My Silly, Sweet Wife

The attendant laughed so hard he bent over backward and rolled on the ground, unable to stop.

"What's happening to me, what is this!" he screamed amidst the laughter, but the sound clearly contained no joy.

Ye Guichen said, "I've merely activated your laughter acupoint. It's nothing, but if you don't confess honestly, you won't need to wait for your boss; you'll laugh yourself to death."

Hearing this, the attendant turned pale with fright, clinging to the iron cage and kneeling on the ground, laughing while pleading, "I beg you, what do you want to know? I'll tell you everything!"

"You just want to know who my boss is, don't you? I'll tell you!"

"His name is Shi Wan, an Outer Sect Disciple of the Medicine King Valley. I don't know much more than that."

"I...I'm just working for him, that's all."

"Really, truly, please spare me."

As the attendant spoke, his strength waned, and his laughter began to fade.

Ye Guichen completely ignored the attendant.

The laughter didn't last five minutes before the attendant fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, with only outgoing breaths left.

After a while, the attendant laughed himself to death, his face still twisted in a maniacal smile at his last moments.

Ye Guichen seemed as if he hadn't seen it at all.

This matter unexpectedly implicated the Medicine King Valley.

What are they capturing these children and girls for?

Could it be that the Medicine King Valley set up a clinic here in Quanzhou not only for the so-called Spiritual Spring?

While Ye Guichen was contemplating, Gongsun Fengying had already opened the cages imprisoning the girls.

Originally wanting to ask the girls some questions, Gongsun Fengying discovered that all the girls had their tongues cut out, an act too cruel to bear seeing.

"A bunch of beasts!"

Gongsun Fengying was filled with indignation: "These people have lost all decency; dying a hundred times wouldn't be enough!"

Ye Guichen also hadn't expected such cruelty, patting Gongsun Fengying's shoulder: "Someone's coming outside."

Gongsun Fengying was taken aback, gestured for the girls to keep silent, and pricked up her ears to listen.

Outside, indeed, voices were coming through.

"Damn it, what is Lao Liu doing? Leaving the basement door open?"

"Boss, let's go check it out. I peeked earlier, Brother Hao and the others up front have all been taken down, damn it, and there's one guy who looks like a Taoist from the Heavenly Master Tao."

"What? How did a Taoist from the Heavenly Master Tao get involved?"

"Don't know. Last time during the Spiritual Spring excavation, I saw the guy once on Qingcheng Mountain, although he wore plain clothes, it couldn't be wrong; he seemed to be called Zhang Changhe."

"How's his cultivation?"

"Seems ordinary, but don't know about his Taoist skills. Boss, what do we do?"

"First, let's check the basement; if need be, just kill that Taoist called Zhang Changhe, and dispose of the body. Even if Heavenly Master Tao investigates, we deny everything. It's a big deal tonight; if messed up, we're in deep trouble."

As they spoke, footsteps approached.

Ye Guichen signaled Gongsun Fengying not to act rashly, hiding in the dark himself.

In a short time, three people came into the basement.

One of them shouted roughly, "Lao Liu, what's going on? Are you messing with women again?"

Before the words fell, a figure rushed forward.

The person's expression changed, but before he could utter a sound, Ye Guichen knocked him out with a chop.

The other two, sensing danger, started to turn and run.

But Ye Guichen, moving rapidly, grabbed them both with one hand each, tossing them into two open iron cages.

These two seemed to be cultivators, possibly reaching the second-rate level, but in Ye Guichen's hands, they were no different from ordinary people.

They had no room to resist.

By the time they reacted, they were already locked in the cages.

"Who are you!"

The two were petrified, seeing the attendant lying dead with a maniacal smile, their sweat turned cold.

"Who is the boss?"

Ye Guichen wasted no words, scanning the two of them.

One of them, who seemed to be just over thirty, had a crew cut and an air of menace: "Who the hell are you? What do you want?"

Ye Guichen smirked coldly, stepping into another cage, reached out to grab the throat of another man, lifted him to the cage, and gently squeezed, breaking his neck.

The speaker's expression changed; he hadn't expected Ye Guichen to be so ruthless, killing without hesitation.

"What do you want? Speak your terms, there's no need for this!" The crew cut spoke with a trembling voice.

Ye Guichen walked out of the cage, standing outside the crew cut's cage: "Are you from the Medicine King Valley?"

The crew-cut man hesitated, glancing warily at his companion before nodding: "Yes."

"Are those children and girls also bought by you for the Medicine King Valley?" Ye Guichen's voice was icy, devoid of emotion.

The crew cut swallowed hard, replying with difficulty, "Yes."

"Why?"

Ye Guichen couldn't comprehend why Medicine King Valley, supposedly healing others, would do such heinous things.

The crew cut realized if he didn't speak today, he might not escape alive. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "I... I don't know the exact reason. I'm just an Outer Sect Disciple doing work for the Medicine King Valley. But I've heard they're researching the Path of Eternal Life, and the blood from these children and girls can extend life. But I'm not sure, really don't know. Please, don't kill me."

"The Path of Eternal Life?" Gongsun Fengying's face turned grim: "Your Medicine King Valley treats the sick, so why use such methods to pursue the Path of Eternal Life?"

The crew-cut man had a look of despair: "I... I really don't know; I'm just an errand boy, not even an Inner Sect Disciple. Please spare me."

Ye Guichen realized he couldn't get more answers but felt this was likely tied to the Eternal Life Hall.

After all, the timing matched too well with the appearance of the Eternal Life Hall.

And Ye Guichen knew such evil practices existed, using blood exchange to gain life.

Like when he was in the Jinling Prince Mansion, Ye Guichen used King Yan's blood to save Jinling King, who not only had his cultivation surge but also looked noticeably younger.

But while King Yan is a villain, Medicine King Valley uses innocent children for such things.

"It seems this matter is too widespread; Captain Gongsun, you'd better go to the Daoist sects and seek help." Ye Guichen instructed.

Gongsun Fengying was puzzled, "What do you intend to do?"

Ye Guichen pondered, "Since they have a major deal tonight, many people will surely come, so we'll capture them all. But I'm worried some might slip through, so it's urgent to seek assistance from the Heavenly Master Tao and have them send some people for a preemptive setup."