“Gu Yi, you worthless piece of trash, how dare you humiliate the second miss? I’ll kill you!” A trace of delight flashed through Qin Huaichong’s eyes. He roared angrily and swung his fist at Gu Yi!
Gu Yi’s guess had been correct. His passionate night with Qin Murong had indeed been arranged by Qin Huaichong.
Qin Huaichong was a full five years younger than Gu Yi. Two years ago, when Gu Yi was still one of the few geniuses in Dinggong City, Qin Huaichong had once admired and fawned upon him, only to be ignored by Gu Yi.
After Gu Yi’s cultivation level suffered a devastating decline, Qin Huaichong joined forces with those whom Gu Yi had once likewise disdained, making things difficult for Gu Yi in every possible way.
To them, humiliating a once-arrogant genius was an endlessly enjoyable pleasure!
However, two days ago, Gu Feng of the Gu Family had devised a sinister scheme to kill with a borrowed knife. Offering substantial benefits, he successfully instigated Qin Huaichong, who had actually grown bold enough to use Qin Murong’s chastity to frame Gu Yi!
At this moment, he felt completely at ease. With second miss Qin Murong’s chastity defiled, even if he killed Gu Yi on the spot, no one could trouble him. Clan patriarch Qin Xianglin would protect him!
As long as he killed Gu Yi, the Red Flower Pavilion’s leading courtesan Liu Yingying’s first night after her coming-of-age ceremony would belong to Qin Huaichong!
That was the reward promised by Gu Feng and several other young masters.
Qin Huaichong moved with his fist, delight showing on his face.
As a body tempering fourth level cultivator, killing Gu Yi, this first layer of body tempering loser, would be as easy as turning over his hand!
Gu Yi sat on the bed, completely unmoved. He had already guessed most of what Qin Huaichong and his accomplices were planning, and a bone-chilling killing intent had already arisen in his heart.
“An ant is an ant after all. Anyone who can use his own older sister as a tool deserves nothing but death!”
Before Qin Huaichong’s fist could reach him, Gu Yi struck like lightning and slapped him across the face without the slightest mercy!
Smack!
With a sharp crack, Qin Huaichong spun through the air like a top, flying away and spitting teeth all over the floor before crashing heavily to the ground and passing out!
Was this gu Yi really at the first layer of body tempering?
Seeing Qin Huaichong knocked to the ground instead, Qin Xianglin and Qin Muwan were both startled.
Only Qin Murong was not surprised, because with her second stage of true essence realm cultivation level, she had still been utterly helpless before Gu Yi!
Gu Yi had not only defiled Qin Murong, but had also beaten Qin Huaichong until his life and death were unknown, completely driving Qin Xianglin into a rage!
As the clan patriarch of the Qin Clan and one of its few violet palace realm experts, how could he tolerate his daughter being humiliated and a clansman being beaten before his very eyes?
“You’re courting death!”
Qin Xianglin’s beard and eyebrows bristled, his face filled with fury. He immediately circulated his power and unleashed a heaven-shaking punch!
His fist was completely enveloped in dazzling white light. Compared with Qin Murong’s earlier attack, it was like the blazing sun compared to a firefly—there was simply no comparison!
It was even like a mighty flood dragon, carrying a ten-thousand-jun force as it tore through the howling wind and smashed toward Gu Yi!
A sharp glint flashed in Gu Yi’s eyes, and his expression turned solemn.
In Gu Yi’s eyes, Qin Xianglin’s punch was still riddled with weak points and feeble beyond measure.
However, he was now a typical case of having lofty vision but little ability.
Compared with his opponent, his current cultivation level was like a firefly before the bright moon!
Still, against an attack of this caliber, Gu Yi was not yet incapable of dealing with it!
Gu Yi leaped from the bed. Completely naked, he advanced instead of retreating and charged straight toward Qin Xianglin!
“Oh!” Qin Murong and Qin Muwan cried out together, covering their mouths at the same time. His naked body left both women blushing and flustered!
The next moment, Gu Yi pressed his middle and index fingers together like a sword and collided directly with Qin Xianglin’s fist!
Qin Xianglin laughed furiously. “Courting death!”
In his eyes, even if Gu Yi wielded a sword and fought him head-on, it would still be a dead end!
Let alone using his fingers?
A first layer of body tempering loser actually dared to contend with him?
Gu Yi’s expression remained resolute as he shouted in a deep voice, “Break!”
Everything in the world has its strengths, and everything has its weaknesses.
A snake has its seven-inch weak point, a mountain has a precarious peak, and all things possess weak points that can be followed!
This finger of Gu Yi’s was aimed precisely at the greatest weak point in Qin Xianglin’s punch!
His strength was simply too weak, however. He was two major realms below Qin Xianglin, with an actual qualitative disparity between them. Even if he exerted all his strength, he could only block this one attack!
Hiss!
There was no enormous shock wave. Gu Yi’s finger was like a needle piercing a balloon, dissolving Qin Xianglin’s imposing punch in an instant!
“What’s going on?!” Qin Xianglin felt a violent pain shoot through his fist, and his mind trembled!
Gu Yi drifted lightly to the ground. Though naked, he still possessed an aloof aura that seized the soul.
However, nearly all the strength in his body had already been exhausted by that single strike.
Qin Xianglin recovered from his shock and bellowed, “Gu Yi, I didn’t expect you to have a few tricks. As expected of the Gu Family’s former number one genius. However, in front of me, you must still die! Hand over your life!”
He shaped both hands into claws, pouncing like a fierce tiger descending the mountain as he attacked Gu Yi once more!
Gu Yi looked at him coldly. If his cultivation level were not so shallow and his strength so weak, he would certainly make Qin Xianglin pay the price he deserved!
