Chapter 591
At these words, Germain’s expression changed.
It was offensive to be asked so bluntly by a junior if he knew how his ancestor had died.
“Miss Ying is really interesting.” Germain’s eyes sharpened a little, “As one of the most distinguished heads of the Pazzi family, Vincent’s ancestor naturally didn’t die in vain, and it’s in the history books of O Chau.”
“At that time, when war was raging on the borders of o continent, Ancestor Vincent went to war on the orders of the Pope’s coronation and fought to the last second, he defended the city and died of exhaustion.”
Said Germain, in a more emotional tone, “My ancestor’s lordship is a model for my generation and someone everyone should look up to!”
There is a bronze statue of Vincent in the park in the centre of the city where the Pazzi family lives.
Ying nodded slightly, his tone careless: “But I heard that he fell off his horse while hunting and then fell into a trap that was chasing his prey, and was impaled on his torso by eighteen barbs at the bottom of the trap.”
“His head, limbs and abdomen were all crucified, but unfortunately it was still raining heavily that day and no one even noticed that he was missing.”
“By the time he was found, his body had stiffened, attracting crows and other carrion animals, leaving not even a single whole body.”
Germain’s expression finally changed dramatically and his gaze darkened a little as he continued to sneer, “What kind of wild history is Miss Ying reading, and how dare it slander the Pazzi family in such a way? How dare it insult the Vincent ancestors?”
Despite what he said, Germain’s heart leapt with fear.
For this was indeed the true death of Vincent Pazzi.
It all began with a prophecy by the Divine Reckoner.
Long before this prophecy, the Pazzi family really didn’t take it seriously, even though the Abbot had predicted the fall of the most powerful dynasty in the O Continent and the death of all the members of the royal family.
The Pazzi family also had special diviners who did not consider the prophecy of the Abbot to be an iron-clad fact.
Any future could be changed, for a price.
But in the end, no one expected Vincent to die the way he was predicted to die.
It was this event that made the Pazzi family realise that the Divine Reckoner was no match for the ordinary soothsayer.
No one can change the prophecy of a diviner.
But they were at war with the Laurent family and had missed the best opportunity to befriend the Divine Reckoner.
The Pazzi family was relieved when Cesar died and the Diviner disappeared.
History is always in the hands of the powerful.
The Pazzi family changed that history.
The true manner of Vincent’s death is not even known to the current juniors of the family.
Such a death would have been too much for a former head of a wealthy family.
Ying Zigui was not half-urgent and remained calm: “I saw it with my own eyes, and when he died, it was indeed a tragic death.”
Vincent was one of the most distinguished householders in the history of the Pazzi family, but his methods were also more bloody.
During that time, members of the Laurent family were constantly being murdered.
He was also the one who sent his men to a*sa*sinate Cesar Laurent several times.
Only in the end, he did not succeed and died himself instead.
“Miss Ying is so good at jokes.” Germain all but laughed at that, and he forced down his anger, “All right, I didn’t invite you here to talk history with you either.”
He rang the bell and called the secretary.
The secretary came over with a file and laid it on the table.
“Here’s the contract.” Germaine was light, “The Pazzi family is very bullish on First Light Media and is ready to make it an international entertainment company giant.”
“As the chief executive of First Light Media, Miss Ying should also know how different it is at home and at the international level, but of course, we guarantee that Miss Ying will still hold her original position, except that First Light Media will be subject to the family’s rule.”
Ying Ziyi glanced at it.
It was a takeover document.
Indeed, although Primeval Media had broken into the international entertainment world, it would be at least five years before it became a giant.
Ying Zidian raised her eyes indifferently: “The Pazzi family, indeed, has been thinking very well.”
“Miss Ying, don’t be angry.” Germaine smiled unimpressed, “I’m sure you’ve heard how that company was bought by us the year before last, as long as you agree, the benefits are great and we won’t keep you trapped for long.”
“But if you don’t agree, all the top bra*s of First Light Media, too, will have to come and be guests of the Pazzi family.”
That was a real threat.
It was also something that could not be helped.
This Golden Image Awards competition had left Time Media with a lot of energy.
The entertainment industry was another good place to make money, and the Pazzi family would not let go of this piece of cake.
