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Ma Sanbao calmly looked at Dong Ning: “Dong Ning, are you saying that if I can save your life, you will become my follower? How do I know you are sincere?”
“Replying to the young master, I am the fourth son of the Dong Family, and I have no inheritance rights at home. Therefore, I persuaded my father to send me to Meteor Academy to study, with the aim of finding a good backing. Ever since the last time you mentioned taking me as your follower, I have been tempted. However, I knew that if I immediately agreed back then, you wouldn’t take me seriously. So I pretended to refuse; otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to fully comply with your orders this time,” Dong Ning said while glancing at Ma Sanbao.
Ma Sanbao nodded: “Since you have this intention, wait here for a moment while I ask Father what he thinks.” With that, Ma Sanbao left the room.
Dong Ning thought to himself: Ma Sanbao, you really know how to put on an act. You brought me here just to recruit me as a subordinate. Why look for such grand reasons? In fact, Dong Ning had already started thinking about why Ma Sanbao called him over on the way here. After considering it, he thought maybe Ma Sanbao wanted to recruit him to silence him. He also contemplated the consequences of refusing, which is why when he arrived, he took the initiative; perhaps being proactive would earn him Ma Sanbao's favor.
Dong Ning was right; his earlier performance had been noticed by Ma Weiwu. Moreover, Ma Weiwu had given Dong Ning a high score in his heart; it was quite impressive for a seven or eight-year-old child to possess such cunning.
So when Ma Sanbao arrived at Ma Weiwu's study and recounted the events, Ma Weiwu immediately agreed to accept Dong Ning as Ma Sanbao's follower and advised him to treat Dong Ning well. This child was not simple and needed both attention and caution.
After returning to his room, Ma Sanbao promptly arranged a place for Dong Ning in his courtyard and told him not to go out for a while to avoid any accidents. After packing his belongings in his new residence, Dong Ning informed Chen Whirlwind that if anything came up, he could find him at the Ma Mansion. Once everything was settled, Dong Ning moved into the Ma Mansion, becoming one of Ma Sanbao's followers.
Meanwhile, at the Chen Residence, as soon as things unfolded, Chen Yuer learned that Liu Guanfeng had been attacked. She was overjoyed initially but became alarmed upon hearing that King Sun Guangshan intended to deal severely with the matter. She quickly summoned Chen Whirlwind and Scarface; after much discussion among the three youths in the room, they ultimately decided to inform Chen Yuer's father, the head of the Chen Family, Chen Xingqi, who was also known as the Underworld Boss of Starfall City.
When Chen Xingqi learned of this incident, his first thought was to eliminate witnesses—specifically targeting Dong Ning, who handled the matter, and the four assassins.
However, at that moment, Chen Whirlwind received a message from Dong Ning, which he immediately relayed to Chen Xingqi. This forced Chen Xingqi to set aside his plans for elimination and consider other options. Since Dong Ning had already become part of the Ma Mansion, he was off-limits. The four assassins were all of intermediate knight strength; attempting to eliminate them could lead to significant losses. If even one managed to escape, it would complicate matters further.
As Chen Xingqi pondered how to extricate Chen Yuer from this situation, the assassins were also working hard to find their employer. They quickly traced their leads back to Scarface and had discussions with him in hopes that he could assist them.
After Scarface explained the situation regarding the four assassins to Chen Xingqi, an idea suddenly struck him: since killing them was not an option, why not recruit them? If the Ma Mansion could accept Dong Ning as a follower, why couldn’t he bring those four assassins under his wing?
He instructed Scarface to summon the four brothers to his residence. Only three of them showed up; their third brother did not come. This was understandable as they feared being silenced—after all, Chen Xingqi was the leader of the underworld in all of Starfall City.
When the three brothers met with Chen Xingqi, he inquired about their assassination attempt on Liu Guanfeng. He then asked for their names and strengths. Among them, the eldest was already an upper-tier intermediate knight while the other three were all intermediate knights.
Chen Xingqi was quite satisfied with the abilities of the four individuals, so he decided to take them all as followers to protect the safety of Fourth Young Lady Chen Yuer.
After the Ma Family and Chen Family had handled the situation, they began to seek connections to resolve matters. The Chen Family usually had a good relationship with the Season Family, so Chen Xingqi directly approached Ji Tiangang, hoping for some leniency. Meanwhile, Ma Weiwu was a member of the royal family, so he went directly to Prince Sun Yong.
At this time, Liu Guanfeng remained in a coma. His external injuries were not severe; the most serious issue was internal injuries caused by four assassins representing the elements of metal, fire, earth, and water. During the assassination, all four types of Fighting Qi were injected into Liu Guanfeng's meridians. Although his external injuries seemed minor, these four types of Fighting Qi were damaging his meridians from within.
What left the doctor helpless were these four types of Fighting Qi. Normally, a person with deep internal strength would need to expel these four types of Fighting Qi from Liu Guanfeng's body or find four individuals whose attributes countered these Fighting Qi to neutralize them.
