Ten minutes later, Li Huai sent Ye Wudao the details of Wang Fu's movements.
Just as he'd expected, the old scoundrel had left the old orphanage soon after Ye Wudao had gone.
"Jingyuan Villa District!"
"That old bastard must've made a fortune framing me! He's even living in a villa now!"
Looking at Wang Fu's latest location on his phone, Ye Wudao murmured softly.
He opened the navigation app, rose into the air, and flew toward Jingyuan Villa District.
In Jingyuan Villa District, Wang Fu lounged on a leather sofa, staring at the red wine swirling in his glass.
"How did that kid get out of prison so soon?"
"Those two old hags wouldn't have told him about me, would they?"
"But even if they did, so what? He's just a young brat. I'm a multimillionaire now."
"So what if that kid knows I was the one who plotted behind the scenes?"
"He couldn't even get through the gates of this place!"
"But... why does my right eyelid keep twitching?"
"Once I get the demolition compensation, I'm leaving Sea City right away. If Ye Wudao tries to get revenge, he'll be lurking in the shadows while I'm out in the open. It'll be hard to guard against him!"
He sipped his wine, murmuring to himself.
There wasn't a trace of the simple, honest old man who'd rambled on to Ye Wudao earlier. Every inch of him now reeked of cunning.
"So you do know I'm in the shadows and you're out in the open!"
"You old bastard. You're a real piece of work!"
Suddenly, Ye Wudao's voice rang out from the villa's second floor.
Wang Fu was about to take a sip of wine. His hand froze in midair, glass in hand.
He slowly raised his head and looked toward the second floor. His pupils shrank as he cried out, "Y-You... how did you get in?"
Ye Wudao walked down from the second floor, step by step. "I just walked in."
As Ye Wudao approached, Wang Fu hurriedly grabbed the landline phone on the table and pressed the "1" button.
It was the villa district's call system, which could be used to summon the security guards.
Watching Wang Fu move with such speed, Ye Wudao narrowed his eyes.
Where was the old man's earlier sluggishness?
He was pretty nimble!
Ye Wudao smiled faintly, then flicked a stream of true qi toward the landline.
"Bang..."
The phone shattered on the spot, scattering into countless fragments.
"X-Xiantian Realm?"
With the receiver in his hand, Wang Fu stared at Ye Wudao in disbelief.
He'd never practiced the Martial Path, but he watched the news in the security office every day and had picked up a few things about it.
The ability to project true qi beyond one's body was the hallmark of a Xiantian Realm expert.
He stared at Ye Wudao in disbelief. If Ye Wudao had been a Xiantian Realm expert all along, why had he been sent to prison?
Not even the Ye Family or the Li Family would dare to provoke a Xiantian Realm expert.
And if Ye Wudao had advanced to the Xiantian Realm after entering prison, wasn't that a little too terrifying?
Ye Wudao hadn't even been in prison for a year. How could he possibly have reached the Xiantian Realm?
An eighteen-year-old Xiantian Realm expert?
After all the years he'd watched the news, he'd never seen one.
He looked at Ye Wudao and smiled. "Wudao, could there be some misunderstanding between us?"
"Did Wang Cuihua and Ma Xianglian say something to you?"
"Don't listen to those two old hags. I had nothing to do with the Ye Family framing you!"
Hearing this, Ye Wudao smiled. "How do you know I came to see you about that?"
Wang Fu froze.
That was right!
Ye Wudao hadn't even said he was there because of what the Ye Family had done. By bringing it up himself, hadn't he just admitted everything?
Wang Fu slowly got to his feet and edged backward. "Don't do anything stupid! Murder is against the law!"
"There are surveillance cameras all over this place. If you kill me, you won't get away with it."
Ye Wudao glanced at the security cameras overhead and nodded. "Thanks for the reminder!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he flicked several streams of true qi at them. The cameras exploded into dust.
He looked at Wang Fu and sneered. "Now no one should be able to find out I killed you, right?"
Wang Fu froze, then slapped himself in frustration.
A moment later, his knees buckled and he dropped to the floor with a thud.
"Wudao! I'm not a person—I'm a beast!"
"I shouldn't have listened to the Ye Family's lies and egged Wang Cuihua and Ma Xianglian on to give false testimony against you!"
"Greed clouded my heart. I'm worse than a pig or a dog!"
"You're a magnanimous man. Let me off this once!"
"Smack... smack... smack..."
Kneeling on the floor, he begged for mercy as he slapped himself.
He kept going until he finally stopped.
Something felt wrong. He'd been slapping himself for ages, and Ye Wudao hadn't said a word.
