Chapter 94: Going Alone [1]

Su Hanxue never imagined that the assurance Zhao Kunpeng had beaten his chest to give would prove utterly useless.

No matter how fiercely Zhao Kunpeng struck the bronze bell, even to the point that Su Hanxue felt he might suffer a heart attack from watching, nothing at all happened to Old Master Su Wu.

Instead, it was Su Hanxue who got slapped across the face by Old Master Su Wu.

All the guests' eyes fell on Su Hanxue. Everyone seemed to have guessed what he intended to do, yet none of them could make sense of what he had actually done.

He had secretly colluded with the Su family's rivals, and on his own father's birthday banquet, he had presented a bronze bell just to make Su Wu lose his temper?

Wasn't that a little too childish?

"Get out! All of you, get out!"

Seeing Su Wu fly into a rage, Butler Mo hurriedly called the security over and forcibly shoved Zhao Kunpeng and the others out of the banquet hall.

Su Hanxue's face turned crimson. "Dad, listen to my explanation, I..."

"Did I not make myself clear enough? Get out!"

His words seemed to be stuck in his throat. Su Hanxue looked deeply at Su Wu, then said to Su Wentao and Su Yinxuan beside him, "We're leaving."

Su Wentao panicked and grabbed him. "Dad... what exactly did you do? Why..."

"Enough talk. Come with me first!"

With one hand dragging Su Wentao and the other pulling the dazed and frightened Su Yinxuan, Su Hanxue fled the banquet hall as though escaping for his life.

"Bastard."

Su Wu cursed under his breath and sat back down in the carved armchair, his chest still heaving.

The one trying to harm him had been his own son!

How could Su Wu not know how eager Su Hanxue was to take over? But he also understood his son well enough to know that he was still lacking the proper experience. The Su family would sooner or later be handed to Su Hanxue; it was only that Su Hanxue had been too impatient.

Su Han quickly took Su Wu's hand and soothed him in a low voice. Su Wu let out a long sigh and said to Yan Yu, "Yan Yu, this was all thanks to your talisman."

Yet Yan Yu had not heard him at all. His eyes were fixed tightly on the bronze bell in the center of the banquet hall.

"Yan Yu, what's wrong?" Su Han nudged him.

Yan Yu came back to himself and pointed at the bell. "The ram's head pattern on that bronze bell. I've seen it in Yang Yongsheng's office."

Su Han froze.

After the incident at the internet rehabilitation center ended, Yan Yu and Su Han had discussed where Yang Yongsheng had learned those ghost-controlling arts, but they had never found a clue. Yan Yu had originally thought that the ram's head pattern was merely Yang Yongsheng's personal mark, but now it seemed that was probably not the case.

"Su Han, take care of Old Master Su. I'll go take a look." Yan Yu rose at once and left through a side door.

"Huh? Be careful!" Su Han had no time to stop him and could only call out helplessly.

Ren Yuheng and Tong Kunkun, who had been watching Yan Yu closely, saw him slip away and quietly stood up to follow.

"With so many people around, we couldn't make a move. Now that you've split off on your own, do you really think I can't deal with you?" Tong Kunkun held the bronze doll in his hand, a vicious smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

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"Zhao Kunpeng, what on earth is going on!"

Not far from the entrance to Su Manor, Su Hanxue met Zhao Kunpeng with Su Wentao and Su Yinxuan in tow. The moment he saw Zhao Kunpeng, he could not help but unleash a furious tirade.

Su Wentao and Su Yinxuan stood to the side, at a loss.

"Didn't you say that as long as you struck that bronze bell, my father would be overcome by yin energy and bedridden with illness?!" Su Hanxue snapped.

Zhao Kunpeng's face was equally dark. Shaking his head, he said, "That shouldn't have happened. I already had someone test it. The bell Master Liu gave us has absolutely no problem."

"What bullshit Master Liu? I was crazy enough to believe you fools and actually thought a broken bell would really work!" Su Hanxue shouted.

Just then, Su Hanxue suddenly felt a chill run down his back and could not help shivering. He turned around and saw, standing in a dark corner of the alley, an ugly old man, as eerie as a ghost.

"Damn it, we're discussing business here. You filthy old beggar, get lost!" Su Hanxue had a belly full of rage with nowhere to vent it. Seeing the old beggar only made him feel unlucky, and he actually stepped forward at once, intending to beat him.

When Zhao Kunpeng saw this, his expression changed. Before he could speak to stop him, the old beggar suddenly appeared before Su Hanxue, seized him by the throat with one hand, and lifted him up effortlessly!

"You... you..." Su Hanxue was instantly terrified. He felt as though his neck were about to be twisted off, and his breathing grew more and more ragged.

"Dad!" Su Wentao hurried forward to help.

But the old beggar let go. "If you show me such disrespect again, I will hook your soul right out of your body and feed it to my vicious ghost!"

Su Hanxue stared at the old beggar in shock and fear.

Zhao Kunpeng said helplessly, "This is the expert I told you about, Master Liu, Liu Sen! I specially invited him from Banyan City. Master Liu is a true master, only... I have no idea why that bronze bell suddenly stopped working today."

To think that the old beggar was actually Liu Sen, the one who had crossed paths with Yan Yu!

Ever since that battle with Yan Yu, Liu Sen had been gravely injured, and the fierce ghost in his possession, Xiao Hongniang, had nearly been beaten to the point of soul scattering by Yan Yu. In the end, he simply broke off his contract with the Li family and quietly came to Egret City to make a living.

Because of his injuries, he had used the twenty years of lifespan he had previously obtained to recover, but his appearance had once again grown old.

This time he had helped Zhao Kunpeng as the first job he had taken after arriving in Egret City, and he had not expected such a problem to arise.

Liu Sen said darkly, "That bronze bell was soaked for eighty-one days and nights in the yin energy of a fierce ghost. Once it was struck, any elder would be unable to withstand it. At best, they would fall seriously ill; at worst, they would die on the spot. I even obtained Su Wu's birth chart in advance so the bell's effect on him would be even more pronounced... How could it possibly have had no effect at all?"

Having caught his breath, Su Hanxue suddenly thought of something and said, "At today's birthday banquet, some brat gave the old man a few talismans. Could those talismans have done it?"

"That happened too?" Liu Sen frowned. "Do you know that brat's name?"

"Yan Yu." Su Hanxue answered through clenched teeth.

"It's that brat!" Liu Sen could not help cursing. "He really is impossible to shake. I never expected that after coming to Egret City, I'd run into him again!"

Zhao Kunpeng hurriedly asked, "You know that brat, Master? What exactly is he?"

"He may be a disciple of Mao Mountain, but his methods don't resemble Mao Mountain's. Very strange." Liu Sen said viciously, "If I run into him again, I will make sure he never returns alive!"

"No need to wait for next time. Here I am, aren't I?"

The sudden voice startled the three of them. Looking toward the direction of Su Manor, they saw a young man with his hands in his pockets walking slowly toward them.

It was Yan Yu, who had followed them out.

"You little..." Liu Sen's gaze turned icy.

Yan Yu said coolly, "I was still wondering who would use such a disgusting design. So it was you. By the way, what was that sect you claimed to belong to last time? Ghost Valley Sect? Tsk, tsk, tsk... even the name of the sect is revolting."