Liu Yong'an chose the first method and prepared to use his powerful internal energy to expel the four types of Fighting Qi. The second method was too difficult to control; if done improperly, it could backfire.
Liu Yong'an helped Liu Guanfeng sit cross-legged on the bed and placed his hands against Liu Guanfeng's back. Two streams of Fighting Qi flowed from Liu Yong'an into Liu Guanfeng's body. However, Liu Yong'an found it strange that he could not locate the four troublesome types of true energy within Liu Guanfeng. Instead, he encountered some indistinguishable types of Fighting Qi that blocked his own input. After two attempts failed to break through those barriers, he had no choice but to give up and withdraw his Fighting Qi.
Seeing her husband stop his efforts, Nangong Rong assumed that Liu Yong'an had successfully expelled the Fighting Qi from Liu Guanfeng's body and asked, "How is it? Did you succeed?"
Liu Yong'an shook his head: "I don't know; there are some strange things inside Feng'er. My Fighting Qi couldn't find those four types in Feng'er’s body and was blocked by other Fighting Qi."
Nangong Rong became anxious: "What should we do? Is Feng'er going to be okay?"
"I'm not sure either; for now, we can only rely on Feng'er himself."
At that moment, the Fighting Qi within Liu Guanfeng had surrounded the four types and was tentatively trying to eliminate them. Liu Guanfeng's Fighting Qi slowly pushed out a small portion from the encirclement to test an attack on the inner Fighting Qi. Gradually, it began to separate and isolate those attributes that countered each other, with all four types being attacked simultaneously by Liu Guanfeng's Chaotic Qi.
Slowly, Chaotic Qi separated into water, metal, wood, and earth attributes. However, since Liu Guanfeng was in a comatose state, he could not control his own Fighting Qi. Thus, each time only a limited amount could be separated out; nevertheless, the destructive attributes were gradually decreasing.
During the Academy Competition, Liu Guanfeng could only separate Fire Attribute Fighting Qi; he was still unskilled at separating Metallic Fighting Qi and had never separated the other three attributes before. Now, however, his body had learned to separate them on its own due to the assistance of the Dragon Pearl within him.
After falling into a coma, when foreign Fighting Qi began damaging his body, the Dragon Pearl automatically generated a large amount of Chaotic Qi to surround and intercept those four types of Fighting Qi. It continuously surrounded them and decomposed their countering attributes for a final attack.
Thus, Liu Guanfeng inadvertently learned how to decompose other four types of Fighting Qi while in a coma. His Chaos Initial Skill reached its third layer in this manner; what remained was mastering its application.
However, Liu Guanfeng, who was in a coma, could not instruct the output of Fighting Qi himself, so he could only allow the Dragon Pearl to output a small amount each day, gradually consuming the four streams of Fighting Qi. After three days, all four streams of external Fighting Qi within Liu Guanfeng had disappeared. The other Fighting Qi also returned to the Dragon Pearl after patrolling his body.
When all the Chaotic Qi returned to the Dragon Pearl, Liu Guanfeng's eyes slowly opened. Seeing that Liu Guanfeng had awakened, Nangong Rong was so happy that she almost jumped up, and a smile that had been absent for days appeared on Liu Yong'an's face.
The first sensation Liu Guanfeng felt upon waking was pain; his whole body hurt intensely. Even moving his arm caused him to grimace, but Liu Guanfeng did not cry out. Enduring the excruciating pain, he sat up against the headboard with Liu Yong'an's help. Although he did not shout in pain, the sweat on his face conveyed all his feelings.
Nangong Rong wiped the sweat from Liu Guanfeng's face with a towel while crying. Liu Guanfeng struggled to squeeze out a smile: "Mother, please don't cry. I'm fine."
"Still saying you're fine? Look at how much you're hurting. Your face is drenched in sweat," Nangong Rong complained.
His father, Liu Yong'an, stood nearby: "Feng'er, what exactly happened? Tell me everything."
"Yes, Father. I was collecting firewood at the foot of the mountain when many mercenaries suddenly appeared—there were probably over fifty of them... Their goal might have been the treasures I obtained in the palace, but those four assassins were definitely not after treasures; their target was my life. Therefore, I believe this was likely a premeditated assassination attempt against me."
Liu Yong'an nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, Liu Guanfeng remembered something and reached into his pocket; Sun Guangshan's letter was gone. Noticing that Liu Guanfeng was looking for something, Liu Yong'an asked, "Are you looking for that letter?" Liu Guanfeng nodded.
"I've already read the letter; you don't need to worry about it."
"Father, could you please bring my suitcase over?" Liu Guanfeng pointed to the suitcase under the bed. Liu Yong'an placed Liu Guanfeng's suitcase on his lap. Liu Guanfeng opened it and took out the Golden Hairpin that Sun Guangshan had given him, handing it to Nangong Rong: "Mother, this Golden Hairpin is a Royal Gift from the king. I give it to you."
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