Chapter 96: Breaking Off Relations (3)
After passing through the Su palace's main courtyard, they headed towards a small pavilion in the lake
Su Chen stood behindbehind Su Changche. He lowered his head and said, "Patriarch."
"What? You aren't even willing to call me grandfather?" Su Changche said, not bothering to look back.
Su Chen was silent.
Su Changche turned around to watch Su Chen, then sighed and said, "In the end, I underestimated you, and so did the Su Clan... Who could have expected that your eyes actually had already recovered."
Su Chen was still silent.
He could tell from Su Changche's attitude that Su Changche had definitely seen through his act.
In reality, no matter how hard Su Chen tried to pretend, there were still differences between blind people and people with sight. That was especially true in matters of the focus of their vision, as slight differences would exist between objects that they could see and could not see.
Though it may have been hard to tell in a short period of time, as time passed by, attentive people would always discover that there was something off.
Su Changche was someone with a wealth of experience.
As an old man who had single-handedly established the Su Clan, he was much stronger than anyone else in terms of both vision and experience.
It was not surprising in the least that he was the first one to discover.
In fact, long before this moment, he had already begun to have his suspicions about Su Chen.
However, because this matter was too uncommon, Su Changche could only be suspicious, yet had no way of verifying it.
Until today!
The stare he gave Su Cheng'an, as well as his precise blocking of Su Cheng'an's attack – while others might think that it was only a coincidence, Su Changche knew that wasn't the truth!
Su Chen's eyes had recovered.
"Can you tell me when it happened?" Su Changche said gently.
"Not long ago," Su Chen faintly replied.
"Why were you unwilling to tell us?"
Su Chen thought for a moment, then replied, "The first day that I could see again, I ran into a number of unfortunate situations. One of my brothers placed iron needles in my carriage; a pair of liars conspired to steal money from the True Jade Pavilion that I managed. A servant wanted to benefit from selling out his master... That old beggar was right. When I was again able to see the world, I discovered many things that people with sight could not see. Everyone believed that I was blind, so they unrestrainedly displayed their evilness in front of me. Although this made me feel disgusted, it gave me a simple method to see through a person's heart."
Su Changche nodded his head. "So that's why you were unwilling to vocalize it. You discovered that acting in such a manner would benefit you more? But did you ever think that everything proceeded to this point only because you didn't say anything?"
"You are talking about the unfortunate encounters in the Su Clan?" Su Chen coldly laughed, "I expected those from the very beginning."
"What did you say?" Su Changche was speechless.
Su Chen slowly raised his hand.
An air tentacle appeared formed following this gesture of his.
His hand gestures changed once again, and a Meg's Guardian barrier appeared on his body.
Next, his hand slashed out through the air, and thunder rumbled.
"Origin Skills..." Su Changche's expression tightened.
He didn't understand why Su Chen would suddenly display Origin Skills in front of him.
Su Chen spoke. "Many people were curious as to why I did not ask the Su Clan for Origin Skills. This is the answer... I already have Origin Skills, and I do not need the Su Clan!"
I do not need the Su Clan!
Su Changche finally understood.
"You didn't say anything because you no longer needed the Su Clan?"
Su Chen gently laughed. "Many people feel that being born into a great earthly clan is an extremely good thing, because they obtained many generous benefits and rewards ever since they were young. But it is clear to me that there are no free gifts in this world. If you receive, you similarly must pay! Why did Su Cheng'an give up on me? It was because I was blind, and I could not give the Su Clan any kind of bright future. Thus, his reason for raising a son was not because he loved the son, but rather because he wanted to receive a reward. Aren't you the same?"
Su Changche was dazed. He was unable to speak for quite some time.
Su Chen was absolutely correct. Su Cheng'an had treated raising his son as an investment, and wasn't he doing the same?
Su Chen continued, "In your eyes, I was only a blind person who was not worth raising. Since you used usefulness to determine the importance of familial ties, I could only use the same methods in return. However, you all underestimated my future, while I never looked down on my own value. Especially once I regained my sight... Since the me who was blind could survive without you and not owe you anything, then what reason would I have to rely on you once I regained my sight? Just so that I can receive your appreciation and care? No, I'd be better off not having that kind of appreciation and care."
This sentence echoed like thunder in Su Changche's brain, leaving him dumbfounded.
That was right. This was the reason why Su Chen had been unwilling to unveil his true situation.
He no longer treasured this kind of conditional appreciation and care.
What point was there if Su Chen had to prove that he wasn't blind in order to receive love and care?
That wasn't love!
That was just an exchange!
Since it was an exchange, why wouldn't he make the accounts simple to keep?
Since the Su Clan viewed raising its sons and daughters as an investment, then Su Chen viewed the issue as an investment problem.
Su Chen realized that he had not planned on giving the Su Clan any great rewards in the future when he became stronger, so he wanted to square away any debts that he owed the Su Clan now.
So why would he need to continue receiving the Su Clan's "investment"?
Thus, ever since his eyes had recovered, and since the Su Clan had disappointed him time after time, he had begun to slowly distance himself from his need for the Su Clan.
He had recovered his mother's businesses, he had worked hard to earn his own money, he didn't need the Su Clan's Origin Skills, and he had even given the reward for the end-of-year competition to Iron Cliff. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to openly tear apart their relationship for fear of making things too ugly, he would have tossed all those things aside a long time ago.
