novelHire Chapter 129: The Destruction of Zhao Begins (1/2)
Chapter 129: The Destruction of Zhao Begins (1/2)
"It's snowing."
When Li Yan came out of the basement, what he saw was the first snow to fall this winter.
The snow was not heavy at first, like tiny catkins, falling everywhere and disappearing very quickly.
But soon, the snowflakes grew in size, like duck down, and when they fell on the leaves, they were able to add a touch of white to the dark green leaves.
"Xiao Zhao, what are you having for breakfast?"
After a day and night of breakthrough, Li Yan's stomach began to growl.
As his cultivation level increased, Li Yan's appetite for food became larger and larger, and his requirements for food became higher and higher.
Those who have cultivated in the Bone Forging Realm only need a lot of meat for food. Eating more than ten kilograms of meat every day can maintain the activities of the Bone Forging Realm for a day.
Of course, if you want to practice cultivation, you have to replenish your energy and blood from other aspects.
For example, swallowing pills, medicated meals, or eating meat that contains more energy, such as the meat of exotic animals.
When you reach the blood exchange realm, ordinary meat, unless you eat fifty or sixty kilograms a day, can no longer meet the daily needs of the blood exchange realm.
However, eating fifty or sixty kilograms of meat a day takes a lot of time just to eat it. In addition, the warrior's consumption ability is extremely strong. Basically, these fifty or sixty kilograms of meat can be digested in one day, and then turned into feces discharge.
The time to go to the latrine is quite a while.
If this continues, it will be a huge waste of the warrior's already tense time.
In this world, there are the most warriors with mediocre talents and insufficient resources, so they will cherish every bit of time to improve their strength.
Therefore, eating ordinary meat food in the blood-changing realm is the worst choice. Alien beasts have begun to become frequent guests on the dining tables of blood-changing realm warriors.
Usually seven or eight kilograms of low-grade exotic animal meat can meet the energy requirements for a day's activity in the blood exchange realm.
In the Yunzang realm, the energy of low-level exotic animal meat begins to be relatively insufficient again. At this time, one must either add more food or improve the quality of the exotic animal meat.
What Li Yan chose was to improve the quality of exotic animal meat.
"Ey."
Xiao Zhao, who heard the sound, came out of the kitchen with a shovel in his hand.
After seeing Li Yan, a happy smile appeared on his face.
She hadn't seen Li Yan for a day. Li Yan told him about breaking through, so on this day, although Xiao Zhao was worried, he didn't go to Li Yan.
Now that she saw Li Yan appearing safely in front of her, she was naturally happy.
Then, he pulled Li Yan to the kitchen, where a piece of blood-red meat was stewed in the iron pot.
Xiao Zhao pointed at the meat in the pot and made gestures to Li Yan.
"It turns out to be the meat of a mid-level exotic beast, a black-eyed cow."
After Li Yan saw Xiao Zhao's gestures, he understood what Xiao Zhao wanted to express.
[Black-Eyed Cow], as you can tell from the name, the eyes of this kind of exotic cow are completely black, which makes their vision very sharp and difficult to catch.
However, the price of the flesh and blood of [Black-Eyed Cow] is similar to that of other mid-level exotic beasts, but the pair of completely black eyes can be sold at a very high price.
Because after eating the eyes of [Black Eyed Cow], presbyopia and myopia can be greatly improved.
"But looking at it like this, it will take quite a while before we can eat it."
Because the meat of exotic animals contains an extremely abundant amount of energy and blood, cooking it with ordinary cooking methods takes much longer than ordinary meat.
At this time, the piece of [black-eyed beef] flesh and blood in the pot had been cooking for a long time, and it still looked like it had just been put in.
"Yeah."
After Xiao Zhao heard Li Yan's words, he quickly typed a series of sign languages.
"You mean going out to eat."
"Uh-huh."
Xiao Zhao nodded quickly.
"No, I still like to eat Xiao Zhao's cooking."
Li Yan rejected Xiao Zhao's proposal, but it made Xiao Zhao smile even happier.
