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Chapter 274 [Family Heirloom Scrolls]

Chapter 268 [Family Heirloom Scrolls]

After Chen Yan pounded on the door several times, Shen Shiqi caught up and walked to his side, saying with a wry smile, "You... are you just going to pound on the door like this?"

"Otherwise what?" Chen Yan grinned. "We're here to fight and kill, not to be guests and have a meal."

Shen Shiqi frowned: "Wouldn't that be a bit too reckless? We could assess the situation first..."

Before he could finish speaking, a creaking sound was heard, and a small side door next to the main gate was opened.

Chen Yan smiled.

Sigh! I guess I'm just uncultured.

In ancient times, the main gate of wealthy families was generally not opened. It was only opened on important days or when important guests arrived.

There is usually a small side door next to the main gate for people to enter and exit on weekdays.

The way wealthy families in TV dramas leave their doors wide open all the time—that's just for filming purposes.

After the small door opened, a thin old man walked out.

He wore a long robe, a black headscarf, and had a beard.

When facing Chen Yan, his expression was cold and stiff, and he said in a cold tone, "Where did this savage come from, daring to make a fuss in front of the Li residence!"

Huh?
Are you filming a period drama?
Chen Yan squinted at the old man for a couple of seconds, then nodded.

Putting everything else aside, if this were really a film shoot, the costumes, makeup, and props would be really well done!
"Is this the Li residence?" Chen Yan laughed.

The old man said coldly, "Since you know this is the Li residence, why don't you get out of here! It's not a place for a savage like you..."

He seemed about to continue his reprimand, but he didn't notice that Chen Yan had already strode towards him and was right in front of him in just a few steps!
Suddenly, Chen Yan raised his hand and took out a sword from his storage jade pendant!
It's a real sword, a genuine sword!
Moreover, it was a sword he casually bought when he was in the realm of cultivators!
Although it has never been spiritualized, never been refined, cannot be trained with flying sword magic, and has never given birth to anything like a sword spirit...

But this is a genuine killing weapon!
With a snap!
A sharp blade flashed down!
Before the old man could finish speaking, a head had already split off his neck!
With a few gurgling sounds, the head rolled to the ground!

Shen Shiqi was startled and cried out in surprise.

Chen Yan coldly stared at the head that had fallen at his feet.

Hmm, there's no blood on the ground!

The old man, still standing in the same spot, suddenly raised his arms and waved them back and forth.

The old man's head, now lying on the ground, revealed an angry expression and continued to speak, shouting, "You treacherous dog! How dare you cut off my head!! Give me back my head! Give me back my head!!"

Chen Yan smiled, bent down, grabbed the old man's head, and lifted it up.

The old man grinned, snarling angrily, "You're dead! Causing trouble at the Li residence! The master will tear you to pieces and render your bones into oil!!"

Chen Yan held the head up close for a closer look, then nodded: "I see."

He then kicked the old man, sending him flying. The old man's body bounced off the wall and landed on the ground.

His chest was about to deflate!
Upon closer inspection, it vanished in a bang, turning into a wisp of green smoke!

On the ground, only a yellowed talisman remained.

The old man's head in Chen Yan's hand roared even more furiously: "You dog! Give me back my body! Give me back my body!! That's the body my master made for me! Give it back to me..."

Chen Yan slapped the old man across the face, and half of his face immediately shrunk.

Then Chen Yan walked up and kicked it again, causing the side door to collapse. He then grabbed his head with one hand and rushed inside!

"Robbery! Robbery!! The heroes of Liangshan are here! We're not here for anything else but to ransack your home!"

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Inside the mansion, Chen Yan walked in through a side door. Next to it was a small room. Chen Yan peeked inside and found it empty.

Looking at the front courtyard of this mansion, the terrain was quite spacious. It was a large courtyard, surrounded by flowers and plants, with blue bricks paving the ground in the center. In front of it was a main hall, with side corridors and wing rooms on both sides.

As soon as he stepped inside, Chen Yan raised his voice and shouted loudly.

Then they saw several men dressed as servants rush out of the side room next door, dragging wooden sticks in their hands and shouting loudly.

"Thief!!"

"Catch the thief!!"

"Thieves have committed violence and trespassed on the property!"

"Fight them out! Fight them out!!"

"The thief killed the fourth steward!"

