A group of people, stepping urgently yet steadily, advanced to the outskirts of the medicine warehouse.

"Hmm? Can anyone explain to me what happened here?"

The person asking was an elder about the same age as Yue Yongnan, with a rosy complexion and a tuft of white beard. He was the sixth elder of the Alliance and the overseer of the medicine warehouse!

He didn’t belong to any ancient martial family; he was from the Alliance.

Behind the sixth elder stood a crowd of experts, with an imposing presence that was unstoppable!

The sixth elder’s gaze swept around and suddenly noticed that this ’forbidden area’ had so many people in night-time attire, and there were also two trucks parked.

This scene, how does it resemble a bank heist on TV?

Finally, the sixth elder’s gaze stopped on Yue Yongnan.

"Patriarch Yue... what are you doing here?" The sixth elder frowned, "Explain it to me."

"This... this..."

Yue Yongnan, who had lived for over seventy years, had never been so nervous, not even during life-and-death missions in the army.

Back then, young and restless, it was just one life at risk.

But this time, it was the entire family at stake!

The Yue Family has been around for over two thousand years; is it going to be destroyed in his hands?

Thinking about this, Yue Yongnan’s face turned even whiter.

By now, more people had gathered to watch the excitement, including members from ten other families. Indeed, people from the Xu Family had also arrived.

Miaoqiu was very tired, but since everyone else was here, the Xu Family’s absence could easily arouse suspicion.

Where there are people, there is Jianghu; ancient martial families are also a Jianghu, full of acrimony and vendettas within.

The Yue Family was close to the Wang Family and had been long-time rivals with the Xu Family.

As a rival, Xu Miaoxiu naturally came for the spectacle.

The sixth elder turned to the experts behind him and said, "Go, check if there’s anything unusual in the medicine warehouse, and see what’s in those two trucks. And where the hell are those guards?!"

"Yes!" The experts answered like a rumble of thunder, then split into three groups to carry out the orders.

Looking at Yue Yongnan’s ashen face, the sixth elder almost roared, "Yue Yongnan, wearing night-time attire and appearing here in the middle of the night makes it clear. Who would’ve thought the thousand-year-old heritage of the Yue Family would produce such a scoundrel in your generation!"

He was simply furious that someone dared steal right under his nose!

Faced with the sixth elder’s blatant scolding, Yue Yongnan could only lower his head and take the reprimand. At this stage, what more could he say?

Soon, the three groups of experts sent out by the sixth elder returned.

"Report, Elder! These two trucks are filled with black bags, all containing rare herbs from the medicine warehouse!"

This was the expected answer; sneaking in the middle of the night to do anything but steal, what else could it be?

"Report, Elder! The medicine warehouse is a complete mess; many shelves are empty, there are several corpses, and... the Wang Family’s patriarch, Wang Shi, is also inside. However, he is not well; he’s been shot in the chest and is unconscious."

This news made everyone’s expressions even more intriguing; the amount of information was overwhelming.

Wang Shi was also involved? And both he and Yue Yongnan were shot; could it be mutual destruction?

At that moment, more people dragged in three corpses using towropes.

"Elder! Elder! All the brothers guarding the warehouse are dead, and they died horribly!"

No need for him to say; everyone’s attention focused there.

The three corpses indeed died horribly!

Their faces were almost completely corroded, bleeding from every orifice, bloody and mutilated beyond recognition. Identifying them would require DNA testing.

Moreover, their skin had turned dark purple to black, and every blood vessel was slightly swollen, easily visible through the skin.

"Buddha’s Butcher Knife!"

Someone exclaimed. This death state, this feature, could only belong to the Tang Family’s ’Buddha’s Butcher Knife.’

The Tang Family was a unique family among ancient martial families, focusing deeply on inner strength, medicine, and poison research without practicing external martial arts.

The Tang Family, both internal and external members, specialized entirely in medicine.

The Tang Family even had over a dozen PhD students in medical studies. Their research on medicine and poison was ingrained in their bones.

’Buddha’s Butcher Knife’ was ranked top three on the family’s poison list, guaranteeing instant death with no time for an antidote. On top of that, the death state was extremely gruesome. Such a poison would only be used in cases of deep vendettas, and it was extremely expensive to produce!

"Impossible! How could this poison appear here?" Some in the Tang Family exclaimed.

"This gruesome way of dying, isn’t it your Tang Family’s Buddha’s Butcher Knife?" someone asked.

"It is... but the way this poison appeared is too strange! Our Tang Family has nothing to do with this matter!"

"This Buddha’s Butcher Knife is your Tang Family’s secret, no one else could obtain it. And you claim you’re not involved?"

Now, the sixth elder only felt irritation and chaos, turning to shout, "Enough! Shut up! Stop arguing!"

Three consecutive shocking revelations involved three families unexpectedly.

Even with the sixth elder’s authority, it was impossible to make decisions alone.

"Yue Yongnan, recount today’s events honestly!" The sixth elder said coldly, clearly truly angered. Previously, he courteously addressed Yue Yongnan as ’Patriarch Yue,’ but now he used his name directly.

Yue Yongnan took a deep breath and began, "When we arrived here, the guards were already dead, the door was open, and someone had already come in..."

He recounted the beginning to the end but with some omissions.

He concealed matters concerning the practitioners; the dealings between the ancient martial families and the Sakula Country were taboo and must not be exposed!

He also blamed Lin Tian for the guards’ deaths!

Killing an Alliance member was equally taboo!

Now that the incident was exposed, it was better to bring someone down with him!

Miaoqiu watched silently, making no sound.

She wanted to kill Yue Yongnan to silence him but attacking amid so many experts was suicidal. Besides, there were nearly two hundred people from both the Yue and Wang families. Could she kill them all?

"What did you say? That Lin Tian took away a truckload of herbs?"

The sixth elder’s face turned red, white, then blue, almost fainting from anger.