Early the next morning.
Ji Yaoguang woke from her coma and found herself lying in her familiar bedroom, momentarily bewildered.
After a brief daze, she hurriedly got up and yanked open the bedroom door.
"Moling, are you all right?!"
"Those assassins-" Ji Yaoguang broke off abruptly.
She had discovered another man in the bedroom, examining an antique vase on the table.
Hearing the noise, the man turned around and even reminded her with a smile, "You're showing."
A blush crept across Ji Yaoguang's pretty face. Only then did she realize that her thin nightdress clung tightly to her shapely body, leaving the scenery beneath faintly visible.
Embarrassment turning to anger, she glared at Lin Fei and hurriedly covered her full chest with both arms.
In fact, covering herself like that did little good. Worse, her already ample breasts were squeezed until they looked ready to spill out, exposing a swath of snowy skin and the deep valley between them.
"Get out of my house, or I'll call the police!" Convinced Lin Fei was a burglar, Ji Yaoguang immediately warned him.
In fact, she had already taken out her phone and was about to call the police.
Hearing the commotion, Wu Moling arrived just in time. She hurried forward and linked arms with Ji Yaoguang to stop her. "Sister Yaoguang, he's not a thief."
Only then did Ji Yaoguang stop what she was doing. "Is he your friend?" she asked in confusion.
Wu Moling shook her head and explained, "Sister Yaoguang, his name is Lin Fei. He was the one who dealt with those assassins and cured the deadly poison in your body."
Ji Yaoguang let out a surprised laugh. "You're joking with me again?"
This utterly ordinary young man could deal with a group of armed assassins and cure a deadly poison that even the world's best medical treatments could do nothing about?
Seeing that she did not believe her, Wu Moling protested quietly, "Sister Yaoguang, everything I said is true..."
"Mm-hmm, all right, I understand." Ji Yaoguang smiled perfunctorily, then moved past the subject and asked Wu Moling to drive her out.
Hearing this, Lin Fei asked with a smile, "I happen to be heading out too. Why not give me a ride?"
Ji Yaoguang glanced at him and said coldly, "I'm in a hurry. Take a taxi yourself."
With that, she pulled Wu Moling away before the latter could speak.
Wu Moling gave Lin Fei an apologetic look, but he merely smiled faintly.
After the two women left the villa, Lin Fei gently raised his index finger.
A wisp of purplish-black mist appeared out of thin air and curled around his finger, then vanished without a trace with a light wave of his hand.
What Lin Fei intended to do was root out the mastermind who had poisoned Ji Yaoguang.
The poison afflicting Ji Yaoguang was called "Thousand Spiders and Ten Thousand Poisons." By present-day reckoning, this poison should not have existed, for it originated from the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders.
Lin Fei knew a member of the Di People from Miao Territory whose female spider could produce it.
During Xia Qi's reign, the Di People of Miao Territory had faced extermination. Qing Yuntian, one of their people, had knelt outside Lin Fei's door for three months, begging him to save them. Lin Fei had bestowed a Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders upon him, and only by tending to it day and night had the Di People escaped disaster.
Without a doubt, his descendants had something to do with this.
The Di People had the Qing Clan as their main family and the Bai Clan as a branch family. Nowadays, both had established their own corporate groups in Rongcheng.
An icy smile appeared on Lin Fei's face. "Interesting."
He then left the Ji family villa and soon arrived at the Qing Clan Group building, only to be stopped at the entrance.
When the two security guards declared that he could not enter without an employee badge, Lin Fei struck like lightning. Before either guard could even react, they were knocked to the ground.
Strolling as leisurely as if through a courtyard, he entered the elevator as though no one were there and pressed the button for the highest floor.
Meanwhile, the security guard in the surveillance room was stunned.
He hurriedly grabbed his radio and said urgently, "Someone injured the guards and barged into the elevator! He seems to be heading to the top floor!"
"Hurry and stop him!"
What did the top floor mean? The general manager's, president's, and chairman's offices were all on that floor. If anything went wrong, none of them could bear the responsibility.
At the news, a swarm of security guards rushed toward the tenth floor.
Ding-
The elevator doors slowly opened. Lin Fei stepped out to find a corridor full of security guards.
Holding stun batons, they surrounded him menacingly.
"Get him! Knock him out first!" At the security captain's command, a crowd of guards charged at Lin Fei.
"Scram!" Lin Fei spoke coldly and struck first.
His movements were unimaginably fast, leaving a mass of afterimages on their retinas, followed by a string of thud, thud, thud impacts.
Almost in an instant, the guards felt a burst of agonizing pain and flew backward like flowers scattered by a heavenly maiden, slamming hard into the walls and floor.
The security captain weakly clutched his chest, staring at Lin Fei in terror as though he had seen a ghost.
Had he even taken a full second to knock down all these people?
Holy shit, was this guy even fucking human?!
Yet Lin Fei looked as though he had merely done something utterly trivial. He walked unhurriedly down the corridor and pushed open the nearest office door.
