114: Chapter 014: The Cruel Truth 114: Chapter 014: The Cruel Truth “Kneel?

No need for that, and there’s no point.

Your kneeling won’t make me any happier!

Women of the Li Family…

just leave.”

Zhou Yan regained his composure; he actually did have the urge to kill at first.

After all, he had not a shred of fondness for anyone from the Li Family, especially this woman’s initial contemptuous look which was truly loathsome…

But sensing the all hope lost despair in this woman, he suddenly lost the thought of slaughtering her.

It wasn’t that he suddenly went soft or feared the Li Family or anything; this woman was indeed proud and arrogant, but he had essentially killed her enemy and saved her.

She even followed him to express her thanks, knowing full well the danger.

Speaking of character, she wasn’t bad at all.

Moreover, no matter how much he disliked women from the Li Family, Feng Lingqing and his mother Li Yunjin were both members of the Li Family; that he had to admit.

“Young Master…

thank you, thank you for saving my life!

If I manage to survive in Ancient Tomb Mountain this time, I will be sure to repay you generously one day.”

Li Qimeng hesitated slightly, her heart suddenly feeling much lighter.

Even if she were to die, she didn’t wish to face such a terrifying genius.

But, even if he didn’t kill her, with her injuries, did she really stand a chance of surviving in such a place?

If she didn’t survive, it would mean letting down the hard effort the Young Miss had put into nurturing her.

The Young Miss herself was in so much agony now…

As she thought this, she suddenly let out a soft sigh but ended up coughing due to the injury.

Streaks of bright red blood were coughed up, their vivid color striking and heart-wrenching.

Zhou Yan’s departing steps suddenly halted, because he suddenly sensed this woman’s mental activity.

He turned around, his gaze somewhat detached as he looked at the woman, saying, “You won’t live long, especially in a place like this.

Do you even stand a chance to live?

How about this, you truthfully answer a few of my questions, and I will save your life once more!”

“Young Master…

I will tell all that I can without reservation.”

The woman coughed, her pretty face turning somewhat pale.

“Is your Young Miss Li Yunjin?”

Zhou Yan asked in a deep voice.

“This…

this is something that many people know, yes!”

Li Qimeng hesitated a bit, but still spoke very affirmatively.

“Li Yunjin…

what is her current situation?

Is there any unspeakable secret?

Is she alive or dead?”

Zhou Yan asked again, gravely.

“This…

Young Master, I cannot speak of this—”

Li Qimeng’s delicate body trembled at the words but looked at Zhou Yan stubbornly and determined, unwilling to speak a word.

That stubborn gaze seemed to say: Just kill me, I won’t reveal even a bit of it!

“Feel my Blood Qi well, and then decide whether to speak or not!”

Zhou Yan looked at Li Qimeng indifferently and then unleashed that hidden Soul Refining Ancient Prohibition effect.

Next, a wave of Blood Qi, condensed to the extreme, suddenly surged out.

This kind of aura, Zhou Yan remembered, Young Master Li Shaqing had released before.

This time, he imitated it, gathering it and sending it fiercely towards Li Qimeng.

“Ah—”

Li Qimeng’s delicate body continuously trembled, her long legs shivering uncontrollably as if playing a lute!

Her face turned to horror, looking at Zhou Yan with utter astonishment.

“Great…

Young Master?

Are you the Great Young Master who disappeared ten years ago?”

Li Qimeng looked at Zhou Yan in a mix of immense surprise and uncertainty, hesitant for a moment, but she already kneeled on one knee, showing the respect of her bloodline.

“I am not the Young Master.

I am Li Yunjin’s son, Zhou Yan, the so-called bastard and disgrace of your Li Family!”

Zhou Yan’s voice was cold and indifferent.

“Ah…

you are Young Master Zhou Yan…

weren’t you, weren’t you…”

“What?” Zhou Yan’s gaze chilled.

“Guardian Feng Lingzhu was specifically sent to bring you back to the Li Family and protect you, hasn’t she…

fallen?”

Li Qimeng’s voice trembled with fear.

“Oh, she looks down on me, thinks I’m a bastard unworthy of her protection.

Aren’t you the same?”

Zhou Yan scoffed repeatedly.

“Qi Meng dares not…

Young Master, actually, the Li Family Head has regretted for many years, please don’t hold it against him anymore?

At that time, Young Master’s talent was exceptional, but due to this incident, you disappeared; otherwise, what difficulty would there be for someone with talent surpassing Ji Taixu’s Void Spirit?

Now, the Young Miss…

only her head remains, and her body was taken and sealed by Ji Taixu’s Void Spirit, suppressed at the ‘Extreme Cold Abyss,’ enduring the constant blow of the extremely cold winds, a fate worse than death!

Only because he believed the Young Miss to be unchaste, letting him suffer disgrace, and leaving him with no face…

This matter is only known to me and the Family Head; even Guardian Feng doesn’t know.

It’s also because the Family Head did not want to blow the matter up; he only said that the Young Miss was injured due to a mishap during training.

If because of this, Guardian Feng was unkind to you, it must be because she thinks everything was Young Master Zhou Wangchen’s fault…

I hope, you can understand.”

Li Qimeng thought for a while, then she sighed in sorrow and told everything.

She knew that this matter could not be hidden forever and would be known eventually.

Moreover, sensing the Blood Qi that was even more terrifying than the second son, Young Master Li Shaqing’s, she believed Zhou Yan was someone who could stand equal to Ji Taixu.

Therefore, there was no need to hide it any longer.

“So it turns out that my mother is still suffering such suppression, a mere Ji Taixu letting the entire Li Family dare not make a move.

You’re all so capable, so glorious!”

Zhou Yan’s heart brimmed with killing intent, yet he remained collected, though his words dripped with sarcasm.

