Chen Xiyi-yuan felt that this man was already courting death.

Although the younger brother beside her didn’t seem to like to reveal his family’s heritage when they were out, in her understanding, other inheritors regarded the Dragon King’s lineage as an enhancement to their personal status, while the young man saw it as a responsibility.

Chen Xiyi-yuan lowered her head again to look at Li Zhui-yuan.

However, to her surprise, she had expected the young man to be angry, furious, or at least have a cold glint in his eyes. But now, the young man remained calm.

Her Domain, combined with the isolation array the young man had set up, could conceal the five of them to the greatest extent. The only thing likely to penetrate was killing intent.

But he had none.

Chen Xiyi-yuan blinked at Li Zhui-yuan.

Li Zhui-yuan didn’t react.

Chen Xiyi-yuan leaned in slightly, bringing her face closer, and continued to blink forcefully.

Li Zhui-yuan had no choice but to turn his head slightly to look at her.

Chen Xiyi-yuan gestured forward with her eyes, meaning that if he wanted, she, as his elder sister, would go and kill that man for him.

The essence of kindness lay in responsibility and boundaries, not pedantry.

Chen Xiyi-yuan was kind, but that night in front of the soup shop, when she killed the Yu family member who had been tracking them, she was swift and decisive, as if afraid the soup would get cold.

The man’s earlier words had touched her bottom line of respect for the Qin and Liu families, and she also felt that she now had a responsibility to protect the young man in front of her.

Although, ever since they met, it seemed that the younger brother had constantly been saving her life.

After glancing at her, Li Zhui-yuan looked away.

Chen Xiyi-yuan didn’t understand what this meant and could only rub her blinking, somewhat sore eyes. She straightened up and her peripheral vision caught Run-sheng and the others.

Run-sheng had his eyes closed, Lin Shu-you had his head down, and Tan Wen-bin wore a very forced smile on his face.

Chen Xiyi-yuan saw that they were pretending to be relaxed and indifferent, but in reality, they were suppressing their anger… restraining their killing intent.

You guys, you were secretly chatting again, and you didn’t include me!

For a girl who loved to talk and had been accustomed to hearing private family secrets since childhood, being excluded from the communication circle, only able to watch but not listen or join, was truly agony!

But no matter how displeased she was, Li Zhui-yuan still made no move.

Instead, the man on the other side finally walked slowly towards the white-robed woman.

The one-armed plump woman raised her remaining fist, while the white-robed woman behind her pinched sword intent with her fingertips, ready for a desperate fight.

Strands of black energy surged from the man, and his aura instantly peaked.

Chen Xiyi-yuan sighed. This, she thought, should be the best opportunity for a sneak attack.

Of course, she felt that if she were to act, she wouldn’t need a sneak attack, but she just found it a pity to waste this opportunity to save effort.

The next moment, Chen Xiyi-yuan’s expression froze.

The plump woman’s fist did not strike the man, nor did the black energy from the man sweep towards the plump woman. Instead, it gently coiled around her wound. The grotesque wound on the plump woman’s severed arm was being adjusted and healed at a visible speed.

The sword energy from the white-robed woman’s fingertips pierced the plump woman’s back. Most of the plump woman’s original fish scales had fallen off, and the remaining ones were now scraped off by the white-robed woman. Under the white-robed woman’s guidance, all these scales gathered at the plump woman’s severed arm, forming a new arm made of fish scales, like building blocks.

It certainly wouldn’t be as good as a natural arm, but in the current environment, it was an optimal choice.

The white-robed woman extended her hand to the man, who took it, gently pulling her up. Then, he very naturally embraced her, and the white-robed woman, equally accustomed, rested her head on his chest.

Black energy continuously flowed out from the man, entering the white-robed woman’s body, helping her quickly heal her injuries.

The blind girl, who had previously fainted, now raised her head again, sniffed, stopped her nosebleed, and then took a candle from her pocket and ate it with her head tilted back.

And in the area where the slender woman had previously exploded, a vertical shadow appeared. The next moment, the slender woman staggered out from within, clutching her chest, and knelt on the ground.

The white-robed woman spoke to the man beside her: “Help A-qing heal first; her injuries are the most severe.”

The slender woman, called A-qing, immediately shook her head: “Miss, I’m fine. It’s more important for Master Son-in-Law to heal you first.”

Master Son-in-Law?

They were actually working together.

Chen Xiyi-yuan blinked, then she immediately recalled the scene of herself continuously blinking in front of the young man earlier, and her face instantly turned red and hot.

