Chapter 13: Countdown

“Unacceptable!”

“You, and the Lin Clan, are plainly oppressing!”

“What does the Ice Soul Crystal have to do with the marriage agreement? Why should we give it to you?”

The hall burst into the furious yelling of Yu Clan’s members. All were shouted at the Lin Clan’s “representative”.

Lin Hanyu stood up indifferently, ignoring the angered Yu Clan and persisting with his claim, “The Cold Shadows Sect also wants that piece of Ice Soul Crystal to be in our hands!”

“Cold Shadows Sect…”

Upon hearing the words “Cold Shadows Sect”, many of the clan members sat down slowly like a deflating balloon.

Compared to the Lin Clan, Cold Shadows Sect’s name was obviously greater by another level.

For them, Lin Clan was already like a giant mountain. With the addition of the Cold Shadows Sect, everyone felt that they were about to be suffocated by the pressure.

“Bullshit!” Yu Li stated quietly in anger.

The three siblings, Yu Wei, Yu Lian, and Yu Li, were all of the Yellow Hall Realm. The eldest brother Yu Wei was at the middle stage of Yellow Hall Realm, the second brother Yu Lian reached the beginning stage, and surprisingly the youngest sister Yi Li had been at the late stage for a while now. It was said that she was only a step away from the Dark Burst Realm.

Because of this, Yu Li is quite prestigious within the clan.

Unfortunately……

“Reaching the Yellow Hall Realm late stage is indeed a proud achievement, but do you know how many Yellow Hall late stage cultivators do we have? More than ten! Not counting my elder brother, there are three more in the Dark Burst Realm! We even have a Profound Realm master still alive!”

“These are just within the Lin Clan, not to mention the real masters in the Cold Shadows Sect of the Land of Genesis!”

Lin Hanyu glanced at her with a disgraceful look, and his face was filled with joy, “A poor clan in the tiny Dark Moon City. The best in the clan is only at the late stage. How would a clan like this match with my daughter? I suggest you take back what you just said and don’t ask for violence against us!”

After hearing that, Yu Li, who just stood up, stopped stiff in midair.

Faced with the cruel facts, she suddenly felt that her brave soul was nothing compared to what was standing in front of her.

She felt sad for the old man and his nephew who were just able to start on their cultivation journey.

“Sigh… Aunt really wants to help you out, but… I can’t do much for you.” She hopelessly shook her head and looked back at Yu Yuan, gesturing to let Yu Yuan agree to what they wanted and move on.

“Also!”

Once again Lin Hanyu suddenly looked at Yu Yuan and said, “Yin Jue is my man! I will certainly find out who killed him, and if I find out that his death had to do with you, you better be ready for that. I will certainly take revenge!”

“No need to investigate yourself. Yu Yuan smiled and said, “I admit that I lied, and that little bitch was poisoned to death by me. Here. This is the pill that I killed him with. You might even have heard of its name: it is called the Red Shelled Pill. By the way, it is not only very effective on that little bitch but also effective on you.”

As he was talking, he took out a porcelain bottle containing the Red Shelled Pill and raised it so that Lin Hanyu could see.

All the Yu Clan members and retainers gasped as he spoke.

Countless glances focused on Yu Yuan!

What was going on?

Was this kid crazy?

Why did he admit that he poisoned Yin Jue? Why now?!

Just as everyone in the clan, from Yu Can, to Yu Li, to the elders and retainers, were about to comply with the power Lin Clan and the Cold Shadows Sect, why did the kid had to speak now?!

Didn’t you know that by admitting you just gave the Lin Clan a perfect excuse to eliminate you from the face of this planet?

Now, it was not a simple matter of a marriage agreement anymore. Lin Hanyu would inevitably insist to crush the Yu Clan at all costs.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

“You killed Yin Jue?” Lin Hanyu hesitated and then laughed weirdly. “I don’t care if it is real or not, but since you admit, then don’t blame me for not…”

“Red Shelled Pill!”

Lin Zhuyun, who seemed almost as if she was asleep, suddenly opened her eyes. Her beautiful face seemed colorless, “How can it be Red Shelled Pill!”

As Lin Hanyu was about to burst out with anger, he was stopped by his daughter, “Wait! Calm down!”

“Is it really Red Shelled Pill?!” She asked in a cold and serious tone, losing all the calmness she had a moment earlier.

Yu Yuan smiled, “Well, what do you think?”

“What do I think? This foolish kid dares to use a random pill to scare me!” Lin Hanyu laughed like an ice blade poking into everyone’s chest. Without even knowing the powers of the Red Shelled Pill, he refused to listen to Lin Zhuyun and went for Yu Yuan. “You tell me that a stupid seventeen-year-old can kill Yin Jue!?”

He hated Yu Yuan from the very beginning.

His daughter was the pride of the Lin Clan and perhaps the entire Silver Moon Empire!

Since a young girl, his daughter had been adored by thousands, and with just a wrong decision made by his mother, his daughter was humiliated by her peers.