He suddenly opened his mouth and shouted, “I can cure your eldest daughter, Qin Muwan!”
Qin Xianglin’s expression changed drastically. At the critical moment, he barely managed to halt his attack. Looking at Gu Yi with suspicion and uncertainty, he asked, “Is that true?”
Qin Muwan and Qin Murong also showed startled expressions and stared intently at Gu Yi.
Gu Yi smiled faintly and said, “Qin Muwan was originally the number one genius among the younger generation of the Qin Family. Back then, while protecting her younger sister Qin Murong, she was injured by a five luminaries realm expert and left with an incurable hidden illness. Her cultivation level then plummeted, leaving her completely powerless and turning her into an ordinary person.”
“Curing her injury would be incredibly difficult for you. But in my eyes, it is exceedingly simple.”
Qin Muwan looked at Gu Yi with utter disbelief and challenged him, “Gu Yi, your own qi sea was injured, causing your cultivation level to fall to the first layer of body tempering within just two years. You can’t even do anything about your own injuries, so how dare you boast that you can cure me?”
Qin Xianglin said in a deep voice, “Boy from the Gu Family, you’re just stalling for time, aren’t you?”
Gu Yi looked at the three of them and said calmly, “As long as you cooperate with me wholeheartedly, I can cure Qin Muwan within four hours. If I take longer than four hours, you may kill me.”
Qin Murong bit her lips tightly. After glancing at her older sister Qin Muwan, she took a deep breath and said, “Fine. I’ll believe you for now. As long as you truly cure my sister within four hours, what happened between us last night will be considered settled!”
Gu Yi smiled faintly and said, “Qin Murong, spending the night with you was not my intention. Someone merely wanted to use your hands to eliminate me.”
At this point, he suddenly gave an evil smile. “Besides, you were lost in passion last night and took the initiative to engage in intimacy with me countless times. Come to think of it, weren’t you the one who benefited?”
“You!” Qin Murong clenched her pearly teeth. Though her pretty face was covered in frost, it was also flushed crimson!
Thinking of the wild night she had spent with Gu Yi while in a daze, she clearly understood that she must have been drugged!
“Then tell me, who tampered with things? It couldn’t have been my father or my sister, could it?”
Gu Yi looked toward Qin Huaichong, who lay unconscious on the floor, and said in a deep voice, “Wake Qin Huaichong, and we can naturally question him about the truth.”
He suddenly knocked over a basin of water beside him and poured it over Qin Huaichong’s head. After a few blinks, Qin Huaichong groaned and woke up.
Looking down at him from above, Gu Yi asked, “Qin Huaichong, who instructed you to frame Qin Murong and me?”
Qin Huaichong stiffened his neck and said, “No one instructed me!”
Gu Yi said coldly, “Then you planned and orchestrated it all yourself? To kill me, you were even willing to use your own older sister as a tool?”
“No, I—I didn’t do anything…” Qin Huaichong realized at once that he had misspoken. He stammered, his voice growing softer and softer!
How could Qin Xianglin fail to see that his nephew was indeed involved? In a fit of rage, he kicked Qin Huaichong viciously!
“You little bastard, tell me the truth, or I’ll cripple you!”
Qin Huaichong cried out in pain. Intimidated by Qin Xianglin’s authority, he finally confessed everything in full, from beginning to end.
Upon learning that Gu Feng was the mastermind behind it all, Gu Yi showed little expression. Everything completely matched his speculation.
Gu Feng was Gu Yi’s cousin. Back when Gu Yi had been the number one genius of the younger generation of the Gu Clan, Gu Feng’s status in the family had been low, and he had always ranked below Gu Yi in every respect. He had long been jealous and envious of Gu Yi.
Until two years ago, Gu Feng schemed to ambush Gu Yi before a contest, injuring his qi sea and severely damaging his cultivation level, reducing him to a worthless cripple.
After that, Gu Feng rose rapidly and became the foremost member of the younger generation of the Gu Family, earning deep trust and importance. He repeatedly marginalized and suppressed Gu Yi, revealing an ugly face.
In two days, the Gu Family’s biennial competition would begin. Once victorious, one would receive lavish rewards that made mouths water.
For every young clansman, this was an extremely important opportunity, no less significant than a carp leaping over the dragon gate!
Although Gu Yi had become a worthless cripple, Gu Feng still planned to scheme against and kill him as a precaution, precisely to secure the victory slot in the competition.
Clearly, although Gu Yi’s cultivation level had plummeted and he had become a first layer of body tempering cultivator, he was still a threat in Gu Feng’s eyes!
“Gu Feng…”
“Heh…”
Gu Yi narrowed his eyes into a long, slender arc, cold light flashing from them.
If anyone familiar with the Eastern Emperor Demon Venerable saw Gu Yi make such an expression, they would surely be terrified!
Because it usually meant that the Demon Venerable was furious!
Gu Feng was his own kinsman, yet he had repeatedly stabbed Gu Yi in the back for the sake of profit.
How similar he was to Qingyang Supreme, who had ambushed him for the immortal fruit!
“Gu Feng, you think someone like you can take the champion of the branch clan competition? Dream on…”
Suddenly, Qin Xianglin raised his hand and brought his palm down, striking the top of Qin Huaichong’s head!
Pfft!
Qin Huaichong’s entire head sank more than three inches into his chest cavity!
Qin Xianglin said hatefully, “This thing is worse than a swine or a dog. He deserves nothing but death!”
Gu Yi watched coldly. If Qin Xianglin had not acted, he would have killed Qin Huaichong himself!
No one who had provoked Gu Yi’s fury had ever been able to live peacefully afterward!
Not even a god!