txolops Chapter 2 Killing in the Rain
Chapter 2 Killing in the Rain
A cold smile flickered across his lips.
Li Xiuyuan, his face cold, turned around and met the eyes of the group who had just arrived outside the dilapidated temple.
The people who came were all members of the Li family.
Li Xiuyuan recognized the burly middle-aged man at the front immediately.
That was Zhou Peng, a swordsmanship instructor who taught the current generation of Li Xiuyuan and other members of the Li family.
Zhou Peng stood at the entrance of the dilapidated temple, his eyes filled with coldness.
Although she was wearing a straw hat, most of her clothes were still soaked.
"Young Master Xiuyuan, hand over the cultivation technique and come back with us."
Fourth Master and the rebellious Li family members are all dead. No one is protecting you anymore!
Zhou Peng's voice wasn't loud, but in the rainy night, it was like a cold wind blowing towards Li Xiuyuan.
"What if I don't?"
Li Xiuyuan's gaze swept over the group of more than a dozen people in front of him. After entering the rank of Martial Arts, Li Xiuyuan's perception of auras was several times more acute than before.
At this moment, after sensing it slightly, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Of the dozen or so people who came, only Zhou Peng was a ninth-rank official.
"Instructor Zhou, why waste so much breath talking to a dead man? Just rush in, grab him, and take him back to the Li family to claim the reward."
Immediately, a burly man wielding a long knife spat and strode into the dilapidated temple.
"Kid, you better behave, or else..."
Standing before the shattered clay sculptures, Li Xiuyuan watched the burly man approaching him step by step, a cold smile playing on his lips.
His blood-stained longsword flashed out like lightning.
At the same time, he suddenly pushed off with his feet, and his body shot out of the dilapidated temple like an arrow.
*Pfft*
Before the burly middle-aged man could finish speaking, his head had already flown high into the air.
In the instant blood splattered, Li Xiuyuan had already broken through the crowd and reached the outside of the dilapidated temple.
"..."
"He's trying to escape! Stop him!"
Zhou Peng was the first to react. He immediately turned around and shouted, then stomped his foot and dashed towards a dark figure that darted out from under the rain in the darkness.
The others also reacted at this moment. Before they could even be shocked, more than a dozen people drew their swords and charged at the black figure that had just darted out in front of them.
After rushing out for several dozen meters, Li Xiuyuan immediately stopped.
escape?
Li Xiuyuan would not run away. At this moment, he was at the peak of his cultivation technique and martial arts, his whole body filled with flames of hatred and killing intent.
With a pent-up anger rising in his chest, how could he possibly escape?
I rushed into the rain simply because it was required by the mission.
"Surround it!"
As soon as Li Xiuyuan stood still, Zhou Peng and his men surrounded him.
Zhou Peng looked up at the young face standing in front of him, covered in blood and mud, gradually washed away by the rain.
"Capture them alive..."
As soon as those three words were uttered, several of the dozen or so people surrounding Li Xiuyuan suddenly brandished their knives and charged at him.
What no one expected was that Li Xiuyuan was even faster.
The longsword, carrying a sharp edge, slashed through the dark, rainy night with a blood-red gleam.
"Pfft pfft..."
"what!"
Although the "Sudden Rain Sword Technique" was only at the beginner level, when combined with Li Xiuyuan, who was at the advanced level, it was as easy as cutting melons and vegetables when facing these un-advanced Li family guards.
Furthermore, because of his Iron Shirt ability, he was immune to swords and blades. In less than a dozen breaths after Zhou Peng gave the order, he was the only one left.
"you……"
"You've become a member of the class too?"
Zhou Peng stood there, his eyes filled with shock.
Especially when he saw Li Xiuyuan unharmed despite being attacked by swords, he felt no worry, but rather excitement.
Because these Li family instructors who had chased after him knew that Li Xiuyuan likely possessed a powerful martial arts technique.
Once you get it, you might be able to go even further!
As for Li Xiuyuan's identity, even Li Canghai, a peak eighth-rank official, was killed, so Li Xiuyuan had already been sentenced to death by the Li family!
