Chapter 48.1: Worry
This man, had really taken just one incense stick’s time to walk out from the powerful array of the Divine Healers Sect that had killed countless powerful pugilists, and he was coming out from it without a single scratch on him.
In contrast, having been suddenly rescued from the array, Bai Zhi Yan was still in a battle stance, his face covered with blotches of black and blue, and a trickle of blood seeping down from the corner of his mouth.
All the puppets before him had suddenly disappeared. He stood there dazed for an instant, thinking that some other demonic monsters was about to come. Upon seeing Lou Jun Yao not far away from him, looking leisurely and completely at ease, he then woke up to the fact that he was already out from the array!
[But, why does that fella look like there isn’t even a single scratch on him! ? That is just too much!][He had been beaten up so badly inside and in the end, had that scoundrel just toured one round inside and came right out from there? !]
Bai Zhi Yan immediately felt as if a knife had just been stabbed into his heart.
However, more was to come that would prick at his heart.
Here he was having just undergone a vicious battle, his body carrying glorious badges of honour, his heart finally felt a tinge of consolation as he saw Bai Qiu walking towards them from the front with several of the Divine Healers Sect’s Elders. But the entire group of them did not seem to have noticed him at all as they walked right past him before his eyes.
The smiling face that Bai Zhi Yan had just lifted up then froze. “…..?”
Frantically turning his head around, he saw the entire group of people walking over to Lou Jun Yao as he had thought, the expressions on their faces looking pleasantly surprised.
[Even the inflexible and stern faced Bai Qiu’s face was looking very….. warm and receptive! ?][Whoa whoa whoa. Could he possibly have been merely a child his father had picked up from the streets all this time! ?]
“Kid, what is that supreme grade elixir that you ate? I clearly saw that you were already completely immobilized just now.” Bai Li asked, his face highly excited, his large eyes sparkling exceptionally bright, almost like two bright twinkling stars.
Lou Jun Yao curled up his lips and replied very casually. “It’s nothing. Just a gift from a friend whom I met in the lower realms.”
He really had not thought that that little fox’s skill in Medicine would be so exceptional, capable of dispelling even the poison from the Divine Healers Sect so easily, and he could not help but recall what she had said back then. [Able to dispel most poisons.]
[But surely the Divine Healers Sect were not at the level of “most”!]
Once those words came out, the group of people were all in shock. If those words had been uttered out from Bai Zhi Yan’s mouth, they would all have thought that he was just joking. But though the person before their eyes would seem to be a mere child, but he was afterall a reigning Lord over an entire region in Cloud Heaven, hence words that came out from his mouth was a whole lot more credible.
“There is actually someone with such exceptional skills in Medicine in the lower realm?” Bai Qiu’s brows knitted up tightly together. Suddenly seeming to realize something, the expression on his face became startled. “The poison in your body….. has been purged?”
“Not only has the poison been purged, even the blood curse has been completely cleaned right up!” Bai Zhi Yan was finally able to say something and the expression on his face was one of glee. “Let me tell all of you. That person possesses the greatest skills in Medicine I have ever seen, where even great grandfather back in his day might not be as gifted as this person!”
Besides having been the new Sect Leader of the Divine Healers, Bai Zhi Yan was also the most gifted among them all, his personality insufferably arrogant, where very few would be able to make him admire them so much like this. Hence, it just made everyone even more curious and they opened their mouths to ask: “Could it be a reclusive sage from Cloud Heaven who went into the lower realm?”
“Haha, reclusive sage….. A young lady who is not even yet fourteen? You’ve got to be pulling my leg.” Bai Zhi Yan said with a laugh. “Just stop throwing blind guesses around like this. That person is from the lower realm but possesses terrifying talent. Though it seems those medical skills do not follow the same path as that of the Divine Healers Sect, but it looks to me that it is even more brilliant.”
Chapter 48.2: Worry
This time, even the ever stern faced Bai Qiu whose emotions did not show on his face was suddenly displaying a shocked demeanor. “A young girl not yet fourteen?”
