Chapter 354: Chapter 354

Ye Ningbing looked extremely haggard, pale, and now even more so as the poison invaded her heart. At this point, Ye Ningbing seemed no different from the dead.

The poison in Ye Ningbing's body was called Silkworm Poison, an extraordinary toxic substance of heaven and earth. To counter this poison, one must find the silkworm and use the juices within its body for detoxification.

However, by now, the poison had already reached the heart and was difficult to control; furthermore, Ye Ningbing was hanging by a thread. With such little time, where could one find that silkworm?

"You... you're back," Ye Ningbing said upon hearing Ding Fan's voice, her lifeless eyes flickering.

"I'm back..." Ding Fan replied.

"Could you all... could you all please leave? I have something I want to say to Ding Fan," Ye Ningbing said.

"Let's step out," Mu Zi understood that Ye Ningbing had much to say to Ding Fan, so she stood up and addressed the others in the room.

The military doctors present tactfully exited the room. Now, only Ye Ningbing and Ding Fan remained.

"I... I know I'm not going to make it," Ye Ningbing said, and her mouth twitched. Tears that had filled her eyes could no longer be held back and began to flow.

Ding Fan said nothing, just sitting beside Ye Ningbing.

"Ding Fan, I know you've always hated me... hated me for the downfall of the Ding Family... so you never saw me... cough, cough..."

Ding Fan gently took Ye Ningbing's frail hand, sending True Qi into her body, which stopped her coughing and seemed to improve her spirits somewhat.

"I don't hate you..." Ding Fan said softly.

It was because of an unfortunate intrusion into Ye Ningbing's changing room that led to the downfall of the Ding Family—to blame was none other than himself. If not for his own actions, how could the Ding Family's destruction have come about?

In the end, the incident with Ye Ningbing was only a catalyst. So when Ding Fan said he didn't hate her, he was speaking the truth.

His reason for not seeing Ye Ningbing was twofold: firstly, he lacked the time, and secondly, he wanted her to know she was free, that he would never expect her to pay for the Ye Family's mercy with her life.

Upon hearing Ding Fan's words, a faint smile appeared on Ye Ningbing's lips.

Maybe she was trying hard to muster a smile, but her expression only made it more heartbreaking and pitiful.

"Ding Fan, can I ask you for one thing?" Ye Ningbing said, looking at him.

"Spare Ye Chenliang..." Ye Ningbing said.

Ding Fan's gaze hardened, and a surge of killing intent rose within him.

Indeed! It was Ye Chenliang again.

He had previously sent assassins to kill Ye Ningbing, and now Ye Chenliang was trying to poison her to death!

How could there be such a despicable person in the world, knowing that Ye Ningbing had willingly traded her happiness for their peace, yet Ye Chenliang was hell-bent on killing the person trying to protect them.

"Was the poison from Ye Chenliang?"

It was as if Ding Fan suddenly realized something, addressing Ye Ningbing abruptly.

"Let him go, he just hasn't figured some things out yet," Ye Ningbing said.

Although Ye Ningbing didn't directly answer Ding Fan's question, his suspicions were confirmed—it had to be Ye Chenliang who poisoned her.

Ding Fan immediately scooped Ye Ningbing up in his arms.

Ye Ningbing was startled, but she said nothing and just looked at Ding Fan.

There was still a slim chance for Ye Ningbing's survival: to go to the Ye Family and find the Poison Silkworm. Even if they found it, the chance of curing Ye Ningbing was one in ten thousand.

But for that one in ten thousand chance, Ding Fan was willing to try.

Ye Chenliang! It was time to settle accounts.

The Ye Family of Yanjing.

The front gate of the Ye Family in Yanjing, now barren of its former bustling glory, lay desolate.

A cold wind swept through, bringing with it whirls of dead leaves across the entrance to the Ye Family mansion, creating an impression of bleak desolation.

Ding Fan, holding Ye Ningbing, arrived at the main entrance of the Ye Household.

Ye Ningbing had passed out by then; had she been conscious when he brought her to the Ye Family, she certainly would have objected. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵•𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒•𝙣𝙚𝙩

A person willing to sacrifice themselves for their loved ones...

Ding Fan, carrying Ye Ningbing, made no pause as he strode through the main gate of the Ye Household.

"Who are you? This is the Ye Family..."

As Ding Fan approached the entrance, a servant stepped forward.

Ding Fan paid no attention to him, simply holding Ye Ningbing as he continued toward the inner hall. He had been to the Ye Family before and knew the way.

"Hey? What is the matter with you, do you not listen or what?" The man saw Ding Fan not listening to him and strode inside, suddenly getting a bit anxious.

"Someone come quick, there's a gate crasher!"

Ding Fan paid no attention to that gatekeeping servant, holding Ye Ningbing as he strode inside, and what he wanted now was to find Ye Chenliang and get the Poison Silkworm from him.

Following the gatekeeper's shout, four bodyguard-like men indeed darted out from the courtyard. These men rushed up without a word and aimed their punches straight at Ding Fan.

Ding Fan didn't have time to waste words with these men. He lifted his foot and with a single kick sent each of them tumbling to the ground.

