Chapter 99: The Shi Family’s Secret

Nie Renchou?

The person killed is actually Nie Renchou?!

Su Jingxing was really surprised.

Nie Renchou had disappeared for more than a week. He thought he had left Qinghe City, but he was still in the Western District.

Furthermore, it seemed that he was looking for people to challenge.

However, he was unlucky this time. He was besieged during the challenge and escaped. In the end, he didn’t manage to do so and was killed on the southern bank of the Heavenly Water River.

Of course, Su Jingxing didn’t care if Nie Renchou had died.

What caught his attention was that the treasure in Ouyang Qinhu’s hand seemed to have fallen into Nie Renchou’s hands.

Now that Nie Renchou was dead, would this treasure be on him?

At this thought, Su Jingxing used his lightness skill and flew over silently.

After moving close, he still hid in the dense foliage.

But three throwing daggers flew out from his palm!

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The rushing sound of tearing through the air at top speed first shattered the street lamps under the night sky.

Then, they charged towards the three swordsmen who were still excited over their kill.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

With the sound of the street lamps shattering, the three middle ranks swordsmen dodged the throwing daggers.

“Who is it? Come out if you dare!”

Among the three swordsmen, a muscular man shouted in a low voice, “What kind of hero are you if all you do is stay in hiding?”

“Shut up!”

The other old man with a long beard had a change in expression. He glared at the muscular man and then put away his weapon. He cupped his fists and shouted into the air, “Friend, don’t worry. We don’t have any other wants. We were chasing after Nie Renchou because he wanted to kill my third brother. Now that Nie Renchou is dead, we have achieved our goal. We will leave now.”

“No, Big Brother…”

“Shut up!”

The long-bearded old man glared at the burly man who wanted to speak and growled, “If you don’t want to die, then shut your mouth!”

The burly man could not tell, but how could this long-bearded elder not know?

The person controlling the throwing daggers in the dark had no intention of killing them.

Otherwise, their heads would have been the first to be crushed in the sneak attack!

The long-bearded old man was not a martial artist of the lower ranks. Out of the three brothers, the old man was a fifth-grade martial artist, and the muscular man and the severely wounded man were sixth-grade martial artists.

He had seen more than ten types of throwing dagger skills.

However, he had never encountered a throwing dagger that appeared without emitting any energies or fluctuations of aura!

Those who had such abilities were either at a very high realm, such as the fourth-grade,

or that the martial art he cultivated was extremely advanced, that even the true energy that was externally released could be concealed.

Either way, he was not someone the three of them could handle.

Needless to say, the old man with the long beard and the muscular man had also exhausted themselves.

If it was an eighth or ninth-grade martial artist, they could still take care of him.

But was the person hiding in the dark ninth-grade or eighth-grade?

The long-bearded old man did not dare take the gamble!

Compared to the treasure that might not even be on Nie Renchou anymore, their lives were undoubtedly more important.

Therefore, the long-bearded elder decisively gave up on searching Nie Renchou’s body.

After shouting at the air, he forcefully suppressed the muscular man who had always been stubborn. He carried the seriously injured man on his back and quickly left the scene.

“Quite sensible.”

On the tree, Su Jingxing looked at the long-bearded old man and the two others who left without any mischief and nodded in satisfaction. His body swayed and he landed on the ground.

He first extracted a card before searching Nie Renchou’s corpse.

He did not find anything valuable other than the weapons used by Nie Renchou.

A blood-red longsword.

Shaking his head in disappointment, Su Jingxing picked up the longsword and kept it in his palm space.

This sword was clearly a treasure weapon. Either taking it for his own use or selling it were both good options.

Better to have something than nothing.

As for Nie Renchou’s corpse…

Hu~

Lifting his toes, Su Jingxing sent the corpse into the air and grabbed it.

Then, he carried the corpse and flew over the Sky Water River towards the crematorium.

From afar, he threw the corpse into the air and it landed at the gate. It made a strange sound and alerted the guards.

