Lin Yuan used a comforting tone and spouted nonsense with a straight face:
“Grandpa Jerry, don’t worry.
My father is well-acquainted with people in Nuoding City.
I’ll go look for him right now.
If he really returned to Nuoding City, someone would definitely have seen him.”
“Sorry to trouble you to watch the shop for a moment.
My mother is cooking inside.
When she comes out in a bit, just tell her.”
“Sister Xiao Wu, you should go back to Notting Academy first.
If there’s any news, I will notify you the first moment.”
The two answered with a single word ‘Good’, and Lin Yuan looked at the Transmigration youth from just now and said, “Big Brother, I still have matters to attend to and need to go out for a while today.
Please make yourself at home.”
Ever since Xiao Wu entered the door, this person’s gaze had never moved away from Xiao Wu, yet judging from the fact that he didn’t greet the other party…
Clearly, he was relatively more cautious compared to Lin Tian.
If he wanted to do like before, getting rid of the Transmigration person through Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao, and then looting the corpse, it was clearly unrealistic.
After all, Tang Hao didn’t just kill anyone he saw, let alone when the other party clearly looked like someone with status.
Everything still needed to be considered carefully.
Before that, he should figure out a way to loot Lin Tian’s corpse first; he only hoped that he still had a Cultivation Technique copy left on his body.
Otherwise, it would just be joy for nothing.
“No worries, I’m heading back too.
See you next time if there’s a chance.”
The youth took another deep look at Xiao Wu, turned around, and left.
…
After watching the youth leave, Lin Yuan also walked out of the pharmacy’s door.
Even though he knew Lin Tian couldn’t possibly return to Nuoding City, Lin Yuan still honestly went to find his father, and the result naturally was that no one had seen Lin Tian return to Nuoding City.
Consequently, Lin Yuan logically followed Father Lin and the old village chief back to Zhuling Village to search for Lin Tian.
In his words, Lin Tian was his beloved close friend and brother-in-arms; even if only a corpse was left, he had to find him.
This touched the old village chief immensely.
He kept praising Lin Yuan for being as kind-hearted as his father.
Because the old village chief had inconvenient legs, Father Lin drove his own carriage to take him back.
As for Lin Yuan, in order to find Lin Tian’s corpse faster, he ran at full pelt, fearing that being a step slower would make him miss the opportunity to loot the corpse.
As a result, when he arrived, the villagers had already found Lin Tian’s corpse at the bottom of the cliff in the back mountain.
Cause of death: accidentally falling off the cliff.
This was the widely accepted statement among the villagers.
After all, normally outsiders wouldn’t come to Zhuling Village, and the villagers of Zhuling Village were so united one by one that even those who moved away would take care of the people in the village as much as possible.
Coupled with the fact that Lin Tian liked running around in the back mountain since childhood, a sudden change and an accident happening was also within reason.
Seeing Lin Tian’s corpse covered by the white cloth, Lin Yuan cried so hard he seemed to be dying and coming back to life.
Making the crowd of villagers feel sorrow upon hearing it and shed tears upon seeing it.
They continuously praised the two as good brothers who had gone through life and death together.
But Lin Yuan remained indifferent throughout, and even when the old village chief and Father Lin came later to persuade him, it was of no use.
In the end, Lin Yuan even requested to keep a vigil for Lin Tian.
Father Lin had no choice, and coupled with having to go to work tomorrow, after giving a series of instructions, he returned overnight.
When everyone had left and only Lin Yuan was left in the mourning hall, he finally wiped away his tears and began searching Lin Tian’s corpse.
Yet he only searched out two or three gold coins, seven or eight silver coins, and dozens of bronze coins from his bosom.
While making Lin Yuan silently curse him as a miser, he tore open his clothes and continued searching.
The result was nothing gained.
“Could this fellow not have written down the Secret Manual?”
Just when Lin Yuan thought this time his efforts would end up in vain, unintentionally, he actually saw a string of familiar characters on his blood-stained clothing.
