Chapter 170: Revisiting the Yan Family
Chapter 170: Revisiting the Yan Family
The five gunmen upstairs had already fallen unconscious to the floor. All the guns in their hands ended up in Lin Mu’s possession.
With a flash of his figure, Lin Mu returned to the front of Jin Qianbao. His hands moved in a dazzling blur, and all the guns were instantly disassembled into individual parts, clattering noisily as they scattered across the floor. The astonishing speed of his hands frightened Jin Qianbao, causing him to retreat several steps.
Originally, Jin Qianbao had gathered several martial arts experts and recruited a group of daring and ruthless underlings. He provided them with handguns. This way, he had experts for close protection and gunmen for long-range cover. For a time, he really thrived and prospered.
He never expected to run into trouble today. This young man, whose origins were unknown, was actually so powerful. He easily dismantled both layers of Jin Qianbao’s protection. Suddenly, Jin Qianbao felt as if he had returned to his younger days, once again experiencing that old feeling of constant fear.
“A martial artist, even if unable to champion the weak and oppose the strong, should not bully the weak. The three of you are not fit to practice martial arts.”
Lin Mu swept his gaze over the three men cautiously defending in front of Jin Qianbao. He shook his head and spoke. Then, his figure flashed continuously. A silver glint briefly appeared at his waist. The three men immediately collapsed to the ground. Lin Mu’s Zhenqi passed through the tip of his sword, striking over ten vital acupoints on their bodies. Their martial arts had been completely eradicated by him.
Without paying any attention to the three men twitching on the floor, Lin Mu stepped over them and continued walking towards Jin Qianbao.
“You… don’t do anything reckless! Do you know who I am? The power behind me is absolutely not someone you can afford to provoke! They have experts even more powerful than you!”
Jin Qianbao kept backing away while saying this in terror.
Lin Mu paid no heed at all. He just looked coldly at Jin Qianbao. The Autumn Swan Sword in his hand began to tremble slightly, emitting a series of low hums.
“The Yan Family is behind me! Here in Jingdu, if you offend anyone from the Yan Family, you won’t have a single place to stand in the future! They will hunt you down relentlessly until you are dead!”
Seeing that Lin Mu was not intimidated by the threat, Jin Qianbao hurriedly revealed his background. So it was the Yan Family pulling the strings behind the scenes. In this small territory of Jingdu, the Yan Family was indeed a formidable clan, with very strong connections in all aspects, spanning the military, political, and business circles.
“So it’s the Yan Family backing you up. I originally thought of sparing your life, just making you suffer a bit would be enough. Since that’s the case, I’ll use your mouth to deliver a warning to the Yan Family!”
Lin Mu’s eyes instantly turned cold. He hadn’t expected Jin Qianbao’s backer to be the Yan Family. Remembering that the Yan Family hired assassins from Europe to hunt him down, even nearly costing him his life, a wave of anger surged in his heart. His killing intent immediately swelled greatly.
Jin Qianbao shuddered. He knew the situation was bad. He had originally intended to use the Yan Family’s reputation to scare his opponent. He didn’t expect the opponent to seem to have some grudge against the Yan Family. This was a case of trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice; his clever trick had backfired.
“Wait!”
Jin Qianbao wanted to say something more, but Lin Mu no longer wished to hear his nonsense. A silver light rose from his hand, and sword rays, continuous like fine rain, instantly enveloped Jin Qianbao. The sword light appeared and vanished in an instant, followed by a sharp clang as the sword returned to its scabbard at his waist.
The stunned Jin Qianbao only felt a numbness all over his body. He initially thought Lin Mu would take his life, but surprisingly, nothing happened. He looked at Lin Mu with both shock and suspicion.
“Just now, I damaged all the meridians near your internal organs. You can hold on for at most three days. Since you said the Yan Family has experts more powerful than me, I want to see if there is anyone who can save your life. Deliver a message to the Yan Family for me: debts must be repaid. I will seek them out personally!”
Lin Mu gave a cold smile, glanced at Jin Qianbao’s utterly terrified face, and then left the Triumph Bar.
When he returned to the Hilton Hotel, Yao Xianxian was still cultivating. However, because they were in a hotel, Yao Xianxian only entered a shallow state of cultivation. She did not dare to go into closed-door cultivation, as the hotel was not absolutely safe.
As soon as the door opened, she immediately opened her eyes and then saw Lin Mu walk in.
“You’re back?”
Yao Xianxian smiled sweetly as she spoke.
“Yes, everything’s taken care of. Why are you being so good today, cultivating here all by yourself?”
Lin Mu smiled and sat down next to Yao Xianxian, wrapping his arm around her slender waist as he spoke.
“I’ve always been working hard on my cultivation, alright! Otherwise, how could my skills improve so quickly?”
Yao Xianxian pouted her small mouth.
“Oh, really? So that’s why! No wonder you can still achieve this level in martial arts even after becoming a big star. I am truly immensely impressed!”
Lin Mu pretended to be surprised and nodded. Watching the giggling Yao Xianxian, he suddenly gave her a kiss on her small mouth.
“You sneaked an attack on me again!”
Yao Xianxian shot him a displeased glare and began to act coquettishly.
“Hehe, keep cultivating. Later, I also need to go into closed-door cultivation. Practicing martial arts is like sailing against the current; if you don’t advance, you will fall behind!”
Lin Mu laughed heartily, then went into the bathroom to take a shower. Watching Lin Mu’s back, Yao Xianxian smiled sweetly and then closed her eyes again to continue cultivating.
