Chapter 799 — The Nervous Yu Family
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"Exactly! Shubin, you're brilliant — one remark and it hits me like thunder, clearing my mind all at once!" Kang Jingming exclaimed in delighted surprise. "These days microblogs and whatnot are all the rage, aren't they? Do you think you could find out Guan Xin's microblog, see if she's written anything about her hobbies and such?"
"Sure, leave it to me!" Wang Shubin thought of that money-grubbing old nurse from yesterday. Today he would go ask her again, slip her a little something, and he refused to believe he couldn't pry it out of her!
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Yanjing City, the Yu family compound.
Yu Kun lay on a sickbed wrapped head to toe in bandages. A middle-aged beauty sat at the head of the bed wiping her tears, while another man, his face equally careworn, paced ceaselessly about the room.
"Your son has been beaten to this state, and instead of going to take revenge, you just pace around here — what good is that?" the beauty snapped at the man, her voice choked with tears. "The Yu family is so high and mighty, and now that someone's trampling all over our heads, we've lost our temper? Yu Bide, do you even care about your son or not?"
"Enough!" The man called Yu Bide waved his hand impatiently. "You think I'm not anxious? We don't even know who hurt Xiao Kun. He's been unconscious since he came back, every meridian in his body shattered by a beating — he's a cripple now, and I'm more frantic than you! But what can we do about it? We still have to wait for my second brother to decide!"
Cowed by Yu Bide's shout, the beauty fell silent and sat on the bed sobbing and dabbing at her eyes.
The Yu family had swept through the martial world for years without ever suffering a blow like this. Such unforeseen disasters seemed to have long been a distant thing from the Yu family. No clan in the secular world dared to refuse the Yu family face, and still less dared to raise a hand against one of their own!
And now someone had not only struck Yu Kun but done him permanent harm, ruining all his martial skill, reducing him to a cripple. He would never again be able to practice inner-family techniques, and even if he took up outer-family techniques, he would be hard-pressed ever to achieve anything.
As the outstanding figure of the Yu family's younger generation — second only to the son of the second brother, the family head — Yu Kun had been the object of high hopes, and yet here he lay, grievously wounded for no known reason, his life hanging in the balance.
Just then a middle-aged man pushed the door open and strode quickly in. Beside him was a young man whose features closely resembled Yu Kun's, though his brows and eyes carried an insufferable arrogance.
This middle-aged man was the same Yu family member who had appeared back at the auction. He was Yu Bifu, the present head of the Yu family, whose cultivation had already reached the peak of the late Mystic rank — just one step from advancing to the Earth rank!
The young man beside him was his son, Yu Feng, second only to Yu Bifu himself among the Yu family's experts, possessed of strength at the peak of the early Mystic rank.
"Second brother, you've come at last — you must stand up for my Xiao Kun…" Seeing Yu Bifu walk in, the beauty hurriedly stood and poured out her grievance through her tears. "Every meridian in Xiao Kun's body has been shattered by a beating, and now he's nothing but a cripple. He'll never be able to cultivate again. You must hack the one who did this to pieces!"
Yu Bifu was likewise profoundly shaken to hear that Yu Kun had been injured!
The night before last, Yu Kun had called him, saying only that he had been badly wounded, and then the line went dead. Aghast, Yu Bifu had immediately sent men to Songshan City to find Yu Kun and bring him back to Yanjing.