Volume 19
Chapter 1888: “The Twelve Palaces’ Summit (2)”
“You’re really just useless trash. You’ve actually gone and stir up so much trouble and caused the Blood Fiend Palace to suffer such great losses. Is this all that you’re capable of?” Gu Yi said as he looked at Gu Ying with contempt, the venom in his eyes not looking anything like what a benevolent father should have.
Gu Ying stood silently in his spot, not saying a word.
“Because of the trouble you have wrought, you had caused me to come owe the Flame Demons Palace a big favour for nothing, you should just be damned.” Gu Yi became angry the more he thought about it. The Dragon Slayers Palace held a rather good level of might, inferior only to the Flame Demons Palace and the Blood Fiend Palace and they had always sought to ally with the Blood Fiend Palace, with Gu Yi feeling that it was almost a given that they would. Never had he thought that such a big incident would break out in the Pure Grace Palace.
Zhuge Yin’s death had immediately caused the Dragon Slayers Palace to become almost deranged. The Dragon Slayers Palace Lord only had Zhuge Yin as his only son and it could be said that Zhuge Yin’s death had thrown him down into the bottomless pits of despair. It had been as good as severing the Dragon Slayers Palace Lord’s bloodline so how could the Dragon Slayers Palace Lord not fly into a rage?
In half a year’s time, the Dragon Slayers Palace and the Blood Fiend Palace had turned to become mortal enemies with irreconcilable differences. The Dragon Slayers Palace Lord had gone out of his way to go against the Blood Fiend Palace in every way at all cost and in the messy struggle, the Blood Fiend Palace had many of their numbers dead or injured. Left with no other choice, Gu Yi had sought out the Flame Demons Palace who was similarly entrenched in bitter fighting to discuss the situation which then brought about this summit.
Everyone knew that the Flame Demons Palace and the Blood Fiend Palace had been competing for the top spot among the Twelve Palaces for so many years but when Gu Yi took the initiative to seek out the Flame Demons Palace Lord, he was seen to have dwarfed himself a notch in submission which just made Gu Yi clench his teeth in hatred, leading him to vent out the humiliating upon Gu Ying.
“The Dragon Slayers Palace would never let things rest just like this and if you are unable to gain the forgiveness of the Dragon Slayers Palace, then you shall compensate them with your life for a life!” Gu Yi said in anger, his merciless tone and demeanor completely unlike what a father should use on a child.
“Yes.” Gu Ying said calmly, already highly used to Gu Yi’s cruelty and heartlessness.
“Get out! I get infuriated the moment I see you.” Gu Yi said with his brows furrowed up.
Gu Ying walked out obediently. When he opened the door, he coincidentally discovered Gu Xin Yan standing outside. When Gu Xin Yan saw Gu Ying, her eyes flashed with traces of concern while Gu Ying merely swept his glance over her briefly before walking away.
“Little Yan you’ve come? Come in quick.” The moment Gu Yi saw Gu Xin Yan, the grim callousness on his face immediately disappeared completely and the smile of a benevolent father came onto his face.
“Father.” Gu Xin Yan walked into the room, looking at the amicable Gu Yi.
“You will have to be more careful during the summit. Elder Lin and the others will stay by your side and you must remember not to go out on your own. Every one of the other palaces will be here and they do not hold kind intentions. Especially for the Dragon Slayers Palace who seek vengeance in blood against us, they will not let the matter rest and you will have to be very careful with them.” Gu Yi was filled with worry for Gu Xin Yan.
For the summit, Gu Yi had initially not intended to bring Gu Xin Yan along as it was thought that there was no way of warming up ties with the Dragon Slayers Palace afterall and he was afraid that the Dragon Slayers Palace revenge for having killed their Young Lord would implicate Gu Xin Yan.
It was only after Gu Xin Yan came to him to make a request that Gu Xi was left with no choice but to bring her.
“I will be careful.” Gu Xin Yan nodded her head obediently, before her face turned slightly hesitant and said: “Father, there was something fishy about Zhuge Yin’s death. Big Brother was….. framed by someone. It really wasn’t him.”
