Chapter 431 So Ashamed I Wish I Could Crawl into a Hole!
Qi Jiao shifted her gaze toward Ye Fan, who gave a devilish smile, “I told you we’d meet again, didn’t I? Here we are, much sooner than expected, right?”
“You… I…” Qi Jiao thought back to what she had witnessed in the square, all the actions taken by Ye Fan.
Could it be that Ye Fan was truly inserting needles into Grandpa to detoxify and save him?
But when exactly was Grandpa poisoned, and how come I didn’t know about it at all?
“Well, Little Tater, do you understand now? If it hadn’t been for my big brother stepping in, your grandpa would’ve been long dead by now! You should be thanking my big brother properly, and apologize to me!” Wang Fugui chided Qi Jiao with some smugness.
However, Qi Jiao only pondered for a few seconds before another possibility dawned on her, “Hmph! Dad, don’t be fooled by them; for all we know, they could be in cahoots, scheming to deceive you together…”
“???” Qi Yuan was shocked by his daughter’s wild imagination!
The folks from the Ancient Martial Mini Alliance like Qiu Yuanji intended to seize the Tiankui Base, so it made sense that they would poison the old master. But Young Master Ye was already the owner of the Tiankui Base, it didn’t make sense for him to do so!
“Silly girl, your brain must have been eaten by dogs!” Ye Fan smiled helplessly. Even though Ye Fan was usually patient, at this moment, he felt like smacking this silly girl’s bottom a few times.
If Ye Fan hadn’t been determined to completely subdue Qi Jiao, he would have decided to ignore her altogether.
Just when the people at Qiu Yuanji’s side thought they were in big trouble today, Qi Jiao’s unexpected assist immediately had them swiftly changing their tune, “Yes! That’s right, we’re all in this together, and mind you, it was all his idea, he’s the one who arranged the poisoning of the old master!”
Qiu Yuanji winked at his two companions, and the three of them immediately said in unison, confirming that they were in league with Ye Fan.
This reversal of the situation left Qi Yuan, who had already recognized Ye Fan, feeling uncertain, “This… whom should I trust now?”
Qi Yuan was a simple and honest man surrounded by cunning individuals, making him feel like his CPU was about to overheat.
“Brother Qi, don’t listen to their nonsense, they are framing and scapegoating! How could Young Master Ye possibly poison the old master? I saw it with my own eyes. Young Master Ye was clearly helping the old master to detoxify, and Jiaojiao even had a fight with Young Master Ye…”
“Dad! Look, they’ve admitted it themselves; regardless of anything else, capture all of them for now and conduct a slow interrogation. We will get to the bottom of this!” Qi Jiao retorted loudly.
“It seems you really won’t give up until you’re faced with the end!” Ye Fan snorted coldly and shouted towards the gate, when Yu Qiang and members of Tianji Pavilion immediately brought out a group of people wearing hoods into the courtyard.
“Let us go! Who the hell are you guys to capture us? Do you know whose people we are? Our boss is Qiu Yuanji, the Vice Alliance Leader of the Ancient Martial Arts!”
“Hmph! You’re with the Qi Family, aren’t you? That’s right, I admit, it was I who poisoned Elder Qi, what can you do to us now that you know? Only Vice Alliance Leader Qiu has the antidote for this poison!”
A group of hooded men knelt on the ground, continue to curse aloud, while Qiu Yuanji, seeing these people, turned completely pale, “This… 1, 2, 3…”
Qiu Yuanji counted and realized that everyone he had sent out to poison and to monitor, more than a dozen people in total, had all been captured by Ye Fan.
“Him? The man with the duckbill cap… He really did poison Grandpa?” When Qi Jiao saw the man with the duckbill cap, she suddenly remembered, at that time in the square, how the man had bumped into Grandpa.
Could it be that simple to poison someone? How did he do it?
Oh my God!
Was it really them?
These hooded men, are they really the ones in cahoots with Qiu Yuanji?
And this Young Master Ye and his comrades, were they actually trying to save Grandpa?
And here I was, wanting to hit him, to bite him… and I had just misunderstood him so completely?
What should I do now?
Qi Jiao was so ashamed she wished she could find a hole to crawl into, even avoiding Ye Fan’s gaze!
Phew!
The hoods were removed from the heads of the captured men. Everyone’s eyes turned to look at Qiu Yuanji, “Alliance Leader Qiu, save us!”
“We followed the escape route you planned, but I don’t know where these people came from; they just captured us!”
“You promised, if we completed this mission, we could leave. I even recorded it, you can’t go back on your word now!”
Oh damn it!
Listening to his subordinates’ utterly foolish words, Qiu Yuanji felt like he was going crazy. These idiots—why couldn’t they keep their mouths shut when it was clear nobody would think they were mute if they didn’t speak?
