Lin Yuan spoke in a comforting tone while confidently spouting a load of nonsense:
“Grandpa Jerry, don’t worry.
My father knows a lot of people in Nuoding City.
I’ll go find him right now.
If he really returned to Nuoding City, someone must have seen him.”
“For now, I’ll trouble you to look after the shop for a while.
My mother is inside cooking.
When she comes out, please tell her what happened.”
“Sister Xiao Wu, you should return to Nuoding Academy first.
If I get any news, I’ll inform you immediately.”
The two of them each replied with a simple, “Okay.”
Lin Yuan then turned toward the transmigrator youth from earlier.
“Big Brother, I still have something to take care of, so I need to head out first today.
Make yourself at home.”
Ever since Xiao Wu entered the shop, this person hadn’t taken his eyes off her.
However, judging from the fact that he hadn’t approached or greeted her, he was clearly more cautious than Lin Tian.
If Lin Yuan wanted to repeat what he had done before, use Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao to eliminate a transmigrator and then loot the corpse, it obviously wouldn’t be realistic.
After all, Tang Hao wasn’t someone who killed everyone he encountered.
Moreover, this person clearly had some background.
Everything would have to be planned carefully.
Before that, Lin Yuan needed to find a way to loot Lin Tian’s belongings.
He could only hope that Lin Tian had kept copies of his cultivation techniques on him.
Otherwise, all his anticipation would be for nothing.
“No problem.
I have to head back as well.
We’ll meet again if we get the chance.”
The youth took another deep look at Xiao Wu before turning around and leaving.
…
After watching the youth leave, Lin Yuan also walked out of the medicine shop.
Although he knew perfectly well that Lin Tian couldn’t possibly have returned to Nuoding City, Lin Yuan still dutifully went to look for his father.
As expected, nobody had seen Lin Tian return to Nuoding City.
Thus, Lin Yuan naturally followed his father and the old village chief back to Zhuling Village to search for Lin Tian.
As he put it, Lin Tian was his dearest friend and brother.
Even if all that remained was a corpse, he was determined to find him.
The old village chief was deeply moved by this.
He kept praising Lin Yuan for being as honest and loyal as his father.
Because the old village chief’s legs weren’t in good condition, Lin Yuan’s father drove their horse-drawn carriage and took him back.
As for Lin Yuan, to find Lin Tian’s corpse as quickly as possible, he took off running at full speed.
By the time he arrived, however, the villagers had already found Lin Tian’s body at the bottom of the cliff behind the village.
The cause of death was determined to be an accidental fall.
That was the explanation the villagers widely accepted.
After all, outsiders rarely came to Bamboo Ridge Village.
And the villagers themselves were extremely united.
Even those who had moved away would still do their best to look after the people in the village.
Moreover, Lin Tian had loved running around the back mountain since he was young.
An unexpected accident happening to him was hardly difficult to believe.
When Lin Yuan saw Lin Tian’s corpse covered by a white cloth, he cried as though his heart had been torn apart.
The villagers were moved to tears by the sight.
They repeatedly praised the two of them for being brothers who would stand by each other through life and death.
Yet Lin Yuan remained unmoved.
Even when the old village chief and his father arrived later and tried to comfort him, it did nothing.
In the end, Lin Yuan even requested to stay behind and keep vigil over Lin Tian’s corpse.
His father had no choice.
Since he still had work the next day, he gave Lin Yuan some instructions before leaving that very night.
Once everyone had left and only Lin Yuan remained inside the mourning hall, he finally wiped away his tears and began searching Lin Tian’s corpse.
However, all he found were two or three gold soul coins, seven or eight silver soul coins, and several dozen copper soul coins.
While cursing Lin Tian as a poor bastard, Lin Yuan pulled open his clothes and continued searching.
But he found nothing else.
“Could it be that this bastard never wrote down the cultivation techniques?”
Just when Lin Yuan thought his efforts were going to end in disappointment, he accidentally noticed a string of familiar characters written on Lin Tian’s bloodstained clothes.
