"Heh, you're the one who found the guardian spirit beast?"
Duan Chenyang turned and sneered at Lin Shuainan.
Lin Shuainan shook his head and looked at Ling Feng, "My elder brother found it!"
Duan Chenyang was slightly startled upon hearing this, his gaze towards Ling Feng still filled with fear!
"You truly are no ordinary person! It seems I've been too excessive all these years, allowing the Duan family's old residence to accumulate so much auspicious energy from heaven and earth!"
"That's why, at this turning point of crisis, you've attracted people like you, these extraordinary individuals! The Lin family, the foremost feng shui lineage in Nanyun! And you! Your appearance today has brought me too many surprises!"
Duan Chenyang sighed, as if talking to himself.
His continuous head-shaking carried a hint of self-mockery.
Uncle Lin Er also shook his head, "With your profound Xuanmen attainments, you are indeed a prodigy of this era. However, you know that human calculations are inferior to heavenly calculations, yet you insist on defying the heavens. This is destined to fail!"
"Who says I failed?"
Duan Chenyang remained incredibly arrogant.
To everyone else, this arrogance had morphed into stubborn obstinacy!
Indeed, without such a stubborn temper, Duan Chenyang wouldn't have been able to stir up so much trouble for so many years!
"But... Duan Chenyang, this isn't right! Why did you do this? And Wu Bo, where is Wu Bo? What exactly happened to him?"
Duan Chenfeng's thoughts were in utter disarray; he simply couldn't accept the current reality!
"Wu Bo? Heh, that old fool died fifteen years ago!"
Duan Chenyang sneered!
"What?! Died fifteen years ago..."
Duan Chenfeng was utterly horrified, his hair standing on end. This meant that for the past fifteen years, he had someone dead moving in and out of his life?
"What? That old fool broke my legs back then. It's only natural for me to take his life, isn't it?"
Duan Chenyang snorted dismissively.
"Hmph, moreover, that old fool was blind. Fifteen years ago, when I was setting up my formation, he discovered my identity. I told him everything, even wanting him to be my informant!"
"But that old fool wasn't honest; he actually threatened me to pass on the Xuanmen technique of turning stones into gold!"
Speaking of this, Duan Chenyang sneered again, full of pride.
"I passed it to him then, but unfortunately, he had no idea that what I passed to him was the Art of Puppet Sacrifice. He literally forced himself to death! Hmph, greedy and insatiable! He got what he deserved!"
Duan Chenfeng, upon learning another truth, swayed, his head spinning, almost fainting on the spot.
Uncle Lin Er's eyes also flashed with sharp light as he shook his head, "I always wondered how you mastered the lost art of Qimen Puppetry. So, it was making people automatically sacrifice their lives! You truly shouldn't have carried such a debt of life on your soul!"
Duan Chenyang saw the pity in Uncle Lin Er's eyes but couldn't accept it, believing that Lin Er, as a legitimate Xuanmen successor, looked down on him.
"Hmph, that old fool deserved it. I was acting on behalf of heaven!"
Uncle Lin Er was about to try and dissuade Duan Chenyang, but Duan Chenyang gave him no chance, waving his hand and saying coldly, "Enough! Lin Zhengnin, I know my Xuanmen skills are inferior to yours! And my master has quite some connection with your Lin family! Today, you've destroyed my twelve years of hard work, and I won't hold it against you!"
"Lin Zhengnin, leave! All of you, leave! We will handle the Duan family's matters ourselves!"
Duan Chenyang began to drive them away!
Under Duan Chenyang's stance, even Lin Zhengnin felt a tremor of doubt.
He shook his head and sighed, "Little Nan Nan, take your friends and go! We shouldn't interfere further in this matter! My efforts today have been in vain!"
Hearing this, Lin Shuainan immediately looked troubled.
"Uncle Er, this doesn't seem right. We can't just watch him kill someone!"
Seeing that Lin Zhengnin was already preparing to leave, but Lin Shuainan was still lingering, Duan Chenyang became greatly annoyed.
"Kid, don't be ungrateful. Do you want to accompany me, Duan Chenyang, to hell? You've disrupted my plans five times now, and I've spared your lives several times. Don't court death!"
Lin Shuainan was also taken aback.
The Duan family's affairs were indeed too complicated. This Duan Chenyang sounded like a pitiable person, and even if his methods were extreme, he had indeed shown restraint.
It was rather them, outsiders, interfering and self-righteously acting, that seemed unreasonable.
Seeing Lin Shuainan waver, Ba Yilan couldn't help but grab Lin Shuainan's sleeve and shake it.
"Brother Yi, we can't leave. Uncle is still waiting for the spiritual herbs collected by Duan Chenfeng. Uncle's condition worsened tonight, and if this continues, I'm worried Uncle will..."
"Right!"
Lin Shuainan suddenly came to his senses and shouted at Duan Chenyang.
"I don't care about your Duan family's matters. I'm here to save my White Daddy. You can't kill him before the spiritual herbs are gathered tomorrow!"
Duan Chenyang was stunned by this.
Seeing that the Lin family had completely abandoned him, Duan Chenfeng became even more panicked. Hit by a series of blows, Duan Chenfeng's emotions collapsed again.
His eyes reddened as he glared at Duan Chenyang!
"Duan Chenyang, why are you doing this! You made me the richest man in Nanyun, and you made our Duan family accumulate trillions in assets, but why are you destroying it all with your own hands now? Have you truly gone mad?"
*Clap, clap!*
Duan Chenyang didn't respond directly but started clapping, a brilliant smile on his face.
Everyone felt a chill in their hearts at the sight.
This person was truly a madman, so pathologically obsessed that he had spent decades on this single endeavor. It was truly too insane.
"Haha, why am I doing this? Duan Chenfeng, I just want you to clearly taste what it's like to be a beggar on the streets!"
Duan Chenyang narrowed his eyes, staring fixedly at Duan Chenfeng.
Duan Chenfeng felt a creeping unease under his gaze, and some vague memories buried in his heart resurfaced!
"Looking at you, it seems you haven't forgotten, but rather, you simply don't want to remember!"
Duan Chenyang continued, "My legs were broken, and I was thrown onto the streets. Duan Chenfeng, you saw me, but you turned a blind eye! Heh, though we are half-brothers, did I, your elder brother, ever treat you badly as a child?"
Duan Chenfeng shook his head in panic, "I don't know, when did I ever see you! I have no idea what you're talking about!"
Seeing Duan Chenfeng's guilty look,
Everyone suddenly understood!
His own elder brother was in distress, and his younger brother turned a blind eye, not only failing to offer help but even kicking him while he was down!
It was no wonder Duan Chenyang harbored such deep resentment!
The old gardener in the crowd repeatedly shook his head and sighed, "Alas, it shouldn't have been like this, it shouldn't have been!"