It was different for him unlike Ye Li and the others who were half in disbelief but his mind seemed to drift off to a very far away place, like he could faintly recall something but just could not be sure.
A girl who possessed such Heaven defying and incredulous gift despite being just so young in age. There was actually a precedent of that right here in Cloud Heaven before.
But this had happened down there in the lands of a lower realm….. That would really cause one to have to think deeply about it.
Bai Qiu’s face darkened a little and then turned to look at Lou Jun Yao. “Come with me.” And then just turned around to walk away upon saying that.
Lou Jun Yao arched up an eyebrow, but listened to Bai Qiu and followed behind him.
Leaving Bai Zhi Yan to stand there in bewilderment by himself. “Why has my father asked Jun Yao to go there? I’ll just go with them….. Oww! Third Elder, what are you doing! ?”
Bai Zhi Yan shielded his face and jumped one big step backwards, to look on in horror at the group of people smiling at him. [Suddenly poking at his face where he had been injured for no good reason, do they think it’s funny? !]
Bai Li’s face split into a highly disarming smile. “Look at your swollen and badly bruised face. Come to my room and let me apply medicine on it first.”
It was not known whether it was due to Bai Zhi Yan having taken liberties with too many women but his imagination immediately ran rather rich and wild. Upon hearing Bai Li’s words, his face turned pale and he quickly said indignantly: “Apply medicine if you must, but why do I need to go to your room? Has the Third Elder come to develop other kinds of special interest besides researching into medical prescriptions over the years? !”
Bai Li was stunned by Bai Zhi Yan’s highly aggrieved look as he exclaimed out so loudly and it took him a long while before he came back to his senses. “I saw you covering your face earlier and I guessed that you must be quite badly hurt. How can I apply medicine for you properly if you do not go lie down in my room? And what kind of special interest are you talking about? ?”
The expression on Bai Zhi Yan’s face turned stiff and feeling incredibly awkward, he coughed lightly. “It’s nothing. Let’s go have medicine applied then!”
And he then took off so swiftly like there was wind under his feet, as if there was a pack of wolves after him.
Bai Li’s face was still looking completely bewildered, a little stumped, but he still went on to open his mouth to say helpfully. “Kid! My room is in the southern side! Where are you running off to going north? It’s only toilets up there.”
Bai Zhi Yan’s fast moving feet stumbled. “…..”
On the other side, Bai Qiu brought Lou Jun Yao to come to the meeting hall. This place was usually only opened up when there was a big incident or an highly important matter. But Bai Qiu had brought him here because the grand meeting hall was the Divine Healers Sect’s most protected place, and also the most private.
After Bai Qiu brought the man to the place, he had just asked for the man to wait a moment and before he had even walked away, the man’s languid sounding voice already rose to say indifferently: “No need for all that trouble. You can come close to this body of mine now.”
Bai Qiu’s footsteps halted, feeling rather incredulous.
Back when this man was afflicted by that poison, his temperament had undergone a drastic change and his body constitution had become exceptionally terrifying. Not to mention humans, even objects devoid of life would disintegrate in nothing at his hands.
But right before his eyes, he saw the man sitting leisurely in the main seat in the hall, in that chair made from the highest grade of rosewood, his long slender fingers toying with the leaves of the evergreen bonsai plant beside him.
It must be known that all the furniture like tables, chairs, and even the bed in his room had to be made with special materials. It could be imagined just how powerful and damaging the aura emanating out from him had been back then.
Whenever Bai Qiu came to diagnose his condition back then, he had had to put on clothes and gloves that could isolate him from that aura. This would be the first time that he was coming into such close contact with the man.
Back when he had brought him back as a child, he had been so tiny. To think that he would grow up to reach such a profound and unfathomable stage today, Bai Qiu could not help but feel a slight twinge in his heart.