Su Chen hadn't considered himself a member of the Su Clan for quite some time now.
"So that was the case..." Su Changche began to bitterly laugh. "In the end, I still underestimated you. But did you ever consider that even if you didn't receive the Su Clan's support, in these past few years you had still grown up under the shelter of the Su Clan?"
"Five thousand, seven hundred sixty low-grade Origin Stones," Su Chen suddenly said.
"What?" Su Changche didn't understand for a moment.
Su Chen replied, "I grew up in the Su Clan for sixteen years. Clothing and food must have cost at most ten taels of pure gold every month, which comes to a thousand nine hundred and twenty taels for sixteen years. That is also to say that the amount of money that the Su Clan spent on me definitely did not exceed that number. Of course, interest must also be calculated, so I tripled the value to be five thousand, seven hundred sixty low-grade Origin Stones. There is also cultivation resources that need to be considered. I used five Verdant Wood Essences over these years; since each vial is roughly around a thousand two hundred Origin Stones, I set the price as two thousand, so the total is ten thousand. Any other cultivation resources I used can also be considered as totalling ten thousand. All together, this is about twenty five thousand, seven hundred sixty low-grade Origin Stones, which can basically take care of any debt that I still have towards the Su Clan."
As Su Chen spoke, he pulled out three hundred medium-grade Origin Stones and threw them on the stone table in the pavilion.
"Keep the change."
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Chapter 97: Scarlet Mountain Range, Part 3
Upon seeing the Origin Stones on Su Chen had thrown on the table, Su Changche was left speechless for some time.
After a long time, he finally spoke out "It seems as if you have considered doing this for more than just one or two days. You were able to pull out thirty thousand Origin Stones so easily. You have earned quite a bit of money lately."
This was thirty thousand Origin Stones!
Even if Su Cheng'an, Su Keji, and Su Feihu combined their earnings they would only make so much after a few years of working. Yet, this kid was actually able to so easily pull out such a large sum?
Although his expression remained calm, Su Changche's heart was in turmoil.
Su Chen replied, "Scarlet Punishment may be dangerous, but it also contains great opportunities."
Su Changche nodded his head. "Only two trips into the Scarlet Mountain Range and yet you were able to earn thirty thousand Origin Stones as well as many Origin Skills. You were also able to stay at the peak of the third generation without the clan's support. Everyone misjudged you, truly misjudged you!"
Su Chen's expression was filled with mockery and derision. "Is Patriarch feeling regret for his previous actions?"
Su Changche did not get angry. Instead, he laughed, "Yes, I feel great regret for wronging you. You are correct; in my eyes, all of the Su Clan disciples have value of different degrees. You can blame me for being cold-blooded, and you can hate me for being without affection, but this is something that the leader of a large Clan must do. In such a clan with so many people, it is not responsible of me to do thing according to affection. If I acted only on how I felt and gave all the resources to the wrong person, then the Su Clan would not last. If I put it this way, do you understand?"
"I can. And if it were merely not giving me any excess resources, I wouldn't be disappointed, wouldn't be angered, and wouldn't be filled with hatred. But can you call what the Su Clan did to me simply withholding resources? You took away what was rightfully mine!" Su Chen said with rage.
That was right. If it was just a matter of not giving resources, Su Chen would have just let it go.
The main issue was that the prize of the end-of-year competition was not given to him as charity or as a grant by someone. Rather, he had fought hard to earn it!
But Su Keji still wanted to scheme, to plot, to seize even such a small amount of resources!
Su Changche was well aware of this, but he silently allowed it to happen.
Because he felt that giving the Verdant Wood Essence to Su Chen was too great of waste, so he silently allowed the movements of those under him.
In this entire process, he only considered the value of the resources, but he had overlooked fairness, justice – overlooked Su Chen's feeling.
Put plainly, he was still acting in his own interest.
Not to mention the conduct of Su Keji and Yan Wushuang afterwards.
Su Changche sighed, "What you said is correct. In this matter, the Su Clan has let you down. If I apologized to you, could you accept it?"
Su Chen didn't reply, but from his appearance it was obvious that he was not planning on accepting it.
Su Changche knitted his eyebrows. "Su Chen, shouldn't there be a mutual forgiveness between family members? What is more precious than a family member? The elders did something wrong, and this apology should be sufficient. Why do you continue to hold out? Can you truly not forgive them?"
Su Chen replied, "If you had said this to me earlier, before you discovered that my eyes had recovered, I would have been moved. I could have given up on all the hatred, and I would not have argued. But now..."
Su Chen laughed.
He shook his head. "The family that you need is the Su Chen that regained his sight, while I am just the blind Su Chen."
As he spoke, he turned around and left.
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The conclusion to the matter of Su Chen beating Lan Zhi to death spread very quickly, but it exceeded everyone's expectations.
Su Chen had beaten Lan Zhi to death and ruined Yan Wushuang's face, overstepping his authority. He volunteered for Scarlet Punishment for a hundred fifty days. Yan Wushuang had spread rumors, gravely injuring the head wife, and according to law she should have been executed. However, seeing that she still had a son, she was spared. Instead, she was punished with thirty staff strikes and further demoted to housewife.
