Butler Xu's face turned ashen the moment he heard the name "Bai Qiao."
Ye Ling raised an eyebrow at Butler Xu's reaction. "You seem terrified of that name. What are you afraid of?"
Sweating profusely, Butler Xu stammered, "No, impossible... You definitely weren't hired by Bai Qiao! I know that girl; she doesn't have that kind of money!"
Ye Ling grabbed Butler Xu by the neck and asked sternly, "I asked what you are afraid of."
"I, I..."
Butler Xu stared at Ye Ling's unfathomably deep eyes in terror, his body trembling violently. The intense fear even made him ignore the pain of his flesh being sliced by a knife!
Ye Ling gazed into Butler Xu's eyes for a moment before releasing his neck. He sighed, "Never mind. Looking at you, I doubt I'll get anything useful. I can't be bothered to interrogate you further."
Upon hearing Ye Ling's words, Butler Xu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he had escaped. But then, a ball of black demonic energy lunged towards him!
The demonic energy enveloped Butler Xu's head, invaded his soul, and seized his memories!
Ye Ling sat casually on his chair, tapping his fingers on the armrest, slowly perusing the memories he had extracted from Butler Xu.
Meanwhile, the bodyguards with severed hands, realizing Ye Ling was not to be trifled with, began to stealthily creep towards the exit while Ye Ling was dealing with Butler Xu, attempting to escape.
However, they hadn't taken more than a few steps before they collapsed onto the ground, losing consciousness completely, their fates unknown.
The spacious villa fell into a deathly silence, broken only by the sound of Ye Ling's index finger tapping the armrest of his chair.
"This isn't right... Bai Qiao is clearly Yun Dandan's roommate. Why is Yun Dandan's boyfriend, Qi Mo, the one targeting Bai Qiao?"
After extracting the memories from Butler Xu, Ye Ling found his brow furrowed even more.
While the Yun family was considered a prominent family in the capital, they were merely a small fry compared to the Qi family, one of the four great clans.
As a young master of the Qi family, Qi Mo was at the apex of the capital's second-generation elite circle. With Qi Mo's influence, all he needed to do was open his mouth, and countless people would eagerly step forward to deal with Bai Qiao.
Yet, now, Qi Mo was using Yun Dandan and the Yun family to do his dirty work...
Even more bizarrely, before Yun Dandan even became Bai Qiao's roommate, Qi Mo wasn't even Yun Dandan's boyfriend!
This meant that Qi Mo had specifically chosen Yun Dandan to deal with Bai Qiao!
"Given Bai Qiao's status as a poor student, she would have no opportunity to meet Qi Mo, let alone interact with him. Why is that guy specifically targeting Bai Qiao?"
Ye Ling mused, his brow furrowed, finding Qi Mo's behavior logic difficult to comprehend.
Furthermore, Bai Qiao had no contact with cultivation, and her innate sword embryo had never awakened. She was currently a completely vulnerable ordinary person, and no one could possibly recognize her as a cultivation prodigy.
A girl from a poor mountainous region and a young master from the highest echelons of the capital should have been two parallel lines, with no intersection. Qi Mo had absolutely no reason to go to such lengths to torment Bai Qiao!
"Could it be that this girl Bai Qiao has some other secret?"
Realizing that this matter was not as simple as he had initially thought, Ye Ling began to take it seriously.
*Ring, ring!*
Just then, Ye Ling's phone rang. It was Wang Liren.
"Why is he calling at this time?"
Seeing Wang Liren's call, a flicker of confusion crossed Ye Ling's eyes.
However, Ye Ling didn't hang up. He answered and asked, "What is it?"
On the other end, Wang Liren quickly replied, "Emperor, something has happened at the company. A group of troublemakers has arrived!"
"Troublemakers?" Ye Ling frowned. "Can't you just send them away? Why are you telling me?"
Everyone working at the company now, except for Bai Qiao, were all cultivators from the Dragon Division. Even if a group of cultivators went to the company to cause trouble, they could easily handle it.
Wang Liren said, "Emperor, the people who came are all from the Dragon Division, led by Yun Shanhe. They claim Bai Qiao threatens national security and want to take her back for interrogation. Those people are all from the Dragon Division, and we can't easily make a move."
"Bai Qiao threatens national security?" Hearing Wang Liren's words, Ye Ling found it utterly absurd. "Do you think it's funny to joke with me?"
Wang Liren said anxiously, "It's not me, Emperor... How would I dare joke with you about something like this? Both sides are confronting each other in the company right now, and I'm about to break. You need to come and support us!"
After Wang Liren finished speaking, a commotion could be heard from the phone, indicating a conflict had broken out. Wang Liren quickly hung up.
Ye Ling put away his phone and looked at the twitching Butler Xu lying on the ground, chuckling, "I just got Bai Qiao to start working at the company, and Yun Shanhe brings people from the Dragon Division to my doorstep... How interesting."
Wang Liren was now Ye Ling's subordinate, and it was well known within the Dragon Division that Wang Liren worked for the Demon Palace.
Yun Shanhe, as a key official in the Dragon Division, couldn't possibly be unaware of this.
Yet, even so, Yun Shanhe still brought members of the Dragon Division to cause trouble... If he didn't have someone backing him, Ye Ling wouldn't believe he'd have such audacity!
"I wonder if the person behind Yun Shanhe is from the Shadow Hall, or the Dragon Division's higher-ups... or perhaps both..."
Ye Ling muttered to himself, stood up from his chair, withdrew the demonic energy that had enveloped Butler Xu, and walked out of the villa.
Not long after Ye Ling left, Butler Xu, who had just regained consciousness and was foaming at the mouth on the ground, struggled to crawl towards the coffee table to grab his phone for help. But then, he suddenly burst into flames!
A piercing scream once again echoed from within the villa!
In the Royal District, the Demon Palace Education and two teams were in a standoff, the atmosphere inside the company tense.
Bai Qiao, who had been working diligently, was now completely stunned.
She sat frozen in place, her mind a complete blank.
She never imagined that her formerly amiable colleagues would now resemble gods of war, with more than half of them carrying firearms!
And she herself had been inexplicably accused of threatening national security...
Everything that had happened so suddenly made her feel like she had walked onto the wrong film set!
Am I dreaming?
As Bai Qiao stared in bewilderment, the middle-aged man who led the intrusion swept his gaze across the cultivators present and said coldly, "This is an arrest warrant issued by the higher-ups. Are you rebelling by acting like this?"
Wang Liren stepped forward, looking at the middle-aged man with a cold gaze, and said sternly, "Yun Shanhe, are you a mad dog? Bai Qiao is just an ordinary student, how is she threatening national security?"
Yun Shanhe sneered, "Wang Liren, you've taken the lead in joining the Demon Palace, and you're still meddling in the Dragon Division's affairs?"
"The brothers present are all people from our Dragon Division. You've already abused your authority by mobilizing over a hundred personnel to impersonate employees. I should be the one holding you accountable, yet you dare to obstruct me from performing my duty?"
Saying this, Yun Shanhe slammed his hand on the table and declared loudly, "I'm making this clear today! Anyone who dares to stop me from taking Bai Qiao will be considered a traitor to the Dragon Division and will be killed on sight!"