World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 82 - 82 79 Lanling's Cruelty Heading to the Meeting!

82: Chapter 79: Lanling’s Cruelty, Heading to the Meeting!

82: Chapter 79: Lanling’s Cruelty, Heading to the Meeting!

Hearing the urgent knocking outside, the Suo Family’s gatekeeper samurai said, “Who is it?

My master is not seeing visitors today.”

“Open the door quickly, I have an urgent matter to discuss with Suo Lun, if we’re too late it will be too late,” the middle-aged man outside said frantically.

This man had handsome features, especially his meticulously groomed mustache which added to his charm.

However, he looked quite pitiable at the moment, with his clothing torn to shreds and his face a mosaic of blue and purple bruises indicative of a beating, and his hair in disarray.

Ye Jingyu stepped forward and asked, “Who is the visitor?”

“I am Lord Yi Kai,” the disheveled middle-aged man said, “My daughter Yi Yun is your master’s lover, and now she has been kidnapped.

If I don’t come up with three hundred gold coins, they will violate her.”

It was this bastard again.

Last time he had accumulated a gambling debt of nine hundred gold coins and had wanted to leave his daughter at the gambling house as collateral, but it was Suo Lun who took on the debt for him.

Now, he was trying the same trick again.

“Get lost…” Ye Jingyu said coldly.

Lord Yi Kai wailed, “Out of consideration for my daughter’s relationship with Suo Lun, please save her.

It’s just three hundred gold coins, three hundred gold coins.”

“Get lost…” Ye Jingyu repeated the phrase.

“Wait, let him in,” Lanling appeared.

Ye Jingyu said, “Don’t, this is their trick.”

Lanling said, “Let him in.”

The door opened and Lord Yi Kai rushed in, clutching Lanling’s leg and said, “A married couple owes a hundred days of grace; for the sake of past kindness, save Yi Yun.

If you give them three hundred gold coins, they will release her.”

Lanling squatted down and said, “Uncle, there’s something I want to tell you.”

“Say it, just say it,” Lord Yi Kai said eagerly.

“If you’re going to swindle someone, can’t you choose someone else to swindle?

Why always target me?

Am I that foolish that you’ve singled me out to swindle?” Lanling said.

“It’s true, it’s the truth, I’m not lying to you,” Lord Yi Kai said, “If we don’t pay the three hundred gold coins to redeem her, Yi Yun will lose her innocence.

Just redeem her and from then on she will be yours.”

Lanling didn’t respond to his pleas but instead asked, “Did they beat you up?”

“Um,” Lord Yi Kai said miserably.

“How pitiful, they broke both of your hands,” Lanling said.

Lord Yi Kai was taken aback, his hands were not broken, he had just been hit elsewhere.

At that moment, Lanling suddenly pressed both of his hands to the ground and said to Ye Jingyu, “Crush all five fingers on both of his hands.”

Upon hearing this, Lord Yi Kai trembled violently and tried to flee, but Lanling held him down firmly.

Ye Jingyu, wearing boots, stomped down hard on his ten fingers.

“Crack…” In an instant, all ten of his fingers, which had caused his family such harm, were broken and fractured.

Lord Yi Kai first trembled, then let out a thunderous wail.

Raising his hands and seeing his ten disfigured fingers, he screamed again, more heart-wrenchingly than before.

“Remember, it was the gambling house that broke these, not me,” Lanling said, “I don’t care about your gambling.

I don’t care if you pawn your daughter.

But when you lose money and they send you to harm me, that’s wrong.

You’ve already harmed me once before, resulting in your ten fingers being broken—consider that debt cancelled.

If there’s a next time, I’ll castrate you and send you off to the Southern Barbarians to be ravaged.

I’ll do exactly as I say.”

At these words, Lord Yi Kai shrank back sharply.

Indeed, after losing money this time, people from the gambling house had indeed instructed him to lure Suo Lun to the gambling house to settle his debts.

Of course, he knew that someone wanted to harm Suo Lun, but to settle his gambling debt, he had come once again.

He hadn’t expected Suo Lun to be no longer as naive as last time, becoming so fierce.

If he were really sent off to the Southern Barbarians, he would indeed be unable to live nor die as he wished.

“Do you understand?” Lanling asked.

Lord Yi Kai, his face contorted with pain, nodded vigorously.

“Then, get lost,” Lanling said.

Lord Yi Kai stumbled out and ran away as fast as he could.

Ye Jingyu said, “They’ll still use tactics after this.”

Lanling nodded and said, “Zhi Ning thinks that my weak point is women.

Yi Yun was the first, next he might go after Ye Feidie and Tutor Niya.

That night, when we entered the city in the middle of the night, it would have been easy for Zhi Ning to figure out that it was Ye Feidie who helped us.”

“According to your orders, after returning home last night, I immediately went to find Ye Feidie and told her to leave the royal city right away,” Ye Jingyu said, “But as for Tutor Niya, I really had no way to intervene.

She is at Marquis Jian Yong’s mansion.”

Lanling said, “I hope Zhi Ning is not so deranged as to strike at Tutor Niya.”

But…

Just a quarter of an hour later, a strange middle-aged man came to knock on the door of Count Tianshui’s mansion.

“My master is not seeing guests today,” the gatekeeper samurai said.

The middle-aged man spoke with cultured grace, “I am from Marquis Jian Yong’s mansion.

Last night, Lady Niya suddenly fell seriously ill.

Now, her life is hanging by a thread, and she wishes to see Lord Suo Lun for one last time.”

As soon as these words were spoken, both Suo Lun and Ye Jingyu’s expressions changed drastically.

They had not expected Zhi Ning to be so bereft of a baseline.

