Jun Wu Xie then replied: “With Elder Yue’s personality being so extreme, even if we captured him, he would have taken his own life before I can make a move. Having him killed is not a problem, but before he is killed, we need to first find Yue Yi.”
If it was any other thing, Jun Wu Xie would have dared to bring in the thunder. But as this matter concerned Yue Yi’s life, once Elder Yue decides to break out of the net even if it kills the fishes, then they would never be able to find where Yue Yi was.
What Jun Wu Xie wanted, was to first save Yue Yi, and as for Elder Yue, he was already a dead man walking in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes.
After having listened to what Jun Wu Xie said, Ye Sha immediately understood Jun Wu Xie’s concerns. Elder Yue had a highly twisted personality and Jun Wu Xie’s worry was not unfounded.
“After we rescue Yue Yi, will Young Miss then want to have Elder Yue killed?” Ye Sha then asked.
Jun Wu Xie gave a cold smile.
“Kill him just like that? Wouldn’t that be too easy for him?”
Seeing that smile on Jun Wu Xie, Ye Sha could not help but feel a chill run through him. Jun Wu Xie had truly been angered this time.
Towards a disciple like Yue Ye, Jun Wu Xie was highly satisfied with her. And due to her having been influenced by Su Ya, Jun Wu Xie had learnt from Su Ya’s overprotective nature towards their disciples. With Yue Ye having looked so wretched today, even Ye Sha had found it painful to watch, what’s more for Jun Wu Xie?
At that moment, Ye Sha could only silently mourn for Elder Yue inwardly. Having angered Jun Wu Xie, his fate would surely be a hundred times worse than death!
Jun Wu Xie then composed her emotions and kept the brocade box properly away. She got up and returned to her room, to tend to Yue Ye’s condition.
Yue Ye had taken too big a shock and added to that would be her worry for Yue Yi. Suffering from all that and getting herself drenched in the icy cold rain for so long, her body was extremely weak at that moment. Even after taking Jun Wu Xie’s elixirs, her condition was still in very bad shape.
Jun Wu Xie possessed medicine to treat the body’s pains and wounds, but she had no medicine to heal the wounds in Yue Ye’s heart.
Nobody could possibly imagine, when Yue Ye saw that piece of bloodied flesh, the kind of hopelessness and despair her heart had felt.
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Yue Ye slept through the entire night and in her sleep, she tossed and turned, her brows remained furrowed, like she was having a nightmare.
“Big Brother!” Yue Ye sat up on the bed suddenly, her body bathed in cold sweat from terror.
“Yue Ye.” Jun Wu Xie’s voice suddenly sounded in her ears from the side.
Yue Ye turned her pale face and saw Jun Wu Xie sitting at her bedside. The air in the room was tinged with the faint fragrance of herbs, completely different from the rot and unbearable stench in her dreams. It had all been just a dream.
In an instant, Yue Ye became rather flustered. She was not able to differentiate whether all that had happened before was merely a dream or real. Her heart was wincing with pain as that dream had felt so real and the pain was tearing her heart apart.
“Master…..” Yue Ye was a little dazed as she looked at Jun Wu Xie, her face that had been filled with vitality before now wan and sallow. Her voice was weak, almost pleading as she called out to Jun Wu Xie.
“I dreamt that Elder Yue captured my brother. It was just a dream right? I only had a nightmare and Big Brother is completely fine right?”
Jun Wu Xie looked at Yue Ye in silence, not knowing how to answer at that moment. Based on her experience, Yue Ye’s nerves were at that moment on the brink of collapse. Yue Ye might have a strong will, but over the long span of ten years, her nerves had been stretched taut to the point of almost snapping. With such a great shock inflicted upon her now, the slightest misstep now might very well drive her over the edge and cause her mind to fall into complete collapse.
