Chapter 739: Chapter 739

At that moment, Du Lei suddenly fainted, foaming at the mouth.

The crowd was puzzled. Just moments before, Du Lei had been perfectly fine, but now he was in this state.

Ding Fan watched coldly from the side. Although the others couldn't understand what had happened, Ding Fan knew all too well that this was because the narcotics Du Lei had swallowed were now taking effect.

"Quickly, see what's wrong with him," commanded Zhang Guanglin, his face growing serious.

After all, this was his birthday party, and such an incident was certainly not good.

"He's not in any serious danger. He just drank an aphrodisiac..." Just then, Ding Fan stepped forward and spoke.

Zhang Guanglin was confused, clearly not understanding.

Ding Fan said indifferently, "If you want to know what's going on, you might as well ask your grandson."

Zhang Guanglin turned to Zhang Liang at his side. "What's going on..."

Zhang Liang quickly shook his head. "I don't know, I really don't know..."

Ding Fan continued, "This kind of aphrodisiac will cause unconsciousness within an hour, and half an hour later, the person will become frantically needy for... Young Master Zhang, surely you haven't forgotten what you and Du Lei spoke of so quickly."

Zhang Liang's face turned ugly. "You... you..."

The words Ding Fan had just mentioned were exactly what Du Lei had shared with him, and Zhang Liang couldn't understand how Ding Fan could possibly know this so clearly.

"I suggest you admit the truth," Ding Fan advised.

Zhang Liang hesitated for a moment, then knelt before Zhang Guanglin with a thud.

Ding Fan was an existence that Zhang Liang couldn't afford to provoke. Since Ding Fan knew everything Du Lei had said, it proved that Ding Fan was fully aware of the whole situation.

Therefore, Zhang Liang realized that the only option he had was to admit everything and try to push all the blame onto Du Lei.

"Grandfather, it was all Du Lei's idea..."

"Enough! Don't say another word." Before Zhang Liang could finish, Zhang Guanglin cut him off. "We will talk about everything when we get back."

After speaking, Zhang Guanglin turned to Steward Wang. "For now, take Du Lei and Zhang Liang away."

Steward Wang, well-disciplined, walked over and clapped his hands, signaling the security guards that were already present to escort Zhang Liang and Du Lei away.

How could Ding Fan not understand Zhang Guanglin's intentions?

With Du Lei confused by the aphrodisiac, there was definitely some shady business going on, and Zhang Guanglin did not want to lose face in front of so many people.

After Zhang Liang and Du Lei were taken away, Ding Fan and Qin Manshu also prepared to leave, with Zhang Guanglin busily arranging for Zhang Wanyue to accompany them.

Zhang Wanyue didn't enjoy staying at such an event either, and the opportunity to go out with Ding Fan and the others was indeed a pleasant prospect.

The three of them left the International Hotel.

"Brother Fan, thank you for today," Zhang Wanyue said gratefully to Ding Fan.

If it hadn't been for Ding Fan today, she would certainly have been framed by Wen Si. While enduring dishonor was one thing, Zhang Wanyue would have been heartbroken to bring shame upon her late father.

Therefore, Zhang Wanyue's thank you came sincerely from the heart.

Ding Fan didn't make much of it. Zhang Wanyue had a straightforward nature, which he particularly liked...

"The Zhang Family is facing turbulent times. If you decide to stay with the Zhang Family in the future, you must be very careful," Ding Fan advised.

Old Master Zhang Guanglin was now eighty years old, and not many live to that age. Now, everyone in the Zhang Family had set their sights on the inheritance.

In just one day, Ding Fan had encountered Wen Si, Zhang Liang, and Du Lei. Given Zhang Wanyue's nature, staying with the Zhang Family would likely mean facing hardships.

"After grandfather's birthday, I will return to Dancheng to live with my mother," said Zhang Wanyue solemnly. "Before my father passed away, he always wanted to be forgiven by grandfather. My main reason for coming back this time was to make an effort through my hard work to gain complete forgiveness for my father. Now that grandfather has forgiven him, my task is completed..."

Ding Fan nodded approvingly.

"Sister Wanyue, if you go to Dancheng, you could consider joining Qin's Group or Brother Fan's Huaxia Company. We both welcome you," said Qin Manshu from the side.

Qin Manshu also liked Zhang Wanyue very much.

Real, straightforward, innocent, and kind...

"Thank you, Sister Manshu and Brother Fan," Zhang Wanyue said with a smile.

The three chatted and laughed as they walked toward the downtown area.

"Brother Fan, do you know there's a popular saying nowadays?" In the downtown area, Qin Manshu asked Ding Fan.

"What is it?" Ding Fan inquired.

"In this world, there's nothing that a meal of skewers can't solve. If one meal doesn't cut it..." Qin Manshu trailed off purposely.

Zhang Wanyue immediately held up two fingers. "Then two meals!"

Ding Fan was amused by the women's words.

"Since that's the case, I suppose you want to eat some skewers. Let's just find a place and have some," Ding Fan suggested.