The man had been hiding his aura all along. Even when the white-robed woman faced a life-or-death crisis, he still didn’t show up.

Chen Xiyi-yuan knew that if she had acted earlier, a new ambush would have awaited her.

The white-robed woman and her group were genuinely injured, and all of them were severely hurt. The “old man” outside the stone gate had not held back.

But the blind girl was faking unconsciousness, and the slender woman had been enduring and not coming out after her “body exploded.” The white-robed woman likely still had a hidden sword.

Their condition was very poor, but while dealing with the “old man,” they also set up a net for their suspected future opponents.

When Chen Xiyi-yuan engaged the man, she would automatically assume that the white-robed woman’s group was on her side. Even if they couldn’t provide help at the moment, there would be no need to guard against them.

Precisely at such a moment, it was easiest to suffer harm, and they had already sharpened their swords.

Chen Xiyi-yuan murmured, “Little brother, how did you figure it out?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “I just said, in this world, not many people like to talk to themselves in thin air.”

When the man first appeared, he told the white-robed woman that he wanted to kill her. Although it was a bit redundant, it was to give an explanation to the Heavenly Dao, and it was justifiable.

But the man then brought up what Uncle Qin had done back then, and even pointed out that his father was one of the involved parties.

This was, perhaps, too thoughtful.

So thoughtful that it could be a stage play.

Thoughts that could have been kept private were instead narrated like an omniscient storyteller. Wasn’t this just to fish for something?

Some secrets truly can only be done, not spoken. If the cards are fully laid out, then no one has a way to back down. This is forcing the old woman to draw her sword and fight desperately.

You could insist on speaking, but then you would first have to kill all the white-robed woman’s group before talking to yourself.

The people weren’t even killed yet. Who knew what accidents might happen next? What if someone escaped and leaked the information?

These two groups, no, most likely they were one group.

Earlier, when they were outside, they were far apart and guarded against each other, performing very well.

After coming in, whether it was the man’s courage, calmness, or even cold-bloodedness, or the white-robed woman’s desperate effort to drive away the “old man” and then immediately entering the next encirclement state, all indicated that this was a powerful team with impeccable discipline, coordination, and mental fortitude.

Ding Luo-xiang: “Brother Yun, it seems you were truly mistaken. Earlier outside, when that tall man released the energy wave, his approach was very crude.

I think he must have obtained a cultivation method by some chance, one that is somewhat similar in form to the Qin Family’s Dragon Observation Technique.

Although the Qin family rarely appears in the martial world now, my family records the Qin family’s style back then. Waving a hand could conjure wind and thunder, lifting a foot could gather dragons—that was an artistic flair.

But that tall man was so crude, it was as if he had literally poked several holes in his body for air to go in and out.”

Zhou Yun-fan gently stroked the white-robed woman’s hair in his arms and nodded: “Hmm, I had this doubt when I was outside. Now it seems my judgment was indeed wrong. Luo-xiang, I caused you to suffer.”

If Zhou Yun-fan had not hidden himself and had also acted just now, then the white-robed woman and her three other companions would not have suffered such severe injuries.

Ding Luo-xiang: “Brother Yun, this is not your fault. Once a suspected Qin family river-walker appears, let alone you, even I would go all out to eliminate him. Even if my father were here, he would make the same decision as you.

Moreover, the Qin family also has the grudge of harming your father.

If that Qin family member hadn’t acted so ruthlessly back then, Uncle Zhou wouldn’t have been paralyzed in bed for so many years, leaving you without support from a young age.”

Zhou Yun-fan: “Luo-xiang, thank you, really. It’s good that I met you, it’s good that I met your father, it’s good that I met the Ding family.”

Ding Luo-xiang: “Brother Yun, there’s no need to say such things between us. You are the future son-in-law my father values. In the future, not only will I be yours, but the entire Ding family of He-gu will also be yours.”

Zhou Yun-fan: “Luo-xiang, don’t mention such things again. I promised Uncle Ding that even after marrying you, the Ding family will always be the Ding family. The Ding family has shown me immense kindness, and I cannot act like an ungrateful wretch.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Hmm, this is a true live-in son-in-law!”

Li Zhui-yuan noticed that this topic always piqued the interest of the young girl beside him immediately.

From their conversation, the young man had just gleaned another piece of information: Zhou Yun-fan’s father was indeed one of the people who participated in ambushing Uncle Qin back then. Although Uncle Qin had escaped, heavily wounded and on the verge of death, and had admitted defeat by lighting the lamp a second time, Uncle Qin had not let the group that targeted him off easy either.

