12dz Chapter 46 Absorption Technique at Max Level
Chapter 46 Absorption Technique at Max Level
City Lord's Mansion.
Luo Fugui slammed his hand on the coffee table in front of him, and with a loud "bang," the coffee table and the tea on it shattered and scattered.
"You bastard, how dare you attack my city lord's mansion! You're asking for death!"
"Someone come here..."
The night was thick.
Luo Fugui stood there, watching the figure of the city guard leader disappear before his eyes as he received his orders.
Looking at the inky night before him, with the cold, waning moon hanging in the void and its dappled light extinguishing any trace of the schadenfreude that had been on Luo Fugui's face.
Even before tonight's events, this city lord was plotting in his mind to use this incident to severely weaken the Lin and Shangguan families.
He only needed to stand by and watch.
No matter how out of control this matter becomes, he, the city lord of Yunzhou, will always be the mantis reaping the benefits.
But to his surprise, Li Xiuyuan launched a series of sneak attacks on the Lin family and his own city lord's mansion tonight.
It's obvious they intend to completely throw the entire city of Yunzhou into chaos.
"What exactly is Li Xiuyuan up to? Does he really have a death wish?"
Luo Fugui can no longer stand idly by and watch from the sidelines!
He originally wanted to be the one to reap the benefits, but now it seems that if he doesn't make any move, the news of what happened at the City Lord's Mansion tonight will spread, and he, the City Lord of Yunzhou City, will lose face.
"Li Xiuyuan, since you want to completely muddy the waters of Yunzhou City, then this city lord will give you a hand!"
"But once the Zhenwu Hall people arrive in Yunzhou City, will you still be able to hide there?"
Although Luo Fugui also had the means to find Li Xiuyuan, he knew that someone was more anxious than him!
……
And just as the entire city of Yunzhou was once again engulfed in clamor.
A quiet courtyard located at the easternmost edge of Yunzhou City.
Old Wu, dressed in a black robe, slowly appeared.
Almost the instant Wu Lao appeared, two figures immediately blocked his way.
"Old man Wu, what brings you here?"
Li Xiuyuan, disguised as Elder Wu, looked at the two people in front of him. One was tall and the other short, and both were actually seventh-rank.
The short, middle-aged man who had just spoken was at the peak of the seventh rank.
"Huh? Wait... when did you reach the seventh rank?"
Just as Li Xiuyuan stepped forward, preparing to enter the house, the short, middle-aged man's expression changed slightly.
He looked at Old Wu in surprise.
"What, Tuhe, I've broken through to the seventh rank, do you have a problem with that?"
Li Xiuyuan already knew that this was one of Yingge's bases in Yunzhou City.
There are five people here tonight. Two of them are in charge of intelligence gathering and reconnaissance, and the other three are assassins from the Shadow Pavilion.
The two people standing before me, one tall and one short, are two assassins from the Shadow Pavilion, Ren Han and Tu He.
In a room not far away, there were three more presences.
Two are at the peak of the eighth rank, and one is at the seventh rank!
With a slight sense of awareness, Li Xiuyuan immediately identified the two people in charge of intelligence, just like Elder Wu.
Both were of the eighth rank, and just as Li Xiuyuan finished speaking, two creaking sounds came from inside the house.
As the door opened, the light from inside illuminated the room, and Li Xiuyuan immediately saw two small, jet-black birds fly out, their blood-red eyes fixed intently on him.
It is the "Shadow Sparrow" used by Shadow Pavilion to track down its target.
"Old Wu..."
Two figures then flew out, a man and a woman, their eyes fixed on Li Xiuyuan.
"Little Black, come back!"
One of the middle-aged women immediately called out to a shadow sparrow that was flapping its wings and flying towards Old Wu.
But the two shadow birds didn't return at all; instead, they circled around Old Wu.
"Squeak" "Squeak"...
The two immediately frowned, looking at Old Wu standing in front of them with puzzled expressions.
"Old Wu, where's 'Little Girl'?"
Li Xiuyuan, who had originally wanted to put on an act, looked at the two shadow sparrows circling above his head, chirping incessantly.
Then they knew that the two little beasts had discovered their identity, and their cries were telling their master.
The person in front of me is the target of this mission!
Li Xiuyuan smiled slowly, then grabbed the white longsword held in the arms of the tall assassin Ren Han, who was standing to the side, looking at him with a cold and somewhat puzzled expression.
Now that Li Xiuyuan has reached the mid-stage of the seventh rank, he can easily absorb the longsword in mid-air by fully utilizing the Absorption Technique.
With a "whoosh," the white longsword was drawn and flew directly into Li Xiuyuan's hand.
Like lightning, almost before the four people in front of him could react, the longsword had already thrust out three times in Li Xiuyuan's hand.
"squeak……"
"puff!"
The two voices rang out almost simultaneously.
