was doing but he could guess from seeing Jun Xie’s face that was gradually losing its colour that he must have used some forbidden technique that threatened his own life to stop the white robed man’s attacks.
Worry filled the eyes of the two helpless youths. Hua Yao tried all ways and means but was still unable to get close.
Jun Wu Xie did not move, or rather, could not move.
She had not protected that moron in her past life, and in this new chance at life again, she would not allow the same tragedy to strike again.
Her life here was an unexpected find and her rebirth might not have been that long, but she had found family bonds that she had never experienced, that had thawed her long frozen heart and allowed her to feel warmth. She felt she had already gained!
Having been suppressed within her own body by Jun Wu Xie, Little Lotus was overcome in anxiety. Qiao Chu and Hua Yao did not understand the situation, but he knew it better than anyone. His link with Jun Wu Xie’s soul allowed him to directly feel Jun Wu Xie’s gradually diminishing soul. His own fear made Little Lotus almost burst out in tears.
His mistress must not burn her soul any longer, or she would die from it!
When her soul burned out and disappeared, no one would be able to let Jun Wu Xie be reborn again!
“No….. Don’t die…..” Little Lotus was already crying in Jun Wu Xie’s body. He loved this Mistress of his and he did not want her to die like this.
He compacted his soul bit by bit, and Little Lotus made a sudden dash out of Jun Wu Xie’s body!
A bright flash of light burst from Jun Wu Xie’s finger! The violent impact forcefully blasted Jun Wu Xie away from the white robed man and the assault on the soul was suddenly broken!
A gush of blood sprayed out through Jun Wu Xie’s mouth, her burnt up diminished soul and the recoil from the sudden interruption nearly ruptured her internal organs!
A figure covered in flames hurriedly held up the collapsing Jun Wu Xie!
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes were barely open, overcome with weakness, as she looked at Little Lotus, who had rushed out anxiously, who had broken out from her body on his own accord.
That small chubby face was covered in tears and balls of blue flame surrounded his tiny body. The blue flames reflected in his eyes and made the always timid little guy look uncompromisingly resolute.
“Don’t die, I don’t want my Mistress to die.” Little Lotus looked at Jun Wu Xie in despair, and Jun Wu Xie was no longer capable of speech at that moment. She frowned at Little Lotus, and shook her head weakly.
The burning of her soul had put her body under great trauma, and a deficiency in the soul, could be cured by any kind of elixir or medicine.
Little Lotus’ eyes rimmed heavily with his tears and he opened his mouth. He stared at the stubby arms holding Jun Wu Xie and he narrowed his eyes in resolute determination. He bit off a piece of flesh from his arm and fed it to Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes flashed with refusal and her heart wrenched, but she was too weak to reject. Little Lotus fed Jun Wu Xie with the flesh from his arm as the healing properties of the Snow Lotus was unparalleled.
“Fight to live!”
Volume 4
Chapter 346: “Fight to Live (2)”
Little Lotus put Jun Wu Xie gently onto the ground and cast a glance at her weak form, before he turned to stare at the black beast with its fangs still lodged in the white robed man!
Blue flames erupted from his body and flared suddenly!
Little Lotus gave out a heaven shattering roar engulfed in those flames!
At that moment, the tiny chubby figure started to grow under raging flames!
Drunk Lotus raged in unbridled fury and his eyes burned with undeniable hatred as he cast his gaze on the white robed man!
“Little black.” Drunk Lotus squeezed those two words through his teeth.
The black beast narrowed its eyes and the light was fading from them. Jun Wu Xie’s assault on the soul was forcefully broken by the involuntary and sudden appearance of Little Lotus. But the black beast had not moved an inch and if it let go, the white robed man would embark on a massacre and Jun Wu Xie would surely not live.
But having lost Jun Wu Xie as the main pillar in the deadly assault, the black beast’s soul would only be able to hold the opponent down for a extremely short period of time and was not able to inflict any damage.
“Our debt between us, will be settled in our next lives. Let’s kill this guy here first!” Drunk Lotus had only one arm left and his fist’s knuckles crackled as he clenched it tightly.
The black beast let out a low growl as if in reply to Drunk Lotus.
Drunk Lotus did not hesitate any further and charged at the white robed man held down by black beast in the deadly grip of its fangs at the sacrifice of its soul. Drunk Lotus struck heavily at the man’s spirit, putting everything he had behind his punch in this battle to the death!
The white robed man let out a low moan and his eyes suddenly turned bloodshot. He could not believe he was injured by this group of trash in the lower realm!
“So you are the plant based spirit? At last…..” He struggled to smile and the white robed man suddenly released an explosive surge of spiritual power and the energy blasted the black beast away from him! He leapt at Drunk Lotus and grabbed him by the neck.
