Hun Tai really wanted to avenge his Family and personally execute the Xiao Family, but he knew that the power of the Hun Family has sharply declined after Xiao Family slaughtered many of them.
He also found that they ransacked the Family's library and armoury and he really couldn't do anything about it.
If they go to war now, his family would completely perish and therefore, he needed friends and allies to come forward and help.
Hun Tai thought that the Imperial Adjudicators would do him justice, but now he found out how incredibly stupid he was to even think that.
That slimy rat of a Mayor bribed the Adjudicators for bailing the Xiao Family and he couldn't do anything about it.
'At least in all this chaos, my Xianer wasn't caught in the crossfire. With her Mysterious Master, I know that she will also become a powerful individual…Oh how I wish I could meet her.'
Hun Tai reminisced about his daughter that caught the attention of a female cultivator who was literally flying above their town.
The power behind that mysterious lady was humongous if he had to guess, and she literally gave away so much gold to them that it made them leapfrog to be one of the top powerhouses in the Neverkeep. He, unfortunately, had no way to contact her, and he didn't even know where her sect was located.
Hun Tai only knew that the name of the sect is 'Myriad Entropies' and nothing was known of them.
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Despite most people knowing the rumour of the engagement of the Yun Family Pearl and the Hun Family's Young Master, only 5 people knew that it was actually confirmed, those being Hun Lian, Yun Tong, Hun Tai, Yun Huang and Liu Si Xing.
Hun Lian started noticing the change in Liu Si Xing's attitude towards him since day one and now that change was more pronounced.
Although an Ice Cold Beauty, she would still sometimes show a very rare smile or frown, initiate idle talk and overall was more accommodating to Hun Lian whenever he came.
He knew that this change was only for him, but he felt that it was very slow.
To finally let Liu Si Xing realise her own feelings for him, he revealed the news of his engagement to her, and that seemed to do the trick
She started spacing out a lot during conversations, letting her thoughts guide her thinking.
The engagement ceremony was decided to be conducted a day before Hun Lian leaves, which left them with enough time to know each other.
Hun Lian and Yun Tong were allowed to spend time with each other and Hun Lian made sure to utilise that time as much as he can.
Since he knew Yun Tong better than she knew herself, he would cleverly guide the conversation in the direction of her own ideas, and would trick her into believing that he really was the one who could help find her mother.
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Another 2 weeks passed in the blink of an eye.
The curfew from the town was also lifted a week ago and the Adjudicators had ruled that the Xiao Family must compensate the Hun Family with 1 Million gold coins and that's it.
Just one million gold coins bought the lives of so many innocents and both the Hun Family and the Yun family were equally angry.
They tried to argue but what can one do in front of 2 Golden Core Realm cultivators with Executive powers?
Hun Family had to oblige, and since the sum of a Million Gold coins was a very big amount, the Xiao Family was given a month's time to prepare it.
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Liu Si Xing was thinking about Hun Lian, like she usually does. Today was the last day of his treatment, and she wanted didn't wanted to get cured anymore.
The excruciating pain that she suffered all her life had become a lifeline that let her and Hun Lian stay together. Once she is cured today, she feared that she might never be able to see him again.
Although she couldn't feel her dantian or look inside of her body due to her cultivation being sealed, but she could feel that all her pain was gone.
'Yun Tong…Is she prettier than me?'
An uneasy feeling was eating her from the inside when Hun Lian opened the door to her room and locked it from the inside after stepping in.
"What is Si Xing thinking?" asked Hun Lian with a smile as he closed the distance between them and came in front of her face.
Liu Si Xing did not answer him but just took off her robes while hiding her embarrassed face.
With her eyes closed, she laid down on the bed as her supple breasts pointed towards the ceiling, burning the fire in Hun Lian.
No Matter how many times he sees the soft twin peaks of Liu Si Xing, he still can't get enough of her.
While controlling his bearing, he walked towards Liu Si Xing, and started doing the treatment one last time.
With practised movements, he started circulating his Qi inside of her, eating the pure concentrated energy of heaven and earth which was mistaken for poison.
The Truth Skeeking Physique is a special physique which passively cultivates on its own, transferring the purest of energy to the body, which means that as long as the cultivator would live, they would feel no bottlenecks and even with a trash cultivation technique, reach the pinnacle; but if one cannot unlock the physique, then that energy becomes a tumour.