As Li Xiuyuan pierced the chest of Tuhe, the assassin closest to him, with his sword, the two shadow birds circling above Li Xiuyuan's head only let out a short, mournful cry before falling to the ground.
Its small body was cleaved in two by the sword energy.
"you……"
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan no longer concealed his true feelings, and his withered face slowly began to change.
In the blink of an eye, he had returned to Li Xiuyuan's appearance.
"This... Pfft, you're Li Xiuyuan? This, how is this possible?"
The first to gasp in shock was Tuhe, the assassin whose chest had been pierced by Li Xiuyuan's sword.
Of course, Li Xiuyuan's first strike to kill this person was not simply because he was closest to Li Xiuyuan, but also because this person was at the peak of the seventh rank, and he had even cultivated a technique for escaping by going underground.
That is why Li Xiuyuan paid special attention to this person first.
Tuhe instinctively tried to get away from Li Xiuyuan as he sheathed his sword, but Li Xiuyuan was faster.
The moment he sheathed his sword, as the blood spurted from the pierced chest, Li Xiuyuan's hand, like an eagle's claw, had already grabbed Tuhe's neck.
With such a swift attack, and the Eagle Claw technique at its maximum level, even Tu He, with his keen killer instincts, couldn't dodge it at all.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye.
With a scream of agony, Tuhe felt his internal energy being drained from his body. A sharp pain shot through his neck, and the suffocating pain of death caused everything to go black.
Feeling the internal energy instantly filling his dantian, his meridians were also being nourished by streams of pure internal energy.
Li Xiuyuan casually tossed the assassin Tu He aside and coldly glanced at the three astonished men in front of him.
"Tuhe, damn it...you brat, I never thought you'd find this place. Did you kill Old Wu too?"
At that moment, a burly man rushed out of the house, wearing a wide robe and holding a large knife, his eyes filled with ferocity.
He arrived in front of Li Xiuyuan in one step, glanced at Tu He's corpse on the ground with his neck crushed, and then looked at Li Xiuyuan with a scrutinizing expression.
"That's good... but you don't need to worry, you'll be reunited soon."
Since your Shadow Pavilion accepted benefits from the Shangguan family and participated in this matter, you must also bear the consequences!
And the price you will pay is your lives!
Upon hearing Li Xiuyuan's words, the burly man immediately burst into laughter.
"Little brat, I must say you've made me laugh. You think you can kill us all?"
As the burly man spoke, the scrutiny in his eyes turned into cold mockery.
"Boy, what method did you use to transform into Old Wu's appearance? Tell us and we might let you die a little more easily."
At this moment, the two women at the peak of the eighth rank who were specifically in charge of Shadow Pavilion's intelligence stepped forward and spoke coldly.
"Not bad, little brat. Hand over the martial arts technique that Shangguan Xiuhong left you, and we might make your death a little easier."
Otherwise, our Shadow Pavilion has plenty of ways to make you talk.
Li Xiuyuan, standing there, glanced at the people in front of him with a cold smile, and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly with his right hand.
Then, without any further words.
With a single step, the sword flashed.
Although Li Xiuyuan is only at the mid-stage of the seventh rank now, his combat power has increased again as he has reached the maximum level of several ninth-rank cultivation techniques.
Let alone the peak of the seventh rank, Li Xiuyuan is now eager to find a sixth-rank martial artist who has cultivated true qi to fight and test the results of his recent strength growth.
In Li Xiuyuan's eyes, these people in front of him were not worth mentioning.
"what……"
Amidst screams, the two peak eighth-rank cultivators had their heads pierced through by a single sword strike.
The assassin, Ren Han, whose longsword had been taken from him, frantically used his scabbard to block the first sword strike, but was then struck in the throat by a swift, streak of light.
He then brought his palm down from mid-air, smashing the skull to pieces.
Facing the burly assassin's downward slash, Li Xiuyuan neither dodged nor evaded, but took the blow head-on with his bare body. Then, he threw a punch, sending the burly assassin flying several meters away, and the long sword in his hand fell to the ground on the spot.
When I looked up, the three people in front of me were already dead!
"Your physical body?"
At that moment, he panicked. The assassin's instinctive perception of danger told him that he was no match for the young man in front of him.
Li Xiuyuan didn't stop at all, responding with a flying kick followed by several palm strikes.
The power contained within each strike grew stronger with each blow, leaving the burly assassin utterly defenseless.
It is the seventh-grade martial art, "Three Thousand Overlapping Waves Palm"!
In the end, the burly assassin, who was in a sorry state and unable to dodge in time, was grabbed by the head by Li Xiuyuan.
"what……"
Struggling, the burly man suddenly stretched out his finger and, with all his might, aimed it at Li Xiuyuan's throat.
But at that very moment, under the Absorption Technique, the burly man suddenly felt his power surge towards Li Xiuyuan's palm like a floodgate being opened.
His desperate killing move, though it landed squarely on Li Xiuyuan's throat, only produced a "bang."