Germaine stood up and put his hands behind his back: “Miss Ying, you have time to think about it. Tonight the Pazzi family will hold a ball and a dinner.
Luke re-entered, “Please, Miss Ying, by order of the head of the family, I will show you around Pazzi Castle.”
“No need to go around.” Ying Ziji was light, “I like to read books.”
Luke froze and glanced at Germaine.
Germaine thought for a moment and smiled, “Take Miss Ying to the family library, Miss Ying is an honoured guest, she must be well entertained, understand?”
There were no secrets in the library anyway.
The real secrets, a Chinese wouldn’t be able to read them.
**
Luke led Ying Zidian all the way to the library.
The girl’s face was so outstanding that it drew the attention of many people.
They turned around frequently, their eyes awed.
Luke sent Ying Zidian inside the library and came out himself.
As soon as he turned around, he bumped into a young man.
He was respectful: “Young Master Raven.”
Ravenpoint looked inside the library, “Is that the executive director of First Light Media?”
Word had spread within the Pazzi family about the iff golden statue awards.
Dana had rivals too, and her rival told the story to others as a joke.
Luke nodded, “That’s her.”
Raven tsked, “That’s kinda nice.”
Luke looked up in surprise, “Master Raven? You wouldn’t be ……”
“Good looking, capable, a girl like that, why wouldn’t a guy like that?” Raven shrugged, but his expression was serious, “I think she’s much better than those noble ladies.”
Luke frowned.
Raven was not, in fact, from the Pazzi family head, but the offspring of one of the elders.
He was also one of the contenders for the next head of the family, and he was even stronger than Dana.
If Raven became the Pazzi family head, Ying would not be good enough for him.
“I will pa*s on young master Raven’s wishes to the head of the family.” Luke responded, “At the dinner today, there will be time for exchange.”
Raven smiled at this.
Inside the library.
Ying was just quickly reading a book.
With a single glance, she had memorised the entire contents of the book in her head, thanks to her strong memory.
After reading it, she put the book back and closed her eyes.
Sure enough.
The ancient books on the Pazzi family’s side recorded the alchemical world, as well as the ancient martial world and the ancient medical world, and even the ancient civilization empire Atlantis, which had been destroyed long ago.
But there was no record of where Norton was.
Ying Zigui pondered.
Her lost memories and her lost power must have something to do with this place.
Norton had also said he had strayed into that place from a stretch of ocean when he was a ship on the Atlantic.
There was a specific entrance, the same as the ancient martial world, only closed.
Ying turned around and found the book he needed again.
Only the writing on this book was obscure and looked exactly like symbols.
For those who didn’t understand it, they just thought it was drawing circles.
Alchemical language.
Ying Ziji recognised it at once.
What a coincidence.
She knew a bit of alchemical language.
She flipped open the book and proceeded to start reading.
**
The other side of the castle.
In the meeting room, the elders were seriously discussing the commotion on the nok forum at noon.
“Grand Elder, there are a lot of people who have taken up the bounty, and not even 10% of them have actually done anything.” The third elder shook his head, “What’s more, how can he kill us all by himself?”
The elders all had the same idea.
The Eldest Elder didn’t nod or shake his head, he just asked, “Where is Old Fifth?”
“Old Five is in charge of the patrol today.” The Third Elder said, “He’s outside.”
The First Elder nodded, “devil hasn’t appeared for three years, who knows how far his strength has grown, it’s better to be careful, turn on all the defence systems in the castle, and in the last few days, we definitely can’t move separately either.”
One elder alone was indeed no match for devil.
The other elders nodded their heads.
Just as the meeting was about to adjourn, messy footsteps sounded.
“Grand Elder, it’s not good!” The guards came running in in a rush, reporting hastily, “devil! devil he has shown himself!”
“The fifth elder is undefeated and has been killed!”
The Grand Elder’s expression changed, “What did you say? He has shown himself? Now?”
It had only been less than five hours since devil had taken the bounty.
How did he come over so quickly?
The Grand Elder couldn’t think of anything else and hurriedly walked out.
He quickly made his way to the door, then from above the castle, looked down.
There was a tall and slender figure, standing alone in the wind.
The man’s face was exposed just below the line of sight, and his brow was cold and hostile.