Su Cheng'an had been blinded by feminine charm. He was not strict nor unbiased when disciplining his household. Of his thirty-two properties, nine were taken away, and he was only allowed to manage three foreign businesses. He was set to the side and forgotten. The severity of his punishment exceeded everyone's expectations.
It wasn't just Su Cheng'an. Even Su Changqing, Su Keji, and a horde of others all were subject to Su Changche's discipline and lashing out. Su Yue himself was given sixty staff strikes for a small matter and sent off to the mines for a year.
Su Feihu was the only person that benefitted from this turmoil. The businesses that Su Cheng'an had been relieved of were all given to Su Feihu to oversee, and he began to be publicly known as the person who was most likely to inherit the Su Clan.
Su Changche had also spent a large sum of money to invite doctors to treat Tang Hongrui's illness.
Su Chen knew that this was the repayment that Su Changche was giving him.
Didn't the Su Clan let you down?
No matter, there had to be some people who had treated you well.
If I sweep aside the people who weren't good to you and hand over the clan to those who were good to you, there's nothing you can say about it, right?
Old grandfathers were still old grandfathers. Their vision was poisonous and their methods were vicious, and they were extremely decisive when doing things.
Even so, this allowed Su Chen to see the situation even more clearly.
In a large clan, familial affection was really the least important.
Everything depended on value.
What Su Chen said was absolutely correct. Su Changche only valued the Su Chen who had recovered his sight. Because of this, he had become useful.
If Su Chen had not recovered his sight, Su Changche would not have protected Su Chen. If Su Chen had not taken out thirty thousand Origin Stones in a heartbeat, displaying his extraordinary qualities, Su Changche would not have acted so decisively, demoting Su Cheng'an and promoting Su Feihu.
It was just as Su Chen had said. He was like a rigorous machine, doing everything based on its benefit to him. When Su Chen had no value, even that which should have belonged to Su Chen would be stripped away from him. When Su Chen displayed his extraordinary qualities, even his own son or his own younger brother were like chess pieces, which could be disposed of very easily.
Even though Su Chen had seen through this old man, Su Changche's actions still had an effect.
His mother was still here, as was Su Feihu. All the people who were good to him were still here, and he could not just leave the clan just like that.
A day later, Su Changche sent someone to return the thirty thousand Origin Stones.
However, Su Chen told that person to return the Origin Stones, only keeping two of them.
Thus, Su Changche understood Su Chen's intentions.
Don't anticipate that Su Chen would recover his old affection for the Su Clan because of Su Changche's string of actions.
The affection that had been extinguished could not be rekindled.
But as long as those two people were still in the Su Clan, then Su Chen and the Su Clan would still have a thread connecting them, and Su Chen would not leave.
Of course, this only meant that he would not leave.
He no longer had any affection for the Su Clan. Any future interactions would depend on how the situation progressed.
Although it wasn't the result that he had wanted, he had an answer, and Su Changche was much more at ease.
As long as the person remained, the affection could slowly return.
Thus, matters passed just like that.
Two days later, Su Chen once again entered the Scarlet Mountain Range.
He brought Iron Cliff with him, assuming the identity of a blind person.
No one knew that he had regained his sight – the old grandfather was still too busy trying to suck up to Su Chen, so how could he possibly expose him.
Even so, not many people would be worried for Su Chen.
When he wasn't an Origin Qi Scholar, he had entered and exited the Scarlet Mountain Range twice. Now that he was an Origin Qi Scholar and he had Iron Cliff with him, he would be even more free in the Scarlet Mountain Range.
The dangerous Scarlet Mountain Range had become a protective talisman that Su Chen could use to escape from receiving punishment. This was the confidence a strong person had.
Before entering, Su Chen found Night Demon and bought an absorbance technique, giving it to Mingshu and Zhou Hong so they could cultivate it on their own.
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Chapter 98: Rapid Improvement
In his third journey to the Scarlet Mountain Range, Su Chen's state of mind had changed once more.
He was no longer afraid of the dangers the mountains held. On his first trip to the Scarlet Mountain Range Su Chen had the feeling that he had survived with his back to the wall, and during his second trip he had cautiously attempted to go deeper, then on this third trip, Su Chen now possessed an aggressive attitude toward the mountain range.
With seven Origin Skills and a large number of Origin Tools, as well as large amounts of resources and preparation, Su Chen was more powerful than ever before. Naturally, he wanted to accomplish even more during this trip.
This time, he was going with the intention of reaping rewards.
He directly headed into the deeper parts of the Scarlet Mountain Range. He did not circle around nor did he take any complicated route. Neither did he retreat or temporarily step aside. All he did was head straight forwards. If he saw beasts he killed beasts; if he saw demons he dealt with demons. This was the attitude of both him and Iron Cliff.
They walked into the interior for three days before arriving at the Ten Thousand Whistles Peak.
The Ten Thousand Whistles Peak was located in the southern region of the Scarlet Mountain Range and was a two days journey from the Scarlet Grand Canyon. That was also to say that this location was even more dangerous than the earlier Halcyon Gorge.
In this place, Su Chen didn't just encounter single Vicious Beasts, but rather packs of them. Occasionally, even mid-tier Vicious Beasts would appear.
Mid-tier Vicious Beasts were equivalent to high-layer Qi Drawing Realm cultivators.
