Best Young Master
Chapter 471 - 418: Front, Pawn

Chapter 471: Chapter 418: Front, Pawn

Just like the Yanhuang organization East Sea Branch, the Yanhuang Organization Southeast Asia Office also has a secret prison located beneath its office building, built three years ago for detaining martial artists who commit offenses in the Southeast Asia Special Zone.

Approaching noon at twelve o’clock, two members of the Yanhuang Organization Southeast Asia Office, acting as prison guards, performed their duties as usual and inspected the entire prison, checking on the condition of the inmates.

According to regulations, they must conduct patrols four times a day, at eight in the morning, twelve at noon, six in the evening, and midnight.

Soon, the two members of the Yanhuang Organization Southeast Asia Office finished patrolling the first and second floors underground and arrived at the third underground level.

Generally speaking, the third level underground holds important prisoners whose strength is mostly above the Early Innate Realm.

Because the prisoners held on the third ground level are so powerful, the security forces are correspondingly stronger; not only are members of the Yanhuang organization guarding the entrances and exits, but there are also people monitoring every cell with a prisoner.

"What’s the situation?"

The two Yanhuang Organization members responsible for the patrol soon arrived at the door of the innermost cell on the third level and asked the colleague in charge of surveillance.

"Ever since he was locked up in the cell, he has been meditating and cultivating," the member in charge of monitoring said, his expression inadvertently revealing a hint of admiration.

In his memory, few cultivators locked up in this secret prison were as calm as Ye Fan.

"Oh?"

The two members in charge of the patrol were slightly startled upon hearing this, then took a few steps forward and looked down through the specially constructed railing at their feet, only to see Ye Fan sitting cross-legged on the bed, as serene as an old monk in meditation.

Seeing this scene, the two members looked at each other, both seeing confusion in the other’s eyes.

Because Ye Fan’s strength was so formidable, Yan Lei, fearing that Ye Fan would escape, thus had him locked up in the highly secure third-level prison.

And strictly speaking, according to Yanhuang Organization’s regulations, this was a breach of conduct, infringing upon Ye Fan’s human rights—Ye Fan should have been at most detained in an interrogation room!

Originally, they thought such an infringement of human rights would make Ye Fan, known as Huaxia’s number one young master, angry, but instead of getting angry and protesting, Ye Fan was calmly meditating in his cell...

"Could it be that he thinks nothing will happen to him, which is why he’s so calm?"

Almost at the same time, the two members of the Yanhuang Organization patrolling harbored the same doubt in their hearts; they then withdrew their gaze and stepped away to report to Yan Lei in his office.

Inside the cell, Ye Fan had long since sensed the presence of the two Yanhuang Organization members but paid no attention and continued to immerse in his cultivation.

At this moment, his mind was highly focused, continuously absorbing the essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi flowing from the Crimson Golden Crown.

Stream after stream of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi essence, under Ye Fan’s control, circulated along the route of the Grand Circulation time and again, then quietly transformed into Power, which after compression and condensation became the Essence of Power stored within the Power Seed.

"Finally, I’ve unblocked the seventieth vital acupoint and formed a Power Seed within it!" Ye Fan rejoiced in his heart upon forming a Power Seed in the seventieth vital acupoint.

Due to the special nature of the "Nine Heavens Profound Skill" he was cultivating, he had to generate Power Seeds filled with the Essence of Power in seventy-two vital acupoints within his body to enter the Peak of Innate Realm!

By yesterday evening, Ye Fan, who was at the Innate Great Success Realm, had only forty-seven vital acupoints with Power Seeds.

From last night until now, by absorbing the essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi exuded by the Crimson Golden Crown, he had formed twenty-three more Power Seeds, and just had to form three more to step into the Peak of Innate Realm!

And according to Ye Fan’s plan, once he reached the Peak stage of Innate, he would stop absorbing the essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi from the Crimson Golden Crown.

Because in his view, although the mysterious red-black token harboring the souls of two ancient peerless masters was extraordinary, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi essence, converted from the special Primordial Qi in the token by the Crown, could not possibly be endless.

After making such a judgment, he compared it with the essence of Pure Yang Qi in the Taiyin Xuan Sword and vaguely felt that the essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, converted by the Crimson Golden Crown from the token’s special Primordial Qi, would hardly sustain his cultivation to the Innate Great Perfection Realm.

In such a circumstance, he must save some essence for Ye Wenhao to restore his Essence of Power.

Clang—

Later, just as Ye Fan was absorbing the essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi flowing out of the Crimson Golden Crown, filling the seventieth Power Seed with abundant Essence of Power, the cell door above made of special material slowly opened.

Hearing the sound, Ye Fan stopped cultivating, slowly opened his eyes, and looked up, only to see the figure of Yan Lei.

"Ye Fan, Director Yan will personally interrogate you. You can choose to take the elevator up, or you can jump up on your own," said a Yanhuang Organization Southeast Asia Office member, at the Innate Great Perfection Realm, standing beside Yan Lei, in a cold voice.

Besides him, there were two other Yanhuang Organization members at the Peak of Innate Realm accompanying Yan Lei.

Such an arrangement could be said to be the highest among all the Yanhuang Organization’s branches.

