Chapter 550 - 550: I Will Sever Your Arm as Punishment

Miss Feng instinctively took a sharp step back. "Mr. Long said that my coming in person would show our sincerity. As long as you come with me to the Imperial City, he'll tell you the secret of Mirror Lake Manor."

"So, he's found out my parents are at Mirror Lake Manor?" Jiang Xinghai's eyes turned cold. He advanced on Miss Feng step by step, his steady gait like a cheetah stalking its prey, his gaze frigid and grim.

"The methods of the Black Cloak are beyond your imagination. Of course we found them." Miss Feng continued to back away. Although a smile remained on her face, it was a strained facade; inwardly, she was in a panic.

Jiang Xinghai's gaze sharpened instantly. His voice was heavy as he asked, "Hasn't he always been looking for my parents? Since he's found them, why isn't he going after them himself? Why tell me the answer now? What is he really after?"

"Family ties, of course."

Miss Feng looked up at Jiang Xinghai, her voice tinged with an indescribable bitterness. "You're a smart man. Surely you can guess the family connection between you and Mr. Long?"

"He's worthy?" Jiang Xinghai's gaze was like a blade in the dead of winter, frigid and sharp.

'If we were really family, why did he plot to harm my parents back then?'

'Why hasn't he given up, even now?'

"But by blood, you are indeed family."

Miss Feng's gaze faltered, not daring to meet Jiang Xinghai's piercing eyes.

She knew what this news meant to Jiang Xinghai.

She also knew the storm it would unleash.

Jiang Xinghai fell silent for a moment, a flicker of melancholy in his eyes. "I was planning on leaving you here for good. But since I need you to deliver a message, I'll spare your life. Go back and tell him to wash his neck and wait for me."

"You probably have the power to keep me here, but if you challenge Mr. Long, you will be utterly crushed."

Miss Feng took a deep breath, steadying her nerves. "Won't you reconsider coming to the Imperial City with me?"

"Tell him he'd better not target anyone around me."

Jiang Xinghai was calm and resolute. He seemed to agree with Miss Feng's words; he knew he was not yet a match for Mr. Long.

'But so what?'

'He was constantly growing stronger!'

Besides, he had accumulated the Primordial Yin Power he'd absorbed from the Primordial Spirit Body, Yu Li. With just three days, he could elevate his cultivation to the Great Perfection stage of the late Celestial Destiny Realm.

"From the moment I revealed myself, the entire Black Cloak has ceased its surveillance on you. Rest assured, Mr. Long isn't so..."

"Bullshit!"

Before Miss Feng could finish, Jiang Xinghai furiously cut her off.

"In my eyes, Mr. Long is a despicable man. He wouldn't even hesitate to harm his own sister and brother-in-law for his goals. How could I ever trust someone like that?" Jiang Xinghai's gaze was as sharp as a hawk's, fixed directly on Miss Feng.

Those eyes seemed to see right through her.

"That was— it was an accident!" Miss Feng hastily argued.

"An accident?"

Jiang Xinghai's voice was like an icy dagger in Miss Feng's ears, his eyes filled with deep anxiety and rage. "Even if it was an accident, he was one of the masterminds behind it! How can you expect me to feel safe?"

"Mr. Long has his own difficulties. He had no choice but to resort to such a plan for the good of the whole family." Just as Miss Feng started to explain, Jiang Xinghai's hand shot out like lightning and seized her by the neck.

Choked to the point of suffocation, a look of agony and terror spread across Miss Feng's face. She grabbed Jiang Xinghai's arm with both hands, trying to break free.

But Jiang Xinghai lifted her clean off the ground, her feet dangling in the air.

"He has difficulties? Hmph! His 'difficulties' are just his own selfish desires!"

Jiang Xinghai retorted without mercy, "He sacrifices his own family to satisfy his selfish desires. Those aren't difficulties, they're just a lack of any moral bottom line! I can't trust a man like that!"

Just as Miss Feng's eyes started to roll back, Jiang Xinghai's hand, like an iron vise, showed no sign of loosening.

"I'm taking an arm, as a warning!"

Before the words had left his mouth, Miss Feng's left arm was ripped from its socket at the shoulder.

"Jiang Xinghai!"

After Jiang Xinghai slammed her to the ground, Miss Feng clutched her bleeding left shoulder and roared at him in a fury, "Do you know what you've done?! You tore off my arm!"

"THUD!"

Jiang Xinghai tossed Miss Feng's left arm into the pit Zhu Yan had dug. His voice was like a clap of thunder. "If I hear another peep out of you, it won't just be your arm buried in there. Now get lost."

Miss Feng froze.

Recalling Jiang Xinghai's overwhelming power, she could only shoot a resentful glance at her left arm in the pit before leaving in utter humiliation.

'One of the three great founders of the Black Cloak, reduced to such a pathetic state by Jiang Xinghai?'

If anyone had witnessed this, Miss Feng would have been so thoroughly shamed she could never show her face again.

"Do you believe her?"

Zhu Yan rose and took Jiang Xinghai's arm, her lovely eyes full of affection.