Chapter 439: This Old Fellow is Insidiously Vicious

"Xiaoyu, there is no time to lose. I will go back and prepare, and tomorrow I will go to pay a visit to Lord Wu."

"Rest assured, I will certainly not forget what you have sacrificed for me!"

Clutching the Rushanyun, the scholar bid farewell to the young woman and, amidst her lingering, reluctant gaze, strode off in the direction of his home in the distance.

Along the way, those who knew him greeted him one after another; it was evident that the scholar usually had good interpersonal relationships.

However, from beginning to end, the scholar kept a cold face and did not respond at all, which made the surrounding neighbors feel somewhat uncomfortable.

The scholar, who was usually so enthusiastic whenever he saw them, must have taken the wrong medicine today; who could have provoked him?

Walking into his small courtyard, the scholar cautiously pushed open the door, took out a spirit tablet, and carefully placed it on the table.

Then, holding the large wooden box containing the Rushanyun, the scholar knelt down with a thud before this spirit tablet.

There was no name on this spirit tablet; it seemed as if it were intentionally trying to conceal something.

"Father, look, after years of sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall, your child has finally reclaimed our family's supreme treasure. This piece of Rushanyun has returned to our Cai Family's hands."

"Father, rest assured, the Guo Family has not cracked our Cai Family's secret. The secret of my Cai Family can only be obtained by my Cai Family members!"

Holding the Rushanyun he had just obtained from someone else, the scholar's tears fell drop by drop, his face filled with unspeakable grievance and pain.

The hatred the scholar had subconsciously revealed earlier made Shen Yu feel that something was not quite right, so he had paid a little attention to it; he had not expected that there might be hidden circumstances involved.

Once the scholar wiped away his tears and stood up again, only a look of sinister ruthlessness remained on his face.

"Father, just watch. Back then, the Guo Family harmed our entire family for the sake of this thing; I will make them pay the price!"

"I will grind them into dust one by one, just like they did to our Cai Family back then!"

Waiting in the small courtyard until the dead of night, the scholar then carefully left the house, clutching the box.

Not far after walking out of the courtyard was a small lake. The scholar carefully observed his surroundings, and upon realizing there was no one around, he took out the items he had prepared long ago, tied the box to his body, and then plunged fiercely into the lake water.

By the time he appeared again, he was already inside a massive manor. The lake within the manor was actually connected to the outside; this should have been a secret, yet the scholar knew all of this.

After catching his breath, the scholar plunged fiercely into the bottom of the lake once more, and then seemed to trigger some Mechanism at the bottom.

A very faint sound came from the surface of the lake, and then a whirlpool seemed to appear, with a large amount of lake water being swallowed into it. However, it was the dead of night and there was no one around, so no one saw this scene.

By this time, the scholar had already stepped into the depths of the lake bottom. After the Mechanism at the bottom of the lake opened, he hurried inside and then closed the Mechanism.

The surface of the lake subsequently returned to calm, as if nothing had ever happened.

Outside, the cool breeze was blowing, the wind was calm and the waves were still, and everything was no different from the past.

In the secret chamber beneath the lake, after entering, the scholar hurriedly lit the candles on both sides of the walls, making the interior bright as day.

Under the illumination of the candlelight, one could clearly see the murals on the surrounding walls, which seemed to record the life of a person.

Judging from the pictures, this person roamed the Jianghu and seemed to have never tasted defeat in the battles of the Jianghu.

Every time he struck, his enemies would fall into a pool of blood, while he himself did not have a single injury on his entire body.

Almost the entire space was devoted to depicting this person's invincibility, with only the final painting showing this person standing on a mountain peak, with everyone below bowing their heads.

It seemed that at this time, this person was already the number one in the world, and no one else was his opponent. In this person's eyes, there was the loneliness of being invincible.

"So many years have passed, and this place hasn't changed a bit; it's exactly the same as what I saw when I was a child!"

Without paying attention to the surrounding murals, the scholar walked straight inside. After reaching a doorway, he knocked on the wall next to it, then fumbled around the entrance, and the door opened immediately.

Walking inside, a figure was quietly sitting cross-legged on the spot. If one looked closely, one would discover that this person was the same one as in the murals.

However, this person had long since stopped breathing and had no vitality remaining.

"So many years have passed, and I have finally waited for this day. What so many of my Cai Family predecessors could not do, I must do!"

