Chapter 51: The Same Person, Joint Execution by Two Sects

After stepping into the teahouse, the male doctor felt an inexplicable sense of being followed.

He abruptly turned his head, only to see Jiang Chen standing not far away.

"Ye Qingchan really overestimates herself, daring to stay behind all alone to confront two grandmasters of martial arts!"

The male doctor merely looked slightly surprised before breaking into a mocking laugh. "She sent you to capture me, aren't she afraid you'll die by my hands?"

With his strength as an advanced martial arts master, as long as Ye Qingchan—who was a grandmaster—did not personally make a move, he was fully confident he could kill any martial arts master belonging to the Hidden Dragon Envoy squad.

"Take off your mask and lead me to the one you call Lord Sato, or I'll break your arms first," Jiang Chen commanded in an unquestionable tone.

"I see you're tired of living! Want to break my arms? Then I'll shatter all four of your limbs!"

A fierce glint flashed in the male doctor's eyes. With a ferocious roar, he raised his fist and charged violently at Jiang Chen.

"Bang... Crack, crack... Puff, puff, puff..."

With a single punch, Jiang Chen shattered the male doctor's entire arm, his bones splintering all the way from his fingertips up to his shoulder. Sent flying backward, the doctor vomited a mouthful of blood, staining his mask red as it was forcefully dislodged from his face.

The male doctor's true identity was finally revealed—he was none other than the middle-aged Yamato man from the photograph on Jiang Chen's phone!

"Ah... You, you are not an advanced martial arts master..."

Lying on the ground and wailing in agony, the male doctor trembled as he spoke through a blood-filled mouth.

He had suspected Jiang Chen was a martial arts grandmaster, yet Jiang Chen did not exhibit any externalized internal energy, and his strength was terrifyingly high!

Jiang Chen stepped forward, grabbed him by the throat, and asked with surging murderous intent, "Was the massacre of the Jiang family carried out by your Yamato ninjas?"

"N-no, it wasn't us... When we arrived in Linzhou, the Jiang family had already been wiped out..."

The male doctor choked in panic, using his unbroken left hand to pry at the iron-vise grip around his neck.

"Then how did you know I might still be alive? And why did you seek me out?"

Recalling what Su Jinxi had overheard, Jiang Chen tightened his grip on the doctor's neck, his killing intent undiminished as he demanded an answer.

"I, I... I don't know... It was Lord Sato... His orders..."

Feeling as though his neck was about to be crushed, the male doctor grew so terrified that his voice became faint and weak.

"Take me to him!"

Jiang Chen commanded once more.

Daring not to show any more arrogance, the male doctor trembled and pointed the way with his left hand.

Guided by him, Jiang Chen arrived outside a tea-tasting room and kicked the door open with a single blow.

An elderly man in traditional samurai attire sitting cross-legged before a tea table, and a stunning woman sitting cross-legged on a chair playing with a snake, instantly came into Jiang Chen's view.

"It's you?!"

Upon recognizing Jiang Chen, the samurai-clad elder was so startled that he grabbed the katana beside the tea table and sprang to his feet.

Seeing this, the glamorous woman cautiously looked Jiang Chen up and down. A young man, strikingly handsome... He matched the description given by the old man Sato of the Dragon Soul's advanced martial arts grandmaster! The only thing left to confirm was his actual strength!

"Who is the culprit behind the massacre of the Jiang family?"

Striding into the tea-tasting room with a murderous aura, Jiang Chen fixed his gaze on the elder in samurai attire and demanded.

The elder froze momentarily. Why would an advanced martial arts grandmaster from Dragon Soul care about the murderers of the Jiang family?

"Lord Sato... Save me... He is Jiang Chen..."

The male doctor screamed at the top of his lungs, using every ounce of his remaining strength to beg for help.

"What?! He is Jiang Chen?! He and the advanced martial arts grandmaster of Dragon Soul are the same person?!"

The samurai-clad elder blurted out in utter shock.

Although he had instructed the male doctor to investigate Jiang Chen, he had never laid eyes on Jiang Chen in person, especially since Jiang Chen had been missing and his fate unknown.

However, there was concrete evidence identifying Jiang Chen as the Dragon Soul's advanced grandmaster.

