Ye Yuan smiled and said, “Naturally for a person to eat.”
Lu-er mused over this explanation, before replying with a straight face, “I understand. Young Master definitely refined this poison for bad guys to eat.”
Ye Yuan laughed out loud and said, “Let’s go. The bad guy is almost here. We will wait for him in the parlor.”
The two just stepped into the parlor, and a servant came to report that a person with a bloodied face was at the front entrance of the manor seeking for an audience. Ye Yuan commanded him to bring that person over.
Momentarily, the servant brought a pitiful looking Liu An to the parlor.
Upon seeing Ye Yuan, Liu An sprinted over. Hugging Ye Yuan’s leg and crying, he said, “Young Master Ye, I beg you to be magnanimous and save me, please. We don’t have any grudges between us. Why do you want to put me to death?!”
Ye Yuan gave a look of disdain and then sent Liu An flying with a kick before squatting down and said, “Don’t have any grudges? Do you really take me for a fool? No matter how many Heart Protecting Pills my Ye Family has, we wouldn’t take it out to feed dogs. Make your choice now. Do you want to confess in exchange for the antidote or die due to the poison?”
Even after being sent flying with a kick, Liu An did not have any complaints and nearly tripped over himself while crawling back. Only this time he did not dare to hug Ye Yuan’s legs again. However, Ye Yuan was just at the First Level Essence Qi Realm; even if the kick was packed with true essence, it was unable to cause any substantial harm to Liu An.
As to the risk for Liu An retaliating like a desperate dog leaping over a wall, Ye Yuan was not concerned at all. That was because Liu An’s true essence scattered all over in his body, and he was unable to gather them together.
“Young Master Ye, I truly don’t know what you meant by that! I only came to Fragrant Medicine Pavilion to get treated. Even if I’d offended you, it isn’t deserving of death. I am only a small figure. I beg of you, Young Master Ye. Just treat me like a fart and let me go,” Liu An said as he cried without even trying to maintain his dignity.
Ye Yuan did not speak and only looked at Liu An’s alarmed face until the latter became flustered.
At this point, Liu An still held onto one last trace of possibility that Ye Yuan’s wastrel disease struck and that this was a practical joke. He hoped that by letting go of his dignity, he could coax Ye Yuan into giving him the antidote. If people found out about his shady identity, he would be hunted down by demonic beast hunters.
However, after Ye Yuan stared at him for a long time with that same gaze, Liu An’s heart hit rock bottom.
Ye Yuan looked at Liu An and suddenly smiled. A smile which made his heart went cold.
“Yo-Young Master Ye.”
“Hahaha. It’s fine if you don’t want to talk, I have plenty of time, but you don’t. Right now, do you feel your organs burning up, and your entire body as if it’s about to ablaze? This is merely the beginning. After a while, your skin wouldn’t be able to withstand it and start to crack open, bit by bit. Eventually, your entire body will go pah! And explode like a watermelon.”
As Ye Yuan spoke, he even made an explosion gesture with his hands. Liu An’s entire body quaked as if following Ye Yuan’s hand movements and exploded.
At this point, Liu An knew he was out of luck. Ye Yuan definitely saw through something.
Analyzing everything up to this point, Liu An’s heart swiftly calmed down. This was an ability developed through countless years of hunting demonic beasts; he became an extraordinarily sinister and cunning person. His mind calculated everything, and a scheme developed.
It was already impossible to return to the past with the situation that was happening right now. Liu An decided to go all out. As long as he managed to swindle the antidote from Ye Yuan’s hands, he would immediately kill Ye Yuan and this little girl before leaving for a distant place.
Liu An was a decisive man. Now that the scheme was in place, there was no need to delay things any longer. Naturally, he would not reveal his inner thoughts. Instead, he continued to maintain a pitiful and helpless appearance in order to deceive Ye Yuan.
Liu An repeatedly kowtowed and babbled nonstop, “Young Master Ye, I was wrong. I truly know I was wrong. I can’t hide anything from your keen sight. I’m willing to tell Young Master Ye everything. I only beg Young Master Ye to spare my worthless life.”
Ye Yuan looked as if he was delighted with Liu An’s performance. He smiled and said, “That will depend on whether the information you are going to reveal is valuable or not. If it is, this Young Master naturally will not make things difficult for a small fry like you.”
