Wang Yueshan felt the blood and Qi surging within his body.
His entire set of meridians felt as though they were in utter disarray; his Yuan Qi was running in reverse, and his five viscera felt as though they were burning.
"What did you do to me?"
"Guess?"
This was the profound mystery of the God and Demon Body Refining Formula. It could not only temper one's own internal physique, but also alter the meridian pathways and Qi of others.
Furthermore, Wang Yueshan had simultaneously employed the wind-attribute North Sea Carefree Formula and the Purple Qi Comes from the East Technique, causing his blood and Qi to circulate at an extremely rapid pace in the first place.
For a low-tier cultivator like him—
With just the slightest disruption—
His Qi momentum would run wild and untamed until his meridians became completely disordered.
To make matters worse, he had harbored killing intent toward him, intending to eliminate him in a single strike.
In his blind rage, he had only accelerated the speed of the Yuan Qi backlash.
The surrounding house servants, upon seeing the dignified Wang Family prodigy, Wang Yueshan, actually trampled beneath Ye Tianxuan's feet without the slightest ability to fight back, were struck dumb with astonishment.
"Is he really in the Early Blood Wheel Realm?"
"Do we even stand a chance against him in a fight?"
Those fiercely loyal to Ye Zhengwen began to lose their nerve. The head steward was at most in the Mid Blood Wheel Realm.
Seeing Ye Tianxuan span a major cultivation realm to directly obliterate the Wang Family prodigy, Wang Yueshan—
They were not merely dumbfounded; a chilling sensation crept across the backs of their necks.
With just this handful of low-class retainers, they seriously doubted whether they had enough numbers for him to slaughter.
"Let's go! We must report this to the Patriarch."
With that, taking advantage of the chaos, several house servants quickly carried away Ye Zhengwen and Ye Zhengyun.
At this moment, Ye Tianxuan squatted down before Wang Yueshan and asked with utter disdain, "Where did that arrogance of yours go just now? Why has it vanished?"
Gritting his teeth in furious rage, Wang Yueshan snapped, "You'd better kill me, or the Wang Family will never let you off!"
"Mere Wang Family."
Ye Tianxuan pressed his foot down onto his hand.
"Speak! Exactly why did you come to the Ye Family?! Dare to conceal even a single word, and I will turn you—this prodigy of the Wang Family—into a cripple with four useless limbs!"
If this were merely a matter of his past self slaying a collateral branch descendant of the Wang Family, such internal affairs should have been handled by the Wang Family contacting the Ye Family's Disciplinary Hall.
There was simply no possibility of them directly breaking in to apprehend Ye Tianxuan.
"How dare you!"
With a crisp *crack*, Ye Tianxuan forcefully crushed his right hand.
Then, he shifted his foot over to his left hand.
"You have three sentences left to speak."
Wang Yueshan screamed in agony.
Having been pampered all his life and treated like a precious treasure by his family—with even the Lord of Cangbei City having to treat him with special regard—when had he ever suffered such humiliation and torture?
Now, to be trampled under Ye Tianxuan's feet with the ability to cripple him at any moment!
Such unprecedented shame and humiliation nearly caused him to faint from sheer rage.
"One."
"Two."
"I'll talk!" Wang Yueshan said, driven to desperation.
Suddenly, he raised his head and shot back with a question, "How do you think your father died?"
Li Wanqing's expression suddenly cleaved apart as if struck by lightning, and she asked with a tremble, "Tianba... Is he dead?"
Wang Yueshan sneered, "Most likely."
"Was this the work of your Wang Family?" Ye Tianxuan pressed further.
Wang Yueshan let out a loud laugh, "We would never be so foolish as to destroy our own fortress. No matter what, in the Northern Region, the Ye Family belongs to the lower-realm great clans of the Xuanqi Sect; how could we possibly make a move against him?"
His laughter grew even more chilling, "It was your own flesh and blood in the Ye Family."
"Hmph, trying to play with fire and shift the disaster onto others?" Ye Tianxuan increased the pressure under his foot.
Wang Yueshan winced in pain and said, "If you don't believe me, you can ask your Second Uncle."
"It's a pity you let him get away just now, otherwise this conspiracy could have been learned straight from his mouth."
Li Wanqing furrowed her delicate brows. She had never imagined that Ye Zhengwen would actually turn his hand to slaughter his own flesh and blood.
Yet, recalling how Ye Zhengwen had just attempted to capture her own child to refine into a Life-Nurturing Creation Pill, perhaps such an act of fratricide and patricide was truly something he was capable of doing.
"Could it really be him? Ye Zhengwen?" Li Wanqing blurted out.
