A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage) novel Chapter 988

After a short moment of silence, Old Madam Chu suddenly spoke to Ye Fan about his father, "By the way, Fan, I hope that you can have a heart to heart talk with your father when you have some time. Ultimately, both of you are father and son. It doesn't serve either of you any good if your relationship continues to be so strained. Besides, your father is the only one in the Chu family who can speak up for you. Zheng-Hong is not a heartless person and he loves you and your mother a lot. I'm sure he had his difficulties and therefore could not do anything when both of you were cast out from the family. There must be a misunderstanding between both of you."

Ye Fan turned his head away from Old Madam Chu and replied, "Great grandmother, I do not wish to talk about him. I am tired and would like to rest now."

When she saw Ye Fan's reaction, Old Madam Chu decided not to push further. She shook her head and sighed as she left.

Ye Fan continued with his recuperation at the old mansion in the ensuing days.

Old Madam Chu would meticulously change the medicinal herb bath for Ye Fan every day. Under her detailed care, Ye Fan's injuries began to heal swiftly.

One month passed.

During this past month, Chu Zheng-Liang and his son continued their search for Ye Fan without any success.

The divers they hired to search for Ye Fan's remains in the Japanese sea had no luck either.

The unease that Chu Zheng-Liang felt increased with each passing day.

"Qi-Tian, I want you to increase the manpower searching for Ye Fan. The search has to be widened to include the whole world but remember to do this quietly. I am increasingly convinced that he is still alive,” said a solemn Chu Zheng-Liang coldly.

Chu Qi-Tian raised his head in surprise, "Father, how can this be possible? Didn't you say that you killed him with your own hands? The Chu family's Invoke the Celestial Cloud is best known for offensive attacks and you had executed the moves personally. How could that bastard have survived? I think it is more likely that his remains were eaten by the fishes in the sea, that's why we are not able to find him," Chu Tian-Qi guessed.

But Chu Zheng-Liang shook his head. "I had the same thought previously. But I have just received news from Japan that Ye Fan had mastered Dragon God Body."

What?

Chu Qi-Tian turned pale immediately in shock.

"Dragon God Body? How...how is this possible? Only the head of Chu Sect can master Dragon God Body! That bastard was born to a lowly village woman and exiled from the family! How could he master Dragon God Body? This is not possible!" Chu Qi-Tian was truly shocked.

Bitterness filled his heart.

It was extremely rare for any martial arts manual to include techniques for mastering physical invulnerability. Because it was so rare, the martial arts world would be in an uproar whenever such a manual appeared.

Dragon God Body was the most powerful known technique for strengthening one's body in the martial arts world.

Chu Sect had only won this manual after sending out all their powerful martial artists to that monumental fight that involved many martial arts powers long ago.

The head of Chu Sect had always been the one to guard this manual all these years.

No one else had the right to look at the manual, let alone master it.

Chu Qi-Tian immediately nodded and said, "I understand, Father. Rest assured, I know what to do. I will increase the manpower and look out for any news on him. I will also put his relatives and friends under close surveillance.”

After he left, Chu Qi-Tian began to shift his focus from finding Ye Fan's remains to tracking his whereabouts.

At the same time, he got his subordinates to mobilize everyone the Chu family had in Jiangdong.

"Third Young Master, the Chu family's investment in Jiangdong has not been much as the economic growth in Jiangdong has been slow in the recent years. I have looked at the investment records for the past ten years. The Chu family had a total of 32 investment projects in Jiangdong, of which 20 of them had failed and another five were aborted. Only seven investment projects showed some level of success.”

"We were able to gain considerable influence in Jiangdong from two of these projects. One source of influence is from a man named Zhao Wu-Ji, who owns businesses across eight major cities in Jiangdong. The other source of influence is the Meng family from Liaocheng. They have considerable prominence in Jiangdong." Chu Qi-Tian sat at his desk with his eyes closed as he listened to the report from his subordinate.

With the possibility that Ye Fan was not dead, Chu Qi-Tian had to hunt him down first before he could have him killed again.

A missing person's hometown would be the best place to start looking and hence, Jiangdong topped his list.

"Good! Contact the heads of both the Zhao and Meng families, have them mobilize all their powers and influence to locate Chu Tian-Fan's whereabouts! Report to me immediately once there is any news," Said Chu Qi-Tian. His subordinate left to carry out his order immediately.

However, the subordinate returned shortly and told Chu Qi-Tian with an appalled look, "Third Young Master, I have just gotten to know that the influence from Zhao and Meng families in Jiangdong had been destroyed by Chu Tian-Fan. Young Master Meng was forced to commit suicide and the entire Meng clan has moved elsewhere. As for the head of Zhao family, Zhao Wu-Ji was sealed into a coffin alive and thrown into the Yellow River!"

"What?" Chu Qi-Tian's pupils constricted in shock when he heard this.