12dz Chapter 26: Any Last Words?
Chapter 26: Any Last Words?
While Li Xiuyuan was throwing Lin Shuang out, he was also busy.
He grabbed the longsword beside him, and with a swift movement, headed towards the eighth-rank city guard leader who had just threatened to kill him, the murderer.
"you……"
Although the eighth-rank city guard leader reacted in time, Li Xiuyuan was simply too fast.
The combination of Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada, Gale-Speed Sword, and Li Xiuyuan's current peak eighth-rank internal energy and blood energy burst forth.
Almost as soon as Shen Jiyue opened her mouth and saw Lin Shuang's head loll to the side and her body die, Li Xiuyuan's lightning-fast sword pierced through the chest of the eighth-rank commander with a "whoosh".
He then grabbed the man by the neck and lunged forward.
He sent the city guards blocking his way flying, and in the blink of an eye, Li Xiuyuan was already standing in the courtyard outside the library.
The city guard commander in his hands had already lost his life.
Looking at the panel in front of him, which showed "Number of people absorbing internal energy increased by 1," and feeling the pure internal energy within his body growing stronger once again, Li Xiuyuan raised his hand and threw the corpse aside.
"you……"
"You're asking for it! Surround this assailant!"
The other two eighth-rank commanders rushed out and saw Li Xiuyuan tossing aside the commander who had just absorbed the internal energy, as if he were throwing away trash.
He is clearly dead!
With a shout from the two men, the city guards immediately surrounded Li Xiuyuan.
After glancing at these people, and sensing their auras, apart from the two city guard leaders who had just spoken and were eighth-rank, they were all ninth-rank martial artists.
"Li Xiuyuan, you are very good. You dare to disobey the wishes of this city lord in Yuanguang City."
Not only that, you killed Lin Shuang. Do you know that he was a member of the Lin family of Yunzhou? You have brought me endless trouble.
So, you deserve to die!
Shen Jiyue also stepped forward, looking at Li Xiuyuan, who was surrounded by the city guards not far away, her eyes filled with cold killing intent.
"Damn it? Hahaha... Shen Jiyue, stop being so hypocritical! Aren't you tired?"
Don't you covet the cultivation techniques I practice?
I think you initially wanted to save Lin Shuang as well.
But you probably want the martial arts techniques I possess even more, right?
"Now that I've killed Lin Shuang, you're spared the trouble. You're probably secretly happy right now."
"It doesn't matter, anyway, from the moment you made the choice to attack me for that idiot Lin Shuang, you had to bear the consequences of offending me!"
Shen Jiyue was slightly taken aback at first when Li Xiuyuan directly saw through her thoughts.
But then he burst into laughter.
Indeed, when it was confirmed that the cultivation technique on Li Xiuyuan's body had actually enabled him to reach the peak of the eighth rank in just three days.
Shen Jiyue wanted to get it.
Lin Shuang is indeed a problem. If we save Lin Shuang, she will have no chance of obtaining this cultivation technique.
But if she doesn't help, she'll be in serious trouble if the Lin family investigates.
Just now, Li Xiuyuan killed Lin Shuang right in front of her, which did make her stop worrying about it so much.
Although it would be very troublesome if the Lin family investigated.
But as long as I obtain that technique that allows me to absorb the internal energy of others and use it for myself, then why should I be a city lord? I can just hide away and cultivate it to perfection, and then I won't be afraid of the Lin family at all.
Thinking about this, Shen Jiyue suddenly felt that Li Xiuyuan in front of her was actually quite handsome, and she found him much more pleasing to the eye.
"Hahaha... Li Xiuyuan, since you've already said it, there's no need for this city lord to beat around the bush with a child like you any longer."
"Hand over this mysterious technique that can absorb a person's internal energy, and I might let you die a little more peacefully; otherwise..."
Upon hearing Shen Jiyue's words, Li Xiuyuan was slightly taken aback.