Hun Lian had gained a lot from depriving her of that energy, and as he was completing another circulation of his hands on her body. Liu Si Xing's eyes opened with a shade of pink.
"Why...Why do you avoid me like that? You evade touching my bosom and You don't spend as much time with me anymore! Why? Am I that bad?"
The sudden outburst from Liu Si Xing staggered Hun Lian.
He was deliberately avoiding touching her because he wanted her to miss his touch once she goes back to the sect, but he never expected this.
He thought it would take maybe a complete year to woo a dense and cold woman like Liu Si Xing and he even thought that he was risking it when he decided to just call her Si Xing.
"Si -Si Xing. Since I have done this so many times, I kind of know how to do it without offending you.
I really di-"
"Who told you that you were offending me!?" Liu Si Xing cut him off immediately as tears started to come out of her eyes and stain the pillow.
"Do you realise what you have done to me!? Do you think any woman would let someone get so close to her and then just forget about that man? Did you really think that you would mean nothing to me after doing so much to me for healing me?
Did you feel nothing!? Nothing, in these past few days-"
This time, it was Hun Lian who had cut her off! He shut her mouth as his tongue intruded into Liu Si Xing's shocked mouth and his hands grabbed her perky breasts and started pinching and playing with her pink nipples.
He passionately kissed Liu Si Xing, the kind of kiss he used to do with his wife in his previous life when they were making out.
With his raging boner pressed against Liu Si Xing's aroused cave, Hun Lian felt Liu Si Xing going out of breadth and hence he finally stopped the kiss and immediately feast his mouth on her twin peaks and gained moans of pleasure from an already out-of-breadth Liu Si Xing.
"Xing'er, My Love, You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, but more than your beauty…I like how innocent you are, how tenacious you are, how driven you are and deep inside of your cold heart, how sweet you are."
Hun Lian kept kissing her around her bosom while speaking sweet nothings in between his kisses.
He trailed his lips from her chest to her nether region, and before Si Xing could do anything, he already started eating her out.
A loud gasp escaped Si Xing's mouth as she felt a sudden rush of pleasure from her intimate part and these new feelings that were attacking her heart left and right were not letting her to even speak clearly.
"My Xing'er is sweet"
Hun Lian looked up at her face which was drowned in pleasure as he smirked and undid his robes in a second.
The sudden disappearance of Hun Lian's tongue from her cave finally let a very embarrassed Si Xing think clearly, and as she opened her eyes to look at Hun Lian, her eyes widened as she saw him smiling at her while positioning his shaft just above her nether cave.
"No-"
Hun Lian slammed his rod inside of Si Xing in one swift motion, and as the blood from her cave started leaking out, she suddenly felt the seal on her cultivation lift, and her cultivation, which was stuck at the 9th Level of the Nascent Soul Realm for years, suddenly breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm.
With each thrust from Hun Lian, he madly undid the seal on her Physique, and as her physique was completely unsealed, the Truth Seeking Physique directly increased her cultivation to the 4th Level of the Golden Core Realm.
"Ah~...ah~"
Though the shock didn't last long as the pleasure from Hun Lian's continuous thrusting came back in full force and completely consumed her.
Liu Si Xing threw her arms around Hun Lian and looked at him with possessive eyes though soon another piece of information shocked her.
Hun Lian, who was just at the 2nd Layer of the Transcendent Realm, was now at the 5th Layer of the Transcendent Realm.
This kind of cultivation speed was not only unheard of, but was simply impossible to exist.
She didn't know that it was her concentrated energy which Hun Lian was feeding on all these days to reach this level but she was sure fascinated.
Hun Lian saw the shock in her eyes and kissed her again, who at this time, tried to sloppily reciprocate it in between of her moans.
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Hun Family was agitated as they suddenly felt an immense amount of pressure coming from the courtyard of the person belonging to the Perpetuity Sect staying in their family.
Hun Lain had told his father that she was in closed-door cultivation and would not like to be disturbed and now it felt like that she did make a breakthrough.
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Liu Si Xing was lying in Hun Lian's arms as they both kissed each other after their intense session.
"Lian…Lian'er"
Liu Si Xing's slow voice drew Hun Lian's attention and he hummed in response as they both looked into each other's eyes.