What was different was that high-layer Origin Qi Scholars could not necessarily be classified by strength alone, but the tier of a Vicious Beast directly determined its strength. Some high-layer Origin Qi Scholars might be weaker than might be imagined, but high-tier Vicious Beasts definitely were as strong as their names implied.
Thus, the difference in strength between a mid-tier Vicious Beast and a low-tier Vicious Beast was many times and could not be underestimated.
Because of this, people often used the strength of Vicious Beasts as a measurement of one's combat prowess.
The evening that they arrived at the Ten Thousand Whistles Peak, Su Chen and Iron Cliff encountered a mid-tier Vicious Beast.
After a large battle, Su Chen successfully killed his target.
Su Chen killed the beast without Iron Cliff's help, which confirmed that Su Chen's combat prowess had reached the level of a high-layer Qi Drawing cultivator.
That evening, he and Iron Cliff absorbed the Vicious Beast's Origin Energy motes. Su Chen said, "Let's stay here."
Iron Cliff nodded his head, then pulled out a small medicinal vial and placed it on the ground.
Beast Drawing Medicine.
He used it differently than before. This time, he was much more daring in his usage of the Beast Drawing Medicine. He used almost a third of the bottle in one go.
The effects of a third of a bottle of Beast Drawing Medicine could be immediately seen.
After half an hour, they heard faint snarls drawing closer to them.
"They're here. There's six of them in total – two mid-tier, four low-tier," Su Chen laughed as he gazed off into the distance.
"There's a lot of them," Iron Cliff said in a low voice.
"No problem. Activate the illusion realm," Su Chen laughed.
Iron Cliff pulled out an Origin Formation Disk and placed it in the ground.
This Origin Formation Disk could create a low-tier illusion realm, trapping people in it. This would give Su Chen and Iron Cliff the opportunity to attack them. However, its price was quite expensive, and could only be used three times.
Just like in business, only when one had enough capital, could one make a greater investment and obtain even greater profits. Today, Su Chen's backup plan was no longer simply to jump down off of the cliff onto a rope net.
With more investment would come more sophisticated backup plan, which would also allow him to withstand and deal with greater dangers.
The beast flock was drawing near. Evidently, it was a pack of Twilight Moon Wolves. The leader of the pack was one of the mid-tier Vicious Beasts.
Twilight Moon Wolves were Vicious Beasts who were much stronger at night. They were very nocturnal and were as fast as the wind. They could also unleash blade-like strikes which could be used in conjunction with their leaping attacks. They were very coordinated, and advanced and retreated as one, unafraid of death. Six Twilight Moon Wolves were even more difficult to deal with together than two or three mid-tier Origin Beasts together.
However, today, they would not be able to manifest the full strength of their pack..
The illusion realm dispersed the wolf pack. They howled out, their cries echoing out, yet they could not find one another.
Su Chen and Iron Cliff were like assassins in dense fog, walking in it as they pleased. The locked down and hunted the Vicious Beasts one by one.
There was no fair fight to be found here, and no one was bothering to temper themselves in battle. All that occurred was pure slaughter as the duo used their two-on-one advantage to kill their opponents and then absorb their Origin Energy motes.
Whoosh!
The flash of a blade.
A Twilight Moon Wolf fell over with a sorrowful cry.
Su Chen pointed his finger to the air, and Iron Cliff mimicked his movements. They began absorbing the precious Origin Energy that floated around in the air.
When the Origin Energy motes dissipated, they would walk towards another, repeating the same step.
Battle, slaughter, absorb, repeat.
Cultivation had suddenly become much easier as long as they killed lifeforms with Origin Energy. Even battle had become easier; with the Beast Drawing Medicine and the Origin Formation Disk, they exterminated a pack of Twilight Moon Wolves with no difficulty at all.
Once they killed the Twilight Moon Wolves, two more Vicious Beasts delivered themselves up not long afterwards.
They repeated the cycle until the Beast Drawing Medicine and the illusion realm disappeared. The two of them were able to kill eleven Vicious Beasts with high efficiency. Such a large number was enough to completely stun Iron Cliff.
These were Vicious Beasts, not simply large cabbages!
However, ten or so of them were essentially cut into pieces just like vegetables. Their Origin Energy had been absorbed, they were skinned, and their blood and meat were consumed.
In that moment, Iron Cliff felt that the whole thing was quite surreal, as if he was dreaming.
However, the massive increase in his cultivation base told him that this wasn't a dream, but a wonderful reality.
The Origin Energy motes from eleven Vicious Beasts caused Iron Cliff's strength to increase by half of a whole Yellow Star. For Iron Cliff, under normal circumstances this could normally only be accomplished after two years of bitter cultivation.
As a human Su Chen's absorption rate was better than that of the Cliff Race, so his cultivation base increased a whole Yellow Star.
In order to obtain such a rapid cultivation increase, they had nevertheless paid a price.
Although Beast Drawing Medicine was cheaper than Beast Repellant Medicine, it still cost two hundred Origin Stones per vial. The Origin Formation Disk was even more expensive. It could only be used three times and it cost five hundred Origin Stones, meaning that every activation was roughly about a hundred sixty seven Origin Stones.
Executing their previous cultivation session cost around two hundred and thirty low-grade Origin Stones, while the hides ten low-tier and one mid-tier Vicious Beasts were not worth more than fifteen Origin Stones.