“Master….. Can you quickly tell me….. Big Brother….. is fine….. and I was just dreaming…..” Yue Ye’s voice was almost breaking as she looked pleadingly at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie then slowly opened her mouth to say: “It’s just a dream. Yue Yi is still dealing with some matters outside and he can only be back a little later. He is fine.”
Hearing Jun Wu Xie’s words said with such calm, Yue Ye sat dazed for a moment before her pale face showed a weak but brilliant smile.
“So it was all just a dream…..”
“You’ve caught a cold and you must remain here to nurse yourself for the next few days. When Yue Yi comes back, I will ask him to come here to see you.” Jun Wu Xie’s indifferent voice gave people a huge sense of relief, calm without a ripple of shock, sounding like nothing had ever happened before.
“Mm.” Yue Ye nodded obediently as she hugged a corner of the blanket tightly, her legs curled tightly against her.
“I have your medicine here. Make sure you take it. I have some things to attend to and I will come back to see you again a little later.” Jun Wu Xie said as she brought the medicinal soup she had prepared. The medicine had turned cold and she used her spirit powers to heat it up quickly. By the time she delivered it into Yue Ye’s hands, the temperature of the medicine was just right.
Yue Ye took the bowl of medicinal soup, grasping it with both hands. When she saw her pallid reflection in the bowl of soup, she was a little surprised.
She stared at it for a while before she gulped down the bitter concoction completely.
Jun Wu Xie then took the empty bowl from her and was about to get up to leave.
“Master!”
Jun Wu Xie paused in her steps as she turned her head to look at Yue Ye calmly.
“Big Brother will really come back?” Yue Ye’s lip was trembling slightly.
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head very slightly but determinedly, before she went walking out.
In the instant that the room’s door closed, Yue Ye hugged the blanket close and lowered her head, trying her hardest to curl herself into a ball. If anyone were to see her at that moment, they would discover that the little girl who tried so hard to put on a brave front was hiding under the blanket and weeping soundlessly. She bit down hard upon a corner of the blanket, not wanting the softest sob to escape out from her mouth, but all the tears flowing over her cheeks had already drenched the blanket’s corner.
Jun Wu Xie stood behind the door, hearing the sobs that were being suppressed, and she drew in a long deep breath.
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“Young Miss!” The figure of Ye Gu suddenly appeared before Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie shot Ye Gu a meaningful glance and immediately went walking towards the other room just beside.
There were some things that she did not want Yue Ye to hear and although it was clear to her that Yue Ye knew everything had not been a dream, but she did not want the already weakened little girl to be provoked any further.
After Ye Gu followed Jun Wu Xie to walk into the room, he immediately said: “Your subordinate followed Elder Yue for the entire night and did not discover him doing anything different but to just remain within his own residence with most of his time spent in his study, staying in here till very late before going back to his room to rest, never leaving the courtyard once.”
Ye Gu had kept watch over Elder Yue for an entire night and when he came to report back to Jun Wu Xie on Elder Yue’s movements, he made Ye Sha continue to temporarily keep watch on his behalf.
“Never left the courtyard?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed.
“Yes. Your subordinate did not see anyone coming into the courtyard either, nor noticed him coming into contact with anyone.” In regards to his observation skills, Ye Gu had absolute confidence and with the level of power he possessed, no one within the Twelve Palaces would be able to escape under his watch.
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��s eyes lowered slightly to stare upon the marble floor, her mind processing the information that Ye Gu had brought in.
She was certain that Yue Yi was in Elder Yue’s hands. Elder Yue was a person with a sly and twisted nature and after being betrayed by Yue Ye, he had become more cautious. Since he was using Yue Yi to threaten Yue Ye this time, it was a certainty that he would not reveal the location that Yue Yi was so easily.
Jun Wu Xie recalled about the piece of “flesh over the heart” Yue Ye had brought back. As a medical practitioner, from the level of freshness in a piece of flesh, she could roughly gauge the time the piece of flesh had been cut out.