He looked up. Ye Wudao was sitting on the sofa opposite him, watching with amused interest.
Seeing Wang Fu stop, Ye Wudao smiled. "Go on! Why did you stop?"
"If you slap yourself enough to make me happy, I might even spare your life today!"
Wang Fu narrowed his eyes and climbed to his feet.
He knew that admitting his mistakes and showing remorse wouldn't work on Ye Wudao.
He looked at Ye Wudao and said gravely, "Ye Wudao, don't push me too far!"
"I'm telling you, even if you're a Xiantian Realm expert, I'm not afraid of you!"
"Behind me stands the Capital Wang Family. I'm a collateral member of the Capital Wang Family."
"Do you know the Capital Wang Family? It's the family of Grandmaster Wang Pingcheng."
Ye Wudao raised an eyebrow. "Wang Pingcheng? Never heard of him!"
"But if you're going to brag, at least come up with a better excuse!"
"You're seventy-nine years old. At your age, at best, you'd be a grandmaster's grandson."
"I've never heard of a grandmaster's grandson having no cultivation at all, let alone being cast out of the family."
"Sea City is more than three thousand kilometers from the Capital City. Even if you were useless, they wouldn't have banished you all the way here!"
"You've been watching grandmaster stories on the news and now you're trying to act like some big shot?"
The moment Ye Wudao finished speaking, Wang Fu's old face flushed red.
Ye Wudao was right. He'd only learned about Wang Pingcheng from the news.
He'd meant to scare Ye Wudao, but instead Ye Wudao had mocked him.
His eyes darted around, then he said, "As long as you don't kill me, I can give you a peerless treasure. They say it can help someone break through to a realm beyond Grandmaster."
Hearing this, Ye Wudao burst out laughing. "Ha! Beyond Grandmaster? You?"
"Do you even know what lies beyond Grandmaster?"
"You hear a few Martial Path rumors and start making things up?"
"You don't have a shred of cultivation. How would you know that thing could help someone reach a realm beyond Grandmaster?"
"And while you're spouting nonsense, could you at least remember who you are?"
"You spent decades as a security guard at Sunshine Orphanage. Where would you get your hands on such a peerless treasure?"
Wang Fu shouted, "Who says I don't have one?"
"Do you know Zhang Sanfeng?"
"Zhang Sanfeng had a disciple several generations removed, named Wang Zongyue!"
"Wang Zongyue was my twelfth-generation ancestor!"
"This peerless treasure of mine was obtained by my ancestor from Zhang Sanfeng and passed down from generation to generation."
"It was only in my grandfather's generation that the method for using it was lost!"
Hearing this, Ye Wudao immediately became interested.
He didn't know who Wang Zongyue was, but he'd heard Qin Tianlong mention Zhang Sanfeng several times.
The last Land Immortal in the Dragon Kingdom—that was a name with real weight.
If what Wang Fu said was true, and the treasure had been passed down from Zhang Sanfeng, it might really be something valuable.
He looked at Wang Fu, keeping his thoughts to himself, and said disdainfully, "If even your grandfather couldn't use it, what makes you think I could?"
"If you want to stay alive, you should come up with a better excuse!"
Wang Fu was stumped again.
This time, he really wasn't making things up. He truly had a family heirloom.
But Ye Wudao no longer trusted him.
He looked at Ye Wudao and said gravely, "If I give you the treasure, will you spare my life?"
Ye Wudao shrugged. "That depends on whether what you bring out can save your life."
"If you hand me a broken rock and call it a peerless treasure..."
"Do you think I'll let you go?"
Wang Fu's face darkened. He stood there thinking for a long time before finally speaking. "Wait here. I'll get it for you!"
Right now, he had only one thought: stay alive first.
He had so much money, a son and a daughter, two grandsons, and a granddaughter. He was at the age when he should be enjoying his family. He didn't want to die yet!
He was sure the family heirloom was something extraordinary. No one simply knew how to use it.
He thought that although he'd harmed Ye Wudao, he didn't deserve to die.
As long as he produced something that satisfied Ye Wudao, Ye Wudao probably wouldn't do anything to him!
He could also tell that Ye Wudao was interested in the peerless treasure he'd mentioned.
This might... be his only hope of staying alive!
Ye Wudao watched as Wang Fu walked step by step to the shrine. From a hidden compartment beneath it, he took out a ring.
He scanned it with his spiritual power and found that the ring really was unusual.
His spiritual power passed over it, yet he couldn't detect its presence.
His eyes could see a pitch-black ring in Wang Fu's hand, but when his spiritual power swept over Wang Fu's hand, there was nothing there.
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