But the Grand Elder didn’t need to think about it to know that it was just a fake face.
Hunters at this level were more or less able to disguise themselves.
A powerful disguise master disguised himself so much that he could not even determine his gender.
The man was wearing a black windbreaker, his shirt unbuttoned.
The wind blew the collar open, exposing his chest.
Fu Yun Shen lowered his head slightly and looked at the Fifth Elder lying on the ground with an indifferent expression.
The Pazzi family, however, could not help but be horrified.
The last time devil had attacked at night, no one had seen him at all, except for the elder who had been killed.
It was only when the bounty list changed that the crowd knew it was devil who had done it.
This time, he appeared openly in front of the Pazzi family.
Were they really not afraid that the Pazzi family would use their database to match his identity and slaughter his family?
Hunters choose to keep their identities private, not only for themselves, but also to prevent their enemies from targeting their families.
The escort guarding the front of the castle looked at the man warily and took a step back in unison, all a little nervous.
Above the castle, artillery weapons were also set up, all aimed at Fu Yunshen in unison.
The four major Zaibatsu on the O Continent did not have such things as ancient martial arts.
However, since alchemy originated in the O Continent, the four major Zaibatsu naturally had exchanges with the alchemy community.
In terms of extending life, alchemy was stronger than ancient medicine.
But not everyone could have an alchemy as strong as Norton’s, able to develop the body of an ordinary person like the Vice Chancellor to the limit, giving him a life expectancy of over three hundred years.
The elders on the Pazzi family’s side of the family generally had a life expectancy of one hundred and fifty years.
But they are far weaker than the Ancient Martial Arts Patriarchs.
But now technology is so advanced that the Pazzi family’s castle
devil barged in alone and showed himself straight away, how was this different from seeking death?
The Grand Elder narrowed his eyes, “Young man, I advise you to be more restrained.”
His voice was cold: “Otherwise, the moment the guns here are fired, you can be a sieve in the next second.”
What do killers rely on?
It’s all about surprise and sudden strikes.
When a killer was found to be on the trail and disguised, that killer was ruined.
“Very well.” Fu Yunshen smiled slowly, “Shoot.”
The moment the two words came out, the Elders’ group’s expressions all changed.
The eldest laughed coldly, “You really want to die.”
Fu Yunshen turned his head sideways, a cool smile on his lips, “I’ll let you shoot.”
The Grand Elder was furious: “Fine, as you wish.”
He waved his hand and gave the order, “Launch an attack en ma*se!”
At this moment, the Pazzi family’s protection was fully opened.
“Boom, boom, boom!”
“Boom!”
Flames rushed into the sky.
But in the next second, something shocking happened.
All the bullets floated in the air.
Including the strongest sniper rifle.
As well as a single artillery piece that rushed towards the ground from high above.
This artillery piece was fixed in the air and did not move at all.
“Buzz!”
The majestic internal energy imprisoned these hot weapons, not allowing them to advance even half a step.
Then, they were crushed by the internal energy and crackled and fell to the ground.
“……”
The entire castle was dead silent.
Fu Yunshen looked up, one hand in his pocket, still looking like the same flamboyant dude.
With the firelight, he stood motionless: “Open again.”
Chapter 592
The two words were flat, as if they were just going to have a cup of tea instead of taking out an o-continent ancient zaibatsu.
Looking at the cannon fire that had been turned into scrap, how could the Elders Group, no matter how shocked they were, not react to it?
This was an ancient martial artist!
And, not just any ancient martial artist, but definitely above the ancient martial sect master.
The Pazzi family had also suspected that devil was an ancient martial artist, otherwise there was no way he could have killed an elder so easily.
When they looked at the elder’s injuries afterwards, they found that his heart veins were broken, but there were no superficial injuries.
Apart from some kind of laser weapon, only an ancient martial artist could have done that.
That was why the Pazzi family had purchased a higher level of weaponry, to protect against ancient martial artists.
That firebolt earlier was definitely capable of exterminating even an Ancient Martial Grandmaster.
How could this be?
Was there a more powerful Ancient Martial Artist above the Ancient Martial Grandmaster?
How can this be fought?!
The Grand Elder took a step back and snapped, “Increase the firepower!”
“Boom, boom, boom!”
