266: Li Mei is still alive?

As soon as the door opened, Li Huai froze.

Standing outside the door was none other than his charming Older Female Cousin, Jin Meiting.

Beside her stood a young man.

Li Huai's heart suddenly tightened, and an ominous premonition surged within him.

How did his Older Female Cousin find this place?

Who was this man beside her?

Questions flooded his mind, but he quickly suppressed his panic and forced a smile onto his face.

"Older Female Cousin?"

"Why are you here? Is... something the matter?"

Usually, he would have already acted arrogantly.

Jin Meiting looked at him coldly. "If I hadn't come, did you think no one would ever know about the bug you hid on me?"

"B-bug? Older Female Cousin, what are you talking about?"

Li Huai's expression changed, his eyes darting around as he instinctively tried to deny it. "When did I ever put a bug on you? Don't listen to others' nonsense! Did this kid drive a wedge between us?"

He pointed at Ye Chen, trying to shift the blame.

Ye Chen didn't speak; he just calmly gazed at the withered old man sitting on the sofa.

Elder Qin continued to smoke, his cloudy eyes meeting Ye Chen's gaze in mid-air.

In just an instant, Elder Qin's fingers holding the cigarette trembled, and alarm bells rang in his heart!

This young man...

His aura was as deep as a cold pool, and his gaze was calm yet carried an eerie feeling. He was definitely no ordinary character!

Seeing Li Huai still making excuses, Jin Meiting laughed out of anger and opened the lid of a white porcelain teacup.

"Li Huai, look closely. What is this?"

Li Huai instinctively leaned forward to look, and the thin black and white insect curled at the bottom of the cup came into view. His pupils constricted!

The Gu insect... was taken out?

How was that possible???

Hadn't Elder Qin said that this Gu insect would die once it left the body, and that it was absolutely impossible for an ordinary person to remove it?

"You... you..."

Li Huai's lips trembled, and he couldn't even speak clearly as he looked at Elder Qin on the sofa in terror.

Elder Qin stubbed out his cigarette and stood up, an icy aura emanating from his body.

He stared at Ye Chen and spoke coldly, "Young man, quite the skill. To be able to silently remove my Silk-Wrapping Gu without alerting the Mother Gu, it seems you are a fellow practitioner?"

Hearing this, Ye Chen smiled disdainfully. "Fellow practitioner? With your mediocre Gu-raising skills, you think you're worthy of being called my peer?"

Elder Qin's face darkened, a murderous glint flashing in his eyes.

"Arrogant! I have studied the Gu Art for sixty years, and I have never seen a junior as ignorant of the heights of heaven and depths of the earth as you!"

"Since you're seeking death, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Before his voice had even faded.

His right hand suddenly shot out from his sleeve, his five fingers forming a claw. His fingernails were an eerie ghostly blue, bringing a foul wind as he lunged straight for Ye Chen's face!

Seeing this, Jin Meiting turned pale with fright and instinctively cried out, "A-Chen! Watch out!"

Ye Chen's expression remained unchanged. He didn't even look at the incoming poisonous claw, simply clenching his right fist and punching toward Elder Qin's claw.

There was no surging energy, no dazzling lights—just a simple punch.

"Boom—!"

Fist and claw collided, producing a dull thud.

The cruel grin on Elder Qin's face froze instantly, replaced by horror!

In the next moment.

"Crack!"

The sound of arm bones snapping echoed through the hotel's presidential suite.

A sweet taste filled Elder Qin's throat as he spat out a mouthful of blood. Like a kite with a broken string, he flew backward and slammed hard against the hotel room wall before sliding limply to the floor.

He collapsed on the ground, his aura instantly withering, and his originally sinister face turned deathly pale.

Ye Chen shook his fist and started walking toward Elder Qin.

Elder Qin coughed up another mouthful of clotted blood and hissed with a distorted face, "You... you have truly exceeded my expectations... So young, yet your strength is actually this terrifying!"

Ye Chen stopped in front of him and looked down. "Any last words? If not, you're about to die."

"Hahaha..."

Elder Qin suddenly threw his head back and laughed wildly.

"Don't be so arrogant, kid! You think you've won?"

"During our exchange just now, you were already infected by the 'Heart-Corroding Gu Poison' on my fingernails!"

"This poison is colorless and odorless. It dissolves upon entering the blood and will surely invade the heart's meridians within three breaths!"

"Do you feel a tightness in your chest now, and your true qi becoming sluggish?"

"Soon... the poison will take effect and you will die! Cough, cough..."