Zhou Yun-fan’s father has been paralyzed since that battle until now. Even for an ordinary person to suffer such a fate, life would instantly turn dark, let alone for a heroic figure who once lit the lamp and walked the river.

Moreover, because something happened to Zhou Yun-fan’s father, the Zhou family—at least Zhou Yun-fan’s branch—faced a severe crisis, forcing Zhou Yun-fan to seek refuge with the Ding family early on to acquire cultivation resources.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Little brother, they’re working together, right?”

Li Zhui-yuan nodded.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Then who is the one lighting the lamp? I don’t think it’s that Ding Luo-xiang.”

Li Zhui-yuan: “The person who lights the lamp generally avoids direct danger. If she dies, then everyone who bows to her will lose their opportunity.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “So the one lighting the lamp is this Zhou Yun-fan? The Ding family’s young lady’s role in the team is actually the same as her maid’s?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “Yes.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “This live-in son-in-law’s methods are truly impressive, and his brazenness is truly thick-skinned. Not only does he want the young lady and her family’s heritage, but he also wants the young lady to bow to him as the Dragon King and walk the river with him.”

Li Zhui-yuan glanced at Chen Xiyi-yuan.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Little brother, you think so too, right?”

Li Zhui-yuan did not respond.

Zhou Yun-fan began to treat the slender woman, A-qing.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Little brother, so, you really don’t plan to act?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “Zhou Yun-fan is no ordinary person. His understanding in some areas even surprises me.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “So you mean to let them go?”

Li Zhui-yuan’s gaze fell on the blind girl.

She finished eating the candle, seemingly regaining some strength, and reached up to wipe away the blood beneath her nose.

Li Zhui-yuan: “How could I let them go? How his father treated my uncle back then, that’s how I will treat him now.

Giving him a fair and square duel would be letting him off too easily.

I will strip away everything he currently possesses, piece by piece.

Not just the Zhou family, but also the Ding family of He-gu. They knew about what Zhou Yun-fan’s father participated in back then, yet they still dared to take Zhou Yun-fan into their family as an honored son-in-law.

Then the Ding family will no longer have a reason to exist.”

Whether ignorance is a crime is open to debate, but the Ding family clearly knew. The Ding family dared to do this, ostensibly thinking that Zhou Yun-fan’s father had not been exposed in that incident, but in reality, the Ding family was certain that the Qin and Liu families’ Dragon King lineages had no chance of revival.

If the Qin and Liu families were still in their former glory, even with a hundred times more courage, the Ding family of He-gu would not dare to have any involvement with Zhou Yun-fan.

Unlike other martial arts factions, the Ding family of He-gu was renowned in the martial world for its business acumen. Its family owned numerous industries, capable of connecting with top-tier forces and echoing with grassroots Xuan-men. By being adept at investment and alignment, it had never produced a Dragon King in its history but had gradually developed into a formidable force today.

Now it seemed the Ding family of He-gu intended to shed its “merchant” image and, with the help of this son-in-law they brought in, attempt to ascend to the position of Dragon King.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Little brother, don’t worry, I will help you avenge that deceased Uncle Qin from the Qin family.”

Li Zhui-yuan: “My uncle didn’t die.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Didn’t die? Then he’s currently…”

Li Zhui-yuan: “Quite healthy.”

He can farm and deliver goods, occasionally being used as a punching bag by the old woman, and recently had new insights and breakthroughs.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “No wonder you could stay so calm.”

Li Zhui-yuan: “The importance of some things transcends life and death.”

Uncle Qin truly had the potential to become a Dragon King back then, otherwise those guys wouldn’t have secretly ganged up on him on the river to surround and kill him.

Zhou Yun-fan was indeed right. His father and that group of people did break the Qin family’s backbone, plunging the Qin family, which still had a chance to rise from the ashes, back into the distant darkness.

On the other side, after Zhou Yun-fan’s injuries were treated, he walked towards the stone gate.

He placed his hands on the stone gate, and black energy covered the entire stone gate.

The “creak” sound continued, loosening up again.

The plump woman went to carry the blind girl on her back and brought her to the stone gate.

“I’m too fat; I made Master Son-in-Law exert more effort.”

Zhou Yun-fan: “A-hong, you’re not fat at all.”

Ding Luo-xiang: “I agree to let A-hong come into the house. Let her be our all-night maid, okay?”

Zhou Yun-fan: “I don’t mind, but you have to see if A-hong is willing.”

