txolops Chapter 11: A Fight to the Death?
Chapter 11: A Fight to the Death?
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Seeing Li Xiuyuan, whose hands were covered in blood and who was looking at him with a sneer, Li Ming felt a surge of rage rising in his chest.
After all, in his eyes, Li Xiuyuan had always been an insignificant nobody in the Li family.
They are now ignoring me so blatantly, even provoking me.
Yes, Li Xiuyuan's eyes and actions were a blatant provocation against me!
Damn dog!
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan felt refreshed and invigorated.
He had just used the Absorption Technique and could clearly feel himself absorbing the pure internal energy of Liu Fu, a peak ninth-grade cultivator.
Not only did it fully restore the internal energy it had just used up, but it also increased it somewhat. After taking a deep breath and carefully sensing it, it was about one-third the internal energy of a normal peak ninth-grade martial artist.
This is genuine, pure internal energy, not elixirs or medicinal baths; it requires time to absorb and cultivate.
This is just the beginning; if one can absorb one-third of a ninth-rank martial artist's internal energy, then when the "Absorption Technique" is perfected, wouldn't one be able to absorb all of an opponent's internal energy instantly?
How can you manually turn a martial artist into an ordinary person?
This is defying the heavens! It's truly defying the heavens!
As Li Xiuyuan carefully sensed the changes in the pure internal energy he had just absorbed, many thoughts immediately came to mind.
No wonder even the Lin family of Yunzhou coveted such a heaven-defying technique. Once truly mastered, one could cripple anyone one disliked and then absorb their life's worth of cultivation for one's own use.
Who can't break through the defenses?
The more Li Xiuyuan thought about it, the more excited he became.
Even the resentment towards his mother, Shangguan Xiuhong, whom he hated even before meeting her, lessened a bit.
She also became curious about her mother.
Possessing such a powerful and mysterious skill, one must be extraordinary. In my memory, my father, Li Canghai, seemed to have mentioned the Shangguan family, who were also located in Yunzhou.
Moreover, their status in Yunzhou City is in no way inferior to that of the Lin family.
If that's the case, why hasn't his mother looked at him even once in all these years?
"Fine, fine... Li Xiuyuan, I was initially reluctant to harm you out of consideration for our family ties, but now it seems your personality has drastically changed; you've become a bloodthirsty killer!"
"Today, I, Li Ming, will utterly suppress you..."
Li Xiuyuan, who had gained many benefits from using the Absorption Technique for the first time, was not listening to what Li Ming was saying at all.
Lost in thought and reflection, he turned and took a step forward.
Before Li Ming could finish speaking, a sharp longsword pierced through his chest with such speed that even Li Ming was shocked.
However, Li Ming, being an eighth-rank martial artist, was no mere showman. He turned sideways, drew his long sword, and slashed down to meet the sword strike.
Seeing Li Xiuyuan take the initiative to make a move, Li Ting and the others nearby felt a wave of disdain.
In their eyes, Li Ming, the young master of the Li family, was a true eighth-rank martial artist and a genius of the Li family.
The "Great Cloak Blade Technique" he cultivated was extremely domineering.
The instant Li Ming drew his blade, they could all feel a sharp and terrifying blade light flash by.
It moved so fast that it swept past Li Xiuyuan's sword in the blink of an eye, heading towards his right shoulder.
This strike was imbued with vital energy and internal force, its sharpness reaching its peak.
In the cold, menacing eyes of the Li family members, who were injured to varying degrees, this one strike would sever Li Xiuyuan's entire right arm.
"Li Xiuyuan, how dare you hurt me! Die!"
Li Ting staggered to her feet, clutching the bleeding wound on her chest and feeling the excruciating pain from her broken nose. She stared at the blade Li Ming had brought down, her heart filled with furious rage.
"Bang!"
"puff……"
Two voices, one in front of the other.
But everyone who witnessed this scene was completely dumbfounded.
Li Ming stared blankly down at his chest, trembling as he looked at the cold, embedded sword, blood gushing down his chest.
"You... pfft!"
Just as he was about to speak, a mouthful of blood uncontrollably gushed from his mouth.