Hearing Gu Ying being mentioned, Gu Yi’s brows creased up. “You have already said that many times. You do not need to tell me again.”
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Chapter 1889: “The Twelve Palaces’ Summit (3)”
Gu Xin Yan stiffened her lips and hesitated for a long while before she opened her mouth.
“Father is intending to hand Big Brother over to them?”
Gu Yi’s voice deepened as he said: “Do you think there is still a way to turn things around in this matter? The person who died is the Dragon Slayers Palace’s only Young Lord and even if they are still able to go on to elect a new successor, it wouldn’t be from the same bloodline of the current Dragon Slayers Palace Lord. With the Dragon Slayers Palace Lord still upon his seat, he is in control of the entire Dragon Slayers Palace and how could he not be aware that he would lose power in future? Zhuge Yin’s death had left him with no other way out and he would definitely set his sights fixed upon our Blood Fiend Palace. Although our Blood Fiend Palace’s might surpasses the Dragon Slayers Palace by a notch, but if the Dragon Slayers Palace goes against us with everything they have, the price we’ll have to pay will be difficult to bear. Even if we win, we will have sustained great losses and it will no longer be possible for us to compete with the Flame Demons Palace anymore.”
“But Zhuge Yin really wasn’t killed by Big Brother! I can be a witness to that! Father, Big Brother has bent his back and strove for the Blood Fiend Palace for so many years so you cannot do this.” Gu Xin Yan was naturally aware of Gu Yi’s concerns but she could not understand why her Father could be so cruel to her elder brother.
“It is not as if we are unable to take the Dragon Slayers Palace on, are we really going to hand Big Brother over just like this?”
“The price is too big to pay, and there is no need for that.” Gu Yi said as he shook his head.
Gu Xin Yan’s eyes widened slightly as she looked at Gu Yi in disbelief.
Because of their Young Lord’s death, the Dragon Slayers Palace could give everything they had but her Father had decided to hand his son over in order to avoid losses…..
One knew without even having to think that once Gu Ying was given over into their hands, just what kind of a terrifying result he would face. Vengeance for having killed one’s son would not allow the enemies to coexist but with Gu Ying similarly being his son, how could Gu Yi be so heartless?
Seeing the shock on Gu Xin Yan’s face, Gu Yi was startled and he immediately softened his tone of voice to say: “Little Yan, it’s not that your father is cold hearted, but for the sake of the Blood Fiend Palace’s future, I have no choice but to do this. The Flame Demons Palace had always been watching us like a hawk and if our strength took too big a beating, the Flame Demons Palace will definitely come after us to pursue victory and our situation will then be highly awkward for us.”
Gu Xin Yan lowered her gaze. No matter how Gu Yi explained it, she was still unable to accept his methods.
Sensing Gu Xin Yan’s resistance, Gu Yi sighed helplessly.
“The reason you are opposing it, is it because my words have greatly disappointed you?”
Gu Xin Yan did not reply.
“Little Yan, I know that you have always been meticulous when carrying out your tasks but your heart’s too straightforward and righteous, and I can understand why you are unable to accept all this. You are thinking that Gu Ying as my son, your elder brother, and I am being too cruel by sending my flesh and blood right into the jaws of the tiger. But have you ever considered what if he is not your elder brother, and he’s also not my son but just another disciple in the Blood Fiend Palace?” Gu Yi said meaningfully as he looked at Gu Xin Yan.
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��s eyes widened slightly as she looked at Gu Yi in disbelief.
Gu Yi pointed at his own face.
“Look at me, and then look at yourself. Does Gu Ying look similar to you in anyway?”
“How did…..” Gu Xin Yan’s face was one of great shock.
“Little Yan, when I married Gu Ying’s mother, I had really loved her with my heart. But I had not thought that I will turn out to have been used so laughably. In the time that we were married, she had never allowed me to touch her once, and I had respected her wishes. Moreover, she was a princess of the Nine Temples, so I had naturally treated her with respect. But after several months, she gave birth to Gu Ying.”
