Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 275 [Wronged or Not?]

Chapter 269 [Wronged or Not?]

Suddenly, the pages of the book began to turn on their own without any wind, making a rustling sound. Chen Yan pulled Shen Shiqi behind him, but he himself took the initiative to walk forward.

Golden light gradually appeared on the pages of the book, and the voice said coldly, "Since it's about the Sun family, then come and see them."

Chen Yan laughed heartily, and seeing the golden light shimmering on the pages of the book, he turned to Shen Shiqi and shouted, "Wait for me here!"

After saying that, Chen Yan jumped in!
In a flash, his body was engulfed in golden light and disappeared.

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After Chen Yan jumped into the golden light, he opened his eyes and found himself standing outside the Li family mansion again!
But now, the Li residence in front of them was in a state of ruin.

The once magnificent mansion gate was now crooked and dilapidated, with many of the copper nails missing. The plaque that had been lying across it had fallen to the ground, covered in dust.

The walls on both sides of the courtyard are mottled and many parts have even collapsed. Only the foundations are still standing, and weeds grow rampant at the base of the walls.

This place would be perfect for filming a horror movie.

Chen Yan thought for a moment, reached out and touched the sword, then strode forward, kicked open the collapsed gate, stepped into the front yard, and shouted, "Li family, I'm here!"

I'm here... I'm here... I'm here... I'm here...

The front yard was deserted, not a soul in sight, only Chen Yan's shouts echoing through the air.

The corridors on both sides have collapsed, and in some places even the pillars have collapsed and the beams have fallen to the ground.

The once flat front yard now has many paving stones that have been turned over, and grass is stubbornly growing out of the cracks.

Chen Yan squinted and looked around before walking toward the main hall.

The door to the main hall was open, but once inside, the furniture was mostly in ruins, dilapidated, especially the two chairs at the front, which were rotten.

Chen Yan looked up and saw that there was a large hole in the ceiling of the main hall, and broken tiles had fallen down and shattered on the ground.

Chen Yan smiled and shouted, "Didn't you ask me to come in and meet you? Why are you afraid to show your face now that I'm here?"

As he spoke, Chen Yan raised his sword, went around to the back of the main hall, and cleaved a screen in two with a single stroke!

With a crash, Chen Yan shattered the screen, sending wood chips flying as he hurtled forward.

Rushing out of the back door of the main hall, Chen Yan arrived at the middle courtyard, only to find it even more dilapidated than the front courtyard!

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In the central courtyard, the row of side rooms on both sides were still relatively intact, but two fallen trees lay across the courtyard, now just two pieces of rotten wood.

There were patches of black stains on the ground. Chen Yan walked closer, squatted down, and examined them carefully before his expression changed slightly.
This isn't a black stain, it's blood!
It was blood spilled on the ground, and over time it turned black!
He stood up, looked around, and his expression changed.

The blackened bloodstains on the ground suggested that a brutal massacre had taken place here.

I don't know how many people have died there!
Chen Yan felt a force gradually interfering with him, as if he could "see" scenes unfolding in the courtyard...

Men, women, and children were dragged out from behind various rooms and doors by groups of people wielding sharp knives.

They dragged them into the yard and slaughtered them like pigs and dogs, one by one, killing them on the spot!
Screams and piercing wails, pleas before death, or curses born of despair...

Distorted faces, faces that had turned gray and blue after death...

Chen Yan seemed to "see" a beautiful young woman being dragged to a short distance in front of him by a strongman dressed in black, who then stabbed her in the back with a knife, the tip of which emerged from the woman's chest.

Blood gushed from the woman's mouth, her eyes filled with pain and resentment. She collapsed to the ground, and gradually the light in her eyes faded...

The video was playing in a loop. Chen Yan let out a soft breath, but slowly stepped forward and continued walking inside.

He walked to the side and went through a moon gate into the backyard.

As he walked, scenes of slaughter appeared along his path. Chen Yan's expression remained indifferent; he merely narrowed his eyes. His steps grew lighter, carefully avoiding the illusions of the corpses lying on the ground, as if afraid of stepping on them…

After passing through the moon gate and entering the inner courtyard, the scene became even more bloody and cruel!
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Chen Yan walked to the backyard, past a cluster of pavilions and towers, and saw a fierce-looking strongman inside one of the towers. He wielded a knife and slashed down a woman who looked like a maid, then threw a torch into the tower.

A burly man hoisted the disheveled woman onto his back, laughing wildly, and carried her into the house on the other side.

A strongman carrying a bulging bundle, with a triumphant laugh on his face, walked out of one house and rushed into another.

There were small, thin children who were grabbed by the legs by strongmen and then slammed to the ground!
As they walked past a lotus pond, Chen Yan suddenly turned his head.