In other words, their cultivation session just now had lost them two hundred low-grade Origin Stones.
Without the appropriate capital, they would not have been able to cultivate in this way, not to mention that others couldn't even see Origin Energy motes. Su Chen could only do this because of his wealth and his eyes.
For ten days in a row, Su Chen and Iron Cliff used this method to cultivate, and they improved at a rate comparable to having taken some precious medicinal pill.
Because they killed too quickly, every so often they would need to switch to a different location with more beasts.
Today was just like all the past days. Su Chen was able to attract seven Vicious Beasts during the effective duration of the Beast Drawing Medicine. He said, "It seems as if there isn't much more here. Let's get ready to go somewhere else."
"Do we want to go deeper in, Master?" Iron Cliff asked.
Su Chen thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Forget about it. Safety is still number one."
He did not plan on taking any more risks, so he decided to continue heading west.
At that moment, a voice filled with rage and poisonous intent suddenly cried out, "Su Chen, I've finally found you!"
Upon turning around to face the noise, Su Chen was somewhat surprised. "It's you?"
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Chapter 99: Attacking Intent
Standing on top of a tall tree, Lin Yemao gazed downwards at Su Chen, his heart agitated.
Dammit, he had finally caught up to this bastard.
He had spent quite a bit of effort over these last few days to chase after Su Chen.
Although the Origin-Seeking Mirror he possessed could track traces of Origin Energy, it took time to activate, and it was limited in the number of times it could be used. To chase after Su Chen, he had used it three times in the past ten days. He had lost quite a bit.
Only the heavens knew how Su Chen could run so much. He would bounce from place to place, actually avoiding any set locations. One had to know that the Scarlet Mountain Range was extremely dangerous, not a location where low-layer Origin Qi Scholars could run around as they pleased. In Lin Yemao's eyes, Taking risks like this might as well be looking for death.
As he had been following Su Chen all over the place, Lin Yemao didn't actually run into very many Vicious Beasts. He was convinced Su Chen was blessed with luck to avoid beasts so easily. Later, when he caught him, he would definitely have to vent some of his frustration, Lin Yemao thought, his killing intent surging.
At this moment, Su Chen was also gazing at Lin Yemao with shock. He didn't understand why this person would suddenly appear here.
From his appearance, it was clear that Lin Yemao had come for Su Chen. Did the slight run-in at the Upwind Pavilion really anger Lin Yemao so much that he chased for such a long distance to kill him?
Was that worth it?
Lin Yemao said, "Su Chen, now that you're here, no one can protect you. I want to see how long you can be arrogant for!"
"Hey... Aren't you being the arrogant one here?" Su Chen asked. "Mister Lin Yemao, when did I ever offend you?"
Lin Yemao laughed loudly. "What, now you know the meaning of fear?"
... I'm just trying to reason with you. I'm not afraid, okay?
Su Chen was speechless.
However, in some sense, trying to reason could be interpreted as weakness and fear.
The weaker one was, the more one liked to reason.
Thus, Su Chen didn't bother with niceties or anything else. He directly said, "Just tell me why you're looking for me."
Lin Yemao harrumphed. "Su Chen, I won't waste your time. You are a blind person, and yet you were able to enter the Qi Drawing Realm without many resources, and you maintained first place in the Su Clan's end-of-year competition for many years in a row. You were also able to return alive from the Scarlet Mountain Range. There's no way that all of these things are just a coincidence. You can trick others, but you can't trick me. I'm confident that you possess a unique secret!"
"Hm?" Su Chen was quite shocked.
So Lin Yemao had chased him all this way because he believed that Su Chen had some kind of great secret on him?
Lin Yemao said, "If you're smart, give me the secret, and I can spare your life."
Su Chen said, "So you chased me for so many days, even ruining your mink skin, just to figure out what my secret is?"
"Is that not enough of a reason? That secret is enough to allow a blind person to lead the Su Clan. If I were to obtain it..." Lin Yemao darkly laughed, "I will definitely be able to rise through the ranks, and I will no longer be the third-ranked seedling of the Lin Clan."
A trace of sympathy flashed across Su Chen's eyes. "I'm afraid that this will be somewhat difficult. My secret is useful to me, but that doesn't mean it will be useful to you."
Lin Yemao impatiently said, "If you don't take it out, how do you know that it won't be useful to me?"
Su Chen sighed. "The problem is that I've already taken it out, but you are blind and unable to tell. There's nothing more I can do!"
Lin Yemao was enraged. "You mock me?"
Su Chen shook his head. "I'm really not mocking you, I'm just reminding you. Perhaps it's because you're standing too high and your cognitive ability is insufficient. Why not come down so that the IQ that is stuck at your feet can go back to your head. Maybe you'll be able to recover some of that cognitive ability."
When Lin Yemao heard this, his vision blurred. He paused for a moment before realising that Su Chen was mocking him. He was about to get angry when he suddenly realized something else. He pointed at Su Chen as he cried out in disbelief, "You... you... you can see me?"
He lowered his head, looking at himself.
His mink overcoat had very clearly been torn by tree branches. He had accidentally torn it during the past ten days when he had been chasing after Su Chen.
As well as the fact that he was standing high up... this definitely was not something that could be determined by hearing alone!
Su Chen sighed once again. "I just said that I'd already revealed my secret to you. It's just that you were blind and were unable to see it."
