Chen Xiao then walked over and helped Qi Qingfei heal her injuries, which were no longer a major concern.

He casually grabbed Jiang Zhenlin and slapped him awake.

As soon as Jiang Zhenlin woke up, he saw Chen Xiao and immediately tried to attack him. Without a word, Chen Xiao slapped him a couple more times, thoroughly subduing the kid.

"I don't want to waste words. I'll ask, you answer!"

Chen Xiao said to them in a commanding tone.

"Who sent you? And who taught you two this pathetic excuse for kung fu?"

Jiang Zhenlin turned his head to the side and snorted coldly.

"Hmph, you think I'll just tell you because you said so? You think too highly of yourself!"

Gongsun Yi grinned, cracking his knuckles. "Kid, you're asking for another beating, aren't you?"

Jiang Zhenlin flinched, but Chen Xiao said, "Even if you don't tell me, I can guess. It's that old beggar in the Taoist robe, right?"

Chen Xiao thought about it, and only that old beggar seemed suspicious.

Moreover, only he had the ability to see through and neutralize his tracking talisman and to train Sun and Jiang to be so powerful in such a short amount of time.

Sure enough, the two were shocked to hear this and said almost in unison, "How did you know it was Master Xuan Mingzi?"

Chen Xiao sneered. "So his name is Xuan Mingzi! Xuan Mingzi, Xuan Qingzi, looks like he's here to avenge his junior brother!"

Chen Xiao instantly analyzed the cause and effect.

Sun Li and Jiang Zhenlin realized they had misspoke and clamped their mouths shut, making it clear that they wouldn't answer anything else Chen Xiao asked.

But Chen Xiao's questions came one after another.

"Where is that old beggar? And my mother, and Uncle Gu, where are the people he captured? Are they all right?"

Jiang Zhenlin curled his lip and snorted again. "Chen Xiao, I advise you not to waste your energy. You can beat me to death, but I won't say anything today!"

Chen Xiao was silent for a moment, then asked, "You mean, if I beat you to death, you won't say anything, but if I don't beat you to death, you will?"

Jiang Zhenlin was stunned, and before he could figure out what Chen Xiao meant, Chen Xiao grabbed his hand and squeezed it hard.

Crack, crack, crack…

A sound of bones breaking rang out, and Jiang Zhenlin howled miserably, his face turning pale.

Chen Xiao had just crushed all the bones in his hand into dust, completely beyond repair.

"Stop screaming! If you don't answer, I'll crush every bone in your body inch by inch!"

Chen Xiao said fiercely.

His words were not a threat; he meant what he said.

Jiang Zhenlin was finally scared. The fear of being dominated by Chen Xiao had returned.

"Chen Xiao, it's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that Xuan Mingzi won't let me. He planted a blood curse in my body. He knows everything I say and do. If I reveal even a little bit of his information, he'll kill me!"

Jiang Zhenlin pleaded bitterly, with two tears squeezing out of his eyes.

Chen Xiao sneered. "Heh, weren't you afraid of death just now? What, are you scared now?"

As he spoke, Chen Xiao reached for Jiang Zhenlin's other hand.

Jiang Zhenlin's heart tightened, and he quickly said, "No, no, no, I'll talk, I'll talk… Chen Xiao, please don't make things difficult for me. I can only say, your mother is not dead yet…"

Before Jiang Zhenlin could finish speaking, his eyes suddenly went blank and slowly lost focus.

At the same time, his stomach suddenly began to swell, like a balloon being inflated, growing larger at a visible rate.

Seeing this, Chen Xiao secretly cried out that something was wrong and quickly dodged.

Gongsun Yi also hurriedly dodged to the side.

Bang!

A sound like a gas tank explosion rang out as Jiang Zhenlin's stomach exploded.

Poor Sun Li didn't have Chen Xiao and Gongsun Yi's agility and didn't have time to dodge.

Jiang Zhenlin's exploded flesh splattered all over her, and even a section of his large intestine, still filled with excrement, hung directly around her neck.

"Ah, ah… ah————"

Sun Li was frightened and screamed like a madwoman. She was so scared that she couldn't move, her body frozen in place as if she had been hit with a body-freezing spell.

She only knew that Xuan Mingzi had placed a blood curse on Jiang Zhenlin that allowed him to control Jiang Zhenlin's life and death, but she never expected Jiang Zhenlin to die so horribly!

And what was even more tragic was that she herself had been placed under the same blood curse by Xuan Mingzi.

Looking at the shocking scene in front of him, Chen Xiao couldn't help but sigh. "That old beggar's methods are truly ruthless!"

However, he would not sympathize with Sun Li because of this.

"Since Jiang Zhenlin is already dead, then now I can only ask you."

Chen Xiao's gaze fell on Sun Li.

"Are you trying to kill me?"

Sun Li asked bitterly.

Then, she began to appeal to emotions. "Chen Xiao, we were together for three years, at least. As the saying goes, a single day as husband and wife is a hundred days of grace, and a hundred days of grace is as deep as the sea. We were together for more than just a hundred or a thousand days, weren't we? You wouldn't just stand by and watch me die, would you?"

"Sigh."

Chen Xiao sighed helplessly. "Believe it or not, if you say another word, I'll make your death even more miserable than Jiang Zhenlin's!"

Joke, how could Chen Xiao fall for Sun Li's sob story?

It would have been better if Sun Li hadn't mentioned it, but the moment Sun Li mentioned those three years of affection, Chen Xiao couldn't help but feel disgusted, a wave of nausea washing over him.

Sun Li finally realized that this tactic didn't work on Chen Xiao.

She considered for a moment, thinking that Xuan Mingzi loved her so much, if she only revealed a little bit, it should be okay, right?

So she said cautiously, "Chen Xiao, I can't reveal too much to you, I can only say a little bit…"

However, before she could reveal any useful information, her stomach began to swell.

Her eyes immediately went wide. "I haven't said anything yet, and I'm going to die too?"

As soon as she finished speaking, with a bang, Sun Li's stomach exploded.

With Sun Li's death, the only clue was also broken.

But Jiang Zhenlin had just said that his mother, Liu Zhen, was not dead yet, which meant that Xuan Mingzi would not make a move for the time being.

Chen Xiao thought that the old beggar was probably going to use his relatives as bargaining chips to threaten him.

But it was impossible not to be anxious. He had a premonition that the old beggar's delay in showing himself must mean he was plotting something.

At Qi Qingfei's request, Chen Xiao helped Qi Tianhu remove the poison from his body and woke him up.

Chen Xiao instructed Qi Tianhu to send out all available manpower to search for his mother's whereabouts. If they found anything suspicious, they should report to him immediately, but they should not act rashly to avoid alerting the enemy.

Afterward, Chen Xiao returned to the Shan Hai Yi Pin villa. Even if the old beggar had captured everyone, there was one 'person' he was very likely to have missed!