Chapter 77 The Cat Plays Trouble

Anfeng City, Bai Mansion.

The mansion, which was already magnificent in the past, was even brighter than before this night, with servants running around, and an unusual solemnity was evident everywhere.

The reason is simple. Bai Zhenyu, the eldest son of the Bai family who joined the Qingmu Sect and is regarded as the future hope of the family, has rarely returned from the Immortal Sect.

What's even more rare is that he also brought back a guest from the Qingmu Sect who was said to be of noble status.

In order to entertain this distinguished guest, the head of the Bai family held a grand banquet.

Bai Yifeng, the owner of the Bai Mansion, sat in the main seat with a smug look on his face. He was over fifty years old but well-maintained, with a pair of eyes that showed shrewd calculations.

In order to entertain this distinguished guest and to highlight the status of the Bai family in Anfeng, he sent out invitations to all the heads of several other major families in the city to attend the banquet.

On the surface, it was a welcoming ceremony and a way to strengthen relationships, but in reality it was a carefully planned Hongmen Banquet.

The invited Li, Wang, Zhao, Chen, and Sun families are the five largest families in Anfeng except the Bai family.

The heads of the five major families all looked unhappy when they received the invitation.

They knew that the Bai family had become increasingly domineering in recent years, and was showing signs of swallowing up other families and dominating Anfeng alone.

After the strange epidemic more than ten years ago, several large families that were originally as powerful as the Bai family were severely damaged, and the Bai family took the opportunity to rise.

Now, in order to survive, several of them have secretly united to check and balance the Bai family. This plan may have been leaked.

Bai Yifeng's banquet at this moment could not be out of any good intention, but not going would mean a blatant break-up. With the Bai family's current influence in Anfeng, and his son's joining the immortal sect, they could not afford a direct conflict for the time being.

After careful consideration, several family heads had no choice but to bite the bullet and come to the banquet with trepidation.

The banquet has begun in the main hall of the Bai Mansion.

Delicacies were served like flowing water, and the sounds of stringed instruments were endless.

In the main seat, Bai Yifeng's face was flushed. His eldest son, Bai Zhenyu, dressed in the attire of a Qingmu Sect disciple, sat on his right with a dignified air, a hint of arrogance on his face that belonged to a disciple of the Immortal Sect.

Bai Yifeng's second son, a somewhat mediocre young man, sat at the last seat.

The most eye-catching person was a middle-aged man sitting next to Bai Zhenyu.

He was dressed in a dark green brocade robe, his face was pale and his temperament was gloomy. He hardly spoke, but occasionally he would pick up the wine glass and take a sip, and his eyes would glance at everyone in the hall indifferently.

This is the guest official of Qingmu Sect, Gu Xuan.

In the corner of the hall, a young figure dressed in ordinary servant's clothes, with his head lowered and serving carefully, was observing everything on the main seat quietly.

This person was Bai Qingchen who had sneaked into the Bai Mansion.

The deaths of Zhou Xiong and his parents were all related to the Bai family. After he calmed down that day, he returned to Ancheng with Mo Li and learned that the Bai family would hold a grand banquet in two days.

This was a good opportunity to sneak into the Bai Mansion. Mo Lixiu was still inexperienced, so he was left in the city as a support while he went deep into the Bai Mansion alone. Unexpectedly, he learned the conspiracy of the Bai family's father and son.

More than ten years ago, when Bai Yifeng just took over the Bai family, there were still several forces in Anfeng City that were comparable to the Bai family.

Bai Yifeng was ambitious and wanted to dominate the industry. At that time, Bai Zhenyu, who had already joined the Qingmu Sect, introduced Gu Xuan, a guest official of the Qingmu Sect, to his father.

It was this person who secretly spread an extremely vicious epidemic in Anfeng City, deliberately spreading it from the big families that were against the Bai family as the center.

An epidemic broke out, and people and animals in the city suffered, with countless deaths and injuries.

The Bai family took out the antidote at the right time and provided it free of charge to treat the people, earning them a good reputation praised by the whole city.