“Wait till you are devoured and I’ll see how arrogant you can be then!”
The strength of that grip on Drunk Lotus did not allow him to struggle free, but he ignored the overpowering hold on his neck and kicked the man on the chest with all his might!
The white robed man was pushed back a few steps from Drunk Lotus’ kick but the grip on his neck did not loosen and he was dragged along with the man.
“
Damn!” The white robed man was furious, he had never found himself in such a compromised situation.
The grip on Drunk Lotus’ neck tightened further and the white robed man wanted nothing more than to break Drunk Lotus’ neck. “Anyway, as a ring spirit, you would not die. Enjoy the suffering I am about to inflict on you!”
The white robed man stretched a hand towards Drunk Lotus’ head!
At that moment, a beastly growl sounded, and the black beast who had been blown away leapt at the white robed man and sank his fangs into his upper arm.
The white robed man’s eyes flashed in rage with the pain. He did not think that his opponents would turn out to be a group of opponents so suicidal and persistent!
He concentrated his spiritual power on both his hands and the surging force shot straight towards the black beast’s head. The black beast’s jaws remained firmly lodged in the arm with its death’s grip but the blast from the white robed man’s strike tore half the flesh out from its jaws giving the black beast an agonising and devastating wound.
Drunk Lotus was driven into spasms from the surging spiritual powers and he bit hard on his own tongue to let the pain force himself to remain conscious. He raised a trembling hand to hold the white robed man’s arm tightly, to restrict its mobility.
“Attack him now!” Drunk Lotus suddenly shouted with everything he could muster.
Hua Yao and Qiao Church who had recovered a little of their energy at the side leapt at this final opportunity gained at the expense of their comrades life force and struck at the white robed man with everything they had!
A loud blast sounded through the mountain and the white robed man’s spiritual energy flared a blinding brilliance!
Volume 4
Chapter 347: “Fight to Live (3)”
In the blink of an eye, with the exception of Drunk Lotus, everyone else was blown away from that explosive release of spiritual power!
“You pipsqueaks do not possess enough power to kill me.” The white robed man laughed coldly and his eyes burned with rage. His palm burst through Drunk Lotus’ abdomen with a single strike and Drunk Lotus’ face contorted in agony. Spiritual energy burst through Drunk Lotus’ body and in the next moment, Drunk Lotus’ body slumped and remained motionless. The blue flames that covered Drunk Lotus dissipated and his body started to slowly disperse into a golden glittering light, morphing into a badly ravaged Snow Lotus in the hand of the white robed man.
Throwing the withering Snow Lotus on Jun Wu Xie’s body, the white robed man sneered: “I will put all of you through unimaginable agony.”
Jun Wu Xie lay on the ground, unable to move a muscle and stared weakly at the Snow Lotus that had rolled to rest against her cheek. A flower that should have been flawlessly white, that radiated with unblemished beauty, now lay withering sadly, and had lost half of its pale petals, looking like it would perish at any time.
“You’re still at it?” Another chill voice rang, and the grey robed man appeared before the eyes of the people gathered near the foot of the mountain, his steps hindered by a badly bloodied and unconscious Ye Sha, who was being dragged behind in the grip of the grey robed man.
“Just limbering up a little, I’ll finish it right now.” The white robed man replied.
The grey robed man only shot him a look of impatience but did not say anything.
All of a sudden, the unconscious Ye Sha sprang into action!
He broke free of the grey robed man’s grip and gathered his life’s blood and concentrated them onto his palm. A bright red ray formed and sped right at the white robed man, piercing him straight through the chest!
Ye Sha expended every last bit of his powers and released a humongous black snake. The black snake slithered away speedily as it coiled everyone lying on the ground into its tail!
“Miss! Allow me to deliver all of you away from here!”
As soon as the last of his words left him, his body blew up in a mighty explosion! The powerful blast completely engulfed the grey robed man who was standing closest to him and dealt him a devastating blow!
In the same moment…..
The Cloudy Peaks rocked!
The black snake held Jun Wu Xie and the others in its tail and took them off the mountains!
Wild winds suddenly roared, wrecking havoc. The black mist that permeated covered the whole mountain path and it was specked with red, the blood of Ye Sha’s, his ultimate sacrifice by blowing himself up.
Jun Wu Xie was coiled within the black snake’s tail, the withering Snow Lotus in her arms. Her cold eyes staring fixedly on the explosion of blood mist.
Till the moment that Ye Sha had detonated himself to save her, she had not even found out his name. Who was he…..
Unable to remain conscious any longer from the heavy trauma to her soul, Jun Wu Xie succumbed and fell into a deep sleep.
