sinovels Chapter 36 Waiting for a Rabbit to Run into a Tree Stump?
Chapter 36 Waiting for a Rabbit to Run into a Tree Stump?
[The "Flowing Clouds Acupoint Finger" technique has been successfully entered. Max level requirements:]
1. Mastered the "Flowing Cloud Step" technique to the maximum level. (Completed)
2. Familiar with the body's meridians and acupoints, able to use the Flowing Cloud Acupoint Strike Technique to control at least ten ninth-rank martial artists. (Incomplete)
I saw the "Flowing Cloud Acupoint Finger" that had just been entered into the system panel in front of me.
Li Xiuyuan simply smiled slightly.
Li Xiuyuan had just circulated his internal energy, traveling through his meridians and acupoints, in order to further perceive the generation of internal strength.
After all, Li Xiuyuan had struck thousands of times in the morning, breaking and smashing no fewer than twenty or thirty rocks along the way.
Having already grasped the feeling of releasing internal energy externally, the next step is to carefully perceive it, and then naturally break through to the seventh rank!
Li Xiuyuan has now reached the peak of the eighth rank, and his strength far surpasses that of ordinary peak eighth-rank martial artists.
With the initial mastery of the "Three Thousand Waves Palm" technique, Li Xiuyuan was already able to generate a rudimentary palm wind with each strike.
It can be said that Li Xiuyuan is now only one thin membrane away from reaching the seventh rank and releasing his internal energy!
Unexpectedly, he unintentionally mastered the "Flowing Cloud Acupoint Finger" technique. As the system's maximum level requirement notification sounded, many basic principles of the Flowing Cloud Acupoint Finger technique instantly appeared in Li Xiuyuan's mind.
Li Xiuyuan quickly pressed a few acupoints on his body, and soon he felt waves of qi and blood surging through his body. In a short while, he was drenched in sweat.
He immediately applied the acupressure points to his body a few more times, which relieved the symptoms.
Because before entering the ranks, almost every ordinary martial artist has to learn a lot of basic martial arts training knowledge such as meridians and acupoints.
These are the basics.
Some common acupoints, such as the laughing acupoint, the itching acupoint, and the hemostatic acupoint, were already understood and used by martial artists.
That is why, almost as soon as Li Xiuyuan sat down cross-legged, he immediately began to circulate his internal energy into his meridians and acupoints, feeling the changes in the energy throughout his body!
However, this acupressure technique is not bad.
Li Xiuyuan casually tested the power on himself and found it to be quite effective. At least, if a martial artist below the eighth rank were to be struck by his acupoints, they would inevitably be affected unless they had some means to counter acupoint strikes.
"Do we need to use acupressure to control ten people? If it's possible tonight, we can try it out..."
Having already made up his mind, Li Xiuyuan temporarily put aside the practice of this acupoint striking technique.
After swallowing a few pills, he continued to carefully sense the internal energy spreading throughout his body, and then occasionally waved his palm to feel the changes in the condensed palm wind...
And just like that, the sky quickly darkened!
Slowly standing up, Li Xiuyuan had already touched that membrane. He was about to break through and enter the seventh rank, just a little bit of luck away!
"It's time to continue my small-scale reputation-building endeavor..."
Looking out the window at the cold, waning moon.
Thinking back to the "Li's Xuanzhen Pavilion" that I had followed Li Mingyue all the way to the end of East Street.
"I hope my little aunt is still waiting for me in the Li family's Xuanzhen Pavilion."
Li Xiuyuan took a deep breath.
After changing into his prepared night clothes and covering his face with a black cloth, he leaped out of the window in a flash and disappeared into the street in the blink of an eye.
……
Yunzhou City, at the end of East Street.
The dim streetlights flickered.
There are already very few people out at night, and in places like this at the end of the street, there are even fewer people.
Inside the Li family's Xuanzhen Pavilion.
The lights in the reception room remained on.
"Shopkeeper, do you think we should leave tomorrow? Li Mingyue's intention is very clear: she wants to take back this shop."