"You must breakthrough to the Saint Realm….My Father wouldn't give my hand in marriage to anyone who is below that."
Hun Lian chuckled at her words and asked her in return.
"My Si Xing is so desperate to marry me?"
Liu Si Xing pretended to get angry and hit Hun Lian's chest as he laughed and kissed her again. She then just smiled sweetly in his embrace and savoured this moment of her life.
"Xing'er. I want your help."
Liu Si Xing immediately got up from his chest and looked at him with serious expression.
"I want to kill the entire Xiao Family….Kill even the last dogs and chicken staying in their fields.
But they are protected by the Adjudicators…"
Hun Lian cupped her cheeks as he said his words.
Tomorrow he would be leaving with her for the Sect, and before he does that, he wants to do a few things, one of which was to empower his family because one day he will be the patriarch and he can't have weak subordinates who can't even be used.
"Don't worry. Although the Liu Family would not fight with the Royal Family, but no one would stop me, a princess of one of the founding families from decimating some nobodies.
Even the Adjudicators must bow their heads to me as my uncle is literally the Military General of the Empire, while my parents….well let's not even talk about them."
Liu Si Xing kissed Hun Lian's forehead as an instinct to protect him rose sharply inside her.
Hun Lian smiled to her and flicked her nose with his right index finger, and then they both indulged in another round of intense lovemaking.
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It was the middle of the night and Hun Lian and Liu Si Xing were bathing each other, when Hun Lian casually spoke.
"By the way, Xing'er. Do you have any gold coins?"
Liu Si Xing stopped lathering his hair and then with a thoughtful look, said
"I do not have much coins. I have the Black Card which can let me spend any amount of money. It is all paid by my Family.
If you need the money, I can transfer any amount to you, no problem, but if you need coins specifically, then I only have about like 500,000 or so."
'Only 500,000'
A small household of Neverkeep can survive with 2 gold coins a year and to her, it was 'only'.
But it also made sense because the households which could survive off of 2-3 gold coins a year were non-cultivator households.
They didn't have many necessities, unlike Cultivators, who were always short of rare techniques, different kinds of artefacts, alchemy pills, weapons, etc.
Hun Lian looked at her spoiled little girlfriend and asked her
"Can you give me the gold coins?"
Liu Si Xing didn't even think much and immediately summoned staggering amounts of coins in the bathroom, making Hun Lian fall on her while she giggled.
The new lovers then fought intensely on the gold coins in the bath.
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"You are so naughty," said Liu Si Xing as Hun Lian dressed her personally and then wore his own white robes with golden trims and a purple hawk crest.
[500,000 Gold Coins: Items insufficient to smelt anything.
Please upgrade the Furnace or add more items]
Hun Lian ignored the message from [Ether Furnace] as he tied a veil on Liu Si Xing's face and walked out of her boudoir.
"So do you want to tell your father first?" Asked Liu Si Xing as she intertwined her fingers with Hun Lian.
"No. He is a very…. soft-hearted person. He would not want me to kill an entire family for the transgressions of a few."
There was a firm tone in Hun Lian's voice.
He didn't want to be a hypocrite and find a reason before killing someone. If he becomes a person who always tries to justify his kills which ultimately benefits him, then he would become what he hated in his previous life.
Murder is murder. No matter how you try to justify it, and he wanted none of that bullshit.
Hun Lian wanted to train his psyche and embolden his resolve before starting on the path of cultivation. He knew the story and hence knew just how dangerous things will become in the future, and hence he decided to toughen himself up with the Xiao Family.
Liu Si Xing nodded at Hun Lian. She herself had killed many people in her life, where the crimes of many of her victims were that they pestered her to like them.
She hugged Hun Lian tightly, sniffing his natural odour, and suddenly two large wings made out of Ice sprouted from her back and they took off in the air with extreme speed.
'No wonder. After all, she is the daughter of 2 highly talented people, who are both in the Emperor Realm.
Whereas a cultivator would need to be at least in the Divine Illusion Realm to fly, she is flying in the Golden Core Realm.'
Hun Lian saw her beautiful wings flap with beautiful arc, crystalising the moisture in the air, and soon he also noticed that 2 People were following them on foot at extreme speed.