From the moment Su Chen said "It's you?", he had never concealed the fact that he could see. After all, Su Changche had discovered his secret already, and the matter of Su Chen recovering his blindness would very likely begin to spread like fire on the wind.
He hadn't expected, however, that Lin Yemao would only react now.
Lin Yemao acted as if he had been struck by lightning.
Su Chen was not blind!
He actually wasn't blind!
How could he not be blind!
This bastard, he had tricked everyone.
No wonder he had said that his secret couldn't be used by others.
He really couldn't use it!!
Lin Yemao was basically about to raise his head to the sky and howl.
He had chased after Su Chen's powerful secret for so long, only to discover now that it had been completely pointless.
Completely pointless!
Lin Yemao was about to go crazy.
Su Chen, however, gazed at him with sympathy. "I'm a little confused how you were able to come to the conclusion that I possessed a secret given your intelligence. It seems unlikely that it was your own idea, someone else must have told you, right?"
Lin Yemao's expression froze. From the surprised gaze that he used to look at Su Chen, Su Chen knew that his guess was correct.
"Was it Lin Jingxuan?" Su Chen asked.
Lin Yemao's eyeballs were about to pop out from their sockets.
"It seems like I guessed correctly again." Su Chen nodded his head. "No wonder you suddenly came here to bother me. It was because you were being used by someone else."
"What did you say?" Lin Yemao was stunned.
Su Chen gazed at him with disdain. "I said that you're being used by others, you idiot. If you had come on your own, even if you were to kill me, no one would know, and you wouldn't need to worry about any consequences, and any benefits would be yours. However, Lin Jingxuan knows about this trip of yours. Do you know what this means? It means that if I died, you would have placed the blade's handle into his hands... you don't really think that the Su Clan or the Lin Clan would sit by idly while we slaughter each other, do you?"
Lin Yemao was extremely shocked in his heart.
That was correct. In the Scarlet Mountain Range, being killed by a Vicious Beast was one thing, but being killed by another person was an entirely different matter.
If Lin Yemao had chased after Su Chen on his own, everything would have been simple.
Unfortunately, Lin Jingxuan had instigated him to come here. This implied that Lin Jingxuan knew that Su Chen had a secret. If Lin Yemao really obtained any benefits from Su Chen, Lin Jingxuan would also be able to obtain a portion of it.
On the other hand...
"On the other hand, if you died, he would also benefit. His status should be lower than yours, right? If you die, his position in the clan rises by one step," Su Chen continued.
Lin Yemao couldn't help but tremble upon hearing this.
He never suspected that Lin Jingxuan would have this kind of intention. He didn't dare to believe it, and shook his head. "That's not true, you're lying! He is my brother!"
Su Chen shook his head. "Trust me, I know what a brother is. These years, my brothers opposed me. The Su Clan is not clean, and the Lin Clan cannot be much better. All of the crows under the heavens are the same shade of black."
When Lin Yemao heard this, his hands and feet felt chilly.
He had come searching for Su Chen with a thick killing intent, but his fighting spirit had been completely extinguished by a few sentences from Su Chen.
All of his attention had been drawn by Su Chen, and Iron Cliff's movements went completely unnoticed.
Upon seeing his appearance, Su Chen felt his interest waning. "I originally thought that a strong opponent had arrived, but I never expected that you were actually just pretending. You must have been chosen as a seedling to enter the Gu Clan because of your father, right? Is your father Lin Xingrong or Lin Xingyao?"
Lin Xingrong and Lin Xingyao were all the sons of Lin Yuanshan. Their statuses were similar to that of Su Cheng'an and Su Keji in the Su Clan.
When Su Chen spoke, a trace of anger immediately appeared on Lin Yemao's face, but he didn't confirm nor deny it.
Upon seeing this, Su Chen knew that he had guessed correctly once again.
He shook his head and sighed, "So that is the case. No wonder you are still so arrogant even though you don't have a brain. It's because you have a second-generation ancestor."
Lin Yemao yelled in anger, "Su Chen, you dare to look down on me?"
Su Chen shook his head. "Originally, I didn't look down on you, so I had prepared a special present for you consisting of many different attacks. I made quite extensive preparations. But now it seems like all of these preparations are all for naught... You really are just a piece of trash. One move is enough to take care of you."
"What did you say?" Lin Yemao's eyes erupted with flames of anger. "I'll kill you!"
As he spoke, he pulled out his long sword, and jumped into the air. At the same time, his sword glowed with a faint blood-colored aura, as he stabbed towards Su Chen.
At that moment, all of his attention was concentrated on Su Chen.
However, at the same moment that he descended, dust started flying everywhere.
A large metal-shelled bug emerged, ferociously slamming towards Lin Yemao.
Lin Yemao was completely unprepared for this sudden turn of events. He could only forcefully turn the blade to defend, at the same time activating the Snaking Mist Steps to dodge. However, a flash of light flickered across Su Chen's eyes. Lin Yemao's head suddenly was rocked by a wave of pain, and his vision blurred.
In the next instant, the metal-eating bug, Iron Cliff who was wearing the Melted Golden Armor, and Su Chen all leapt towards him, slamming into him heavily from all three directions.
Lin Yemao was like a sandwich. Upon being slammed into by these two people and a bug, his eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he fainted on the spot.