Upon Ding Fan's suggestion, the two women quickly agreed with enthusiasm.

They walked along the road and soon found a street food stall selling grilled meats.

As night was just beginning to fall, the stall had only recently set up, so it wasn't very crowded yet.

The three of them found a table to sit down, and ordered some dishes.

Although Ding Fan's cultivation was so high that his need for food was lessening, Qin Manshu and Zhang Wanyue barely ate anything at the International Hotel earlier, so when the food was served, the two women ate heartily.

The taste of the barbecue was actually not bad, and even Ding Fan tried some. The three ate and chatted, enjoying themselves so much that they even ordered some beer.

"Do you know? I'm a descendant of Ancient Martial Arts!" Just then, a voice not far from Ding Fan's table rang out.

Ding Fan looked towards the source of the voice and saw a man in his early thirties, who looked quite muscular, with a body full of muscles.

Ding Fan scanned him with his Divine Sense and was somewhat surprised to find that while the man looked imposing on the outside, he was actually quite useless in essence.

One could say that the man had been hollowed out by a life of indulgence.

As for his muscles and such, they were all the result of hormones and the like...

"Brother Feng is actually a descendant of Ancient Martial Arts..."

"Brother Feng is awesome, can you teach me a few moves someday? I heard that descendants of Ancient Martial Arts are all very powerful..."

The people sitting around the man were chiming in agreement.

The man called Brother Feng seemed to relish the attention. "Let me tell you, I'm really powerful now. A while back, while I was on a bus during a trip, it suddenly broke down right by a cliff. Just as the bus was about to fall off, I flew out of the bus and held it back... It's for this reason that more than fifty people on the bus survived. Otherwise, if the bus had fallen, everyone would have died."

"Wow... Brother Feng, you could hold an entire bus by yourself! And there were more than fifty people on the bus?"

"Brother Feng is too mighty... Come on, let's toast to Brother Feng!"

The group muddled their praises together.

Ding Fan, not bothering to listen to Brother Feng's braggadocio, took a bite of meat and then grabbed a beer.

Just as Ding Fan was swallowing his beer, the urgent sound of fire trucks, coming closer from the distance, suddenly erupted.

Then someone shouted.

"There's a fire, everyone come and help put it out!"

At this moment, even Qin Manshu and Zhang Wanyue could smell the smoke.

"Everyone run, this building is on fire!" Just then, the owner of the barbecue restaurant fled the premises.

People who had been enjoying their barbecue stood up one after another and rushed toward the opposite side of the street to escape.

Worried that Qin Manshu and Zhang Wanyue might get hurt, Ding Fan immediately escorted the two women out of the barbecue restaurant.

After Ding Fan had set down Qin Manshu and Zhang Wanyue, he was shocked to realize the barbecue restaurant they had been dining in was now completely engulfed by flames.

Ding Fan's brows furrowed slightly at this time. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝓷𝓮𝓽

He thought the fire in the building was too bizarre. It had taken him only a dozen seconds to lead Qin Manshu and Zhang Wanyue out, and before they left, there wasn't a single flame in the restaurant. But within ten seconds, it had been completely swallowed by fire.

There was definitely something off about this fire.

Ding Fan immediately used his Divine Sense to examine the situation inside the fire, and to his astonishment, there was a Yuan Beast inside the building. The Yuan Beast was continuously spewing fire, and the current blaze was started by it.

Why would there be a Yuan Beast in the building? Ding Fan couldn't quite make sense of it. Yuan Beasts were found in forests and treacherous mountains, but this was a residential area. It shouldn't be possible for a Yuan Beast to be here.

And especially not a fire-breathing Yuan Beast.

In his astonishment, Ding Fan's Divine Sense quickly detected several other presences in the burning building.

The people surrounding the fire-breathing Yuan Beast were all Martial Artists, but what surprised Ding Fan was that their cultivation was all relatively weak, around the Fifth or Sixth Grade of the Human Level.

Boom... At that moment, another corner of the building erupted in flames, drawing gasps from all spectating.

"Help me... Somebody save me..." Just as Ding Fan was pondering the origin of that Yuan Beast, on the second floor of the building, a young woman in her early twenties pushed open a window and cried out for help.

Ding Fan was about to act to save her when a figure had already dashed over.

"Don't be afraid, beauty, I'm here, I'll definitely save you."

Ding Fan looked in the direction of the voice, and to his surprise, the speaker was none other than the man who had just been boasting about being an Ancient Martial Warrior, that so-called Brother Feng.

"Brother Feng is mighty, Brother Feng is mighty..."

At this moment, several of Brother Feng's friends waved their fists to cheer him on.

"There's a huge monster inside the building. Save me..." The young woman was so anxious that she was crying.

Monster? Brother Feng, who had planned to rush into the flames to save the woman, suddenly looked tense.

He had thought this was just an ordinary fire, and spurred on by the woman's looks, wanted to rescue her.

But the young woman was actually saying there was a monster inside the building.

At that moment, a roar from the Yuan Beast echoed through heaven and earth.

Upon hearing that roar, Brother Feng went limp...