"So you are the Adjudicators"
Liu Si Xing had also noticed a dwarf and one tall guy chasing her on foot, and she could see that they were both in the First layer of the Golden Core Realm.
They were far weaker than other Officers because their jurisdiction was limited to small outskirt towns and villages of the Rizedonia Empire.
Hun Lian knew where the Xiao Family compound was, and he guided Liu Si Xing towards them.
As they reached the top of the Xiao Family, many people started to come out of their courtyards and rooms to look at one woman with beautiful wings standing in the air with Hun Lian, who they recognised hugging her waist with one hand.
"How do you want to do it?"
Hun Lian heard Liu Si Xing's question and replied with a shaky voice
"They are more than 3 thousand of them. Can you kill most of them with some martial technique? I want to kill their patriarch, elders and their immediate family myself."
Liu Si Xing nodded and glided down on top of a 7 stories pagoda, where Hun Lian let go of her, and she raised her hand in front of her.
Immediately, the temperature in the compound started to drop sharply! As people who were coming out to see what the commotion was about saw Liu SI Xing, they were mesmerized by her even though she had a veil on her face.
She looked like a fairy to them, but their fascination instantly break when they felt their bodies freeze.
Hun Lian started jumping down one floor at a time, and as soon as landed on the ground, he impaled his spear on a small kid who was running for his life like his other family members.
Hun Lian forced himself to fling away the body from his spear which collided with a girl who was also trying to run away from a small ice age.
One after another, people were becoming ice statues and shattering into millions of red pieces while Hun Lian made his way towards the most luxurious building on the compound.
"What….What is happening to me?"
"Mummy….Help me…I don't want to d-"
"No! My legs…My legs are frozen No! Even My Han-!"
Wails were being heard everywhere as people were seeing their loved ones freeze to death and shatter.
No one could even do anything about it.
Hun Lian impaled an old man with his black spear and kept going forward while killing everyone who was coming in his way.
Liu Si Xing's spiritual pressure, along with her enormous suppression was too much for anyone to bear, and most people were not even able to summon their Qi to help them.
"Hun Lian child I am sorry! Please! You are a good man. Please spare my family, they are innocent"
The Xiao Family Patriarch kept trying to summon his Qi only for it to snuff out at the last second.
As he saw his children and grandchildren get shattered in ice statues, his heart bled with guilt!
No one was stupid here and they had already guessed that the lady in the sky must be from the Perpetuitty Sect, and she was helping Hun Lian avenge his family.
"Hey stop! What are you doing? I said stop immediately!"
A shout came from the entrance of the Xiao Family Compound where Hun Lian saw the 2 adjudicators rush inside.
With difficulty, they summoned their martial strength and ran towards Hun Lian, who looked both of them in the eyes and pierced the chest of the Xiao Patriarch.
"An Eye for an eye….This is my retributive justice, What can you do about it?"
Hun Lian looked at the adjudicators who finally rushed up to the Xiao Patriarch.
They were worried that under their jurisdiction, thousand of people perished while they were in the town. This case would definitely go to the Ordinance Jury and their corruption would then be surely revealed.
The punishment for corruption in Rizedonia is so cruel, that convicts wish for the gift of death.
Liu Si Xing saw from the sky as both the Golden Core Cultivator approached the body of the fallen Patriarch, and directly fell beside Hun Lian, covering him in a transparent shield.
Neither Hun Lian, nor Liu SI Xing liked to ideal chatter with people who were about to die soon enough.
They both were people of few words and instead of explaining anymore, Liu Si Xing directly took out the Liu Clan's decree.
The dwarf Adjudicator was angry! He saw his impending doom when the Council eventually hears about his corruption and as soon as he turned towards Hun Lian to take out some of that anger, his face turned ashen.
The decree Liu Si Xing took out squashed him and his partner to the ground.
"Mercy…Mercy My Liege. We didn't know that the Liu family was involved. Please, spare us"
With trembling hands, they both begged for forgiveness from Liu Si Xing, while Hun Lian took off the ring from the Xiao Patriarch and killed the last of the Xiao Family members with his spear.
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Hun Lian didn't kill the Adjudicators or the Mayor, as they were officials of the Imperial Family, and killing them might bring attention to him. It would be even more troublesome if Liu Si Xing shields him, as then many hidden and powerful forces would start continuously spying on him.
