"Brother Ye, I spent a fortune this time. Many assassins were sent to assassinate Ouyang Xinuo, but none succeeded. Tonight, I will send another group of assassins. I heard Ouyang Xinuo is having a party on a cruise ship. Perhaps this is a good opportunity, but I'm not sure if I can take him down."
Hou Mingzhu had lost confidence after repeated failures. Ye Tiancheng placed his hand on Hou Mingzhu's shoulder to comfort her.
"It's alright. For bad people like him, even if we don't succeed, Heaven will eventually deal with him."
While comforting Hou Mingzhu, Ye Tiancheng was also anxious. As long as Ouyang Xinuo continued to flaunt himself, Hou Mingzhu would not be able to feel at ease.
Moreover, Ye Tiancheng genuinely wanted to help Hou Mingzhu get revenge, but his true qi was recovering too slowly.
This made Ye Tiancheng think of another fruit that could enhance true qi. Perhaps after consuming this fruit, he could defeat Ouyang Xinuo and avenge Hou Mingzhu.
However, eating the fruit would cause him to fall into a deep sleep, and Ye Tiancheng was not ready for that. The home was not absolutely safe either, and Ouyang Xinuo could retaliate at any moment.
Since the assassins were preparing to launch a surprise attack on the cruise ship, Ye Tiancheng decided to go and take a look. His main purpose was to probe Ouyang Xinuo's background and see how powerful he had become.
He heard that the cruise ship party was scheduled to start at eight o'clock. Ye Tiancheng had been accompanying Hou Mingzhu earlier, and they had leisurely finished a grand meal.
Although they ate at home, the chef's culinary skills were always excellent. They ate very happily, and Hou Mingzhu's face also showed a smile.
"Ye Tiancheng, I feel much better. Actually, ever since I was rescued, I've felt like it was all a dream. I was afraid that when I woke up, I would still be in that small room. I'm terrified of that place."
"After dinner, I'll accompany you for a walk. The weather is nice today, and the garden outside the house has good air. Aren't you afraid of gaining weight? It's a good opportunity to walk around and help you lose weight. Then, when you're tired, we'll come back and watch TV together."
To cheer Hou Mingzhu up, Ye Tiancheng arranged everything perfectly. They went for a walk, and the main purpose was to clear their minds.
Ye Tiancheng actually wanted to create some new memories to overwrite Hou Mingzhu's unhappy ones.
"Mingzhu, this movie is quite good. It's about natural scenery. I specifically consulted a psychologist, and they recommended it. I haven't watched it either, let's watch it together."
"Mmm."
They watched a movie leisurely together. After the movie, Ye Tiancheng brewed Hou Mingzhu a cup of tea. The tea contained many calming ingredients. Not long after drinking it, Hou Mingzhu started to feel sleepy.
After coaxing Hou Mingzhu to sleep, Ye Tiancheng glanced at his watch. It was only nine o'clock, which was the perfect time to head to the cruise ship.
Ye Tiancheng quickly drove off. Upon arriving at the cruise ship, he rented a small boat to get closer and then spent a considerable amount of money to board the cruise ship.
After undergoing some difficulties, Ye Tiancheng finally boarded the cruise ship. It seemed that without money, things couldn't get done. Every step required bribery to succeed.
Ye Tiancheng's gaze was immediately attracted by the beautiful women. Many of them were wearing bikinis, likely invited by Ouyang Xinuo to enhance the atmosphere.
This person used to be relatively normal, and having some money wasn't too ostentatious. But now, he was a complete playboy.
The legs of these women in swimsuits were really long, and under the explosive music, the atmosphere was indeed good.
However, he wasn't here to have fun and couldn't get into the mood. Ye Tiancheng had boarded with a baseball cap on. After getting on the ship, he quickly pulled the brim down, fearing discovery by Ouyang Xinuo.
Ye Tiancheng used his true qi to sense his surroundings. If there were any cultivators nearby, Ye Tiancheng would be able to sense them. It seemed that many assassins sent by Hou Mingzhu were already hidden among the crowd.
Ye Tiancheng watched everything silently from behind, not intending to make a move first. He wanted to see Ouyang Xinuo's true strength, though not intending to fight him himself.
The revelry on the cruise ship continued for over an hour, and everything seemed normal. Soon, Ye Tiancheng felt the surrounding magnetic field change, and those people were likely about to make their move.
Ouyang Xinuo was standing at the bow of the ship, with two beautiful women on either side. In front of him, there was a table with more women, drinking and eating snacks. At this moment, about five or six skilled cultivators suddenly rushed out.
Ouyang Xinuo was not flustered at all. He stood up, first pushing away the bikini-clad women beside him, "You women, don't get in the way."
Then he said to the attackers, "If we're men, we fight like men. We won't involve women. Let them leave first."
Ouyang Xinuo was quite manly in this regard. Many guests thought a brawl was about to break out and quickly fled, but Ye Tiancheng remained hidden behind, watching.
Ye Tiancheng was not afraid at all. The strength of these cultivators should not be very high. He mainly wanted to see how much progress Ouyang Xinuo had made.
Soon, those cultivators began their surprise attack...
They were armed with various weapons, and they seemed to be masters recruited by Hou Mingzhu from various places. However, even though they swarmed forward together, they couldn't get close to Ouyang Xinuo.
