txolops Chapter 22 Memorization Technique
Chapter 22 Memorization Technique
"Don't kill me, ah... Waaah... Don't kill me..."
Carried by Li Xiuyuan, his figure flickered a few times, and before long they had returned to the Li family home, which was filled with blood and empty of any living people.
Of all the people in Yuanguang City, Li Xiuyuan was most familiar with the Li family.
Outside a slightly quaint attic, Li Xiuyuan threw Lin Shuang out, and the attic door was smashed open.
"Don't kill me, please... I'll give you anything..."
It was obvious that Lin Shuang had been completely terrified by Li Xiuyuan's ruthless sword strike, which left no one alive.
Throughout the journey while being dragged along, he kept begging for mercy.
Even when Li Xiuyuan entered the attic, he could smell a mixture of excrement, urine, and blood.
He couldn't help but frown.
He pointed his long sword directly at Lin Shuang's tear-filled eyes.
"Quiet!"
Lin Shuang immediately shut his mouth, looking at the country bumpkin he had previously disregarded with horror.
At this moment, however, he is someone who can control his life and death with a single thought.
"I'm giving you a chance to live. There are pen, ink, paper and inkstone over there. Go and write down all the entry-level cultivation techniques you've practiced from memory."
"And you can tell me about the secrets you mentioned regarding my mother and this martial art."
Li Xiuyuan didn't kill Lin Shuang with a single sword strike just now because he wanted to get some information about his mother and this martial arts technique from Lin Shuang.
This body's memories of its mother, Shangguan Xiuhong, were entirely derived from its father, Li Canghai.
They didn't even know what Shangguan Xiuhong looked like, only that she was very beautiful and also a martial arts genius, a member of the Shangguan family.
That's all I know!
After Li Xiuyuan mastered the "Absorption Technique," he found it extremely terrifying. This powerful technique, which allowed him to absorb the power of others and cultivate rapidly, was truly heaven-defying.
Although Li Xiuyuan knew that such rapid cultivation would inevitably backfire on him, breed inner demons, and turn him into a demon, etc.
But that's for later.
At least until then, with his mind clear, Li Xiuyuan glanced at the panel and realized that it wasn't impossible for him to quickly complete the requirements for reaching the maximum level of the "Absorption Technique"!
If the "Absorption Technique" is already so powerful even at its beginner level, then what will happen when it reaches its maximum level? Won't one's cultivation advance by leaps and bounds?
However, there must be a reason why his mother left such a heaven-defying technique as the "Absorption Technique" to his father and himself.
The original owner was also extremely puzzled by this matter, but since he had never reached the rank of cultivation, he was still unaware of the heaven-defying nature of this technique.
It could even be said that even Li Canghai himself did not truly understand the extraordinary nature of this technique.
After all, even Li Canghai hadn't been able to master it.
As for Shangguan Xiuhong leaving this skill in the Li family and arranging such a marriage between herself and someone of such a vastly different social status,
They even said they'd give this skill as a dowry; there must be more to it than that.
Li Xiuyuan was naturally eager to know the reason behind it.
"If...if I tell you, can you spare my life? I..."
Ok?
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan did not speak, but only glanced coldly at Lin Shuang, who was lying on the ground, pale-faced, her face full of fear and tears, extremely disheveled.
Lin Shuang suddenly felt a shiver run through her body, a chill running from head to toe.
Upon thinking of those piles of corpses, Lin Shuang immediately changed her words:
"I, I'll say..."
Actually, our Lin family only learned about your engagement to Lin Wanqing not long ago.
This marriage was arranged by Shangguan Xiuhong, your mother, and Lin Wanqing's mother; no one else knew about it.
"A few months ago, Lin Wanqing's mother died of illness. Before she died, she told her family about this matter and said that when Shangguan Xiuhong made this marriage agreement back then."
She promised that if the Lin family acknowledged the marriage, treated you and your son well, and guaranteed you a life of wealth and prosperity, they would give you the mysterious martial arts manual she had brought from the Shangguan family as a betrothal gift.
