Chapter 902 : "Ring (1)"
As the last breath left his body, the man"s face actually showed a faint smile of relief. Compared to death, Jun Wu Xie"s elixir was one that made living more unbearable.
"Why is the Empress" lover after your life?" Qiao Chu asked looking at Jun Wu Xie. None of them have ever met the Prime Minister of the Fire Country but based on what Lei Chen had told them, they knew that the Fire Country"s Prime Minister was in an illicit affair with the Empress and they had had a child who was the current Fourth Prince, Lei Fan.
Needless to say Jun Wu Xie had not ever met the Prime Minister, she had not even met the Empress herself. The closest link to them that she had had any interaction with was the Fourth Prince Lei Fan. So why was the Prime Minister suddenly seeking to take her life?
"Isn"t the Fourth Prince"s biological father coming after the wrong person? I still remember during the banquet last night, Lei Fan had been highly aggressive in trying to win you over and the only thing he had fell short of doing was to order you to submit yourself to him. Why is it that just after one night, his old man is sending a.s.sa.s.sins to kill you?" Qiao Chu was feeling more confused the more he thought about it.
"He wasn"t going after the wrong person." Jun Wu Xie said calmly.
"No mistake?" Fan Zhuo asked, his eyebrow coming up. "You had left to go to the Imperial Garden with Lei Fan but when you returned, you appeared together with the Grand Adviser as Lei Fan had suddenly taken ill in the Imperial Garden. Seems like that had been all due to your efforts?"
Jun Wu Xie nodded. "I neutralized the Face Changing Technique used on him."
At that moment, the youths at the table were staring at Jun Wu Xie with wide incredulous eyes.
"Face Changing Technique? What does that mean?" Qiao Chu was getting a headache.
Fei Yan went on to explain: "Last night, I was just telling Little Xie that Lei Fan"s countenance was rather strange. He was obviously the Empress" biological son but he instead looked almost exactly like the woman the Emperor held dear to his heart. I had thought that there was something more to it and I did not expect Little Xie to move so quickly that she was able to verify the truth of the matter the very same night."
"That explains everything." Fan Zhuo said with a laugh in spite of the circ.u.mstances. "Lei Fan must have realized that his real countenance had been seen through and although he had wanted to win you over to his side, but you had repeatedly rejected his advances. Moreover, you have been seen to be friendly to Lei Chen and in order to prevent you from revealing his secret to Lei Chen, he needed to have you silenced. The Prime Minister must have taken action tonight under the influence of both the Empress and Lei Fan."
Although Lei Chen knew Lei Fan"s real ident.i.ty, and thought that Lei Fan"s looks was a matter that was rather strange, but he had not been able to discover the truth behind it and could only keep everything within himself.
Now that Jun Wu Xie had so easily neutralized Lei Fan"s Face Changing Technique, then all they needed to do now was to drag Lei Fan to go before the Emperor and easily bring this mess up, and the Emperor"s face would surely turn black as soot!
"It would seem that Lei Fan, the Empress and the Prime Minister will be going all out to take your life. After having failed today, they will still not spare your life in the days to come." Fan Zhuo said rubbing his chin, looking completely unworried for Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie suddenly added: "The people who are out to get me will not only be those three people."
"What? Who else could it be?" Qiao Chu"s eyes widened up once more. Jun Wu Xie had in one single night offended the Fire Country"s Empress, the most favoured Prince of the Emperor, and the head of the court officials, the Prime Minister. Her ability to incite such hatred was already unparalleled and she was actually telling them that there were more people who wanted to take her down?
Jun Wu Xie raised up her hand and showed the ring on her finger to everyone before her.
"Did any of you notice that the Emperor had shown great interest in this ring of mine?"
Everyone nodded. The ring was brought out from the bottom of the Heaven"s End cliff and Jun Wu Xie had also managed to unravel the mystery behind the method to temporarily bring up one"s spirit power level from the scribblings the original owner of the ring had left behind in the stone dwelling.