At the end of a water bridge on the lotus pond is a pavilion. A richly dressed woman is being forced into the pavilion by two thugs wielding sharp blades.

The woman, her hair disheveled, held a dagger to her neck, her face filled with despair, and retreated step by step...

Finally, under the relentless pressure of the two thugs with sinister smiles, the woman plunged the dagger into her chest and then leaped into the lotus pond.

After she fell into the water, the two strongmen stood on the pavilion, looked at her, shook their heads with a hint of regret, and then left reluctantly.

The woman who had fallen into the water convulsed and struggled, blood gushing from the spot in her chest where the dagger had pierced her, spreading out on the surface of the water in patches of red...

As the woman lay dying, her eyes strained to look to the left.

Chen Yan looked over and saw a small, thin body submerged in the water under a lotus leaf to the woman's left. A tiny head was hidden under the lotus leaf, and the eyes were filled with fear and hatred!
As the woman lay dying, her eyes remained fixed on the little figure beneath the lotus leaf.

The figure under the lotus leaf trembled, clenching his teeth, staring at the woman as if he wanted to reach out.

The woman finally let out a breath, shook her head vigorously at the little figure, and then sank herself into the water...

Chen Yan was shocked!
He clearly saw the deep sorrow and hatred on the face of the little figure hiding under the lotus leaves!

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Chen Yan continued walking inside.

Further back in the backyard, a figure staggered into a building.

Chen Yan walked up and saw that the main hall was filled with memorial tablets!

This must be the location of the Li family's ancestral hall.

The figure who had fled earlier stumbled and fell onto the table, spitting blood as he reached out and hugged a memorial tablet, his face filled with sorrow and despair.

This person was dressed in fine clothes, clearly a person of considerable status in the Li family.

Outside the door, several thugs rushed in and, right there in the ancestral hall, hacked the nobleman of the Li family to death with a flurry of blows. They even stabbed him in the end, nailing his body hard to the altar!
When the nobleman of the Li family died, his body knocked down several memorial archways, blood gushed from his mouth, and his body trembled slightly!

Before leaving, the strongman picked up a knife and hacked around in the Li family ancestral hall, clearing out the place where the memorial tablets were placed. The tablets were all chopped into pieces.

Even more powerful men walked in laughing wildly and splashed a bucket of blood onto the memorial tablet!
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Chen Yan stood there silently, watching these illusions. After a while, he slowly let out a breath.

Turning around, Chen Yan walked out of the ancestral hall and returned to the lotus pond.

He stood on the shore, watching the small figure hiding under the lotus leaves, still trembling.

Finally, Chen Yan slowly said, "Alright, I've finished reading... We can end here now."

Beneath the lotus leaves, the small figure, whose eyes were initially filled with hatred, gradually turned their gaze towards Chen Yan.

In the midst of an illusion, he seemed to be the only one who truly existed.

He stared at Chen Yan and said coldly, "Did you really see it clearly?"

"I see it clearly." Chen Yan nodded.

The child smiled sadly, and suddenly his body turned into a wisp of black smoke and disappeared from the lotus pond.

Immediately, all the illusions within the Li residence vanished into black mist.

The people of the Li family running around wailing, the corpses scattered on the ground, the thugs grinning maliciously...

All the illusions turned into towering black smoke, and then vanished in an instant.

When Chen Yan looked at the Li residence again, it was already a scene of ruins!
Collapsed houses, charred remains, lotus ponds dried up to just mud...

An aged voice coldly questioned in the air.

"May I ask you, sir, if your family suffered such a devastating massacre, what would you do?"

Chen Yan took a deep breath, his tone serious, and slowly said, "If my family were to encounter such a thing, I would search the heavens and the earth to the underworld to kill my entire family of enemies!"

The aged voice said resentfully, "Very well! Since you say so, then you must agree with my methods of revenge!"

Chen Yan frowned and remained silent.

The aged voice continued coldly, "Back then, the Sun and Li families fought each other for many years, spanning several generations!"

When I was eight years old, the Sun family used vicious means to bribe a group of bandits to break into my Li family and wipe them out!
That day, out of the 146 members of my Li family, only I survived!
My father was hacked to death in the ancestral hall, his body torn apart by a flurry of blows! The ancestral tablet in the ancestral hall was splattered with dog's blood!

My mother, unwilling to be humiliated, committed suicide in front of me and threw herself into the pond!
The wet nurse who raised me from childhood had her head cut off by a tyrant!
My two older brothers were hacked to death in the backyard study!