Zhou Peng was already shocked when Li Xiuyuan suddenly started killing people in the dilapidated temple.
Seeing Li Xiuyuan kill more than a dozen people in a short time, Zhou Peng was even more certain that the young master of the Li family, who was almost judged to have lost his martial arts, must have cultivated that mysterious technique to the highest level.
I must obtain this skill!
Once you obtain it, leave Yuanguang City immediately and go into hiding.
The more Zhou Peng thought about it, the more his eyes blazed with intense passion.
"Next, it's your turn..."
"Hahaha, Li Xiuyuan, even if you've reached the rank of dan, do you think you're my match?"
I'll give you one last chance. Hand over that mysterious martial arts technique, and I'll spare your life!
Li Xiuyuan snorted coldly, took a step forward, and charged straight towards Zhou Peng.
"court death!"
Zhou Peng brandished his long sword and slashed down at Li Xiuyuan's arm. He had already planned to sever Li Xiuyuan's limbs and then force him to reveal his martial arts techniques.
With a "bang," the broadsword landed directly on Li Xiuyuan's shoulder.
But the arm did not break.
Zhou Peng trembled, his eyes filled with astonishment. After all, even someone who had just entered the ninth rank, let alone someone who had only recently entered the ninth rank, would not be able to withstand such a strike.
But in front of...
"My turn, die!"
In that blink of an eye, Li Xiuyuan roared and swung his cold longsword at Zhou Peng's head with all his might.
"No... *slurp*..."
In a state of terror, Zhou Peng didn't even have time to scream before his head, along with his straw hat, flew several meters away.
The rain howled and washed away large swaths of blood.
Standing there, Li Xiuyuan felt waves of sharp pain coming from his shoulder.
Although the Iron Shirt technique blocked the knife, it still caused excruciating pain.
Moreover, even though the Iron Shirt technique is at its maximum level, it still consumes internal energy when used at full power.
Although Li Xiuyuan seemed to have easily killed Zhou Peng, he had also exerted a lot of energy in the process.
Looking at the task prompts appearing on the panel in front of me:
1. Swing your sword 10000 times in the rain. (34/10,000)
2. Use the Sudden Rain Sword Technique to kill more than ten martial artists of the same level (1/10).
The rain kept washing away the blood, impurities, and grime from Li Xiuyuan's body.
Li Xiuyuan wiped his face, sheathed his sword, and quickly searched the people, putting away all the money and pills.
Then he ran wildly into the nearby mountains and forests.
……
"Over there, chase him... don't let him get away again!"
*Pfft... Ah!*
"Kill him! Ah..."
In the dark, rainy night, in the vast Cangyun Mountains that connect Yuanguang City and the neighboring Cangshan City, blood and gore filled the air, and screams could be heard from time to time.
Under a large tree, Li Xiuyuan, whose body was already covered in blood and bits of flesh, leaned against the rain-soaked trunk.
His chest heaved, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Although he is now a ninth-rank martial artist and has the full-level Iron Shirt skill protecting him, he still suffered severe internal injuries due to excessive consumption during the frenzied pursuit.
Taking a deep breath, Li Xiuyuan glanced back and sensed a murderous aura emanating from a hundred meters away. He swung his sword at the air while gritting his teeth and running towards the dark forest in front of him.
It was getting light, and the rain had lessened a bit.
A hazy, dimly lit mountain forest.
More than a dozen figures landed in a flash.
Lin Shuang, dressed in brocade robes, frowned slightly as she looked at the corpses lying haphazardly on the ground.
"Young Master Lin, these people were all killed by the Sudden Rain Sword Technique. It seems that Li Xiuyuan is definitely an entry-level martial artist."
"Yesterday he was just a piece of trash. His dantian was pierced, yet he was able to enter the rank overnight. It seems that the mysterious cultivation technique left by Shangguan Xiuhong that the family mentioned is definitely not ordinary."
Lin Shuang's eyes gleamed with greed and excitement.
It can instantly transform a useless person with blocked veins into a high-ranking individual, and can kill wave after wave of pursuers, including many ninth-rank masters.
