The phone rang again while they were talking, and this time the other party's attitude was more polite.
"Is this Dr. Zhu Zizhen?" This time, the voice on the other end of the phone was a woman's.
"I am," Zhu Zizhen replied. "I've already said I won't save anyone from the Yue family."
"This... Dr. Zhu, we are sincerely seeking medical help, and only you can save him now." The woman's voice trembled slightly, and her tone sounded dejected.
Hearing this, Zhu Zizhen's temper flared immediately. The upper hand was in his hands now; if he didn't scold them now, when would he?
"You still have a chance to be saved. What about my disciple? Can my disciple come back?" Zhu Zizhen roared into the phone. "Yue family of Huzhou, is it? This is not how you treat people. I don't owe you, and no one owes you. In the beginning, was that how you asked for people? With such an arrogant attitude."
"Also, my disciple died at the hands of your Yue family, and you still want me to treat your Yue family?" Zhu Zizhen cursed until his eyes turned red, and finally hung up the phone.
Ye Bufan looked at Zhu Zizhen without saying much.
Meanwhile, in Huzhou, at the Yue family mansion.
A strange atmosphere pervaded the old Yue family residence, the air heavy, and all the servants dared not speak.
In the living room, a middle-aged woman in a new Chinese-style outfit was staring at a man in a suit standing beside her.
"This Dr. Zhu Zizhen isn't stupid. Moreover, Yang Shuo did such a thing, and you still spoke to him in that tone? Does he owe our Yue family anything?" The woman held the man's phone and looked at him.
The man was the patriarch of the Yue family in this generation – Yue Zhuoying.
Yue Zhuoying frowned and said, "I think this matter is definitely not that simple. Just as my son Yang'er killed Zhu Zizhen's eldest disciple, my father fell victim to this strange poison. I refuse to believe that Zhu Zizhen has nothing to do with it! My tone? Was my tone not good enough? What is the status of our Yue family, and what is his status? I don't believe that even with the top experts from all over the country, we still can't match up to one mere doctor!"
The woman looked at Yue Zhuoying and shook her head. "What, your son killed their eldest disciple, and he can't get revenge? Your tone was not good? I think it was very bad. I got information about this Marrow Cleansing Pill from Jin Fang, and it's been rumored there that this Marrow Cleansing Pill was refined by Zhu Zizhen himself!"
Upon hearing "Marrow Cleansing Pill," Yue Zhuoying's expression shifted slightly. The reason Yue Yangshuo was sent to Jinhe this time was precisely for the Marrow Cleansing Pill.
If the rumors were true, then provoking Zhu Zizhen at this time would definitely not be a good thing.
"Keep scheming, keep scheming. Father doesn't have much time left. I wonder how long you'll drag this out. Don't just think about saving face all day. Our Yue family has survived for so many years, have we lived by face? Besides, the Yue family has five Martial Venerables and two Grand Martial Venerables. Do you think that Dr. Zhu Zizhen, an old man, could poison someone from a thousand miles away?" the woman continued to scold Yue Zhuoying.
Yue Zhuoying looked at the woman. Instead of getting angry, he smiled and walked to her side, taking her hand.
"My dear wife, how fortunate am I, Yue Zhuoying, to have married you. What you say is very true. I will personally go to Jinhe now, apologize to Zhu Zizhen, and bring him back home." Although Yue Zhuoying spoke of inviting Zhu Zizhen, a flicker of murderous intent flashed in his eyes when he mentioned the doctor's name.
Speaking of this matter, it all went back to when Ye Bufan traveled from Jinhe to Huzhou.
After arriving in Huzhou, Ye Bufan went straight to the Yue family. He scanned the premises with his spiritual energy and found that the highest cultivation level within the family was only at the Grand Martial Venerable level, making it easy to infiltrate.
Ye Bufan roamed the Yue family and finally set his sights on the poison target: Yue Zhuoying's father, Yue Zhengyun. As Yue Zhuoying's father and Yue Yangshuo's grandfather, poisoning him would certainly achieve the effect of the Yue family coming to apologize.
Before departing, Ye Bufan had specifically called Ji Feiyang. From him, Ye Bufan learned that Yue Zhengyun had just handed over the family's affairs to Yue Zhuoying last year. Yue Zhuoying's foundation was not yet stable, and the Yue family could not afford to lose Yue Zhengyun at this time. If Yue Zhengyun were to fall, Yue Zhuoying would have a hard time controlling the situation. Therefore, Yue Zhengyun was the perfect target.
In the villa in Xiangshan, Ye Bufan was circulating the "Nine Revolutions Heaven Reaching Art" in his room, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was gathering towards him.
"Such rich spiritual energy." Ye Bufan greedily absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The restrictions on Earth had loosened further recently. The jade pendant and the spiritual energy had already made the spiritual energy in the villa somewhat dense, but the spiritual energy tonight was significantly denser than in the previous few days. A sense of urgency arose in Ye Bufan's heart.
With the "Nine Revolutions Heaven Reaching Art" running at full capacity, Ye Bufan felt an unprecedented sense of comfort in his body.
Just as Ye Bufan was about to enter a meditative state, a sound suddenly came from outside the villa. Ye Bufan's eyes snapped open, and his spiritual energy instantly spread out from his mind, locking onto the source of the sound.
Ye Bufan turned and disappeared from the room, appearing on the balcony.
He saw a man in black appear at the villa entrance. With a "bang," the man shattered the glass and rushed into the villa.
The sudden appearance of the man in black startled Huangfu Yujia, who was in the bathtub.
However, Huangfu Yujia was covered in bandages at this moment. The man in black was taken aback at first but didn't pay much attention. His target was Zhu Zizhen.
Huangfu Yujia opened her eyes and sensed the movements of the man in black. But soon, she discovered that another powerful spiritual energy had already locked onto this man.
The man in black went up the stairs directly to the second floor, searching room by room, but he couldn't find Dr. Zhu Zizhen.
"Strange!" The man in black frowned. "Wasn't it said that Zhu Zizhen lived here?"
"Are you looking for him?" Ye Bufan's voice suddenly rang out. The man in black turned around, and Ye Bufan had already appeared behind him without a sound, with Dr. Zhu Zizhen standing beside him.
The man in black threw a punch at Zhu Zizhen. His purpose was to abduct Zhu Zizhen. Yue Yangshuo had already instructed him to just leave him with a breath, and there would be plenty of ways to make Zhu Zizhen treat the elder.
Ye Bufan easily blocked the black-clothed man's attack with one hand.
"Is it you? Wan Buqun." Ye Bufan said with a smile, looking at the man in black.