The president's office.
A beautiful woman sat behind the desk, dressed in a white blouse and a black pencil skirt that perfectly accentuated her shapely figure.
Seeing an uninvited guest barge in, Qing Lixue immediately knitted her delicate brows and snapped at him coldly, "Get out!"
Lin Fei smiled faintly, pulled over a chair, and sat down in front of her. "Do you know of Thousand Spiders and Ten Thousand Poisons?"
Qing Lixue's expression changed, but she quickly feigned composure. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh?" Lin Fei's smile turned mocking. "The Di People owe the survival of their bloodline entirely to the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders. To think that their descendants today don't even know of Thousand Spiders and Ten Thousand Poisons. If that brat Qing Yuntian knew of this in the Yellow Springs, I doubt anyone could hold down his coffin lid!"
Qing Lixue opened a drawer and slowly reached inside, her eyes fixed on Lin Fei. "How dare you! Who are you to slander an ancestor of our Qing family?"
Lin Fei noticed her little movement but paid it no mind.
He sighed softly, his voice full of feeling. "A mere four thousand years, and to think the descendants of the Di People no longer recognize me! Truly, seas have turned into mulberry fields, and the world has changed!"
At that very instant, Qing Lixue abruptly drew a handgun and aimed it at Lin Fei.
Although her hand trembled slightly, far less steady than she appeared, the threat was unmistakable.
Yet even facing a gun, Lin Fei remained so calm that Qing Lixue could hardly believe it. "You should be grateful you're a descendant of the Di People. Otherwise, for what you're doing right now, your entire clan would already have been wiped out!"
Feeling provoked, Qing Lixue grew angry. "You think I don't dare shoot?"
Just then, hurried footsteps rang out in the corridor as leather shoes struck the floor.
Soon, a burly middle-aged man clad entirely in a designer suit appeared in the doorway. His features were rugged and wild, and he did not look Han Chinese.
He was none other than Qing Fen, chairman of the Qing Clan Group.
Seeing her father arrive, Qing Lixue immediately looked delighted. "Dad, you're just in time! This man actually dared to slander Ancestor Yuntian!"
"How dare he! Let me see who dares slander an ancestor of our Qing fam-" Before Qing Fen could finish, he saw Lin Fei's face, and his expression changed drastically. "You are..."
"You recognize me?" Lin Fei asked with a smile.
"Dad, what's wrong...?" Her father's words left Qing Lixue bewildered.
"Put the gun down! Do you know who he is?!"
Qing Fen's stern voice was filled with unconcealable fear.
Qing Lixue was dumbfounded, staring at Qing Fen in disbelief.
Lin Fei merely gave Qing Fen a faint smile, and the latter shuddered all over.
Then he hurried forward, snatched the handgun from Qing Lixue's hand, and hurled it against the wall with a crack.
Under Qing Lixue's shocked gaze, Qing Fen dropped to his knees before Lin Fei with a thud. "Qing Fen, current head of the Qing family, pays his respects to Immortal Master Lin!"
Lin Fei gave a measured "Mm" and calmly accepted the grand gesture.
Qing Lixue felt as though thunder had exploded in her mind. Her limpid eyes widened, and her delicate lips formed an "O."
She simply could not comprehend the scene before her!
Why would her father, who was worth billions, kneel before such an arrogant, overbearing young man and call him some immortal master?
Had he gone mad?!
"Dad, get up!" Qing Lixue hurried to help Qing Fen up.
Unexpectedly, he stubbornly refused to rise. He even grabbed her arm and said with considerable urgency, "Why haven't you knelt before Immortal Master Lin yet?"
Unable to take any more, Qing Lixue immediately wrenched free of Qing Fen's hand and said angrily, "Dad, I don't know who you've mistaken him for!"
"But if you're going to disgrace yourself, can you leave me out of it?"
"We kneel neither to heaven nor earth, only before our ancestors in the ancestral hall. Who the hell is he? Why should I kneel to him?"
Who the hell was he?
At those words, Qing Fen's face instantly turned deathly pale with fright. "You unfilial daughter! You little wretch!"
He hurriedly stood and was about to slap Qing Lixue across the face, but Lin Fei caught his wrist with a smack.
"No matter." Lin Fei spoke calmly, as unruffled as an ancient well.
Seeing that Lin Fei was not angry, Qing Fen immediately felt relieved. Then he sternly reprimanded Qing Lixue again. "Aren't you going to thank Immortal Master Lin for his magnanimity?"
Qing Lixue was truly trembling all over with anger.
Unreasonable!
Utterly unreasonable!
"I won't!" Her face flushed red, she flung out those words and stormed out the door.
Qing Fen smiled sheepishly and apologized to Lin Fei on Qing Lixue's behalf, looking rather embarrassed. "My daughter has always been spoiled, and she knows nothing of your existence, Immortal Master. Please take no offense."
Lin Fei waved casually to show that he had not taken it to heart and went straight to the point. "Where is the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders now?"