Chapter 39: Overconfident

Long Peng was accompanied by two young men. Both wore golden half-masks that concealed everything on their faces but their eyes. Even so, Ye Xuan recognized them at a glance.

They were from the Celestial Ranking.

He truly hadn’t expected them to be involved in this matter. He wondered whether he should be glad or worried.

"Leng Sha, King of the Underworld. I didn’t expect you two to have the guts to show yourselves in front of me," Ye Xuan said in a low voice, staring at the two young men.

Hearing this, Leng Sha and the King of the Underworld let out a string of highly mocking laughter.

"Ye Xuan, five years ago, when your two brothers were still around, they suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of our Celestial Ranking. Now, five years later, you’re all alone. Why wouldn’t we dare appear before you?" Leng Sha retorted frivolously. He didn’t take Ye Xuan seriously at all, dismissively picking the dirt from under his fingernails.

At the mention of the past, Ye Xuan’s aura instantly changed.

Beside them, Long Tian was so frightened that he slumped to the ground, a puddle of unknown liquid spreading from beneath him. Seeing his son in such a pathetic state, Long Peng’s heart ached. He looked at Leng Sha and the King of the Underworld with a fawning expression and pleaded, "Bosses, I don’t care what grudges you have with Ye Xuan, but I beg you to guarantee my son’s safety. As long as my son is fine, you can do whatever you want to Yang Bingyu."

Hearing Long Peng’s words, Leng Sha and the King of the Underworld exchanged a glance and revealed lecherous smiles. The moment they first laid eyes on Yang Bingyu, they had harbored wicked intentions. But because Long Tian had been captured, Long Peng had adamantly refused to let them touch her, forcing them to drop the idea.

"Don’t worry, nothing will happen to your son. Once we brothers finish off Ye Xuan, you’d better arrange a presidential suite for us and that little chick," the King of the Underworld said. He made no effort to hide his wicked desires, acting as if victory over Ye Xuan was already in the bag.

Listening to their conversation, Ye Xuan clenched his fists tightly. His muscles bulged, and the chilling aura exuding from him was almost suffocating.

"King of the Underworld, this Ye Xuan seems to have gotten stronger. We absolutely cannot be careless," Leng Sha whispered, a jolt of alarm running through him as he met Ye Xuan’s bottomless, pitch-black eyes.

"Relax. It’s not like I haven’t improved over the past five years either. If Ye Xuan wasn’t our match five years ago, he still isn’t today." The King of the Underworld looked at Ye Xuan with utter disdain, brimming with confidence. As if feeling he hadn’t provoked Ye Xuan enough, he opened his mouth and spat out another infuriating remark. "Ye Xuan, do you think Chen Hao would flip his coffin lid if he knew we slept with his sister? Hahaha!"

Good. Very good.

Today, the King of the Underworld had to die!

Unable to suppress the fury in his heart any longer, Ye Xuan didn’t say a single word. Pushing off hard with his feet, his body shot forward like a bullet. Words were useless now; finishing off these two men would settle everything.

Up until the very second Ye Xuan made his move, the King of the Underworld still wore a confident smile. However, the moment he took Ye Xuan’s first strike, his expression drastically changed.

He wondered what was going on. When had Ye Xuan become so strong? With this speed, this power, and these techniques, he would undoubtedly be defeated within a hundred moves!

"Leng Sha! What are you standing there like an idiot for? Hurry up and attack!" Realizing the gap between himself and Ye Xuan, the King of the Underworld began to panic and hastily called for Leng Sha to join the fray.

Naturally, Leng Sha had also noticed Ye Xuan’s formidable strength. Not daring to slack off in the slightest, he and the King of the Underworld launched a pincer attack from the left and right.

Ye Xuan looked at them as if he were looking at two dead men. His strikes grew increasingly ruthless, laced with heavier killing intent.

The three of them fought for about ten minutes. The two who were initially full of confidence were now a pathetic mess. They never expected that even by joining forces, they were no longer a match for Ye Xuan.

The King of the Underworld’s mind raced, and a cold glint suddenly flashed in his eyes. He knew they had already lost this battle, but he didn’t want to die. So, taking advantage of the moment Leng Sha launched an attack, he slammed a palm into his partner’s back.

"You!"

Completely defenseless against his ally, Leng Sha stared in disbelief at his longtime partner. He couldn’t believe the man had sold him out just to survive. Sent flying straight toward Ye Xuan, Leng Sha crashed right into a fist carrying bone-crushing force. He coughed up blood on the spot, his life hanging by a thread.

Meanwhile, the King of the Underworld used this opening to quickly break away and flee for his life.

Watching the fight from the sidelines, Long Peng was completely dumbfounded. He collapsed onto the ground, his entire body trembling so violently that he couldn’t even speak.

He wondered if Ye Xuan was a devil. If two such formidable men couldn’t defeat him, just how strong was he?

"Please, don’t kill me! This has nothing to do with me! It was all Su Xiaobai and that Fierce Tiger’s idea! It has nothing to do with me! Nothing to do with me!" Long Peng had completely lost his mind. Seeing Ye Xuan walking toward him step by step, he hastily kneeled on the ground, kowtowing incessantly as he begged for mercy. Without Ye Xuan even needing to interrogate him, he voluntarily confessed everything.

Ye Xuan looked at him and raised an eyebrow, not surprised by his words at all. Given the relationship between Long Tian and Su Xiaobai, it was natural for Long Peng to seek Su Xiaobai’s help. However, what surprised him was that Su Xiaobai had actually colluded with Fierce Tiger.

Looking at it this way, his identity had very likely been exposed. Su Xiaobai could not be allowed to live.

"Let me ask you: who from the Yang Family is your inside contact? Tell me the truth, or you and your son won’t leave this warehouse alive."

Long Peng had definitely made contact with a mole in the Yang Family; otherwise, he couldn’t have known Yang Bingyu’s exact whereabouts. If he hadn’t, it would be completely inexplicable for the King of the Underworld and the others to abduct Yang Bingyu so shortly after she left Yunju Mountain Villa.

"I-I don’t know! I really don’t know! Su Xiaobai gave these two men to me as well. When they came looking for me, they had already brought Yang Bingyu and her group over. I was forced by them!

"Please spare me and my son! I’ll give you all of the Long Family’s money! I’ll give you whatever you want! I just beg you to let my son and me go!"

Not even daring to steal a glance at Ye Xuan, Long Peng could only kowtow repeatedly and blurt out everything he knew. To save his and Long Tian’s lives, he was even willing to hand over the Long Family on a silver platter.

"Enough. Take your son and get lost. From now on, I never want to see anyone from the Long Family again."

Upon hearing Ye Xuan’s words, Long Peng felt as if he had been granted full amnesty. THUD, THUD, THUD! He kowtowed heavily a few more times, then dragged the terrified Long Tian away and fled.

"Ye Xuan! Why are you only here now?! I was so scared..."

The moment Ye Xuan opened the door to the innermost storeroom, Yang Bingyu burst into loud sobs. Ye Xuan hurriedly untied the ropes binding her, but before he could even utter a single word, Yang Bingyu threw herself into his arms.