"Oh, right. There’s something else I need to tell you." Su Qing had no intention of letting them off so easily.
Ye Yue Taishun and Sheng Chuanchua glared at Su Qing with bloodshot eyes, struggling with all their might, but it was futile. No matter what tricks they had up their sleeves, they were powerless to use them now.
"You’re so merciless. Do you really think you can get away with this in the middle of nowhere?" Sheng Chuanchua seethed through clenched teeth. "One day, what you’ve done will be exposed. When that happens, the Ye Yue Family and the Shengchuan Family will not let you go!"
"Oh," Su Qing replied nonchalantly. The casualness of it stunned Ye Yue Taishun and Sheng Chuanchua with rage. Then they heard Su Qing continue calmly, "What I wanted to tell you was that I’ve already destroyed the Array you set up over on your side."
"Who told you?" Sheng Chuanchua felt they had been extremely secretive. ’The only way Su Qing could have known is if we have a traitor on our side. But who could it be?’ His heart filled with desolation. ’To think that after a lifetime of being shrewd, I might die a silent death in this desolate wilderness, all because of a traitor.’
"You don’t need to worry about that," Su Qing said with a small smile. "Also, I have something else to tell you. Ye Yue Taidou is already dead. And that Shengchuan Gong from the Shengchuan Family won’t be alive for much longer. I suspect the rest of them aren’t very safe, either."
"What... what did you say?" Ye Yue Taishun’s face was a mask of shock. ’Ye Yue Taidou is dead?’
Ye Yue Taishun was covered in wounds, many of which hadn’t been staunched, and he had already lost a lot of blood. Hearing Su Qing’s words sent a profound shock through him. Ye Yue Taidou was his own younger brother. The Ye Yue Family only had three elders in total. Now, with his own life hanging by a thread and his brother already dead, the Ye Yue Family’s power was bound to diminish drastically. They would likely be picked apart and consumed by other factions. Thinking of the Ye Yue Family’s probable fate, Ye Yue Taishun coughed up another mouthful of blood in his distress, his breathing growing even fainter.
Sheng Chuanchua, on the other hand, glared daggers at Su Qing, wishing he could drink her blood and devour her flesh. "I’ll haunt you even as a ghost!"
Sheng Chuanchua knew there was no escape for him today.
Su Qing gave a faint smile. "If oaths like that were effective, the innocent people you’ve killed would have dealt with you long ago. They wouldn’t have had to wait for me to take action today."
As she spoke, Su Qing slowly raised her hand.
Seeing Su Qing’s movement, Ye Yue Taishun and Sheng Chuanchua began to curse her furiously. But cursing was all they could do. Today, they were fated to die an incredibly frustrating and unwilling death.
Su Qing looked at the ground around her, which had returned to being a simple patch of grass. She then glanced in the direction of Japan. She knew that Qian Ying was there right now, unleashing her furious revenge upon the Ye Yue Family and the Shengchuan Family. In any case, she estimated that the Ye Yue Family and the Shengchuan Family in Japan would soon be history.
With this, Japan’s Array Technique project would probably be shelved for a long time.
Su Qing went to where the Stone Pillars were stored. She took out the ones she had collected in Japan and, along with the eighty-one pillars from this location, shattered them all into dust and scattered them. Afterwards, she cleaned up everything in the tent area before slowly making her way down the mountain.
Meanwhile, in Japan, things were just as Su Qing had imagined. Qian Ying had launched her frenzied revenge. Members of the Shengchuan Family and Ye Yue Family were constantly meeting with "accidents," either ending up severely injured or dead. Yet, no one could find the real culprit. For a time, the members of both families were in a state of utter panic, holing up in their homes and not daring to take a single step outside, terrified they would become the next wrongful death.
For years, the Ye Yue Family and the Shengchuan Family had used countless underhanded methods to become the top Yin Yang Master Family in Japan. The two families even had constant friction with each other, both vying for the number one spot. Now, it was a different story. Forget being number one; it was questionable whether they could even protect their own family members and ensure their lineage continued. The Onmyoji and Yin Yang Master Families who had suffered at their hands before were more than happy to watch the spectacle. No one had any intention of helping them. It was a classic case of everyone kicking a man when he’s down.
As a result, the Ye Yue Family and the Shengchuan Family declined at a speed visible to the naked eye, while new Yin Yang Master Families were slowly rising to take their place. The rankings of Japan’s Yin Yang Master Families were about to be refreshed.
After coming out of the Qinling mountains, Su Qing had originally planned to head straight back to Beijing. But then she remembered the promise she’d made to Cao Zhengming. She made a call home, asking Mr. Li to inform Cao Zhengming to send people to Maqu County. It was the perfect opportunity for her to lead them into the mountains to dig for ginseng.
Now that Su Qing’s Wood Ability had reached the Seventh Rank, even though her Domain was still limited to a three-kilometer radius, the moment she entered a forest, she could form a wondrous, pulsating connection with the entire mountain. Through this connection, she could precisely sense the "touch" and aura of plants. As a result, finding high-vintage wild ginseng was an effortless, almost trivial, matter for her.
"Dean Cao!" Su Qing was closer to Maqu County than Beijing, so after waiting in Maqu County for two days, the people from Beijing finally arrived. Seeing the person in the lead, Su Qing couldn’t help but ask in surprise, "Why did you come in person?"
’Wow,’ she thought. ’The dean of Beijing First Hospital personally came all the way to Xiqing Mountain to look for medicinal herbs.’ Cao Zhengming was in his early fifties, after all; trekking into the deep mountains was no easy task.
Cao Zhengming chuckled and said to Su Qing, "Ah, Little Su, we’re counting on you this time. I didn’t have much going on recently, so I just came along. Don’t you worry, I’m in great shape. Climbing mountains is absolutely no problem for me."
If he had to wait in Beijing, Cao Zhengming felt he would have been too restless to get any work done. It was better to just come to Xiqing Mountain himself.
Cao Zhengming introduced Su Qing to the people he had brought, and then introduced them to her. Aside from a rather prestigious traditional Chinese medicine doctor, the people Cao Zhengming brought this time were all younger doctors and interns from the hospital’s traditional Chinese medicine department. He wanted to give them more practical experience and exposure to wild herbs, which would be beneficial for their future careers.
And this traditional Chinese medicine doctor that Cao Zhengming had brought was someone Su Qing knew. It was an elder from the Bai Family of Beijing, Mr. Bai’s second son, Bai Qingyuan. Furthermore, Bai Minyun had also come along.
Su Qing greeted Bai Qingyuan, and Bai Minyun grinned as she ran forward to hug Su Qing. "Su Qing! I was thinking that since it’s summer break, we could finally hang out, but you weren’t even in Beijing! This is great, though. Now we can go herb-gathering in the mountains together!"
Ever since getting to know Su Qing, Bai Minyun would often ask her out to eat, so the two of them were very close.
Su Qing smiled and hugged Bai Minyun’s arm, but she keenly felt a hostile gaze on her.