Chapter 748 - 451: Battles Between Cultivators Are Truly Cruel

Chapter 748: Chapter 451: Battles Between Cultivators Are Truly Cruel

"RRRIIING..."

Su Yue walked over to her bed and sat down. She reached for her phone, checked the caller ID, and saw it was her family’s driver, Li Ke.

Answering the call, Su Yue greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Li, good morning!"

Li Ke, who was currently driving to Rongcheng, heard Su Yue’s voice and his tightly furrowed brow relaxed considerably. He said to her, "Miss, are you awake?"

"Mhm, I just woke up a little while ago."

"I’ll be in Rongcheng in about half an hour. Miss, please get ready. I’ll call you again when I arrive at the entrance to your complex."

Su Yue was taken aback. It was only a little after seven in the morning, and the drive from her hometown of Yuwan Town to Rongcheng took at least two hours.

For Li Ke to be arriving in Rongcheng in half an hour meant he must have left home a little after five, just as the sky was beginning to lighten.

"Mr. Li, did you leave very early this morning?" Su Yue asked.

Li Ke chuckled and replied, "I did! I left as soon as it was light out.

Last night, I got a call from the boss. I wanted to drive to Rongcheng overnight to pick you up, Miss, but the boss wouldn’t let me. He told me to wait until morning to set out."

Su Yue felt a bit embarrassed hearing this. "Mr. Li, you didn’t have to rush like this. A little later would have been fine..."

"How could that be fine? Something’s wrong with your health. The sooner you get it checked out, the better. What if we delay treatment and it turns into a major problem?" Li Ke said sternly.

Last night, he had received a call from Su Chen and learned about Su Yue’s health problems. Li Ke, who had watched Su Yue grow up, had been worried sick.

"It’s not that bad. I did faint once, but after waking up, I didn’t feel like there was anything seriously wrong with me. It seems like I should be fine for the time being," Su Yue said optimistically.

"Miss, you need to take your health more seriously! Don’t be so careless," Li Ke sighed, seeing how lightly she was treating the matter.

"I know, Mr. Li," Su Yue replied softly, hearing the earnest concern in his voice.

"Alright, let’s leave it at that for now. You go get washed up and have some breakfast. Come down as soon as I get to the entrance of your complex, and I’ll take you home."

Su Yue murmured an "mhm" and ended the call.

Placing her phone back on the nightstand to charge, she got up, left the bedroom, and went to the bathroom to wash up.

...

A little after nine in the morning, Zhu Daqi drove his car into an urban village slated for demolition.

After parking, he walked into the courtyard of Chen Xiaoyan’s home.

Reaching the front door, he raised his hand and knocked. He waited for a moment, but when no one answered, he called out, "Yan..."

He called out a few more times, but there was still no response. Pressing his ear to the door, he listened. The room inside was silent, without the slightest sound.

Filled with doubt, Zhu Daqi pulled his phone from his pocket and called Chen Xiaoyan again.

"The number you have dialed is currently switched off. Please try again later..."

All he heard was the same automated voice message telling him the phone was off.

No one was home, and the call wouldn’t go through. Zhu Daqi was at a loss.

’Strange. Yan’s not home and her phone is off. This has never happened before!’

Suddenly, Zhu Daqi recalled what Chen Xiaoyan and Wang Hao were supposed to do last night. A terrible thought sprouted in his mind.

’Could their plan have been exposed? Did they get caught?!’

The moment he considered the possibility that Chen Xiaoyan and Wang Hao had been caught by law enforcement and were being interrogated, Zhu Daqi—a man who was utterly cowardly when faced with real trouble—paled with anxiety.

After all, he was a participant. If the worst had truly happened, it was inevitable that law enforcement would come knocking on his door sooner or later.

The more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed. Panicked, Zhu Daqi fled from Chen Xiaoyan’s house, hurried to his car, and sped away from the demolition-bound urban village.

...

The sky was clear and bright. Under the radiant sun, all of nature was bursting with life.

In a remote area on the outskirts of the city’s eastern district, inside an abandoned lumber mill.

Usually, this abandoned lumber mill wasn’t much livelier during the day than it was at night.

But today, it was unusually bustling with a large crowd of people.

After receiving a report, the Security Bureau dispatched officers to the crime scene.

Upon arriving, the Security Officers immediately cordoned off the area with police tape. At that moment, a real estate agent and his client were being questioned by the lead Security Officer.

"Officer, this has nothing to do with me!

I was just here to check out the land and decide whether to buy it. How was I supposed to know a murder had happened here?" the middle-aged man said nervously to the questioning officer.

Seeing the man’s state, anyone could tell that he likely had nothing to do with the murder.

However, the lead Security Officer didn’t say much. He just nodded, jotted down the man’s statement, and then turned his head to look at the real estate agent.

The real estate agent, a young man of about twenty-five or twenty-six dressed in a suit and tie, looked just as panicked as his client.

"Officer, I’m just an employee. Last week, my company assigned me this project, and it’s my job to bring clients to see this plot of land.