A voluptuous young woman poured a cup of tea for a middle-aged man who was sitting upright, and then asked a question.
The middle-aged man shook his head.
"Even if we wanted to leave now, it's impossible."
What do you mean?
The Li family has been wiped out, and now this shop is being targeted.
Leaving aside the Lin and Shangguan families, who are involved in this matter, these two behemoths, even if it were Li Mingyue herself who asked us to hand over the shop, we wouldn't dare to resist.
After all, Li Mingyue is backed by Xiushui Pavilion!
"I don't know how Li Xiuyuan, who seemed like just a good-for-nothing young master before, suddenly became so vicious and powerful?"
Was it a case of concealing her true abilities, or was it truly because of the mysterious, secret martial arts technique that Shangguan Xiuhong had brought from the Shangguan family?
The middle-aged man sipped his tea without speaking, simply gazing at the cold, clear night sky before him.
"I don't know... but we have no choice now, because whether it's the Lin family or the Shangguan family..."
Before the middle-aged man could finish speaking, a figure appeared in the center of the reception room.
He quickly looked up.
"You...it's you, you..."
The woman immediately cried out in surprise, and the teapot she was holding, which she hadn't yet put down, fell to the ground with a "bang" and shattered.
The tea was scattered all over the floor.
"Li Xiuyuan, how could you..."
When the middle-aged shopkeeper saw the young face in front of him, he trembled and his eyes narrowed sharply.
However, as the manager of Li's Xuanzhen Pavilion, who is stationed in Yunzhou City by the Li family, he has already reached the eighth rank.
He quickly calmed down.
"I think you've already received news from Blackwater City, Luoshan City, and other cities. You know why I've come, right?"
As he spoke, Li Xiuyuan released his aura, his eyes fixed on the two people in front of him with a playful smile.
"Li Xiuyuan, you actually reached the eighth rank, and at the peak of the eighth rank at that! How did you do that?!"
The middle-aged shopkeeper sensed the aura emanating from Li Xiuyuan and was shocked. He suddenly stood up and asked a question.
But it was clear that Li Xiuyuan was in no position to answer his question at that moment.
With a flash, he was already in front of the middle-aged shopkeeper, raising his hand and bringing down a palm strike.
"Go to hell!"
Almost at the same moment Li Xiuyuan's palm fell, the alluring woman standing to the side immediately shot out a short arrow from her sleeve. It was pitch black, clearly poisoned.
"Bang bang..."
Li Xiuyuan didn't take the poisoned sleeve dart seriously at all. The dart struck Li Xiuyuan, making a crisp metallic clang, and then fell to the ground.
But at this moment, Li Xiuyuan's descending palm showed no sign of restraint.
With a loud thud, the middle-aged shopkeeper was knocked to the ground by the palm strike before he could even stand up.
The chair beneath him was shattered into pieces by this violent internal force.
Li Xiuyuan raised his hand without even looking at the woman, and swung it with a slap imbued with violent internal energy.
"Ah, pfft..."
Under the violent force of the palm strike, half of the woman's face was shattered, and she crashed into a wall not far away, dying instantly.
"Xiuxiu... Li Xiuyuan, I'll fight you to the death!"
The middle-aged shopkeeper, whose sternum had been shattered by a single blow, saw this scene and immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. He roared and his blood and qi exploded as he prepared to fight back desperately.
But Li Xiuyuan was faster, grabbing his neck and activating his Absorption Technique.
"Ah...you, Li Xiuyuan, you actually..."
Unfortunately, before the middle-aged shopkeeper could finish speaking, his neck was crushed, and he collapsed like minced meat!
He casually tossed it aside, but Li Xiuyuan didn't relax his aura. Instead, he exhaled and spoke in a cold voice:
"Stop hiding and watching, come out, everyone!"
Upon hearing this, the bright oil lamp suddenly trembled violently, and then a sharp blade of energy approached from afar, arriving behind Li Xiuyuan in the blink of an eye.
Blade energy!
The person who came was a seventh-rank official!