Ding Luo-xiang: “A-hong, what do you say?”

The plump woman: “Miss, A-hong likes to sleep in. You always call for a whole night, and A-hong can’t sleep.”

Ding Luo-xiang raised her foot, kicked A-hong’s calf, then forcefully and repeatedly punched Zhou Yun-fan’s arm:

“It’s all your fault, all your fault!”

“Hahahaha!” Zhou Yun-fan laughed, then said, “Come, all of you come and give me a hand. Those five dragonflies are dead, and without their tokens, this door is truly difficult to open. It’s all your miss’s fault; she always needs a whole night, draining my body, so I’m very weak now.”

Everyone laughed.

Immediately, everyone began to exert force on the stone gate, including the blind girl, who was carried on the plump woman A-hong’s back, also symbolically extended a hand towards the stone gate in front of her.

Their backs were completely exposed.

Chen Xiyi-yuan pursed her lips. She felt this was another very suitable opportunity to strike.

At the same time, Chen Xiyi-yuan also noticed that the young man’s gaze was constantly fixed on the blind girl being carried.

The blind girl looked to be about thirteen or fourteen.

Chen Xiyi-yuan asked curiously, “Little brother, do you like younger ones?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “Am I very old?”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Oh, that’s right.”

The stone gate finally opened wide enough for the plump woman to pass through sideways.

They walked out, their footsteps gradually fading into the distance.

Li Zhui-yuan still didn’t move.

Chen Xiyi-yuan looked at the young man, then at the widening stone gate, and asked:

“Are they still outside?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “I don’t know, but we’re not in a hurry, so we can wait a bit longer.”

Outside the stone gate, the blind girl hung upside down. Her clothes draped downwards, revealing the purple talismans embedded in various joints of her body.

Her eye sockets were no longer simply pitch black, but faintly flickered with weak flames.

Zhao Yi also had a habit of hiding a purple talisman in his tongue. Each purple talisman was extremely precious, but the blind girl had many. Moreover, her aura was completely sealed, like a semi-dead object clinging there, waiting for anyone else to emerge from the stone gate before immediately igniting herself and detonating all the purple talismans on her body.

In the distance, Zhou Yun-fan and Ding Luo-xiang stood there.

Ding Luo-xiang: “Brother Yun, we have been waiting here for so long, haven’t we completely confirmed yet?”

Mainly because a sound wave emanated from afar, as if a demonic beast was being hunted, and the commotion was getting closer and closer.

The Yu family was currently in crisis everywhere; it was unwise to linger in one place for a long time.

Zhou Yun-fan bit his lower lip: “Luo-xiang, I truly hope now that they have been burned to ashes.”

Ding Luo-xiang: “If they’re not dead and are still hiding in the tunnel, they would have already been unable to resist attacking us, wouldn’t they?”

Zhou Yun-fan: “That’s the only way to assume it. I’ve been making futile efforts. If they’re still inside and have been enduring until now, it means all my various schemes have been seen through by them.”

Ding Luo-xiang: “In my eyes, no one in this world is smarter than you, Brother Yun.”

Zhou Yun-fan suddenly let out a breath: “Heh, how could I forget this point.”

Ding Luo-xiang: “What?”

Zhou Yun-fan:

“The Qin family’s tradition is to never take detours when walking the river. They only believe in their own physique.

Moreover, the Qin family has always had a tradition of walking the river alone. Even during the Qin family’s decline, that person walked the river by himself.

But that previous group was clearly a team.

Heh, it seems I was overly suspicious, knowing that many Dragon King’s lineage inheritors came with this wave.

Let’s go, Luo-xiang. Let A-hui come back.”

Ding Luo-xiang waved towards the stone gate.

A-hui descended, the flames in her eye sockets extinguished. She became the small blind girl again, walking towards them.

A sudden urge surged in Zhou Yun-fan’s heart. He wanted A-hui to turn back now and go explode herself in the tunnel.

But this crazy thought, in the end, remained unspoken.

Among his fiancée’s three maids, A-hui was the most important and most expensive.

She was designed and crafted by him with painstaking effort, supported by the Ding family’s immense cost.

If a Qin family river-walker truly emerged, he would not hesitate to use A-hui to perish with the opponent. But if it was merely for this extremely low-probability test, he truly couldn’t bear to.

Ding Luo-xiang: “Brother Yun, that commotion is still coming towards us. Let’s move quickly. I suspect that roaring demonic beast is being deliberately driven to be used as an excuse to act.”