"Call me when you're done. I'll go see the snow first."
After Li Yan helped Xiao Zhao sort out his messy hair, he left the warm kitchen.
It wasn't until Li Yan's back disappeared that Xiao Zhao looked back, hummed a tune, and began to prepare the ingredients for cooking exotic animal meat.
At this time, Li Yan moved a chair out of the house and placed it under the eaves.
He sat on the chair and began to admire the snow with dull eyes.
"The snow is getting heavier and heavier."
Li Yan's true form murmured.
In Linjiang City, in a courtyard of the Zhao family's residence, the clone Li Yan caught a snowflake that fell in his hand.
The goose-feather heavy snow stayed in his palm for more than a breath before melting away.
"With such murderous weather, it seems like a good choice."
As soon as he held his hand, the last bit of water in his palm was evaporated.
"Master, it's snowing and it's cold outside. You'd better go back to the house."
Behind Li Yan, a beautiful maid chased out of the house and said to Li Yan.
"Okay, then go back to the house."
Li Yan said to the maid with a smile.
His identity at this time was a direct young master of the Zhao family. This was the target that Li Yan selected after observing for a long time.
The status of his mother was low, which made him unpopular even though he was a direct descendant of the Zhao family.
Other direct descendants of the Zhao family did not like to associate with him, and the servants also followed his example. Otherwise, they would not enter his courtyard unless they wanted to.
Such an environment naturally made him develop a withdrawn character.
After Li Yan replaced him, there was no pressure at all when it came to acting.
"The young master smiled today, is it because of the snow?"
The maid who followed Li Yan into the room wondered in her heart.
Since she was assigned to serve the young master, she rarely saw him smile.
"But it snowed a lot last year, and the young master's performance at that time was that he hated the snowy weather very much."
Because his mother died on a snowy day.
Before the maid figured it out, Li Yan called her into the room.
"Xiaojuan, lie on the bed."
"Ah, young master, it's not good in broad daylight."
"Don't talk nonsense, lie down."
Unable to refuse Li Yan's request, the maid Xiaojuan had to lie on Li Yan's bed with a trembling face.
Li Yan came to the maid who closed her eyes, stretched out his right hand, pinched her neck, and the maid fainted.
Then, Li Yan pulled out a five-hundred-forged long sword from under the bed.
Li Yan took this knife from a member of the Zhao family who used a knife, and in order to prevent the other party from finding out, Li Yan closed his eyes forever.
For this reason, the Zhao family searched for the murderer for a long time, but in the end, nothing was done.
"Today, the Zhao family in Linshan City will become history."
Then, Li Yan walked out with a long knife.
He didn't need to find people, as long as he started killing people in the Zhao family mansion, the people of the Zhao family would naturally appear.
"One hundred and twenty-three direct descendants of the Zhao family, including five people who were in the zang and twenty people who were in the blood exchange."
"Three hundred and fifty-one members of the Zhao family, including ten people who were in the blood exchange."
This is the number of people in the Zhao family in Linshan City that Li Yan has obtained these days.
Zhao Tongling, that is, Li Yan's image at this time, holding a long knife, walked towards the Zhao family's martial arts training ground in the heavy snow.
Because it was snowing, there were fewer servants on the road, and only some servants who ran errands were still running back and forth in such a heavy snowy day.
"Master Tongling, are you going to the martial arts hall to practice sword?"
A servant who was specially responsible for delivering meals to Li Yan was not afraid when he saw Li Yan holding a sword. Instead, he asked.
"Yes, you go and do your thing. I will practice for a while and then go back."
"Well, I will give you some wine to warm you up when I deliver your meal at noon."
The servant said with a smile.
"Thank you for your kindness. I will give you this silver ingot as a reward. Then I will give you a piece of advice to leave here early."
After Li Yan threw a silver ingot at him, he disappeared in the heavy snow without looking back.
"What does Master Tongling mean?"
The servant scratched his head, confused.