Liu An became thrilled upon hearing this. He thought to himself, this punk is indeed a pampered child, baited with just a little bit of honey. Liu An no longer hesitated and spilled everything out.
The truth did not deviate much from Ye Yuan’s conjecture. That brawny man initially went to several medicinal pill stores. Occasionally, there would be physicians who could recognize the Seven Evils Flowing Cloud Python’s poison. But they were helpless against it.
Do not look down on Qian Miao just because he was nothing in front of Ye Yuan. When put in the entire Qin Country, he was a top-ranked individual. He could identify and treat the Seven Evils Flowing Cloud Python’s poison, but this does not mean that others could do the same. Luckily they could not handle it; otherwise, the brawny man would have long succumbed to the poison.
Left without any choice, the brawny man then went to the Drunken Star Manor first. Coincidentally, the Drunken Star Manor’s Manor Lord, Wan Donghai, happened to be there and saw the brawny man.
The diagnosis of a Drunken Star Manor’s physician was actually the same as Qian Miao’s. However, Wan Donghai saw that something was not quite right, and requested the brawny man to seek a more capable expert.
Within the State of Qin, other than the Drunken Star Manor, there was only the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion. What could the brawny man do, other than to go try his luck at the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion? Wan Donghai could feel that something was wrong, but like Ye Hang, he was helpless against the poison.
Your enemy would be the person who understood you the most. Wan Dong Hai was confident that Ye Hang could not neutralize this poison. Hence, he sent Liu An to blend with the crowd and wait for an opportunity to fan the flames in order to ruin the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion’s reputation. If the situation went out of control, it would be best to incite the demonic beast hunters to smash up the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion.
That way, even if the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion was not destroyed, it would result in a considerable loss of reputation, leaving them unable to compete with the Drunken Star Manor any longer.
Liu An who was wounded earlier had just returned to the capital of the State of Qin. Furthermore, he was quick-witted which made him the most suitable candidate.
Initially, everything had been going along as planned by Wan Donghai. But who knew halfway through, something unexpected would happen. Ye Yuan unexpectedly actually managed to resolve this poison, leaving Liu An unable to do anything.
“Hehehe. It really was Wan Donghai. What a great trick to manipulate this incident.” Ye Yuan smiled coldly.
This Wan Donghai had always viewed Ye Yuan’s father as an enemy. Both were Alchemy Grandmaster with prominent status within the state. Yet, Wan Donghai was an insidious, unscrupulous person, completely different than Ye Hang.
Ye Yuan was naturally familiar with this Wan Donghai. Although his predecessor was far from being a match for Wan Donghai, his son Wan Yuan, was his nemesis at the Dan Wu Academy.
Naturally, although they are rivals, it was actually Wan Yuan one-sidedly bullying Ye Yuan. Ye Yuan thoroughly could not retaliate at all. Although Wan Yuan was also another silkpants like him, he was still outstanding among the students at the Dan Wu Academy. Apart from reaching the Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm, he even became an Alchemy Apprentice of the Dao of Alchemy.
Even among the talents in the Dan Wu Academy, Wan Yuan was an exceptional genius who was well-favored. In comparison, Ye Yuan was not even fit to hold his shoes up.
In fact, the matter regarding Ye Yuan’s poisoning, after analyzing his predecessor’s memories, there was an 80% likelihood that Wan Yuan being the mastermind behind the incident.
Good! Excellent! The old grievances have yet to fade, and new grudges were formed already. This father and son pair from the Wan Family . . . This feud, we will never reconcile! Ye Yuan thought and laughed coldly in his heart.
“Yo-Young Master Ye, I’ve said what I should say, as well as what I shouldn’t have. Don’t you think . . .?” Liu An said weakly.
Just now, he even revealed that he was a spy for the Drunken Star Manor; all just to obtain Ye Yuan’s trust and swindle that antidote from him.
Feeling satisfied, Ye Yuan nodded. Taking out the newly refined poison pill, he threw it to Liu An and said, “Not bad. You’ve performed well. This antidote is your reward.”
Liu An received the pill and was feeling elated. Without even being skeptical, he swallowed it and immediately meditated to absorb the medicinal effects.
