“You b*stard!” Li Wanji was abruptly awakened, already in a foul mood, and now the loudspeaker outside was blaring, making him even more irritable and angry. He let go of the soft, warm girl in his arms, got out of bed, walked to the window, and looked down.
At the main gate, Hong Yue was leading several bodyguards in holding off a group of people. Li Wanji answered the phone.
Xiao Dai’s anxious voice came through, “Something’s wrong. Someone is spreading malicious rumors about us. The public opinion is exploding. People from Canglong should already be downstairs at your place by now, right?”
Li Wanji replied, “Yeah. It’s nothing, just a few small fries. You investigate the mastermind. I’ll take care of these nobodies first.”
“Alright.” Xiao Dai hung up.
Li Wanji formed a hand seal with his fingers, and with a buzzing sound, the green low-grade flying sword mounted on the wall suddenly flew off its rack. It trembled in mid-air, emitting a green glow.
“Go!” Li Wanji pointed at the people from Canglong below. Whoosh! The flying sword shot out.
Swish, swish, swish… Slash! Slash! The sound of flesh being torn rang out.
“Ahhh!!!”
“No, please!” Screams echoed from below. The martial artists from Canglong were sliced apart like vegetables before the flying sword, unable to resist at all. Heads kept rolling, blood gushed like a fountain, and in an instant, the villa entrance was filled with severed heads and rivers of blood.
Even Hong Yue, who had become a killer and once wiped out an entire clan, turned pale at the sight. Her stomach churned, and she couldn’t help but vomit. The bodyguards she brought along were so terrified they fainted on the spot.
“Hmph, ants!” After killing the troublemakers, Li Wanji snorted coldly and recalled the flying sword.
The sudden silence outside stirred Chen Lanyi. She couldn’t lie still anymore. Naked, she crawled out of bed, ran to the window, and glanced down. She was stunned.
Oh my god! “Y-You killed them all…” Her voice trembled.
“Just a bunch of ants. Killing them is nothing,” Li Wanji said indifferently. “Anyone who causes trouble at my house ends up like this.”
“You’re… you’re a devil!” Chen Lanyi shivered with fear.
“Heh, I learned this from your brother. If you’re going to say that, your brother is the real devil. I’m just a copycat.” Li Wanji pulled the soft, fair girl into his arms.
“Let me go, I need to get up!” Chen Lanyi’s beautiful face turned cold.
“Go ahead.” Li Wanji didn’t cling to her. He ran his hands over her body a few times, then let her go. New chapters come out on g.com first.
“Jerk!” Chen Lanyi glared at him angrily, then picked up the clothes scattered across the room and ran into the bathroom.
“You walking toward me makes me feel so…” Just then, the phone rang. It was a call from Xiao Dai.
“We’ve found the culprit. All the online rumors were orchestrated by the Cao family. After learning that you killed Cao Kun, the Cao Patriarch is furious. Just now, a bounty was posted on the dark web—your head is worth 50 million.”
After hearing this, Li Wanji was certain the Cao family was behind it.
“That damn Cao family. First they cut me off from Bai Ling, now they smear my name. They’re asking for death!” He was furious, though still puzzled as to who had framed him for killing Cao Kun. He didn’t even know someone named Cao Kun.
“Could it be her…” The thought of Gu Qingning crossed his mind. That woman was suspicious.
“Interesting. Let me show you what true despair feels like.” Li Wanji’s eyes turned cold.
He hung up and called Zhao Xueji. “You’re in Modu, right?”
“Yes, I’m holding a concert in Modu.”
“Go to the Cao family later. No need to act, just intimidate them.”
“Got it,” Zhao Xueji agreed.
Then Li Wanji got dressed and went downstairs. He called for Hong Yue. “Go to Modu and assassinate the Cao Patriarch. Make sure to leave some traces behind, but don’t let them trace it back to Xueji.”
“Yes, Boss,” Hong Yue nodded.
“This is a magical weapon I refined last night— a flying blade made from a Flood Dragon’s claw. Take it with you.” Li Wanji handed her a white flying blade.
Hong Yue’s eyes lit up. She immediately recognized that this weapon was extraordinary. A Flood Dragon’s claw! So Flood Dragons really exist in this world?
With everything arranged, Li Wanji went to cultivate. Over the past two days, he had used up hundreds of spirit stones and finally stabilized his cultivation at the mid-stage Foundation Establishment Realm.
“Too bad I still can’t trust that girl Yi Yi. Otherwise, I could teach her a dual cultivation technique and we could both boost our cultivation quickly,” Li Wanji sighed.
During this time, news broke from the Cao family. Their subsidiary, Wannian Films, issued an official apology statement. They also sent a few temp workers to jail to calm the online public opinion storm.
Gu Qingning was baffled by the Cao family’s sudden submission. But at 10 p.m., an even more shocking piece of news arrived.
“What!?” Gu Qingning was dumbfounded. Stabbed in the back… and it was suicide?
Is that even Chinese? What kind of nonsense is this?
She wasn’t the only one stunned. Netizens across the internet were also in disbelief.
“What the hell? Stabbed in the back… and it’s suicide?”
“Oh, I get it. Cao Cheng must be an orangutan with super bendy arms.”
“The Cao family clearly messed with someone they shouldn’t have.”
“Hehe, you guys really think Wanqing Tech is easy to mess with? We locals all know—don’t ever cross someone from Wanqing.”
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Chen Lanyi was playing on her phone at school when she saw the news and froze.
“Yi Yi, come to my house tonight! I learned a new cake recipe—let’s try it together!” A cute, twin-tailed loli girl ran over and sweetly invited her.
“I can’t. That jerk won’t let me go. He wants me to stay with him,” Chen Lanyi said with lowered eyes, gently shaking her head.
“He’s too much. Isn’t there anyone who can put him in his place?” Guoguo huffed angrily, feeling wronged as she remembered her first kiss had been taken by him too.
“Probably not, unless my brother comes back,” Chen Lanyi sighed.
“Oh right, Yi Yi, do you still remember the bottle of Butterfly Blue that Brother Chen Fan left behind?” Guoguo suddenly whispered excitedly.
“Of course I remember. My brother once used Butterfly Blue to poison a giant python and got Cold Pool Grass,” Chen Lanyi replied.
She recalled that year when her brother and a few rich merchants from a nearby island ventured into the mountains in search of treasure. They encountered a giant snake with Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation near a cold pool in the mountains.
No one could defeat it. So Chen Fan caught a rabbit and planted a poison pill inside it beforehand. After the python ate the rabbit, it was quickly poisoned to death. Not only did Chen Fan get the Cold Pool Grass, but also the python’s corpse. He later refined the snake bones into a whip. That snake bone whip was so powerful even Cang Qingtian was wary of it.
“That bottle of Butterfly Blue is still at my house. Why don’t we come up with a plan and poison him!” Guoguo suggested.
Chen Lanyi’s beautiful eyes flickered. “Guoguo, stay out of this. Leave it to me.”
She already had a complete plan in her mind. If it succeeded, she could finally get rid of that villain Li Wanji.