"Eh, take a seat."
Su Zijin nodded at Xiang Mantang, signaling him to take a seat at his convenience.
Xiang Mantang did not sit down but instead spoke with a tinge of apology, "Godmother, I've brought a Wood Spirit Bead, intending to try it on Senior Brother. Perhaps there will be a chance for a turnaround!"
"Oh," Su Zijin, having heard Xiang Mantang's words, was taken aback for a moment before quickly getting up from the coffin lid.
She said somewhat embarrassingly, "Then you go ahead."
As she spoke, Su Zijin thought of something and added, "The kind of water Jinyu is soaking in now, did you arrange that as well?"
When she had come to visit Mu Jinyu a while ago, she had noticed that inside the ice coffin, Mu Jinyu was completely immersed in a kind of emerald liquid, which had initially terrified her.
Thinking something had gone wrong, she hastily called for the medical staff to come and check what was the matter.
Later on, someone explained to her that the water was brought by Xiang Mantang; he did not explain what kind of water it was, but it should supposedly aid in Mu Jinyu's recovery.
After hearing this, Su Zijin was slightly reassured, but still had someone take some of the water to be tested, and it turned out that the green water contained extremely rich active factors, indeed beneficial for Mu Jinyu's recovery.
"It was me," nodded Xiang Mantang, explaining, "That's the Spring of Life, imbued with a lot of Life Source Energy; this water should help Senior Brother's recovery."
"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find the Fountain of Youth or Fountain of Immortality; otherwise, they probably could have woken Senior Brother directly," Xiang Mantang lamented regretfully.
After expressing his regret, Xiang Mantang didn't want to continue the conversation with Su Zijin to spare himself further guilt, and so he lowered his head, lifted the coffin lid, and then took the Wood Spirit Bead casting a faint green glow and placed it into Mu Jinyu's mouth.
Of course, the Wood Spirit Bead was originally hanging around Yang Guowei's neck, protected by a special glass cover, so ideally, it shouldn't have been tainted with any filth; however, Xiang Mantang had still thoroughly wiped it with alcohol several times on the way here.
And had then sterilized it once more with True Yuan.
Otherwise, he would not have used it for Mu Jinyu like this.
Lest Mu Jinyu woke up to find out that the Wood Spirit Bead used on him had not even been washed, he would surely blame himself.
With the Wood Spirit Bead in Mu Jinyu's mouth, Xiang Mantang watched as his complexion grew increasingly ruddy and healthy, sighing inwardly.
For he truly couldn't guarantee that this soon-to-shatter Wood Spirit Bead could revive Mu Jinyu as the Ten Thousand Year Wood Core did.
Therefore, Xiang Mantang dared not act to bring Mu Jinyu out of his cryopreserved state to then stimulate the Wood Spirit Bead to heal him.
Otherwise, if the Wood Spirit Bead failed to awaken Mu Jinyu and he had prematurely taken Mu Jinyu out of cryopreservation, resulting in his life signs declining once more, then called the doctors to put Mu Jinyu back into cryogenic sleep.
Who knew whether such to and fro would end up squandering the slim hope of saving Mu Jinyu?
Xiang Mantang dared not gamble.
Only when he had absolute certainty that he could save Mu Jinyu would he risk giving it a try.
After watching Mu Jinyu for a while, Xiang Mantang moved once more to replace the coffin lid.
Then after chatting with Su Zijin for a little while, he stood up to leave.
Naturally, Su Zijin meant to see Xiang Mantang out.
They had just reached the doorway when,
"Bang!"
The door in the corridor was kicked open, followed by a group of people striding toward them with an aggressive air.
Xiang Mantang recognized the identity of the person leading the group immediately.
Qin Shi'an, Head of the Qin Family.
And also the father of Qin Qiaochu.
He was also a martial arts expert at the half-step Divine Realm.
Otherwise, he couldn't have inserted his hand into Dragon King Hall and let Qin Qiaochu become a Sub-hall Master.
'It seems the news of Qin Qiaochu's death has already spread.'
