Lin Ye innocently shrugged and said nothing more.
In fact, there really was something wrong with this water.
Lin Ye had left this bowl of water for two main purposes.
First, the water could dissolve the Heavenly Fragrance Powder lingering in the air, making it disappear as quickly as possible so that the people who would soon arrive to search the area would not discover any traces.
Moreover, the water containing dissolved Heavenly Fragrance Powder also contained an ingredient that prevented two types of blood from fusing.
That way, regardless of whether Lin Feiyang was truly Lin Hai's biological son, he could be transformed from the noble legitimate son of the Lin Family into an illegitimate child who could not be shown in public. This was also one part of Lin Ye's plan.
Since these people did not want him to have an easy time, how could he possibly let them live comfortably?
The reason he had maintained a one-hundred-percent mission completion rate in Huaxia's assassin world was not because he relied solely on assassination. Most of the time, he relied on his brain.
"Father, don't believe Lin Ye's words. I really am your biological son!" Lin Feiyang looked at Lin Ye, his face filled with deep sorrow and a trace of pleading.
Seeing Lin Feiyang like this, the redness in Lin Hai's eyes slowly faded, and his emotions gradually calmed.
Even though he already knew that his wife had betrayed him and that the son he had pampered for many years was not his biological child, he still could not disregard more than a decade of affection and the powerful Liu Family behind Liu Yun and kill them outright.
Just as Lin Hai's emotions fell into turmoil, a guard suddenly entered from outside. Without looking to either side, he walked up to Lin Hai and handed him a white jade Pendant.
"Family head! We discovered this inside the Treasure Pavilion. It should have been inadvertently left behind by the thief," the guard said respectfully.
"Song Yin! What happened to the things from the Treasure Pavilion?" Lin Hai recognized at a glance that this was the jade pendant he had once given Song Yin, and his expression turned cold as he questioned him.
By this point, Song Yin had already been subdued by the guards, but the effects of the Heavenly Fragrance Powder were simply too powerful, and his consciousness began to grow hazy again.
"Take the three of them to the dungeon. Move!" Seeing Song Yin's condition, Lin Hai suddenly sensed that something was wrong and turned to instruct the heavy guard.
Standing where he was and watching Lin Hai and the guards walk away, a dark glint flashed in Lin Ye's eyes.
Although his main purpose today had merely been to find himself a scapegoat, it was truly irritating to see Lin Hai about to let Lin Feiyang off so easily!
If the one discovered today not to be Lin Hai's biological son had been Lin Ye, what would the outcome have been?
Lin Ye shook his head with amusement and stopped thinking about such pointless matters. In this life, only his mother and younger sister were destined to be worthy of his efforts. As for this nominal father... Hmph!
Time flowed like water and passed in the blink of an eye. Before he knew it, dawn had arrived.
"Older brother, mother's complexion is really much better! How did you do it?" Looking at Mu Rou, whose face was no longer pale in bed, Lin Xue widened her eyes in delight.
Last night, after Lin Ye returned from Liu Yun's place, he crushed the Jade Lingluo and gave some to Mu Rou to consume. He then stayed by her bedside for the entire night.
Fortunately, hard work had paid off, and Mu Rou's condition had visibly improved. As long as she consumed the entire Jade Lingluo, she should recover completely.
"What I did is not important. What matters is that you remember this: mother's condition improved naturally, understand? Otherwise, all of us might die." Lin Ye spoke seriously to Lin Xue.
"Oh, all right." Although Lin Xue did not quite understand, she obediently nodded to show that she understood.
"Good girl!" Lin Ye patted Lin Xue's head, his face full of affection.
"Ye'er, go get some rest!" Mu Rou had already awakened in bed, and her eyes were tinged with redness.
Her son's sudden transformation had deeply moved her. She only hated that her body was so useless; otherwise, she would not have become a burden to her son.
Although Lin Ye had not said anything, she understood that what he had given her yesterday was definitely no ordinary medicinal herb. Otherwise, the alchemist who had previously come to treat her would not have said that she had only three days left to live.
"Xue'er, stay here and keep watch. Don't call me unless something particularly urgent happens!" After seeing Lin Xue nod, Lin Ye walked into the small side chamber nearby and sat cross-legged on the hard wooden bed.
"Ding!"
"Host, would you like to use the Marrow-Washing Flower to undergo Meridian Cleansing and Marrow Tempering?"
As Lin Ye sat down, the System's notification once again rang out in his mind.
The reason it was called "again" was that the System had already issued countless notifications throughout the night, all of which Lin Ye had rejected.
His level could be raised at any time, but if Mu Rou's body developed an unusual reaction after taking the medicine, it would be dangerous.
"Agree!"
As Lin Ye's voice faded in his mind, the blue-and-white flower inside a white jade box in his spatial ring suddenly vanished.
At the same time, two streams of pure energy, one blue and one white, appeared in Lin Ye's mind.
The pure blue energy surged first from his mind into the Three Thousand Six Hundred Meridians throughout his body.
The blue energy seemed to contain a purifying force. It slowly yet resolutely flushed away the impurities within Lin Ye's spiritual power.
Gradually, under the cleansing of the blue energy, the impurities in his spiritual power began condensing within his meridians into wisps of pale-gray residue.
When all the impurities had accumulated to a certain amount within his meridians, the blue energy suddenly surged into them, then carried all the impurities out through his meridians, flesh, and blood.
"Ah!" A piercing pain instantly shot through Lin Ye's mind. Even with his powerful willpower, he could not stop himself from crying out.
"Older brother, are you all right?" Perhaps she had heard the disturbance, but Lin Xue asked worriedly from outside the door.
"I-I'm fine!" Lin Ye clenched his teeth tightly and forced the words out through them.
Aside from that initial cry, which had escaped because he was unprepared, Lin Ye kept his teeth clenched afterward and made no further sound.
As time passed, his brow furrowed more and more deeply, while his face gradually took on an intense pallor.
No one knew how much time had passed. Only after all the impurities had passed through his meridians and flesh and seeped out through his skin did the violent pain throughout Lin Ye's body finally begin to fade.
Once the last wisp of impurity had been removed, a stream of pale-white energy once again surged from Lin Ye's mind into the meridians throughout his body.
Lin Ye had prepared himself to endure that bone-deep pain once more, but unexpectedly, this energy was extraordinarily gentle.
The white energy clung to the surface of all Three Thousand Six Hundred Meridians throughout his body and slowly seeped into them. While increasing the flexibility of his meridians, it also widened them.
After the last wisp of white energy merged into his meridians, the spiritual power within Lin Ye's body seemed to be drawn by a certain energy. It instantly surged like a tide into the Spiritual Power Sphere within his dantian.