Chapter 210: Riding the Wind Through the Skies, A Stranger in the Lightning (1/2)
Chapter 210: Riding the Wind Through the Skies, A Stranger in the Lightning
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Lyu Family?
Junior Leopard's eyebrows furrowed slightly, the corner of his mouth revealing a strand of cold smile.
In the present world, the well-known families ruled. The big ones were the Pingzhou Li Family, the Qingzhou Liang Family, the Hedong Cui Family etc. They were all well-known families. Their legacies ran for thousands of years and they had a strong foundation. Even the royal family of Jin had to give leeway to them. Their strength was enough to compare with the large thousand year old sects like the Mingyi School and the Tian Long Taoism. The talents in their tribes were numerous. Normally they would not reveal themselves. However, if there were big events or dangers, these families would explode with terrifying strength. Nobody would forget how 800 years ago, when the world was in chaos, the Northern Yuan had conquered the south. The Pingzhou Li Family, the Hedong Cui Family, the Qingzhou Liang Family and a few other well-known families had joined hands to resist the enemy, displaying their awesome might.
Within a night, the world had 6 Level Nine experts, 14 Level Eight experts, 29 Level Seven experts and hundreds of Bone-Forging Realm experts. They had helped the Marquis Wu to stabilize the Central Plains. In just half a year, they managed to chase the Northern Yuan army back to the north. In half a year Marquis Wu had also unified the Central Plains and established the Wu Dynasty. After the dynasty had been established, these experts that had come out of nowhere disappeared almost overnight, as if they had never appeared.
This was the only time in the past thousand years that the few well-known families had displayed their strength. In the eight hundred years since, even though there were years of war, and the Northern Yuan had conquered the south numerous times, they did not reach to such an extent. The well-known families with their frightening foundations very rarely appeared in the world to reveal their true strength.
However, although a few hundred years had passed, the deterrent strength of the families were deeply embedded in people's hearts. This was the case even though they kept a very low-profile.
The Lyu Family was also a well-known family. However, compared with the millennial families of power and influence like the Pingzhou Li Family, the Qingzhou Liang Family, the Tian Long Taoism and the Mingyi School, the Lyu Family was only a mid-sized family. Their influence only spanned one province.
Qingzhou's Silvercity Province was under the rule of the Lyu Family.
The Silvercity Province was very close to Maojiang. Hence, the Lyu Family had a lot of status in this area.
However, what did this have to do with Junior Leopard?
In his eyes, the Lyu Family was merely a wealthy family in the area. They had actually dared to use lethal poison to harm him and schemed to obtain his celestial device. This was just as well. All this could be attributed to greed. However, when the poisoner was caught, he didn't submit. In addition to that, he even used the Lyu Family to pressure him, as if the Lyu Family was anything great.
This was an idiot who didn't know how high the heavens were or how thick the earth was!
Seeing the idiot struggling and crying beneath his feet, Junior Leopard once again raised his legs and stomped on his elbow.
”Ka-cha!”
”Ah—!”
There was a sound of bone crushing, followed by a shriek as if a pig had been killed. All the guests in the backyard of the Governor's Mansion were startled.
However, this time around, they knew that a small thief who did not know his limits had been caught by His Excellency. Naturally they would not clamorously rush to the front of the door.
A few miserable cries came out from the room, followed by a ”Hu” sound. A black body flew out from Junior Leopard's room, like a broken bag. ”Laihong, find some place and bury his corpse!”
”Yes!” Lu Laihong responded. He asked a few soldiers to carry away the corpse whose brain had been smashed in by Junior Leopard.
A silent night!
It was just that Junior Leopard was unable to fall asleep.
The fellow he had killed held a position in the Lyu Family. No, it should be said that he held a superior status. If not, he would not have built such a personality where he was pampered and not scared of anything.
When faced with someone who had used poison against him in a scheme to rob the celestial device, Junior Leopard naturally would not show mercy. However, Maojiang was very close to Silvercity Province. Junior Leopard did not want to incur a huge enmity. Hence, he smashed the man's head to prevent people from recognizing who he was. He then settled him like a normal thief. In this way, even if the Lyu Family had suspicions, they did not have any proof.
The problem now was the information that he had obtained from this Lyu Jianyun.
”Damn it. The situation is even more troublesome than I thought. I assumed that only a few greedy Jianghu people would come looking for trouble. Who would have thought that these mid and small-sized families also want my Asura Yin Evil Needles. F**k, this group of bastards ought to die. They don't even know what my celestial device is, yet they believe that I have a celestial device that allows me to fight across levels. Since that is the case, I might as well put the Demon Devil Needle out in the open. I have already completely refined these needles anyway. I can even form the formation. Who is scared of it?!”
Junior Leopard thought for a while. His heart was beating rapidly. Lyu Jianyun was a useless douchebag. Junior Leopard had obtained a lot of information from him. Originally Junior Leopard hadn't planned to kill him. It was a pity that the information he revealed cost him his life.