Now that he got this news, his hatred for Feng Lingqing, who had idealized Ji Taixu so perfectly, grew even more.

That bitch was supposed to protect me, and I never even saw a shadow of her.

Before, if it weren’t for my own abilities, I would have been dead beyond dead.

Where is that bitch?

She not only failed to protect me but probably wishes I had died earlier!

Zhou Yan was passionate by nature, so he never harbored any thoughts of concealing his feelings.

If he liked something, he liked it, and if he hated, he hated!

Therefore, he never tried to suppress his emotions, which made his face look rather ugly at that moment.

Seeing Zhou Yan’s expression, Li Qimeng felt increasingly uneasy.

She couldn’t understand why she, who had seen through life and death, was still afraid in front of this person.

She didn’t even know exactly what she was afraid of, but she felt that the Young Master was more frightening than even the Family Head!

“Young Master, originally everything was in place, the wedding procedures were ready, but then the incident of the eldest miss being pregnant happened.

The Li Family was at fault first.

Plus, the Ji Family has always been domineering, and Ji TaiXu, a Void Spirit, is a once in a hundred thousand years genius with Dual Sword Souls…

This issue is too big, so…”

Li Qimeng’s voice trembled as she spoke.

“Once in a hundred thousand years?

That’s because all of the history from tens of thousands of years ago has been annihilated.

A hundred thousand years?

With his Dual Sword Souls, he thinks he qualifies?

Pfah!”

Zhou Yan’s face turned fierce as he laughed coldly.

“Young Master…

Young Master is extraordinarily talented, I’ve heard that you are the unparalleled first Sword Body, the Emperor Qi Sword Body, and that you have cultivated to this Realm in just four years!

The eldest miss cried with joy when she found out, and her tears were even tinged with blood.”

Li Qimeng’s eyes were moist, and she quietly spoke on.

Her words hit Zhou Yan’s heart hard.

He suddenly realized that if his mother truly didn’t care about him, she would have never let his father quietly take him away, nor would she have sacrificed her own body to appease the anger of the Ji Family!

Perhaps, the suffering of his mother’s body was not only a punishment from the Ji Family, a way to save face, but also her method of protecting him.

“Young Master, Ji TaiXu is a very proud person, seemingly amiable on the surface, but the eldest miss, in the Extreme Cold Abyss, often suffers the agonies of Soul Refining with Earth Fire.

Once a Cultivator reaches the Sword Soul Realm, the soul and the body are connected.

Even though the eldest miss’ head is safe within the Great Zhou family, she cannot die.

But every day, the pain she suffers severely stimulates us to become stronger…

Previously, not wanting to die, naturally, I hoped for a powerful Cultivator, even if it meant promising countless benefits, just to survive!

I only hoped to do my best, so when I saw the Young Master and didn’t recognize him, and didn’t know your strength, that’s why I showed such disappointment and contempt.

Because I know, the weak are as ants, so…”

Li Qimeng was almost crying as she told him everything.

“I understand.

I forgive you for this matter.

I can sense that everything you’ve said is true.”

Zhou Yan’s face took on an even more melancholic look.

He finally understood why Feng Lingqing had hesitated so much to speak up.

The incident was a huge blow; with his unsteady temperament, he would most likely act rashly and impulsively, or even go mad…

This certainty meant Feng Lingqing must have known about it, otherwise she would never have guarded him so wholeheartedly, willing to give her life without a single complaint.

And the way she cared for him, yet when it came to his mother’s mission, she left immediately, even momentarily letting go of him.

This further proved it.

“Thank you, thank you so much, Young Master.”

Li Qimeng wept bitterly, her tears falling like rain.

Zhou Yan took a deep breath to calm his anger because at that moment, killing intent and rage were useless.

Only by becoming stronger, suppressing Ji TaiXu in the same way, would it be the true solution!

All else is void; only powerful strength is the sovereign!

“Ji TaiXu is to marry the Holy Daughter of Bixue Palace from the Snow Domain, is that correct?”

Zhou Yan suddenly asked.

“Ah…

Yes, yes, that is public knowledge now.

Unable to resist, the Holy Daughter proposed a competition for marriage!

Now, there is one year left.

After a year, at the Guang Han Hall in the Water Domain, all geniuses under the heavens can participate.

As a condition, the Holy Daughter of Bixue Palace will bestow half of her talent on the chosen husband at the same time as she gives away her Life Cultivation Sword Soul!

With this Life Cultivation Sword Soul, a Cultivator can metamorphose completely!

Reaching the Sword Spirit Realm, he can even directly condense three Sword Spirits and become a Supreme Heaven genius!

Hence, this matter has been stirring up the world for over a year!”

Li Qimeng looked thoughtful as she watched Zhou Yan, seeming to think he wanted to use this method to get stronger.

But she held no contempt, because all Cultivators actually thought the same.

As for the Holy Daughter of Bixue Palace, no one cared whether she could have true love.

Such is the sorrow of women; if not strong enough, without a powerful backing, they can only become goods for trade.

The Holy Daughter of Bixue Palace was still considered capable and talented, with specific trump cards, which is why she could pick, but it was also just a delaying tactic when there was no other option.

Compared to marrying Ji TaiXu immediately, this method could delay much time.

…

Zhou Yan suddenly understood and had many feelings.

Once again, Ji TaiXu, once again, Bixue Palace in the Snow Domain, and it just so happened, that Ji TaiXu was also involved.

Without meeting and without knowing the person, but that name was like a nightmare, constantly appearing in his mind.

“Back then, my father snatched away his intended woman, and today, I will do the same!

There is still one year!

In a year, in one year, he will definitely regret it!”

Zhou Yan murmured to himself, his eyes filled with determination!