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Chapter 23 The Smell of Blood? Something Happened to the Li Family

Just as Lin Shuang was enduring the pain as she silently wrote down the cultivation technique she was practicing.

Li Xiuyuan had already begun searching through the Li family's treasured cultivation techniques in the Li family's library.

Of course, Li Xiuyuan's goal was to find the Li family's secret seventh-grade martial art, the "Three Thousand Layered Waves Palm".

Li Xiuyuan has now sensed that the qi and blood in his body are abundant and full.

With just one step of the seventh-grade cultivation technique, one can spread the power of qi and blood throughout the body, merge with internal energy, and generate internal strength that can be released externally, thus stepping into the seventh grade.

To achieve this, one must have the corresponding cultivation techniques as a foundation.

As things stand, the Li family's "Three Thousand Waves Palm" is something he can obtain immediately.

As for sparing Lin Shuang's life, one reason was to learn some information about his mother and the "Absorption Technique".

The second reason was to obtain the cultivation technique that Lin Shuang practiced.

Putting everything else aside, the lightness skill they used to escape was quite good.

One of the conditions for reaching the maximum level of the "Absorption Technique" is to cultivate at least ten techniques to the maximum level.

Li Xiuyuan is currently very eager for cultivation techniques, especially since he possesses a system.

Reaching the maximum level in these techniques is quite simple.

Moreover, Li Xiuyuan realized from Lin Shuang's words that he had gotten himself into big trouble.

Once the marriage agreement that my mother made with Lin Wanqing's mother was made public, especially the part about my mother using that mysterious martial arts technique as a betrothal gift, it would be a disaster.

The Li family of Yuanguang City will definitely become the target of public criticism.

Although Li Xiuyuan didn't know why the Shangguan family hadn't bothered the Li family in recent years.

But it is clear that this "Absorption Technique" is extremely important to the Shangguan family.

Otherwise, after my mother took this martial arts technique with her, she wouldn't have been expelled from the Shangguan family and then hunted down with a bounty on her head.

The original owner of this body was unaware of these things, and perhaps even the entire Li family of Yuanguang City was unaware of them.

But right now... because Lin Shuang has come to the Li family, everything is practically out in the open.

Now that he has destroyed the Li family, everything will point entirely to him.

Although news may be delayed in this world, the Shangguan and Lin families will definitely know everything that happened in Yuanguang City soon.

By that time...

With his mind racing, Li Xiuyuan quickly came up with many ideas.

During this period, we must quickly become stronger and have the necessary means to deal with the Lin family and even the Shangguan family.

While searching through the bookshelf, Li Xiuyuan also found several ninth-grade cultivation manuals.

Among them are the "Sudden Rain Sword Technique," "Raging Wind Swift Sword," and "Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada," which he has already mastered to the maximum level. In addition, Li Xiuyuan also found two eighth-grade martial arts techniques.

Li Cangshan had mastered the "Bloodthirsty Blade Technique," a type of swordsmanship. However, when he faced Li Xiuyuan, he never expected that he would be cleanly and swiftly killed by Li Xiuyuan before he could even unleash this technique.

Although Li Xiuyuan has now mastered two sword techniques to the maximum level, and has also entered the beginner level of the "Thunder Swift Sword Technique" into the system.

But Li Xiuyuan didn't mind having many different cultivation techniques; the more the better.

Different paths lead to the same goal. As a time traveler, Li Xiuyuan knew that the path of martial arts draws on the strengths of many different schools.

Now, Li Xiuyuan needs to learn and practice as many martial arts techniques as possible in order to truly become stronger quickly.

The other technique is an eighth-grade movement method called "Lightning Speed ​​Step".

Li Xiuyuan remembered that Li Ming had practiced this movement technique. It was as fast as lightning and suitable for long-distance running. Although it consumed a lot of qi and blood and internal energy, its speed was top-notch and far surpassed the Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada.

If I master this movement technique and combine it with my fast sword, I can instantly kill any opponent of the same level by surprise!

After carefully putting away the two cultivation manuals, Li Xiuyuan continued his search...

Soon, in a hidden compartment in the library, they found an antique thread-bound book that was stored in excellent condition.

The words "Three Thousand Layered Waves Palm" were written in ancient script on it.

We finally found it.

This was a matter of his chance to advance to the seventh rank, so Li Xiuyuan immediately opened it without any hesitation...

Just as Li Xiuyuan began to carefully read "Three Thousand Overlapping Waves Palm," Lin Shuang, enduring excruciating pain, gritted her teeth and quickly memorized the cultivation technique she was practicing.

The moon was full in the sky, and the once quiet and peaceful Yuanguang City was bathed in light.

However, many lights were lit, and footsteps echoed everywhere.

It's located at a street corner not far from the city lord's mansion.

The fire was blazing, and the torches illuminated the bloody corpses on the ground.

Several city guards dressed in cloud-patterned robes with swords at their waists swiftly moved among the corpses.

Sometimes he would turn the body over, sometimes he would squat down to carefully examine the wounds...

Standing not far away, a tall woman in a light blue robe and holding a snow-white longsword stared grimly at the cold corpses of the city guards on the ground.

Standing beside her were three people, all of whom possessed an aura of the eighth rank.

"Lord, these people were all killed by a swift sword, but for some reason, it seems their limbs were crippled before they died, and their internal energy was completely depleted!"

After a few people who had inspected the slain city guards briefly summarized the situation, they stepped forward to report.

The woman in the light blue robe was none other than Shen Jiyue, the current city lord of Yuanguang City.

Inside Yuanguang City, a squad of over twenty city guards were blatantly and openly slaughtered on the street.

This was a blatant provocation to her, the city lord.

Therefore, almost immediately upon receiving this news, Shen Jiyue summoned all the city guards of Yuanguang City.

One team immediately sealed off Yuanguang City.

She then led her people to the crime scene immediately.

"To be able to kill more than twenty city guards in such a short time without causing a big commotion, it seems that the murderer is at least an eighth-rank martial artist."

Moreover, none of the city guards were directly wiped out.

First, his limbs were crippled, then his internal energy was completely depleted… Could this thug who attacked the city guards in Yuanguang City be a demon who has cultivated some kind of evil technique that can forcibly plunder people's internal energy?

As Shen Jiyue murmured to herself, her eyes suddenly trembled.

"Could it be... going to the Li family...?"

soon.

Outside the Li family mansion, torches blazed brightly.

The entire street and alleyway outside the mansion was illuminated as if it were daytime.

Shen Jiyue and her entourage stood before the imposing and ancient gate of the Li family.

The night wind howled, and the crackling of the burning torches made the night seem even more deathly still.

Although the Li family's gates were tightly closed, the strong, uncontrollable stench of blood wafted out of the mansion in the night wind.

"Um?"

This is... such a strong smell of blood!

As soon as Shen Jiyue and her group arrived outside the Li family mansion, they smelled a strong, pungent stench of blood.

"City Lord..."

"Something's happened to the Li family! Charge in!"

At this moment, Shen Jiyue knew that her guess had come true.

Her face was full of astonishment as she coldly shouted.

With a single step, he transformed into a gust of wind, leaping over the high walls of the Li family mansion and entering the residence...