The gunfire couldn’t hurt Fu Yunshen, who was protected by his internal energy, in the slightest.
He didn’t even go through the doorway, he just stepped on the bricks with the help of his inner strength and leapt up from the outer edge of the castle, which was hundreds of metres high.
The Elders finally panicked at this point.
Looking at the man who kept approaching the ground, the eldest elder was unsteady on his feet and directly collapsed on the ground.
“Hush, don’t be so scared.” Fu Yunshen laughed lowly, “I still need your elder to show me the way.”
He tilted his head lightly and his hand just waved.
Inner energy spaced out and directly sealed the acupuncture points of the other six elders, making them unable to move a single muscle.
The Eldest Elder’s face was pale as he was picked up by Fu Yunshen single-handedly and forced to walk towards the inside of the castle.
**
The Pazzi family, as the head of the four major wealthy families in the O Continent, naturally had a huge castle, not much different from a small city with a population of 200,000 to 300,000.
The commotion on the outside of the castle did not affect the inside in any way.
After all, the Pazzi family’s castle is right on the borderlands and there is the sound of artillery fire every day.
If it were to be calm one day, the Pazzi family would instead find it strange.
What’s more, with the Elders and so many hot weapons around, who could really take the Pazzi family down?
But just because it didn’t affect the members of the first family at the heart of the castle didn’t mean that the other forces watching the Pazzi family couldn’t see it.
Almost at the same time as the Grand Elder ordered all the heat weapons to be aimed at Fu Yunshen, news reached the Laurent family.
The news was delivered directly to Cesar.
“Tch, devil is really crazy, it’s hard to ……” Xize’s ice blue eyes narrowed, “really take his wife?”
He, the titular head of the Laurent family, had his name on many paragraphs of history.
And yet he was still a single nobleman.
Was that fair?
Jobe: “……”
Is this the point of concern?
Jobe spoke politely, “Master, what should we do?”
“Watch for now. But the mercenary team can go out.” Cesar rubbed his chin, “The Boss said he would contact me tonight to give me a gift to come, Jobe, guess what, the Boss will give it to me ……”
As the words came out, Cesar suddenly reacted.
His expression suddenly changed, “No good, the boss went to the Pazzi family alone!”
Hearing this, Jobe was also shocked, “Alone?”
To put it bluntly, even if it was the Grand Elder of the Laurent Family, then he would never dare to barge into the Pazzi Family all by himself.
It was also true that the Laurent family did not make a direct move with the Pazzi family because if they did, they would pay a considerable price.
Cesar immediately got up: “All mercenary teams out.”
He never expected that the gift that Ying Ziji said he would give him would be the Pazzi family.
Jobe hesitated, “Master, what excuse should I use?”
The four major Zaibatsu maintained a balance, and the other three major Zaibatsu couldn’t just stand by and watch the Pazzi family being swallowed up by the Laurent family.
The situation on the o-continent was too heterogeneous, and one hair would move the whole body.
This is why the Laurent family has kept the Pazzi family until now.
“Excuses?” Cesar glanced at him and tsked, “Let’s just say I, for one, like money and I’m going to grab devil’s bounty and I can’t let him do it alone, got it?”
Jobe: “……”
**
It was 6:30 pm after Ying finished his book from the library.
The dinner party started at seven.
The servants were in a hurry, still preparing the meal.
Raven had been waiting outside the library for a long time, and when he saw the girl come out, he straightened his suit, “Miss Ying, right? The family head told me to take you to the banquet hall.”
Seeing that Ying had no defences, he didn’t hide his intentions and stopped as he led her to an unoccupied wooded area.
Raven turned around, the meaning obvious.
He beckoned, a little impatiently, “Why don’t you come over here yet and let me serve you?”
Ying Zigui tilted his head sideways, his eyes light and cool: “You’d better not touch me.”
“Come on, don’t pretend.” Raven snorted, “What’s with pretending to be a chaste and virtuous woman, which one of you in the entertainment industry is clean?”
“You’re not even clean in your private life, it’s your honour that I like you, there’s no one here, so who’s pretending?”
Ying yawned as she got sleepy listening.
Raven smiled, “But to be honest, I’m tired of actresses, a boss like you, who I haven’t touched yet, must be more fun.”
