The Lei family, as a powerful family, has a magnificent and solemn mansion. At this time, Lei Wanquan, the head of the Lei family, was sitting in the study. His originally frowned brows finally relaxed after hearing the news of his daughter's return, and his heart, which had been hanging high, slowly fell.
Soon, a burst of brisk footsteps came from far away, and then the door was gently pushed open, and a beautiful figure flashed in. The person who came was Lei Wanquan's beloved daughter, Lei Xue Ning. She looked excited, and she was holding a delicate jade box carefully in her hands.
"Father, look, I successfully got the ten thousand-eye scale fish!" Lei Xue Ning walked quickly to Lei Wanquan and couldn't wait to hand the jade box in her hand to him.
However, what greeted her was not the joy and praise she had imagined, but Lei Wanquan's low and stern questioning voice: "Who asked you to go to the Endless Sea?"
This sudden rebuke was like a bucket of cold water poured over Lei Xue Ning's head, and she was stunned for a moment. She stared at her father with a gloomy expression, and her face gradually turned pale.
"Father...Father, I...I was trying to save my mother!" Lei Xuening explained stutteringly, with a hint of trembling and grievance in her voice.
But Lei Wanquan was not moved at all, and still said coldly: "Can't I save your mother? Do you need to take such a big risk to go to the Endless Sea?"
Her father's words were like a sharp sword piercing Lei Xue Ning's heart, making her feel unbelievable. In her mind, although her father was strict with her on weekdays, he would never be so cold and heartless. Moreover, he ventured to the Endless Sea to find the Ten Thousand Eyes Scale Fish out of filial piety and wanted to save his seriously ill mother.
For a moment, the atmosphere between the father and daughter became extremely tense and depressing, as if even the air had frozen.
"Don't you want to save my mother?" Lei Xue Ning said angrily, gritting her teeth.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lei Wanquan's eyes flashed with pain, and then he snorted coldly: "Get out! Your mother doesn't need you to save her. And the ten thousand-eye scale fish can't cure your mother's illness at all!"
"You, you..." Lei Xuening burst into tears, pointing at Lei Wanquan angrily, and finally couldn't help but ran out of the study.
Looking at his daughter running out crying and sad, Lei Wanquan raised his hand and wanted to say something, but finally lowered it.
"Brother, why don't you explain it clearly to Xue Ning." At this moment, a figure entered the room. It was Lei Wanquan's brother, Lei Wanshan.
"How can we explain to her clearly that her mother is not possessed but poisoned?" Lei Wanquan shook his head and said.
Yes, Lei Xue Ning's mother did not become possessed by practicing martial arts, but was poisoned by someone, and the symptoms looked similar to those of being possessed.
"But do we really have to agree to the unreasonable demands of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect?" Lei Wanshan frowned and said, "Moreover, even if we agree to the demands of the Heavenly Demon Sect, they won't give us the real antidote. I'm worried that our Lei family will slowly be controlled by the Heavenly Demon Sect. After all, in addition to my eldest sister-in-law being poisoned, our father has also been poisoned."
"These are the ones that have been discovered. We don't know how many more have not been discovered. The Heavenly Demon Sect wants to dominate Zhongzhou. The leaders of the Xiaoyao Sect, the Wanjian Sect and other sects will not ignore it. However, now they will give the antidote for one month. If we tell those sects about this, I'm afraid the Heavenly Demon Sect will be doomed to failure. The best way is to find an antidote. But we have consulted many doctors, and they are all helpless against this poison! Perhaps, we can only seek help from the Poison Doctor Sect, but the Poison Doctor Sect is both good and evil, and their relationship with the Heavenly Demon Sect is even closer than with the righteous path. I'm even worried that this poison might actually be given to the Heavenly Demon Sect by the Poison Doctor Sect." Lei Wanquan said in a deep voice. At this moment, his expression was very ugly.
"Chief, someone outside has sent a letter." At this moment, a voice was heard outside the yard.
"Letter?" Lei Wanquan frowned when he heard it: "Bring it in!"
"Yes!" Soon a guard handed over the letter.
However, Lei Wanquan did not answer the call directly, because there are many ways to poison, including airborne transmission, and more often a medium is needed, such as letters, water sources, food, etc.
Lingkong took the letter, asked the guard to go down, and then used the true energy of the Liuhe Mirror to open the letter.
Lingkong waved his hand, and an invisible force burst out instantly. The letter flew towards him as if being pulled by some mysterious force. After receiving the letter, Lingkong waved his hand casually, signaling the guards to retreat. Then, he circulated the powerful Liuhejing Qi in his body and continuously injected it into the letter in his hand.
There was a slight "swish" sound, and the envelope opened, as if it was gently torn open by an invisible hand. Lei Wanshan, who was standing by, saw this and thought to himself, "Brother, could this letter be sent by someone from the Heavenly Demon Sect?"
Lei Wanquan nodded slightly, his face as gloomy as the sky before a storm, extremely ugly, and slowly said: "You guessed right, it is indeed a letter sent by the Heavenly Demon Sect. These guys actually gave us an ultimatum. If we don't submit to them within three days, they will cut off the antidote for the poison that my father and my wife were poisoned with."
Hearing this, Lei Wanshan was so angry that he trembled all over. He roared in anger: "How abominable! They are so arrogant and domineering, they simply believe that they have a handle on us!" After a slight pause, his eyes rolled, and he seemed to have thought of an idea. He quickly suggested to Lei Wanquan: "Brother, how about we pretend to agree to their request and pretend to surrender? This may be able to stabilize the situation temporarily, and then make long-term plans."
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