Chapter Thirty: In life, there are some things that cannot be mistaken.

  Shi Qianshan's face changed color. Chu Yang's words had struck his sore spot! He couldn't help but suddenly raise his head, looking at Chu Yang, and asked solemnly: "What do you mean?"

  "My point is, you'll understand once you've eaten the meal." Chu Yang looked at him, his eyes gradually turning icy as he said slowly: "I want to see if the poison in this bowl of rice can kill a person. To be honest, I've always been very curious about this!"

  Shi Qianshan's heart sank instantly. He forced a smile and said, "You, you're joking, right?"

  Chu Yang chuckled and said, "This joke isn't fun? Then let's have a better one!" He suddenly walked over to the bedside with his bowl, and plopped himself down on the bed. Just right, he sat on the spot where Shi Qian Shan's broken leg was about to heal. With a cracking sound, the newly healed bone broke again!

  Shi Qian Shan let out a blood-curdling scream, his entire body trembling with pain. Sweat the size of soybeans continuously broke out on his face. His body curled up like a shrimp.

  Just as he was about to let out a loud cry, a wad of cotton that Chu Yang had swiftly pulled out from under the quilt was stuffed into his mouth. Chu Yang's movements were quick and efficient, without any hesitation or delay. In just an instant, the task was completed, and even if it were an old prison guard who had served for decades, he probably wouldn't be able to keep up with Chu Yang's swift and smooth actions.

  Shi Qianshan's miserable cry was ruthlessly suppressed, turning into a stifled sob in his throat. Unable to make a sound, he could only stare at Chu Yang with a pair of terrified eyes, shaking his head repeatedly, sweat pouring down like rain.

  Chu Yang held a bowl in one hand, motionless, but his other hand was clamped around Shi Qian Shan's neck, leaning forward, his eyes coldly staring at him, and said in a deep voice: "Shi Qian Shan, I didn't think I'd kill you so soon! I haven't vented enough yet! Unfortunately, what you did today touched my bottom line!"

  Shi Qian's mouth was low and mournful, his eyes full of resentment and fear. He struggled desperately, but it pulled on the wound again, and he sweated profusely in pain.

  "Shi Qianshan, how have you treated me and Tanlang all these years? Let's not mention that for now! Eight years ago, your family was robbed at the foot of Duan Yun Mountain. Your entire family's lives were under the knife of bandits, and it seemed like they wouldn't be spared. Your own sister would have been brutally violated by those thieves. It was Master who happened to pass by and saved your family's lives, preserving your sister's chastity! Afterwards, your family knelt on the ground and begged pitifully, and Master saw that you had some potential, so he took you in as a disciple, teaching you martial arts and knowledge. If you didn't know how to repay kindness, that would be one thing, but today you actually poisoned Master, wanting to put him to death?! Are you still human?!"

  "You're simply cruel and ruthless!"

  Shi Qianshan's face momentarily revealed a hint of shame, but it was quickly hidden, and he glared at Chu Yang with an intense gaze that seemed to want to devour him. He showed no signs of remorse! Suddenly, he let out a violent cough, and a stream of fresh blood gushed up from his throat, its momentum extremely fierce, and the powerful force actually blew out a ball of cotton from his mouth with a loud "puff" sound.

  Fresh blood splattered on his chest, staining the quilt. He stared at Chu Yang, but didn't utter a sound of pain.

  "Chu Yang, stop pretending to be a hypocrite in front of me! Your tricks are useless here. I've long since looked down on such methods!" Shi Qianshan said in a low voice, coughing up blood that continued to flow from his mouth, "I'm ungrateful and disloyal, so what? I wanted to poison you all, so what? I have wild ambitions and a heart as cruel as a wolf's, what of it?"

  Shi Qian Shan panted, his chest heaving: "...If it weren't for this time being implicated by you, Chu Yang, how would I have broken my leg and suffered serious injuries? If I hadn't broken my leg, how would I have missed the opportunity of the Great Summit Competition? If I hadn't missed this opportunity, how would my life be a bleak one? Everything is because of you, Chu Yang! I will not live under the same sky as you! As for Master..." Hmph...

  Shi Qianshan sneered, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand: "Do you think Meng Chaoran has a good heart? Why did he save my whole family back then? Wasn't it because he had taken a liking to my sister's beauty? If not for my father's timely discovery and immediately arranging for my sister to get married after we returned home, she would have fallen into his hands long ago. Don't be fooled by his appearance as a gentleman, he's actually a lustful scoundrel! Sometimes at night, I still hear him calling out 'Chu Chu, Chu Chu'! Haven't I heard it before? Chu Chu is my sister's nickname! This lustful devil!"