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Chapter 1890: “The Twelve Palaces’ Summit (4)”
In regards to that matter, Gu Yi had never told anyone about it.
Betrayed by the person he loved, thinking that he had won the hand of the fair lady, never ever thought that he would turn to become such a joke.
Calculating based on the time that Gu Ying had been born, it was deemed that before the young princess of the Nine Temples married Gu Yi, she was already pregnant. Gu Yi had already become the Blood Fiend Palace Lord at that time and the humiliation caused a drastic change to his personality, but with the Nine Temples behind their little princess, he was unable to avenge the humiliation but acknowledge Gu Ying as a son, and cover up the entire matter.
“He is not of my blood but I have still brought him up for so many years and had people to guide him in his cultivation, I have already shown more than enough benevolence to his parents. With such big trouble he had gotten himself into this time, am I then expected to still protect him and put the entire Blood Fiend Palace into danger?” Gu Yi had spoken of all these because he did not want his own daughter to hold it against him.
Towards Gu Ying, there was only hatred, but with Gu Xin Yan, he was a real father, one who doted on and loved his own child.
Gu Xin Yan stood frozen in shock in her spot, unable to recover for a long time.
She was suddenly recalling back to the times when she was very young, when she was forced to draw lines with Gu Ying, seeing Gu Ying being dragged away by the Elders while she cried in her father’s arms.
Maybe, at that moment, she should already have guessed it.
They were both Gu Yi’s children, but the difference in treatment she and Gu Ying received was like Heaven and Earth.
Though the position of the Palace Lord among the Twelve Palaces was passed down through one’s blood lineage, it prioritized sons and disregarded daughters. But over the years, Gu Yi had been acting like he had completely forgotten all about Gu Ying, devoting all his time to grooming Gu Xin Yan into the next successor of the Blood Fiend Palace.
“Little Yin, you can just keep this matter to yourself. I know that you have a kind and soft heart, but Gu Ying is not your real brother, and you do not need to worry about him.” Gu Yi said in reassurance to Gu Xin Yan.
But Gu Xin Yan was stunned into speechlessness by the revelation of that truth.
Engaged in long conversation with their knees together in the room, the father and daughter pair had not noticed that outside the tightly shut door, Gu Ying was quietly standing in the corridor, separated only by a wall where every word spoken inside fell into his ears.
Upon that handsome face, was tinted faintly with a sneer.
“That’s really heartless…..” Gu Ying whispered with a soft laugh to himself. Towards all this, he seemed to have known it all along.
A black shadow silently appeared at Gu Ying’s side.
“Young Lord, quell your rage. You only need to bear with it for just a while more. If the Young Lord does not want to remain in the Blood Fiend Palace anymore, the Temple Lord has already given orders that the Young Lord can go back there anytime.” The dark robed man said softly by Gu Ying’s ear.
However, Gu Ying shook his head, his eyes narrowed with smiles as he stared at the tightly shut door.
“Should I be feeling rage? It is not a matter of a day or two that Gu Yi has treated me like this. In his eyes, I might even be less than a dog he keeps at his side. If not for the fact that I hold good enough talents and am able to help him with some things, he might have already have had me drowned in an icy lake.”
“Young Lord has suffered.” The dark robed man quickly said.
Gu Ying that said with a smile: “You help me tell my maternal Grandfather that I will not be going back yet. Rather strange rumblings are brewing in the Twelve Palaces recently and I am feeling that there is someone secretly manipulating strings behind it. During this Twelve Palaces’ Summit, barring any accidents, there would surely be a good show to watch.”
“And what are the Young Lord’s intentions?’
Gu Ying said: “This place will turn into purgatory hell soon. Have the men watch things closely.”
“Then do we need to make a move at that time?”
“No need. You just need to enjoy the show.” Gu Ying then paused, his eyes darkening slightly as he stared at that shut door before him, his ears resonating with that impactful debate.
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Chapter 1891: “The Twelve Palaces’ Summit (5)”
“There is just one thing. Ensure Gu Xin Yan’s safety.” Gu Ying said.
