Chapter 159: Pei Yurou's Plea

Pei Qingzhi stared at Ye Tianci with a face full of shock.

Just by looking at his expression, it was easy to tell that Ye Tianci had guessed everything correctly!

"Young master, you are truly a divine physician and physiognomist! Everything you said has come true; this old man was indeed a martial practitioner who made it onto the Mysterious Ranking in my youth!"

"Even five years ago, ordinary young people would have been no match for this old man."

"Yet, in recent years, my physical condition has deteriorated day by day. Now I am extremely weak, lacking even the strength to walk properly. Could it really... be caused by this damned thing inside the Guanyin jade carving?"

Pei Qingzhi looked at Ye Tianci with a mixture of skepticism and belief.

Pei Yurourou remained silent, her gaze fixed on Ye Tianci filled with a mix of shock and doubt.

Guo Jianglong stepped forward and said, "President Pei, don't listen to this charlatan's nonsense. I think he is very suspicious; for all we know, this evil thing was just planted by him right now."

He actually turned around and tried to frame Ye Tianci.

Just at that moment, Feng Xiaoyan, who had fallen to the ground, grabbed her right hand with her left hand, her body beginning to twitch as she muttered incoherently, making it impossible for anyone to understand what she was saying.

"Xiaoyan, what's wrong with you?" Pei Qingzhi asked with concern.

Although Feng Xiaoyan was his adopted daughter, Pei Qingzhi had always treated her as his own, loving her just like his biological child.

"Aunt, are you alright?" Pei Yurourou also asked, her face full of worry.

"Yanzi!"

Guo Jianglong cried out in alarm.

Feng Xiaoyan seemed completely deaf to everyone's voices, her eyes fixed blankly on the ceiling, her lips trembling, and her entire body shaking like a leaf.

Ye Tianci said coldly, "When she fell just now, her finger touched the lips of the ghost puppet, which is where the malevolent dead energy is most concentrated!"

"Combined with the fact that her finger was injured and bleeding, leaving her body with no defense whatsoever, the dead energy directly entered her body through her bleeding finger and has now affected her brain."

"Elder Pei, would you like to know the full story behind this ghost puppet?"

With these words, Ye Tianci looked at Pei Qingzhi.

Pei Qingzhi nodded. "I am all ears!"

Ye Tianci drew a soul-bewitching talisman and slapped it onto Feng Xiaoyan's back.

"Ah, ah, ah!"

Feng Xiaoyan's incoherent mumbling suddenly turned clear: "Brother Yuting! Don't blame me. If I hadn't poisoned you to death, the old man would never have truly accepted me as his own daughter, and the Pei family fortune would never have ended up in my hands!"

"Brother Yutao, you... why are you looking at me with a face full of blood? I'm scared! If you don't die, someone else will still fight me for the Pei family fortune."

"But I didn't kill you, it was Brother Long! Brother Long sent people to tamper with your car, causing you to drive off the cliff. Go find him! Go find him!"

"No! None of you look at me like that!"

Feng Xiaoyan collapsed on the ground, her eyes staring blankly at the empty air as she shrieked continuously.

Her face was etched with terror, as if she had just seen a ghost.

Although her voice was trembling, Pei Qingzhi and Pei Yurourou heard every single word with utmost clarity.

"What did you say? My eldest uncle and my dad were both murdered by you?"

Pei Yurourou widened her eyes, staring at Feng Xiaoyan in utter horror!

Pei Qingzhi looked even more dazed, completely dumbfounded!

Feng Xiaoyan's body shuddered, her eyes bloodshot with greenish-red veins as her teeth chattered, "I didn't do it alone; it was Brother Long! Brother Long said that as long as they were alive, I would never get the Pei family fortune!"

"They had to die! I had no choice but to make them die!"

Feng Xiaoyan shouted as if she had lost her mind.

"You beast!"

Regaining his senses, Pei Qingzhi let out a furious roar, and then glared at Guo Jianglong with blazing eyes: "You came from Luocheng in Jiangbei, and out of consideration for our shared hometown, I took you in, helped you start from scratch, and made you one of the Three Dragons of Shucheng!"

"Yet you colluded with this beastly woman and murdered my two sons!"

