“Brother-in-law, why are you grabbing my head… ah…”
Qing Shaocheng’s head was being grabbed by Ye Fan, and while he originally planned to retort, the next moment, his head spun, and the scene before his eyes underwent a tremendous change.
Before Qing Shaocheng, the Qing Family Courtyard had become a sea of flames and ruins, with countless martial arts experts charging towards the courtyard, clashing with the Qing Family’s bodyguards… Qing Shaocheng’s second and third uncles were lying in pools of blood right before his eyes!
“Don’t… Who are you? Why are you attacking the Qing Family…”
Qing Shaocheng wanted to step forward to stop these martial arts experts, but he found that all his meridians seemed to be locked, rendering him completely immobile.
“Your Qing Family is too weak… Humph! You are nothing but a useless person, relying on a woman like Qing Ruolan, how could you possibly support the Qing Family?”
“Worthless! All you do is waste your days on drinking and pleasure!”
“Qing Shaocheng, I’ve been thinking about your sister for a long time!” Among the crowd, several familiar figures to Qing Shaocheng appeared, the same Young Master Qin who had often drunk with him. Normally they called each other brothers, but now Qin Shou was walking towards Qing Shaocheng’s sister, Qing Ruolan, with a sinister smile, tearing at her clothes.
“Don’t… Sister, no…”
Qing Shaocheng’s heart was ruled by his sister’s words, and she was also the one he loved the most.
When he learned that Capital City’s Shen Xiao was about to make a move on Qing Ruolan, Qing Shaocheng nearly lost his mind. Yet it was Ye Fan who ultimately resolved the situation, granting Qing Shaocheng relief. But at this moment, seeing Qin Shou and the other drinking buddies participating in the massacre of the Qing Family, Qing Shaocheng’s heart felt as if it was being sliced by knives.
“Damn it, you beasts, beasts!” Qing Shaocheng could never have imagined that those he drank with regularly had been plotting against the Qing Family all along.
Qing Shaocheng was still reeling when the scene before him shifted to his parents kneeling in a pool of blood, surrounded by men in black brandishing iron rods, relentlessly striking their heads, now grey with hair.
Even from such a distance, Qing Shaocheng could hear the sound of bones shattering.
“Stop… please stop, you bastards…”
“You’re going to stop us? You’re just someone with the Martial Arts Transforming Qi strength, can you beat us? Hehe… you have no idea, do you? There are so many who wish to see the Qing Family dead, including families from the Capital, families from the Ancient Martial Arts. You useless man, always indulging in pleasure and never caring about the family’s development, now just watch helplessly as the Qing Family is annihilated… Your parents, your dear sister, your second and third uncles, and even your nephew who’s not yet a year old…”
All these brutal scenes kept swaying in front of Qing Shaocheng!
Each scene made Qing Shaocheng cry out in agonizing pain.
…
“Xiao Fan, Shaocheng isn’t in any danger, right?” Qing Ruolan watched as Qing Shaocheng in the courtyard went from sitting on the ground sobbing, to running around in frenzy, to hugging a tree and weeping… she began to grow worried!
Pfft!
In the end, Qing Shaocheng even spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood, startling Qing Ruolan.
“Xiao Fan…”
Although Qing Ruolan was aware of Ye Fan’s abilities, the current situation, with Qing Shaocheng acting like a madman, made it impossible for her not to worry.
“Don’t worry! To break is to establish, no breaking no establishing!” Ye Fan looked at the expression on Qing Shaocheng’s face, which transitioned from youthful naivety to sorrow, and eventually to a firm resolve. In just a few minutes, the Illusionary Realm constructed by Ye Fan had enabled Qing Shaocheng to undergo a qualitative leap and a complete transformation. freёweɓnovel.com
Feeling that it was almost time, Ye Fan stepped forward, reached out, and patted Qing Shaocheng on the head, dispelling the illusions in his mind.
“Don’t die, none of you die…” After Qing Shaocheng came to his senses, he was still instinctively shouting, his hands seemingly trying to grab onto something.
Once Qing Shaocheng fully regained consciousness and looked around, his eyes widened upon seeing Qing Ruolan in the courtyard. “Sister… Sister, you aren’t dead? You’re all right? That’s so good…so good…”
Qing Shaocheng, with tears and snot all over his face, rolled over to Qing Ruolan and grabbed onto her legs, his face alternating between crying and laughing.
Qing Shaocheng glanced around once more; the Qing Family Courtyard was still intact!
Was this all just a dream?
But the dream was too realistic, as if it had really happened, leaving a deep impression and shadow in Qing Shaocheng’s heart.
In that moment, Qing Shaocheng realized that although what he had seen in his head was only an illusion, if he continued to be so degraded, he feared that one day the Qing Family might indeed become what he had envisioned.
Especially when his sister publicly announced she would continue to marry into the Ye Family, it meant taking a stand opposite to those who were deadly rivals of the Ye Family.
With such a colossal entity as the Ye Family having had its core ten disciples annihilated by those rivals, their retaliation must have already been in the works, right?
Qing Shaocheng had understood these truths before, but at that time he always thought he had his sister and parents in front of him. However, after today’s dream, Qing Shaocheng understood that his parents were getting old and his sister’s abilities were limited.
As for his brother-in-law… although Ye Fan was lucid at times, for the most part, he was still in a state of folly!
If Ye Fan was lucid, he could help the Qing Family, but if Ye Fan happened to be foolish at the time, was Qing Shaocheng really supposed to watch his sister be bullied by others?
“Sister, where is the Martial Arts Master who taught us martial arts? I want to go learn martial arts… I must breakthrough…” A determined look crossed Qing Shaocheng’s face, and his words left Qing Ruolan in shock.
“What did you say? You want to learn martial arts?” Before Qing Ruolan could respond, from a room to the side of the courtyard, a middle-aged couple emerged. Upon hearing Qing Shaocheng’s words, they both exclaimed in astonishment.
This was none other than the biological parents of Qing Shaocheng and Qing Ruolan, Qing Deyuan and Li Yun!
“Yes, I want to learn martial arts!” Seeing his father starting to use a cane, Qing Shaocheng’s gaze became even more resolute.
It dawned on him that his parents were already old and that some responsibilities he would need to take on himself!
Qing Deyuan’s eyes became moist as he turned to Li Yun beside him, “Xiao Yun, has Shaocheng finally become sensible? I’ve finally breathed a sigh of relief!”
“The drinking party you just mentioned, you’re not going now?” Qing Ruolan’s eyebrows twitched. Although she didn’t know what Ye Fan had done to Qing Shaocheng, she was aware that the dramatic change in him must be Ye Fan’s doing.
“No, I’m not going! Didn’t brother-in-law just say that he would go drink in my place!” Qing Shaocheng looked at Ye Fan gratefully, “Brother-in-law! Thank you… If you go to the party, you must be careful of a guy named Qin Shou and another person called He Qiang; they’re not good characters…”
Just mentioning these two names made Qing Shaocheng’s teeth itch with hatred!
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Because in the visions he had just seen, these two men personally killed Qing Shaocheng’s sister and parents… If it were not for his own lack of strength, Qing Shaocheng would have loved to slaughter those two bastards on the spot…