“Okay, let’s go.”

This time, the five of Zhou Yun-fan truly left.

In the tunnel.

Li Zhui-yuan removed his array and signaled Chen Xiyi-yuan to release her Domain.

The young man opened his palm, and a stack of metal cards floated down, converging into a human figure. Immediately, General Sun descended.

Li Zhui-yuan: “Go check outside the stone gate. Don’t restrain your aura.”

General Sun: “As you command.”

The aura of the official general was deliberately leaked. General Sun swaggered through the door crack, then walked back.

“Reporting to Lord, it’s peaceful outside.”

Li Zhui-yuan nodded, opened his hand again, General Sun departed, and the metal cards returned to the young man’s palm.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Should I go probe again?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “You can.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan unfolded her Domain, rushed out of the stone gate, and then stood outside, saying, “You can come out now.”

Li Zhui-yuan and the others walked out of the stone gate one by one.

What appeared before everyone was a layout similar to a backyard. Looking up, a huge red sphere was illuminating the space above.

The sphere displayed a highly precise mechanical texture, meaning it should adjust its brightness according to the day and night changes outside, giving this vast underground world its own sun.

Actually, there should have been two more: one a moon, and another dynamic and changeable, able to help regulate the four seasons here.

But the other two, due to years of disrepair, no longer lit up or rotated, leaving only this one, purely for illumination.

After all, it would be too much to ask those beasts to repair such ingenious mechanisms.

Lin Shu-you: “It’s so big here.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Yes, it’s so big.”

Lin Shu-you looked at Chen Xiyi-yuan in confusion: “You also think it’s big?”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “It is indeed very big.”

Lin Shu-you: “Your family is also a Dragon King family, isn’t it this big?”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “In terms of the scale of the ancestral residence, it’s far inferior. If this place were likened to a palace, then my Chen family’s ancestral residence would be a county yamen.”

Lin Shu-you: “Ah?”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “No choice, my Chen family ancestors were not Dragon Kings; the Dragon King only appeared later. So when the ancestral residence was first built, the specifications were set very low.

Then the ancestral tombs were right next to the ancestral residence, and even Su Shi’s stone tablets were right against the courtyard wall.

Now, even if we wanted to expand, it would be very troublesome, so we just didn’t bother.

The most important thing is that my Chen family members, except for the direct lineage, all live outside. Hainan Island is very large, and the population is not high, so it’s very spacious outside. I usually prefer to live outside too.”

Lin Shu-you: “Was the initial planning not done well?”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Hmm, I guess so.”

Tan Wen-bin reached out and patted Lin Shu-you’s shoulder: “Have you forgotten what Dragon King Chen is good at? Saying it’s a county yamen, it might be a grand temple in a snail shell. The actual space inside might be terrifyingly vast.”

Lin Shu-you looked at Chen Xiyi-yuan.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “It’s alright, some of the rooms inside are quite large, but usually no one goes there. It’s easy to get lost, not to mention confusing day and night, hot and cold.”

Speaking of this, seeing their curiosity about her ancestral home, Chen Xiyi-yuan couldn’t help but ask:

“You haven’t been inside the Qin and Liu families’ ancestral homes yet, have you?”

Tan Wen-bin: “We went in, but all those treasures could only be looked at, not taken… wouldn’t that be even more unbearable?”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Yes, indeed. That’s a real pity. My ancestor’s notes record that the Qin family once bound a mountain range, broke it apart, and established the Qin family ancestral home to continue it. Just thinking about it, you know how magnificent the Qin family ancestral home must have been.

The Liu family ancestral home is even more exaggerated. My grandmother said that the Liu family’s ancestral home is like an earthly Jade Pond.

By the way, doesn’t the Liu family matriarch usually live there?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “No matter how good or grand a place is, if there are few family members, living there feels more like a cage built for oneself.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan sighed silently upon hearing this.

If, earlier, Liu Yu-mei lived at Great-Grandfather’s house to borrow good fortune for A-li’s treatment, then now, Grandmother Liu must truly like living there.

The small eastern room, a tiled bungalow, certainly couldn’t compare to the “Jade Pond,” but there, she had old sisters who would come over on time every day to play cards with her.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “By the way, where are we going next?”

Lin Shu-you: “Over there.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Where is ‘over there’?”

Lin Shu-you scratched his head: “Where was ‘over there’ again? It seems to be directly below the sun, or…”

Chen Xiyi-yuan reacted, immediately standing in front of Li Zhui-yuan:

“Little brother, I, too, want to link!”

