Beyond Heaven's Control

The Qin Family servants who had rushed over at the sound were all dumbfounded, staring at Qin Yu in shock. Those servants who had once looked down on him trembled in fear.

Was this still that mediocre Third Young Master?

When Qin Feng saw Qin Yu stalking toward him like a ferocious demon, his face turned deathly pale, and a pale yellow liquid seeped from his crotch. He crawled toward Qin Zhan in terror, weeping, "Father, save me! Save me!"

"Qin Yu, stop! He is your elder brother, after all!" Qin Zhan barked in a low voice. What he truly wanted to say was: endure for another half year.

"Get lost!" Qin Yu roared as he turned his head. Looking at Qin Zhan's livid face, he said coldly, "He is my brother? Where were you when he humiliated me time and again?"

"Where were you when he forced me to kneel before him?"

"Where were you when he brought people here to kill Xue'er and me?"

"Where were you when he withheld the silver meant for us siblings?"

"Are only those two your sons? Are we not? Because we are children without a mother, are we like wild grass in a rice field, free for anyone to trample and ravage?"

"Are you going to tell me that you are here now? Today, if I had not encountered a fortuitous chance, Xue'er and I would both have become corpses here."

"And now you tell me he is my brother?"

"Today, I will not merely sever his meridians. Neither he nor Cui Shuo will escape. I will make them pay, one by one, for what they have done. If you still insist on stopping me, then Qin Yu and Qin Xue will sever all father-son ties with you!!"

Qin Zhan's pupils shrank sharply. Every word Qin Yu uttered was like a sharp blade stabbing into Qin Zhan's heart.

Seeing Qin Yu's bloodshot eyes, he realized how utterly he had failed, how utterly he had failed. All these years, he had been occupied with business and with paving the way for Qin Yu and Qin Xue. He had neglected too much. He had never imagined that Qin Yu and Qin Xue had suffered so many grievances.

Recalling that lovely face, recalling those affectionate eyes, Qin Zhan's eyes reddened. He gazed deeply at Qin Yu, then turned and left. His steps were slow, and though his body was tall and straight, it now seemed bent and stooped, steeped in the weariness and desolation of time...

Qin Yu did not even glance at Qin Zhan. He slowly walked toward Qin Feng, while Qin Yong had already been frightened into trembling. He scrambled to his feet and tried to flee, only to hear an icy voice: "If you dare take another step, there will be no mercy in death!!"

Qin Yong's body shuddered violently. His raised right foot froze in midair, and he did not dare set it down.

Qin Yu slowly crouched before Qin Feng, his bloodshot gaze fixed upon him. "You should pay the price for what you have done before. I will warn you once more: if there is a next time, I will definitely sever your meridians!"

"Brother..." Qin Xue knelt weakly inside the room, sobbing so hard she could barely speak. Qin Yu's every word from before had struck her fragile, innocent heart like enormous boulders, twisting it like a knife.

Qin Yu tilted his head slightly but did not look at Qin Xue. Struggle filled his eyes. After a long while, Qin Yu suddenly threw four punches. They struck Qin Feng's elbows and knees respectively. Yet Qin Yu had still held back. He had only broken Qin Feng's limbs and had not severed his meridians. He could disregard Qin Zhan's words, but he could not ignore Qin Xue's.

"Ah..." Qin Feng screamed repeatedly. When the third punch landed, the pain knocked him unconscious.

Qin Yu slowly rose and looked at Qin Yong, who stood frozen in place and trembled. In a hoarse voice, he asked, "Will you lie down yourself, or do you want me to do it?"

Qin Yong shuddered all over. As a commander of a thousand men, he had long lost his former murderous aura. Looking at Qin Yu, covered in blood yet radiating towering ferocity, Qin Yong shut his eyes tightly, took a deep breath, and lay down.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The four punches fell, and Qin Yong too fainted from the pain. His fate was the same as Qin Feng's: all four joints in his limbs had been smashed apart, and the arm that had only recently been reattached was smashed off again.

Qin Yu slowly stood up and looked at the servants ahead, who had been scared witless. His voice was hoarse as he said, "Drag them away." With that, Qin Yu slowly turned around and staggered toward the room.

The instant his right foot crossed into the room, Qin Yu felt heaven and earth spin around him. A crushing exhaustion swallowed his mind, and his body toppled over.

Vaguely, Qin Yu heard Xue'er's heart-rending sobs.

Was he going to die?

Just like last time?

Long Yu stared blankly at Qin Yu, her mind utterly empty. She had personally witnessed how Qin Yu fought Cui Shuo alone. She had personally seen and heard everything.

The shock of his solitary battle against Cui Shuo.

The heartache stirred by his conversation with Qin Zhan.

The merciless coldness with which he broke Qin Feng and Qin Yong.

All of it struck Long Yu's heart. Was this Qin Yu? Was this the real Qin Yu?

Looking at that bloodied, mangled yet sharply contoured face, Long Yu found herself staring in a daze.

The servants in the distance were all utterly shaken. At that moment, Qin Yu's image rose to unprecedented heights in their hearts.

Was this the Third Young Master?

Inside a room in the attic of the Myriad Phenomena Pill Shop.

Zi Xun'er and Elder Ge both wore complicated expressions. Before them floated a light screen, within which was Qin Yu's small courtyard. They had watched almost everything from beginning to end.

The room was so quiet that one could hear a needle drop. Elder Ge lifted his head, revealing beneath his black robe a pale, aged face. His eyes were fixed on Qin Yu, who had collapsed within the light screen, filled with profound shock and disbelief.

"Miss, this person most likely has secrets that we do not yet know!!" After a long while, Elder Ge spoke hoarsely.

Compared to Elder Ge's shock, Zi Xun'er's emotions were more complicated. She was both shocked and heartbroken. Though she could not hear Qin Yu's voice, she could infer every word he had said from the movement of his lips. What he had said to Qin Zhan struck deeply into Zi Xun'er's heart.

Because we are children without a mother, are we like wild grass in a rice field, free for anyone to trample and ravage?

"Miss?" Elder Ge turned his head in confusion and gently reminded her.

Only then did Zi Xun'er come back to herself. "Elder Ge, what is it?"

"This person is terrifying. I do not know what he used to grow stronger the longer he fought, but I can sense his strength. Given time, he will surely have a place in the Azure Lotus Heavenly Domain," Elder Ge said gravely.

"Wouldn't that be even better? Someone like him is qualified to become my shield..." Zi Xun'er's lips curved slightly, revealing a captivating smile.

What would happen if the two "people" she could not see through truly became enemies?

Wait and see!

At the same time.

In an unknown realm, atop a towering peak at the very center of that realm, a child wearing the Nine Dragon Emperor Crown sat cross-legged.

What was shocking was that the child looked only eight or nine years old, yet below his abdomen lay nothing but withered bones, as though they had been eroded by countless years.

"Karma... has Mad Demon's karma condensed once more?"

"How is that possible? Wasn't Mad Demon suppressed by Eternal Power? As long as eternity remains unextinguished, should he not be unable to appear?"

"Mad Demon? Impossible!"

Startled cries rang out one after another, while the nine dragons upon the emperor crown seemed to come alive.

"I... sense Mad Demon's karma."

"Impossible. Mad Demon's inheritance was severed long ago. There cannot possibly still be Mad Demon karma. Even if there is, simply pinch it off." The dragon at the very center of the crown spoke in a deep, resonant voice.

"Mad Demon's karma is beyond Heaven's control! Alas..."