Chapter 328: Chapter 328: Tomb of the Ancestors of the Li Family
Facing Li Tu’s expulsion, Li Yu’s face showed anger as he said, “This man has killed mbers of our Li Family, Li Tu, are you actually trying to harbor him?”
“Killed mbers of the Li Family?” Li Tu was taken aback, then imdiately said, “You must speak with evidence.”
Li Tu turned his head to look at Li Xiaoyao and asked, “Brother, did you kill mbers of my Li Family?”
Li Xiaoyao looked at him for a few seconds, that indifferent gaze made Li Tu’s heart thump wildly. The interactions along the way had made him realize that Li Xiaoyao’s character seed a bit odd, and he might really admit to murder.
“I didn’t,” he finally said.
With a sigh of relief, Li Tu said, “You hear that? My brother said he didn’t, so that ans he didn’t. You shouldn’t go around biting people like a stray dog.”
“Just because he said he didn’t ans he didn’t? I have witnesses,” Li Yu retorted with a cold smile, looking at Lin Xiu and others as he commanded, “Tell everything you know.”
Lin Xiu imdiately recounted the events, and after listening, Li Tu suddenly burst into loud laughter.
Li Yu frowned. “What are you laughing at?”
Li Tu looked at him as if he were an idiot and said, “Li Yu, is there sothing wrong with your brain? Just because soone jumps out and claims my brother killed soone, you believe it?” And then, turning to Lin Xiu with a serious look on his face, he continued, “I’m asking you, did you actually see my brother kill your master and Li Zhong with your own eyes?”
“I…”
Narrowing his eyes and with a murderous look as a reminder, Li Tu said, “Kid, I kindly remind you that you need to take responsibility for what you say. If you saw it, you saw it; if you didn’t, you didn’t. If you talk nonsense, the consequences will be severe.”
Gulping nervously and facing Li Tu’s blatant threat, Lin Xiu’s voice trembled as he said, “I didn’t see anything.”
As soon as these words were out, Li Yu’s face instantly fell, while Li Tu looked at him with a smirk and said, “You heard the lad, he didn’t see a thing. This is rely his baseless speculation. Do you really think that can be taken seriously?”
“Even if he didn’t see it, the fact remains that Li Xiaoyao had a conflict with Li Zhong,” Li Yu said, grinding his teeth.
“So what if there was a conflict? Does a conflict an one must kill?” Li Tu said disdainfully. “You and I also have a conflict. Do you rember the ti I cracked your head open? Does our conflict an I must kill you?”
Hearing Li Tu bring up past grievances, Li Yu angrily said, “Li Tu, you…”
“Stop ‘you-you-you’ now. If it’s nothing important, then get lost, don’t make a nuisance here, scram,” Li Tu said impatiently.
With a chilly gaze, Li Yu responded, “Li Tu, I shall surely report today’s matter to Thirteenth Master.”
Li Tu’s brow quirked, and his unserious deanor dropped away. Squinting his eyes and exuding the aura of a dignified upper position, he said in a deep voice, “Li Yu, rember your status, you are rely an offshoot of the Li Family. It’s not your place to speak for the Li Family.”
Li Yu’s chest heaved with rage, clearly provoked by Li Tu’s words. With a flick of his sleeve, he turned and left.
After the man had left, Li Tu snorted and mumbled to himself, “What a joke, thinking the whole world listens to him because he’s got a bit of strength? A fringe mber daring to flaunt in front of , idiot.”
“You’re from the Li Family of the Eight Great Sects in Xuan Country?” Li Xiaoyao finally had the chance to ask.
The bickering between the two n had made Li Xiaoyao feel like an outsider.
“What Eight Great Sects of Xuan Country? If I had a choice, I wouldn’t have been born into the Li Family. Such a petty clan, always fussing over this and that,” Li Tu waved dismissively, his face full of displeasure.
His personality, along with his dissatisfaction with his own birth, surprised Li Xiaoyao quite a bit.
Normal people, if they could be born into a large clan, wouldn’t have to worry about food and drink, and could pursue cultivation, which would all be reasons to laugh in one’s dreams. Yet, he was not proud of it; instead, he wanted to escape from the Li Family.
This mber of the Li Family was different from all the others Li Xiaoyao had t. Most importantly, his personality appealed greatly to Li Xiaoyao’s taste.
Li Tu’s eyes darted about as he leaned in and asked, “Brother, you also carry the surna Li. Which Li family are you from?”
“Don’t try to make connections. I am not familiar with you,” Li Xiaoyao replied coldly. “I’ve been alone since childhood, always with this surna.”
“Oh, so you an to say you’re an orphan?” Li Tu excitedly said as if Li Xiaoyao being an orphan was sothing to be particularly happy about.
Li Xiaoyao narrowed his eyes and asked, “Does my birth amuse you?”
“No, no,” Li Tu waved his hands emphatically, pretending to be forlorn as he sighed, “Sorry, brother, my apologies for bringing up such a sad topic.”
Li Xiaoyao’s mouth twitched twice before he decided not to talk to him.
There are so people who, no matter what they say, as soon as they open their mouths, can infuriate others to no end.
Li Tu was undoubtedly one of these oddities.
“You ca here this ti to enter the ancient tomb, right?”
Li Xiaoyao didn’t say a word.
“Actually, there’s nothing much worth entering in the ancient tomb. It’s a place for the dead, and going in is bad luck. If it weren’t for my family sending , I wouldn’t set foot in there, even if it killed .”
Li Xiaoyao still didn’t say a word.
“Hey, brother, how about I hang out with you from now on?”
“…Shut up.”
…
On their way to the ancient tomb, Li Yu and the others spoke up, “Brother Yu, don’t take Li Tu’s words to heart; that guy is a bastard.”
Others chid in, “Right, he’s a bastard. He’s just got a good father, that’s all.”
“Everyone shut up and don’t talk. There are demon beasts nearby,” Li Yu commanded in a low voice, and imdiately there was silence.
The ancient tomb was just ahead, and from a distance, a stone stele appeared in front of it, engraved with several large characters.
“Tomb of Li Changfeng!”
Li Yu’s brow furrowed slightly; the na Li Changfeng seed familiar. But where had he heard it?
“That na is the sa as one of the elders from the Li Family a hundred years ago,” soone suddenly said.
His eyes lit up, and Li Yu rembered where he had heard the na.
“In the Li Family’s library, there was a record in a book. A hundred years ago, there was a prodigy in the Li Family, nad Li Changfeng.”
“According to the records, Li Changfeng reached the Golden Core Realm at the age of 39, and was once hailed as the Li Family’s number one genius!”
“However, this senior of the Li Family, after reaching the Golden Core Realm a hundred years ago, left the family and wandered the world. Thereafter, there was no further news of him.”
Everyone looked at the tombstone together, and soone said, “Could it be that the owner of this ancient tomb, Li Changfeng, is the sa genius from the Li Family a hundred years ago?”
“Roar!”
A beastly roar echoed from behind the tomb, followed by the sight of a colossal fire-red scaled serpent slowly erging.
Its huge body nearly occupied half the sky, even blocking out the sun.
“What kind of demon beast is this?”
The terrifying aura emanating from the demon beast instilled fear in everyone, making them tremble.
Li Yu’s pupils narrowed as he said, “Not good, it’s Zhu Jiuyin, run!”
Without even daring to face it head-on, Li Yu shouted and turned to flee.
As mbers of the Li Family, they had a general understanding of most demon beasts.
So demon beasts should never be provoked; even cultivators stronger than them seldom proved to be a match.
Zhu Jiuyin was one of these.
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