Chen Yan stared intently at these people, a strange smile spreading across his face: "What a bunch of beasts!"

After saying that, he tossed the head he was holding into the air and kicked it away, sending it crashing into the arms of a servant who was rushing towards him.

The servant was hit and flew backward, his chest and abdomen shrunken. Before he even hit the ground, he turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared.

Chen Yan rushed forward and met a servant who was raising a stick to strike. With one sword stroke, the servant and the stick were cut in half!
After half of its body landed on the ground, it turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared again with a bang!

"Killing people! Killing people!"

The servants beneath him were so frightened that they turned and ran away. Some even dropped the sticks they were holding and knelt down on the ground with a thud, trembling and pleading, "Grandpa, please don't kill me!!"

Chen Yan's expression was cold and stern, but he still stepped forward and stabbed through with his sword!
Bang! Bang! As more wisps of green smoke rose, Chen Yan, alone with his sword, slaughtered his way through the front yard. Soon, four or five servants were killed by him and disappeared into the green smoke. There was no one left in the yard. The rest of them ran inside, screaming and shouting.

Shen Shiqi followed behind Chen Yan, staring in disbelief as Chen Yan rushed in and wreaked havoc, and couldn't help but grin.

"Fellow Daoist...you, you, your style of doing things..."

"What's wrong? We've already said we're here to fight and kill, so why waste words and time? Just kill them all, and things will naturally calm down once we've wiped them all out."

Shen Shiqi frowned and said, "Actually, we could leave one alive and question him properly..."

“A bunch of beasts, why ask them?” Chen Yan shook his head.

"brute?"

Chen Yan laughed and looked at Shen Shiqi: "Although you have secrets, your body is too weak. You can't enter the gate or attain the Dao. You know a lot of theory, but you can't use a single spell in practice."

"I've seen through the true nature of these servants and stewards! They've simply captured the souls of some beasts, stuffed them into talismans, and used magic to transform them into human form."

As he spoke, Chen Yan walked over and lifted up the head of the old man he had killed at the beginning.

This guy's head is still intact!

"This one in charge is the sturdiest, but a beast is a beast. He's just been tamed by the master here and forced to mimic human speech. He doesn't have any intelligence; he just mechanically does things according to the tamed pattern."

Sure enough, the old man's head that had been lifted was still shouting, "Give me back my body! Give me back my body! No noise allowed in front of the Li residence!"

Chen Yan sighed, threw his head to the ground, and stomped on it until it was flat!
With a bang, it turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared.

Chen Yan looked at Shen Shiqi and pointed to his eyes: "My eyes have supernatural powers and can see through the true forms of these evil spirits."

It's somewhat like Sun Wukong's fiery eyes—of course, Chen Yan knows he's far inferior to them.

His eyes seemed to have become somewhat strange ever since he returned from the last realm.

At home, you can clearly see the semi-transparent Lu Sisi!
Now, looking at these servants here, you can see right through them!
In Chen Yan's eyes, the people standing in front of him were not servants or stewards, but paper figures!
And within it, there were also faint, translucent souls attached to it.

For example, that little old man was a gray, canine-shaped spirit.

As for the servants, they were a mix of snakes and rats!

And the strangeness of those eyes...

Chen Yan had actually figured it out before.

It was something that Senior Brother Wang fed him!

After taking it, I felt that my eyes had been transformed in some way, but I never knew it would have such a magical effect!
That's right. How could the things given by the sweeping monk in a dignified sect of saints be simple?
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Faced with Chen Yan's explanation, Shen Shiqi stared into Chen Yan's eyes for a moment, nodded, and said calmly without any expression of curiosity, "I see. Your eyes must have acquired the divine ability of 'discerning illusion'."

"Break the delusion?"

"Yes, it's a kind of supernatural power, but it's an acquired supernatural power. Some demons are born with similar innate supernatural powers."

"Like Sun Wukong's fire..."

"You're overthinking it. It's nowhere near as good as that." Shen Shiqi shook his head, but frowned as he looked at Chen Yan: "Have you eaten anything special? Logically speaking, no one in this world should be able to cultivate [Breaking Illusion]."

Does taking cod liver oil since childhood count?

Chen Yan was just spouting nonsense.

Shen Shiqi rolled her eyes: "Fine, you have your secrets, I won't pry."

