Chapter 159: Qi Leeching Worm
"Be careful." Yu Nianzhen said, and Jiang Yue nodded.
Although he wasn’t as sensitive as the swordsman, he could feel that something wasn’t right in the main courtyard.
"Hide as much of your breath as you can." The swordsman whispered, and Jiang Yue nodded again.
A moment later, both young men suppressed their qi presence to the limit and activated two invisibility talismans to hide.
When they were confident they wouldn’t be easily detected, they sneaked into the courtyard and headed to the main hall.
Along the way, they saw hundreds of Bai family guards and relatives slumped on the ground.
Fortunately, they were just knocked out, and none were dead.
’They were probably affected by an aerial knockout drug.’ Jiang Yue thought.
He thought about waking one up to ask about the situation but eventually gave up the idea.
Although it was beneficial to know the situation before going in, he doubted any of the knocked-out people knew much.
From the looks of it, all of them were going on with their day when they suddenly fainted.
In that case, it was better to find conscious people to understand the situation.
"Don’t lag behind." A whisper came from the front.
Jiang Yue rolled his eyes and hurried forward.
’How does he know where I am?’ He wondered, but this wasn’t the time to ask.
"There are people just ahead." The whisper came again.
This time, the whisper came from his left, and Jiang Yue instinctively reached out.
His invisible hand groped around for a long time before it was suddenly grasped by a rougher hand.
’Can he see him?’ He wondered in confusion.
Although the low-grade silver rank invisibility talismans weren’t the best, Yu Nianzhen shouldn’t have the ability to see through them.
"You..." He started, wanting to clear his doubts.
However, a hand covered Jiang Yue’s mouth, and his words were cut off.
In the next moment, Jiang Yue heard footsteps and a person exited from the room ahead.
The person was a middle-aged man with a cultivation at the fifth level of the origin forging realm.
As soon as he exited the room, he began to look around, and his expression clouded with each passing breath.
"Did I imagine it?" He muttered under his breath.
With a last look around, he returned to the main hall.
After this, the two young men didn’t dare to speak.
Instead, they held hands and silently crept into the main hall.
The main hall was about one hundred square metres, and a young man in his twenties was sitting on the main seat at the front.
Two metres in front of him, five people bound with blue vine were kneeling, and three others were slumped on the ground.
There was also a big hole in the east wall, and a bleeding person was half buried by the collapsed wall.
’Was the crash we heard due to the wall?’ Jiang Yue wondered and took a second look at the wall.
However, he didn’t have much time to think about it before someone spoke.
"Bai patriarch, what do you say?" The person seated on the main seat asked.
He had a plain face, and his eyes carried a viciousness the two boys had often seen in evil cultivators.
However, this person was not an evil cultivator.
His qi presence didn’t contain evil which could only mean that the evil in his eyes was due to his character.
’He looks a little familiar.’ Jiang Yue thought.
Beside him, Yu Nianzhen also thought the same thing.
He was sure he had never met the person, but he looked familiar.
’His cultivation is at the third level of the origin forging realm.’ He thought.
Although this cultivation was unremarkable in the Sea Cloud sect, it was good in a place like Fengying city.
More importantly, some of those serving the person were older and had a higher cultivation.
This could only mean that the young man’s identity was extraordinary in Fengying city.
When he thought of this, a face suddenly flashed in Yu Nianzhen’s mind.
’Wang Hui?’ He thought.
The person in front wasn’t Wang Hui, but his appearance was at least four points similar.
’He should be a relative, which means he belongs to the city lord’s residence.’
Yu Nianzhen turned gloomy when he thought of that.
More than seven years ago, the Fengying city lord was in the later stages of the qi transformation realm and may have already broken through to the origin tempering realm.
If he was involved in this matter, Yu Nianzhen didn’t have the confidence to defeat him.
Also, the city lord was appointed by the Sea Cloud sect.
Dealing with him would require an explanation to the sect, and Yu Nianzhen didn’t want this kind of trouble.
’I have to understand the situation first. After that, I will do what I can and nothing more.’ He thought.
After all, their relationship with the Bai family was ordinary.
He didn’t need to risk his and Jiang Yue’s life for ordinary acquaintances.
"Our Bai family doesn’t dare to accept this love. The eighth young master doesn’t need to insist." Bai patriarch said.
Although the Bai patriarch was tied up, his voice was strong and full of contempt.
When they heard it, the two boys looked at the speaker and frowned.
’Wasn’t the Bai patriarch at the third level of the qi transformation realm? Why is he at the second?’ They wondered.
Also, many years had passed since they saw the person, and his cultivation should have increased by at least one small realm.
After considering that, the two didn’t understand why the patriarch’s cultivation had fallen instead.
As they were trying to figure it out, the realm fell again, and the patriarch became a cultivator at the first level of qi transformation.
’What is going on here?’ Jiang Yue wondered.
Although he didn’t know what was causing the cultivation base to fall, he knew it shouldn’t be allowed to fall further.
If it fell by a big realm, the patriarch would be unable to recover and would be stuck in the origin-forging realm for the rest of his life.
"XiaoYing is only thirteen this year. What kind of beast are you?" A woman screamed and tried to jump forward from her kneeling position.
However, she was kicked by an eighth-level meridian awakening realm cultivator and collapsed next to the patriarch.
"Thirteen is an adult. She can give birth."
Bai patriarch felt ill when he heard that and hated himself for being weak.
If he was stronger, he would be able to protect his daughter from this beast that coveted her beauty.
"You..., aren’t you afraid of what Bai Zheng will do when she finds out?" One of the kneeling elders asked.
"What can she do? Bai Zheng is an ordinary inner-sect disciple of the Sea Cloud sect. Our Wang family has more people in the sect."
When they heard that, the Bai family despaired.
Everything the beast said was true.
Even if they were wronged in this matter, they could only grit their teeth and let it go.
However, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen weren’t willing.
At first, they thought the cause and effect was related to conflicts in business interests but didn’t expect to encounter a beast that was coveting a child.
In fact, this eighth young master of the Wang family could kill the Bai family to snatch the little girl.
However, he was worried the other big families in Fengying city would not accept the matter and would use it as an excuse to unite against the city lord’s residence.
This, in itself, was not a troublesome matter, but if they combined to complain to the sect, an investigation would be made, and the city lord’s residence would be in trouble.
After thinking about it for a long time, he came up with an insidious idea.
For this, he contacted one of his brothers in the sect and acquired three qi leeching worms.
He then bribed a few servants, and they introduced the worms in the food of the three strongest cultivators in the Bai family.
When the Bai family was trying to figure it out, the eighth young master brought his people to attack.
However, he didn’t kill people and instead wanted to make a deal with the Bai family.
As long as they handed Bai Ying over, he was willing to help them remove the worms. At that time, not only would the enmity between their families be cancelled, their relationship would be strengthened by marriage.
Unfortunately, the Bai family didn’t know what was good for them, and they refused to agree to his plan.
"Bai patriarch, the qi leeching worm is not difficult to solve, but your cultivation won’t hold on until you find an alchemist."
The eighth young master smiled.
Since he had already taken this step, he wasn’t willing to back down.
As long as he didn’t destroy the Bai family, the other top clans wouldn’t care too much.
They would only think that the Bai family was unlucky to give birth to Bai Ying or stupid for refusing to give her up.
"Father, I am willing to go with them." A voice shouted, and a beautiful young girl sprinted into the hall.