Although these were bodyguards raised by the Ye Family, in front of Ding Fan, their lives were as insignificant as ants', and if needed, extinguishing them would merely take a matter of seconds.

After sending those bodyguards flying, Ding Fan continued to storm towards the inner hall with Ye Ningbing in his arms.

Ding Fan was furious, knowing that Ye Ningbing was willing to sacrifice herself for the Ye Family, yet the people of the Ye Family repeatedly sought to kill her.

Today, Ding Fan indeed intended to confront them, to ask why the Ye Family treated Ye Ningbing .

Did they all have hearts eaten by dogs?!

Ding Fan strode into a courtyard within the Ye Family's inner residence, where, as he entered, seven or eight gunmen stood ready. The muzzles of their guns were all pointed at Ding Fan.

This was the core territory of the Ye Family. Naturally, these gunmen would not idly allow Ding Fan to run rampant.

"Ding Fan! You are too much! Repeatedly insulting my Ye Family, now although we no longer possess the prestige of yesteryears, if you corner my Ye Family, we will not hesitate to go down together with you, even at the cost of mutual destruction!"

At this moment, a handsome young man walked out from behind the gunmen.

Ding Fan recognized this man, he was Ye Chenliang.

Back in Dongcheng, Ding Fan had once helped Ye Chenliang with treatment. So Ding Fan quite recognized Ye Chenliang.

Slap... The sound of a slap suddenly rang out.

Ye Chenliang staggered, and then his right cheek instantly swelled, clearly, that slap had just landed on his face.

"Why do you want to kill Ye Ningbing!" Ding Fan's tone was ice-cold, filled with murderous intent!

Swish, swish, swish... Seeing their master slapped, the eight gunmen all flicked the safeties off their pistols, ready to act on a hair trigger.

Ye Chenliang waved his hand, stopping the gunmen. He knew that against someone who could slay Ye Qingyun, these few gunmen were simply not in his league.

"So it's for that wench." Ye Chenliang spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"The Ye Family had already married her off to someone from the Wang Family, yet she followed you, if we don't kill her, how do we answer to the people from the Wang Family?"

"Just for the sake of explaining to the Wang Family, you would go so far as to kill your own sister!" Ding Fan's eyes blazed with a murderous glare.

Ye Chenliang looked at Ding Fan. "That day you insulted my father, and as a member of the Ye Family, not only did she not share your fate, she actually followed you, became your woman. Such a disloyal and unfilial woman, doesn't she deserve to be killed?"

Ding Fan naturally knew what Ye Chenliang was talking about. The last time, Ye Tingshan sent Ye Ningbing to Wang Zeyu of the Wang Family and when Wang Zeyu tried to insult Ye Ningbing, Ye Tingshan and others stood outside on guard.

When he came to rescue Ye Ningbing, Ye Tingshan even nearly took his life with an Artifact of Attack, had it not been for Ye Ningbing's desperate pleading, Ding Fan would have definitely slain Ye Tingshan. And with a wave of his hand, wiped out the Ye Family.

One could say that it was because of Ye Ningbing that the Ye Family and Ye Tingshan are still intact today.

And this was what the Ye Family had done to Ye Ningbing.

For the rise of the family, they sent Ye Ningbing to an old man from the Wang Family, and when the people from the Wang Family tried to assault Ningbing, her own father stood outside on guard.

Now, as the new head of the family, Ye Chenliang's first thought was to kill Ye Ningbing!

They had no idea, for the Ye Family, for Ye Chenliang, Ye Ningbing, such a proud woman, willingly became another man's woman!

"If it weren't for your sister, I would have annihilated your Ye Family several times over!" said Ding Fan with a solemn tone.

Ding Fan's tone was frosty, his killing intent surging like a raging river.

A Cultivator's aura is not something ordinary people can withstand. The gunmen-present felt their legs shaking involuntarily, while Ye Chenliang had to clench his fists tightly to prevent himself from showing disgrace.

"My Ye Family will definitely not seek salvation through a wench, live or die; we will not bask in a single ray of her light!" declared Ye Chenliang loudly.

Another slap flew directly across. Ye Chenliang spun on the spot from the blow.

Everyone present was astonished by the surprise. They hadn't clearly seen how Ding Fan had struck, yet Ye Chenliang had already been slapped twice.

"If anyone dares to call Ye Ningbing a wench again, I don't care if god himself protects you, I will absolutely obliterate your entire Ye Family!" Ding Fan declared loudly.

The atmosphere Ding Fan created was overwhelming; Ye Chenliang, although fuming, didn't dare to utter another slander against Ye Ningbing.

"Where is the Poison Silkworm?" Ding Fan asked Ye Chenliang coldly.

"I don't know…" Ye Chenliang said.

"Hand over the Poison Silkworm within three minutes, or I'll exterminate your Ye Family right now!" Ding Fan stated murderously.

Ding Fan was no longer willing to reason with Ye Chenliang and the rest. Time was of the essence, and to quickly get the Poison Silkworm, Ding Fan could only display absolute strength!