Indeed, the moment the pill reached his abdomen and was being absorbed, his originally stagnant true essence started circulating immediately. His eyes suddenly snapped open, and he flew forward like a cheetah with clawed hands, moving towards Ye Yuan’s throat.
“Ah! Young Master!” Lu-er at the side gave a shrill scream. Without even thinking, she jumped in front of Ye Yuan.
This claw attack was abnormally vicious, bringing with it an imposing aura tempered by the life-and death-situations he encountered daily as a demonic beast hunter. Against a little rookie like Ye Yuan, it was impossible to fail.
And yet, this claw suddenly stopped three inches away from Lu-er’s throat. Following this, Liu An collapsed to the ground and started convulsing; his face distorted in pain.
Ye Yuan pulled Lu-er aside from the back. Looking with pity at Liu An who was on the ground, he smiled coldly and said, “Disasters from the heavens can be withstood, but the evil we bring upon ourselves is the hardest to bear. If you didn’t have any devious ideas, this Heart Inch Fissure Poison wouldn’t activate this early. Yet, because you had vicious thoughts, you have to suffer more.”
“W-Why . . .” Liu An twitched as he squeezed out the word between his teeth.
Ye Yuan smiled lightly and said, “You thought the Heart Protecting Pill I gave you back at the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion was actually poison. In reality, that was really a Heart Protecting Pill. It’s just that the medicinal pill had been refined several times. Consequently, the medicinal effects became several times more violent. You are bleeding from the seven orifices and unable to gather true essence was merely some side effects. There was actually no serious problem with your body. Once the medicinal effects passed, not only would you be completely fine, you might have experienced improvement.”
“But the pill you just ate was a real poison pill, the Heart Inch Fissure Pill. Furthermore, the effects are extremely violent. After consuming it, you will suffer from the pain of your intestines rupturing for six hours each day. Moreover, each time it happens, it will become even stronger. All the way until you die.”
Ye Yuan’s words clearly reached Liu An’s ears. This seemed to make him convulsed even more violently.
Chapter 9
Translator: celefoata_ Editor: RegiusProfessor
At the Drunken Star Manor.
Streams of people can be seen busily going in and out.
In the manor, a middle-aged man dressed in a traditional outfit appeared very restless and kept pacing around non-stop. Beside him sat a middle-aged man who looked very calm.
“Big Brother, why isn’t there any news from that Liu An? Could it be that the brawny-looking man’s poison was cured by Ye Hang?”
The one talking was precisely the man pacing around, Wan Dongyang; he was Wan Donghai’s brother, an alchemist himself from the same sect. The person sitting down naturally was the Manor Lord of the Drunken Star Manor, Wan Donghai.
But Wan Donghai was composed and said unhurriedly, “Dongyang, remain calm. I am all too clear on Ye Hang’s abilities. It’s impossible for him to treat that poison. We just have to sit here and wait for the good news to come.”
“Aiya. Big Brother, this Fragrant Medicine Pavilion has been competing with us for so many years. Now that we finally have this opportunity, how can we ease the hatred in our hearts if we don’t take them down completely?” Wan Dongyang gritted his teeth and said.
“Haha. Oh Dongyang, you really need to fix that short temper of yours. Otherwise, it will be tough to break through and reach the Alchemist Grandmaster Realm. The poison inflicted on that brawny-looking man was very peculiar. If I guessed correctly, it should be poison from the mythical Seven-Colored Flowing Cloud Python. If it wasn’t for the fact that I happened to read a word or two about it from an incomplete book, I’m afraid it would be our Drunken Star Manor who would suffer from this. But since I encountered it, then Ye Hang deserves to be unlucky. However, it’s only being unlucky. It’s not realistic to use this to bring down Ye Hang. At best, this matter would only let us suppress them in the business aspect.” Wan Donghai remained unperturbed.
Even though Wan Donghai said all that, there was not the slightest bit of unhappiness on Wan Dongyang’s face. The step from Alchemy Master to Alchemy Grandmaster might seem simple, but in reality, it was as difficult as ascending to the heavens. Otherwise, there would not be so few Alchemy Grandmasters in the entire State of Qin.
However, this impatient temper of his was probably not going to change as he asked impatiently, “Big Brother, why do I keep feeling that something is wrong? Why don’t we send someone down to check on the situation there?”
