You Promised to Be an Idle Son-in-Law, How Could You Become a Land Immortal?

Chapter 396: Chapter 252: The Chess Player? Just a Pawn

Chen Yi continued speaking as he inserted needles into Lv Jiunan:

"I’m saving him so he can help me put on a good show."

Liu Lang was not satisfied with this ambiguous answer.

He leaned against the wooden door, glanced at the barely breathing Lv Jiunan, and said with a slight pout:

"Boss, are you plotting against someone again?"

"Liu Hong?"

"It has to be him."

"You’re saving Lv Jiunan because you want to get evidence from him that Liu Hong is involved with those horse bandits from Poshisu Country, right?"

But when Chen Yi didn’t respond, Liu Lang lost confidence in his own guess.

"No? That makes sense, I guess."

"After all, you already ’killed’ Lv Jiunan in front of everyone."

"Even if he showed up again to accuse Liu Hong, that old fox could just deny everything."

Without looking up, Chen Yi said, "Stop guessing. With your brain, you could guess until next year and still not figure it out."

"..."

Liu Lang wanted to argue.

But thinking about his recent experiences, he had to admit that intelligence, much like one’s Martial Arts Realm, was a matter of innate talent, not knowledge or experience.

After a moment of silence, he asked, unwilling to give up, "Well, you can at least tell me about you going to the Spring Rain Building last night, right?"

"Just now, uh... this guy said someone went to the Spring Rain Building last night using my name. I immediately guessed it was you."

"If I hadn’t reacted quickly, I almost would have blown our cover."

Chen Yi glanced up at him, then lowered his head again to treat Lv Jiunan, saying casually, "Didn’t you already blow it?"

Liu Lang gave a sheepish laugh. "Ah, so you already know?"

"You can’t blame me for that. I’d already given my name before I heard from him that you’d been to the Spring Rain Building. It was too late to take it back."

"Th-this... this won’t affect your plans, will it?"

Chen Yi shook his head slightly. "It won’t."

Now that Ge Muxiao was dead and Lv Jiunan was half-crippled, the only person who knew he had gone to the Spring Rain Building last night was Lou Yuxue.

Even Liu Taoyao and Zhao Shichang were unaware.

Besides, even if Lou Yuxue revealed it to the White Tiger Guard, or if Liu Taoyao and the others had just overheard Liu Lang, it wouldn’t affect his plans.

At most, he would just have to meet with Liu Lang less often from now on and make sure not to let him in on too much.

That way, the fool wouldn’t run his mouth and leak anything.

With this in mind, Chen Yi instructed, "From now on, you don’t need to go back to the Liu Mansion. Just return to Hundred Herbs Hall and wait."

"If I need you, I’ll have Zhang Dabao and Wang Ji contact you."

Liu Lang paused, stunned, then asked suspiciously, "That old fox is bound to make a lot of moves soon. Isn’t it a bad idea not to keep an eye on him?"

Chen Yi said flatly, "There’s nothing to worry about."

"I already know what that old fox is thinking. Whether we follow him or not won’t affect the big picture."

"Besides, his next reactions and actions are all predictable. It’s not hard to guess."

More importantly, Chen Yi now held the people who could seal Liu Hong’s fate—Asutai and Lv Jiunan.

So he wasn’t worried at all.

Liu Hong was the one who should be panicking.

Liu Lang, of course, knew none of this. He scratched his head, turned to look out the window, and muttered to himself:

’Not hard to guess?’

’Why can’t I figure it out?’

Chen Yi ignored him, his hands moving swiftly as he inserted twelve silver needles into Lv Jiunan’s body.

Then, he circulated his True Essence, using the silver needles to repair Lv Jiunan’s heart-vein, Gate of Life, and other major meridian points.

He even mended his internal organs, which had been shattered into pieces.

After an hour of intense work, he finally pulled Lv Jiunan back from the brink of death.

Chen Yi let out a small breath and then removed the silver needles.

Hearing the movement, Liu Lang turned back and asked, "Boss, are you done?"

"No."

Then, under Liu Lang’s curious gaze, Chen Yi inserted three more silver needles into Lv Jiunan’s three major Sea of Qi acupoints: the Yintang, the chest, and the Dantian.

He circulated his True Essence and gave the needles a slight twist.

Lv Jiunan’s eyes shot open, and he began to scream in agony.

"Nngh, AAAAAH!"

With a calm expression, Chen Yi inserted a fourth silver needle into a vital point on Lv Jiunan’s throat, forcibly silencing his screams.

Lv Jiunan’s mouth was wide open, but he couldn’t make a sound.

The intense pain twisted his features. His body arched and writhed as if desperately trying to escape.

About fifteen minutes later, Chen Yi used his Qi Observation Skill to confirm that the True Essence in Lv Jiunan’s body was completely drained, and only then did he remove the needles from the Sea of Qi points.

"Done."

But Lv Jiunan clearly didn’t feel "done." He continued to struggle frantically, letting out silent screams.

Only when the excruciating pain in his body began to subside did he slowly calm down.

Liu Lang grimaced at the sight. "He’s crippled."

With his three major Seas of Qi destroyed, he would never be able to practice Martial Arts again, unless a legendary Medical Master intervened.

Chen Yi, of course, knew this. He casually removed the last silver needle and sat down in a chair to slowly recover his depleted True Essence.

Lv Jiunan lay limply on the square table, turning his head to look at him and asking in a hoarse voice:

"Why... why didn’t you kill me?"

He already knew he was a cripple.

Not only were his Seas of Qi destroyed and his cultivation lost, but the meridians and vital points in his body were also severely damaged.

Anyone would break down in such a situation, let alone a vicious and ruthless man like him.

"Answer me!"

Chen Yi glanced at him and raised a finger to his lips. "Shh."

"Quiet down. Don’t attract the people outside."

Lv Jiunan was in no state to care. He glared at him, his eyes bloodshot, and ground out the words through clenched teeth:

"Why didn’t you kill me!?"

Chen Yi let out a soft chuckle. "What would be the point of killing you?"

"You’re King Landu’s blood brother. If a Grandmaster of his stature found out I killed you, wouldn’t that just bring me a world of trouble?"