He took out the Rushanyun and placed it in front of this figure, then the scholar cut his own palm and pressed his bleeding hand onto it.

Gradually, the blood seemed to seep into the jade, staining the interior of the entire white Rushanyun blood-red. Faintly, a glimmer of light seemed to shine.

"This is... has it succeeded?" Although that glimmer of light was very faint, it was still keenly captured by the scholar, and a look of wild joy immediately appeared on his face.

"Father, you guessed right; you were the one who was correct!"

"The key to obtaining the inheritance is that one must have a sufficiently strong body and must not have any Martial Arts. Only in this way can one perfectly withstand all the power!"

"I have tempered my body for so many years without ever practicing any internal energy, all for this day. Once I obtain our Cai Family's inheritance, I will take revenge one by one; I will let these people know what pain is."

"Is that so? Then I would very much like to know, how are you going to take your revenge?" Just as the scholar was in a state of wild joy, a cold voice rang out in his ear.

The scholar subconsciously turned his head to look, and his expression changed drastically. He saw that figure that was still fresh in his memory, the one he wished he could grind into dust every single day.

"Guoyufeng, how could you find this place? This is impossible!"

"What? You are surprised? Didn't you lead me here yourself?"

Walking inside cautiously, Guoyufeng raised his head to look around curiously, unable to help but click his tongue in wonder.

"Seventeen years. I searched for a full seventeen years, but I never expected that after searching for so many years, the secret was actually right under my feet!"

"Wenkang, no, Caiwenkang, I really must thank you. If it weren't for you, I truly don't know when I would have been able to break through such a secret. Soon, I will be able to obtain the power that originally belonged to your Cai Family."

Walking in here and arriving before the scholar, Guoyufeng's face, full of excitement, added a few traces of killing intent.

And when he saw Guoyufeng arrive, the scholar felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar; his originally burning heart instantly turned cold.

In his countless dreams in the past, he should have been filled with hatred when seeing his enemy, but when truly facing him, he discovered that there was only endless fear in his heart.

As it turned out, he was just a coward after all.

"So this is a trap?" Unable to help but let out a bitter laugh, the scholar lowered his head in a somewhat decadent manner.

It was he who had underestimated the people of the world. Thinking about it, it made sense; how could a wealthy young master be so infatuated with an ordinary young woman, even if this young woman's looks were decent?

He was just like a clown, a piece of trash who thought he had Xiaoyu in his grasp and could therefore control the useless son of Guoyufeng.

Now it seemed that this was a pit dug by others, letting him jump into it happily.

"To call it a trap, it isn't exactly one. Come to think of it, I can also be considered to have countered his scheme with my own!"

Walking forward and testing the ground twice to ensure there were no Mechanisms or the like, Guoyufeng dared to slowly approach the scholar.

"I also didn't expect that there would still be a fish that slipped through the net of the Cai Family back then, and even less did I expect that he could live for so long right under my nose."

"If you had just stayed quiet and behaved, perhaps I wouldn't have noticed your problem, but you just had to try and be clever."

"My good-for-nothing son previously only had a slight fondness for that yellow-haired girl, yet you had to go and find out about it."

He probed forward step by step, a trace of killing intent flickering across his indifferent face. However, this was the Cai Family's territory, and whether there was danger or not was hard to say, so he had to be extremely cautious.

"You used that little girl to lure my son, testing him step by step to see how great a sacrifice he could make for her, and you even went to the lengths of personally arranging things, creating countless opportunities for them to 'coincidentally' meet."

"Afterward, you helped Song many times, and even let him misunderstand that the person helping him was that girl, causing him to go from merely having a slight fondness to being deeply in love."

"I have to say, you really went to great pains!"

Unable to help but shake his head, Guoyufeng said indifferently, "It is just a pity; my good-for-nothing son likes a yellow-haired girl—how could I, as his father, not know about this?"

"When they started to have contact, I had already investigated that little girl thoroughly, and then I easily followed the vine to find you."

"Did you think that by changing your name and disguising your appearance with a new identity, I wouldn't recognize you? You truly know nothing of the power of the Guoyufeng family."

"But it was only until this moment that I realized there was actually a fish that slipped through the net from the Cai Family back then; so, this is truly 'finding something after a long search, only to realize it was easily within reach'!"