The corpse of Zhang Da's wife was found, clutching in her hand... a letter of divorce...
At the bottom of the letter was Zhang Da's name.
Upon discovering this, the villagers transported the body back to Zhang's home.
Zhang Ergou, having just woken up, wept hysterically upon hearing the news.
He rushed into Zhang Da's wife's room and carried out the wailing child.
Then, arrangements were made for his sister-in-law's burial.
After all matters were settled, he held the child.
He told everyone that he would send the child to his elder brother.
After all, it was his elder brother's flesh and blood!
Although his elder brother had other women outside, the child could not be without a father or mother.
His mother was already gone, and he certainly could not be without a father.
In fact, what he knew more clearly was that this was his own son.
The villagers felt his words were reasonable.
They pooled some money to help him on his way.
Little did they know, it was to send the child on his way.
Zhang Ergou collected the money pooled by everyone and announced he would leave early the next morning.
However, that very night, he buried his own son alive outside the village entrance.
At that time... he had already become an Earth Controller, an awakened esper.
When he discovered this ability, he thought about going out to make a name for himself.
Naturally, he could not take this burden with him...
As for his sister-in-law, he had strangled her to death and hung her from a tree.
He then forged a divorce letter from Zhang Da, leading everyone to believe his sister-in-law had died by suicide out of grief!
Upon hearing this, Chu Tian gritted his teeth.
"You old bastard... worse than a beast! Die for me..."
Chu Tian, enraged, flickered and turned into afterimages.
He charged towards the distant Elder Xu.
"If I don't return within a day, Chen Yu'er will be brainwashed and turned into a puppet!"
Elder Xu stood there, not moving.
He felt he still held the ultimate trump card.
"A day? That's enough time!" Chu Tian gritted his teeth.
"No... Ah..." Elder Xu finally panicked.
He saw that Chu Tian's intent to kill him was not feigned.
He had never imagined that Chu Tian would disregard Chen Yu'er's life or death. From his investigation, Chu Tian was a man of deep loyalty.
Furthermore, he was someone who would not let others be harmed because of him!
Although he retreated, how could he outrun Chu Tian, who possessed the strength of the War God realm?
As Chu Tian's five fingers dug into his crown, I let out a scream.
"Soul Search..."
Chu Tian's five fingers brutally penetrated Elder Xu's skull!
A stream of information surged into Zhutian's brain.
This Elder Xu had lived for far too long.
The fragments in his mind were chaotic.
This was Chu Tian's second time using Soul Search.
The last time was in the Sea of Death.
Instantly, he felt an excruciating pain in his head.
The old man's soul power was far stronger than Chu Tian had anticipated.
The opponent's soul power violently vibrated, launching a powerful attack at Chu Tian as he died.
10 minutes later...
Chu Tian touched his nose.
He wiped away the nosebleed.
Ye Ling watched this scene in shock.
She was unable to calm down for a long time...
The current Chu Tian was truly too powerful.
When she had first discovered Chu Tian, although she felt he would achieve great things in the future,
She had never imagined Chu Tian would reach this point.
In Ye Ling's memory, Elder Xu's strength was the pinnacle of the martial arts world.
And what he displayed was only his abilities as a soul user. If one counted his Earth Control and his monstrous Gu,
His strength was unimaginable. Few people in this world could be his match...
Such a ceiling-level expert, yet he couldn't even withstand half a move from Chu Tian.
He was annihilated with no power to resist...
"How is it?" After her shock, Ye Ling
walked to Chu Tian's side, appearing very calm.
On the contrary, Chu Tian, after wiping his nosebleed, looked at Ye Ling with a face full of shock, hesitating to speak.
Seeing his expression, Ye Ling smiled faintly.
"You know everything?"
"Yes... you..." Chu Tian was dumbfounded.
"My surname is not Xu... nor is it Zhang... my surname is Ye!"
Ye Ling looked down at Elder Xu, whose head had five bloody holes from which blood was slowly flowing.
This sentence contained a great deal of information.
Chu Tian looked conflicted, it seemed the person he had just killed was... Senior Sister's biological father!
Over 20 years ago, Zhang Ergou, unrepentant,
had taken a fancy to a young maiden and forcibly taken her away in secret.
This was Ye Ling's mother, Ye Zhixun!
She was originally the daughter of a wealthy family but inexplicably disappeared.
In reality, she was held captive by Elder Xu.
Ye Ling and her mother were held captive until Ye Ling was 10 years old.
Ye Zhixun, filled with sorrow, passed away.
Elder Xu then brainwashed Ye Ling and abandoned her at an orphanage.
"Even if you didn't kill him... I would have. So, don't have any psychological burden!
Now, let's hurry and save that person named Chen Yu'er..."
Seeing Chu Tian lost in thought, Ye Ling changed the subject.
"Uh... no need to search, she's in the secret chamber where you and your mother were held captive!"
Although Chu Tian did not want to mention it, he said it anyway.
Ye Ling, who had been calm, was briefly stunned.
She immediately showed a nervous expression.
"Don't worry... he wanted to use Chen Yu'er to threaten me, so he didn't do anything to her!" Chu Tian explained.
Only then did Ye Ling slowly ease her worried expression and say.
If that's the case, I'll lead the way.
"No rush, I learned from his mind that no one else knows the location of the secret chamber, so they are still safe!"
"They?" Ye Ling asked in surprise.
"Yes... also Jing Kaiyu's... wife!" Chu Tian's expression was strange.
He hadn't expected that Jing Kaiyu agreed to be a mole by his side because his wife was being held hostage.
"So what do we do now?" Ye Ling now saw Chu Tian as her backbone.
Chu Tian looked at this senior sister. In his eyes, she was once so unattainable.
She was a woman with strong opinions. Why did it feel like she had changed so much since he last saw her?
Was this her true nature?
It made sense. Back then, Ye Ling still stubbornly wanted to snatch Luo Luo away from him.
At that time, she was a complete lesbian.
"First..." Chu Tian glanced up and down at Ye Ling a few times, his gaze finally settling on her half-burned face.
"Let's fix your face first! Otherwise, if Zhao Lei sees it like this, wouldn't he run away?" Chu Tian said with a half-smile.
Ye Ling waited for a long time, only to be teased by her junior schoolmate. Her uninjured half of her face instantly turned red, and even her ears flushed.
"Yaya, where is that fruit tree I got earlier?"
Chu Tian asked Yaya, who was standing beside him.
"It's here..." Yaya pointed to above her head.
She was wearing a wreath woven from willow branches on her head.
There were a few small red fruits on it, only the size of soybeans.
"Give one to this sister!" Chu Tian said.