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At the age of eight, your Tian Yuan Qi Cultivation achieved a Breakthrough to the third level. This meant you could begin learning the Wuxia Sword.

While practicing the Wuxia Sword, you discovered your talent.

Your striking speed was often three times that of others.

Often, when you thrust your sword, others could see you pierce the target, but it was difficult for them to perceive how you had drawn and thrust the sword.

As a swordsman, exquisite swordplay is certainly important, but striking speed is the foundation for survival and success!

Often, a faster strike means being able to take a life more quickly.

This talent of yours drew the attention of everyone in the Su Family, filling their hearts with hope.

They believed you were specially sent by heaven to bring glory to the Su Family.

You became increasingly favored within the Su Family.

Among those who doted on you the most was the groom, Ning Er.

In his early years, Ning Er was a notorious Jianghu bandit, his hands stained with unknown amounts of blood.

One year, he offended someone he shouldn't have and ultimately sought help from the Su Family. The Su Family spent three hundred eastern pearls to save his life.

From then on, Ning Er became a groom for the Su Family.

Ning Er was very fond of you. After realizing your striking speed surpassed that of ordinary people, he taught you his famous skill, the 'Flying Locust Hand'.

The Flying Locust Hand is a hidden weapon technique, yet it is also an open and aboveboard hidden weapon technique.

It emphasizes: grab whatever is at hand, throw immediately upon grabbing, fingers linked like pearls, without a moment's pause.

After learning this Flying Locust Hand, any object around you could become your hidden weapon.

Even your sword could become your hidden weapon.

Ning Er claimed that with your talent, you could definitely master the Flying Locust Hand to an unprecedented and unrepeatable level.

When your father, Su Tai, learned that Ning Er was teaching you the Flying Locust Hand, he did not stop it, because he knew this skill was not something just anyone was qualified to learn.

Being proactively taught by Ning Er was your good fortune.

You gradually grew up while studying the three Cultivation Techniques: Tian Yuan Qi Cultivation, the Wuxia Sword, and the Flying Locust Hand.

In the year you turned sixteen, you successfully cultivated the Tian Yuan Qi Cultivation to the fifth level, and your practice of the Wuxia Sword and Flying Locust Hand also reached perfection.

Ning Er once assessed you, saying that apart from lacking a bit of Jianghu experience, you were fully comparable to a first-rate expert in the Jianghu.

This day was your sixteenth birthday. The entire Su Estate was decorated with lanterns and streamers, all celebrating this special occasion.

However, you found such a day rather uninteresting.

Qingyang Prefecture is an area lacking water, but behind the Su Estate's back hill, there is a spring. When you had nothing to do, you liked to go to the back hill to bathe. Over the years, everyone in the Su Estate had drunk their fair share of your bathwater.

Today was very hot, the cicadas' chirping was incessant, and you felt restless listening to it.

So you headed towards the back hill, intending to take a bath to relieve your physical fatigue.

However, upon returning from your bath, you found the entire Su Estate eerily quiet, quiet in an unnatural way.

When you arrived at the banquet hall, you saw a scene you would find hard to forget for the rest of your life.

Your parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, younger siblings, along with many invited Jianghu figures, plus servants and maids, were all dead here.

They died peacefully, quietly.

Their faces still retained the smiles they had in life.

For a moment, you forgot how to express grief; only silent tears fell.

Then, footsteps sounded, and you were pulled into a side room.

Focusing your gaze, you realized it was Ning Er standing before you.

Meeting a familiar person, your sobs could no longer be held back.

"Second Uncle Ning, my father, they..."

Before you could finish speaking, Ning Er covered your mouth with his hand.

Only then did you notice Ning Er's face was ashen purple, like pig's liver.

A poisoned dart was still embedded in his shoulder.

Clearly, he was deeply poisoned.

Ning Er's voice was somewhat urgent.

"Young Master, you must leave now. They are currently searching the entire compound for survivors."

After speaking, Ning Er placed a token in your hand.

It was a black iron token, engraved with the two large characters: "Yanyu".

"This is a token of the Yanyu Tower. If you encounter someone from the Yanyu Tower, give it to them. They will know what to do."

When you still wanted to ask who 'they' were, Ning Er had already breathed his last.

"Second Uncle Ning!"

You were heartbroken.

At this moment, you choose?

Option One: Immediately leave the Su Estate, change your name, and search for someone related to the Yanyu Tower.

Option Two: Engage in a great battle with the newcomers to see exactly who they are.

Option Three: Hide within the Su Estate, wait for everyone to leave, then bury all your family members.

...

Looking at the three options before him, Su Mo pondered carefully.