He didn’t even take Ying’s remark to heart, and reached out his hand directly to grab the girl’s arm.
But before Raven’s hand could touch down the girl’s clothes, his fingers just shook.
The next second, he let out a heart-breaking scream.
He covered his spasming heart and collapsed convulsively.
Soon his face turned white and he pa*sed out completely.
Without looking at him, Ying Ziji took out the black robe from his backpack.
This was not far from the banquet hall, and Raven’s scream had alerted Germaine.
He hurried over and changed his expression when he saw Raven on the ground.
“Don’t worry, he won’t die, he just won’t be able to do that kind of thing in the future, and he won’t be able to pa*s on the family name to your Pazzi family.” Ying was not slow to get dressed, “I never just kill people, there will be karma and karma entangled, it’s not a crime.”
Germaine’s eyes cracked at that, “You-!”
But the next second, he couldn’t say anything.
For the girl had by this time put on her outer garments, a costume that was perceptibly familiar.
A long black robe, a black cloak.
The face was half revealed, and it was impossible to distinguish between male and female.
The Bevin family had invited the First Poisoner to treat the Bevin family head last year, and the Underworld S-cla*s mercenary group was defeated by the First Poisoner with a wave of his hand.
Everything strung together, Germain’s mind flashed and blurted out, “You …… you are the First Poison Master?!”
“The answer is correct.” Ying changed his voice, an indistinguishable unisex voice, “But there is no reward.”
Germaine’s face instantly went white: “No…… it’s impossible!”
The First Poison Master, how could he be in China?
And, a female?
They all concluded that the First Poison Master was definitely an old man who had lived for who knows how long.
Germain didn’t even have time to think about what this was all about as unprecedented fear flooded his nerves.
The First Poisoner!
The most terrifying existence of all the List One hunters.
Germain turned to run, but he didn’t make it.
But it wasn’t Ying Zigui who stopped him either.
Ying Zidian raised his head and his eyes changed slightly.
It was a strong aura.
At least the strongest one she had seen so far.
Fu Yunshen tossed the Eldest Elder aside, raised his hand to clasp Germaine’s shoulder again, and turned his head to look at the girl.
He had just heard the words that Germaine had shouted out.
The First Poison Master.
When the First Poisoner appeared here, at this time, Fu Yunshen could only think that it had something to do with the bounty on the nok forum.
He also knew that the group of mercenaries from the underground world wanted to find the First Poisoner to kill him.
Unexpectedly, they would meet under such circumstances.
“Discuss, this one is for me.” Fu Yunshen didn’t let go of Germaine and his voice was light, “No comment, right?”
Ying was calm: “Don’t want to discuss it, move aside.”
Her phone was taken away by all the Pazzi family, she didn’t know about the movement on the nok forum and didn’t take the bounty.
But it was the same to kill first and then take the bounty.
Who would turn down money?
Jermaine as the Pazzi family head, the bounty is not low, it’s 500 million dollars too.
Together with those elders, the bounty was able to be several billion dollars.
“That’s a pity.” Fu Yunshen knocked Germain unconscious straight away and stuck one hand in his pocket, “Him, there’s no way I’m giving it to you.”
He still had to save it to buy candy for the kids.
Ying nodded slowly, “It’s a pity, you’re worth twenty-one dollars too.”
Against a hunter who was also a top one, Ying Zidian did not hold back at all.
The poisons, however, did not hurt devil at all.
“It’s just poison, it’s no use to me.” Fu Yun Shen took a few steps forward, “As a poisoner, don’t you have any other skills?”
He knew early on that his blood, was able to help ancient martial artists restore their body’s origin.
He himself was invulnerable to all kinds of poisons.
In this regard, Fu Yunshen had specifically gone to check his body, but the test results did not show any abnormalities.
Even his blood type was only a very ordinary type O blood, not a rare blood type.
Ying Zidian’s eyes went cold.
Just after the exchange of blows, she realized that devil’s strength was indeed very strong.
Fu Yunshen’s hand lifted up and quickly clasped her wrist in a thunderous manner.
It was at this moment of touch that Fu Yunshen sensed that something was wrong.
It was the girl’s hand.
The touch was not normally soft.
And familiar.
Fu Yunshen’s expression gave a pause and he slowly lowered his head.