Li Xiuyuan frowned slightly, then moved his feet and dodged the sharp blade by turning to the side.
With a loud "thud," a deep crack appeared in the wall of the reception room behind him, cleaved open by the blade.
Turning around, Li Xiuyuan saw more than a dozen figures quickly land in the courtyard and then walk into the reception room.
The leader was a burly, bearded man wielding a long knife.
"Kid, you're pretty alert. What, you knew we were waiting for you here all along?"
The bearded man was an elder of the Lin family in Yunzhou, named Lin Sandao.
Almost immediately after receiving orders from his family, he took control of the Li family's Xuanzhen Pavilion.
After learning that Li Xiuyuan had looted the Li family's Xuanzhen Pavilion in Luoshan City, Heishui City, and other small cities, and even openly left behind the words "Li Xiuyuan the murderer,"
He laid a trap here, waiting for this young man who killed the Lin family's young master and possessed mysterious skills to come.
What he didn't expect was that Li Xiuyuan would arrive so quickly!
"I have been collecting treasures from my Li family's Xuanzhen Pavilion all the way here. Anyone with a brain would know that my final goal is to come to the Li family's Xuanzhen Pavilion in Yunzhou City."
As soon as I entered, I felt an unusual quietness. If it weren't for the two managers in the living room, I would have thought that Li's Xuanzhen Pavilion had been deserted!
"Tell me, are you from the Lin family or the Shangguan family?"
Seeing the dozen or so people quickly surrounding him, Li Xiuyuan released his aura to sense them.
One person was of the seventh rank, four were of the eighth rank, and the rest were of the ninth rank.
Not bad, it's still possible to qualify for a spot that meets the requirements for reaching the maximum level.
However, this seventh-rank opponent seems to have considerable combat strength, so I still need to be cautious when facing him!
"Haha, that's interesting."
Li Xiuyuan, it seems the news about you that came back before was really true, an eighth-rank martial artist.
It's quite good.
"Once we get to the place, you'll naturally know who we are!"
After the Lin family elder with the seventh-grade cultivation finished speaking, a middle-aged woman with the eighth-grade cultivation standing next to him immediately stepped forward.
With a clang, he drew his longsword, pointing it directly at Li Xiuyuan, and coldly shouted:
"Li Xiuyuan, why don't you give up resisting and come with us?"
If you dare to resist, we'll have no choice but to cripple you before taking you away. I advise you...
Not having heard the answer he wanted, Li Xiuyuan didn't intend to waste any more time.
Although the location of Li's Xuanzhen Pavilion is relatively remote, it is safe to say that countless eyes are watching this place because of the mysterious "Absorption Technique" on his body.
Therefore, I must be fast!
Before the middle-aged woman could finish speaking, Li Xiuyuan took a step forward. His speed was so fast that Lin Sandao, who was standing next to the woman, didn't even have time to react before Li Xiuyuan grabbed the middle-aged woman by the neck.
"what!"
Without any hesitation, the Absorption Technique activated on its own, and a surge of pure internal energy entered Li Xiuyuan's body. A powerful gust of wind rippled around him, causing his clothes to flutter loudly.
"Elder San Dao, save...save me..."
The middle-aged woman felt her strength rapidly draining away, and at the same time, a deadly sense of danger made her tremble uncontrollably.
"Kid, let go of me..."
Lin Sandao immediately shouted, and with a flash of light on his long sword, he slashed down at Li Xiuyuan's arm that was gripping the woman's neck.
"snort"!
Faced with Lin Sandao's domineering strike, Li Xiuyuan snorted coldly.
His figure moved ghostly, retreating several steps. The hand that had been gripping the woman loosened its grip, transforming from a claw into a palm, and then slammed down with lightning speed.
With a loud "bang," the powerful and domineering palm wind pierced through her towering chest and ran through her entire voluptuous body!
"puff……"
The middle-aged woman's body crashed to the ground with a thud.
Amidst the splattering blood, it was almost immediately apparent that the woman's chest had completely caved in...