Xiang Mantang watched as Qin Shi'an, his face flushed with rage, advanced towards him, his expression cold, not caring in the slightest.
"Beidou Tianshu, did you kill my son?!"
When Qin Shi'an approached Xiang Mantang, he did not lose his reason and attack Xiang Mantang.
Although the pain of losing his son nearly drove him mad, Dragon King Hall was ultimately not a place where he could behave recklessly.
If he acted rashly, the entire Qin Family would likely be besieged by Dragon King Hall!
If he were of Divine Realm, of course he wouldn't fear any of this, but as only half-step Divine Realm, he ultimately could not stand against the entire Dragon King Hall by himself!
Therefore, his only option was to confront Xiang Mantang first!
Xiang Mantang looked at the old face that was almost pressing against his nose, stretched out his hand and pushed Qin Shi'an away, saying indifferently, "Why I killed him, are you not clear about it? Sowing rumors everywhere, inciting Elder Yang Guowei to vie for the position of Dragon King, trying to oust me from power..."
Qin Shi'an's tiger eyes were bloodshot as he roared, "What's wrong with that? Who among the youth doesn't make mistakes? Just for this trivial matter, you directly killed him? Couldn't you have notified me to discipline him?!"
"Heh..." Xiang Mantang sneered, mocking him, "Seeing how little you care, what use would notifying you have been? Would you really discipline him? And is this really a trivial matter?"
Pausing for a moment, Xiang Mantang's face suddenly darkened, as chilling as the Nine Serenities abyss.
"Although I am not the Tiance True Dragon, while Dragon King slumbers, I am the one managing Dragon King Hall in his stead, acting as the Master of Dragon King Hall. He did not respect me, smeared my name in secret, fanned the flames, attempting to divide Dragon King Hall, for that, his crime deserves death!"
"You object to me killing him?!"
Xiang Mantang stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze cold and without a hint of guilt as he locked eyes with Qin Shi'an.
Qin Shi'an, seeing that Xiang Mantang had absolutely no intention of repenting and not even saying a word of apology, firmly believed that Qin Qiaochu deserved to die, and was so angry that he felt like exploding, shouting, "Beidou Tianshu, now I really think my son was right, the incident with the New Dragon King, perhaps really was your doing, and now that you've just taken over managing Dragon King Hall, you're already hastily starting to eliminate dissenters, you..."
"Hmm?!" Xiang Mantang, seeing Qin Shi'an displaying the same traits as Qin Qiaochu, grew even colder in his gaze, and without waiting for him to finish talking, he raised his right hand and struck out with his palm towards Qin Shi'an!
"Bang!"
Qin Shi'an was always on guard against Xiang Mantang, but they were too close, and he hadn't expected that Xiang Mantang, who had narrowly escaped death, not only did not see a decline in strength but had even made a breakthrough to the Divine Realm.
As their palms clashed, Qin Shi'an's pupils immediately shot out an extreme look of terror and disbelief.
"Pfft!"
With Qin Shi'an's half-step Divine Realm cultivation, facing off against a Divine Realm expert, he should have been able to hold on for at least three moves, but because he never expected Xiang Mantang to have reached the Divine Realm and still thought he was only at Peak Energy Transformation, this underestimation caused Qin Shi'an to be unable to take even a single palm from Xiang Mantang.
He was immediately sent flying, spurting blood.
His right arm twisted into a bizarre shape, like a noodle.
"Family Head?!"
"Family Head!"
The people of the Qin Family who had followed Qin Shi'an never expected that Qin Shi'an, whom they regarded as almost invincible and capable of ensuring the Qin Family's peace alone, could not withstand a single move from Xiang Mantang.
They cried out in shock and terror.
"Qin Shi'an, did you really think I wouldn't dare to kill you?"
Having struck Qin Shi'an with a palm, Xiang Mantang looked at him with frosty killing intent in his eyes, "In my presence, you dare to slander me. If you wish to die, then Xiang Someone will grant you that wish!"