Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 69
[Chapter 69: Assassination at the City Gate]
On the sixteenth day of Lingyin’s absence, I miss her.
Lin Xiu sat in the yard, looked up at the sky, and sighed softly.
Sometimes people are mean.
When Lingyin was around, Lin Xiu hoped that she would leave soon. Now that Lingyin is gone, he hopes that she will come back soon.
After using Yuanjing to break through his cultivation, Lin Xiu’s strength has basically not increased in the past half month. Without Lingyin’s help, his speed of practicing the Ice Art will become extremely slow. In the past, Lin Xiu could still follow Dali to train his strength, but now that little weight can no longer stimulate the limit of his body.
If he increases the intensity of training to the same as Sun Dali, Sun Dali can see that there is something wrong with him no matter how stupid he is.
The first awakening of strength ability is already the limit that ordinary humans can reach. No matter how much normal people train, they can’t reach Lin Xiu’s current level. Only the art can do it.
So during this period of time, Lin Xiu can only take time to practice martial arts. The true energy in his body has increased a lot, and he can already use it freely.
Today is still a day of missing Lingyin. Lin Xiu is sitting in the yard, Da Huang is lying at his feet, concentrating on dealing with a large piece of beef in the bowl.
All the new servants of the Lin family know that this watchdog has a high status in the Lin Mansion and usually eats better than them, so no one dares to bully it.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the sky, and Da Huang jumped up from the ground in fright, looking around vigilantly.
Lin Xiu touched its head and said, “It’s okay, it’s just thunder.”
Hearing Lin Xiu’s words, Da Huang lay down again and continued to eat.
At this time, Lin Xiu suddenly raised his head: “Thunder?”
At this moment, thick dark clouds have gathered in the sky. In the dark clouds, there is light flashing continuously. It is the thunder that is brewing.
The practice of strange arts is uncertain. Some strange arts consume a lot of energy to perform, and can be quickly improved by overdrawing energy, such as freezing and fire control. Some strange arts basically do not consume energy, such as space and beast language. Some strange arts can be practiced anytime and anywhere, such as strength, and some strange arts require special environments. Freezing and thunder are the most typical two.
In the twelve months of a year, the practice speed of ice strange arts is very slow for ten months, but in the coldest month, one day of practice can be equivalent to ten days and a half months on weekdays. It can be said that if you don’t open a business for a year, you can eat for a year after opening it.
The same is true for thunder power. Under normal circumstances, it can only be improved by consuming energy and then slowly recovering. But once there is thunderstorm weather, you can attract thunder to fill your body. Now is the best time to practice thunder power!
However, home is not the best place to practice.
When he attracts thunder later, people nearby can see that thunder falls to Lin Mansion one by one. Those who don’t know will think that he has done something against the will of heaven and earth.
And that would be too conspicuous. Lin Xiu is not so stupid.
He returned to the room, put on a servant’s clothes that he had prepared long ago, covered his face tightly with a scarf, and walked out of the back door alone.
Since he learned that the person who assassinated him last time was not ordered by Yang Xuan, Lin Xiu has been more careful.
He hid his identity, went out of the East Gate, and then left the official road and ran towards a mountain outside the city. There were no people around after leaving the official road, and Lin Xiu did not need to hide his strength. His explosive power and endurance far exceeded the limit of human beings, making him as fast as a cheetah, and he soon disappeared in the mountains.
Not long after, thunderbolts tilted down from the sky and landed somewhere in the mountains.
The hunters at the foot of the mountain were no longer surprised by this. It was not uncommon for thunderbolts to fall in the mountains during thunderstorms. When they were hunting, they often encountered trees charred by thunderbolts.
However, today’s thunderbolts were too many. From just now, one after another, they never stopped…
In the mountains.
Under a giant tree.
Lin Xiu was being struck by thunder.
No, he should be actively letting the thunderbolt strike.
People who have awakened the power of thunder can not only create thunder, but also attract thunder. In thunderstorms, they are mobile lightning rods, and can draw thunder from the sky at any time for practice.
Thunderbolts as thick as arms fell from the sky and landed on Lin Xiu, but he was unharmed and even showed an expression of enjoyment.
