Chapter 246: One Move and Ye Yan is Defeated!
Ye Yan's deceased elder brother was Ye Tian of the Magic City Ye Family. They shared the same blood, the same lineage, and the same tragic fate entwined with the rise and fall of their clan.
Ye Yan naturally knew this. He clung to this fact like a drowning man clinging to a piece of driftwood in a stormy ocean. It was the only connection he had left to the "secular world" he had abandoned five years ago.
From the hesitant, fearful tone of the Lin Family's doorman, a glimmer of hope suddenly arose in Ye Yan's heart, piercing through the dark clouds of Master Chen's ominous prophecy like a single ray of sunlight.
"Is she... married?" Ye Yan asked, his voice hoarse, his knuckles white as he clenched his fists.
Under Ye Yan's expectant, burning gaze—which felt hotter than a branding iron—the Lin Family's doorman, trembling uncontrollably under the terrifying pressure emitting from this ragged youth, honestly shook his head.
"No... no, sir! Our Young Miss is not married yet! She has remained single all these years!"
Thump-thump!
Ye Yan's heart pounded against his ribs like a war drum. He immediately showed wild joy, his eyes lighting up with an excitement that bordered on madness. The corners of his mouth twitched upwards in a smile that looked foreign on his stoic face.
"Not married! That's great! She's not married!"
"That Chen Tianji... that damnable charlatan must have made a mistake! A huge mistake! Or maybe he was talking about someone else entirely!"
At this moment, Ye Yan felt lighter than air. He didn't care about the 300,000 Yuan he had been swindled out of at the Ancient Street. Money was dirt to a cultivator. What mattered was purity. What mattered was loyalty.
His beautiful sister-in-law, Lin Keqing, whom he had longed for during five years of freezing nights on the mountain, was still free. She was still his "Sister-in-law," waiting to be saved, not someone else's "Wife." The "Green Hat" prophecy was surely false!
But at this moment, the Lin Family's doorman, trying to be helpful (or perhaps just unable to stop his babbling out of fear), added a sentence that caused the ecstatic expression on Ye Yan's face to freeze instantly into a mask of absolute horror.
"Although Young Miss Keqing isn't married... she already has a boyfriend. And... and a formidable one at that! It's said to be Young Master Shen Anyu of the Yanxia Shen Family, a truly top-tier noble!"
The doorman didn't notice the atmosphere dropping to absolute zero. He continued, fueling the fire:
"Young Master Shen has given our Young Miss many precious jewels, antiques, and contracts. The Young Miss often talks about Young Master Shen with a smile on her face that we haven't seen in years. Their relationship is excellent, like glue and lacquer, inseparable..."
Crack.
Something inside Ye Yan's mind broke. It was the sound of his sanity snapping.
[Ding! Child of Destiny Ye Yan's mentality exploded! Plundering +9999 Destiny Value!]
[Ding! Child of Destiny Ye Yan's anger soared to the heavens! Plundering +9999 Destiny Value!]
[Ding! Child of Destiny Ye Yan's hatred ran deep! Plundering +9999 Destiny Value!]
...
"Yanxia... Shen Family...?"
"Shen... An... Yu?!!"
At this moment, Ye Yan's anger exploded like a volcano that had been dormant for a millennium. The suppression of five years of bitter cultivation vanished in an instant.
His handsome face contorted into a demonic visage, veins bulging on his forehead like writhing earthworms. His eyes turned bloodshot, capillaries bursting from the sudden surge of blood pressure. His long, unkempt hair fluttered wildly without wind, and the [Martial Dao True Essence] of his [Grandmaster Peak] cultivation surged out of his body like a tidal wave of blood-red energy.
He looked less like a human and more like an Asura climbing out of the deepest level of hell to demand payment for sins.
"Ah!"
The Lin Family's doorman didn't even have time to scream or beg for mercy. He was directly sent flying by the sheer shockwave of Ye Yan's erupting aura. He crashed heavily onto the paved driveway ten meters away, foaming at the mouth, fainting instantly from the terror.
Rumble!
The concrete ground beneath Ye Yan's feet tore apart, spiderweb cracks spreading for several meters as if an earthquake had struck. The ornamental trees in the lush garden shook violently, shedding their leaves as if in fear of the predator standing at the gate. Birds in the forest flapped wildly, screeching as they fled the suffocating killing intent.
Ye Yan was furious! Absolutely livid!
He never expected—never in his wildest nightmares, never in the deepest simulations of his revenge—that his sister-in-law, Lin Keqing, would get together with Shen Anyu!