He fell to the ground.
Su Chen shrugged his shoulders and said, "You didn't observe your opponent's movements during battle, you didn't defend yourself when attacking, and you didn't leave yourself with any room to adapt when moving to strike. I already told you that I prepared a gift for you, and yet you didn't look around to see if there were any traps nearby... A person like you is still trash no matter how powerful you are."
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Chapter 100: Interrogation
When Lin Yemao awoke, he found himself tied up, left in the corner of a cave.
Su Chen sat across from him, watching him with a strange expression.
"Su Chen, you dare to ensnare me!" Lin Yemao pounced towards Su Chen as soon as he sat up.
Iron Cliff's large body suddenly appeared. He casually pushed out, shoving Lin Yemao back into place.
Although the force behind this push was not great, Lin Yemao had no way of resisting. He discovered at that moment that he had no way of controlling his Origin Energy.
"What's going on? Why can't I use Origin Energy?" Lin Yemao yelled loudly.
Su Chen sighed. "Please, next time you make a move, can you look at your surroundings? Don't you think that, under these circumstances, not being able to use Origin Energy is normal, while being able to use Origin Energy would be abnormal?"
Lin Yemao was dazed. He opened his mouth wide, unable to speak for some time.
He only recovered after a period of time, whereupon he angrily said, "Su Chen, if you're a man fight me fairly. What kind of man are you if you fight via sneak attacks and ambushes?"
Bang!
A loud slap landed on Lin Yemao's face, sending him spinning in a circle.
Su Chen retrieved his hand and indifferently said, "I think this slap should be enough to allow you to understand your current situation."
This slap truly did stun Lin Yemao.
He came from a large clan and had lived a spoiled, extravagant life. Not to mention cursing and beating, even a retort was rare. Because of this, he had developed a domineering, infallible personality.
After going to the Gu Clan, he obtained the Soaring Serpent's bloodline and his strength had increased. His arrogance had further increased. One could say that, under the Heavens, he didn't place many things in his eyes.
He had not expected that during his attempts to make trouble for Su Chen, he had first been thoroughly routed in a war of words, and then he had been captured alive by Su Chen. Now, he had also been smacked by Su Chen.
How could he? How dare he do this?
Su Chen continued to look at him with a gaze that said "if you don't behave, I'll continue to beat you".
The two of them gazed at each other in this way.
Perhaps Lin Yemao was still suffering and struggling with himself in his heart.
Su Chen, however, did not intend on giving him much of an opportunity to fight internally.
Upon watching Lin Yemao stare at himself fixatedly, Su Chen glanced towards Iron Cliff. "It seems like he doesn't understand the situation he's in. Help him out a bit."
"Okay, Master." Iron Cliff grabbed Lin Yemao, slamming him into the ground.
"Ah!" A tragic cry sounded out in the cave.
A moment later, Iron Cliff released him.
Su Chen's foot stepped on Lin Yemao's face. "Do you understand now?"
"I... I understand." Lin Yemao whimpered in response.
"That's good. I ask, you answer," Su Chen said efficiently. "How many Origin Skills do you know?"
"What?" Lin Yemao hadn't expected Su Chen to ask him that.
"Wrong answer." Su Chen gestured towards Iron Cliff.
Bang!
Iron Cliff forcefully punched Lin Yemao's midsection.
"I... didn't say that I wouldn't respond." Lin Yemao was in so much pain that his forehead was drenched with sweat.
"Then don't waste my time."
"I'll talk, I'll talk, I've learned two Origin Skills: Profound Ice Barrier and Soaring Cloud Sword."
"Lies."
Iron Cliff punched him again.
Lin Yemao painfully cried out, "I didn't lie!"
"Then what about the Snaking Mist Steps? You're telling me you don't know it?"
Lin Yemao trembled and said, "That is a bloodline Origin Skill, I thought you were talking about regular Origin Skills."
"How many bloodline Origin Skills do you know?"
"Two, Snaking Mist Steps and Flying Flower Hands."
"You learned two out of three of the Gu Clan's Absolute Techniques. That's pretty good."
Su Chen was not surprised by this at all.
Under normal circumstances, wanting to break into the Blood Boiling Realm from the Qi Drawing Realm would take around ten years.
The Hidden Dragon Institute's recruitment period would begin in half a year.
As long as the Lin Clan members weren't idiots, they would definitely make the Lin Clan's four seedlings cultivate their Origin Skills and raise their combat prowess.
He tossed a pen and some paper in front of Lin Yemao and said, "Write out all the Origin Skills for me."
"What?" Lin Yemao was shocked. "Don't think for a moment that you can cheat me of my techniques."
"Wrong answer!"
Bang!
Another forceful blow landed on Lin Yemao's midsection.
Su Chen's tone was cold. "Also, this isn't cheating. It's a forceful seizure!"
Lin Yemao blankly stared at Su Chen.
Having experienced this string of beatings, his egotistical brain finally began to come to its senses and recognize the situation that he was in.
Lin Yemao did not continue to resist. He picked up the pen and began to copy down the Origin Skills that he had learned.
Upon writing the four Origin Skills down, Su Chen glanced at them, then picked up a piece of paper and said, "Write them down again. If there's anything that's out of place at all, I'll cut off one of your fingers."
Lin Yemao was scared out of his wits. He loudly yelled, "No, no, I know I was wrong. I'll write them all for you!"
