32: Chapter 32 The Li Family's Calamity

Li Changsheng stepped forward.

He picked up the briefing and carefully examined the description.

He then inquired about the specific details of the corpses and where they were discovered.

He closed his eyes, accessing knowledge in his mind obtained from the Blood Fiend Sect and the low-magic cultivation world.

"Vital blood drained, wounds hidden, Aura cold and devouring..."

He opened his eyes, his gaze sharp.

"This really does resemble some kind of Demonic Technique that Cultivates by devouring the vital blood of living beings."

"The practitioner requires a constant supply of blood food; the faster their cultivation improves, the greater the demand."

"Judging by this frequency and the quality of the victims, the practitioner is likely at a critical Breakthrough period, and their strength should not be underestimated."

He paused, looking at Li Zhenshan and the Grand Elder.

"Uncle, Grand Elder, has anyone in the town recently shown suspicious or abnormally rapid improvement in their cultivation?"

"Or, have there been any locations where abnormal coldness or Evil Qi has gathered?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhenshan and the Grand Elder's faces became even uglier.

They almost simultaneously thought of one person.

For the past few months, he had been reclusive, yet his complexion had inexplicably improved.

The Aura he occasionally revealed made even them feel a trace of palpitations—the Second Elder, Li Zhenchuan!

Furthermore, the Black Iron Mine... that place held the Seal of the Spirit Devourer demonic thought!

Could it be...

Just then, a guard rushed into the meeting hall in a panic.

"Family Head! Grand Elder! Something is wrong!"

"The Second Elder... he has taken people to Young Master Changsheng's courtyard!"

"He said he had important matters to 'consult' him about. But, but he is aggressive, and he has come with ill intent!"

"What?!"

Li Zhenshan stood up abruptly.

A sharp light flashed in the Grand Elder's eyes.

"He finally couldn't hold back anymore!"

Li Changsheng's expression was calm, but his eyes had turned cold.

He had long sensed the Second Elder's inexplicable hostility and secret surveillance toward him.

He just hadn't expected the other party to jump out so impatiently.

"Let's go."

Li Changsheng walked toward the door first.

"Let's go see what exactly the Second Elder wants to 'consult' about."

The group hurried to Li Changsheng's courtyard.

From afar, they saw that the courtyard gate had been forcibly broken open.

In the courtyard, Li Zhenchuan stood with his hands behind his back.

Behind him stood seven or eight Li family guards with wooden expressions and dull eyes—they were all confidants he had secretly controlled using the secret methods of his Demonic Technique!

At this moment, Li Zhenchuan was like a different person compared to a few months ago.

His figure was upright, his face glowing, his gray hair moved without wind, and his whole body exuded a suffocating sense of oppression.

That was the pressure of the Xiantian Realm Major Achievement, mixed with the cold and bloody Aura unique to Demonic Technique.

Scarlet light swirled in his eyes as he stared unabashedly at Li Changsheng and the others who were rushing over.

"Second Brother!"

"What do you want to do?!"

Li Zhenshan shouted sternly.

Li Zhenchuan turned his head slowly, a twisted smile appearing on his face.

"Big Brother, Grand Elder, and my 'dear' nephew Changsheng."

"You've come just in time."

His gaze finally locked onto Li Changsheng, greed, jealousy, and murderous intent intertwined.

"Nephew Changsheng, your Second Uncle is very curious about the secrets you carry, as well as that Jade Slip from the Immortal Sect."

"Why not... lend them to your Second Uncle to study?"

"Also, what else did you obtain deep within the mine?"

"Hand everything over."

"Perhaps, for the sake of our blood ties, your Second Uncle can leave you a whole corpse."

Before the words had even faded, his Aura of Xiantian Realm Major Achievement erupted, mixed with the Demonic Path Evil Qi of Body Refining Level 1, forming a bloody whirlwind that swept across the entire courtyard!

The several controlled guards simultaneously drew their weapons, their eyes glowing with an eerie red light.

"Li Zhenchuan! You dare to Cultivate Demonic Technique and harm the townspeople!"

The Grand Elder's beard and hair stood on end, his rage uncontrollable.

"Demonic Technique? Hahaha!"

Li Zhenchuan laughed wildly.

"Anything that gives me power is a good technique!"

"Li Zhenshan, you have suppressed me for my whole life!"

"Li Changsheng, you took everything that should have belonged to me!"

"Today, I will use this power to take back what I deserve!"

He sneered, stepping forward, the ground cracking, and bloody palm shadows covered the sky, heading straight for Li Changsheng!