Shen Anyu! The Young Master of the Yanxia Shen Family! The very family that had ruthlessly destroyed the Magic City Ye Family!
This was something he absolutely could not accept! It was a betrayal of blood! A mockery of his family's ashes!
'How could she? How could she?!' Ye Yan screamed internally, his mind in chaos. 'Doesn't she know who destroyed our family? Doesn't she remember my brother? How can she lay in the arms of the enemy?!'
On the way from the Tianji Pavilion on Ancient Street to the Magic City Lin Family Villa, Ye Yan had mentally prepared himself for many scenarios.
Five years had passed. It was a long time. It was not surprising if his sister-in-law, Lin Keqing, had remarried.
If Lin Keqing had found a good, honest husband—perhaps a gentle scholar or a steady business partner—and lived a peaceful, mediocre life, Ye Yan would have been heartbroken. He would have felt the sting of loss. But he would have respected, understood, and blessed her. He would have watched from the shadows as her silent guardian, protecting her happiness.
However... Lin Keqing being with Shen Anyu?
That was spitting on his brother's grave! That was trampling on the dignity of the Ye Family!
The Yanxia Shen Family was the main culprit. They were the butchers who held the knife.
How could his sister-in-law, Lin Keqing, sleep with the butcher? How could she let the butcher's hands touch her pure body?
"Shen Anyu must die!"
Ye Yan snorted coldly, his voice dripping with ice shards. He didn't even look at the unconscious doorman. He rushed directly into the Lin Family Villa compound like a whirlwind of destruction.
He grabbed terrifying servants, lifted them by their collars like chickens, and interrogated them for Lin Keqing's current location with eyes that promised death.
"Where is she?!"
"C-Company... She's at the Lin Family Company headquarters..."
"Sleep!"
After extracting the information, Ye Yan knocked them out with swift, brutal chops to the neck to prevent leaks. He moved with the efficiency of a killing machine.
Afterward, Ye Yan, without stopping for a sip of water or a breath of air, turned and strode towards the Lin Family Company in the city center.
At this moment, due to the mental image of his sister-in-law Lin Keqing being defiled by his enemy, Ye Yan could no longer endure. He couldn't lie in wait. He couldn't plan. He couldn't wait for the "right moment."
His anger flared for the sake of a beauty; Shen Anyu must die today! Even if the heavens tried to stop him! Even if he had to burn his own life essence!
However, Ye Yan had not completely lost his mind. He was a War God, after all, trained in the brutal arts of the Netherworld.
Before heading to the Lin Family Company, he pulled out a black, ominous token from his chest pocket—the [Netherworld Token]. It felt cold to the touch, carved from meteorite iron.
He crushed a hidden mechanism on it, leaving a specific contact signal at a secure, unmanned communication point nearby.
He was summoning the experts of the [Netherworld Palace] to gather in Magic City immediately!
"This time, I will make the Yanxia Shen Family pay a bloody price!"
"It will start with killing Young Master Shen Anyu! I will hang his head on the ruins of the Ye Family estate!"
Ye Yan said, his face icy cold, enunciating each word as if chewing on iron.
The blood feud of the Magic City Ye Family.
The hatred of his beautiful sister-in-law Lin Keqing being taken.
These two most important matters, combined, made Ye Yan lose all reason! He was a bomb with a lit fuse, sprinting towards the center of the city.
...
Then, the scene returned to the present.
The glass doors of the Lin Family Company lay shattered. Ye Yan stood in the lobby, his chest heaving, his eyes locking onto the scene that would haunt him forever.
He witnessed Shen Anyu and Lin Keqing.
He saw his beautiful sister-in-law, Lin Keqing, whom he had always longed for as a goddess...
Her small face was blushing with a happiness he had never given her. Her eyes were misty with adoration. She was nestling intimately in Shen Anyu's arms, her body soft and compliant, completely devoid of the resistance or chastity he had imagined.
She looked like a woman deeply in love. A woman who had been thoroughly conquered.
Ye Yan broke down.
Like a wounded wolf, he let out a hysterical, low growl from his throat.
"He looks like a dog..."
Shen Anyu's mocking words drifted through the air, entering Ye Yan's ears clearly. It was the spark that ignited the powder keg. It was the ultimate humiliation.
"Shen Anyu! You deserve to die!"
Ye Yan did not waste a single word on nonsense like "Let her go!" or "Why?"
There was an irreconcilable conflict between him and Shen Anyu. A fight to the death.
A feud of extermination!
The hatred of a stolen wife!
These were the two insults a man could least tolerate! It struck at the very core of his masculinity and his honor.
