Chapter 152: Catching Adultery

At the same time, Hu Rui'an, who had just taken the antidote and regained consciousness, seemed to think of something, and his face suddenly turned extremely grim.

He immediately struggled to sit up and spoke weakly with extreme anxiety:

"No, the Young Master and the others must have met with trouble; I must go save them..."

At this moment, how could he not realize that the wine and dishes he ate during the day were problematic? He feared that Li Musheng and the others, just like him, had long been poisoned and lost consciousness.

Only because he had his cousin's help could he now wake up; Li Musheng and the others must have long become fish on a chopping block, at the mercy of others.

Under these circumstances, only he could act to save them.

Seeing this, Ruan Zhenhui, who was sitting by the bed, vaguely guessed something. She was about to speak, but just then, a sudden gust of wind arose outside the courtyard, violently blowing the door open.

It then swept through the room, causing the candlelight to flicker wildly and the curtains to flutter incessantly.

"Zhenhui, what are you doing?"

A voice came from outside the courtyard, and Ruan Zhenhui's expression instantly changed drastically.

Turning her head to look, she saw only Shen Liancheng, the master of Zhanlu Shanzhuang, wearing a black robe with cloud patterns, slowly walking in from outside the courtyard.

Shen Liancheng's expression was calm; his gaze fixed on Hu Rui'an and the other person inside the room who were acting intimately, and no emotion could be seen on his face.

Ruan Zhenhui suddenly stood up, her face filled with panic, and hurriedly explained:

"Liancheng, don't misunderstand; things are not as you imagine."

At this moment, Hu Rui'an finally regained some strength and forced himself to sit up alone.

Looking at Shen Liancheng, who was slowly walking into the room from outside the courtyard, his face turned extremely grim for a moment.

Shen Liancheng stopped in the center of the room, his face showing no waves from beginning to end. He did not look at Ruan Zhenhui but fixed his gaze on Hu Rui'an and said:

"So it is you."

Clearly, he had recognized Hu Rui'an's disguised identity from the day.

Then, Shen Liancheng narrowed his eyes slightly and said lightly:

"Hu Rui'an, have you forgotten the promise of that year: never to set foot in Zhanlu Shanzhuang again, and never to see Zhenhui in this life?"

Hearing this, Hu Rui'an's expression instantly fluctuated.

Meanwhile, Ruan Zhenhui, standing nearby, showed a look of surprise and suddenly turned her head to look at Hu Rui'an:

"When did you meet? Did you really make the promises he mentioned?"

Hu Rui'an said nothing; he only looked at Shen Liancheng before him. After a moment of silence, he said:

"You can rest assured; I only came to see my cousin one last time and will have no other ambitions."

Upon hearing this, Ruan Zhenhui's eyes froze, and a look of disbelief appeared on her face.

It seemed she could not believe that Hu Rui'an had indeed made such a promise and had hidden it from her for so many years.

At this moment, Shen Liancheng chuckled lightly, suddenly stepped forward toward Hu Rui'an and the other person, and spoke coldly:

"You swore back then that if you broke this word, you would be at my disposal. Is it wrong for me to want your life now?"

Having said this, true energy swirled in Shen Liancheng's palm. He raised his hand and condensed a red claw shadow in mid-air, then reached for Hu Rui'an without any warning.

In an instant, the true energy of heaven and earth within the room trembled, and the bed frame and curtains turned to dust under the expanding claw shadow.

Seeing this, Ruan Zhenhui's expression changed drastically. She immediately redirected her entire martial true energy and raised her palm to strike the claw shadow falling from above.

However, her martial cultivation was far inferior to Shen Liancheng's. With merely a glance, an invisible true energy blasted her entire body away, sending her crashing toward the window of the room.

"Mother!"

Shen Anran cried out in alarm and, without hesitation, suddenly leaped down from the roof. Her figure flashed as she hurriedly caught Ruan Zhenhui's flying body.

At the same time, Hu Rui'an, lying on the bed, faced the slowly descending claw shadow with an extremely grim expression.

Since the toxicity of the Drunken Immortal Death within his body had not yet completely dissipated, even if he tried to exert all his strength to circulate his martial true energy, he simply could not do it.

Let alone exerting the power of the Heaven-and-Mortal Realm to mobilize the surrounding true energy of heaven and earth to act.

Hu Rui'an knew that under the current circumstances, facing Shen Liancheng, whose martial strength even in his prime was not inferior to his own, he had absolutely no power to resist; his life and death were entirely in the other's hands.

However, Hu Rui'an did have some backbone; from beginning to end, he did not beg for mercy.

Just then, the red claw shadow, swirling with terrifying martial aura, drew closer and closer to Hu Rui'an.

Ruan Zhenhui, not far away, saw this scene and even cried out in a pale voice:

"No!"

Shen Anran, holding Ruan Zhenhui, looked up toward the room and almost concluded that under her father's attack, the fate of that man who had an unusual relationship with her mother was already sealed.

But in the next moment, the red claw shadow, containing thick and powerful true energy, suddenly vanished silently.

The overwhelming martial aura belonging to Shen Liancheng that covered the entire room also disappeared at the same time, and the surroundings suddenly became calm in an instant.

"How does my lord feel? Is it exciting?"

Just then, a rather mocking voice sounded within the room. Then, Li Musheng's figure suddenly appeared before the bed where Hu Rui'an lay, and he said:

"If you sneak out to chase women instead of doing proper business, you must pay the price."

Everyone in the room, seeing this scene, were all stunned.

After recovering, an expression of incredulity instantly appeared on the faces of Shen Anran and Ruan Zhenhui.

However, Ruan Zhenhui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, though her gaze toward the room was clearly extremely puzzled.

From the situation just now, it seemed that the suddenly appeared young man had intervened to stop Shen Liancheng.

But the other party's age was truly too young, making her doubt whether it was really the other party who acted.

At the same time, Shen Liancheng's face became extremely solemn; he had naturally seen Li Musheng during the day.

Moreover, according to logic, the other party should have been poisoned by now and captured by Jing Chengluo and others of the Tianxia Alliance.

However, now the other party not only had nothing wrong with him but also appeared in the room without Shen Liancheng noticing in the slightest.

Furthermore, he did not know when the other party acted to silently neutralize the previous attack.

Although Shen Liancheng did not intend to take Hu Rui'an's life on the spot just now, with his martial strength, it was by no means something an ordinary person could do to easily neutralize his attack.

What left him bewildered and uncertain was that Li Musheng before his eyes possessed not a trace of martial Dao true Qi.

Moreover, the other party was truly far too young, looking nothing like someone capable of harboring such astonishing martial Dao strength.

"Young Master, how... how did you come here?"

If speaking of who was most shocked at this moment, it was naturally Hu Rui'an.

He had already completely given up resistance just now, only hating that he had made a mistake in judgment for a moment and fallen into Shen Liancheng's poisonous scheme.

But he did not expect that at this critical moment, Li Musheng would actually appear, and moreover, step forward to block Shen Liancheng's attack.

(End of this chapter)