  He himself will inevitably be unable to escape today, and he actually said all the evil in his heart, saying it with relish.

  In the dining hall, Meng Chaoran heard the commotion from afar and suddenly felt a jolt throughout his body. His face turned purple with rage, and with a loud crack, he crushed the teacup in his hand to smithereens. The fragments fell from his fingers as Meng Chaoran's whiskers stood on end. He let out a mighty roar, exhaling a blast of air that shot out like a cannonball, punching a huge hole through the thick wooden door!

  "Hahaha... I was right! I was right! This old scoundrel, what great kindness and virtue... Hahaha..." Shi Qianshan's maniacal laughter.

  Chu Yang let out a loud roar and struck down with his palm!

  Suddenly, with a loud crash, the wall burst open, and in the midst of flying dust, Meng Chaoran rushed in through the hole, grabbing Chu Yang's wrist! He knew that Chu Yang would not be able to endure this conversation, and would immediately take action, without even having time to enter from the door.

  "You... old scoundrel, what else do you have to say?" Shi Qianshan saw him come in, first instinctively shrinking back a bit, then suddenly shouting loudly.

  Shi Qianshan held onto Chu Yang's wrist, slowly letting go, and took two rapid breaths. Miraculously, he regained his composure. Looking into Shi Qianshan's eyes, devoid of any emotion, he said calmly: "Shi Qianshan, at this moment, I am expelling you from our sect!"

  Shi Qianshan burst out laughing and said with a cough: "Meng Chaoran, do you think that at this point in time, Shi Dàyé still cares about your identity as his disciple? Bah!"

  Meng Chaoran's eyes turned cold, his voice still calm, and he said in a deep tone: "Shi Qianshan, your sister Shi Chuchu is indeed good-looking, but she hasn't reached the point where I, Meng Chaoran, would be infatuated with her."

  Shi Qianshan snorted and sneered: "Then why did you call out my sister's name in your sleep? Are you crazy?"

  Meng Chaoran's eyes flashed with anger, which was immediately replaced by a wave of sadness: "I didn't call your sister, I'm 48 years old this year, eight years ago, I was 40; your sister was only 15... Hehe, although she looks good, but Meng Chaoran is not so despicable!"

  He let out a bitter laugh and said, "The one I called was Chūchū... not Chuchu; Chūchū... the dawn of every morning, is my lover, my wife! We've been apart... for twenty years now, and I think of her every moment..."

  Meng Chaoran said coldly, "In the past when I saved your whole family, one of the reasons was that your sister's name and her...name had a word with the same pronunciation. Otherwise, in the Jianghu where the strong prey on the weak, Meng Chaoran wouldn't have interfered so much!"

  Shi Qian Shan's voice was stuck in her throat, and she couldn't speak. Suddenly, it dawned on her - no wonder Master sometimes called out to her sister with such a strange tone... It turned out that he wasn't calling out to her after all...

  Suddenly regretted it! For a moment, his intestines turned green.

  After doubting for so many years and hating for such a long time, it turned out to be a misunderstanding due to one's own wishful thinking...

  Meng Chaoran took a deep breath and said calmly, "I didn't want to explain this to you, not for your sake! But also to see you off!"

  This sentence seems to be a bit contradictory, but Chu Yang on the other side knew that Meng Chaoran's explanation was actually for himself. He didn't want his disciples to misunderstand him, and even more so, he didn't want his sacred feelings to be misunderstood by others, and someone needed to bear witness!

  Even after so many years, that affection in Meng Haoran's heart is still sacred and inviolable.

  Shi Qianshan, this time you have touched Meng Chaoran's absolute bottom line!

  Shi Qianshan's face turned pale, and he struggled to shout: "Master, I was wrong! I was wrong, it was my fault, I deserve to die... You... Please forgive me this time." As he cried out, tears flowed down his face.

  "It's too late, you should know that in life, some things can be wrong, but some things cannot be wrong! Once wrong, it's a matter of life and death!" Meng Chaoran shook his head coldly, one hand slowly stretched out, and a hint of desolation flashed in his eyes, but he didn't care about Shi Qianshan's plea at all, and resolutely slapped him down.

  Today is birthday, accompany old mom well. Hehe, update at midnight and ask for a few tickets as birthday gifts.