"I'll start with you, my good nephew!"

A blood moon had quietly climbed onto the treetops at some unknown time.

The Li family's internal strife had finally erupted in the most tragic way.

The bloody palm shadows were like a waterfall, carrying a pungent, fishy wind and sharp ghostly wails, instantly enveloping all of Li Changsheng's vital points!

In this palm strike, Li Zhenchuan held nothing back.

The True Qi of Xiantian Realm Major Achievement, mixed with the demonic essence Evil Qi of Body Refining Level 1, possessed power far exceeding an ordinary Xiantian Realm Peak.

Wherever the palm wind passed, the blue bricks on the ground shattered into powder, and the air seemed to be dyed a dark red!

"Changsheng, watch out!"

Li Zhenshan and the Grand Elder exclaimed simultaneously, preparing to intervene.

But Li Changsheng moved even faster!

Facing this strike, which was enough to smash an ordinary Xiantian Realm Martial Artist into meat paste on the spot, he did not retreat, nor did he meet it head-on.

Instead, his body, with an unnatural flexibility, like a Spirit Ape stepping on branches, or like a willow catkin in the wind, nimbly twisted through the gaps in the sky-filling palm shadows!

It was the combination of the essence of the "Spirit Ape Fist" movement technique and the embryonic form of the "Wind Control Art" from the Qi Refining Stage of the "Small Heavenly Cycle Qi Induction Mantra"—fast, light, and tricky!

At the same time, he pointed his right hand like a sword.

A wisp of pale green spiritual power gathered at his fingertips, not attacking the strongest part of the palm shadows, but precisely pointing toward a subtle, almost imperceptible "Qi stagnation point" in the flow of the bloody palm wind.

That was a natural flaw left behind by the operation of the Demonic Technique due to devouring chaotic vital blood.

Ordinary Martial Artists couldn't perceive it at all, but Li Changsheng, relying on his keenness to spiritual power fluctuations and his understanding of the Blood Fiend Cultivation Technique, saw through it at a glance!

"Chi!"

A sound as light as tearing silk rang out.

The sky-filling bloody palm shadows suddenly faltered, and their power plummeted by thirty percent!

Li Zhenchuan let out a muffled groan, feeling a needle-like stinging pain in his palm, and the circulation of his demonic essence actually suffered a momentary disorder!

"Spiritual power?!"

A trace of shock flashed in Li Zhenchuan's scarlet eyes, immediately replaced by even deeper greed.

"You really have started Cultivating Immortality!"

"This spiritual power... is mine!"

He forced down his discomfort, turning his palm into a claw, his five fingernails growing three inches long, pitch black as ink, carrying corrosive black Qi, and clawed toward Li Changsheng's throat from an even more devious angle!

The Move was fierce and vicious, entirely the life-and-death killing Moves recorded in the Demonic Technique!

Li Changsheng's eyes were cold, and he no longer simply dodged.

Within his body, the vigorous True Qi of the Grandmaster Realm and the pure spiritual power of Qi Refining Level 1 operated simultaneously.

They were not acting independently; instead, under Li Changsheng's coordination, they faintly formed a unique resonance.

He threw a left punch, his True Qi erupting, fierce and unparalleled, carrying the weight and explosive power of the Green Ape Iron Casting Force, clashing head-on with Li Zhenchuan's demonic claw!

The fist and claw collided, emitting a loud sound like metal clashing, air waves exploded, and the stone slabs within three zhang of the two were all reduced to powder!

"Bang!"

Li Zhenchuan's figure swayed, and he was actually forced back half a step!

His eyes were filled with disbelief.

His own demonic bone strength of Body Refining Level 1, combined with the True Qi of Xiantian Realm Major Achievement, had actually failed to suppress the other party in a pure collision of strength?!

Little did he know, Li Changsheng's martial path had already reached the Grandmaster Realm, and his Physical Body was inherently formidable.

Coupled with his Physical Body being tempered by both the "Spirit Ape Health-Preserving Technique" and the "Iron Casting Forging Technique," its strength was definitely not inferior to Body Refining Level 1, and the quality of his True Qi was even more pure and long-lasting.

In terms of physical strength alone, he was already not inferior to Li Zhenchuan!

"Good boy! You've hidden yourself well!"

Li Zhenchuan shouted sternly, no longer testing him, as the blood light around his body surged!

He formed a strange hand Seal with both hands, chanting incantations, and fully activated the incomplete Demonic Technique he had learned in the secret room!

"Spirit Devouring Blood Domain!"

With him as the center, a dark red force field suddenly expanded outward!