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Chapter 557 - 496: The Consequences Are Severe

Chapter 557: Chapter 496: The Consequences Are Severe

Nolan Changfeng was also aware of the stakes involved and didn’t dare delay, pulling out his phone immediately to make a call.

"Young Master Wang."

The call connected quickly, and a respectful voice came through the receiver. The owner of the voice was a big-time underworld boss who commanded respect in Liao Bei and even among the Dong san Provinces. Yet, he was nothing more than a dog kept by the Nolan family, known by the nickname Liu Laosan.

"Have the men you sent to Changshi Village responded yet?" Nolan Changfeng asked.

"Young Master Wang, they haven’t called me today. I think that old bastard hasn’t come down from the mountain yet..."

On the other end of the line, Liu Laosan, who was renowned in the Dong san Provinces underworld, responded with a frightened tone, worried that Nolan Changfeng might lose his temper.

"That’s good! Quick, contact them at once, and tell them not to act!"

Relieved by this news, Nolan Changfeng then said sternly, "Also, I don’t care what methods you use, make sure those two men you sent disappear from Huaxia forever and never return!"

"Uh..."

Silence followed; Liu Laosan on the phone was stunned, unsure of what drama Nolan Changfeng was enacting.

"Did you hear me?" Nolan Changfeng snapped.

"Yes... yes, Young Master Wang!"

Liu Laosan was jolted awake, answering instinctively, yet he didn’t question why Nolan Changfeng had suddenly decided to refrain from targeting the elderly Mr. Miao.

Speak only when necessary, ask questions only when appropriate.

This was the wisdom he had gathered from dealing with the powerful during his rise from an unknown thug to a prominent underworld boss in the Dong san Provinces.

"Phew~"

After ending the call, Nolan Changfeng let out a sigh of relief and placed the mobile phone on the coffee table, looking up to find Nolan Mingde with his brows furrowed tightly, silent.

"Grandpa...

"Young Nolan, go outside!"

Seeing Nolan Qi wanting to speak reluctantly, Nolan Changfeng frowned and interrupted.

"Buzz~"

As he spoke, the phone began to vibrate.

Whoosh!

In an instant, Nolan Mingde, Nolan Changfeng, and Nolan Qi all simultaneously turned their gazes toward the mobile phone on the table.

Nolan Changfeng reached for the phone and saw that it was Liu Laosan calling, then instantly answered, "Did you notify them?"

"Young... Young Master Wang, there’s trouble..."

Liu Laosan’s response was off-topic, and his tone was somewhat panicked.

"What happened?" Nolan Changfeng asked urgently, his face changing.

"I just made a call, and the person who answered wasn’t one of my men..." Liu Laosan explained, gasping for air.

"Who was it then? Where are your men?" Nolan Changfeng felt a bad premonition rising within him.

"They’ve been captured, and the person who answered is the one who captured them. He said... said... gulp..." Recalling the words he had heard earlier, Liu Laosan’s tongue stumbled, continuously swallowing as he dared not speak.

"What did he say??"

Nolan Changfeng was frantic, bellowing his question.

"He... he said, Lady Chu stated that you didn’t take Mr. Ye’s words seriously, and the consequences are severe."

Liu Laosan mustered his courage to relay the message, his words leaving his mouth as he immediately held his breath, sweating profusely from his forehead, and struggled to remain standing.

All because he guessed who that Lady Chu and Mr. Ye were!

If even Liu Laosan could guess, how could Nolan Changfeng not?

Whoosh!

Nolan Changfeng’s face changed again.

Upon learning that their plan to attack Elder Miao was leaked and caught the attention of the Yanhuang Organization, he had suspected Ye Fan was behind it, but now confirming this fact, he was both shocked and frightened.

"Tell Liu Laosan if he doesn’t want to die, he should leave Huaxia now, go as far as he can, and never return!"

In that moment, Nolan Mingde spoke up, being a dominant figure in the Half-step Gang Qi realm, he had clearly heard their conversation and, much calmer than Nolan Changfeng, instantly made the safest, most sensible decision.

"Liu Laosan, listen, you must leave Huaxia immediately!"

Hearing Nolan Mingde’s words, Nolan Changfeng understood and quickly adjusted his emotions to swiftly convey the message in an undisputed tone.

"Yes... yes, Young Master Wang..."

Liu Laosan replied weakly, then collapsed onto the sofa, drained of all strength, staring blankly.

Although he was very unwilling to give up his current identity, status, and power, he understood that if Ye Fan decided to hold him accountable, his death was inevitable—since Ye Fan could eradicate Nanqinghong, killing him would be no different from stepping on an ant!

Compared to Liu Laosan, while not as desperate and unwilling, Nolan Changfeng was also somewhat nervous: "Dad, with Liu Laosan out of Huaxia, that bastard Ye Fan won’t be able to trace this back to us, but given his way of doing things, it’s very likely he will retaliate against us. What should we do next?"

"Without Liu Laosan as the intermediary, the Yanhuang Organization can’t confirm our intention to target Mr. Miao and won’t do much to us. Also, since Mr. Miao is safe and sound, it’s unlikely that bastard will cause further trouble by breaking the rules, otherwise, he wouldn’t have allowed the Yanhuang Organization to handle this in the first place."

Nolan Mingde’s eyes sparkled with intelligence and confidence, completely unperturbed by the threat delivered by Liu Laosan.

"Phew~"

When Nolan Changfeng heard this, the anxiety hanging in his heart quietly settled.

"Ding Ling Ling——"

Just then, the hurried ring of the telephone sounded again, breaking the silence in the hall and causing Nolan Changfeng’s just-settled heart to leap to his throat.