Chapter 48.3: Worry
Hidden in that man’s body, was an extremely powerful force that revolved around his heart’s meridian. This meant that even if he were to be poisoned again in future, that powerful force would be able to suppress the poison very quickly, that would ensure that he would remain safe and sound for half a month’s time. In the few hundred years that Bai Qiu had lived, he had never seen anything so amazing, and his astute pair of eyes glinted with a bright sparkle.
“The methods of that young lady from the low level lands are highly unique and different, employing ways completely unlike to those of our Divine Healers Sect, and it is clear that they are superior to ours.” Bai Qiu said with endless praise. “Young and promising indeed. If she’s here in our Cloud Heaven, she will surely go very far. What a pity.”
Lou Jun Yao let out a low laugh. “Is Uncle Bai feeling rueful for such an outstanding talent? It’s really rare that anyone can make you see them in such a favourable light.”
“Truly a prodigy.” At that moment, Bai Qiu’s heart was moved by that young girl he had not even met before and his face could not help but sink slightly. “You were afflicted with that poison for close to a hundred years and not that it’s suddenly been dispelled, I fear the hidden hands behind it would surely not just sit back calmly. I think that young lass would most probably meet with misfortune.”
Lou Jun Yao’s face immediately congealed up. “What do you mean?”
“The person who brought harm upon you was trying to control you and not to take your life. The blood curse in your body is named the Emotion Devouring Curse and as its name says, it is able to cause a person to become completely devoid of feelings and incapable of love but to only heed the orders of the person indicated by the one who laid the curse. The price to pay for laying such a curse is extremely great. No only will it cause the person who laid the curse to forever remain only under darkness and never to see the light of day again, it would take a very heavy toil upon that person’s body. Can you then tell me, for someone who paid such a heavy price to suddenly find the curse they laid had been broken by someone, how deep a hatred would they feel?”
The shade of Lou Jun Yao’s face immediately looked rather ugly upon hearing those words. [If that was true, wouldn’t he have implicated the little fox and dragged her into all this! ?]
Although her battle powers might not necessarily be inferior to her medical skills, but the enemy was from Cloud Heaven afterall. Any child here with average skills in martial arts would be able to hang up and beat a powerful pugilist from the mid leveled White Fen Lands, what’s more for that most insignificant and lowest leveled land.
Lou Jun Yao shot up from his seat with a whoosh to his feet. It should have been about twenty over days since he came back to Cloud Heaven and he did not know how the little fox was doing right at that moment. If she had really come to any harm because of him…..
“Uncle Bai, I came here this time because I wanted you to check the source of the Emotion Devouring Curse. From what that young lady told me, back when she was dispelling the curse for me, she was attacked by the other party and it made me think that it was an intentional act from someone.”
Lou Jun Yao’s brows furrowed slightly. In the several days since he came back, he had already summoned back most of his people from the Dark Regions. He had Mei Ji and the others holding the fort now and he wasn’t all that worried about anyone daring to come up to their door to stir trouble. His mind was in fact feeling more worried for that tiny little fox.
At that moment, Lou Jun Yao might not know why he, who had always done as he pleased and went anywhere he wanted would suddenly come to worry about a person’s wellbeing and safety.
Sometimes, weren’t there certain things….. that actually came about just from mere interest?
The All Saints Day that happened once every three years. The scene that night was different from usual. It wasn’t the fifteen of the month but the moon was large and round, with faints traces of gold and red light swirling over its surface, looking incredibly elegant and mysterious.
“I heard that Princess Ning Feng was born on All Saints Day, a day we celebrate with such a grand festival. She truly possesses the life like that of a phoenix from the day she was born!”
“She is already the Green Wave Kingdom’s greatest lady prodigy and added to that, with such a unique and incredibly noble birth characters, it will be hard to find many women who can match a lady like her.”
Seated within a horse carriage that was driving slowly towards the Imperial Palace, many of such statements could be heard. A young lady with a countenance of peerless beauty, a pair of beautiful and long narrow eyes like a phoenix’s stared with a measured gaze into the dark night scene, before she then softly pulled down the carriage’s curtains.
[Born to live her life like a phoenix?]
[Ha, a blood red full moon has always been an ominous omen.]