Knowing that Lin Mu’s strength was so formidable, she also wanted to enter the realm of Qi Cultivation as soon as possible. Otherwise, she would be left further and further behind by Lin Mu.
Over here, the two of them cultivated peacefully through the night. Over there, Jin Qianbao encountered great misfortune.
It turned out that Lin Mu used the Autumn Swan Sword to activate the Inchlight Sun-Seizing Secret Art, instantly severely damaging Jin Qianbao’s internal organs. However, because there are very few nerve distributions on the human body’s organs, Jin Qianbao didn’t feel any pain at the time, only a slight numbness.
This sensation misled him, making him think that Lin Mu was merely trying to scare him. He believed Lin Mu actually didn’t dare to offend the Yan Family, but leaving without doing anything would make him lose face, so he acted tough before leaving. In his view, this was very normal.
As a result, when he got up the next morning and went to the toilet, he suddenly let out an extremely terrified scream. His urine actually appeared black and red, carrying a pungent, foul odor that was overwhelming. Scared, he stumbled and immediately fell to the ground.
“What’s wrong, what’s wrong, Brother Bao?”
The underlings downstairs rushed up immediately. They saw Jin Qianbao slumped in the bathroom, with a pool of black and red beneath him. The underlings quickly covered their noses, not understanding what had happened.
“Hurry! Hurry and prepare a car! I need to see Boss Yan!”
Jin Qianbao said this in a panic while struggling to get up.
A few underlings frowned, fetched some pants for Jin Qianbao to change into, then arranged for a car. They left the Triumph Bar directly.
“Boss, Ah Bao is here.”
In a high-end, impressive office building, the door to the top-floor office was pushed open. A bald man with a scar on his face walked in and reported quietly with his head lowered.
“Ah Bao? It’s not the day to hand over the accounts. What is he doing here?”
Yan Zhongping raised an eyebrow and asked without looking up.
“He looked very flustered, as if something important happened.”
The bald man shook his head; he didn’t know the reason either.
“Let him in!”
Yan Zhongping nodded. His eyes never left the documents on the desk from start to finish.
“Yes, Boss!”
The big man said respectfully, then left the office. Shortly after, he returned with Jin Qianbao.
Jin Qianbao had just entered the office, a pitiful expression on his face, and hadn’t even had time to speak when Yan Zhongping, who was looking down dealing with documents, suddenly twitched his nostrils slightly. Then he abruptly looked up, his expression one of extreme surprise as he glanced at Jin Qianbao.
“Did you offend some expert?”
Yan Zhongping asked directly.
“Boss! Save me! I don’t know what happened either. That young man suddenly showed up, as if he holds some deep-seated hatred for the Yan Family. I said we are from the Yan Family, and he said he was specifically targeting the Yan Family. He also told me to deliver a message.”
Jin Qianbao, by now having lost all demeanor of a boss, was crying and complaining, tears and snot running down his face.
“What message?”
Yan Zhongping put down the pen in his hand and focused as he asked.
“Debts must be repaid. I will seek them out personally!”
Jin Qianbao wasn’t stupid; he didn’t mention the issue with Yao Xianxian. He directly said Lin Mu was targeting the Yan Family. With this small substitution of facts, the meaning of the matter immediately became different.
“Debts must be repaid?”
Yan Zhongping thought for a moment but couldn’t recall when they had offended such a formidable young man.
Earlier, the moment Jin Qianbao entered the room, Yan Zhongping had smelled a foul, rotting odor on him. This smell wasn’t from some external wound festering, but rather emitted from within his body. It was a sign of severe damage to all internal organs.
To completely destroy the internal organs without harming the body’s surface required extremely advanced martial arts skill alone. That’s why he directly asked Jin Qianbao if he had offended some expert.
Yan Zhongping thought for a good while but still couldn’t make head or tail of it. Then he stood up and walked over to Jin Qianbao. He took Jin Qianbao’s right hand and began checking his pulse.
A faint strand of Zhenyuan emerged from his Dantian and entered Jin Qianbao’s body through his wrist. Yan Zhongping, who appeared to be a successful businessman, was actually an expert who had entered the Spirit Gathering Realm and already cultivated Zhenyuan!
After a short while, Yan Zhongping sighed and withdrew his fingers from Jin Qianbao’s wrist.
“Such a formidable expert could kill you as easily as turning over his hand. Why didn’t he just kill you directly?”
Looking at Jin Qianbao’s cyanotic and blackish face, Yan Zhongping asked in confusion.
“When we fought earlier, he took down many of my men. I told him that even if his martial arts are powerful, he shouldn’t be so arrogant. The Yan Family has experts even more powerful than you standing guard. Then he injured my body with his strikes and said he wanted to see if the Yan Family, with its multitude of experts, actually had someone who could save me.”
Jin Qianbao altered the facts somewhat, adding sensational details as he spoke.
“When did this happen?”
Yan Zhongping asked again.
“Last night, around midnight.”
Jin Qianbao hurriedly replied. Right now, his life was hanging by a thread; how could he dare to waste any time?
“Do you have any photos or videos of that young man, or any other information?”
Yan Zhongping gently rubbed his hands together and asked calmly.
“Yes, yes, we do. The bar has surveillance footage. After that young man arrived, he scared the customers away, so the recording is very clear.”
Jin Qianbao nodded repeatedly.
“Good. This time, you were implicated because of matters related to the Yan Family. I am truly sorry.”
Yan Zhongping nodded and smiled amiably. He reached out and gently patted Jin Qianbao’s chest.
A faint smile had just appeared on Jin Qianbao’s face, but before he could utter a word, a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. A look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he collapsed onto the sofa.