This was also because Southeast Asia is a Special Zone, vast in territory and difficult to manage due to the mixed population.

And now, Yan Lei bringing three people to interrogate Ye Fan was sufficient to show his regard for, or more accurately, his wariness of Ye Fan—he had not learned from Chen Feilian that Zorro had been killed by Ye Fan himself, but he believed that Ye Fan, capable of escaping from the hands of three Half-step Gang Qi realm masters, was very likely his equal in strength, a matchless existence among the Innate Great Perfection Realm!

"Slap—"

Upon hearing the order, Ye Fan stomped on the ground forcefully, leveraging the recoil to soar up effortlessly, exiting the underground cell.

Hmm?

Upon witnessing this scene, the pupils of Yan Lei and all the other Yanhuang Organization members involuntarily constricted, their faces betraying a hint of caution.

Because, through Ye Fan’s actions, they could tell that Ye Fan’s movement technique was stronger than that of a typical cultivator at the peak of the Innate Great Perfection realm.

This also meant that if Ye Fan had wanted to escape from prison last night, this specially made cell would have been useless—Ye Fan could have completely used the Xuanye Flying Blade to break open the cell door and flee!

And indeed, that was the case.

The reason Ye Fan showed no complaint about being imprisoned against regulations was largely because he judged that he could escape.

His reason for not choosing to flee was partly to see how events would unfold, waiting for his opponents to show their hand first, and partly to confirm his own judgment made long ago—that the Ye Family was ostensibly preparing Ye Wenhao for succession but had actually chosen Ye Wenhai!

"Take him away!"

After a brief moment of astonishment, Yan Lei gave the instruction with a grave voice and took the lead in stepping out to leave.

Upon hearing Yan Lei’s order, two members at the peak of the Innate realm immediately escorted Ye Fan from both sides, while a Yanhuang Organization member at the peak of Innate Great Perfection followed close behind, ready to act at the first sign of any movement from Ye Fan.

The Yanhuang Organization Southeast Asia Office’s secret prison had an interrogation room on every floor, which, at first glance, looked identical to those in a police station. However, whether it was the walls, windows, doors, or even the tiger bench, all were made from special materials. Without the use of a magic artifact, even cultivators at the Great Perfection of Innate would not be able to break through using mere strength.

Upon entering the interrogation room, Yan Lei unhesitatingly took the seat of the chief interrogator, while the member at the Great Perfection of Innate sat as the deputy. The other two Peak Innate members escorted Ye Fan towards the specially made tiger bench.

"Wait!"

Gazing at the specially made tiger bench, Ye Fan halted in anger swelling on his face.

"Ye Fan, what are you trying to do?" The member at the realm of Innate Great Perfection asked coldly upon hearing this.

Ye Fan ignored the Innate Great Perfection Yanhuang Organization member and narrowed his eyes at Yan Lei: "I need to make a phone call first!"

"A phone call?"

Hearing Ye Fan’s words, Yan Lei let out a cold laugh, "Ye Fan, according to the rules of the Yanhuang Organization, you have no right to contact the outside world. Moreover, you must surrender any magic artifacts you possess, sit in that chair, and be handcuffed and shackled for interrogation!"

"That’s impossible!"

Ye Fan retorted coldly: "If you don’t let me make a call, I won’t accept the interrogation, nor will I sit on that damn chair or be shackled with handcuffs and leg irons!"

"How insolent!"

Yan Lei erupted in anger at this response: "Ye Fan, please take a good look and understand your current identity! Do you still see yourself as Huaxia’s number one young master? Let me tell you, you are a suspect of criminal activity! And, with the evidence in my hands, I have enough to prove that everything reported in that news article is true!"

"I can tell you emphatically that, this time, you must take responsibility for your actions!"

Yan Lei paused briefly here before sharply raising his voice, "Moreover, don’t expect your father to save you! At this moment, he has been suspended and is preparing to be investigated by a special committee from Yanjing! Once the committee finds any illegal conduct, he too will have to pay a price for it!"

"What did you say??"

Ye Fan’s face suddenly changed as he was taken aback by Yan Lei’s words.

Although he had long suspected that the Ye Family’s public preparation for Ye Wenhao’s succession was just a smokescreen, with the real intent for Ye Wenhai to be the successor,

Still—

When his inner suspicions were confirmed, he was still shocked!

He had not anticipated that the Ye Family would be so anxious to make his father Ye Wenhao a sacrificial pawn!

After the shock, the anger that Ye Fan had been keeping under control was like a flame being ignited, bursting into fury in an instant!

"Let me remind you again, this time, no one can save you. The only thing you can do is to fully confess your criminal actions and hope for leniency,"

Noticing Ye Fan’s fury, Yan Lei smiled coldly and began to speak officiously, seemingly not at all worried that Ye Fan would take action, but rather appearing somewhat anticipative!

Firstly, even though he was somewhat wary of Ye Fan’s capabilities, he didn’t believe that Ye Fan could single-handedly harm him or his colleagues.

Secondly, and more importantly, in his view, should Ye Fan dare to brazenly attack him and his colleagues, then Ye Fan would be challenging the entire Yanhuang Organization and crossing its bottom line!

At that time, even if Chu Xuanji himself intervened, there would be no saving Ye Fan!!

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PS: Second update!

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