Li Xiuyuan sneered, and a sharp slash cleanly tore a huge gash in the clothes he had just bought on his right shoulder.
Most of his slightly wheat-colored skin was visible, while the shoulder that had been slashed by the knife only had a small white mark.
Seeing Li Ming's utterly astonished face, Li Xiuyuan didn't stop, but instead took another step forward.
"Pfft... Ah!"
The sharp sword pierced straight through Li Ming's chest, and as Li Xiuyuan stepped forward, his right shoulder, which had just been slashed, suddenly lurched forward.
With a loud bang, Li Ming was sent flying several meters away, crashing into a door not far away.
With a loud crash, the wooden door collapsed.
"..."
At this moment, the remaining people in the courtyard looked at Li Xiuyuan, who stood up straight and flicked the blood off his long sword, their eyes filled with astonishment and disbelief.
The entire process, from Li Xiuyuan's initial move to the moment he pierced Li Ming's heart with his sword, all occurred within a very short period of time.
Turning around, Li Xiuyuan glanced at Li Ting, who was trembling as she stood up, clutching her chest.
"You, Li Xiuyuan, what do you want to do... I'm your cousin, I..."
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan didn't say anything more. He took a step forward and grabbed Li Ting's neck.
With a thought, the Absorption Technique was activated, and the internal energy in the dantian and sea of qi instantly spun and converged into a small vortex.
"Ah! Li Xiuyuan, let me go, you..."
"Save me! I order you all to attack together and kill this bastard... Ah!"
But Li Ting's voice stopped abruptly, because at this moment, under the Absorption Technique, Li Ting felt all her strength being frantically drained.
His dantian felt as if it were a bucket with a huge hole, and his internal energy was constantly leaking out.
"Let's work together! We can't let Li Xiuyuan, that traitor to the family, kill Miss Li Ting!"
The other ninth-rank martial artists present reacted instantly, gritting their teeth and wielding their swords to slash at Li Xiuyuan.
Li Xiuyuan paid no attention to the sword attacks of these people, focusing instead on the pure internal energy flowing into his body.
Li Xiuyuan disregarded everything and activated his Iron Shirt technique with all his might.
When the swords and blades struck Li Xiuyuan, they produced a metallic clanging sound.
Aside from tearing Li Xiuyuan's clothes, it didn't harm Li Xiuyuan in the slightest.
Upon seeing this, the expressions of the people who had made the move changed drastically.
In the instant they were stunned, Li Xiuyuan's internal energy surged.
Instantly, the swords and blades that were slashing at him, along with Li Xiuyuan's tattered clothes, were shaken away by a violent surge of internal energy.
The swords and blades that were knocked away flew out of their hands, and some even shattered.
With a few "buzzing" sounds, it pierced deeply into the ground in the courtyard, shaking up a large amount of soil and stone debris.
The few ninth-rank martial artists who had forced themselves to attack despite their injuries were also blasted several meters away, coughing up blood and falling unconscious.
Li Ming, who had just stepped out of the house and was clutching his chest where he had been pierced, suddenly widened his eyes upon seeing this scene.
"You... Li Xiuyuan, you actually... you actually broke through to the eighth rank too!"
But at this moment, Li Ming couldn't care less about being shocked, because he immediately saw that Li Ting, whose neck was being grabbed by Li Xiuyuan, seemed about to give way.
"You, you stop right now! If you kill Li Ting, you'll truly have no way to turn back."
"Do you really intend to have a life-or-death feud with the Li family?"
As he spoke, seemingly due to shock and excitement, Li Ming spat out another mouthful of blood, his face turning extremely pale.
"You...you let me go, don't kill me, I..."
Li Ting, who was also grabbed by the neck by Li Xiuyuan and was already limp and powerless, was terrified after witnessing what had just happened.
Especially the feeling of not being able to breathe made Li Ting realize that Li Xiuyuan, whom she had always considered a good-for-nothing, was now truly capable of killing her.
Driven by a strong will to survive, Li Ting spoke in a trembling voice, her eyes filled with terror!