He had taken care of the body.

Su Jingxing turned around. Amidst the exclamations of the crematorium guards behind him, flew over the Sky Water River, returning to his small courtyard at the foot of the mountain.

Back in the house, he took out the card he had extracted, held it in his palm, and read the description.

Memory Card!

It was not the Skill Card or True Energy Card that he wanted the most, but a Memory Card.

Su Jingxing was somewhat disappointed.

But soon, he was stunned.

The Memory Card he extracted from Nie Renchou’s corpse recorded the memories of his entire lifetime.

A Shi Family’s sacrificial soldier

Many people were curious about Nie Renchou’s identity and background. Su Jingxing had now learned about it through this Memory Card.

Not only did he know that Nie Renchou was a sacrificial soldier nurtured by the Shi Family from a young age, he also learned a lot of the Shi Family’s secrets!

For example, the Three Yin Candles Blood that Su Jingxing was most interested in.

The Bloodline Card told him that people with the Three Yin Candles Blood would not live past 49 years old, but the Shi Family members were not affected.

This question was now solved.

It turned out that the Shi Family had long discovered the flaw of the Three Yin Candles Blood. In order to live longer, the Shi Family’s ancestors had researched and found a method.

Absorb the blood from the hearts of virgin women born during a Yin hour of a Yin day of a Yin month of a Yin year!

Shi Yanfeng wanted Yu Miaotong’s heart because he wanted her blood.

At that time, Su Jingxing did not notice that the unique blade Shi Yanfeng had used was actually a blood extractor.

If Su Jingxing had taken the blade away, he would have found a jet of blood in it afterwards.

The blood was blood from Yu Miaotong’s heart!

If one consumes the blood of a virgin woman born during a Yin hour of a Yin day of a Yin month of a Yin year every three years, the flaw of a short life that came with the Three Yin Candles Blood would no longer be a problem.

All these years, not only did the Shi Family abduct young women and underage children in Qinghe City, they also gathered them in other cities and even other countries.

This was because the blood had to be extracted while the women were still alive. After that, it had to be drunk and refined within half an hour.

Hence, people like Gu Duoduo were abducted and imprisoned.

The people doing such work outside were sacrificial soldiers like Nie Renchou!

The Shi Family had nurtured over a hundred of them.

Most of them were of the lower ranks. Only nine were in the middle ranks.

Nie Ren Chou was one of them, he was an outstanding talent among them.

In order to seize the treasure in Ouyang Qinhu’s hands—— a pearl that could purify true energy and bloodline, the Shi Family had sent him out.

First, he led people to destroy a branch of the Black Tiger Gang, but they failed to find the pearl.

Therefore, Nie Renchou pretended to be a sword fanatic and killed Ouyang Qinhu. While taking the pearl, he also absorbed Ouyang Qinhu’s blood and essence.

Removing the flaw of the Three Yin Candles Blood relied on the blood from the heart of virgin women born during a Yin hour of a Yin day of a Yin month of a Yin year.

On the other hand, the ability to enhance the Three Yin Candles Blood was a Blood Elemental Marrow that was mainly refined from the blood and essence of a martial artist in the middle ranks.

Even though the Three Yin Candles Blood (origin blood) that the Shi Family had collected after the deaths of their members could also increase the power of their bloodline, it would not be permanent.

Therefore, Nie Renchou killed Ouyang Qinhu, Shan Jiantong, and Ma Zhengyang.

The blood-red sword in his hand could absorb the target’s blood and essence as he killed them.

As for killing Shi Jindong, that was because he had betrayed the Shi Family and joined the Li Family.

After absorbing these blood and essence, the Shi Family brought to the underground space below Cloud Sea Square and used it as the main ingredient to refine the Blood Elemental Marrow.

That’s right.

The real mastermind of the bloody crime at the Cloud Sea Square wasn’t Ke Wenji or Shi Yanyi, but the Shi Family’s higher-ups led by Shi Jinnian!

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