Bang!
Ye Yan stomped his right foot.
The hard concrete pavement of the lobby floor exploded, sending gravel flying like bullets. The shockwave shattered the nearby reception desk glass.
He launched himself like a cannonball, a blur of grey shadow and killing intent, attacking Shen Anyu!
Whoosh!
The powerful Qi tore deep marks into the floor tiles, leaving a trail of destruction.
Ye Yan unleashed his full power with this punch. His fist glowed with a dark, terrifying energy—the signature of the [Asura War God Art].
His gaze was fixed on Shen Anyu's handsome, arrogant face, intending to smash it into a bloody pulp with one blow. He wanted to wipe that superior smile off the face of the earth.
A punch comparable to a [Martial Dao Grandmaster] erupted!
This force was capable of turning even a heavy truck into scrap metal. Let alone a human head, which would surely explode like a watermelon dropped from a skyscraper.
Ye Yan's face was full of twisted killing intent.
He knew that killing Shen Anyu now—in broad daylight, without preparation, in the middle of the CBD—would have serious consequences. It meant directly confronting the titanic Yanxia Shen Family and the Yanxia An Family without room for growth, development, or strategic alliances. It was essentially suicide.
But, as a man, seeing the woman he longed for nestled in the arms of his enemy, could he remain indifferent?
Or should he play a tune of 'Phoenix Seeks Mate,' pretending to be magnanimous and free-spirited, then drift away into the sunset like a coward?
That would be the biggest cuckold of all cuckolds!
Ye Yan absolutely could not accept such a fate. At worst, he would kill Shen Anyu right now and force-take his sister-in-law, Lin Keqing, dragging her away to develop power abroad!
Even if the Yanxia Shen Family and the Yanxia An Family were powerful, Ye Yan was confident he could contend with them in the chaotic foreign lands. He would go to the Flower Flag Country, a place where the Yanxia military had difficulty exerting influence. He would rebuild. But first, he had to kill!
"Young Lord! Be careful!"
Suddenly, a shadow flashed from the side.
Aunt Xiao, the captain of Shen Anyu's hidden guard, her face pale with shock, immediately intercepted. She was a veteran Grandmaster, and her reaction speed was top-tier.
She struck Ye Yan's left shoulder with her palm, intending to force him back, to deflect his trajectory. Even though she knew the Young Lord had abilities, as a guard, letting the Young Lord lift a finger was a dereliction of duty.
However, a ruthless glint flashed in Ye Yan's eyes.
He didn't dodge. He didn't block. He didn't even flinch.
Crack!
He took Aunt Xiao's full-power palm strike head-on!
The sound of bones shattering echoed in the silent lobby. His left shoulder blade was directly turned into powder. Blood sprayed from his mouth, and his flesh turned to mud under the impact. Even his protective [Martial Dao True Essence] could not withstand a Martial Dao Grandmaster's panic-fueled strike.
But Ye Yan didn't care! He didn't even grunt!
"Die!"
Instead, Ye Yan used the recoil force of Aunt Xiao's palm to accelerate, spinning his body to launch an even fiercer, desperate punch towards Shen Anyu with his right hand!
He traded an arm for a life!
Shen Anyu must die! Even if I become a cripple!
Ye Yan's eyes were bloodshot as he looked at Shen Anyu's handsome face, his killing intent soaring to the peak! He was inches away!
"No..."
Lin Keqing, not skilled in martial arts, only reacted then. Her vibrant and charming beautiful face turned pale with fright.
"Anyu!"
She cried out in alarm, her voice filled with terror. She instinctively, anxiously rushed in front of Shen Anyu, opening her arms, wanting to use her delicate, fragile body to block Ye Yan's iron fist.
This action pierced Ye Yan's heart even deeper than any blade. She... she was willing to die for him? She was shielding the enemy from him?
However, it was already too late to stop the punch. The momentum was unstoppable.
In Lin Keqing's despairing gaze, Ye Yan's fist, carrying the wind of death and the howl of a broken man, closed in on Shen Anyu.
But in the next instant.
A large, elegant hand—one she was very familiar with—reached out from behind her waist.
It moved casually, slowly, almost lazily, as if swatting a fly.
Bam!
That hand lightly struck out, meeting Ye Yan's fierce, life-risking punch.
It was like a hand that could overturn the heavens, or a falling star crushing an insect. The difference in dimensions was absolute.
The unstoppable momentum of Ye Yan stopped instantly. His fist hit an invisible wall of force.
Then, with a casual downward press, Shen Anyu slammed the so-called War God directly into the ground.
Boom!
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