Wang Yueshan laughed heartily, "Ye Zhengwen? He's merely a minor character, and besides, he's just a trash in the Blood Wheel Realm."
"Ye Tianxuan is an outer sect disciple of the Xuanqi Sect, having already stepped into the late stage of the Five Viscera Realm."
"It is the entire Ye Family! The Li Family!"
Upon hearing this, Li Wanqing trembled all over and took two steps back. Her lips quivered as she murmured, "How is that possible?"
"How could it be?"
How could her own family members possibly move to brutally murder her husband?
Even back then, when she defied her family and eloped with Ye Tianxuan...
Her father had always loved her the most!
Even though she had brought disgrace upon the family honor, he had merely banished her from the Li Family.
Every single New Year and festival, he would still entrust people to send over several chests of precious gifts and treasures.
Just to let the Ye Family know that she, Li Wanqing, still had her maiden family to back her up.
That was why she had managed to avoid being bullied by the members of the Ye clan all these years.
Yet...
Yet...
How could this be?
Wang Yueshan said, "How could it not? When you rebelled and left the Li Family, you should have anticipated this."
"This Ye Tianxuan was the genius of the previous generation of the Ye Family. The Ye Family Ancestor poured countless rare heavenly treasures into supplying his cultivation, which was how he was chosen by the Xuanqi Sect as an outer sect disciple."
"Yet, he actually ruined his own future by marrying you, turning the Ye Family and the Li Family into mortal enemies."
"Without the pills and cauldrons provided by the family for cultivation, his realm gradually declined day by day, and he was also given the cold shoulder by the Xuanqi Sect."
"At that time, a mysterious figure told him that within Yunmeng Mountain, the forbidden ground of the Xuanqi Sect, there was a secret realm left behind by the founding master of the Xuanqi Sect."
"However, it had been breached by some petty thieves of the Earth Hall, who wanted to explore the secret realm. Therefore, Ye Tianxuan, desperate to make achievements within the sect, recklessly barged into the forbidden ground alone..."
"And from then on, he never returned."
Listening to this, Li Wanqing felt the words sounded half-true and half-false, so she pressed on, "What does this have to do with our Li Family?"
"Heh! Li Wanqing, you truly are naive."
"Did you really think your father and grandfather knew nothing of your relationship with Ye Tianxuan, nor your arrangement to elope?"
"You underestimate your father, the Blood-Handed Iron Catcher Li Xuanying, far too much."
"Why else would they have allowed you to stay together, and even let you break away from the Li Family to marry into the Ye Family?"
"Enduring such unprecedented humiliation?"
Upon hearing this, Li Wanqing's lips instantly trembled. She was so shocked she could not utter a single word, her mouth parting and closing slightly: "Father, he..."
"That's right. What your Li Family coveted was the secret treasure of the Xuanqi Sect."
"And then, do you think the Ye Family would let the Li Family monopolize it? Naturally, they wanted to be the first to get what is near the water, using someone as a scapegoat who could enter the secret realm."
Ye Tianxuan sneered coldly, applying force to the sole of his foot, on the verge of crushing the tendons and bones in Wang Yueshan's left hand.
"Those words of yours might fool a child, but do you think you can fool me?"
"What do you mean?"
"You said 'Yunmeng Mountain' is a 'secret realm' laid down by the founding master of the Xuanqi Sect."
"Since Yunmeng Mountain is the forbidden ground of the Xuanqi Sect, could they possibly be foolish enough not to station a few sect elders to guard it?"
"Would they casually allow low-class thieves like those from the Earth Hall to break in? Spare me the jokes."
"Besides, you said the person who told my father this secret was a mysterious figure."
"Who is this person?"
Ye Tianxuan gazed at him with cold eyes. That chilling glare seemed capable of piercing straight through Wang Yueshan's soul—it was a gaze forged amidst countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Looking at him felt as though one were gazing upon a corpse.
Although Wang Yueshan was crushed and rendered breathless by Ye Tianxuan's terrifying killing intent—
He still gritted his teeth and said, "I cannot say."
"Are you not afraid of death?" Ye Tianxuan asked coldly.
Wang Yueshan replied, "I am afraid! But if I were to utter that person's name, not only would I die, but the entire Wang Family! The Ye Family! The Li Family! The Lin Family! Even the entirety of Cangbei City would be burned to ashes!"
Upon hearing his resolute and decisive words, Li Wanqing felt a wave of profound shock.
To think there was someone capable of single-handedly rivaling the great clans of the entire Northern Region!
Merely mentioning his name...
Would result in the annihilation of their entire clans?
"You needn't say it. I know who she is."
Ye Tianxuan said playfully.