No one spoke, only the sound of the cold wind blowing through the bamboo forest outside the villa was incessant.
The number one assassin on the hit list?!
Just this title alone had already made everyone behind Yang Tao tremble in their legs, nearly unable to stand!
That was a veritable harbinger of death responsible for tens of thousands of lives!
If this servant dressed in black already held such a status, then the Ye Xiao standing outside Green Willow Villa...
"This Green Willow Villa, with the Yang Family's financial resources five years ago, should have been impossible to acquire, right?"
Ye Xiao's indifferent voice broke the silence.
It was that same attitude that made Yang Tao feel a cut above the rest, but at this moment, he did not dare to act like he had before.
"Heh, the previous owner of Green Willow Villa angered a major power. When the walls fell, everyone pushed, and naturally, the villa was acquired at the lowest price at that time."
Yang Tao explained with a smile, as if he had never spoken a disrespectful word to Ye Xiao before.
"Oh? So, when the owner of the villa fell, did the Yang Family also play a part?"
Ye Xiao asked with interest.
"Of course! If not for that..."
Yang Tao was halfway through speaking when he suddenly stopped.
In his mind, he recalled the scene he had seen on his way here.
Ye Xiao, wiping the dust from the villa's wooden gate with his hand!
"Liu Biao, do you want me to do it myself?"
Ye Xiao said no more, his shadow, who had followed him for many years, already knew what he was thinking.
Upon hearing this, Liu Biao's body shook, and he said with a trembling voice, "Lord Shadow, the reason for the Yang Family's rise is that the Yang Family's second young master returned. His strength is extraordinary, I'm afraid..."
Liu Biao stopped short of finishing.
"Are you implying that he is better than me?"
"Biaozi wouldn't dare! It's just that..."
"So you'd rather be the Yang Family's dog than mine?"
"That's..."
Liu Biao's body trembled slightly.
Unlike his previous fear, this time he trembled with excitement!
Lord Shadow's dog?!
The next moment, Liu Biao, enduring the severe pain in his knees, stood up and glanced at Yang Tao, who stood beside him with a stupefied expression.
"Liu Biao! What are you trying to do?!"
Just one look, and Yang Tao understood what Liu Biao was thinking at the moment, and he also realized Shadow's identity.
He was truly the number one apposition of death on the hit list!
"Young Master Yang, I've done quite a lot for you. Let's part on good terms and maintain some dignity."
While speaking, Liu Biao had already taken a steel pipe from a subordinate behind him and was walking slowly toward Yang Tao.
"You..."
Yang Tao was shocked. When he turned to look back, he discovered that those wealthy heirs who had been standing beside him had, at some point, hidden themselves in the bamboo forest far away.
"Don't come any closer! I am the ninth generation sole heir of the Yang Family! My second uncle treasures me as his own; if he knows you laid a hand on me, your entire family will not be spared!"
Yang Tao shouted in terror, but as he retreated, he stumbled over a stone on the steps, ending up in an extremely sorry state, nowhere near his original invincible demeanor.
"Perhaps, after today, there will be no Yang Family in Jiangzhou City,"
Liu Biao said with a chilling expression on his face. As he spoke, he stepped forward quickly and swung the steel pipe in his hand down!
Yang Tao's body twitched for a while before finally lying in a pool of blood.
"Drag him away, tie a stone to him, and sink him in the river!"
After finishing the deed, Liu Biao turned back and ordered the dumbfounded subordinates.
Whether it was the lucrative rewards they could obtain or the fearful look in their peers' eyes, working for the Yang Family had always been a source of pride for them.
But just now, all it took was for Shadow to merely suggest that Liu Biao be his lead dog, and Liu Biao did not hesitate to strike down the Yang Family's ninth generation heir!
"Send his body along with this item to the Yang Family,"
While the minions were still in shock, Ye Xiao's voice came through.
A blood-red Token floated down, landing on Yang Tao's chest.
As everyone got a clear look, not only did the minions collapse to the ground in fear, but among those rich second-generation kids hiding in the bamboo forest, the more faint-hearted had already wet themselves!
"Red Blood Order?! You... You are..."
"How dare you! The name of the leader is not for you to inquire!"
Liu Biao had yet to speak when a shadowy figure sternly scolded him.
"Yes! This lowly one understands! This lowly one will immediately send him with the Red Blood Order to the Yang Family!"
Regaining his composure, Liu Biao's eyes twinkled with unrestrainable excitement, calling over two minions to lift Yang Tao's body into the van.
"This lowly one takes his leave! If the leader has any inconvenient matters in the future, this lowly one is willing to toil like a dog or a horse!"
Amid the roaring of the engine, Liu Biao and his men left, leaving behind the rich second generations curled up in the bamboo forest, too terrified to move.
Red Blood Order!
Two years ago, in Jiangzhou City, the day after the number one family, the Jiang Family, received the Red Blood Order, they were exterminated!
Not a single one of the three hundred and seventy-eight family members survived!
The Red Blood Order, even more chilling than the death-summoning Yama Order!
"Who else was there that day, the one who brought down this wall?"
Ye Xiao's eyes swept across the forest.
"There's also the Zhang Family! It was Zhang Family's patriarch who joined forces with the Yang Family to strike at the Tang Family!"
The youth who initially came with Yang Tao urgently spoke up.
Having the closest relationship with Yang Tao, he feared he might very soon follow in Yang Tao's footsteps if he didn't demonstrate his loyalty at this moment!
"Today is the Zhang Family patriarch's eightieth birthday, and to celebrate the rise of the Zhang Family these past few years, he brazenly stated that only those who had acted against the Tang Family back then would be worthy to attend his birthday feast!"
"It's at the Zhang Family's newly built manor on the outskirts of the city!"
Listening to the footsteps behind him, Shadow quickly turned around, "Leader, there is no need for you to dirty your hands with this matter; I alone can handle it."
"As the adopted son of Tang Tianhao, I owe his debts, and it is right for me to collect."
Ye Xiao's voice echoed in everyone's ears, yet his figure had vanished without a trace at some point.
In the bamboo forest, more than a dozen rich second generations looked at the unmoving Shadow, shivering.
"Shadow Lord, we will definitely not leak a word of today's events!"
"Right! We didn't see anything!"
Their voices trembled, fearing that Shadow would silence them.
Upon hearing this, Shadow chuckled, "You, you don't even qualify for me to silence, and besides, what does it matter if you did leak it."
The next moment, just as quietly as Ye Xiao had left, Shadow's figure also vanished in an instant from where everyone could see.
"What is a Red Blood Order?"
Someone asked.
"It is a symbol of sovereignty, a decree of annihilation."
"The Red Blood Order first appeared three years ago, involving Xia Country's largest financial group, rumored to be connected to the Tang Family's downfall."
"The second was the Jiang Family, two years ago..."
"This, this is the third appearance of the Red Blood Order; the Yang Family's time has come!"
As they listened to the explanation, their gazes could not help but drift towards the Zhang Family's estate in the distance.
There, hundreds of luxury cars were parked outside the estate; those people, in their eagerness to latch onto the now-thriving Zhang Family, were claiming to have contributed to the Tang Family's downfall back then, even if they hadn't, to attend the birthday celebration.
"I'm afraid, after today, Jiangzhou City will have many more fools."
Looking at the now deserted mountain villa path, the speaker exhaled deeply and glanced at the two people beside him.
Those two, from the moment the Red Blood Order appeared, their eyes had lost all color.
They...
Had been scared silly.