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Yu Laosan's bulky body crashed through the courtyard wall and rolled more than a dozen times on the slope of the low cliff before coming to a stop.

He lay on his back, blood and foam spilling from the corner of his mouth. His body was limp and limp, and all the bones in his body had been shattered.

His last breath made him want to beg for mercy.

He opened his mouth.

But only a series of indistinct gurgling sounds came out of his throat.

Jiang Chuan stepped out from the gap in the courtyard wall, his fingertips transforming into a beam of starlight that pierced through Yu Laosan's body, completely severing his last breath.

Followed by.

A dazzling burst of starlight exploded on his corpse.

The starlight, like a living liquid, spread along Yu Laosan's corpse. The shattered bones reformed in the starlight, and the broken internal organs healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yu Laosan suddenly opened his eyes, bounced like a fish thrown ashore, then rolled over and knelt on the ground, his forehead hitting the mud hard.

"Greetings, Master!"

"Explain everything that happened here from beginning to end."

Jiang Chuan's voice was devoid of emotion.

Yu Laosan knelt on the ground and confessed everything in a pouring manner.

From his words.

Jiang Chuan roughly figured out just how rotten Tiannan City had become.

Tiannan City relies on the sea for its livelihood, and blood algae are the lifeblood of the entire city.

But this is the lifeline.

It was cut off many years ago by the deputy city lord Ma Yuanhua and the Yu family.

Ma Yuanhua abused his power to forcibly seize the rights to cultivate blood algae in all coastal villages and bring them under unified management, with the Yu family responsible for the specific cultivation and sales.

Coastal fishermen?

They didn't care at all about the lives of a mere tens of thousands of people.

As for the profits generated from the blood algae, the Yu family took 60%, Ma Yuanhua took 30%, and the remaining 10% was used to bribe other officials in the city.

Over the past five years, the income from just one blood collection point in Bailang Village has been equivalent to half a year's tax revenue for Tiannan City.

Not a single penny of this money was used for the villagers, nor did it enter the federal fiscal system.

Wen Shiliang disappeared in Bailang Village because he found these accounts.

"Who did it?"

Jiang Chuan asked.

Yu Laosan's head was almost buried in the ground: "It was...it was Yu Fu, the steward of the Yu family. Deputy City Lord Ma knew in advance that City Lord Wen was coming to investigate the Blood Algae Field, so he asked Yu Fu to wait in the village in advance. That night, City Lord Wen left my house, got into Yu Fu's carriage, and never came back. I don't know where Yu Fu took him, or whether he is dead or alive."

Jiang Chuan didn't need to worry about whether Yu Laosan's words were true or not, unless there was another SSS-level talent in this small place who was good at contracts.

In the distance, the Blood Algae Sea churned with dark red waves in the sea breeze, and the setting sun was slowly sinking below the horizon.

The setting sun is like blood.

It dyed the entire shallow sea a dark, almost solidified, blackish-red color.

Jiang Chuan turned and walked back to the main hall of the mansion, sat down in the armchair, and Yu Laosan followed in with a bow, his face full of obsequiousness.

Where is Yu Fu now?

"Reporting to Master, Yu Fu usually stays at the Yu family mansion in the city and only comes to the village when it's time to collect debts each month."

Jiang Chuan nodded: "Go and summon everyone in Bailang Village who is connected to the Blood Algae Field right now. The person in charge of the blood collection point, the foreman of the harvesting team, the accountant, and all your guards. Anyone who has been involved in this business, without exception, bring them all to this courtyard."

Old Yu nodded and bowed hurriedly, "Yes! I'll go right away!"

Just as he turned to take a step, Jiang Chuan spoke again: "Send someone to invite Yu Fu as well. Tell him that Lord Wen's relics have been discovered in Bailang Village, and ask him to come and verify them."

Yu Laosan responded respectfully.

He quickly went out the door.

Moments later, figures began to appear on the village road.

The first to arrive were a few employees at the blood collection point. They were clearly unaware of what had happened and assumed that the village chief was just going through the motions when he came to see them. They walked into the yard chatting and laughing, only to be stunned when they saw the gate that had been kicked open.

Then came the foremen of the harvesting team, all of them burly and fierce-looking.

Then came the head of the accounting office, a skinny old man with a goatee, as thin as a bamboo pole, who came running in carrying two thick account books, his forehead covered in sweat.

At last.

It was a group of people personally led in by Yu Laosan.

Leading the way was a portly middle-aged man, dressed in a silk robe, with a fine jade thumb ring on his hand, and an air of haughty arrogance in his eyes.

His first words as he stepped into the courtyard were: "Third brother, where are Lord Wen's belongings? I'm telling you, we need to make sure these things are properly stored away. I heard a new city lord has been sent down from above, and things might not go well..."

Yu Fu stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, only then noticing that something was amiss in the atmosphere of the courtyard.

The mansion's main gate lay across the ground, wood chips were scattered everywhere, and there were obvious signs of a fight in the courtyard.

A young man he had never seen before was sitting on a grand chair in the main hall.

His face was as still as water.

The usually arrogant and domineering Third Master Yu was now standing beside the boy with his back bent, his posture ten times more submissive than when he usually saw the Old Master Yu.

Yu Fu stopped in his tracks, and the guards from the Yu family behind him also sensed something was wrong, and they all put their hands on the hilts of their swords.

"Third brother, who is this...?"

Yu Fu's voice was tentative.

Yu Laosan did not answer, but instead turned his gaze to Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan put down his teacup, stood up, walked to the entrance of the main hall, and slowly scanned the dozens of faces in the courtyard.

The courtyard fell silent as everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Yu Fu's gaze grew increasingly gloomy, his eyes slicing through Yu Laosan like knives, as if questioning him about what had happened.

"Is everyone here?"

Jiang Chuan spoke.

Old Yu nodded hurriedly: "Reporting to Master, everyone who could get there has arrived. There are a few people in town who weren't in the village today, and I've already sent someone to them..."

"Alright."

Jiang Chuan raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Owner?"

The moment Yu Fu heard this address, he realized something was wrong. He made a gesture with his hand hidden behind his back, signaling the guards to take action.

But the next second, a frost rose from Jiang Chuan's hand.

Click!

A burst of icy blue light suddenly erupted.

A ring of frost spread outwards from Jiang Chuan's feet, freezing a half-inch-thick layer of ice on the stone slabs in its path. The air instantly dropped below freezing, and the exhaled breath turned into white mist.

The dozens of people in the courtyard froze at the same moment, holding onto their last pose before death, all transformed into lifelike statues!

Jiang Chuan didn't waste any words dealing with these blood-stained beasts, nor did he need to waste any of them.

Only kill!