Chapter 524 - 524: I Fear the Snake Has Already Been Startled

The Qiao Family, a major clan prominent in Kun City of Yun Province for many years, was annihilated by Jiang Xinghai single-handedly!

This incredibly vivid scene left everyone present stunned and sighing in disbelief.

As one of the most powerful and influential families in Kun City, Yun Province, the Qiao Family's strength was truly profound.

And yet Jiang Xinghai had annihilated such a powerful family all by himself!

What immense hatred, what incredible audacity it must have taken!

"That's right. For Miss Yu Li's sake, Mr. Jiang pursued them all the way to the Qiao Family estate and wiped out their entire clan!"

Zhu Yan's expression grew grave. "The only one who escaped was the man I just mentioned, Qiao Sihai!"

"Divine Doctor Jiang, you did all this... for me?" Yu Li's beautiful eyes filled with emotion as tears streamed down her face.

"Divine Doctor Jiang, right now we're only speculating that the Qiao Family is part of the Gu Clan. Do you have any concrete proof? If not, to forcibly annihilate an entire family... isn't that a bit cruel? We should at least have enough evidence to support our theory." Yu Zhuo gazed intently at Jiang Xinghai, his heart awash with doubt and worry.

He had heard from his daughter, Yu Li, that Jiang Xinghai was a powerful master of Medical Martial Arts.

But he never imagined Jiang Xinghai was so powerful that he could destroy the Qiao Family all by himself!

"Proof? I'll show you right now."

Jiang Xinghai's gaze fell upon Yu Zhuo. "Cruel? Am I as cruel as Qiao Sihai? He planted a Gu-in-Gu inside your daughter. It's an exceptionally vicious Gu Technique. His goal was to use your daughter as a Tripod Furnace. Would you call that cruel? Am *I* the cruel one here?"

"What?!"

Jiang Xinghai's words struck him like a sharp blade. Yu Zhuo's face instantly went deathly pale, and the doubts and worries in his heart felt as though they'd been lanced wide open.

He never could have imagined it.

That Qiao Sihai, a man he once considered a friend, would do something like this to his daughter!

"Divine Doctor Jiang, you're saying he turned me into a... a Tripod Furnace?" Yu Li's gaze was a mixture of disbelief and fury.

"What's a Tripod Furnace? How could this happen...?" Yu Li's mother pulled her into an embrace, her body trembling all over.

"Mom..." Yu Li collapsed into her mother's arms, and the two women wept together.

Jiang Xinghai stood, lit a cigarette, and looked out the window. He spoke, enunciating each word. "The so-called Tripod Furnace... Ma'am, you can think of it like cooking a meal. Once the dish is ready, you eat it, fill your stomach, and absorb all the nutrients. To be blunt, it means the victim is drained of their very last drop of essence."

"AH!!!"

Other than Zhu Yan and Yu Zhuo, who had already heard of this, the other three—Yu Li, her mother, and Qin Shuang—were so shocked their jaws nearly hit the floor.

'To think such things actually happen in this world!'

"And another thing—"

Jiang Xinghai slowly turned back, taking a deep breath to calm himself. "This is the reality of the situation. Your daughter has been made into a Tripod Furnace. She has two weeks. If we can't find Qiao Sihai by then, she will not escape death."

Yu Zhuo's body shuddered as an indescribable pain surged through his heart.

It was as if a hand had seized his heart, squeezing so tightly he could barely breathe.

"Why would that animal Qiao Sihai do this to my daughter? That bastard! All those years I treated him like a dear friend, and he... he..."

Yu Zhuo knew this was no time for complaints. Saving his daughter was the only thing that mattered.

"Divine Doctor Jiang, if we find Qiao Sihai... are you certain you can save my daughter?" Yu Zhuo's gaze was filled with desperation and helplessness.

Looking at Yu Zhuo's expression, Jiang Xinghai couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy.

What happened to Yu Li had dealt a heavy blow to the entire Yu Family.

"Right now, the most important thing is finding Qiao Sihai."

Jiang Xinghai turned to Zhu Yan. "Can you pinpoint his approximate location?"

Zhu Yan frowned. "On surveillance footage from half a month ago, he appeared in the Provincial City and eventually disappeared near the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple. He hasn't been seen since. I didn't make any rash moves or search the area, for fear of tipping him off. I just placed lookouts in a one-kilometer perimeter around the temple to make sure he doesn't leave."

"That's great!"

The look of pleasant surprise on Yu Zhuo's face suddenly twisted into a savage scowl. "But he's probably already been tipped off! Divine Doctor Jiang, you wiped out the Qiao Family! News of that has surely reached Qiao Sihai's ears by now. You were too impulsive!"

"Logically, you would be right."

Jiang Xinghai looked at the furious Yu Zhuo, but he didn't get angry. He simply said, "However, with the War Department involved, news of the Qiao Family's destruction has been contained to just the few of us here."

"What? The War Department is involved...?" Hearing the words "War Department," Yu Zhuo was taken aback.

Zhu Yan chimed in, "That's correct. The War Department has intervened. The news about the Qiao Family will only be made public after we've captured Qiao Sihai."

As she spoke, she presented her credentials.

'If the War Department is involved, then of course the news would be under a tight lockdown.'

"But I don't understand. The Qiao Family was a huge clan. How could they just disappear without any of the neighbors hearing a whisper?" Yu Zhuo then looked toward Lulu and Jiang Xinghai.

'Isn't this just deluding ourselves?'