The two chatted idly, but their feet didn't stop, and they walked towards the main hall.

There was a commotion in the front yard earlier, and a servant ran in and closed the door to the main hall. Now the two of them walked to the front of the main hall, only to see that the door was closed and the figure inside seemed to be trembling.

Chen Yan sighed: "How could the owner of this place have hired a bunch of rats as servants?"

He had just finished speaking when he suddenly heard a clear voice coming from the main hall.

"What the guest said is quite right. As for the so-called cowardly rats, I'm afraid I'm making a fool of myself."

As soon as he finished speaking, the tightly closed door of the main hall was suddenly pushed open, and a tall figure walked out.

This man was not short, dressed in a white long robe and wearing a scholar's square scarf on his head, and he looked quite dignified.

As he walked out, he was holding a book in one hand, a faint sneer on his face.

After he came out, he saw Chen Yan and Shen Shiqi standing at the bottom of the steps. He was slightly taken aback at first, then shook his head and said, "I've already told you that you are cowardly rats who have disgraced the Li family. Why don't you come out and be punished?"

At his words, the servants who were hiding in the main hall trembled and came out cautiously, kneeling down beside the scholar.

The scholar glanced coldly at the crowd, shaking his head with a hint of dissatisfaction in his voice: "How did I teach you the rules before!"
"A beast is a beast after all; no matter how hard it tries to imitate a human, it'll never be quite right. It panics and runs away at the slightest thing; all my effort has been wasted!"

After saying this, the scholar picked up the scroll in his hand and tapped it casually.

Bang bang bang, wisps of green smoke rose up, and the servants screamed and disappeared in the smoke.

Chen Yan caught a glimpse of the scroll in the scholar's hand, which had clearly emitted a faint golden light, and his eyes lit up.

It's a treasure!
Sure enough, the scholar smiled slightly at the two of them, and then even bowed.

"Originally, we should have treated our distinguished guests well, but these beasts, after transforming into humans, only have human form but not human heart. They have offended our distinguished guests with their neglect. Please forgive us."

As he spoke, he looked at the damaged side gate in the yard, and the two flower beds that had been overturned in the earlier collision.

The scholar sighed, raised the scroll in his hand and waved it, reciting, "There are houses of gold in books!"

With a hum, a golden light spread out in an arc.

The collapsed side gate and the overturned flower bed were restored to their original state in an instant, as if a video had been played in reverse.

Chen Yan stared at the scroll in the scholar's hand and laughed, "This treasure you have is quite useful."

"I am the steward of the Li family. My master bestowed this family heirloom upon me and appointed me to manage the affairs of the household," the scholar said with a smile to the two men. "May I ask what brings you two distinguished guests to my Li residence?"

Wow, you're quite cultured after all.

Just look at this title!
Slaughterhouse!

Okay, it basically means butler, just a more elegant and traditional way of saying it.

Well, actually it's not quite the same. Before the Qin and Han dynasties, if the master of the house was a feudal lord, the steward did indeed do similar housekeeping work, but it was actually a formal official position with a formal establishment.

Chen Yan squinted at the scholar-like fellow in front of him, finding him increasingly strange. A hint of doubt flashed in his eyes as he slowly said, "We've come to see the master of the Li family and discuss a business deal with him."

The scholar's expression shifted, and he frowned, saying, "Honored guest, you jest!"

"How to say?"

The scholar's expression suddenly turned strange.

"Both of you are living people... but my master has passed away."

"What kind of business deal is it between the living and the dead?"

Chen Yan was stunned: "Dead?"

"Dead," the scholar said calmly. "My master has passed away."

"Then what about the Li family..."

"It has fallen into ruin." The scholar's tone remained unchanged, but his voice was frank and sincere: "Before the master passed away, he entrusted me with the care of the family. Now, I am in charge of the Li family. If you two honored guests have any important matters, you can tell me."

Chen Yan felt a sense of absurdity, and then suddenly burst into laughter!
The scholar frowned as he looked at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan laughed for a while, then looked at the scholar in front of him with an increasingly strange expression.

because……

He could tell from the scholar's speech and mannerisms...

He was actually very sincere and didn't lie!

Chen Yan's eyes darted around. Shen Shiqi was about to speak when Chen Yan pulled him back.

Then Chen Yan sighed: "Such a large Li family can't just have you as the head of the household, can it? Isn't there a real master? Is there no one left in the Li family?"

