"Kid, why do you have Ren Zhongtian's Inner Strength inside you?"

Grandpa's shout really startled Xiaofan.

"I, I also don't know what happened. I seemed to have been poisoned by something called Black Scorpion and was about to die, and then..."

"Black Scorpion? Did you encounter people from Red Butterfly?" Ye Aotian immediately asked.

Red Butterfly? This was the second time Xiaofan heard the name of this organization today. Clearly, grandpa was not just an ordinary mountain physician; his past must have been extraordinarily spectacular.

"Yes. Speaking of this..."

"Don't tell me yet. Do you know you're in life-threatening danger at any moment now? That old guy Ren Zhongtian is really something; isn't this just reckless? Get up, don't eat, come with me." Ye Aotian walked back to the room angrily.

And Xiaofan, still confused, followed along.

The house was a tile-roofed building, but there were many rooms. However, no one had lived there for years, and there were quite a few spider webs.

Ye Aotian's room, however, was clean and tidy with a bright atmosphere.

"Take off your clothes, sit on that."

Xiaofan obediently sat on the bed and took off his clothes.

When Ye Aotian saw the scars on Xiaofan's body, his eyes flashed. He seemed to have guessed that Xiaofan hadn't been behaving like a good student this term.

But Ye Aotian didn't ask. He figured Xiaofan would eventually spill everything out. For now, what he needed to do was ensure Xiaofan's safety.

"Wow, Grandpa, really? You're gonna use needles?"

"Shut up. If you hadn't come back now, you'd probably be dead soon. Close your eyes, concentrate, and calm yourself."

Ye Aotian pulled out a silver needle and gently inserted it into the meridian on Xiaofan's back. Then, the second, the third...

No one knew how much time had passed. Xiaofan only felt that his back was fully covered with silver needles. If he could see himself now, he would probably look like a porcupine.

"Keep this up for ten minutes. Alright, now tell me what exactly happened. How did Ren Zhongtian die? And why is his thirty-plus years of Inner Strength inside you?"

"Is my life saved now?" Xiaofan turned around and asked with lingering fear. Grandpa's expression just now wasn't just to scare him.

"For now, but keeping you alive will require a lot more effort. As long as you don't use those Inner Strengths, there probably won't be a problem," Ye Aotian said, eager to find out what had happened and offering no detailed explanation to Xiaofan.

And Xiaofan had no intention of hiding anything from his grandfather, so he started talking from the day he met Shen Zuimo. Continuing to when he chased into the pine forest and saw Ren Zhongtian battling the Five Ghosts.

At this point, Ye Aotian helped Xiaofan remove the silver needles from his back and also checked his pulse, his expression becoming much more relaxed.

"Continue..."

"At the time, when I killed that guy called Ghost, he threw a Hidden Weapon at me. Since he couldn't really move, the Hidden Weapon was light, only scratching my arm, but it was coated with Black Scorpion's deadly poison. I thought I was going to die; later, Ren Zhongtian came over and patted my back a few times. He said he owed a debt to you and Grandma. I thought he only healed my wounds and detoxified me, but I didn't expect that there were over thirty years of Inner Strength involved. But later, a policeman told me that Ren Zhongtian didn't have much time left; he was already suffering from a terminal illness."

After hearing Xiaofan's account, Ye Aotian slowly approached his wife's spirit tablet, gently touching the photo on top.

"Cui, he's also gone. In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed."

Listening to Grandpa's sighs, Xiaofan sat quietly there. He was very curious, but he knew that Grandpa was filled with sorrow at this moment.

"Xiaofan, do you want to hear stories from when Grandpa was young?"

"Yes. I do."

"Back then, I was also a member of the Yanhuang Soul. I, Ren Zhongtian, and Fan Lingtian were called the Three Great Heavenly Kings of Yanhuang. Yanhuang Soul was the country's highest-level Special Agent Team. I don't know its scale now, but back then, just Ren Zhongtian alone was enough to shock the entire world. We were young that year, the three of us together with Cui in the same team. Missions led by Ren Zhongtian's squad were almost always invincible. He was an extraordinary figure, rare over the millennia; his proficiency in close combat was unprecedented. Can you imagine him killing the highest-ranking officer in front of an entire battalion of soldiers and returning to us without a scratch?"

"That's incredible," Xiaofan said, shocked.

"Yes, he was too strong, overwhelmingly so. He was proud, calm, possessing almost all good qualities. But he also had many flaws. His self-confidence verged on arrogance. Finally, once, when he ignored our advice, he barged into the base of an organization, and this time, he returned poisoned by the Black Scorpion. However, his Power was so formidable that he managed to control the Black Scorpion's poison. Yet, due to excessive Inner Strength consumption, he couldn't expel the poison. At that time, your grandma, Cui, came crying to me for help. Fan Lingtian and I infused our Inner Strength into him to help him detoxify himself, pulling him back from the brink of death. But after recovering, the first thing he did was continue with his mission. Because Fan Lingtian and I had depleted too much of our Inner Strength, we couldn't carry on, so he led the other team members to complete the mission. Yet again, he failed and returned, and with him came only Cui, poisoned by Black Scorpion's deadly venom."

Ye Aotian's face showed an unmistakable trace of anger at this point.

"At that time, only Ren Zhongtian could neutralize Cui's poison using his Inner Strength, but he was unwilling. Cui had no Inner Strength to resist the poison, and without timely rescue, she would die. So I risked my life, depleting my Inner Strength to temporarily save Cui's life. Due to Ren Zhongtian's coldness, I couldn't bear to stay in the team with him any longer. So, I decided to leave Yanhuang Soul with Cui, doing everything I could to cure her. Back then, I loved Cui, and she always had admiration for the exceptional Ren Zhongtian. Because of this, Cui accepted me eventually, though I knew it was just to keep Ren Zhongtian from having too many concerns. To Ren Zhongtian, the country's interest was far more important than personal life and death. So even if I disliked him, I couldn't find any reason to blame him. After all, his intentions were solely for the nation's benefit. Later, your Grandma married me, and with medication, I slowly kept her poison under control; afterward, we had our first child, second child, and third child. But when your father was ten years old, Grandma's health suddenly deteriorated. Despite my efforts, nothing worked or I could only control the poison with Power and medicine, yet I couldn't remove it completely. Finally, Cui's poison got out of control, invading her organs in less than half a year. I was helpless, and before your Grandma passed, she only said one thing to me: 'Don't blame him. We all understand him, don't we?

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