…..
She did not know how long she slept, and Jun Wu Xie woke up from her deep slumber in shock.
That blood mist had left a deep impression in her mind and it was as though she was back at the place where she almost died.
“You’re awake!” A soft and tender voice suddenly sounded by Jun Wu Xie’s ear. Jun Wu Xie turned her head and saw a pleasant and pretty young girl sitting by her bedside, her eyes like limpid pools, smiling happily at her.
Jun Wu Xie frowned slightly, but she did not sense any danger from the young girl. She lowered her eyes and found a tiny form sleeping beside her, a familiar sight.
The little black cat was soundly asleep, its body covered in layers of bandages. The tiny body was curled up tightly in a ball, leaning against the side of Jun Wu Xie’s pillow.
“Master had wanted to bring it out for treatment but it had refused to leave your side. Rest assured though, Master has already steadied its tattered soul and it would recover after a period of treatment and rest.” The adorable young girl noticed Jun Wu Xie’s line of sight, and smiled warmly.
Volume 4
Chapter 348: “Phoenix Academy (1)”
Jun Wu Xie lowered her eyes to look at the tiny form and picked the little black cat up to cradle in her arms. She then sat up to get out of bed.
Fei Yan gasped in shock and hurriedly got up to stop her. “You are not well enough yet!”
Jun Wu Xie was nevertheless insistent and when her feet touched the ground, a spinning wave of dizziness engulfed her and her body swayed and rocked. Fei Yan reached out wanting to hold her but Jun Wu Xie steadied herself and walked towards the door.
The sight that met her outside was rather sad to see. In the empty courtyard, the buildings were dilapidated and overgrown weeds grew out between the stone slabs on the path. The building she walked out of looked like she was in an academy but it was in a state of disrepair and seemed more abandoned than to be occupied by the young girl behind her and her Master.
Jun Wu Xie had heard about academies and many youths enrolled into academies after their ring spirits awoke to study under a Master. They would then learn everything about ring spirits and things about spiritual powers.
Jun Wu Xie should have been enrolled into an academy at her age, but the series of turmoil that rocked the Qi Kingdom had delayed her opportunity for these studies.
Wafting through the air in the courtyard, Jun Wu Xie detected the scent of wine. She raised her head and followed the scent to its source.
In a corner of the courtyard by the side of a lotus pond, a man spotting a full beard sat on a stone bench, pulling long swigs at the wine jar in his hand. Half of his face was covered by his beard but the red flushed complexion could be seen, and his eyelids were lowered and drooped in drunkenness. What caught Jun Wu Xie’s attention was behind the man instead, a withering lotus flower in a pond was filled with duckweed.
“Hey! You shouldn’t move about so much! You’re not well yet!” Fei Yan rushed over and saw Jun Wu Xie standing by the lotus pond. Fei Yan’s gaze then turned to the bearded man at the side who was observing Jun Wu Xie in between swigs of the wine
and said: “Master! He wouldn’t listen, he insisted on coming out even though he’s not recovered yet.”
The bearded man whom Fei Yan addressed as Master stared at Jun Wu Xie and waved his hand nonchalantly. “Let him have a look. This is his ring spirit after all, and it has turned into such a state. It is normal for him to be so worried.”
The was only a lone lotus in the pond, and that was a Snow Lotus. After the white robed man’s devastating assault, the Snow Lotus had lost a big part of its vitality, and was unable to even morph into its human form. It’s beautiful petals had shrunk and curled up tightly together, the edges of his petals had turned brown, and had lost almost all its glorious beauty from before.
Jun Wu Xie stared silently at the Snow Lotus and her face was expressionless. An hour later, she turned her head to look at the bearded man who had been observing her with interest all this while.
“Can it be saved?”
“Its essence and life force was greatly damaged, but cultivating it in this pond might still possibly save it. If it was forcefully moved, within two weeks, its essence would disappear and scatter into the winds.” The bearded man was direct and did not mince his words.
Jun Wu Xie frowned, and she lowered her head and looked at the little black cat in her arms, and remained silent.
“Instead of giving it all your concern, you should spare a thought for yourself. Your injuries are rather severe and I heard from Qiao Chu that you guys encountered people from the Middle Realm. You used an exceptional technique to attack the opponent did you not?” The bearded man hesitated a moment before saying: “Do not be alarmed, I am the Master of Hua Yao and the others.”
Jun Wu Xie looked at the bearded man and still did not say anything.
The bearded man looked helplessly at Jun Wu Xie’s tiny face with its cold expression before he said: “Alright, if you do not want to talk about it, you don’t need to. Deficiencies in the soul is hard to treat. You must be careful from now on.”
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