"I always thought my two sons suffered accidents and simply lacked the fortune! Never did I imagine that I was blind and welcomed a wolf into the house!"

Guo Jianglong said, "President Pei, don't listen to Feng Xiaoyan's nonsense. I can see she has lost her mind."

"The words of a madwoman cannot be trusted."

Gitting his teeth with burning fury in his eyes, Pei Qingzhi spat out, "Still trying to sophisticate? Men, take Guo Jianglong down for me!"

Before the two bodyguards could step forward, Guo Jianglong grabbed Pei Qingzhi by the neck.

Pei Qingzhi immediately found it difficult to breathe, his old face turning deathly pale. He used both hands to pry at Guo Jianglong's wrist, but it was all in vain.

"President Pei, your cultivation is completely gone, stop struggling. Dealing with you is as easy as crushing an ant for me!"

Guo Jianglong sneered hideously.

"Let go of my grandfather!" Pei Yurourou screamed.

Guo Jianglong curled the corner of his mouth into a sinister smile and snorted, "Since this matter has already been dug up by this fellow surnamed Ye, I might as well tell you the truth."

"That's right, your eldest uncle Pei Yuting and your father Pei Yutao were both eliminated by me and Feng Xiaoyan working together!"

"The ghost puppet inside this Guanyin jade carving was also placed there by Feng Xiaoyan at my direction!"

"I thought your grandfather would quietly die within a year or two, but who would have thought this old fogey has such a tough constitution, lasting five full years without dying yet!"

There was even a hint of frustration in his tone.

"Pfft!"

As soon as his words fell, Pei Qingzhi spat out a mouthful of dark blood, his complexion turning even paler!

"Grandfather!"

Crying, Pei Yurourou knelt on the ground and cried out helplessly, "Guo Jianglong, I beg you, let my grandfather go!"

Watching her tear-stained, pear-blossom-in-rain appearance, Guo Jianglong glanced down at the half-dead Feng Xiaoyan convulsing on the floor, and sneered, "I've grown tired of playing with this woman. She looks like she's not going to make it anyway, and she has no more value to me."

"You are young, beautiful, and have fair, delicate skin—you are quite suitable to be my woman."

"As long as you agree to wait on me, I can spare your grandfather."

Shocked, Pei Yurourou blurted out, "In your dreams!"

Guo Jianglong tightened his grip.

"Ugh!"

Pei Qingzhi spat out another mouthful of blood, rolling his eyes as he neared unconsciousness.

"Grandfather!"

Screaming in terror, Pei Yurourou suddenly forced herself to stay calm, wiped away her tears, and looked at Ye Tianci: "Mr. Ye, please help me."

Ye Tianci looked at her with an indifferent expression: "Actually, I already helped you. I helped you uncover the truth, but you refused to appreciate it, mocking and sneering at me, asserting that I was merely after your Pei family's wealth."

"Thud!"

Kneeling on the ground and biting her cherry lips, Pei Yurourou pleaded, "Mr. Ye, Yurourou knows she was wrong!"

"Yurourou was blind to a true treasure and wrongly blamed you, Sir! Please be magnanimous, Mr. Ye!"

"As long as you help me this once and help the Pei family survive this calamity, Yurourou is willing to serve by your side forever."

Ye Tianci curved the corner of his lips and calmly said, "You are indeed very beautiful, but I am not interested."

"You wanted evidence, and I have provided it. The rise and fall of the Pei family has nothing to do with me."

With that, Ye Tianci turned around and prepared to leave.

"Hold on!"

It was Guo Jianglong who spoke up. "Kid, did I say you could leave?"

Ye Tianci looked at him indifferently: "And what do you propose?"

Guo Jianglong's mouth twisted into a ferocious grin: "Earlier you stepped on my face. Get down on the ground and let me step on your face a hundred times! Otherwise, don't even dream of leaving!"

"Because my brothers have arrived!"

As his words fell, the screech of brakes echoed continuously from outside!

Immediately following that, a chaotic din of footsteps, arrogant curses, and shouts rang out simultaneously!

Over a hundred men swarmed inside.

"Brother Long!"

"Brother Long, the brothers are all here! Where is the target?"

The burly men who barged in shouted one after another—they were all Guo Jianglong's men!