Chapter 2019: Bearing a Notorious Name

Ye Liuyun was, on the surface, tearing and struggling with Lei Ming, but in fact was secretly poisoning them.

Huo Wu at this moment also ended the illusion technique and retreated to Ye Liuyun's side.

The guards at this moment saw their captain give the order, and the four mid‑late Fifth Layer Martial Cultivators went to pull Ye Liuyun and Lei Ming.

Ye Liuyun and Lei Ming were still arguing, saying they would cooperate and urging them not to resort to force.

Then they saw those four Martial Cultivators collapse one after another, their bodies turning black and finally corroded into a pool of foul water, clearly having been struck by a potent toxin.

"Poison!"

A guard immediately shouted, and everyone stepped back to avoid being contaminated by the toxin source.

"Hmph, don't think we're refugees and thus easy to bully!"

Lei Ming said smugly.

"What nerve, daring to kill even the guards of the Shui family!"

The captain let out a loud shout and struck directly at Lei Ming.

Lei Ming, Ye Liuyun, and Huo Wu immediately acted together to confront the captain.

Lei Ming was at the early stage of the Sixth Layer, one realm lower than the captain.

But with Ye Liuyun and Huo Wu's cooperation, they could barely hold on.

"Why are you just watching the spectacle? Aren't you going to act?"

The captain also scolded the other guards.

"Attack, attack!"

The crowd immediately shouted, ready to strike.

They said they would act, but few actually rushed forward.

After Huo Wu's illusion, they all regarded the captain as a treacherous, despicable scoundrel, and his authority among them plummeted.

"Roar!"

Qing Feng let out a great shout and immediately blocked several charging Martial Cultivators.

"Don't hit my father!"

Xiao Lan Bing also shouted while acting, raising an ice wall that separated the guards.

Xiao Lan Bing was at the mid stage of the Fifth Layer, and for a moment these people could not break the ice wall.

Moreover, this suited their wishes, eager to let the captain take a beating.

They all thought the captain had extorted them first, so being hit was self‑inflicted.

They hadn't expected the captain would be taken down by Ye Liuyun and the others.

Seizing the moment when Xiao Lan Bing's ice wall blocked the others, Ye Liuyun immediately launched a Spiritual Soul Attack, using Soul Search to first learn the appearances and traits of the people on Shui Bingyue's list, then devouring the captain's Soul.

Huo Wu happened to swing a whip, smashing the captain's head to pieces, and his whole body was ignited by the flames on the whip.

"Ah! The captain is dead!"

"Run! Their strength is too great; we can't hold them!"

"Return to the clan and report!"

The guards shouted in unison, turned and fled, and to prevent Ye Liuyun and the others from catching up, they scattered in different directions.

However, Ye Liuyun and his companions had no intention of pursuing them.

Ye Liuyun glanced at the captain's corpse and said, "Sorry for the trouble!"

"How was my performance?"

Lei Ming also asked Ye Liuyun.

"Not bad! Let's seize the time now to gather the medicinal herbs!"

Ye Liuyun praised Lei Ming, then immediately released the others inside the Space World, letting everyone help collect the herbs.

They ignored the varieties and grades, sweeping up even the ground itself.

Ye Liuyun deployed a clone to monitor the guards' escape.

If a guard who hadn't fled approached, he would shoot them dead from afar with a gilded divine bow.

He himself rushed to the very center of the herb field, where a Formation‑guarded small herb garden housed high‑grade precious medicinal herbs.

Ye Liuyun arrived, found the Formation beyond his comprehension and unable to break, so he called Jin Hui and Ning Fei over to blast the Formation apart.

The two were Martial Cultivators at the Mid‑Eighth Realm; together, a single punch shattered the Formation.

Then the two retreated again, waiting for their turn to act.

Ye Liuyun made a sweeping gesture, relocating those precious herbs piece by piece into his own Space World.

The Hua Xiangyuan sisters and Lan Xin busied themselves, helping to plant the herbs.

Yu Er, who had previously cultivated herbs, also came to help.

At this moment, the fleeing guards finally reached the Side Courtyard of the Shui family here and reported to the Administrator.

"Disaster! Administrator, someone has destroyed the herb field and even killed our captain!"

"What?"

The Administrator hadn't expected anyone to dare act against the Shui family.

The Administrator of the Shui family here was a young man slightly older than Shui Bingyue.

He was Shui Bingyue's half‑brother, Shui Hengfeng.

"Explain exactly what happened, in detail!"

Shui Hengfeng set down his teacup and let the guard explain clearly.

He hadn't expected Ye Liuyun to outright sweep away the Shui family's herb field; otherwise they would have surely summoned experts to charge out.

The guard began recounting the events, and more guards fled back.

Ye Liuyun's duplicate has been continuously using Divine Sense to monitor those guards.

Except for a few who wanted to go back to check the situation and were shot dead by him with arrows, the other Martial Cultivators all returned to the Shui family's Side Courtyard.

He also stayed outside the Side Courtyard, watching from a distance.

The Shui family has no Martial Cultivators beyond the eighth rank, and their Divine Soul Power is not as strong as his.

Whenever the Shui family makes any move, he will immediately inform Ye Liuyun to pull the others into the Space World.

Ye Liuyun and the others are now bustling with activity.

The medicine field is simply too vast; they cannot finish gathering it in a short time.

Shui Hengfeng, at this moment, hears the guard mention that the captain is negotiating with Ye Liuyun, notices the guard glosses over the conversation, and sees something odd on the others' faces, instantly realizing the guard hasn't told the whole truth.

He waits for the guard to finish; knowing that Ye Liuyun and his group have some strength, he first orders the gathering of the Shui family's strong members, then proceeds to question that attendant.

"You said the people who destroyed the medicine field were very courteous; then why did they end up fighting?"

"Well…" the person hesitates internally, unsure whether to speak.

The others had originally been adding supplementary remarks, but now they are all silent.

Shui Hengfeng snorts coldly, "Not telling the truth?

It seems your guard unit also needs to be cleaned up!"

"I wouldn't dare!"

The guard, upon hearing that, immediately blurted out, "The captain extorted them; they were forced to retaliate! Every word I say is true, Administrator, please investigate thoroughly!"

Hearing this, Shui Hengfeng merely frowned.

He isn't familiar with all the ordinary guards, but he knows the captain's character.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have appointed him captain.

Nevertheless, he again questioned the others and asked for some details.

What those guards said turned out to be identical.

"That's strange! They all say the same.

And judging by their expressions, they don't seem to be lying! Could I have misread them?"

Shui Hengfeng also began to doubt in his mind.

But now there is no proof of death, so he can only deal with the problem first.

"Which direction did those people go?"

Shui Hengfeng asked.

"When we left, they were still at the medicine field,"

a guard replied.

"Did the rest of you stay there watching them?"

Shui Hengfeng asked again.

"Well… the situation was more chaotic then; we weren't their match, so we scattered..."