This style of poisoning an entire estate was very similar to the Blood Clothes Tower from previous simulations. Could it be the work of the Blood Clothes Tower?

If it really was the Blood Clothes Tower, then this was truly troublesome.

The Blood Clothes Tower is a Jianghu organization that has developed and persisted for hundreds of years. It seems to have existed since the very beginning of the Jianghu.

They cannot be defined by ordinary standards.

No one knows exactly what kind of people are behind this organization.

To avoid wasting this hard-won opportunity, Su Mo decisively chose the first option.

If you can run, run quickly.

If you were to run into people from the Blood Clothes Tower, even with martial arts equivalent to a first-rate expert, you would be no match for them.

As for that Yanyu Tower...

Su Mo vaguely remembered such a School organization from his last simulation.

That seemed to be an assassin organization.

However, in that simulation, his personality was such that he preferred to take revenge himself, and since he had eliminated all his enemies cleanly, he had never had any interaction with this Yanyu Tower.

He also didn't know how the power of this Yanyu Tower compared to that of the Blood Clothes Tower.

...

You chose the first option.

You took the frost sword and the two hundred taels of silver notes you had saved and left the Su Estate. Although you had never practiced lightness skills, relying on your familiarity with the Su Estate, you successfully evaded the searches of those people.

After leaving, you hid in Maid Mountain near Qingyang Prefecture.

On this Maid Mountain, there was a band of mountain bandits who spent their days robbing homes and trafficking people.

However, these people's martial arts were not high. You employed the Flying Locust Hand and easily wiped out all the bandits.

From the bandits' cellar, you also found many respectable women who had been cruelly abused.

These women were naked, bound with various torture devices.

Having never witnessed such a scene before, you felt like you were going to vomit up even the previous night's meal.

After rescuing these women, they thanked you profusely, then left Maid Mountain, intending to return to their own homes.

You continued searching and found a woman cooking in the kitchen. She introduced herself as Li Suyun. Just yesterday, she had been kidnapped and brought to the mountain. Her entire family had been killed by the bandits, and now she had no home to return to.

If she left the mountains, what awaited her was also a fate of begging and being trafficked by beggars.

Seeing you hesitate, Li Suyun knelt before you.

"My body hasn't been defiled by the bandits. They saw I was pretty and said they would sell me to the Yichun Tower in Qingyang Prefecture. A virgin can fetch a good price."

"Young Master, please let me serve you! At night, I can warm your bed!"

Looking at the pitiful Li Suyun.

At this moment, you choose?

Option One: Agree to Li Suyun's request, let Li Suyun be your maid, and attend to your daily life.

Option Two: Refuse Li Suyun's request. Do not fully believe the words of such a woman. Kill her directly to eliminate any future trouble!

Option Three: Execute Li Suyun on the spot!

Chapter 80: The Prettier the Woman, the Better She Lies, Including Myself

Looking at the three options before him, Su Mo hesitated.

There are many women in the Jianghu who like to lie, especially pretty women—they are the best at lying.

Right now, no one could verify Li Suyun's identity, and he didn't know if what Li Suyun said was true or false.

What if it was false? Wouldn't that be like placing a ticking time bomb by his side?

Su Mo was very conflicted.

He suddenly felt the same way he did when playing some open-world games.

Choosing wrong even once could mean failing to achieve all the achievements.

Of course.

Even if he missed a possible life path, it wouldn't matter much.

After all, it was just a simulation.

Thinking this, Su Mo immediately chose the second option: kill this Li Suyun.

Right now, the 'him' in the simulation was fleeing for his life.

If any other trouble arose, the outcome would be unacceptable to him.

After all.

This simulation had used one of his identity cards.

It couldn't be wasted.

You chose the second option.

You refused Li Suyun's request. You no longer wanted to trust anyone. Ning Er had once said that in the Jianghu, the prettier the woman, the greater the danger.

Although Li Suyun's beauty wasn't peerless, she was still as pretty as a peach blossom. One should not fully believe the words of such a woman. It was better to simply kill her to eliminate any future trouble!

You drew the frost sword, preparing to kill Li Suyun.

However, to your surprise, Li Suyun lightly dodged the sword you thrust at her.

Although you had only used thirty percent of your strength, this was not something an ordinary woman could dodge.

Li Suyun's expression turned to one of astonishment.

She hadn't expected you to be so ruthless.

Seeing you let the other women go earlier, she had thought you were a kind-hearted person.

That you wouldn't easily see through her disguise.

You adopted the starting stance of the Wuxia Sword while concealing a stone in your palm.

"Who are you!"