“Yes!”
Time passed as the days went by, and the various palaces gathered at the summit’s venue. The number of people grew but what should have been a busy and bustling scene became unimaginably strange. The location for the congregation was in an empty city at the foot of a mountain, a place that had always been meant to be used as a place for discussions among the Twelve Palaces.
The entire city had laid empty for close to a thousand years and it was only recently that teams from the various palaces stepped into this place.
Within the entire city, the atmosphere was oppressive and tense, common to see swords being drawn and bow drawn everywhere.
Just half a year ago, the various palaces had still been able to maintain a semblance of harmony on the surface but now, that harmony had been broken completely with the disciples from the various palaces who had been locked in bitter battle for the past half year harbouring deep grudges against each other. Now that they were forcibly gathered up together in the same place, the gazes they looked at each other with were filled with enmity.
If not for the strict orders given by the Elders from the various palaces where defiance would mean death, it was feared that before the summit even began, these people would have already fought each other to their deaths.
Within the city’s streets and small alleys, groups gathered in teams could be seen, walking around dressed in the same uniforms. Real slaughter had not happened but many conflicts were rising constantly in private.
Despite seeing that the atmosphere was getting so tense that it was becoming hard for everyone to breathe, there were instead several people who took advantage of the silence and cover of night to gather together in an inconspicuous little house, meeting together under the weak light from a single candle’s flame, chattering to each other in conversation.
“Hey hey! I’ll say, weren’t you too vicious with your strikes Brother Hua? You bashed me up so bad that I wasn’t able to get out from bed for an entire month! Even though we needed to put up a show for people to see, you did not have to hit me that hard did you?” In the dimly lit little house, dressed in the Flame Demons Palace’s uniform, Qiao Chu was complaining mournfully of Hua Yao’s evil conduct.
Hua Yao, who was seated right across Qiao Chu, was dressed in a dark purple uniform with a lightning emblem as his gaze passed fleetingly over Qiao Chu.
“If I had been too gentle with you, the Flame Demons Palace would not have believed it.” Hua Yao said indifferently.
Qiao Chu’s face was one of depression.
From the beginning, he had gone to the Flame Demons Palace and Hua Yao had gone to the Purple Thunder Palace. The Purple Thunder Palace possessed rather considerable might and ba
ck before the Battle of Deities Grand Meet, the two of them had already gotten into a “fight” upon the summit of Mount Fu Yao, so when they were all sowing discord among the Twelve Palaces this time, Qiao Chu and Hua Yao had used their previous “grudge” to drag their two palaces into another round of conflict.
To lock the Flames Palace Palace and the Purple Thunder Palace into unceasing turmoil as long as the other party still lived.
“I think the two of you should give it a rest now. It should be great to have someone working in coordination with you on the other side.” Rong Ruo said in helpless laughter, as she shook her head.
Within the Flame Demons Palace and the Purple Thunder Palace, with Qiao Chu and Hua Yao working together, inciting a dispute was not all that hard for them but she was the only one in the Soul Return Palace and the target she picked was the Flamboyant Palace. There was no one in the Flamboyant Palace to collude with in the Flamboyant Palace to make it easy to create conflict.
“Fei Yan had it the easiest. Everything that was needed to be done was already all done by Little Xie for him.” Qiao Chu said, immediately turning towards Fei Yan seated on the side and was laughing as he bit on an apple.
The bitter grudge between the Dragon Slayers Palace, the Blood Fiend Palace and the Pure Grace Palace was stirred up by Jun Wu Xie back when they were in the Pure Grace Palace and there wasn’t anything important left for Fei Yan to complete.
“That’s where you are wrong. Zhuge Yin’s old man would naturally want to avenge his son but the entire bunch of old things in the Dragon Slayers Palace were not all that keen to. It had taken a whole great deal of persuasion from me before they believed that the Blood Fiend Palace colluded with the Pure Grace Palace and they were intentionally creating trouble for the Dragon Slayers Palace before they agreed to pit themselves against the Blood Fiend Palace.” Fei Yan hastily sought to redress the injustice.
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