This idiot was the cause of it all!

Even after this fool woke from the coma, what can be done anyway?

Lin Hanyu was too impatient to even speed another word with this idiot. Even if that pill was real, how could it harm Yin Jue and still have an effect on me?

“Father! What if, if the pill is the real Red Shelled Pill? I’m afraid that you might not even be able to stand it!” Lin Zhuyun exclaimed.

Inside the hall, Yu Clan members and other retainers stood there like wooden chickens“Stood there like a wooden chicken” is an idiom that means the person was so surprised that he/she doesn’t know what to do anymore; all were overwhelmed.

Red Shelled Pill? Could it be that powerful?

“As long as you dare to try, I will make sure that you two will not step out of this room alive!” Facing the triggered Lin Hanyu, the smile on Yu Yuan’s face slowly disappeared, and it was replaced with a surprisingly calm expression.

He was as calm as the god of death.

This calmness that ignores all living creatures was revealed even from his bones.

Lin Hanyu, even after his life was stained with blood, he still felt a weird feeling creeping up from his feet. Something that he never felt before.

“Not only just you and your daughter.” Yu Yuan’s tone became darker, “If there is anything wrong with me, my teacher will blood wash your Lin Clan with a flick of his fingers.”

Lin Hanyu, who was furious just a second ago, forced himself to calm down.

“What did you say?”

He stared at Yu Yuan’s eyes with suspicion and questioned his daughter, “What kind of poison pill is that? Did Yin Jue really die of this?”

“The Cold Shadows Sect have once taught me the effects of this pill. After the pill is inhaled, it will quickly travel through the cultivators’ Middle Core and rip open the person’s organs. It works especially well on people who reach the Dark Burst Realm.” When he finally calmed down a bit, Lin Zhuyun immediately explained, “Father, if this is a real Red Shelled Pill, I’m afraid that you probably will not be able to survive either.”

“Red Shelled Pill…” Lin Hanyu still couldn’t believe that it was real, but her eyes couldn’t stop looking at that small porcelain vase. “Tell me, did you really kill Yin Jue?”

“Yin Jue tried to kill me twice.” Yu Yuan slowly relaxed and squinted his eyes slightly before he said, “The first time, I survived, and the second time, he died.”

Lin Zhuyun wanted to explain.

“I don’t care who told him to kill me. He deserved it anyway.” When Yu Yuan said this, he suddenly grinned toward the father and daughter.

The smile made both of them shudder for almost no specific reason.

Then, Yu Yuan suddenly shook the vase violently!

Bang!

The second “Red Shelled Pill” suddenly burst into a red mist inside the vase!

Yu Yuan’s two fingers that pinched on the cotton ball that covered the vase was like pinching on the necks of the father and daughter.

“When Yin Jue tried to kill me the first time, you didn’t seem to punish him at all. No punishment meant indulgence!” He quietly looked at Lin Zhuyun and yelled, “Do I not deserve an apology?”

“I…” Lin Zhuyun opened his mouth, but more words came out.

She brought Yin Jue into the clan and was instructed by the Cold Shadows Sect to follow the instructions of her father and herself. She of course knew what Yin Jue was trying to do.

She could find an excuse for herself. She had no control over Cold Shadows Sect or her father. At least that was better than just letting the situation moving towards the worst.

So, deep in her heart, in her subconscious… she still wanted this boy to die?

“And you.” Yu Yuan turned toward Lin Hanyu again, “Let’s first not talk about what happened between you and me. I want you to apologize to my grandpa now.”

Lin Hanyu made a smirking expression, “Kid, you think you can threaten me?”

“I’ll count to three.” Yu Yuan was too lazy to even react to what he was saying.

“Kid! Haha. Who do you think you are?”

“One!”

Not intending to give them any more time, Yu Yan straight up took off the cotton ball after counting only once!

He threw the porcelain vase toward Lin Hanyu and it busted open in mid-air.

The crimson blood mist immediately dissipated into the air!

The mist was like a living creature. All that had not yet faded rushed toward Lin Hanyu and Lin Zhuyun. Lines, thinner than hair, formed in the air.

“AHHH!”

Total chaos erupted in the hall.

Yu Clan’s clan elders and retainers scrambled to stay away from the Red Shelled Pill, fearing that they would end up with a painful death like Yin Jue.

“Hold up, do you not just say you are going to count three? How come you…” Yu Lian looked pale.

“He is reckless!” Yu Li looked around the hall and said, “Quick, go hide in the corners of the hall and I’ll go protect uncle!”

Like a flash of light, she instantly appeared behind Yu Can and tried to push him away from the fume.

“Damn it! This boy wants to release the poison from the beginning! A devil! Simply a devil! How dare him!” Uncle Yu Wei’s was screaming from the floor. He could tell that this nephew was no ordinary boy.

The so-called counting to three and other intimidations before was probably trying to cover something up, or just perhaps to delay the time.

Maybe to let that poisonous pill only target the two from the Lin Clan…

Did he talk so much just for that?