It could be said that the ring held special and extraordinary meaning to Jun Wu Xie.
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Chapter 903 : "Ring (2)"
"Do you all still remember, within that stone dwelling, the words carved into the wall?" Jun Wu Xie asked, her eyes narrowed up.
Qiao Chu and the others immediately quieted their hearts and tried to recall. After awhile, Hua Yao was the first one to remember the subtle link the scribblings had mentioned and he suddenly raised up his head, his handsome eyes glinting with slight comprehension.
"You are saying that the man who had been trapped at the bottom of the Heaven"s End Cliff was linked to the Fire Country?"
Jun Wu Xie removed the ring from her finger and handed it over to Hua Yao and the others to inspect closely.
Hua Yao and his other companions quickly found the Chinese character for "Fire".
"I remember….. that the man had mentioned within those lines that he was the Emperor of a certain country. Don"t tell me….. He was originally the Emperor of the Fire Country? Because he disappeared and that is why this current Emperor is on the throne?" Qiao Chu"s eyes bulged once more. He had never once thought that the ring Jun Wu Xie had accidentally picked up at the bottom of the Heaven"s End Cliff would be so intricately linked to the Fire Country.
"No. Calculating based on the time that would have pa.s.sed, the time when that man had gone down to the bottom of the Heaven"s End Cliff would be closer to a hundred years ago or not too far away from that, and the current Emperor"s age does not match that period of time." Hua Yao said immediately, shaking his head in disagreement.
"Even if it was the previous Emperor who had pa.s.sed on, the link to the present Fire Country is still there." Fan Zhuo quipped.
Fei Yan"s eyes narrowed up like he was thinking hard about something. A few moments later, his suddenly flared open.
"I remember it now!"
Fei Yan"s face suddenly looked highly excited as he looked at Jun Wu Xie to say happily: "I had looked into the Fire Country previously and I had also gained a certain understanding after hearing some things about the Fire Country"s past generations of rulers. The Fire Country"s first Emperor of this bloodline, who is the current Emperor"s grandfather, was once not the ruler of the Fire Country. The Emperor of the Fire Country had originally been his elder brother, but that elder brother had suddenly disappeared one day. The Fire Country had been thrown into some years of tumult after that and the first Emperor of the current line had only chosen to ascend to the throne to stabilise the political courts and government of the country. Based on the timing of the occurrences, the man in that stone dwelling could very well be the elder brother of the first Emperor of the current line, the original Emperor who had suddenly gone missing!"
"With the way you put it, it does sound rather plausible. But that had happened so long ago, so what does it have to do with the present?" Fan Zhuo asked, turning his head that was supported by his hand to look at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie told them: "Last night, when I met the Grand Adviser in the Imperial Garden, we had initially only exchanged a few perfunctory words of greetings. But when Wen Yu saw the ring on my finger, he hinted that I should leave the Fire Country quickly. He said that if I remained here, unpleasant things might happen. I had initially thought that he was talking about the Prime Minister"s a.s.sa.s.sination attempt, but after thinking through it carefully, I concluded that Lei Fan wants to kill me because I saw his real face, and not because of this ring. But what Wen Yu was talking about has definitely got something to do with the ring."
It was obvious, that the dangers Wen Yu had mentioned was not about Lei Fan.
"That sounds really strange. Even if the ring is linked to the a certain generation of Emperor of the Fire Country, what could the ring really represent? How can it be that the Emperor is suddenly trying to kill you just because of a old and inconspicuous ring? Doesn"t that sound too strange to be true? Even if he want to take the ring back, he could have very well just asked you directly couldn"t he?" Qiao Chu still did not understand what kind of dangers could a single ring like that bring.
"On that point, I still do not have a full picture. But Wen Yu"s words couldn"t have been entirely baseless. He must know something or has reason to be guessing at something, and that was why he gave me that reminder." Jun Wu Xie said as she put the ring back onto her finger. Although she now knew where the ring had originated from, but she still could not fathom why Wen Yu had told her to quickly leave the Fire Country.
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