That piece of “flesh over the heart” had not been cut out for too long a period of time and that meant Elder Yue could not possibly have hidden Yue Yi outside the Shadow Moon Palace, but somewhere within the palace or the piece of flesh would not still be oozing blood when Yue Ye brought it in.
“Have you investigated into Elder Yue’s study?” Jun Wu Xie then queried.
“When Ye Sha had been searching for the jade for Young Miss before, he had gone into the study. And in Elder Yue’s study, there is a secret room. Your subordinate has asked Ye Sha and Ye Sha told me the secret chamber is not all that big. He also said there are also a variety of things piled up in there, which doesn’t look like a place that could hide a person.” Ye Gu replied.
“But in order to play it safe, your subordinate had gone to check the study and did not find Yue Yi in the secret chamber. Although….. upon the floor inside the secret chamber, your subordinate discovered some bloodstains. The bloodstains had already congealed but judging from its colour, they were left behind just a few days ago. Your subordinate suspects that Yue Yi had previously been locked in that secret chamber for a while and it is highly possible that the punishment had been carried out in that as well, but Yue Yi’s current whereabouts is not known.” As the Commander in Chief of the Night Regime, Ye Gu’s observation of every single detail was seen to be highly thorough as he presented a perfect report to Jun Wu Xie, allowing Jun Wu Xie to sieve and process her thoughts more quickly.
“Continue to keep a close watch. From now onwards, both you and Ye Sha will watch Elder Yue. If you discover Elder Yue coming into any contact with anyone, one of you will then be able to follow the other person.” Jun Wu Xie said with her eyes narrowed. No matter what, she was going to get Yue Yi out.
“But Lord Jue….. Err, Young Master Wu Yao left instructions that at least one of us must remain by your side.” Ye Gu was feeling rather torn.
Jun Wu Xie then said coldly: “If you are not willing to heed my orders, then you can go seek him now.”
Ye Gu was startled and he immediately fell onto one knee to say: “Your subordinate wouldn’t dare! It shall be as the Young Miss has ordered!”
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Jun Wu Xie nodded. She acknowledged the Night Regime’s power, but no matter how powerful one’s subordinate was, if they were not willing to obey her orders, then she would be better off without them.
Even when they were people that Jun Wu Yao had left behind, it would be the same.
Jun Wu Xie had her own set of standards.
“Now, bring me to Elder Yue’s study.” Jun Wu Xie said, narrowing her eyes. She needed to go take a look for herself.
At that moment, Elder Yue was dealing with some affairs of the Shadow Moon Palace and Ye Sha was secretly watching his every move while Ye Gu was keeping guard outside Elder Yue’s study.
Jun Wu Xie went into Elder Yue’s study on her own. According to what Ye Gu had told her about the hidden switch, Jun Wu Xie opened the secret chamber in Elder Yue’s study.
It was a room that was about twenty square meters in size and tall wooden shelves stood against three sides of the walls. A variety of brocade boxes were placed on every level of the shelves, boxes of different sizes arranged neatly upon them, with some smaller brocade boxes stacked up together. The secret chamber was kept very clean but Jun Wu Xie who was very sensitive towards the smell of blood could still detect a faint scent of it.
Right in the middle of the secret chamber, a white jade bed carved out of nephrite lay across and on the bed’s surface, some uneven depressions making long and thin marks could be seen. Within those depressions, she saw stains that had turned black and Jun Wu Xie used her silver needle to dig a little out to inspect. She then discovered that the black stuff with the thin crevices was actually blood that had dried for Heavens knew how long!
Nephrite was not as hard and they were more easily scratched. Jun Wu Xie stared at the several crack like marks upon the nephrite bed with the bloodstains that had dried up from long ago and she suddenly understood everything.
This room must be the place where Elder Yue abused children. Upon that clear white and beautiful nephrite bed, who knew how many naive children had suffered under that kind of nefarious abuse, these very crackline marks left behind by the struggling that the children would have put up at that time.