No.
Calling them characters wasn’t quite right.
Pinyin would be more accurate.
“Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill…”
In his previous life, Lin Yuan had merely been an ordinary wage slave at the bottom of society.
But at least he had been a university student.
Whether chatting with people online or writing novels, he had always used pinyin.
Naturally, recognizing what was written here wasn’t difficult for him.
And with just one glance, his eyes lit up.
The Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill!
It was actually the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill!
No wonder Lin Yuan had always felt that Lin Tian’s cultivation technique seemed strangely familiar.
So this was the reason.
The Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill was the supreme divine technique of Tongwen Hall from the anime Hua Jianghu: The Unruly, possessing an extremely Yang and rigid nature.
The technique primarily focused on body cultivation. This story is hosted at g.com.
A practitioner could rapidly reach the Lesser Heavenly Rank.
Once their internal force reached the Middle Heavenly Rank, they could release it externally, forming colorless or blue flames of energy and gaining terrifying speed that was practically indistinguishable from teleportation.
At the Greater Heavenly Rank, both offense and defense became formidable.
Once fully mastered, the technique could combine hardness and softness.
In the original story, Li Keyong, the Jin Prince, had once relied on the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill at its highest level to briefly contend with Yuan Tiangang, who possessed three hundred years of cultivation.
Regardless of whether Yuan Tiangang had deliberately held back, there was no doubt that this cultivation technique was extraordinarily powerful.
After his brief excitement, Lin Yuan continued reading.
What made him even happier was that he didn’t know whether Lin Tian had never studied ancient texts or simply couldn’t be bothered, but the entire technique had been recorded in plain, straightforward language.
It was incredibly easy to understand.
Even a complete layman like Lin Yuan could cultivate it.
What surprised him even more was that the clothes didn’t merely contain the Supreme Holy Qiankun Skill.
They also contained another supreme technique that complemented it—the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art.
There was even less need to explain how powerful this technique was.
In the original story, after Li Siyuan obtained this technique, even without the complete general outline of the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Art, he had still managed to rise from being one of the weakest Greater Heavenly Rank experts to a powerhouse capable of rivaling, and even surpassing, the Three Kings—the Ghost King Zhu Youwen, Qi Prince Li Maozhen, and Jin Prince Li Keyong.
From this alone, it was clear just how powerful this technique was.
“No wonder that bastard Lin Tian could fool around with Xiao Wu all day and still raise his soul power to rank 19 in just one year.
So he possessed two such powerful cultivation techniques.”
“On the Douluo Continent, where talent and bloodlines are held above everything else, the value of these techniques has, to a certain extent, already surpassed Yan Beifei’s Plastic Palm Heaven Bottle.”
“Tang Hao, you really did me a huge favor this time.”
After sighing inwardly, Lin Yuan didn’t allow the joy of successfully looting Lin Tian to cloud his judgment.
He carefully placed Lin Tian’s bloodstained clothes into his storage soul tool ring.
Then he took out a brand-new Nuoding Academy uniform and dressed Lin Tian in it.
Speaking of which, this uniform was one he had only recently had custom-made.
He could consider it compensation for obtaining Lin Tian’s cultivation techniques.
…
The next day, Xiao Wu returned to Bamboo Ridge Village.
Tang San came with her.
Tang San had returned to the academy that morning because Xiao Wu hadn’t gone back to Holy Soul Village with him.
Just like in the original story, he had found the letter Tang Hao left behind and returned to the academy the next morning.
As a result, he happened to encounter Xiao Wu, who had returned looking utterly devastated after Lin Tian disappeared.
After receiving word from Lin Yuan’s father, the two immediately rushed over.
When Xiao Wu saw Lin Tian’s corpse, she cried bitterly.
Tang San was also somewhat saddened, but more than anything else, he felt relieved.
Because with Lin Tian dead, that man’s unparalleled talent and strength could no longer threaten him.
Most importantly, there was Xiao Wu.
Without Lin Tian, from now on, Xiao Wu would belong to him alone.
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