He laughed while coughing blood, staring at Ye Chen with venomous eyes as if he could already see the other man collapsing from the poison.

Beside them, the stunned Li Huai felt hope reignite and shouted excitedly.

"That's right! No one can cure Elder Qin's poison!"

"Kid, you're dead meat!"

Saying that, he looked at Jin Meiting with a hideous smile. "Older Female Cousin, it's not too late to beg me now!!!"

Jin Meiting's face turned pale, and she looked at Ye Chen nervously.

However.

Ye Chen just laughed.

He raised the right hand he had used for the punch and waved it in front of Elder Qin's eyes. The skin was smooth, without even a red mark.

"Heart-Corroding Gu Poison?"

"With your meager skills, that stuff you refined can't even penetrate my skin, and you want to poison me?"

Don't forget!

Ye Chen possessed the Houtu Inheritance and had long ago forged an Indestructible Vajra body.

Not only was he immune to all poisons, but he also repelled all evils. Especially this kind of sinister Gu poison, it was completely countered!

"What?"

"This... this is impossible!"

The wild laughter on Elder Qin's face froze completely, his face filled with disbelief.

"My Heart-Corroding Gu Poison kills the moment it touches blood!"

"You clearly touched it! How can you be fine?"

Ye Chen was speechless. "The problem is, I didn't bleed. You're the one who's bleeding."

Elder Qin: "..."

Ye Chen didn't bother explaining. He squatted down and asked calmly, "I'm curious. You and I have no grievances or enmity, so why did you target my woman?"

Hearing this, a crazed and venomous look suddenly erupted in Elder Qin's cloudy eyes.

"No grievances or enmity?"

"No, no, no!"

"Kid, there is an irreconcilable, deep-seated hatred between us!!!"

Ye Chen's eyebrows twitched slightly. He carefully looked the withered old man up and down but really couldn't remember where he had seen this face before.

He rubbed his chin, somewhat puzzled. "Oh? We've met? Why don't I have any impression of it?"

"You don't have any impression?"

"Hahaha... Of course you don't!"

"Because we've never met, but..."

Elder Qin coughed blood, his laughter shrill. "My granddaughter's name is Li Mei! You should at least remember that name, right? If you've even forgotten her, then what about the Hidden Sect? You should at least remember the Hidden Sect!!!"

Li Mei?

Hidden Sect?

Ye Chen suddenly realized.

So it was Chu Niubi's ex?

"I didn't expect she actually had a maternal grandfather?"

Ye Chen spoke with a strange expression. "What, do you think that since I killed her, there's no point in you living alone, so you came all this way to seek death and join her?"

"Bullshit! My granddaughter isn't dead!"

Elder Qin was angry, crazed, and laughing all at once.

"She wasn't meant to die! Back then, after you kicked her off the cliff into the sea, she was luckily swept away by an undercurrent and drifted to the southern coast!"

"I happened to be returning that day and found her!"

"Now, she has turned misfortune into a blessing and was even chosen by the Miao Sect to be a disciple!"

"The day she returns after mastering her divine arts will be the day you little beast die! Hahaha... Cough, cough!"

Elder Qin laughed wildly while coughing blood, acting like a madman.

Ye Chen was a bit surprised.

Li Mei was actually not dead?

He had definitely delivered a lethal kick back then...

This luck was truly defying the heavens!

He rubbed his nose and said calmly, "If I could kill her once, I can kill her a second time. I don't care if she's a Miao Sect disciple; even if the King of Heaven himself came, if he dares to provoke me, he'll still end up on the ground."

"Arrogant! Ignorant!"

Elder Qin shrieked.

"Ye Chen! You think you can act without restraint just because you have some skills?"

"The terror of the Miao Sect is far beyond your imagination!"

"It's an ancient sect that has been passed down for hundreds of years, with mystical methods and the ability to kill invisibly!"

"Wait until you see true Gu Arts, true Miao Territory Secret Techniques..."

"Then you will know how ridiculous your current thoughts are!"

Ye Chen looked calm and asked, "The Miao Sect is very powerful? Then do you know who is standing behind me?"

Elder Qin was stunned by this sudden question and instinctively asked back, "Who?"

Ye Chen smiled slightly.

"The country."

"I, Ye Chen, am the Chief Instructor of the Dragon Group's 'Hidden Dragon Pavilion'."

"No matter how ancient or mysterious the Miao Sect your granddaughter joined is, can it go head-to-head with the state machinery on the land of Dragon Country?"

As soon as these words were spoken.

Elder Qin's face turned pale...