When writing the Origin Skills, Lin Yemao truly had introduced many falsehoods, but he had not expected that Su Chen would expose his true colors by making him rewrite them.
When copying them over the second time, Lin Yemao was much more attentive.
After Lin Yemao finished writing the skills, Su Chen didn't even look at them. He said to Lin Yemao, "I'll ask you one last time. Did you change anything? If you did, you still have a chance to change it. You know that if there's something wrong with them, I'll discover them sooner or later... at that time, I won't give you another chance."
Lin Yemao shivered. He changed a few more things, then obediently handed them to Su Chen. "This time there's really nothing else."
Su Chen retrieved them, then began to look over the portion related to the Snaking Mist Steps.
Su Chen also knew the Snaking Mist Steps. He could determine the veracity simply by comparing what he knew with what Lin Yemao had written.
After scanning over it and discovering that there was nothing wrong, Su Chen stowed the Origin Skills away, satisfied.
He wanted Lin Yemao to write down the Origin Skills not just because he coveted them, but more importantly because of Gu Qingluo. She had taught him them illegally, and if word were to spread it would not be good for her. Now that he had Lin Yemao, Su Chen could just say that he had blackmailed it from Lin Yemao.
The best part was that even Lin Yemao himself would reckon that it was him who had leaked the Snaking Mist Steps. He could not possibly expect that Su Chen had learned it much earlier.
"Tell me about the relations between the Lin and Gu Clans, why Gu Qingluo is in Northface, and why your relationship with the Gu Clan is so good? Good enough that they would give you bloodline medicines and teach you their techniques."
As if following a recipe, Su Chen continued to ask questions that he already knew the answer to. In this way, he could protect Gu Qingluo, and he could continue to apply pressure to Lin Yemao. If Lin Yemao were to lie at all, Su Chen would instantly know and could punish him heavily.
After the few beatings he had received, Lin Yemao's mental defensive barriers had completely shattered, and he did not dare to continue lying to Su Chen.
As Lin Yemao explained the situation, Su Chen also began to understand the current situation of the Lin Clan.
As expected, Lin Yemao was only a good-for-nothing who had depended on his father to rise, but the other three were not weak at all. In truth, Lin Yemao's strength was not weak either, but he was restricted by his simple brain. In an all-out battle, Su Chen could possibly use his wealth of experience and calm head to kill his opponents, but purely in terms of strength Lin Yemao, who only controlled four Origin Skills, was not below Su Chen, who controlled seven.
This was even more true for Lin Shuyue and Bai Li. They were people who had also used the Gu Clan's Soaring Serpent Bloodline Medicine and also possessed the corresponding bloodline, and their strength was not weak at all.
However, according to what Lin Yemao had said, even though they shared the same bloodlines, they had all been awakened to different conditions.
For instance, after Lin Yemao's Soaring Serpent Bloodline had awakened, it was enough to increase the strength of the bloodline Origin Skills that he already possessed.
This was the most common situation, and even Gu Qingluo fell under this category. However, her bloodline was inherited, and as her bloodline continued to awaken it would also increase in strength. However, mixed bloodlines did not have this benefit, and once the bloodline's strength appeared, it was fixed.
As for Lin Shuyue and Bai Li, things were different. Lin Yemao was not clear about their exact situation, but from hearsay the two of them had all obtained other Origin Skills from their bloodline awakening. The Gu Clan was full of praise for them, saying that two genius-level talents had appeared in the Lin Clan, transferring the Gu Clan's third technique, Mercury Chill, to them.
This was also to say that the two of them had at least six Origin Skills, and four of them were bloodline Origin Skills.
Having understood the situation, Su Chen was also shocked.
He had no confidence that he would definitely win against Lin Yemao, not to mention two who were stronger than him.
However, the stronger his opponents were, the more Su Chen's fighting spirit was awoken.
When he had first entered the Scarlet Mountain Range, he was still in the Body Tempering Realm, and now he controlled seven Origin Skills as well as a net worth of hundreds of thousands of Origin Stones.
There was still half a year before the Hidden Dragon battle. Who knew if he could advance another step?
The stronger his opponents were, the more interesting his battles would be.
For opponents like Su Qian and Lin Yemao, Su Chen felt that it was no fun fighting them. It was difficult for him to forget opponents like Ulrich or Li, against whom he was forced to put it all on the line to defeat.
After asking Lin Yemao all of these things, Su Chen once again fell into silence.
It was as if he was making some important decision. His eyebrows were tightly knit, caught in a moment of indecision.
Lin Yemao thought that he was going to kill him. He was so afraid that his voice shook violently. "Don't kill me, please, I told you everything that I know already."
Su Chen glanced at him. His disdain only increased upon seeing Lin Yemao's cowardly appearance.
He had been thinking about something that was extremely dangerous. He originally was hesitant about it, unsure of whether he should take the risk.
But now, after looking at Lin Yemao's appearance, a sense of disgust arose in his heart.
Finally, he said to himself, "A manly man should stride forward without fear. What kind of future prospects can possibly come from such a cowardly person?"
Upon thinking to this point, his pride increased, and he finally made his decision.
He slapped his thigh, then stood up and said, "Iron Cliff!"
He pointed at Lin Yemao and said, "Take off his clothes."
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