Not only did the scene of piercing the throat not occur, but the burly assassin's outstretched finger was instantly shattered as if it had hit an impenetrable wall.
"Ah... your physical body, what kind of cultivation technique is this? Could this be the mysterious cultivation technique that Shangguan Xiuhong practiced back then?"
Absorbing people's power... No!
The burly man was casually thrown by Li Xiuyuan and slammed heavily against the courtyard wall.
Having lost his powers, he collapsed to the ground.
He suddenly felt his bones breaking. He tried to get up, but he already saw Li Xiuyuan's fierce palm strike coming down on him from not far away.
"..."
Everything happened too fast. Before the burly Shadow Pavilion assassin could even utter a sound, his head had already been smashed by Li Xiuyuan's palm, and he was dead beyond any doubt.
Then Li Xiuyuan stood up and felt the pure internal energy he had just absorbed into his body. He vaguely sensed that he had already stepped into the peak of the seventh rank.
His dantian meridians were expanded and enlarged once again, and his internal energy circulated throughout his body. Li Xiuyuan could clearly feel the power of his physical body.
The assassin's knife had just struck his shoulder, yet it had only left a slight mark.
This is just the effect of simply using Iron Shirt at full power!
However, if one were to fully activate the beginner level Golden Bell Shield and the max level Iron Shirt, and combine it with the powerful internal energy that permeates the entire body...
I wonder if it can withstand the attack of a sixth-rank martial artist!
Looks like I'll have to try asking Shangguan Hongtao...
He turned and walked into the room.
Li Xiuyuan searched carefully, but apart from some banknotes and other ordinary daily necessities, he found nothing he wanted.
However, Li Xiuyuan did not leave, but instead opened the system panel.
When I saw that the third condition for reaching the maximum level of "Absorption Technique" increased by 1% again.
Now that it has reached 99%, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but be very excited.
Originally, Li Xiuyuan was thinking that he would have to wait until the next morning for Young Master Shen to appear and fight him before he could get the 1% increase.
It seems unnecessary now.
Now he's only 1% away. Based on past experience, all Li Xiuyuan needs to do is find another force, make a scene, and kill a few people to max out his Absorption Technique!
He took a step and landed in the courtyard.
The thick, pungent smell of blood carried on the night breeze, but Li Xiuyuan looked up at the cold, oppressive light emanating from the crescent moon overhead and quickly found his target.
With a flash, he disappeared into the inconspicuous courtyard.
Yunzhou City.
In a courtyard with undulating attics.
As soon as a figure flew out of a row of guardhouses, he was immediately blocked by a man dressed in fine clothes!
"Who is it?"
"You, you're Li Xiuyuan! Fine, fine! You actually dare to cause trouble at my Shen family's house? You're asking for death!"
"Bang! Ah..."
Suddenly, a scream shattered the tranquility of the attic courtyard.
"Young Master, damn it, you little beast, don't you dare leave!"
"what!"
Several figures landed quickly.
Under the cold moonlight, a figure was already more than ten feet away, and then disappeared in a flash.
"Qi'er, you damned dog!"
Li Xiuyuan, you little bastard, stop right there...
Several figures immediately gave chase!
A quarter of an hour later, these figures reappeared, all exuding murderous intent and with frosty expressions.
A middle-aged man in a loose blue robe stood there, looking at the seven or eight people lying on the ground, all of whom were guards whose power had been drained.
Besides them, there were two other people lying on the ground, both of whom were seventh-rank martial artists!
Both men had their chests and skulls smashed and were already dead.
One of these two is an elder of the Shen family, and the other is a direct descendant of the Shen family in Yunzhou City.
As the head of a branch of the Shen family in Yunzhou City, Shen Lin's face was so gloomy it could drip water.
He was extremely frustrated that he had failed to catch up with Li Xiuyuan, the murderer who killed his son.
The murderous intent in his eyes was even more difficult to suppress.
The death of Shen Jiyue in Yuanguang City had prompted Shen Lin to search for Li Xiuyuan.
One reason was revenge, but more importantly, it was to capture Li Xiuyuan and obtain that mysterious martial arts technique.
Of course, he immediately reported the matter to the main branch of the Shen family, but the experts sent by the Shen family would not arrive in Yunzhou City until tomorrow!
"Qi'er, Li Xiuyuan, you killed my son, I will definitely catch you!"
You little bastard, how dare you! You deserve to die! You deserve to die...
Looking at his son, whose head had been smashed and who had died tragically, Shen Lin clenched his fists and growled in a low voice through gritted teeth.
The furious roar of Shen Lin, the head of the Shen family in Yunzhou City, had no effect whatsoever on Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting cross-legged in a secluded alley, his face filled with extreme excitement.
Just now, with his lightning-fast speed, Li Xiuyuan completely shook off the murderous Shen family members who were chasing after him.
The system's pleasant voice immediately rang in my ears:
[The conditions for reaching the maximum level have been met; the "Absorption Technique" is currently at maximum level...]