“I think you’re looking to die!”
Before Baili Lie could even register what Zhou Xuan meant by that, an intense pain shot through his shoulder.
“Crack!”
“Ah!”
A bone-crushing sound was accompanied by Baili Lie’s piercing scream, as if he were undergoing a torture beyond comprehension.
“With your kind of character, you think you can play games with me?”
“Letting you go so you can transfer the shares to me?”
“I’d have a better chance of believing a sow could climb a tree!”
“Don’t try to play dumb with me!”
“Say what you need to say!”
“Otherwise, next time it won’t be your shoulder that breaks!”
Zhou Xuan slowly withdrew his hand from Baili Lie’s shoulder, his voice as cold as ice as he spoke.
“Yes, yes!”
“Boss, I was wrong!”
“I won’t babble anymore!”
“Coming to Cangyun City this time was my grandfather’s idea!”
“But I genuinely don’t know what level of cultivator he is!”
“I’m just an ordinary person; I don’t pay attention to such things!”
“All I know is that he’s definitely more powerful than my Uncle Ding!”
“I really don’t know anything else!”
“Boss, believe me!”
“Everything I’m saying is the truth!”
“If I lie to you, may lightning strike me!”
“And may all the people of my Baili family die tragically!”
Seeing Zhou Xuan raise his hand again, Baili Lie, terrified, immediately pointed to the sky and began to swear an oath.
What’s more, in his oath, he not only cursed himself but also included all the members of his Baili family.
He seemed desperate for Zhou Xuan to believe him.
Zhou Xuan, however, found it rather exasperating.
He had actually just intended to flick his hair.
Who would have thought Baili Lie would be so timid?
“Fine!”
“If you don’t know, you don’t know!”
“None of this is particularly important!”
“By the way, about that Xu family you mentioned!”
“Do they have a young girl named Xu Ying in their family?”
Having failed to extract any substantive clues, Zhou Xuan was about to put Baili Lie into his Void Ring.
He planned to deal with him later, but then he suddenly thought of the young girl Xu Ying.
He had never been clear about her identity before.
But from Yuan Qingshan’s previous attitude towards her, he knew her background was definitely not ordinary.
Moreover, now that Zhou Xuan knew that the Xu family was one of the three major shareholders behind the Treasure Medicine Pavilion, he naturally connected the girl to the Xu family.
This led him to ask the question.
However, upon hearing Zhou Xuan’s inquiry, Baili Lie froze for a moment.
Catching this subtle reaction, Zhou Xuan inexplicably felt a sudden pang of unease.
His expression immediately turned grim, and he sternly berated Baili Lie.
“Speak!”
“Yes, yes, boss!”
“That Xu Ying is from the Xu family!”
“Not only that, she is also the daughter of the current Xu family patriarch!”
“She’s the one our family later took captive, the one we were talking about!”
Seeing Zhou Xuan’s apparent anger, Baili Lie trembled in fear.
He dared not conceal anything further, immediately revealing Xu Ying’s entire identity.
“Daughter of the current Xu family patriarch?”
“And you kidnapped her?”
Hearing Baili Lie’s words, Zhou Xuan was first taken aback.
Then, his already somber expression grew even more menacing.
He had wondered why the young girl hadn’t reported to him about the major incident at the Treasure Medicine Pavilion.
And why she hadn’t come out to greet him when he arrived today.
So, it turned out she had been kidnapped.
“When did you abduct her?”
“What is her current condition?”
After slowly asking these two crucial questions, Zhou Xuan felt a surge of uncontainable rage welling up inside him.
These people from the Baili family were truly asking for it.
They plotted against his shop, threatened his business partners, and now they dared to kidnap his employee.
Did they really think Zhou Xuan was easy to bully?
Although the young girl Xu Ying was often mischievous, after spending so many days together,
Zhou Xuan had already come to regard her as a friend.
Furthermore, it was she who had helped him home the last time he was at his most exhausted.
Now that he knew she was in danger, Zhou Xuan was determined to rescue her from her plight.
“Just two days ago, at night!”
“When they kidnapped her, she seemed to be in good condition!”
“But later, to force her father to hand over the Xu family’s shares!”
“My grandfather also subjected her to some interrogation!”
“When I left the family, I heard she was beaten so badly she could barely get out of bed!”
“As for her current situation, I…”
“Roar!”
Before Baili Lie could finish speaking,
He suddenly felt an immense pressure erupt from Zhou Xuan’s body.
Then, his neck was seized by a powerful hand.
Following that, his body was slowly lifted into the air.
“B-boss!”
“This has nothing… to do with me!”
“It was all my grandfather…”
“Please, let me go!”
“I can take you to our home to find her!”
Looking at Zhou Xuan’s ice-cold face, Baili Lie struggled and pleaded with him.
Just as he felt his body going numb from lack of air,
Zhou Xuan suddenly let him down.
“All of you from the Baili family deserve to die!”
“Now, call your grandfather!”
“Tell him, if anything happens to that young girl Xu Ying!”
“I will have your entire Baili family washed in blood!”
“And book me two plane tickets to Shangjing City!”
“The fastest ones!”
“Cough cough cough!”
“Yes, boss, I’ll do it right away!”
Baili Lie, having narrowly escaped death, didn’t dare to delay and immediately took out his phone to call his grandfather.
“Pavilion Master Yuan, I’ll leave the cleanup here to you!”
“I may have to go to Shangjing City now!”
“Please manage the Treasure Medicine Pavilion with peace of mind; no one will trouble you anymore!”
“Put the matter of the pills aside for now!”
“We’ll start selling them after I return from Shangjing City!”
“Yes, sir!”
Hearing Zhou Xuan’s instructions, Yuan Qingshan, who was nearby, immediately walked over and replied in a low voice.
Watching Baili Lie, who was already speaking to someone on the phone,
Zhou Xuan pondered for a moment, then slowly picked up his phone and called Lu Ling’er.
“Hello, Ling’er!”
“The plan has changed. Pack your things now, and I’ll come back to pick you up shortly!”
“We’re going to Shangjing today!”