Ninjas had investigated surveillance footage showing Ye Qingchan, the captain of the Dragon Soul's Hidden Dragon Envoy squad, personally driving for Jiang Chen—proof enough that Jiang Chen's status far surpassed hers.

Furthermore, after the ninjas led by Kenichi Yoshino were killed, surveillance video captured Jiang Chen carrying the injured Ye Qingchan to the hospital, indicating that Jiang Chen was the one who had done the killing and saved Ye Qingchan.

Yet, never in his wildest dreams had he expected that Jiang Chen of the Jiang family was the very same advanced martial arts grandmaster of Dragon Soul!

"Sato Harumori, what is the meaning of this? You better explain yourself clearly!"

The glamorous woman demanded, using his full name. This old bastard was definitely hiding something from her.

"Jade Viper, calm down. The situation is somewhat unexpected, but it won't affect the outcome!"

Sato Harumori explained, "Four years ago, the Linzhou Jiang family was annihilated. The son of the Jiang family, Jiang Chen, vanished without a trace—neither dead nor alive. I never imagined he was rescued by Dragon Soul!"

"In a mere four years, Jiang Chen has gone from an ordinary person to an advanced martial arts grandmaster. This shows just how terrifying his martial arts talent and physical potential truly are!"

"If you can absorb his vital energy and primordial blood, breaking through your bottleneck and increasing your strength—or even breaking past your limits to a higher realm—will not be impossible!"

Upon hearing this, the glamorous woman, Jade Viper, felt her heart race. She looked at Jiang Chen with eyes burning with fiery greed, wishing she could devour him alive on the spot!

Jiang Chen had expected Sato Harumori to reveal the truth behind the destruction of the Jiang family, but instead of saying a word, this old scumbag was discussing with the glamorous woman nearby how to harvest his vital essence to nourish themselves!

They were all simply in such a rush to die!

"Crack!"

Jiang Chen snapped the male doctor's neck on the spot.

The male doctor died with everlasting regret, his bulging eyes seeming to silently ask why—he wasn't the one planning to harvest Jiang Chen's vital energy and blood, so why was he the one to die?

"Boom!"

Jiang Chen violently hurled the doctor's corpse straight at Sato Harumori, the whistling gale reeking of a heavy scent of blood.

"Whoosh... Slash!"

Sato Harumori swung his katana in a fierce arc, slicing the male doctor's corpse cleanly in two. Blood gushed into midair, and shattered internal organs rained across the floor.

"Jade Viper, what are you waiting for? Make your move!"

Sato Harumori urged the glamorous woman. He had summoned Jade Viper to help kill, not to watch the show and sit back to reap the benefits!

"Don't hack him to pieces, and save some of his blood—I still want to drink it!"

Jade Viper reminded Sato Harumori with a smile, before flicking the white-lipped bamboo viper on her wrist straight at Jiang Chen. "Go on, my pet, taste him for me first!"

Nurtured through the secret techniques of the Myriad Poison Sect, her white-lipped bamboo viper possessed immense toxicity. A single bite would poison even a martial arts grandmaster into unconsciousness, and failure to purge the venom swiftly would result in death!

Opening its cavernous jaws and baring its venom-dripping, needle-sharp fangs, the white-lipped bamboo viper lunged at Jiang Chen's throat.

"Bang... Puff..."

Surrounded by swirling true qi, Jiang Chen threw a single punch that blasted the white-lipped bamboo viper into a bloody mist.

"No! My baby..."

The smile vanished instantly from Jade Viper's face. Screaming, she opened her arms in a vain attempt to recall the snake, but not even a scrap of its carcass remained.

Sato Harumori was equally struck with terror. He had always harbored deep apprehension toward the white-lipped bamboo viper, constantly worried Jade Viper might launch a sneak attack and have the snake bite him.

Yet Jiang Chen had obliterated the snake with such brutal, simple force. Not only was he decisive in his slaughter, but was he not even afraid of the poison?

"I'll kill you! I'll avenge my baby!"

Jade Viper shrieked in furious rage. Internal energy enveloped her hands, and her sharp fingernails, resembling razor blades, clawed viciously at Jiang Chen's throat.

"Slash!"

Sato Harumori coordinated his attack with Jade Viper. Gripping his katana with both hands, he condensed terrifying blade aura and slashed fiercely toward Jiang Chen's waist.