"I lost..."
Chi Hu spat blood, leaning against the courtyard wall.
His emotions hit rock bottom. This was an unprecedented defeat for him.
He could tolerate losing to Chen Jinzhao, but he could not accept being defeated by Luo Feng, a young man just starting out.
The taste of defeat was always so bitter, so hard to swallow.
Luo Feng did not continue to look at Chi Hu. He said calmly, "Life's journey is like rowing against the current; if you don't advance, you will retreat. I merely progressed faster than you, there is nothing else worth boasting about."
"Handcuff him!"
At Luo Feng's command, two Candle Dragon team members stepped forward and bound Chi Hu with heavy chains, rendering him unable to break free.
Afterward.
Luo Feng looked at Li Erzhou and said politely, "Old Master Li, please go and have a chat with my Mr. Chen. He is waiting for your arrival."
Li Erzhou was so angry he thumped the armrest!
"Heaven is blind! Heaven is blind! My dignified Li family is about to be destroyed by a nobody."
"Ancestors of the Li family, why do you not open your eyes and see!"
"Bless my Li family for generations to come!"
Luo Feng frowned upon seeing this.
It was evident that Li Erzhou's mental state was not good; he was likely on the verge of a breakdown.
So, he contacted Chen Jinzhao via satellite phone to ask for instructions on the next step.
Chen Jinzhao said, "I understand. Wait for me in the Li family courtyard, I will speak with Li Erzhou personally."
"Alright!"
Luo Feng turned and instructed Li Taicheng to take control of the entire Li family. If anyone resisted, they were to be handcuffed and taken away.
Li Taihang would assist Li Taicheng.
As for Li Xiaoning, she was to register the Li family disciples who pledged allegiance to Chen Jinzhao, marking their respective areas of responsibility, and finally draft a list to be submitted to Chen Jinzhao.
Soon.
The vast main hall was left with only the solitary Li Erzhou.
His already sparse white hair was disheveled, and there were still unhealed bloodstains at the corner of his mouth.
Heart failure was nothing more than this.
Li Erzhou sensed something and looked up towards the door.
Chen Jinzhao's figure appeared there at some unknown time.
Chen Jinzhao walked into the main hall and approached Li Erzhou, "Old Master Li, it's been a long time."
Before seeing Chen Jinzhao, Li Erzhou had prepared a torrent of insults. But the moment he saw Chen Jinzhao, all his prepared curses vanished. He could only force a bitter smile, "Chen Jinzhao, you have won. I never imagined the Li family would reach such a day. You have shown me the Li family at its most desperate. I don't know whether to thank you or resent you."
Chen Jinzhao replied, "The Li family could have avoided this disaster. It was your stubbornness that dragged the Li family into the abyss, beyond redemption."
"Hahaha..." Li Erzhou laughed uproariously at the sky.
Chen Jinzhao patiently waited for Li Erzhou to finish speaking. After his laughter subsided, Li Erzhou said, "I know you are investigating the whereabouts of the Wu family, but I advise you to give up. I will not reveal anything about the Wu family to you."
He wanted to see a hint of anger on Chen Jinzhao's face.
Only then would Li Erzhou feel that he had won.
But—
Chen Jinzhao did not.
His expression was eerily calm.
"Chen Jinzhao, don't you want to know about the Wu family? The woman you care about is currently with the Wu family, waiting for you to rescue her." These words were Li Erzhou's psychological attack, hoping to make Chen Jinzhao lose his composure. Chen Jinzhao, with a blank expression, said, "Do you really think I took action against the Li family because of Qi Yue?"
"Isn't it?" Li Erzhou retorted.
Chen Jinzhao shook his head, "Then wouldn't I become King You of Zhou, who lit the beacon fires for mere amusement? A Li family I cannot control could only be buried."
Li Erzhou was taken aback.
Initially, he thought Chen Jinzhao lacked ambition, but now he realized how wrong he was!
Without ambition, how could one become a great leader?
He maintained his psychological defenses and snorted, "Chen Jinzhao, no matter what you say or do to me, I will not tell you anything about the Wu family. Don't you think you know everything? I'd like to see how you find the Wu family without my help!"
"Haha!"
"You will never know the whereabouts of the Wu family in your lifetime!"
"And you will never see Tao Qiyue in your lifetime!"
Chen Jinzhao walked up to Li Erzhou, pulled out a chair, and sat down. He then slowly poured Li Erzhou a cup of hot tea. "Old Master, I just want to chat with you, like old friends. Nowadays, the higher I stand, the fewer people there are who can talk to me calmly, which makes me feel lonely."
Throughout history, none of the more than four hundred emperors could escape this fate.
Li Erzhou did not easily believe Chen Jinzhao's words and remained wary of him. Chen Jinzhao chuckled, "Even Li Buyan, who wanted to harm me, I did not kill him, only made him face the wall. As for Li Tiannan, I gave him a chance to reform. If Chi Hu performs well in the future, I can even let him return to the army."
Li Erzhou found Chen Jinzhao to possess a maturity unbefitting his age, as if facing an old fox that had become cunning.
"But, don't you want to know the whereabouts of the Wu family?" Li Erzhou asked, confused.
"I already know the location of the Wu family," Chen Jinzhao said, then took a sip of tea, complimenting the Li family's tea.
Li Erzhou rarely agreed with Chen Jinzhao, saying, "The tea was brought from the Wu family. There is no tea in the world comparable to it. You just said you already know the Wu family's whereabouts? Chen Jinzhao, can you lie to me, but can you lie to yourself?"
Even now.
He still felt Chen Jinzhao was deliberately trying to trick him into revealing information.
Chen Jinzhao smiled, "The Wu family's headquarters is located on an island. This island is likely near the mouth of the Lingnan Province's sea, not far from international waters. If you bring me a map, I can determine the conclusion within ten minutes."
Li Erzhou's expression turned horrified.
Chen Jinzhao had guessed correctly!
Seeing Li Erzhou's expression, Chen Jinzhao sighed, "It seems I guessed right?"
"You guessed it?" Li Erzhou was even more astonished. In his opinion, Chen Jinzhao was already god-like.
But—
No one in the Li family, except for Li Erzhou, knew the whereabouts of the Wu family.
Therefore, Chen Jinzhao could not have extracted the Wu family's location from any other member of the Li family. Ruling out these possibilities left only one:
Chen Jinzhao had indeed guessed it.
"It's not exactly a guess. Although the video Li Taihao sent me was only a few seconds long, I was able to analyze the climate of Tao Qiyue's location from it. I deduced that she should be by a subtropical coast, but we have already searched the coast several times. Therefore, she can only be on an unknown island."
Li Erzhou remained silent for a long time.
Merely from a video, Chen Jinzhao was able to deduce Tao Qiyue's location. It could only be said that the Wu family had indeed left a loophole in this matter.
"What do you intend to do? Destroy the Wu family?" Li Erzhou asked with a bitter smile.
"Don't say I didn't warn you. The Wu family is a supreme transcendent force, with agreements with other major powers. They rise and fall together. If you dare to touch the Wu family, China will fall into thirty years of turmoil and civil strife!"
Chen Jinzhao took out a black box with several red buttons on it.
"See it?"
"As long as I press these buttons, the island where the Wu family is located will be erased from existence."