Yesterday, Niya, as an art examination invigilator, had been stricken with a sudden severe illness and expelled from the board of invigilators for opposing Zhi Ning’s suppression of Suo Lun.

Now, this so-called severe illness was threatening her life?

And Jian Ning, as Tutor Niya’s husband, was actually using his wife’s life to set a trap for Suo Lun.

Even Principal Jian Yong, an esteemed figure, had stooped to such despicable lows.

“Don’t go, this is another conspiracy,” Ye Jingyu exclaimed in alarm.

“Of course, whether to go or not is entirely up to Lord Suo Lun’s wishes.

I shall take my leave now,” said the middle-aged man.

Then, he left directly.

“Suo Lun, don’t go,” Ye Jingyu said.

“This is a plot by Zhi Ning.

Once you arrive at Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion, Niya’s husband, Jian Ning, will break your hands because you had an affair with his wife.

It will seem perfectly justified for him to do so.”

“You’re right, that is indeed their intention,” Lanling nodded.

“But the so-called severe illness of Niya is also true.

Someone has really poisoned her, creating the illusion of a serious disease.

If I don’t go, they will truly let Niya die.”

At these words, Ye Jingyu’s face turned completely pale.

Without a doubt, the other party would indeed do such a thing at a crucial moment.

“Jian Ning and Jian Yong are nothing but beasts,” Ye Jingyu hissed through gritted teeth.

Lanling said, “For power, some people are willing to do anything.

What’s the death of a wife to them?”

Ye Jingyu asked, “Could it be that the Suo Family will just sit by and do nothing?”

Lanling said, “Niya has already brought shame to her family by being caught in an affair with a student.”

Ye Jingyu bit her jade teeth and said, “I really wish I could tear those beasts to pieces.”

Taking a deep breath, Ye Jingyu said, “Even so, you still can’t go.

If you insist on going, I’ll go to the chanting hall and call Miss out.”

Lanling said, “Don’t worry, I have a plan, and I’m just about to go find Sister.”

Then, he said to one of the family samurai, “Go tell Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion that I will rush over before nightfall and ask them not to act so rashly.”

“You mustn’t go,” Ye Jingyu said.

“Otherwise, let’s go find Duke Zhi Ting and have him intervene.”

Lanling asked, “Do you think Jian Yong would listen to Zhi Ting?”

Indeed, a high noble like Jian Yong, filled with the desire for power and the principal of the royal academy, would never listen to a profligate Duke like Zhi Ting.

Lanling said, “I know that once I enter Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion, Jian Ning will break my limbs.

And the other party is not afraid at all that I know this fact.

But they are using Niya’s life to coerce me; if I don’t go, Niya will die.”

Moreover, Jian Ning is the youngest Dragon Samurai, with martial skills more than a hundred times better than Lanling’s, and could easily cripple Lanling without effort.

Ye Jingyu trembled with anger, unable to imagine how someone could be so vile and malicious.

“Villainy is the pass of the vile, and nobility is the motto of the noble,” Lanling said.

“Although I am not a noble person, Tutor Niya has favored us, and we cannot just watch her fade away.”

Having said that, Lanling turned and walked into Earl’s Mansion’s chanting hall to find his sister, Suo Ningbing, who was praying there.

…

Eight hours later, protected by Ye Jingyu, Lanling left Earl’s Mansion and boarded a carriage to Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion.

Around the carriage, a total of thirty Suo Family samurai were on guard.

Half an hour later, Lanling arrived outside Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion.

Marquis Jian Yong’s title was conferred by the royal family, so even though it was a marquisate, his mansion was not as large as Earl Tian Shui’s, but it was closer to the royal palace, signifying a higher status.

At that moment, the gates of Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion were open, with people constantly coming in and out, seemingly in a great rush.

Moreover, doctors were often seen exiting the mansion, looking utterly dejected.

Lanling stepped forward and said, “Please inform your master that Suo Lun has come.”

At once, a family guard gave him a cold glance and coldly said, “Only you may enter.

The others will wait outside.”

“No,” Ye Jingyu stepped forward and said.

“I must go in with my master.”

“Then, I’m sorry, but there’s no need for Suo Lun to enter either,” said the family guard, then he turned his face away.

“If he won’t enter, then all the better,” Ye Jingyu would prefer Lanling not to go in.

Lanling smiled at her and said, “Wait for me outside.”

Ye Jingyu was shocked and said, “Don’t.”

“Don’t worry, I assure you nothing will happen.

Not only will I come out unscathed, but I will also give Jian Ning, that beast, a good slap in the face,” Lanling said to Ye Jingyu, then he turned and walked into the Mansion.

The family guard gave a faintly vicious smile, while Ye Jingyu’s face turned deathly pale, as if the marquis’ mansion were truly like entering a lair of tigers and wolves.

…

Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion was indeed putting on a convincing performance.

The entire mansion’s atmosphere was like the oppressive clouds before a storm, with numerous doctors and healers coming in and out, and medical scents seemed to linger everywhere.

All the servants inside the mansion walked without making a sound, their faces were solemn and somewhat panicked.

In short, they wanted to show everyone that Marquis Jian Yong’s Mansion was going all out to save Lady Niya.

Following the lead of that family guard in front, Lanling came to the rear courtyard of the Mansion, and from a distance, he could smell a strong scent of medicine.

“Waste, you’re all waste!

If you can’t cure my wife, I’ll kill you all!” The sound of a man’s raging voice came from inside, sounding like a wounded beast.

This must be Niya’s husband, Jian Ning, who was really good at acting.

“Young Marquis, Young Master Suo Lun has arrived,” said the family guard from outside.