Wei Shengnan shook her head slightly: "I'm sorry, I have no comment on Song Laosan's matter."

Actually, I don't care what Song Laosan's reasons were for betraying me, because the moment he told Wei Shengnan about me, he had already hurt me.

The reason I asked that question was to evoke Wei Shengnan's sense of guilt, so I naturally changed the subject: "Let's talk about serious matters. Since you already knew that Duan Jinyan was going to participate in the Treasure Competition, you should also know that he has more than one way to get the Fengmen Village entrance ticket, right?"

Wei Shengnan was somewhat surprised: "You already knew that Duan Jinyan sent a representative to participate in the treasure competition?"

"Of course, otherwise why would I be here?"

Seeing that I had indeed extracted useful information from Wei Shengnan, I calmly asked, "However, I still don't know who Duan Jinyan's representative is. Do you have any leads on your end?"

Wei Shengnan shook her head: "Don't joke around. The 'beauty snake' from Fengmen Village hates Duan Jinyan so much. How could the team he sent out be exposed so easily? Otherwise, let alone you and me, the people of Fengmen Village would have torn them to pieces first!"

Jiang Tianyi had never mentioned to me before that the beautiful snake from Fengmen Village had a grudge against Duan Jinyan. When Wei Shengnan brought it up, I pretended to be surprised and asked, "You also know about the feud between Duan Jinyan and the beautiful snake?"

"Stop pretending. You don't know anything about this, or rather, in the entire martial arts world, only our Wei family has this information."

Wei Shengnan didn't hold it against me and went straight to the point: "Even if you didn't ask anything, I was originally going to tell you this news anyway, because it won't affect our plans, but it will have a big impact on you. After the competition, I originally wanted to remind you, but Qu Ruilin and Monkey got into a fight, so I had no choice but to leave."

I didn't expect Wei Shengnan to come to me on her own initiative. I frowned and looked at her: "You said this matter will affect me? Why?"

Wei Shengnan looked at me and asked, "Answer me a question first: Where is Empress Dowager Cixi's luminous pearl?"

I thought about it for a moment: "After Empress Dowager Cixi died, she was buried in the Eastern Qing Tombs with a large amount of gold and silver jewelry as burial goods, and she also had a priceless luminous pearl in her mouth. More than ten years later, the warlord Sun Dianying blew up the Eastern Qing Tombs and looted them. Later, the luminous pearl ended up in the hands of Soong Mei-ling and was used as a shoe ornament. After that, its whereabouts became unknown."

"This luminous pearl is in the hands of the beautiful snake, and she has offered a reward for it. Anyone who can bring Duan Jinyan's head to Fengmen Village can take away that priceless luminous pearl."

Wei Shengnan glanced around, and seeing that no one was watching us, lowered her voice and continued, "It's said that Fengmen Village was established to deal with the Black Robe Organization. You probably don't know what the Black Robe is; it's..."

I picked up where I left off: "It's a criminal organization kept by Jinbai International, full of experts who do all sorts of heinous things."

"It seems I really underestimated you. I originally thought that without Song Laosan, you would just be an ordinary young man in society, with no chance to come into contact with such deep matters. Perhaps in the future, when I deal with you again, I will have to pay extra attention to you."

Wei Shengnan glanced at me and continued, "That's right. The Black Robe Organization is an organization that does the dirty work for Jinbai International. At the same time, it also provides protection for some important people in the company. It is said that Duan Jinyan was one of the people protected by the Black Robe, but later he became the leader of the Black Robe."

It is said that the feud between the Serpent Beauty and Duan Jinyan has lasted for many years. The Serpent Beauty has been searching for Duan Jinyan's whereabouts, but under the protection of the black robe, she has not been able to harm Duan Jinyan in the slightest, and has instead paid a heavy price herself.

I pressed further, "For example?"

"It is said that the beautiful snake's younger brother was captured by the black-robed man. Duan Jinyan personally pulled out his two hamstrings. The beautiful snake's most trusted confidant also fell into Duan Jinyan's hands. When he reappeared, his tongue had been cut off, his eyes gouged out, his ears gouged out, his limbs cut off, and he was turned into a human pig."

Wei Shengnan scratched her forehead: "It seems that the beautiful snake also fell into the hands of the Black Robe Organization and was tortured all night. When the Black Robe Organization was about to execute her, it was a group of her subordinates who risked their lives to save her, which is how this woman survived."

After that, this woman disappeared from the martial arts world, only to reappear several years later. It was around that time that the nickname "Beautiful Snake" became widely known! To outsiders, Fengmen Village was merely an underground black market, but only those who truly understood its history knew that Fengmen Village existed to fight against the Black Robe Organization and to kill Duan Jinyan!

I know Duan Jinyan is a villain, but my understanding of him is limited to his internal strife and betrayal of his four sects and fellow martial artists.

I never imagined he would do something like this, not only bullying a woman, but also personally pulling out someone else's hamstrings.

Thinking about this makes me feel uneasy: "What kind of grudge did this woman have against Duan Jinyan? Why would she kill him after suffering so many losses?"

"As far as I know, it was Duan Jinyan who harmed the 'Snake Beauty' first."

Wei Shengnan took a deep breath: "It is said that the snake woman's husband was once the heir of a large family, but because he was unruly by nature and had no interest in this line of work, he gave the position of family head to his younger brother and went into business himself."

Later, Duan Jinyan somehow took a liking to a treasure in this man's family. Despite trying every means to get it, she failed. So she decided to kidnap the head of the family. However, she only found out that the head of the family was actually her younger brother after she kidnapped the older brother.

Therefore, Duan Jinyan used his brother as a hostage, demanding that his younger brother exchange the family heirloom for it.

Out of gratitude for his elder brother's abdication, the younger brother took the family heirloom to the trading location. However, Duan Jinyan not only stole the heirloom but also killed the younger brother who had come to deliver it.

When the beautiful snake arrived at the scene, the kidnapped husband and his son, who was kidnapped along with him and was still in kindergarten, had already been buried alive and had been dead for a long time.

It is said that the beautiful snake suffered a traumatic experience and went insane for a long time. After completing her treatment and being released from the mental hospital, she sold off her possessions and began searching for Duan Jinyan to exact revenge, eventually leading to the establishment of Fengmen Village.

This story left me speechless.

Su Jialiang once told me that he admired Duan Jinyan because he was a thoroughly bad person without any compassion.

It wasn't until this moment that I realized what this so-called purely evil person really meant.

I also learned why so many people in the martial arts world treat the name Duan Jinyan like a plague god.

The reason is simple: he's a heartless bastard!

I heard that he even preyed on three- or four-year-old children. For a moment, I felt disgusted and ashamed that I shared the same blood as him.