Soon, both the suns came up in the sky and people started going to their jobs.
Many people who lived near the Xiao Family compound weirdly glazed at the opened door of the compound with not a guard on site.
Some brave individuals walked up to the gate only to find it barren.
There was not a soul that could be seen, only some very tiny red sprinkles on the walls.
"What?"
Soon the news spread in the town like wildfire! The bodies of the Xiao Family elders and patriarch were found in their compound while everyone else was missing.
Many guessed the fate of the missing people from the red sprinkles on the wall.
Some city guards rushed to find the Mayor, but when they entered the City Hall, they saw the respected adjudicators shivering in the corners with their heads tucked in their legs.
Their Mayor was packing all his Stuff up while his wife was continuously complaining.
"Dear! At least tell me what happened? Why do we have to run away from the town you administer?"
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Yun Huang had reached the Hun Family with his daughter to announce her engagement when the news of the Xiao Family's slaughter reached the Hun Family as well.
"What!? How did this happen?"
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Hun Lian at this moment was sleeping on his bed, silently staring at the ceiling, as Liu Si Xing drew soothing circles on his chest.
It was the first time he had killed someone, and his heart was still shaky.
There was a notification in front of his eyes that he was ignoring for a long time as he was coming to terms with this new mindset.
[1568111 Gold Coins: A skill tome, Midas Touch has been acquired after smelting.
Midas Touch: You have the power to turn most things into gold. There are many limitations as to which metal you can turn into gold, but as you cultivate further and further, even turning a living being into gold is possible.]
Hun Lian finally turned his attention towards the Skill tome, which he clicked with his eyes, and soon, the information regarding the Midas touch reached his mind.
Hun Lian had gained a lot last night. From Liu Si Xing, to Midas touch, to gaining 2 Thuums from the souls of the people he killed.
His Thuums are like roars, where speaking a specific word would empower his voice to do something. They could be levelled up with more powerful souls in the future as well.
The two Thuums he learned were: "Ha hor suf", which could push away the things in his path, be it living or non-living, and the other was "Nar hat rim", which could make beasts scared of him and follow his command.
Obviously right now these were not levelled up and he was also not that strong to use these powers on a person more powerful than him, but he would soon get there.
"Are you still going to marry that woman?"
Hun Lian suddenly smiled and looked at Liu Si Xing who was pouting at him. Last night he had seen a possessive side of her, and he knew that he meant everything to her.
She might do something crazy if she feels that her love is unrequited and hence Hun Lian drew her closer and whispered to her
"She, or any women I get together with in future is just for my benefits. Only you are the one I truly love. So don't be insecure, Xing'er. In the past months, I have fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with you!"
Liu Si Xing looked at Hun Lian's serious face after listening to his confession and buried her face in his chest.
"I love you" She said in a barely audible voice.
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Hun Tai and Yun Huang, both suspected that Hun Lian was the one who had killed the entire Xiao Family last night.
No one else had any problem with them, and Hun Lian had the means to take revenge with the help of the Perpetuity sect.
It was a pity that there was no way to verify this doubt.
"Like I said father, I did not massacre the Xiao Family. I was here all night."
Everyone was looking at Hun Lian with suspicion while Yun Tong was looking at the veiled Liu Si Xing with a frown.
She could feel a natural repulsion towards Liu SI Xing, but she soon spoke, getting the attention of everyone present in the Hun Family hall.
"Young Master Lian is about to leave. I think we should….we should.." With so many people staring at her now, she couldn't say what she wanted to say and her head dropped in embarrassment.
"Oi oi…Since when did my girl become so desperate to get engaged?"
Yun Huang's words caused the mood of the hun family hall to lighten up, and they soon dropped the matter and started discussing the engagement as Hun Lian was about to leave, and they would not see their young master for a very long time.
Shortly After the engagement vows were written on a piece of paper which both Hun Lian and Yun Tong signed, Hun Lian took out a beautiful silver ring and gifted it to Yun Tong.
"Hopefully this ring will remind my Tong'er of me" said Hun Lian which drew a hooting from the crowd and an embarrassed smile from Yun Tong.
"I…I will break through to the Transcendent Realm and find you soon..I promise."
"I know you will."