The next day.
Li Xin had just arrived at the Iron Sword Society when someone came to report.
The wife of the Li family woke up last night after being treated by a doctor and found that her own son had died of a seizure, as if he had been invaded by an evil spirit, and that she herself had suffered a wound to her face, missing a piece of flesh and disfigured since then.
When Li Xin heard this, he smiled coldly and did not say much. He said to the men who had come to inform him, “Summon the vice master and the elders to the hall at once.”
After saying this, Li Xin went to the hall first and waited. He still remembered his son’s instructions from last night: “Take full control of the Iron Daggers and look for opportunities to provoke them into fighting with the other two.”
In the main hall, Li Xin sat at the head of the table and looked at the elders on his left and right. The Iron Daggers were a long-established gang, but ultimately they were confined to Yangcheng, and usually fought with two other similarly small gangs. Apart from a leader and a deputy leader, there are only five elders at the top. The five elders are also all family heirs, their grandfather’s ancestors joined when the Iron Daggers were first founded and were given the eldership, which was pa*sed down to them from generation to generation.
This high level structure, to be honest, Qing Yu’s mouth was twitching at the corners of his mouth at the time when he heard Li Xin’s introduction, a small gang that could still be like this. The three major gangs of Yangcheng were worthy of being a mudslide in the gang world.
“Is everyone here?” Li Xin said to his men who were standing to the right and waiting for orders.
“The Vice Gang Master and the two elders went out early this morning to the Li family to help set up the white ceremony.”
Deputy gang leader Li Dian, a side branch of the Li family, was also sent by the Li family to keep an eye on Li Xin. Hearing that the Li family had nothing but big events, Li Dian had stayed up all night last night and this morning, wearing mourning with a haggard face, he ran to the Li family to cry and mourn.
“Huh.” Li Xin laughed and looked at the rest of the elders who had come. In fact, there were only six people who needed to be summoned, three had left and three had come, it was clear at a glance that Li Xin was only asking questions to draw out where they had gone.
“The three elders don’t seem to be very well-informed, they don’t even know that such a big thing has happened to the Li family yet.” Li Xin smiled playfully at the remaining Three Elders, Four Elders and Five Elders.
At his words, the Third Elder only smiled sarcastically, his head was still tied with a white cloth, and he was not as filial as the Vice Clan Leader who wore mourning, but he was still one of those who had learned the news. The third elder was old after all, and after having S*x with his concubine last night, he was late getting up this morning and was caught by the gang members who came to report the news.
The other two elders were not as well-informed as the others and, on hearing this, could not help but ask what had happened to the Li family. However, looking at the gang leader’s playful expression, they pressed their doubts into their hearts; the gang leader had never had a good relationship with the Li family, and they heard that his mother had been blamed by Lady Li back then and had fallen ill, and her health had been weak all these years.
“It’s done.” Li Xin waved his hand to signal his men to close the hall door, “Today’s deliberations are for the Castle Peak Gang to kill the senior members of my Iron Daggers, and we vow not to rest with them.”
The third elder said suspiciously, “This —— does not know which senior member of my Iron Dagger Society was killed?” The senior members of the Iron Daggers, except for the Weeping Trio, were all in the hall, deliberating.
“Does the Vice Clan Master, and the First Elder and Second Elder, count as high ranking?” Li Xin smiled wryly.
“You ——” The three elders bounced up from their seats in perfect synchronization, this is to rebel against the Li family.
“What do you want ——”
“Don’t be impulsive, gang master ——”
“The Li family will not give up, helper lord do not ——”
The three elders said in a variety of ways, and their words were all aimed at dissuading Li Xin. The Iron Dagger Society was only a puppet of the Li family, the Li family was strong, and for the gang master to try to break free from the Li family was like hitting a stone with an egg. The three elders were already thinking in their minds that after they stabilised Li Xin, they would report to the Li family and show their loyalty.
Seeing that Li Xin’s determination in his eyes did not change, the three elders glanced at each other and wanted to strike first to restrain Li Xin.
“What’s wrong, I can’t exert my strength ——”
“Me too ——”
“Li Xin, you poisoned ——”
The three elders were just about to move when they felt their bodies go limp and sat down on their seats. They were also considered old, although they had never left Yangcheng in their lives, but they still had this experience in the jungle.
Before the proceedings, Li Xin had released the enchanted smoke after he had asked his men to close the door. The smoke was made from herbs that Qing Yu had obtained from Li Xin. Li Xin’s words were meant to provoke the three elders, but on the other hand, they were also meant to make the three elders emotional and speed up the spread of the smoke in their bodies.
Li Xin still had a smile on his face, “Three elders, now I am the chopping block and you are the fish. I don’t need to teach you how to choose, do I?”
“You won’t succeed.”
“Li Xin, call it quits.”
“It’s not too late to turn back ——”
The three elders saw that the matter could not be done, changed their ways and advised bitterly. The Li family was not something that a small Iron Dagger Society could resist, and if Li Xin couldn’t, adding the three of them still wouldn’t work either.
“This, there is no need for you three to worry about.”
Li Xin took out a red pill bottle from his bosom and poured out three red pills.
The three elders were weak from the ecstasy, and Li Xin forcibly broke open their mouths one by one and forced them to take the pills.
“You… what are you giving us to take?” The Third Elder asked breathlessly.
“The Three Corpse Brain God Pill.” Li Xin poured out an elixir once again.
“I think the Third Elder should already know what happened to the Li family yesterday.”
“That was —– your doing?!” The Third Elder was filled with horror and disbelief.
“Not bad, it was me who did it.” Li Xin took the pot of Qing Yu on himself, reflecting the professional quality of being a junior.
The other two elders did not know the situation, after all, the third young master of the Li family had gone mad and devoured his own mother, which was considered a scandal, so of course they had to press down and cover it up, they had little eyes and ears with in the Li family and did not know the details of what had happened.
The third elder told the two elders the truth about what happened yesterday, the big and small details.
The two elders were also wise and naturally thought that what Li Xin had given himself was the poison that had caused Li Quyin to go insane and die, and they were appalled.
Li Xin peeled off the outer layer of the red pill shell with his nails, revealing a small grey ball inside. Pointing to the grey ball, Li Xin said, “There are three kinds of corpse worms in this medicine, and there is no difference after taking it. Once it enters the brain, those who take this medicine will act like ghosts and demons, and even their parents and wives will bite and eat them.”
Seeing that the three elders had a deadly look on their faces, Li Xin laughed and said, “Don’t worry, what you have just peeled off is the shell of the pill to inhibit the corpse worms. What you have taken is a complete elixir and will not have an immediate attack like Li Quyin. As long as you take the antidote every year, nothing will happen until you die.”
“Li Quyin harmed my mother, so I will make his life worse than death. If you three do as you are told, the antidote will be yours.”
Hearing these words, the three old men bowed their heads and pledged their allegiance to Li Xin.
