009 First Move_1
Su Changyu immediately stopped Su Yu from leaving the medicinal garden, as he highly appreciated Su Yu, his medicine disciple: “Don’t return to River City yet. The Lin Family has sent a lot of people outside to set up ambushes and plot against our Su Family.”
“The Third Elder has already taken men to handle the situation, and the family has also sent people over. I believe the issue will be resolved soon.”
Su Yu played innocent and appeared somewhat frightened, asking: “Master, why does the Lin Family want to harm us? How dare they?”
After a moment’s hesitation, Su Changyu said: “You know about the monster group of Ground Rock Rats that appeared in the medicinal garden recently. Although the family ordered to keep it secret, the Lin Family found out.”
“Ground Rock Rats specifically nest near Spirit Veins, and indeed, the spiritual energy in the medicinal garden has become much denser this past year.”
“This suggests that there might be a rank one Spirit Vein beneath our medicinal garden.”
“Neither our Su Family nor the Lin Family had Spirit Veins before. Now that the Lin Family knows about this, they cannot possibly remain indifferent.”
“Those people outside are probably trying to verify the existence of the Spirit Vein.”
Just as Su Changyu predicted, shortly after Su Qingyi and others were ambushed, Third Elder Su Chang personally led men to search for the Lin Family members.
At the same time, the family also dispatched several Elders to lead a team against the Lin Family.
Within half a month’s time…
There were at least thirty minor and major conflicts between the two main cultivation families in River City.
There were casualties among the cultivators of both the Su and Lin Family.
Even the elders on both sides had a battle, but the Lin Family retreated after realizing they couldn’t gain an upper hand.
A month later…
Su Yu quietly returned to River City, unscathed.
But after returning to River City, Su Yu discovered that despite the current calmness of the medicinal garden, the tense atmosphere between the two families in River City seemed unchanged.
People on the streets were rushing around, a stark contrast to River City’s usual peace and quiet.
Su Yu frowned slightly as he was walking back to the Su mansion when a voice suddenly resounded from a nearby tavern: “Eh? A member of the Su Family?”
Before Su Yu could turn his head, a mana Water snake abruptly took form in the air.
Whoosh!
The next moment, the Water snake twisted and coiled towards Su Yu at high speed, seemingly intent on binding him.
However, just as the Water snake charged next to Su Yu, blood-colored runes appeared on Su Yu’s body. Radiating a vibrant blood glow, he thrust out his fist, as sharp as the claws of a giant crocodile.
Boom!
The Water snake instantly exploded under his fist.
At a window on the third floor of the tavern, a young man in his twenties who looked on changed color.
He had merely noticed Su Yu passing by. He was familiar with the younger cultivators in the Lin Family, but Su Yu was a fresh face who was even younger and more naive-looking.
Moreover, he had detected the mana aura on Su Yu’s body. Su Yu was just at the second level of the Qi Refinement Realm, while he was at the third level. Dealing with a rookie at Qi Refinement Level Two would be child’s play, right?
Without hesitation, he had cast a Water snake spell, planning to bind Su Yu and humiliate him.
Who would have thought that his spell would be blasted apart with a single punch?!
“Body Refinement Technique?”
The young man’s face paled, and without thinking, he turned and fled, intending to escape from the opposite side of the tavern.
The next second, a loud bang sounded from behind him, and the third-floor wall and window of the tavern burst into pieces.
Roar!!!
Amidst the uproar, a horrifying beast roar echoed, causing everyone to tremble. Even the young man at Qi Refinement Level Three instinctively stiffened, his footsteps pausing for a moment.
In that pause, he was already doomed.
Boom!!!
Smack!
Radiating a bright red glow, Su Yu transformed into a giant, human-shaped crocodile nearly ten feet tall. He sprang from the street into the tavern at a speed much faster than the young man’s and dealt a heavy punch to his back.
Smack!!!
The explosive power cultivated at the fourth layer of Crocodile Demon’s Body Refinement Techniques One Hundred and Eight Methods, erupted like a flood pouring out from Su Yu’s arm.
The young man’s body, which was not much stronger than an ordinary person’s, was blown apart by Su Yu’s punch.
Blood splattered and body parts scattered all over the ground.
Having killed the young man.
With glowing red eyes, Su Yu angrily yelled: “How dare you attack me! You’re courting death!”
In the private room of the tavern, two attractive women collapsed to the ground in fear, a faint smell emitted from the liquid flowing between their legs – they had been scared to the point of urinating themselves.
The two women were terrified as they looked at the ‘monster’ enveloped by blood-colored runes.
The next moment, Su Yu sharply turned his head to glare at them.
“Ah!”
The two women screamed and fainted, falling to the ground.
Meanwhile, Su Yu snorted and glanced around the room, spotting a beast skin bag in the corner. Picking it up without even peeking inside, he vanished in a blink.
After a long while…
The trembling tavern owner finally arrived at the scene. Seeing the mutilated corpse of the Lin Family cultivator, the tavern owner fainted, wailing: “It’s over.”
A Lin Family cultivator had been killed in his tavern. Wouldn’t the Lin Family kill him over this?
With this thought in mind, the owner trembled as he packed up all his belongings and fled River City with his family.
Meanwhile, the Lin Family only found out about this almost half an hour later. Several cultivators descended upon the tavern soon after.
Seeing the gruesome scene, the eyes of the Lin Family cultivators reddened.
“Lin Xiu!!!”
One of them roared angrily: “Damn it, such a ruthless culprit! How dare they kill a member of my Lin Family! Su Family, are you looking for war?!”
The scene was simply too brutal.
Suppressing their disgust, they collected what was left of Lin Xiu’s body and hurriedly brought the remains back to their family for the elders to uphold justice.
On the other hand, the ‘source of disaster’ had already returned to his original form and quietly returned to his courtyard in the Su mansion.
“Young Master, you’re finally back.” Seeing Su Yu, Lindong rushed over excitedly.
If Su Yu hadn’t stopped her, Lindong might’ve jumped into his arms.
After a short conversation, Lindong joyfully went to prepare dinner for Su Yu. The Young Master was back, so tonight’s dinner had to be extravagant.
Meanwhile, Su Yu returned to his room to open and inspect the beast skin bag.
“Huh?”
Apart from fifteen low-grade Spirit Stones in the bag, there was a jade bottle, a water attribute Cultivation Technique and a water attribute Spell.
The jade bottle contained Qi Refinement Pills. There should’ve been ten, but only three were left.
The water attribute Cultivation Technique was called “Mysterious Water Art”. It was the primary method of cultivation in the Lin Family that most of their members practiced. It could reach up to the ninth level of the Qi Refinement Realm.
The book contained only the first six layers of the art.
As for the water attribute Spell, it was the “Mysterious Snake Art”, a powerful spell that could be used for both offense and defense.
Seeing the stuff he got, Su Yu was thrilled: “I’ve hit the jackpot.”
No wonder why in the previous cultivation games, many wealthy players liked to play bandit. This easy money came quickly and joyfully.