The scholar was taken aback, his face seemingly stiffening for a moment, before he stammered, "Master, before you passed away, you entrusted your family and home to me, I..."

"So, the Li family line has ended? And you, a mere steward, have become the sole person in charge here?"

"I……"

"Would you like to gather a bunch of snakes, rats, cats, and dogs, transform them into human form, and have them play house with you here?"

“I… I always need someone to manage my household… front yard and back house, sweeping and cleaning, guarding the gate and yard… I can’t hire anyone outside, I, I can only…” The scholar’s ​​tone became more and more strained.

"So, you, a grown man, live with a bunch of snakes, rats, cats, and dogs?" Chen Yan's tone suddenly turned sharp!

He stared at the scholar, then suddenly said coldly, word by word, "Are you really, a living person?"

Upon hearing this, the scholar froze instantly!
He was completely frozen in place, as if his computer had crashed, his face expressionless, and even his eyes seemed to have stopped moving.

After a few seconds, his body began to twist little by little, like a rusty machine.

"I...I am, I am alive, I..."

Suddenly, the scholar raised his head, and the polite expression on his face disappeared, replaced by a twisted and ferocious face!

"What nonsense are you talking about?! I, I'm clearly a living person!! A living person!!"

As he spoke, he suddenly opened his mouth, and his originally snow-white teeth had turned into menacing fangs, and his fair and handsome face turned bluish-black!
Seeing him spread his fingers, the tips of which were iron black! Chen Yan immediately pulled Shen Shiqi back quickly, while the Golden Light Technique on his body was activated again.

hum!
Black energy surged rapidly from the scholar's body, and he spread his fingers and grabbed at Chen Yan!
A hissing sound came from his blackened fingertips scraping against the golden light, producing a piercing noise.

The scholar, covered in black aura, with a blue face and fangs, roared at Chen Yan: "Why did you expose me! Why did you remind me?! Why did you remind me that I'm already a dead man?!"

Chen Yan held Shen Shiqi in one arm and took a few steps back, but under the golden light, the swirling black energy could not harm him in the slightest.

Chen Yan sneered at the fierce ghost with green seedlings and fangs in front of him, but his words were like sharp needles!

"The polite steward just now was an illusion, but is this blue-faced, fanged demon the real one?"
"You're nothing but a lowly ghost! Not even a proper ghost among the demons and monsters! Just a wisp of remnant soul clinging to life, yet you dare to act like a fierce demon in front of me!"

Chen Yan sneered, raised his hand, and pointed his thumb at the other person: "Go!"

A finger sword shot out, instantly piercing through the steward's body!
With one sword piercing two holes, the steward screamed in agony as countless streams of black energy leaked out from the holes in his body!
Chen Yan shook his head: "A paltry skill, just playing tricks."

With a flick of his wrist, a burning Six Yang Righteous Qi Talisman shot out. The intense Six Yang Qi, upon encountering the black Qi, sizzled as if cold water had been poured into a frying pan.

When the black energy encountered the six yang energies, it immediately burst into crimson flames!

In the blink of an eye, the steward's entire body was engulfed in flames!

"A mere accomplice is nothing but an obsession. With my six yang energies burning, you will only turn into a raging inferno of karma." Chen Yan said coldly, "The intensity of your raging inferno shows how much karma you accumulated in your previous life! You were not a good person even when you were alive!"

As the raging red flames burned, the steward roared and screamed madly, but in the firelight, his body gradually shrank until he disappeared.

With a snap, the book he had been holding fell to the ground.

Chen Yan's heart stirred, but he did not move forward immediately. He simply stared at the scroll on the ground.

at last!

A soft sigh suddenly echoed in the air.

"It's just a lingering obsession from his past life. Why do you insist on waking him up? Wouldn't it be better to let him continue living his dream in this house?"

The voice was old, yet tinged with a sense of melancholy.

Chen Yan sneered, "So you understand obsession too! Since you understand obsession so well and can see things clearly, why did you go and kill the Sun family?"

The voice seemed to pause for a moment, followed by a sigh.

"Understanding is one thing, but being able to let go of it is another matter entirely."

"Have you two distinguished guests come here to seek justice for the Sun family?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan's eyes finally lit up.

The sound was clearly coming from the scroll on the ground!
(End of this chapter)