Was it a marriage agreement made privately between Lin Wanqing's mother and her own mother?
"In that case, you can simply inform me of the engagement according to the agreement. Even if your Lin family is unwilling to fulfill the engagement, you can cancel the engagement. If you don't want to lose face, you can even discuss it privately."
Why did you try to kill me and force my father to hand over his martial arts techniques as soon as you came to my Li family?
"Cough cough..."
Lin Shuang seemed to have calmed down a bit after talking for a while.
But the pain from his severed right leg made him grimace.
However, for the moment he could only force himself to continue speaking:
"I...I don't know either. I just received orders from the ancestor to come to Yuanguang City to kill you and then bring back that mysterious technique."
As for the rest, I really don't know.
"have no idea?
Heh, your Lin family wants both, you probably don't even consider my father and me as a threat.
They think I, Li Xiuyuan, am nothing more than a piece of trash from the Li family of Yuanguang City.
Lin Wanqing is a favored daughter of heaven, and my existence would be a stain on her future infamy. Therefore, she came to easily and quietly eliminate a nobody like me.
"this……"
Not to mention the Lin family, even Lin Shuang himself thought so, and he acted accordingly!
However, he sensed the killing intent emanating from the cold longsword before him and immediately spoke:
"However, I have only heard about your mother, Shangguan Xiuhong, since she disappeared from the martial arts world more than a decade ago."
"It disappeared more than a decade ago?"
Upon hearing news of his mother, whom he had never met, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but frown.
The last words her father left her after desperately protecting her as she escaped were to tell her to go to Yunzhou to find her mother, Shangguan Xiuhong.
But I never imagined that my mother had disappeared from the martial arts world more than a decade ago.
Seeing Li Xiuyuan's furrowed brows, Lin Shuang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly continued:
"Yes, but Shangguan Xiuhong betrayed the Shangguan family, and for many years, the Shangguan family has been searching for her and offering a reward. This is no secret in the entire Yunzhou, or even the Great Li Dynasty!"
"Because of that martial arts technique?"
Li Xiuyuan immediately grasped the key point.
"Yes, but we don't know what that technique is. However, the Shangguan family values it so much, so it must be extraordinary."
That's precisely why, besides killing you, my main purpose in coming to Yuanguang City this time is to bring back this martial arts technique!
Upon hearing Ling Shuang's words, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised and uncertain.
The Lin family was unaware of the existence of the "Absorption Technique"?
However, upon closer reflection, Lin Shuang was indeed referring to that mysterious technique, and even when he used the "Absorption Technique," Lin Shuang couldn't tell at all.
It seems that there are serious problems with my mother and the Shangguan family.
Furthermore, Lin Wanqing's mother and her own mother have a very close relationship.
There must be many mysteries to be solved, and only in this way can one know the cause and effect of all this.
"As for the rest, I don't know... Li Xiuyuan..."
Li Xiuyuan concealed all his doubts and said coldly with a blank expression:
"Go over there and write down all the cultivation techniques you practice. You'd better cherish this opportunity. If I'm satisfied with what you write down, I might consider not killing you!"
"Ah? Yes, okay..."
At this moment, Lin Shuang seemed to have grasped at a lifeline.
He knew he had no other choice now.
We must do as Li Xiuyuan says.
Only in this way can there be a glimmer of hope. Of course, after the conversation just now, he calmed down.
Right now, as long as Li Xiuyuan doesn't kill him immediately, he can buy time and wait for Shen Jiyue, the city lord of Yuanguang City, to arrive.
After all, they had just killed so many city guards at the street corner not far from the city lord's mansion. The city guards might have already discovered them by now.
As long as I live, I can wait until Shen Jiyue leads the city guards to investigate and arrive at the Li family.
There's still a chance for things to turn around.
No matter what, I must survive!
Only in this way can we grind that bastard Li Xiuyuan to dust!
Despite the excruciating pain in his right leg, Li Xiuyuan circulated his internal energy, picked up a brush, dipped it in ink, and began to tremble as he silently wrote on the rice paper in front of him...