Max Level Metaphysician: A Debt Repayment Journey…?
Chapter 516: The Scheming Patriarch

Chapter 516: Chapter 516: The Scheming Patriarch

Jiangli spoke in a subdued voice, "Just like this for now, and you should head back first thing tomorrow morning. You can all go back and prepare now."

Chu Xi couldn’t help but look at Jiangli.

With just one glance at him, Jiangli had seen through everything.

Chu Xi now had no choice but to believe in Jiangli, even feeling a bit of reverence for him.

He asked cautiously and politely, "Abbot, is there anything else we need to do, or is this all?"

"Just go back and prepare a fine coffin; there’s nothing else for you to do," Jiangli replied.

Chu Xi nodded, "I understand, we will go back and prepare immediately."

Right now, he had no mood to consider anything else.

Jiangli nodded in response.

Chu Xi then turned to look at Zhou Yiran.

Looking at Zhou Yiran, Chu Xi opened and closed his mouth several times without being able to utter a word.

Zhou Yiran took a deep breath and said, "Let’s go home first. I’ll pack some things. You need to calm down these next few days to deal with some matters, and I also need to calm down. If there’s anything at home that needs my help, contact me anytime."

She felt that she was already quite calm now.

She knew that with this sort of affair, Chu Xi was innocent.

After all, he knew nothing, nor did he know how he came into this life.

She couldn’t transfer her misunderstanding and disgust towards Chu Xi’s parents onto Chu Xi himself.

But now... she also didn’t know how to face Chu Xi.

Her mind was a mess, and she needed time to think things through carefully.

Chu Xi looked pale but nodded understandingly, his voice hoarse, "Okay, I’ll take you home first."

Zhou Yiran merely hummed, walking out ahead in a daze.

Chu Xi supported Wenru, and Chu Xi’s father followed on his own.

The family left first, not even bothering to say goodbye to Song Taishan and his wife.

As they watched the family depart the side hall, Song Taishan immediately looked at Jiangli and said, puzzled, "Abbot, they are murderers. Normally, we would hand such matters over to the police. Why are we helping them?"

Jiangli glanced sideways at him, "Captain Song thinks that I am helping them?"

Song Taishan’s eyes were full of question marks, as if to say: Isn’t it?

Wenru patted his arm and said to Jiangli, "Abbot, you’re doing this for the third daughter of the Chu Family?"

Jiangli hummed in affirmation, "She is the most innocent and pitiful, trapped there. If I don’t look after her, she would soon dissipate into nothingness. Given how pitiable she already is, if she were tormented to the point of her soul scattering, wouldn’t that be even more deplorable? Moreover, the other two daughters of the Chu Family are also innocent."

If the backlash from the third daughter of the Chu Family’s grave isn’t removed, everyone in the Chu Family will be implicated.

It’s not only affecting the father of the Chu Family.

Wenru said, "Abbot always thinks of everything. Our old Song is just a straightforward guy, never thinks that much."

At that moment, Song Taishan finally understood but still felt somewhat confused, "But in doing so, does it mean we’re letting Chu Father off the hook? Can our police still investigate and arrest him?"

Jiangli let out a faint chuckle, "There’s no need for that; he only has ten years left to live."

Song Taishan: "???"

Wenru’s eyes widened in shock, "Just now, Abbot, you told him he was to suffer in illness for ten years, this..."

"Correct, let him suffer until death," Jiangli declared, "Forever bedridden with illness until death comes, and before dying, he shall experience the agony of a thousand cuts. This is true atonement. If he were merely locked away, living out an uneventful ten years, what purpose would that serve?"

Song Taishan: "..."

Cluster step.

He had underestimated the Abbot.

Feeling a chill, Song Taishan glanced at Jiangli and thought to himself, thankfully, he had never offended Jiangli.

Otherwise, he might not even know how he would die.

Song Taishan let out a quiet sigh of relief. With the matters concluded here, he also suggested it was time to leave.

Jiangli did not detain him.