NOVEL NEXT Chapter 100: Planning
Ling Feng said coldly, "Does it matter if you care about Tang Xiaomei now? Whether she's doing well or not, what can you do about it?"
"Tell me! I beg you!" Tang Tianxing coughed out a mouthful of blood, his gaze pleading as he asked, "How is she... how is she now!"
"Dead!" Ling Feng said coldly.
"Impossible!" Tang Tianxing was stunned, then started shouting frantically, "You're lying to me, you must be lying! Xiaomei would never die, it must have been the people from Tang Sect who persecuted her! I won't forgive you!"
Ling Feng sneered, "Tsk tsk, it's really unexpected, you're still so unrepentant until now! After you stole the Heavenly Scroll of Hidden Weapons that year, you were pursued by the Tang Sect, but did you ever wonder why the pursuers changed their direction halfway through and let you escape?"
Tang Tianxing, struck as if by a heavy blow, said, "You mean..."
"That's right, halfway through, it was Tang Xiaomei who led the pursuing team away. Otherwise, you would have been captured long ago!" Ling Feng said in a cold voice.
"Impossible, I had already drugged Xiaomei into unconsciousness before I took action!"
"Drug a member of Tang Sect unconscious? Are you sure you aren't telling a joke?"
Ling Feng continued, "That year, Tang Xiaomei led the pursuers away for your sake, but she didn't know that what you stole was a Tang Sect treasure! So when the truth was revealed, Tang Xiaomei was filled with infinite regret. Although the people from Tang Sect didn't punish her too harshly, she died of depression a few years later.
If anyone caused the death of Tang Xiaomei, that person is you, Tang Tianxing!"
Tang Tianxing's eyes lost their focus, he hadn't expected things to turn out this way!
"It was me who caused the death of Xiaomei, it was me who caused the death of Xiaomei!" Tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, "All of this was karma I created myself!"
Suddenly, as if remembering something, he looked at Ling Feng with a hopeful gaze, "My flesh and blood, is my flesh and blood still at Tang Sect?"
"Sadly, you don't have any offspring in the Tang Family," Ling Feng said indifferently, "What I said before was merely a lie to shake your spirit!"
"No?" Unexpectedly, Tang Tianxing calmed down, "No is also good, at least he won't have to suffer exclusion and resentment for having such a father! No is also good, no is also good indeed!"
As time passed, the life in Tang Tianxing's body also gradually faded away. He looked at Ling Feng and said, "I can't disclose my mastermind, but I can tell you that the man who contacted me at that time was a man named Xiao, and his power had already reached A-level peak!
Moreover, from bits and pieces of his conversation, I know that not only the Tang Sect's secret manual was their goal, but many secret manuals from hidden families were also their targets! That's all I can tell you."
Ling Feng's eyebrows slightly furrowed, "An A-level expert called Xiao? This matter doesn't seem simple!"
Tang Tianxing looked at the white clouds in the sky, as if in a trance, he seemed to see the woman with the clever gaze beckoning to him!
"Xiaomei, wait for me, I'm coming to join you!"
"Forget it, let the people of Tang Sect worry about this matter!" Ling Feng looked down and saw that Tang Tianxing's breath had already ceased, his life had ended.
Although afflicted by the White Bone Needle, to kill an A-level expert with a momentary backlash of spirit was a method Ling Feng had truly never heard of.
The situation was about to get more interesting!
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In Qingshui Villa, Lei Lingfeng had been waiting for a full two hours. The banquet had ended, but there was still no sign of Tang Tianxing's return.
This made Lei Lingfeng feel uneasy. Tang Tianxing was the most powerful force under his command. If something had happened to Tang Tianxing, his own power would be greatly diminished!
"Boss!" At that moment, Situ Wushui entered with a grave expression and whispered into Lei Lingfeng's ear, "Boss, something has happened to Tianxing!"
At the Yanjing headquarters of the United Hearts Gang, Lei Lingfeng looked at Tang Tianxing's corpse, bleeding from the seven orifices, his face extremely grim.
Dead! Tang Tianxing was actually dead! And his death was so ghastly!
"Who exactly is this Ling Feng!" Lei Lingfeng said with a dark voice, "He's so young, how could he possibly kill Tianxing? Even if Tianxing couldn't defeat him, escaping should have been certain!"
Situ Wushui said calmly, "Boss, I've carefully examined Tianxing's wounds and found that the fatal injury originated from within! Although his shoulder was hit by a White Bone Needle, his brain seemed to be impacted as if by a blow. I think besides Ling Feng and Tianxing, there must have been a third person present!"
Lei Lingfeng took a few deep breaths, then said, "Wushui, what's your analysis?"
Situ Wushui said seriously, "One thing we need to ascertain now is Ling Feng's current condition! If Ling Feng shows no abnormalities, it means the third party is with Ling Feng! It could be the backing of the sect behind Ling Feng, or the worst possibility!"
"The worst possibility?"
"Yes, that is, those above us have become aware of our plan, and it's very likely that the person who killed Tianxing is a master from the Dragon Group!"
This statement deeply unsettled Lei Lingfeng. Given Situ Wushui's analysis, he was more inclined to believe the latter option.
In Yanjing, the very seat of the emperor, who else but the Dragon Group could possess the strength to kill an A-class master and block any chance of escape?
"If the Dragon Group really has got wind of it, we must slow down our plans!" Lei Lingfeng said slowly, "You know as well as I do, once those above us get wind of this, we'll have nowhere to bury ourselves!"
Situ Wushui nodded, "That may be so, but we can't just put all plans on hold, can we? That would be too devastating a loss for us!"
"No matter, accelerate the core plans, continue the arrangements on the periphery, and just pause the intermediate links!" Lei Lingfeng said indifferently, "For now, leave the peripheral matters to Ling Xiao!"
"Hand it over to him? Is that appropriate?" Situ Wushui asked with some concern, "With his strength, is he really up to the task?"
"I have faith in him!" Lei Lingfeng said coldly, "He managed to lead us into his plan without our noticing; Ling Xiao isn't as naive as you think! And do you think when he was trying to win over Ling Feng in front of us today, he truly wanted to enlist him?"
"Ling Feng would never agree to his entreaty; he's well aware of that! But he still went ahead with it, intending to show us Ling Feng's arrogance. Only then would we, in the interest of maintaining the United Hearts Gang's authority, take action against Ling Feng!" Lei Lingfeng said calmly, "His scheme is cunning, but not difficult to see through!"
"If Tianxing were unharmed, I wouldn't care! But now, Tianxing has lost his life over this, and that debt, let Ling Xiao pay it first!" Lei Lingfeng said with a cold voice.