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

Li Tianhao's attempt to frame Ye Feng was exposed in the street, and he ended up losing everything.

After returning home, Officer Qian, who had used the money as a substitute for a knife, became increasingly fearful. He decided to go all in and investigate the person who had made the report. Several leads he uncovered all pointed to the Li family.

Officer Qian was startled and quickly pushed this hot potato away, not wanting to ruin his future for the sake of Li's third master's personal grudge.

This time, it wasn't just Third Master Li Tianhao who was alarmed.

In the main house of the Li family, in a small room where sandalwood incense is burned year-round, sits an old man with white hair but a very imposing presence.

Li family patriarch: Li Chongshan

This old man is the one who truly commands the Li family, a figure whom everyone in Dongyang fears.

Li Chongshan rarely shows his face, but in all the major and minor power struggles in Dongyang over the years, eight out of ten will involve his little house.

After hearing Li Tianhao's dejected report, he remained silent for a long time, slowly turning the oily sandalwood prayer beads in his hand.

The ticking sound of the prayer beads turning sent chills down his spine in the quiet little room.

"A bodyguard." After a long while, the old man slowly spoke, his voice not loud, but it carried the air of someone who had long held a high position and could decide life and death.

Li Tianhao broke out in a cold sweat and knelt down with a thud. "Father is angry. This guy is no ordinary person. He's incredibly skilled, seems to know medicine, and has some connections. Son... son underestimated this child."

"Medicine? Connections?" Li Chongshan squinted, a sharp glint flashing in his somewhat cloudy eyes. "A young man from who-knows-where, who possesses both martial arts skills and medical knowledge, and who can mobilize so many connections and relationships at crucial moments… this person shouldn't be an unknown figure!"

He hesitated for a moment before asking, "Have you investigated his background? Where did he come from?"

"I've checked," Li Tianhao said with a pained expression, "but this kid seems to have vanished into thin air. He only showed up in Dongyang half a month ago, and we know nothing about him before that. It seems there's a place that used to be connected to him..."

"Nirvana Mountain?"

Li Chongshan's eyes suddenly contracted, and his pupils showed a slight change. The prayer beads in his hand stopped abruptly.

These three words were like needles, piercing his heart and striking a spot that had been hidden there for twenty years.

Nirvana Mountain.

The elusive, otherworldly master who was rarely seen back then came from this place, and this mountain also played a role in the case he personally suppressed more than 20 years ago!

The woman surnamed Zhao was already a fish on a chopping board, but he, the wandering Nirvana Mountain divine physician, intervened, helping to keep her hanging on and leaving her with a meaningful warning, causing the flawless plan to change. Although the woman ultimately could not escape her fate, the divine physician's glance at him before leaving was like a thorn stuck in his heart for twenty years.

And now that person from the mountain has come down again and is back beside this woman surnamed Zhao. Is it a coincidence? Or did the divine doctor see something back then, but was unable to be buried with this woman?

But that momentary difference quickly dissipated, disappearing before Li Tianhao even noticed it. Li Chongshan's decades of shrewdness allowed him to instantly bury that small fluctuation deep within his eyes.

"Stop looking!" he said, but his words were colder and more subdued than before.

"Tianhao, you need to know that Ye Feng is a variable, a variable that could ruin a huge deal for my Li family."

"Regarding what happened back then," he said softly, with an undeniable air of severity, "we went to great lengths to suppress it along with that woman. Lin Yuqing was a remnant of the Zhao family, a menace from the start, someone we couldn't keep. And now, another man has appeared, capable of both protecting her and investigating everything thoroughly—"

"If we keep him around, he will eventually bring disaster upon his entire family."

Li Chongshan raised his eyes, his aged eyes filled with murderous intent, and spoke slowly and deliberately.

"We have to kill him, no matter what."

There was a moment of silence in the hall, then the only sound was a soft click as the withered hand slowly picked up the sandalwood prayer beads.

The sound was like someone's life was quietly counting down.

"But Dad," Li Tianhao hesitated, "his martial arts are too overwhelming. We've been no match for him in head-on confrontations time and time again. If we fail again, it might alert the Lin family and that kid, making them more wary."

"Idiot!" Li Chongshan uttered two words without even lifting his eyelids, sending a chill down Li Tianhao's spine. "You think you have to use a knife to kill someone?"

"Drugs, pursuit, framing—these are all third-rate tactics that don't deserve a mention. Time and time again, they haven't harmed him at all; instead, they've driven him from the shadows to become a reclusive divine physician whose name resounds throughout Dongyang. Are you trying to kill him? Are you helping him become famous?"

Li Tianhao's face turned pale from the harsh scolding, and he dared not look up.

"So you can't rush it," Li Chongshan interrupted him. "If a hard approach doesn't work, then a soft one will! This is his only weakness! Lin Yuqing, a girl from the Zhu family! Besides, he knows medicine and makes a living through it, so his medical skills are his lifeblood!"

"What is the greatest fear of a doctor who claims to be a healer with a benevolent heart?" The old man's voice was chilling, as if seeping from a crack in the ground: "It's the day when he watches someone die before his eyes, but he can do nothing about it!"

"Those he treated died because of him; his prized medical skills became a killing weapon!"

"At that time," Li Chongshan slowly closed his eyes and began turning his prayer beads again, "we wouldn't need to lift a finger; he would collapse on his own!"

Li Tianhao shuddered, finally understanding just how bloody his father's words were.

To use one's own life to kill the soul of a doctor!

This method of murder is far more cruel than being torn to pieces!

"Son... I understand..." Li Tianhao kowtowed several times, a chill running down his spine. "I thought my dad was going to kill Ye Feng, but I never imagined he wanted to kill Ye Feng's heart first, and then take his life!"

Old ginger is spicier! But old ginger is also more poisonous!

"Remember, before we kill him, we shouldn't rush into action. Let's give him a false impression, making him think that the Li family has wisely backed down! We'll use our trump card at this moment," Li Chongshan concluded.

Inside the study, the scent of sandalwood wafted upwards in circles, as a large net was being secretly laid out and quietly extended toward Ye Feng.

And the needles on this vast net have already targeted his most important shield: his medical skills!

At this moment, Ye Feng was unaware that his father, Li Chongshan, had personally sentenced him to death! He also had no idea how many untold secrets and past events were hidden in the change in his father's expression when he heard the words "Nirvana Mountain." He only felt the deathly calamity in his chest growing more and more intense each day. But he never imagined that this time his father wouldn't use knives, medicine, or the most disgusting and despicable methods like framing him. Instead, he directly pulled out the most lethal hidden weapon: to kill his medical skills.

His medical skills are the most precious thing, and also the most unguarded, without exception!