No, it shouldn’t be called characters, or rather, pinyin would be more appropriate.
“Supreme Sacred Universe Skill…”
Although Lin Yuan was just a bottom-tier corporate slave in his past life, he was still a college student after all.
Whether chatting online with people or typing novels, he used pinyin.
Naturally, it wasn’t hard to recognize the content on these pinyins.
As a result, with just a single glance, his eyes lit up.
Supreme Sacred Universe Skill!
It was actually the Supreme Sacred Universe Skill!
No wonder he always felt Lin Tian’s Cultivation Technique was so familiar; it turned out to be the Supreme Sacred Universe Skill.
The Supreme Sacred Universe Skill was the town-sect divine skill of the Tongwen Guild from the previous life’s animation, and its nature was extremely yang and rigid.
This Cultivation Technique focused mainly on Body Refining.
Cultivators could rapidly ascend to the Minor Heavenly Realm, and when Internal Energy reached the Medium Heavenly Realm, it could be projected outward to form a colorless or blue Qi flame, gaining a terrifying speed akin to Teleportation.
At the Great Heavenly Realm, it possessed both offense and defense, and after Major Achievement, hardness and softness were combined.
In the original work, King of Jin Li Keyong had once relied on the Supreme Sacred Universe Skill cultivated to the highest Realm to briefly contend with Yuan Tiangang, who possessed three hundred years of internal power.
Regardless of whether Yuan Tiangang held back, the power of this Cultivation Technique was unquestionable.
After a brief moment of excitement, Lin Yuan continued reading downward, and what made him exceptionally happy was that Lin Tian—whether because he hadn’t read ancient books or for some other reason had actually recorded it in the form of plain vernacular language.
The content was easy to understand, and even an outsider like him could Cultivate it.
What surprised him even more was that on this clothing, not only was the Supreme Sacred Universe Skill recorded, but it also recorded the complementary top-tier Cultivation Technique, the Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Formula.
This Cultivation Technique went without saying; in the original work, after Li Siyuan obtained this Cultivation Technique, without the general outline of the Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Formula, he leaped from being one of the weakest Great Heavenly Realms…
…to grow into an existence that could compare with, or even surpass, the Three Kings.
From this, the power of this Cultivation Technique could be seen.
“No wonder that fellow Lin Tian fooled around with Xiao Wu all day long yet was able to raise his Soul Power to Level 19 in just a short year.
It turns out he possessed two such powerful Cultivation Techniques.”
“In this Douluo Continent where talent and Bloodline are revered, to some extent, the value of this Cultivation Technique has already surpassed Yan Beifei’s plastic Palm Heaven Bottle.”
“Tang Hao, this time, you really helped me a lot.”
After sighing with emotion in his heart, Lin Yuan was not blinded by the joy of successfully looting Lin Tian’s corpse.
He carefully stored Lin Tian’s blood-stained clothes into the storage spirit tool ring.
Then he took out a brand-new Notting Academy uniform from inside and put it on him.
Speaking of which, this clothing was actually a new uniform he had custom-made not long ago.
Consider it as payback for obtaining Lin Tian’s Cultivation Technique.
…
The next day, Xiao Wu came to Zhuling Village again, and coming to Zhuling Village with her was Tang San.
Among them, because Xiao Wu did not return to Saint Spirit Village with him, Tang San had returned to the academy early the next morning after seeing the letter left by Tang Hao, just like in the original work.
As a result, he happened to see Xiao Wu returning in a disconsolate state because of Lin Tian’s disappearance.
After receiving the message from Father Lin, the two rushed over at the first moment.
Upon seeing Lin Tian’s corpse, Xiao Wu cried so heartbreakingly.
Although Tang San was also somewhat saddened, there was more relief and letting out a breath.
Because once Lin Tian died, the other party’s unparalleled talent and strength could no longer threaten him.
The most crucial thing was Xiao Wu; without Lin Tian, from now on, Xiao Wu would be his alone!