Chapter 541: Chapter 541: Your Existence Is My Shame

"Ah..."

"Ye Xiu?"

Wang Chaoyang hurriedly threw on his bathrobe, exclaiming in shock, "You... how did you get here? How do you know where I live?"

Ye Xiu ignored him and countered, "Whose idea was it to bring the Ye Family into the sponsorship team?"

It was my idea... Wang Chaoyang almost blurted out the truth but stopped himself. He didn’t dare say it. What if Ye Xiu actually cut out one of his kidneys?

"I just got back from Guoyang," he said instead. "If you hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have even known the Ye Family had been brought into the sponsorship team."

"Lying to my face? You’re still too naive." Ye Xiu’s face darkened. "Tell me the truth," he said coldly. "Otherwise, this day next year will be the death anniversary for the three of you, and I guarantee the three Judicator Families will never find the killer."

"I’m not lying, I really don’t know," Wang Chaoyang insisted, bracing himself.

Ye Xiu waved his hand, pulling Wang Chaoyang toward him through the air. Gripping his neck, he said coldly, "I’m in a very bad mood. I’ll give you one last chance. If you don’t tell me the truth, I will snap your neck."

"I’ll talk! I’ll talk!" Scared out of his wits, Wang Chaoyang stammered, "It was Long Tianba! He was the one who urged me to bring the Ye Family into the sponsorship team. Plus, the Ye Family is powerful in its own right, so my father and grandfather agreed."

The Dragon Lord! It really was the Dragon Lord!

Ye Xiu took a deep, angry breath. "Can you kick the Ye Family out of the sponsorship team?"

"I can’t!" Wang Chaoyang cried, bursting into tears. "Every time a sponsor is confirmed, my grandfather reports it to the Envoy from the Judicator Families immediately. The decision is final and can’t be changed."

"Then you’ll just have to live with one kidney!" Enraged, Ye Xiu threw Wang Chaoyang onto the bed and, quick as a flash, performed a complimentary nephrectomy. Then, he left.

Wang Chaoyang stared at the kidney Ye Xiu had tossed on the floor and screamed, "Long Tianba, you’ve doomed me!"

「Five o’clock in the morning.」

Ming Yue was sleeping soundly in her hotel bed when the keen senses granted by her immense power suddenly detected a lethal threat. She snapped her eyes open just in time to see Ye Xiu pushing the door open.

"Ye Xiu..." Ming Yue shrieked. Terrified, she leaped to her feet, stammering in a panic, "You-you-you... what are you doing here?"

"Ming Yue, you have some nerve," Ye Xiu said, his face and voice as cold as ice. "Did you think I didn’t know you were colluding with Ergouzi? Did you think you could escape my notice?"

"I... I... uh, Ye Xiu, you-you-you... listen to me, I can explain!" Scared half to death, Ming Yue dropped to her knees. "I haven’t betrayed you!" she babbled. "I’m undercover on Ergouzi’s side! I was trying to help you get rid of him! Just... just give me some time, and I’ll definitely kill him..."

"Call him. Make up a good excuse and arrange a meeting," Ye Xiu commanded.

"Yes, yes, yes..." Ming Yue frantically grabbed her phone from the nightstand. She took more than a dozen deep breaths to calm her racing heart, thinking of a plausible reason to meet Ergouzi before finally dialing his number.

"Why are you calling so early?" Ye Xiu heard Ergouzi’s voice, which sounded like he was still in bed.

"It’s five o’clock already, that’s not early," Ming Yue said in a deliberately lazy, calm tone. "Hey, do you have any money? Lend me some. I’m so broke I can’t even afford breakfast."

Ergouzi replied, "Give me your bank account number."

"My bank account is constantly monitored by Ye Xiu," Ming Yue said. "If you transfer money to my card, he’ll know in minutes. Not only will he find out I’m in Yunluo City, but he’ll also use my account to trace yours and secretly transfer all your money away. You’d better just bring me some cash."

"Alright," Ergouzi said. "I’ll go to the bank when it opens, withdraw some cash, and bring it to you."

"Great!" Ming Yue hung up and said to Ye Xiu, "The banks don’t open until after eight, so he won’t be here for a while."

Ye Xiu ignored her and took out his phone. Just then, a text message appeared. It was from You Ming: "Ergouzi is staying in the room directly across from Ming Yue’s."

Ye Xiu bolted out the door. He actually never expected Ming Yue to successfully lure Ergouzi out. He had made her call so that You Ming could trace the location of the other person’s phone. Once he had the location locked, he would know exactly where Ergouzi was. He just hadn’t expected Ergouzi to be staying right across the hall.

"Where are you going?" Ming Yue asked, completely baffled as she hurried after him.

In the room opposite, a bleary-eyed Ergouzi placed his phone on the pillow beside him, ready to go back to sleep. Suddenly, his eyes snapped wide open.

Ming Yue said Ye Xiu is always watching her bank account, which means he must be watching her phone, too. By talking to her, didn’t I just expose my location?

At this thought, Ergouzi leaped from the bed. He didn’t even bother to get dressed before running for the door, hoping to escape the hotel. But as soon as he opened it, he froze.

There stood Ye Xiu, an icy smirk on his face. "Good morning!" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Ergouzi snapped back to his senses, spun around, and sprinted toward the window, intending to smash through it and jump to his escape.

Ye Xiu raised a hand and pulled him back through the air, grabbing the back of his neck. "We’ve known each other for ten years," he said coldly. "When have you ever seen or heard of anyone escaping my grasp?"

"Bro! Bro, it’s me! It’s Ergouzi, your little brother! Don’t kill me, please don’t kill me! I... I don’t want to die, I haven’t lived enough yet..." All of Ergouzi’s previous composure in front of Ye Xiu vanished, replaced by a genuine, soul-deep fear and despair. Ye Xiu already knew he was a Totem Inheritor; he had surely figured out a way to kill him for good.

"Your existence is my disgrace." Ye Xiu couldn’t be bothered to waste another word on him. He snapped Ergouzi’s neck, then shattered his Dantian, destroying his Martial Prowess.

The Totem Inheritors of Medicine King Valley could resurrect after death and heal from any wound, but this ability relied entirely on their Martial Prowess. When a Totem Inheritor died or was injured, their Martial Prowess would automatically convert into a miraculous energy that allowed them to resurrect and self-heal. If their Martial Prowess was destroyed, they could no longer come back to life or heal themselves, even with the Totem still inside them.

"Take him to the funeral home and have him cremated. Record the process and send the video to me," Ye Xiu ordered Ming Yue, who stood at the door, completely stunned. Without waiting for a reply, he took Ergouzi’s phone and left.

"Don’t worry, I’ll make sure it gets done!" Ming Yue shouted after Ye Xiu’s departing figure before collapsing to the ground, feeling as if she had just been granted a new lease on life.

Ye Xiu hadn’t killed her, which meant she was still useful to him.