Qiu Yuanji surveyed the situation before him. Although they were also strong at the Martial Emperor level, on Ye Fan’s side there were two formidable experts, Ye Fan and Yu Qiang. Moreover, the Qi Family also had Martial Emperors arranged in secret by Prince Jin. Should a real fight break out, Qiu Yuanji’s side would not have the upper hand.
Before his subordinates could finish speaking, Qiu Yuanji’s martial breath already began to fluctuate, planning to forcefully break out and escape!
Qi Yuan realized what was happening no matter how slow he was, “Men, take Qiu Yuanji down!”
Whoosh!
Qi Family’s bodyguards immediately charged towards Qiu Yuanji, blocking off his escape route.
With a cold snort, Qiu Yuanji took out a porcelain bottle and said arrogantly, “Nobody come closer! Hmph, don’t forget, your old master has been poisoned by us. Without our unique antidote, he’s as good as dead. Everyone back off, and if you dare to stop me, I’ll crush this thing right away!”
Qiu Yuanji flaunted the porcelain bottle in front of Qi Family’s bodyguards, his eyes, however, were fixated on Ye Fan and the others.
The strengths of those bodyguards from the Qi Family were merely at the Grandmaster Realm; Qiu Yuanji could easily dispatch them with a single move.
What was most troubling were the two Martial Emperor powerhouses, Ye Fan and Yu Qiang, as well as Guo Li, Wang Fugui, and others who were already at the Martial Venerable Realm.
With the porcelain bottle in hand, it seemed like no one dared to make a rash move, and they all took a step back.
Just as Qiu Yuanji and his companions had reached the entrance of the courtyard, Ye Fan snorted coldly and made his move!
The Three Thousand Red Threads shot out, and before Qiu Yuanji could react, the Red Silk Tyrant Body had already entangled Qiu Yuanji and his people. The thread-like strands directly controlled their meridians and dantian, causing Qiu Yuanji and his companions to instantly stiffen on the spot, completely unable to move.
“Ah! What’s this… Ye Fan, what have you done? Why can’t I move my body?” Qiu Yuanji stared at the Red Silk Tyrant Body that had entered his own flesh, and he was utterly astounded.
Had the simpleton Young Master Ye from the Ye Family become so terrifying?
The controlling Red Threads actually had such power, incapacitating all three of them in an instant?
The three of them were, after all, equipped with the strength of the First and Second Rank Martial Emperors!
Since when had fighters at the Martial Emperor level become so feeble?
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But in reality, it wasn’t that their combat abilities had become rubbish; it was that Ye Fan was just too strong!
With the strength of a Ninth Rank Martial Emperor, his root bone had been elevated above Spirit Bone, and combined with the Divinity Fragment, the Nine Dragons Yang Meridian, and the Heritage Power within his body, Ye Fan could easily slay even Martial Saint powerhouses!
The undeniable outcome was that the plan of Qiu Yuanji and his men had completely failed!
Considering Ye Fan’s previous track record, there was no chance for them to live through this day!
A strand of Red Thread secured the porcelain bottle from Qiu Yuanji’s hand and pulled it in front of Ye Fan.
Ye Fan opened the bottle and sniffed it, then frowned and said, “Hmph! This isn’t an antidote at all. It’s a completely different poison, you’re courting death!”
As he spoke, Ye Fan smashed the bottle on the ground.
Hiss hiss!
Following the shattering of the bottle, the liquid inside flowed onto the concrete floor, instantly corroding several large holes in the cement—its toxicity was evident!
Qi Jiao shivered at the sight. If she had rashly given the supposed antidote to her grandfather, wouldn’t that have hastened his journey to meet his grandmother?
“Speak! Where is the real antidote?” Although Ye Fan indeed had methods to detoxify the old master, if an antidote was available, Ye Fan would naturally prefer to take the easier route.
“Ha-ha! An antidote? You’re thinking too highly, how could an antidote possibly exist for a combination of 72 poisons? There is no antidote… Ye Fan, since I’m as good as dead today, I might as well take someone with me—it won’t be lonely on the Yellow Springs Road… Qi Yuan, consider yourselves lucky this time, but next time, you won’t be so fortunate…” Qiu Yuanji laughed maniacally, as a dead pig doesn’t fear boiling water!
“Ah?” Qi Jiao let out an astonished yelp when she heard it. No antidote?
Then how would her grandfather’s poison be cured?
Thinking back to what Ye Fan said earlier, only he had a way to save her grandfather… But she had already made a fierce declaration: ‘I, Qi Jiao, would rather drown than ask Ye Fan to save my grandfather,’ This… Qi Jiao glanced at the lake in the courtyard, her expression struggling, wondering if she really ought to jump in…