A master of both medicine and martial arts, he picked up a beautiful CEO as his wife.

Shang Zhi lost, but he didn't run away.

Severely injured, he lay on the ground, leaning against a broken stone pillar, panting heavily. His eyes, deep and unfathomable, never left Lin Yuqing's gaze. At that moment, there was no panic in his eyes that one should have when facing death, only a quietness that was almost a sense of relief—as if he had already done everything he needed to do in this life.

Ye Feng handed Lin Yuqing over to Shen Yu for protection, then walked step by step to Shang Zhi, looking down at him.

The wind on the mountaintop carried the stench of blood, passing between them.

"Where is the mastermind?" Ye Feng asked. "Who was the mastermind behind the murder of Lin's mother twenty years ago?"

Shang Zhi laughed, a bloodthirsty laugh.

"Dr. Ye, even if you kill me, you won't know." He gasped for breath. "I'm just a nail driven into this mountain by my master. Who is my master? Where is he? What does he look like? I really have no right to know."

Ye Feng's eyes instantly sharpened.

He crouched down, his battle-hardened eyes fixed on Shang Zhi, trying to find a flaw. He saw it: Shang Zhi wasn't lying. The master's net was closing in, layer by layer, each layer only knowing what happened within that layer. Shang Zhi was truly a pawn discarded by the master, not even qualified to reveal his true identity; the master couldn't bear to part with him!

"However," Shang Zhi suddenly changed the subject, a strange and almost pious expression appearing on his pale face, "before my master left, he left me a message, telling me to pass it on to that girl!"

Ye Feng was startled: "What did you say?"

In that instant, an extremely terrifying and ominous premonition rose in Ye Feng's heart for no apparent reason.

Shang Zhi's gaze gradually shifted to Lin Yuqing, and he spoke very clearly, word by word, "Go back and tell her about that girl..."

"What she has, I've waited twenty years for!"

"This time, no one can stop us!"

Each of those three sentences was spoken with great weight, like cold stones falling into the wind on a mountaintop. Ye Feng felt as if those words had struck him, and then slowly descended down his spine.

After uttering his last words, Shang Zhi's last remaining breath vanished completely. Ye Feng's heart trembled violently, and as he prepared to step forward to stop him, he saw black blood seeping from the corner of Shang Zhi's mouth. His head tilted back, and he breathed his last. Shang Zhi's body had been secretly protected by his master with a "silencing" technique. After uttering those words, his death was imminent.

Shang Zhi was merely a tool for conveying messages from beginning to end. Once he delivered the message to the other party, he lost his purpose. How ruthless his master was! He even calculated his last breath with such precision.

The wire broke!

But those warm words left a deep imprint on everyone's hearts. On the summit of Nirvana Mountain, the clouds surged and all was silent.

The howling wind swept past the ruined mountain gate, broken pillars, and corpses.

The world is so vast that it suddenly makes one feel very lonely and afraid.

Lin Yuqing stood next to Shen Yu, and upon hearing those words, her face turned as pale as snow.

She glanced at Ye Feng subconsciously, her usually bright eyes filled with panic and helplessness for the first time.

"Waited for twenty years"—it turns out that they had been watching her since she was born.

From the moment she was born, there was a pair of eyes watching her for a full twenty years!

Ye Feng walked back to her side and hugged her tightly.

"Did you hear that?" He looked at the cloud deep within the main peak to the north, his voice soft, each syllable spoken with force, "He said, no one can stop him."

"I'll stop him!"

In this battle, Ye Feng severely injured Shang Zhi, pulled out the nail that his master had driven into Nirvana Mountain, and achieved a huge turning point—hidden meridians have been opened, the method to cure the death calamity is in sight, the aura of the combined meridians has been enhanced by another level, and the "compressible cycle number" that was burned down to only two or three in the previous battle with Shang Zhi has also been increased back to five or six by this progress... From the dozen or so at the beginning, to the five or six left after the battle of Zhiwei Pavilion, to the two or three that were almost exhausted, and now there are five or six again, Ye Feng will calculate this clearly.

This is also the first time in over a year that he has raised the "account" of the death calamity a bit.

However, the price he paid was that he uncovered a truth even older and more terrifying than the Deathly Calamity.

The danger had shifted entirely onto Ye Feng, and was expanding infinitely.

Before, when Ye Feng's life and death were at stake, she was behind him; now, the chessboard has been disrupted, and the direction the knife points is towards this unsuspecting woman in his arms... This exchange weighs heavily on Ye Feng's heart.

"Junior brother!" Shen Yu walked over, his face full of worry. "Although Shang Zhi has retreated, the master has more than just this one thorn in our side on this mountain. There is a 'core inheritance' deeper in the hidden veins, which Master has not found either. Nirvana Mountain is extremely deep."

"I know." He nodded, his eyes filled with murderous intent and scheming. "But today is not a good day to linger. Yuqing just experienced a loss of control due to pure Yin energy. We need to go back to Dongyang first and let her settle down for a few days."

He lowered his head and glanced at Lin Yuqing, whom he was holding in his arms. Her wisp of pure yin had just completely gone out of control. Although it was being forcibly suppressed by the Meridian Harmony, it was still in a precarious state. This mountain was a blessed place for her, but it was more like a trap that could provoke pure yin again at any time.

He knew in his heart that the problem of meridian fusion could be temporarily resolved, so Lin Yuqing no longer needed to protect him closely.

What about Dongyang? Zhu Wanqing is there, Lin Zhenshan is watching over things, and Boss Zhou is helping her pull strings. It's the perfect time for her, as the president, to go back and solidify the alliance and stabilize the rear!

He, on the other hand, had to quickly unravel the mess at Nirvana Mountain in order to make all the necessary preparations for his actual entry into the mountain.

"Let's go back to Dongyang!" Ye Feng said, watching Lin Yu rush into his arms. "Let's sort things out here, and then we'll go back."

"The secrets of this mountain, your secrets, the whereabouts of our master, the roots of our master..."

He gazed at the main peak of the mountain, where the sea of ​​clouds and the mystery of her life's events were hidden. "I will unravel it all for you sooner or later."

Nestled in his arms, Lin Yuqing gazed at the mountain before her, which seemed to swallow the sea of ​​clouds and hold the secrets of her entire past. The fear in her heart gradually subsided in Ye Feng's embrace.

She is no longer a little girl who is only protected by others and knows nothing about her own destiny!

She carries a thousand-year-old promise, a twenty-year-old blood feud, and a secret that drives the entire hidden world mad...

But she had someone with her.

That's Ye Feng.

A man who says, "Even if the sky falls, I'll hold it up for you!"

The mountain wind howled, and the sea of ​​clouds churned.

Beneath that sea of ​​clouds, at the foot of the main peak, something seems to be hidden, silently watching them from behind a thousand-foot-high stone wall, slumbering and waiting for something.

Standing atop Nirvana Mountain, gazing upon the boundless world before them, the three understood:

The events in Dongyang were just the beginning; the real storm was yet to come, along with the true secrets of Nirvana Mountain and the real mastermind hiding behind a twenty-year-old feud…

They were all waiting for them deep in the mountains!

The story of Ye Feng and Lin Yuqing has only just begun!