Li Zhui-yuan: “Only those who bow to me as Dragon King can use this secret technique with me.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Why do I feel like you’re lying to me?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “That blind girl, from beginning to end, no matter what happened, her heart rate remained unchanged. She is not a living person; she is a mechanism.

A mechanism that can speak, and even… set up arrays.

The black energy emanating from Zhou Yun-fan is a secret technique for controlling mechanisms; that’s what he’s best at.

And here, the most exquisite mechanism is the ‘sun’ above their heads.

Beneath the sunlight, there must be a building where mechanisms operate, bringing the cycle of day and night and the exchange of seasons to this underground world.

His first stop will definitely be there, to seek his professional opportunity.”

Li Zhui-yuan once obtained a copy of “Qi Shi Chun Qiu” (Qi’s Spring and Autumn Annals), which recorded various ingenious mechanisms. The ancestors of the Qi family were responsible for constructing tombs for emperors and generals throughout history.

There are countless high-grade tombs beneath Mount Bei-mang. The Yu family built their ancestral residence here and specifically constructed open passages to connect to various underground tombs.

Even if the Yu family was not initially skilled in mechanisms, after so many generations, adapting to local conditions and being exposed to it, it was enough to develop the Yu family’s mechanism techniques to a very high level.

Moreover, looking at the three suns above, they must have been established when the ancestral residence was built. This indicates that the Yu family originally had deep expertise in mechanisms, but relatively speaking, what they were best at, and what the martial world knew them for most, was cultivating demonic beasts.

Li Zhui-yuan took out the purple-gold compass, placing it in his palm. The compass began to spin, its needle pointing to a location.

“That’s the place. We’ll go there now. And on the way, we’ll draw a few ‘old timers’ along, so he can, in place of his father, also taste what it’s like to be ganged up on.”

The game of cat and mouse, it was time for it to evolve into mice leading cats.

Li Zhui-yuan even suspected that some cat might, in its carelessness, accidentally get itself killed.

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “Did you just change the subject?”

Li Zhui-yuan: “Remember to stick close to me on the way. I will deliberately walk through the most dangerous parts of the array here. Relatively speaking, it will also be safer.”

Chen Xiyi-yuan: “You’re still changing the subject.”

Li Zhui-yuan: “Let’s go, depart.”

The young man knew in his heart that others might not have the chance, but with Chen Xiyi-yuan’s personality and heart, she really might be able to try the red thread connection.

But Li Zhui-yuan didn’t even want to attempt that.

When they weren’t connected by the red thread, she was already chattering endlessly beside him. If they were connected by the red thread, no one else would be able to do anything; everyone’s minds would probably be filled with only her voice.

“Come, A-jing, inhale, inhale deeply!”

As soon as they entered the Yu family gate, everyone else closely followed Ming Yu-wan, while Zhao Yi directly separated from the rest of the team.

Soon, he found a dismembered wild boar beneath a courtyard wall. This wild boar had tusks that pointed high, its fur was black and gold, and it had human accessories on its body.

This indicated that it could shapeshift when alive, but had reverted to a wild boar after death.

Chen Jing knelt before the wild boar’s corpse with both hands. The corpse was fresh, its blood and qi warm, and well-preserved. Chen Jing continuously sniffed, and wisps of red mist were drawn from the wild boar’s body and inhaled by him.

“Brother Zhao, truly a profound plan. I, Tao, admire you, I admire you!”

Tao Zhu-ming walked over, followed by two men and two women. Although they were all masked, their auras were very sharp and fierce.

Xu Ming and the Liang sisters immediately stepped forward, adopting defensive stances.

Zhao Yi signaled Chen Jing to keep inhaling and not stop. He then rose and spoke to Tao Zhu-ming:

“Brother Tao is of noble status and illustrious family, naturally, a well-fed man doesn’t know the hunger of a starved one. As for me, I’ve fallen to being a vagabond in the martial world, usually without the conditions to eat my fill. Now that I finally get to sponge off a high-class banquet, I naturally have to empty my stomach beforehand and eat until I’m absolutely stuffed.

By the way, I just don’t know why Brother Tao left the team?”

Tao Zhu-ming: “To be honest with Brother Zhao, and also to give you a reminder, many elders, those ancestral figures, have entered the Yu family this time. Perhaps, they will be the most dangerous presence in the Yu family’s territory next.”

Zhao Yi waved his hand indifferently, then put his hands on his hips and said:

“No matter, my ancestors will protect me.”