After Ye Tong finished bustling about, Xu Mu didn't pull her back to the bedroom. Instead, he took out the Qi Sea Pills he had refined.
Including the one he'd just drawn, he now had four in total.
Two of them were naturally to raise Ye Tong and Ye Yu.
Barring surprises, a single pill each should be enough to push them up to Hidden Force.
As for the remaining two, he planned to give them to Xu Ningbing and Xu Shou.
He wasn't sure whether his dad needed one—his father likely had his own methods.
"Brother-in-law! That woman is no good!"
Ye Yu puffed her cheeks and shook Xu Mu's arm.
"Xiao Yu, don't talk nonsense. One should be magnanimous."
Ye Tong smiled and tapped Ye Yu's head.
"Sis! You're being too magnanimous. If someone steals Brother-in-law away, what will you do then?"
Ye Yu shot Ye Tong a look.
"Impossible!"
Xu Mu looked at Ye Yu. "Unless I die, I will never leave your sister! She's my wife—now and for life!"
He wasn't lying—he meant every word.
After being with Ye Tong, he had even changed her contact note to "Wife."
He had already decided that Ye Tong was his.
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Hearing that, Ye Tong lowered her head shyly.
With words that heartfelt, she'd feel bad turning him down even if he asked for an encore tonight.
"Then… what if someone tries to seduce you? There are so many temptations out there—someone's bound to succeed, right?"
Ye Yu asked.
"So what if they do? Whoever succeeds, I'll just bring her home."
Ye Tong answered for him.
"Sis… you're really domineering," Ye Yu muttered, not understanding her sister's mindset at all.
"All right, let's drop it."
Xu Mu clapped his hands for quiet. "I got my hands on two more pills. One each for you two."
He handed the pills to them.
Ye Tong looked at the blue pill in her palm. "This kind of thing must be really precious, right?"
She'd heard her father talk about ancient martial artists before.
Back when the Ye family was at its peak, they were wealthy and powerful,
yet they had only one martial artist—an expensive bodyguard her father had hired.
But Xu Mu had raised them into martial artists with just a few pills.
This pill in her hand felt even more precious than the previous ones.
"Compared to your safety, this sort of thing is nothing."
Xu Mu looked at Ye Tong. "We've recently offended a hidden clan. When I'm not around, you need to protect yourselves."
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Ye Tong's cheeks flushed as she swallowed the pill.
Ye Yu took hers as well, thinking of their parents.
If her parents had been martial artists, it wouldn't have been so easy for others to harm them.
So—she wanted to get stronger.
As soon as the Qi Sea Pills entered their bodies, they felt countless streams of power surging rapidly inside.
"Okay, time to rest."
Xu Mu took Ye Tong upstairs.
"Brother-in-law, the medicinal effect hasn't passed yet!" Ye Yu reminded him.
"The Qi Sea Pill isn't a pill that boosts you instantly. Its effect releases over two or three days."
With that, Xu Mu headed to the bedroom with Ye Tong.
The two had drunk a little that night; no fancy routine—Xu Mu took the initiative.
…
The next morning.
Xu Mu woke early and found he could draw again. All thanks to Ye Tong.
He opened his system panel to check his Fate Power.
For now, other than increasing other people's stats, it didn't have any other use.
But he still felt it should have more applications.
He tapped the wheel for a ten-draw to test today's luck.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host has obtained 30 Cultivation Points]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host has obtained 20 Attribute Points]
Xu Mu nodded inwardly. A standard opener—not bad.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host has obtained an Earth-Rank technique: Fire-Phoenix Sword Heart Method]
Xu Mu frowned. Another heart method—and Earth-Rank at that. He'd study what it was in a bit.
If it was strong enough, he'd cultivate it himself.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host has obtained an Earth-Rank technique: Fire-Phoenix Sword]
All right, no need to study—he already knew it.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host has obtained 40 Cultivation Points]
…
This draw session basically netted him an Earth-Rank technique.
He could cultivate it himself or let someone else practice it.
This time he got 165 Cultivation Points and 90 Attribute Points.
As usual, he added them all, further boosting his body.
After finishing, he checked the panel again.
Name: Xu Mu
Identity: Villain's Sacred Body, HR Manager of the Xu Group
Realm: Mystic Art — Early Stage
Physique: 725
Spirit: 725
Cultivation Value: 500 (max 800)
Fate Power: 1032
Seeing this, Xu Mu nodded lightly. Two or three more ten-draws and he could break through again.
He was about to get up to wash when his phone buzzed—an unfamiliar number.
He hesitated, then answered.
"Young Master Xu, it's me."
It was Chen Cai on the other end.
…
These past two days, Feng Kang was on the verge of losing it. Whenever he had a moment, he stared at the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade app.
But news of Xu Mu's assassination never came.
He kept asking customer service and always got the same reply: The mission is in progress.
Feng Kang sat at a stone table in the manor garden, rubbing his brow. "What's going on with Mr. Lin? Why can't I reach him even now?"
Without Lin Yang, he didn't feel safe at all.
He'd bragged so hard before, claiming the Feng family was also a hidden clan.
But without Lin Yang, what was he?
Someone had easily broken into his home and rescued Chen Cai.
What if next time, the intruders came to kill him?
"Dad! Something happened!"
Feng Ruili came rushing over from afar, phone in hand.
"What is it?"
Feng Kang frowned.
Feng Ruili held the screen up to him. "Look—it's on Jiangbei's morning news."
On the video, several excavators flattened a house on the spot, with an elderly man standing in front of the machines.
The excavator ran right over him.
Then the footage cut to a group of suited men with masked faces, hacking at doors and walls with machetes.
Next, a middle-aged man with his face mosaicked out sat in a chair, speaking in a voice thick with regret:
"I can't live with it anymore—it's been weighing on me. Back then, following Feng Kang, I took part in violent demolitions and forced sales. We did a lot of evil."
Then a woman with a mosaic cried on camera:
"Feng Kang's son, Feng Ruili, is no good either. They ran loan-sharking. When I couldn't repay, he sent me to a club. I saw with my own eyes a woman who disobeyed getting her leg broken."
…
Watching the videos, Feng Kang nearly fainted.
Who did this?
They want me dead!