As for those families that were given special care, their leaders died one after another in the epidemic, and their families quickly declined and were no longer able to compete with the Bai family.

However, the Bai family's increasingly severe exploitation in recent years has made those families that are struggling to survive feel a sense of crisis. They secretly united in an attempt to protect themselves or even fight back.

Bai Yifeng, the old fox, has planted many spies in various households in the city, and he knows their plots very well.

This time he was planning to use the same old trick by hosting a banquet with the eldest son returning home and distinguished guests coming to visit.

They planned to let Gu Xuanyi take action again and silently release a virulent demonic plague during the banquet, but the Bai family had already taken the antidote in advance.

After the banquet, these family heads died of sudden illness, and Anfeng City was completely in the hands of the Bai family.

Bai Qingchen sneered in his heart. As the young master of Yaowang Valley in his previous life, he was no stranger to vicious means such as the demonic plague. He could not believe that even after four hundred years of the demonic cultivators being expelled, there were still people who would use this evil magic.

His original intention of sneaking in this time was to capture Bai Yifeng and force him to confess what happened that year, but he also ruined his plan and prevented the tragedy, exposing the true face of the Bai family to everyone and ruining their reputation from then on. It seemed like a good idea.

He had already prepared the antidote to the plague in advance and cleverly put it in the drinks served by all the waiters in the banquet hall.

This antidote has special medicinal properties. Even if the guests do not drink it, as long as the wine glass is placed on the table, the medicinal power will slowly evaporate into the air and be absorbed by the human body. It’s just that the effect is not as fast and good as drinking it directly.

What he wanted was to disrupt the Bai family's plan, so that these family heads could hold on to the end and witness Bai Yifeng's true face with their own eyes.

The atmosphere at the banquet seemed harmonious on the surface, but there were actually undercurrents.

Several family heads forced smiles to deal with Bai Yifeng's hypocritical courtesy.

Bai Yifeng raised his glass and toasted Gu Xuan.

"Mr. Gu, you have come from afar and condescended to visit my humble home. It really brings honor to my Bai family. My son is in Qingmu Gate, and I hope you can take good care of him." He smiled and spoke respectfully.

Gu Xuan had no expression on his face. He just nodded slightly and picked up the wine glass in front of him.

Just as he raised his hand to drink, Bai Qingchen's sharp eyes caught the little finger of his right hand. There was nothing there, as if a finger was missing!

It's him! The finger-severed murderer who massacred my parents' caravan!

I didn't expect to meet you so soon, and in such an occasion.

Hatred and anger instantly rushed into Bai Qingchen's heart. Although he restrained himself immediately, the violent fluctuation of his aura at that moment was still caught by Gu Xuanyi, who had extremely sharp senses.

Gu Xuan's hand holding the wine glass paused slightly, and his cold gaze like a poisonous snake instantly swept towards the corner where Bai Qingchen had just hidden.

His voice was not loud, but it carried a chilling chill that clearly penetrated the music at the banquet: "Who's there?"

Before he finished speaking, the wine glass in his hand was like an arrow shot from a bow, wrapped in a fierce murderous aura, and thrown towards the place where Bai Qingchen had just stood.

The wine glass hit the pillar in the corner, shattered, and the wine splashed everywhere.

However, the corner was empty, except for a wild cat that appeared from nowhere, meowed in fright, and ran away quickly.

Just when Bai Qingchen was about to be exposed, a steady and powerful hand silently covered Bai Qingchen's mouth from behind.

The other arm quickly wrapped around his waist, and an irresistible force carried him backward like a ghost, and in an instant he disappeared into the shadow behind a huge beam on the other side of the hall.

The movement was so fast that not even a trace of wind was created.

Bai Qingchen was still in shock, his back pressed against the man's chest, his heart pounding wildly.

He turned his head and could only see a tall and straight silhouette hidden in the shadows, and could not make out the face clearly.

But the aura coming from the other person made him inexplicably feel a sense of familiarity and peace of mind. It was the mysterious man who had rescued him and Liu Wan in Muling before.