He couldn't help but wonder how Shen Jiyue could deduce the characteristics of his technique from the corpses of the city guards and the scene just now.
As expected of a seventh-rank martial artist, he is capable of suppressing Li Cangshan and securing his position as the city lord of Yuanguang City.
But so what?
Now that it's already been laid out on the table, Li Xiuyuan naturally doesn't need to waste any more words.
Before Shen Jiyue could finish speaking, Li Xiuyuan had already taken a step forward, grabbed a city guard by the neck, and instantly used the Absorption Technique.
"kill!"
Seeing that Li Xiuyuan had made another direct move, Shen Jiyue's face immediately turned extremely gloomy.
He uttered a single word coldly, his eyes fixed entirely on Li Xiuyuan.
She wanted to see how Li Xiuyuan could survive being surrounded by seventy or eighty city guards!
She, on the other hand, was circulating her internal energy, with a surge of internal force between her palms, ready to cripple Li Xiuyuan at any moment.
With a "crack," he snapped the neck of the city guard whose internal energy he had absorbed.
Facing the city guards charging madly toward him, Li Xiuyuan snorted coldly.
His internal energy and blood surged forth, and the longsword in his hand instantly unleashed bursts of unrestrained sword light.
With his maxed-out Iron Shirt skill, Li Xiuyuan didn't dodge or evade at all. With his Sudden Rain Sword Technique and Gale Swift Sword Technique, Li Xiuyuan was even crippling people while simultaneously absorbing their internal energy.
Soon, Shen Jiyue, who was standing outside the encirclement watching this scene, realized that something was wrong.
"This kid has a secret. Such terrifying physical defense... is this... Iron Shirt?"
Shen Jiyue, being well-informed, recognized that Li Xiuyuan had actually cultivated the Iron Shirt defensive technique.
This is an eighth-grade martial arts technique!
Previously, Li Xiuyuan was a notorious good-for-nothing in the Li family. How could he have cultivated this protective technique to this level in just three days?
Where did he get this eighth-grade self-protection technique?
Not only that, but she watched Li Xiuyuan's terrifyingly fast sword strikes, and sometimes she couldn't even see how Li Xiuyuan drew his sword.
What secrets is this child hiding?
Regardless, I must find out the truth for myself.
Whether it's the internal energy absorption technique or the Iron Shirt technique, I must obtain them!
With this thought in mind, Shen Jiyue took a step forward.
Suddenly, he struck Li Xiuyuan with a palm.
Just as Li Xiuyuan was grabbing a city guard and absorbing his internal energy, he suddenly felt a terrifying force, as large as a mountain and as deep as the sea, pressing down on him from behind.
His whole body tensed up immediately, and he was about to dodge with a single step.
However, it was obvious that Shen Jiyue also possessed powerful movement techniques. As Li Xiuyuan dodged, Shen Jiyue's palm also changed direction.
Unable to dodge in time, Li Xiuyuan suddenly turned around and threw the city guard he was holding at the falling palm.
With a "thud," the city guard's body was pierced through by this palm strike, blood and flesh flying everywhere, and he fell to the ground as a corpse.
Taking a few steps back, Li Xiuyuan continued to swing his long sword, and the remaining dozen or so city guards who were still standing were almost instantly killed on the spot.
The reason why Li Xiuyuan no longer needed to absorb internal energy was because the conditions for absorbing the internal energy of a hundred people had been met.
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan did not want to waste any more time on these ninth-rank city guards.
Therefore, they were killed instantly.
Blood gushed from the longsword in his hand. Li Xiuyuan swung the sword sharply, scattering blood across the haphazardly lying corpses.
The longsword revealed a chilling silver light here.
Looking up at Shen Jiyue, whose face was filled with murderous intent, and the two seriously injured eighth-rank city guard leaders, he saw...
Li Xiuyuan sneered:
"Next up is your turn, Lord Shen. Are you prepared to die?"
Do you have any last words?