In fact, Lin Xiu really enjoyed it. It turned out that being struck by thunder felt like this, numb and tingling, and all the pores on the body were dilated at this moment, making people want to moan.
Although Lin Xiu’s body was unscathed by the thunder, his clothes turned into ashes under the continuous bombardment of thunder. Now he was naked. Fortunately, this was a deep forest with few people and no one saw him.
Lin Xiu had known about this situation for a long time, so he prepared several sets of clothes in his portable space.
However, it would be better to take off all the clothes first when practicing in the future, so as not to waste a set every time.
At this moment, Lin Xiu’s whole body was flashing with arc light. Under the bombardment of thunder, the Yuanli in his body was growing rapidly at a speed dozens of times that of normal practice. This also proved once again that for him, there was more than one way to practice. The more abilities he had, the more ways he could practice, and the gap between him and those geniuses would be gradually eliminated.
After an unknown period of time, there was no more thunder in the sky, and the big raindrops fell cracklingly.
The clothes that Lin Xiu had just changed into were soon wet by the rain.
Generally speaking, thunder does not last for a long time, but even a short quarter of an hour is equivalent to a normal month of practice. Lin Xiu is already very satisfied.
He ran down the mountain in the heavy rain, and only changed to a normal pace when he was about to reach the official road.
Because he was worried about missing the thunder, Lin Xiu was in a hurry to go out, forgot to bring an umbrella, and ran down the mountain again. He was already soaked like a drowned chicken, looking very embarrassed.
At this moment, the rain was very heavy, and there were no people on the official road. Occasionally, a carriage passed by, but it came and went in a hurry. When passing by a puddle in a low-lying area, it almost splashed Lin Xiu with mud.
Another carriage drove over, and Lin Xiu moved a little further away.
The owner of this carriage was obviously different from the previous ones. When passing by Lin Xiu, the speed was obviously much slower.
When he walked to Lin Xiu’s side, the carriage stopped completely. The man driving the carriage smiled and said to Lin Xiu: “Young man, it’s raining so hard, why don’t you even hold an umbrella? Come on up, I’ll give you a ride.”
Lin Xiu refused: “No, we’ll be at the city gate soon, my home is near the city gate.”
Seeing this, the man didn’t force it, just waved to Lin Xiu and said with a smile: “Then we’ll go first.”
At the moment he waved, a cold light shot out from his sleeves and shot directly at Lin Xiu’s eyebrows.
In an instant, Lin Xiu felt a strong life-and-death crisis. The explosive power and reaction speed brought by the power technique far exceeded the human limit, which made him tilt his head at the critical moment. The sleeve arrow passed through his hair and took away only a few strands of hair.
However, the crisis was far from over.
At the moment when the sleeve arrow missed, the man’s other hand had a long sword in it. Without giving Lin Xiu any reaction time, the long sword broke through the air, setting off a whistling wind, and the target was exactly the left chest of Lin Xiu, the position of the heart.
As the long sword passed, the rain instantly evaporated and turned into white mist. This was the effect of infusing the weapon with true qi.
If this sword hit, Lin Xiu’s heart would be directly pierced through.
Crack…
A thick layer of ice condensed on Lin Xiu’s chest, but these ice layers did not form any obstruction to the long sword. The long sword stopped for a moment, and then pierced through the ice layer like a broken bamboo and pierced into Lin Xiu’s body.
But it was also at this moment that Lin Xiu’s body twisted. The sword did not pierce his chest, but his left shoulder.
Although the assassin was surprised by the target’s reaction speed and actually dodged his two must-kill actions in succession, as long as he activated his true qi at this moment, he could completely destroy his internal organs. When he was about to do so, he suddenly saw that the pupils of the young man opposite him turned silver.
“What is this!”
Even though the killer was used to many scenes, he couldn’t help but be shocked at this moment.
He wanted to activate his true qi immediately and kill him with one blow, but the next moment, a strange force was transmitted from the long sword to his body, paralyzing his body instantly and making him unable to react.
Just as the assassin’s entire body was briefly paralyzed, an ordinary fist landed on his chest.
(End of this chapter)
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