I must obtain this kind of skill!
At this moment, Lin Shuang clenched her fists.
Just then, in the twilight, a scream came from the mountain path not far away.
"Over there... let's go!"
Lin Shuang turned around, and with a swift movement of her feet, she vanished from the spot in a blur...
On the mountain road not far away.
Holding a blood-red longsword, and with the help of the twilight sky, Li Xiuyuan could see the person in front of him clearly.
Wearing a blood-stained blue robe, soaked by the rain, her proud figure was faintly visible.
If it weren't for that severed, bleeding arm, it might have been somewhat erotic.
But at this moment, it seemed particularly strange.
"Xiu Yuan, stop! Don't come any closer..."
Trembling all over, he held Li Yun, whose arm had been severed, tightly, watching in horror as the figure approached him step by step.
What she initially thought was a foolproof ambush has now turned into a death trap.
Seeing the corpses before her, almost all of them killed with a single sword strike, Li Yun was utterly terrified.
"I...I'm just following my older brother's orders. You can't kill me. I'm your aunt, and I even held you and fed you when you were little...you..."
"die!"
Looking at the eldest aunt in front of him, who was usually dignified and aloof, now trembling and begging for mercy, babbling on and on.
Li Xiuyuan uttered a single word with icy eyes.
The next moment, the sword flashed.
The sound stopped abruptly!
Looking up, the front panel appears:
1. Swing your sword 10000 times in the rain. (99994/10,000)
2. Use the Sudden Rain Sword Technique to kill more than ten martial artists of the same level (10/10).
Li Yun's death brought the number of ninth-rank martial artists killed to ten.
Overnight, Li Xiuyuan went from feeling a slight chill and exhilaration at the beginning of killing to becoming mechanically numb.
Of the ninth-rank soldiers killed, four were sword and fist instructors hired by the Li family, two were disciples of the Falling Sword Sect who came with Lin Shuang, and the other three were all from the Li family.
And then there's this aunt in front of me.
Now, all ten people have finally been gathered.
He pulled a wet medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out a few healing pills, and swallowed them.
Li Xiuyuan continued to numbly swing the long sword in his hand without stopping.
9996, 9998, 9999...
[Level cap requirements met! The "Sudden Rain Sword Technique" has now reached the maximum level!]
Suddenly, Li Xiuyuan, standing amidst the scattered corpses, felt countless insights into swordsmanship flowing into his body.
He practiced the Sudden Rain Sword Technique rapidly in his mind.
Gripping his longsword tightly, Li Xiuyuan suddenly opened his eyes, accompanied by waves of merging sword comprehension.
Li Xiuyuan felt his sword intent surging throughout his body. Although he was exhausted, the surge of power instantly invigorated him, giving him the strength to fight again!
"Kid, let's see where you run now!"
Then a voice filled with excitement and mockery rang out.
Several figures swiftly leaped and formed a fan shape, blocking Li Xiuyuan's retreat.
Lin Shuang, dressed in fine clothes, coldly looked at Li Xiuyuan, who was soaking wet and in a terrible state.
In his eyes, Li Xiuyuan, who had been running frantically all night, was already at his last gasp.
But the fact that he was only eighteen and ranked ninth only intensified Lin Shuang's murderous intent.
Of course, before that, we must find that mysterious cultivation technique.
"Run? Why should I run?"
Li Xiuyuan, who had mastered the full-level "Sudden Rain Sword Technique," had a chilling killing intent flashing in his eyes.
He naturally knew who the person in front of him was.
He sensed that his fiancée, Lin Shuang, from the Lin family, who had brought him utter destruction, was also one of the culprits responsible for all of this.
His own father died in an attack by this man and the Li family.
At the early stage of the eighth rank, with Iron Shirt as my support and the newly maxed-out Sudden Rain Sword Technique, it's not impossible for me to give it a try!
At that moment, Li Xiuyuan didn't say anything more. He moved his feet and circulated his internal energy.
With a single sword strike, he aimed at Lin Shuang, who was dressed in fine clothes and wore a playful, disdainful expression...