A ball of black qi surrounded those people. Three of them fell to the ground, and the others who tried to advance were suddenly lifted high by the black qi and then thrown directly into the sea.
The entire process was extremely swift and brutal. Ye Tiancheng watched helplessly as a living person fell into the water, possibly to be fed to sharks.
He immediately realized that Ouyang Xinuo's strength was far greater than he had imagined. Ye Tiancheng even felt a little scared.
At this moment, Ouyang Xinuo calmly sat on a stool, picked up a glass of red wine from the table, took a sip, and wore a smug smile.
"Hou Mingzhu is too stingy. She only sent a few of you. You're not much help. Is there anyone else?"
Ye Tiancheng took half a step back. Being discovered by Ouyang Xinuo at this moment would not be good.
Because Ye Tiancheng had roughly estimated his strength, he knew that he was definitely no match for Ouyang Xinuo at the moment. Moreover, Ouyang Xinuo, using some kind of evil art, had the black qi surrounding him, making the surrounding space filled with demonic energy.
This indicated that this guy must have cultivated some technique to reach the Golden Core stage so quickly.
Let alone the current Ye Tiancheng, even his disciple Lin Xue would not be a match for Ouyang Xinuo.
"Ye Tiancheng, I've seen you. Stop hiding and come out. Since you dare to come, why don't you dare to show yourself? Are you planning to be a coward forever?"
He thought he had been hiding quite well, but he was unexpectedly called out by Ouyang Xinuo. It seemed he had already been discovered. At this moment, even jumping into the sea would be too late for Ye Tiancheng.
To save face, he could only pretend to be unfazed and swaggeringly appeared before Ouyang Xinuo.
"I heard you're having a party here, enjoying your good time on the cruise ship. I'm quite envious, so I came to take a look. I hope I haven't disturbed your enjoyment."
As soon as Ye Tiancheng finished speaking, his feet left the ground, and he was quickly enveloped by a ball of black qi, floating in mid-air. Ye Tiancheng was actually a little scared.
After all, with the previous incident as a precedent, Ye Tiancheng was afraid of being thrown into the sea. With his current strength, he couldn't break free from the black qi.
"Mr. Ye, of course, I welcome you. Your appearance has indeed caused me some trouble. Your wife has sent people to kill me, yet you, her husband, have to show up personally. It seems you're not much of a son-in-law to the Hou family, quite a demeaning position, isn't it?"
Ye Tiancheng felt nothing from Ouyang Xinuo's slander and insults because, for him, they couldn't cause any physical harm. Ouyang Xinuo could say whatever he wanted.
"I don't know what you mean by coming here today. Do you want to kill me?"
"You're a weakling now. If I wanted to kill you, you know it would be easy. But if I let you die like this, wouldn't that be too easy for you? You caused the woman I love the most to become a vegetative state. I want to make you wish you were dead but unable to die."
Seeing Ouyang Xinuo's evil expression, Ye Tiancheng had a bad premonition. "Ouyang Xinuo, what exactly do you want to do? You know I'm not as weak as you think, and you can't hurt me easily."
At this moment, a wisp of black qi emanating from Ouyang Xinuo, as if it had a life of its own, drilled into Ye Tiancheng's forehead.
Even more terrifyingly, that wisp of black qi vanished with a whoosh at Ye Tiancheng's forehead.
Ye Tiancheng could clearly feel demonic energy invading his body, but he couldn't expel it with his true qi, which caused him immense pain.
"Ouyang Xinuo, what did you do to me? You despicable and shameless scoundrel, you only know how to play dirty tricks behind my back."
It was precisely because Ye Tiancheng felt something unusual that he sensed something was very wrong and couldn't help but curse Ouyang Xinuo.
"Since you want to die with understanding, I'll tell you directly. There's nothing to hide. You've now been infected with my Demonic Sha. Whenever people around you have negative emotions, those negative emotions will turn into black qi and enter your body, causing you to suffer increasingly deeper pain."
This Ouyang Xinuo was truly insidious to come up with such a scheme.
With the immense societal pressure nowadays, if Ye Tiancheng went to work, people around him would often have various negative emotions. Wouldn't Ye Tiancheng suffer to death? Any negative emotion would be punished by himself, and the consequences were unimaginable.
"Ouyang Xinuo, you're not human."
"There's no other way. Who made me the strong one? This is how the strong treat the weak. If you become powerful, you can punish me however you want, and I won't dare to touch you. But now that you're a weakling, you can only accept your fate."
Ouyang Xinuo had a point. When Ye Tiancheng was powerful in the past, he never took anyone seriously. Sometimes, punishing someone was like disciplining a pet.
There were even no principles involved; disobedience would be punished. In a way, the current Ouyang Xinuo was the past self.
It seemed that to become powerful again, he had to accept everything that was happening now. If he only complained, things would only get worse and would not improve at all.
"Alright, Ouyang Xinuo, you're formidable. I can't defeat you. Now, I'm powerless to resist whatever you do. I have one request for you. Since you've planted this Demonic Sha on me, please don't harm Hou Mingzhu anymore. She's a woman. You drove away those bikini models earlier, which shows you're a true man and wouldn't bully a woman as a man."