Just how agonizing it must have been for those children to leave these marks upon the nephrite bed?
The shouts and screams within this secret chamber, struggling in hopelessness and despair, nails scratching into the nephrite, to leave these dark marks.
Jun Wu Xie took a deep breath. Within that small little secret chamber, how many aggrieved spirits were wailing in there?
Closing her eyes, she could almost seem to hear the desperate cries of those young lives wailing in aggrievement.
Jun Wu Xie calmed the surge of emotions within her heart, composing herself and her heart to allow her to continue to look for any other traces that might give her a clue. She found the marks of several drops of blood left behind under the nephrite bed. Compared to the bloodstains upon the bed, these marks were fresher. It was just as Ye Gu had guessed, these bloodstains were more recent and they were left there just a few days before.
Jun Wu Xie squatted down and she pulled out a medicine bottle from her Cosmos Sack. She then opened the cover and dripped the bottle’s rice white coloured liquid upon the dried bloodstains. Very soon, the bloodstains dissolved into the liquid and Jun Wu Xie scooped up the blood and liquid together to store it in a new bottle. She kept the bottle away properly before she stood up and surveyed the surrounding shelves.
The jade pendant that Elder Ying wanted was found by Ye Sha in here. What kind of other things would Elder Yue keep in here?
Jun Wu Xie walked over to one of the set of shelves and pulled down a brocade box that was the size of a palm. Opening it, she only found a hair pin dotted with rust inside. The hairpin’s workmanship was coarse and there were no jade stones embedded in it, a most plain and cheap looking piece.
But the size of that hairpin was a little different, a bit smaller than what most regular ladies would use, looking to be more like what a small child would use.
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But the size of that hairpin was a little different, a bit smaller than what most regular ladies would use, looking to be more like what a small child would use.
Jun Wu Xie then looked through several more of those brocade boxes, to discover that they contained mostly more of such simple and and cheap little pieces. The condition of the items told of the long time they had been kept there and in terms of value, they were not worth a single cent.
But all those items had a common characteristic. They were basically things that would be found on a child.
Longevity lockets, silver bangles…..
Upon the shelves filling up three sides of the walls, were all trinkets meant for children.
Jun Wu Xie could almost be certain that the reason all these items were here was because of Elder Yue’s nasty habit!
The owners of these items, should have suffered Elder Yue’s torment within this little chamber where they had finally died in hopelessness and fear, and Elder Yue had kept these trinkets the
y owned as trophies within this secret chamber.
The truth disgusted Jun Wu Xie beyond words!
It was wondered what kind of an mindset did Elder Yue hold when he took these items off those corpses? How could he possibly enjoy any peace of mind with so many aggrieved souls lingering in here as he continued to commit such nefarious deeds?
Jun Wu Xie pushed down the utter disgust she felt in her heart and looked through all those items once. The position that those items were placed in seemed to be based according to the length of time they had been placed there.
On a shelf that was closest to the door, were several brocade boxes that looked slightly newer.
But there was one point that Jun Wu Xie found to be strange. When Ye Sha had previously stolen the jade pendant from here, he did not move the original brocade box that contained the pendant, but had used another box of his own when he brought it out, and the original brocade box that Elder Yue had placed the jade pendant in was still there upon the shelf. According to what she was told by Ye Sha, that brocade box was placed at the most front end among everything.
Jun Wu Xie located her target very quickly. But compared to the other brocade boxes, the box that contained the jade pendant was rather different in colour.
The other brocade boxes were made from black iron wood, and this one was rosewood.
Within the entire room, only the box that held the pendant was made from rosewood.
It shouldn’t just be a coincidence, and it was not possible that it was because he had used up all the black iron wood boxes because Jun Wu Xie could see quite a number of black iron wood brocade boxes piled up in a corner of the room.
Moreover, the rosewood brocade box was not new, and judging from the appearance of the box, it would even seem to be well aged, in fact older than any of the other brocade boxes in the entire secret chamber.
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