Mad Dragon gets out of prison and marries a beautiful CEO.

Chapter 90

Ye Qinglian walked for a while, away from Villa No. 28, and leaned against a tree trunk, vomited another mouthful of blood. When she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, a dark red mark appeared.

The blood and qi in my body surged like turbulent water, and every step I took was accompanied by a tearing pain deep in my heart and lungs.

The moment the Corpse-Controlling Gu was killed, the backlash force crashed back along the invisible spiritual connection between her and the Gu worm, like a heavy hammer slamming into her dantian.

Despite the pain, she took out her phone and called her godfather.

"Dad, arrange for someone to pick me up."

Ye Zong asked nervously:

"Qinglian, what happened?"

Ye Qinglian took a breath and said calmly:

"It's nothing, just a minor injury. I'll send my location to my phone."

After saying that, he hung up the phone and sent the coordinates of the outer perimeter of Bihu Longting.

Twenty minutes later, a black minivan silently drove up to the side of the wooded road where she was hiding. The door opened, and two trusted men in dark gray shirts helped her into the car.

It was midnight when I got home.

The lights in the main building's tea room were still on, and the warm yellow light shining through the windows shone on the bluestone steps at the entrance.

Ye Qinglian pushed open the carved wooden door and went inside. Ye Zong was sitting in the main seat looking at some document. Hearing the door open, he looked up and his gaze fell on her pale face and the bloodstains left at the corner of her mouth. He then slammed the document shut in his hand.

"What happened?"

Ye Qinglian walked to the armchair opposite him and sat down, using a cushion behind her back to relieve the weight of her upper body.

She took a deep breath, her voice a little weaker than usual:

"I used the Corpse Control Gu to control Han Jiang's corpse and send it to the Azure Lake Dragon Court, intending to give Chen Li a warning and let him know that the Vermilion Bird Hall was not something he could easily touch. But he..."

She paused, her fingers unconsciously tightening around the armrests of the chair:

"He killed Han Jiang. He didn't dispose of the body; he freed Han Jiang from the Gu control state and removed the golden centipede from his body. After the centipede left his body, it turned to ash, and I suffered a backlash on the spot."

"He's very knowledgeable about various esoteric arts; the master who instructed him must be extremely powerful!"

Ye Zong's expression darkened.

He put down the documents, got up and walked to the tea table, poured Ye Qinglian a cup of warm ginseng tea and handed it to her:

"Let's drink first and then talk."

Ye Qinglian took the tea and drank two sips. The warmth of the ginseng tea spread from her stomach, suppressing the nausea she felt.

She put down her cup and continued:

"Godfather, Chen Li's cultivation level far exceeds our previous assessment. He can accurately locate the hiding place of the Gu worms and subdue the host when the Corpse Control Gu is at its most vigorous. This shows that his understanding of Gu techniques is at least above ours."

"In addition to the Tiger incident, the qualifying match at Harmony Hospital, and Xu Jiang's arrest today, he had the upper hand in every single one of them, and he got away cleanly from each one."

"You mean, he has someone backing him?"

Ye Zong sat down again, placing his hands folded on his knees.

"I think he has close ties to the special operations team!"

Ye Qinglian lowered her voice when she said those four words:

"When Tiger met with Tusa, the special operations team sealed off Berlin International Airport, and the entire operation was watertight."

"I checked. The on-site commander that day was Song Qingtong, and Chen Li became very close to her after leaving Berlin International. Even Director Qi met with Chen Li in person."

"I suspect he's on an unofficial mission within the special operations group, which means my godfather knows better than I do."

Ye Zong fell silent, lost in thought.

He tapped his fingers twice on his knee, then looked away from Ye Qinglian's face and into the night outside the window.

"You think I don't want to win him over?"

Ye Zong spoke, his voice deep and slow:

"Your godfather has been working his way up in Yuncheng for over twenty years. I know in my heart who can be used, who should be beaten, and who can be turned from enemies into friends."

"Someone who can single-handedly take down Tiger Boss's Black Tiger branch, cause Century Hospital to suffer a crushing defeat in the finals, and send Xu Jiang to the police station right in front of me—do you think I can't see his worth?"

Ye Qinglian looked at her godfather's profile and waited for him to finish speaking.

"However, the president of the Juxian Chamber of Commerce will not allow it."

Ye Zong turned his face, something more substantial pressing beneath the deep twilight in his eyes, and continued:

"What the chairman wants is for all the underworld forces in this city to be on his chessboard; he wants to be the uncrowned king of Yun City."

"The chairman won't tolerate someone like Chen Li who's not on the chessboard."

"I am the head of the Vermilion Bird Hall. All my assets, power, connections, and territory were given to me by the chairman. If the chairman orders me to eliminate this person, I must do so; otherwise, I will be the one replaced."

He paused, a barely perceptible hint of bitterness in his voice:

"You think I don't want to be the next Tiger Lord?"

"The chairman knew about Tiger's connections with the Golden Triangle, but he turned a blind eye. However, after Tiger fell from power, the chairman immediately extended his reach into the territory of the Black Tiger branch."

"He is using Chen Li as a tool to cut down disobedient pawns, using others to clean house."

"If we were to make peace with Chen Li now, what would the chairman think?"

Ye Qinglian traced a line on the rim of the teacup with her fingertip, but did not reply.

"unless……"

Ye Zong lowered his voice even further:

"Unless the Vermilion Bird Hall breaks away from the Gathering of Heroes Chamber of Commerce and establishes its own independent entity."

"But you know what that means—it means going to war with the chairman head-on. With our current strength, our chances of winning are less than 30%."

The tea room remained quiet for a while.

Ye Qinglian slowly finished the half cup of ginseng tea, and when she put the cup down, the trembling in her fingertips had mostly subsided.

She looked at her godfather and whispered:

"What about Master...?"

Before the words were finished, the curtain hanging at the back door of the tea room was lifted from the outside.

Master Guigu walked in wearing a dark gray cotton and linen robe and cloth shoes. Although his steps were steady, his complexion was not much better than Ye Qinglian's.

He took two steps closer, and his gaze suddenly froze when it fell on Ye Qinglian's face. He then quickly stepped forward and grabbed her wrist.

"The Corpse-Controlling Gu has been killed?"

Guiguzi's voice held a calm before a violent outburst, like magma before it bursts from the earth's crust.

Ye Qinglian nodded.

Master Guigu tightened his grip on her pulse, his shrewd gaze sweeping over her meridians. Then, with a grim face, he pulled a porcelain bottle from his robes, poured out two vermilion pills, and placed them into her mouth.

"Swallow it. This is a heart-protecting pill. First, stabilize your pulse, and I will slowly treat the rest for you."

Ye Qinglian swallowed the pill, and the warm medicinal power slid down her throat, gradually calming her turbulent blood and qi.

She lowered her eyes and said softly, "Master, it's because my skills are inferior that I've embarrassed you."

Master Guigu snorted coldly, released her wrist, and turned to look at Ye Zong:

"You raised a good daughter. She learned Gu poison from me since she was a child and has never suffered a loss in this small area of ​​Yuncheng."

"Now that you've been destroyed along with your corpse by someone using the Gu poison, and you've even suffered the backlash, are you just going to let it go like this?"