Wan Donghai was afraid that if he acted rashly, he would alert and draw Ye Hang’s attention. Apart from Liu An, he did not send anyone else to inquire about the news. But if that side started to fight, they should have long received the news here.
Unless there really was an unexpected accident?
“Alright. You send someone to check it out.” After thinking for a moment, Wan Donghai agreed.
Wan Donghai was not really worried that something had happened to Liu An. After all, he and the Drunken Star Manor had no connections on the surface. He was merely a demonic beast hunter.
Wan Dongyang acknowledged the instruction and was just about to send someone down when he heard urgent knocking on the door. “Manor Lord, something big is happening! Someone is here to cause trouble!”
Hua.
The door opened from the inside. Wan Donghai said coldly to the shopkeeper, “Who is it?”
“Who is so audacious? To actually dare climb on top of our heads?! What are all of you doing?!” Hearing that someone was causing trouble, Wan Dongyang’s hot temper immediately surfaced.
The shopkeeper’s face turned bitter and said, “T-they didn’t really come to cause trouble . . . I-it’s just to get a treatment.”
Seeing Wan Donghai’s face sank, the shopkeeper hurriedly rectified his words. “No no no, t-they are using seeking treatment as an excuse to challenge us.”
“Who is it?” Wan Donghai’s patience was almost exhausted.
“I-it’s that silkpants from the Ye Family, Ye Hang’s son, Ye Yuan,” the shopkeeper said while trembling.
“Just a silkpants scared you until like this? Are you retarded? Do you still want your job as a shopkeeper?” The moment Wan Dongyang heard that it was Ye Yuan, he wanted to tear the shopkeeper apart.
“Forget it, let’s go out and take a look,” Wan Donghai commanded.
. . . . . .
The three of them went to the lobby and saw a youth sitting in an ostentatious manner where the shopkeeper was supposed to sit. Wan Donghai glared fiercely at the shopkeeper, but right now was not the time to punish him.
Just as Wan Donghai was about to deal with Ye Yuan, he glanced si
deways only to see Liu An who was like a dead dog on the ground; his heart jumped.
Ye Yuan saw Wan Donghai appeared and took his time to get up. He walked in front of him, smiled and said, “Manor Lord Wan, this Little Nephew came here rather abruptly today. I hope you won’t take offense.”
Wan Donghai’s facial muscles twitched a little and forcefully suppressed the impulse to slap Ye Yuan to death with one blow. Forcing out a slightly ugly smile, he said, “Not at all. So it was Honorable Nephew who came. I was wondering which blind little bastard dared to be so rude in our Drunken Star Manor. If Honorable Nephew wants to come, it’s better to notify us beforehand, so that we wouldn’t be discourteous.”
Even though Wan Donghai wanted to gnash his teeth in hatred, he did not want to suffer a loss verbally, and so he scolded Ye Yuan being a little bastard. Everyone knew that the Drunken Star Manor and the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion were enemies, but they would still appear to be polite and amiable on the surface. They were all businessmen; if they were to really fight, in the future, who would dare to come and get their illnesses treated?
Ye Yuan snickered in his heart at how narrow-minded Wan Donghai was, and yet, he was smiling as he said, “Aww shucks. It’s because I was anxious about saving people, and so I had no choice but to intrude. I’ve long heard that Manor Lord Wan’s Alchemy Dao is number one in the State of Qin. That was why this Little Nephew had the idea of coming here to save a life.”
Hearing what Ye Yuan was saying, Wan Donghai wished he could tear him apart alive. If there were only people from the Drunken Star Manor, those words would be fine. But on the way to the Drunken Star Manor, Ye Yuan caused a ruckus, as if he was afraid that people would not know he was bringing someone to challenge the Drunken Star Manor. He attracted many people, and currently, the Drunken Star Manor’s lobby was swarmed to the point where water cannot flow through.
To say that Wan Donghai was the number one in the State of Qin in front of so many people was clearly intentional. One had to know that the Alchemy Grandmasters in the capital were not only Wan Donghai and Ye Hang. Ignoring others, there was also an Alchemy Grandmaster in the Imperial Family. If these words were to spread to the ears of the Imperial Family, Wan Donghai would be sitting on pins and needles.
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