The poison he'd used to harm Junior Leopard and Lu Laihong was called Seven Heart Golden Scorpion Poison. It was one of the Nine Great Poisons. It was refined from the poison of the Seven Heart Golden Scorpion mixed with other lethal poison. Apart from the unique antidote, only the legendary Poison-absorbing Green Bead could counter such a poison. This poison had been obtained by the Lyu Family by chance and it was considered a treasure. It was kept in the treasure vault and wasn't used easily. Lyu Jianyun was the ancestress' favorite grandson in the Lyu Family. It was also because he was doted by the ancestress that he had such a personality. When Lyu Jianyun had heard the Jianghu rumours that Zhou Bao was relying on a celestial device to kill the Northern Yuan Level Eight expert and shocked the world, he became envious.
If it was during normal times, he would not have had such thoughts. However, these Jianghu rumors came one after another. They said that Junior Leopard was heavily injured because of this and was going to die soon. There were also rumors that countless people were heading for Maojiang to try to steal his celestial device.
As a Young Master in the Lyu Family, he also vaguely knew that apart from the ordinary Jianghu people, a few well-known families whose strength was on par with the Lyu Family had also secretly sent people to Maojiang to look for an opportunity to steal the celestial device from Junior Leopard. Hence, he was jealous. Since others could go, why couldn't he go as well?
Furthermore, Maojiang was not far away from Silvercity. The Lyu Family had some influence in that area. He obtained the Seven Heart Golden Scorpion Poison from the Lyu Family's ancestress so that he could bring it with him and seek opportunity within Maojiang.
Unexpectedly, two days after his arrival at Maojiang, he bumped into Junior Leopard and Lu Laihong roaming the streets. Others might not have recognized Junior Leopard, but he did.
Even though he was a douchebag, he was not someone who did not prepare for battles. Before coming, he'd gotten drawings of Junior Leopard. He came across Junior Leopard, and seized the opportunity. He then calculated the time and secretly poisoned their food. He had been prepared to see their bodies that night.
He had extremely confidence in this Seven Heart Golden Scorpion Poison. He also knew that in this world, besides the unique antidote, only the Poison-absorbing Green Bead could neutralize this poison. Therefore, when he saw Junior Leopard and Lu Laihong eat the meat, he thought that things were done. After all, the Poison-absorbing Green Bead had not shown up in the world for hundreds of years. Even if it appeared, Junior Leopard would not have had it.
But he had miscalculated!
When Junior Leopard heard that this Seven Heart Golden Scorpion Poison could only be neutralized by a unique antidote or the Poison-absorbing Green Bead and that Lyu Jianyun firmly believed that he had swallowed this poison, he did not react in time. If he let Lyu Jianyun go, Lyu Jianyun, making a connection, would absolutely think that the Poison-absorbing Green Bead was in his hands. If other people then linked the bead to what had happened in South Yuezhou State and continued making the connections…. Junior Leopard himself would break into a cold sweat when thinking about it, let alone other people.
Jianghu lacked everything, however it did not lack imagination. The boorish men in Jianghu were all fertile in imagination. They could make up 70-80 sources for even a truly groundless rumor, what would they say about such a well-founded matter?
Thus, Junior Leopard took cruel action viciously and destroyed the corpse and evidence.
”The Lyu Family doesn't have evidence. Even if they have doubts, they can't do anything to me. However, the matter that Lyu Jianyun talked about is very interesting.”
Lyu Jianyun had already been beaten up viciously by Junior Leopard. He did not have a shred of arrogance left in him. He told him everything that he should and should not be have. He was the Lyu Family's Young Master and also the apple of the ancestress' eye. He knew many secrets. During normal times, his lips were sealed. However, when meeting with the ferocious Junior Leopard, he did not dare to conceal anymore. He told him all the things that should have been kept secret. A few matters that were considered utmost secrets were also revealed to Junior Leopard.
”The Lyu Family has actually discovered an excellent refined iron vein in Yunzhou. They wanted to hide it from others. Interesting!”
Yunzhou was the Wu's territory. Especially the refined iron veins, they were basically under the control of the Wu Family. Furthermore, amongst the disciples of Wu, if anybody discovered such an iron vein and reported it to the Wu Family, not only would he gain a huge reward, he could even gain a percentage of the profits from it. As for how much would be distributed to him, it would depend on his position in the Wu Family!
With Junior Leopard's strength and his position as an Outer Core Elder in the Wu Family, he should be able to gain a huge sum of benefits.
Furthermore, he didn't need to act at all. He only needed to transmit the information to the Wu Family. In this way he didn't even need to exert his strength and he could gain a huge profit. He might as well do it!
”Silvercity Lyu City, hmph, don't blame me. You can only blame yourselves for being unlucky and wanting to find trouble with me!” Junior Leopard laughed in his heart coldly. He sat down on the bed and threw all these matters out of his head. He began to think about his own official tasks.