Meng Tianyue said nothing, his face dark.
Ning Suifeng snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, and strode away.
Meng Chentian watched Ning Suifeng's retreating back with an utterly somber gaze, the viciousness in his eyes almost beyond his control.
"Chentian..."
Meng Tianyue asked softly, "Can you find a way to preserve the Meng Family?"
Meng Chentian nodded slowly. "Preserving the Meng Family is a certainty... but you must remember, no matter what, we cannot lay a hand on Ling Nian!"
"Understood."
Not long after Zuo Changlu opened his shop as usual that morning, Blind Hong arrived.
"Old Zuo, has the boy come yet?" Blind Hong's voice sounded unusually panicked.
Zuo Changlu turned to look and could not help jumping in fright. "Old Hong, what happened to you?"
Blind Hong's entire body seemed to have shriveled up. More than half the hair on his head had fallen out, and even his exposed scalp was covered in lifeless-looking age spots!
He looked as though he might close his eyes and breathe his last at any moment!
For a moment, Zuo Changlu was utterly dumbfounded.
What the fuck...
Did I give him a Life-Prolonging Pill or a poison to hasten his death?
He only just took a priceless Life-Prolonging Pill not long ago! Although its efficacy was greatly reduced and some of it was lost, living another few decades should have been no problem at all. So why did he look so much older now than before he took it?
What the fuck...
"Don't even ask. This is fate!"
Blind Hong's face was haggard, his expression deeply dejected. "The Heavenly Dao comes full circle. My retribution has arrived..."
"Retribution?"
Zuo Changlu was somewhat puzzled.
"When I first came to Phoenix City... someone had their eye on me from the start. Then they offered