Even Nolan Mingde was taken aback, his pupils dilated and a flicker of panic flashed across his eyes!

Almost instinctively, he looked at the caller ID on the landline and immediately saw that the caller was Shen Lang!

This discovery, as if enveloped with a kind of magic, made the panic across his face spread, eventually taking over his entire expression.

"Huh~"

A few seconds later, Nolan Mingde took a deep breath, composed himself, and then grabbed the phone, "Director Shen..."

"Nolan Mingde, I am calling you because we have a good personal relationship, yet you treat me like a monkey, setting traps for me—what do you mean by this?"

Shen Lang cut Nolan Mingde off abruptly, his tone no longer polite or friendly, but full of hostility.

"Director Shen, what happened?"

Detecting Shen Lang’s unusual tone, Nolan Mingde felt a bad premonition but asked calmly.

"You still have the face to ask me? I want to ask you!"

As Shen Lang spoke, his anger intensified, "Just now, I received another call from Elder He of the Martial Hall, who said that Leader Yan had sent him to Shenjing to deal with your Nolan family’s issues, ordering me to supervise Nolan Manor and not let any member of the Nolan family escape!"

Swipe!

Hearing Shen Lang’s words again, Nolan Mingde’s face drastically changed, his right hand trembled, and he nearly threw the phone away!

He had sensed Shen Lang’s abnormality and considered that his plot with Wu Mu to deal with Ye Fan might have been exposed, but it was only a suspicion!

Now, after hearing Shen Lang’s words, he could confirm that their actions had been exposed; otherwise, Yan, who usually let others handle affairs, would not suddenly send He Yunting, the first real power Elder of the Yanhuang Organization, to Nolan Manor!

"Nolan Mingde, at this point, do you still think of concealing things? What on earth have your Nolan family done? How could you have alarmed even Leader Yan??" Over the phone, Shen Lang was frantic, knowing he also had to bear responsibility if the Nolan family’s issues were significant!

Now that Yan had personally given orders, it proved that the crime committed by the Nolan family was severe; he had to understand how grave the matter was to devise an appropriate response strategy!

"Ye... Ye Fan killed Xiao Xuan and completely destroyed Little Qi’s Dantian and Power Seed, I was blinded by anger and thought about using Wu Mu to kill him..."

By now, Nolan Mingde knew that it was impossible to cover things up any further, continuing to hide anything was meaningless; by coming clean to Shen Lang, he might even find a glimmer of hope from him.

"What... what?"

On the other end of the line, when Shen Lang heard Nolan Mingde’s words, it felt like he had been jabbed in the butt, and he jumped up, "You... you conspired with Wu Mu to kill Ye Fan??"

"Wu Mu wanted to trade three Magic Artifacts for our Nolan family’s Soul-devouring Blade, using the resentful spirit from the Soul-devouring Blade to forge the Soul Summoning Banner. I agreed to the exchange but asked him to help me kill Ye Fan..."

"Ye... Ye Fan is dead??"

Shen Lang interrupted Nolan Mingde again, his tone also revealing some panic as he couldn’t imagine what aftermath would follow if Ye Fan were killed.

But—

He had a thousand reasons to believe that if things really went that far, the Hua Xia Cultivation World was about to change!

"Wu Mu hasn’t replied to me yet; he should not have done it yet."

Nolan Mingde thought for a moment, remembering that Wu Mu told him he would notify him if he had killed Ye Fan.

"If he’s not dead, then why would Leader Yan personally intervene?" having heard this, Shen Lang breathed a sigh of relief but immediately felt puzzled again.

"Wu... Wu Mu told me that besides using the resentful spirit from the Soul-devouring Blade, he also needed to go to the North Korea Special Zone to absorb resentful spirits and resentment energy, so he must have been discovered," Nolan Mingde replied weakly.

"So that’s it!"

Realization dawned on Shen Lang; according to Yanhuang Organization rules, it was strictly forbidden for Magicians to absorb resentful spirits or souls from graveyards using evil magic, and considering that the North Korea Special Zone was the resting place for hundreds of thousands of Hua Xia soldiers’ Heroic Souls, what Wu Mu and Ku Rong were doing amounted to desecrating those Heroic Souls, a severe violation of Yanhuang Organization rules!

"Nolan Mingde, why the hell would you provoke Ye Fan, that demon star, of all people? And... you even collaborated with Wu Mu to help forge the Soul Summoning Banner? Do you have a death wish—don’t drag me into your mess??"

Now understanding the reason, Shen Lang could not suppress his fury, as Liao Bei was his jurisdiction. With such events unfolding, he had to accept responsibility—at best he would be dismissed from his director’s position, at worst the outcome was unpredictable.

"Director Shen... in a moment of anger, I was blinded. Please, for the sake of old times, save the Nolan family!"

As someone who was an absolute power player among those at Half-step Gang Qi realm, Nolan Mingde had never begged so humbly before, but now, facing Yan’s wrath, he had no choice but to feed his pride to the dogs.

"Save the Nolan family? Hah, Nolan Mingde, at this point, you still expect me to save the Nolan family? Do you think I’m an immortal? I think a donkey must have kicked your head!!"

Shen Lang cursed furiously and then hung up the phone abruptly.

"Whoosh——"

Nolan Mingde’s body shook, his hand trembled, and the handset immediately slid off, falling onto the desk with a crisp "snap".

Without picking up the handset, Nolan Mingde leaned helplessly on the sofa, his face devoid of any intelligence, pale as death.

Meanwhile, both Nolan Changfeng and Nolan Qi stared wide-eyed, standing there dumbstruck, motionless.

"Lady Chu said, you didn’t take Mr. Ye’s words to heart, the consequences would be severe."

At this moment.

They finally believed these words.

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