Nemesis of Noble Houses

The car door closed, shutting out the noise of the outside world.

Chu Lintian's fingers tightened around the steering wheel. Through the rearview mirror, she saw that the building behind them was now completely devoid of life.

"The people inside..."

Her voice was a little dry.

"They're all dead."

Ning Qingcheng's reply was casual, as if she were talking about the most ordinary thing in the world.

The peculiarly shaped Heaven-Rending Arrow vanished into thin air from her hand, stored back into that secret space known to no one else.

She skillfully fastened her seatbelt, sat securely in the passenger seat, and turned her head to look at the mountain scenery outside the window.

It was as if the decisive, lethal killer from moments ago wasn't her.

When dealing with Situ Dingyi previously, Lin Mo already knew that this disciple of his had no psychological burden when it came to killing people.

That being the case, he wouldn't need to do it himself.

He couldn't just keep Ning Qingcheng from taking action forever. He was teaching a disciple, not raising a flower in a greenhouse.

Chu Lintian's throat bobbed, but she ultimately said nothing. She simply shifted her gaze away from this girl who looked a full zodiac cycle younger than her, and started the car.

The car fell into silence for a time, with only the low hum of the engine.

Ning Qingcheng was also sizing up the woman beside her.

She had met Chu Miaomiao and felt that Chu Miaomiao and Chu Lintian shared some resemblance.

But she didn't ask out loud.

After both of them received Lin Mo's message, they had set off immediately.

One didn't ask who she was picking up, and the other didn't ask whose car she was taking.

Regardless, once they got in the car and reached the location, everything was resolved.

Right at that moment, Ning Qingcheng's phone rang without warning, though the screen displayed no caller ID.

But Ning Qingcheng knew who it was and casually answered.

"Hello!"

"As a girl, could you be a little more polite when answering the phone?"

"Senior Brother, I just killed people, how can I be polite?" Ning Qingcheng curled her lips.

The caller was naturally Lin Mo, though he didn't need a phone; he only needed to use his divine sense to connect to a cell tower to make a direct call.

To outsiders, it would be impossible to even tell he was on a call.

Chu Lintian glanced at Ning Qingcheng but remained silent.

"You can still be polite after killing people. You're heading back now, right?"

"Yep. Is Tianjing fun?"

"Not really. There's a lot of rotten meat inside the Yanhuang Awakening. As long as everything is fine on your end, that's good. I can't be bothered to make a trip back." Lin Mo's voice carried a hint of disgust.

"Alright, I don't really have much of an impression of Tianjing anyway."

"Then how about I bring you a bowl of Douzhi to jog your memory?"

Ning Qingcheng watched the streetlights flash by outside the window, then hung up the phone.

This kind of Senior Brother has gone bad, time to throw him away.

However, the atmosphere eased up significantly during these few exchanges.

Finally, Ning Qingcheng looked at Chu Lintian.

"Are you Sister Miaomiao's... older sister?"

"I'm her mother."

"!"

Seeing Ning Qingcheng's expression as if she had just seen a ghost, Chu Lintian added a clarification.

"To be exact, I'm her aunt."

"Oh!" Ning Qingcheng let out a long sigh of relief and patted her chest.

So that was it.

"I'm Lin Mo's junior sister. My name is Ning Qingcheng."

"I'm Chu Lintian."

System: I am the System.

As for Lin Mo's side, things were naturally far from over.

Under the Soul Search, the memories of Chai Tianrong's entire life were presented page by page in Lin Mo's mind, like a filthy ledger that had been forcefully ripped open.

How many secrets could one person have?

How many secrets would a person in a high position, secretly manipulating countless deals, have?

The answer was bottomless.

It was a quagmire built on desire, betrayal, and blood. There were so many dirty secrets that Lin Mo felt uprooting a family like the Chais from top to bottom would be considered purifying the air.

The expression on Lin Mo's face didn't change much, but his already calm eyes now seemed to be covered in a thin layer of ice.

He didn't immediately declare the Chai family's crimes, but instead turned his gaze to Dongfang Shuye beside him.

Dongfang Shuye's heart skipped a beat, keenly sensing that something was wrong with Lin Mo's eyes.

He frowned. "What is it?"

"Nothing."

Lin Mo's tone was very flat, so flat that it was unnerving. "I just saw some interesting things in his memories. For example, a man named Dongfang Gushuo is still alive."

Boom!

Dongfang Gushuo!

This name was like a heavy hammer smashing fiercely against Dongfang Shuye's heart.

His cousin! The cousin who had been missing for three whole years!

Dongfang Shuye's breath suddenly hitched. He stared fixedly at Lin Mo, practically squeezing the words through his teeth: "Where is he?"

"The Chai family's basement."

Without pausing, Lin Mo continued to drop names one by one in that completely emotionless tone.

"Along with him are He Xun, Han Yichen, and Ni Guan."

With every name, Dongfang Shuye's face grew a shade paler.

These people were all recorded as missing members of the Yanhuang Awakening!

The reason they were classified as missing rather than sacrificed was that the internal life-monitoring technology of the Yanhuang Awakening showed their vital signs had not completely vanished.

Alive without a person, dead without a corpse. For the past few years, this had been a thorn in the hearts of the relevant persons in charge.

Who could have imagined that they were actually imprisoned by the Chai family?

"Why?" Dongfang Shuye's voice trembled.

"To protect the secret of the Chai family's treason and collusion with foreign enemies," Lin Mo stated the root cause indifferently, as if remarking that the weather was nice today.

This answer was even more chilling than the imprisonment itself.

Dongfang Shuye's chest heaved violently, and his hand shook as he pulled out his phone. He had to notify Director Long of this earth-shattering news immediately!

However, a hand gently pressed down on his wrist.

It was Lin Mo.

"No rush."

Lin Mo shook his head. "Wiping them all out at once is always more interesting than taking them apart piece by piece. Since the Chai family has stuck their own necks out, I'll borrow their heads to establish my dominance."

The meaning behind these words couldn't be clearer.

Lin Mo didn't believe that these deeply entrenched families in Tianjing were clean. He needed a sacrifice of sufficient weight to show everyone an attitude:

I really am bold enough to kill you all.

The Chai family perfectly met this requirement.

Dongfang Shuye calmed down, thinking much further ahead.

The Chai family's treason was an enormous matter, so massive that he didn't even know how to handle it.

Every top-tier noble family was like a century-old tree, with roots spreading across every domain. If forcefully uprooted, the entirety of Tianjing would quake.

What was even more troublesome was that there were also people from the Chai family within the Yanhuang Awakening.

Once the Yanhuang Awakening officially made a move and the news leaked, that bunch from the Chai family would definitely fight to the bitter end.

The precedent set by the Ning family was still vivid in his mind.

His fear was that the Chai family would directly target ordinary people.

Looking at the calm man before him, a ridiculous thought suddenly popped into Dongfang Shuye's mind.

It had been less than a year, yet the two top-tier noble families in Tianjing, the Ning family and the Chai family, had successively met their downfall because of him.

Was this guy some sort of bane to noble families, the reincarnation of Huang Chao?