But soon, he put this sentence behind him and excitedly weighed the weight of the silver in his hand.
Not long after, Li Yan arrived at the Zhao family's martial arts training ground.
Even on a snowy day, there are still many people here.
As the saying goes, you should practice martial arts in the hottest days of summer and the coldest days of winter. There is no such thing as practicing martial arts without suffering.
At this time, there are even some people in the martial arts field, still shirtless, constantly exercising their muscles and bones.
"Hey, isn't this Zhao Tongling? Why did you think of coming to the martial arts field? Let me see, you even brought a knife."
"Why, have you forgotten that our Zhao family is the most powerful in swordsmanship? Are you practicing swordsmanship here to entertain us with acrobatics?"
As soon as Li Yan appeared, he attracted the attention of some people. After all, there were only a few people who came to the martial arts field when Zhao Tongling came.
One of them was also a direct descendant of the Zhao family, and he didn't think much of Zhao Tongling, so he directly mocked him.
The Zhao family collaterals around him were still very respectful and laughed.
Others were either interested in watching or frowning in disgust.
Li Yan, who was mocked, looked at the mocker and said, "You are just looking for death."
With a "swish", Li Yan disappeared from the spot and from the sight of others.
When he appeared in front of everyone again, a bright red color appeared on the blade of the long sword in his hand.
And the heads of those who mocked Li Yan fell to the ground as the snowflakes fell on them.
"Ah, someone is killed."
Some Zhao family members who had never seen blood started screaming after seeing this scene.
And those Zhao family members who had blood on their hands did not howl together, but surrounded Li Yan tacitly.
"Who are you? Zhao Tongling definitely does not have the strength like you."
A direct descendant of the Zhao family in the body-building realm looked at Li Yan vigilantly and defensively, with the long sword in his hand pointed at Li Yan, ready to stab at any time.
Others also made similar movements.
Li Yan glanced at the person who spoke indifferently, without any intention of answering, but raised the long sword instead.
"Looking for death."
They all understood the principle of preemptive strike, so at the moment when Li Yan made his move, the dozen or so Zhao family members surrounding him waved their weapons at the same time, most of which were long swords.
However, after a breath, there was another pool of hot blood and more than a dozen heads on the ground.
Li Yan did not even use martial arts, but used the most basic moves.
In this way, relying on the crushing brought by the realm, this group of people who did not even have the blood exchange realm could not even see Li Yan's moves clearly, and their bodies were separated.
More than a dozen people died in a row. Seeing this, the remaining people did not dare to go forward to besiege Li Yan, but fled everywhere, shouting loudly while running away: "Come on, someone is killing into the mansion."
Li Yan ignored those who ran away, because this was exactly what he wanted.
When there was no one left in the martial arts training ground, Li Yan came to a clean place and quietly waited for the arrival of prey.
After a while, Li Yan's body was covered with a layer of white snowflakes.
At this time, a series of wind-breaking sounds came, obviously the masters of the Zhao family were using their skills to hurry on.
"Run'er, my Run'er, Zhao Tongling, you little bastard, give me your life."
The first person to arrive was a woman. It was obvious that she heard the news that her son was killed, so she came so anxiously.
As soon as she arrived, she saw her son's head half buried in the snow, and she was immediately furious. She rushed towards Li Yan without thinking.
"Madam, be careful."
His husband was still somewhat rational and hurriedly reminded him.
But it was obviously too late.
As soon as he finished speaking, his wife's head fell to the ground.
"Ah, ah, you are looking for death."
In a short period of time, his son and wife died one after another, which made him completely crazy.
His whole body of Qi and blood exploded instantly, and he rushed towards Li Yan like a cannonball, with the long sword in his hand making a sharp whistling sound, and the tip of the sword even turned red in the friction with the air.
Unfortunately, the speed was enough, but there was a lack of change.
Li Yan took two steps in a row and dodged his life-depleting blow.
After that, he cut off the man's head when he passed by him.
So far, before the reinforcements arrived, Li Yan had already achieved two kills.