My younger brother, who was only two years old, was lifted up by a strongman and slammed to the ground until he died!
All of this happened right before my eyes!
That day, I was lucky enough to jump into the water and hide under the lotus leaves, thus escaping disaster!
From that day on, I haven't had a good night's sleep. Whenever I close my eyes, the faces of my parents, brothers, and all 146 members of my family flash before my eyes like a revolving lantern! I've woken up countless times from nightmares, in which I hear my parents and brothers questioning me, asking why I haven't avenged the Li family yet!
I dreamt that my younger brother was covered in blood, his small body mangled from being thrown around, and he lay at my feet, crying and saying... he was in pain!

Chen Yan remained silent, not uttering a single word.

The voice in the air gradually rose in pitch: "But fortunately, my Li family still has its foundation!"

My Li family possesses a book on cultivation! It contains cultivation techniques!
However, for generations, no one in my Li family has had the talent for cultivation, and with the sparse primordial energy in this world, it is even more impossible to enter the Dao.

That precious book had been neglected and hidden away at home.

Until my entire family was wiped out, I was the only one who managed to escape!

That day, after the thugs killed my whole family, they also set fire to my house!

But heaven has eyes. After the thugs set the fire and left, a torrential downpour immediately fell and extinguished the fire!

I crawled out of the fire and ruins, and spent the whole night howling in agony amidst the wreckage of my home!
I knew the Sun family was powerful, so I dared not wander the streets and could only hide in the deep mountains and forests.

I fled into the mountains and hid in the villages of the mountain people. During the day, I would go to the cemetery of the mountain people and steal some offerings.

At night, they would hide in the woodshed or livestock yard and sleep with the animals!
I lived like that for several months, in a daze.

One day, I suddenly remembered a few words my father had once said to me. I ran to the Li family's ancestral graves and dug up the precious book from my Li family in a secluded place!

After that day, I devoted myself to cultivating my mind and hid in the ancestral cemetery, living in the tomb!

I live a life that is neither human nor ghost!

The technique was difficult, and I went through many hardships. I suffered several qi deviations and even damaged my meridians.

But I'm not afraid of becoming a cripple; I'm only afraid of being powerless to take revenge!

Chen Yan put his hands behind his back and sighed softly: "Your martial art must be difficult to master, right?"

The voice was silent for a while, and then spoke again with a complicated tone.

“It’s very difficult! I’m actually not talented enough, but in order to cultivate this technique, I…” The old voice gave a bitter laugh, its tone as mournful as an owl’s: “I later realized that this technique is not the righteous path, but rather quite insidious.”

My talent is average, and my physical attributes don't match either.

The cultivation method requires that one must possess a body of Yin bones to practice it.

I……

So I hid in the mountains, dug up the graves of the mountain people, and dug out suitable skeletons... to perform rituals on them one by one!

Using the records in the archery manual, it took me many years to collect the necessary small half of the yin bone from the remains in the grave.

I failed many times during that period, and each failure was excruciating! I don't even remember how many times I almost died!

But in the end, I still managed to master it!

Perhaps it's my Li family's destiny that has allowed me to master this cultivation technique, which generations of practitioners had failed to achieve! I have become the only cultivator in the Li family in three hundred years to attain enlightenment!

Chen Yan's tone gradually turned cold: "Digging up the ancestral graves of the mountain people, stealing the remains of other people's ancestors, all to gather the Yin Bones you need for your cultivation..."

The voice said coldly, "So what?! I'm capable of anything for revenge!"

"And then? How long did it take you to gather all the Yin bones, enter the path of cultivation, and attain enlightenment?"

"I……"

The voice sighed and slowly said, "Unfortunately, the cultivation method is too difficult. It took me many years to gather that set of Yin bones. By the time I finally attained enlightenment, I was already over forty years old..."

"And then what? Why didn't you go directly to their door to take revenge?"

The voice carried a sense of helplessness: "Times have changed... The outside world is changing rapidly. Swords and other cold weapons are no longer useful, and guns and cannons have gradually appeared."

The Sun family has developed very well, wielding considerable power and possessing guards. They maintain a force of over a hundred guns, making them a major force in the area.

Although I have attained enlightenment, I am merely a cultivator of the first realm with only a little bit of skill. It might be enough to deal with ordinary people, but against guns and cannons, I am nothing but a lump of flesh and blood.

I know I only have one life, and only one chance for revenge. I'm not afraid to die, but I refuse to squander my only chance for revenge..."

"So, after you attained enlightenment, you didn't immediately seek revenge, but instead continued your cultivation, intending to reach a high level before taking your revenge?"

"Yes!"

Chen Yan sneered, "So, how old are you now?"

“From the time my family was wiped out until this year, it has been more than 150 years.”

Chen Yan: "..."

His expression was strange, and he couldn't help but ask, "Why did it take 150 years to take revenge?"

"I..." the voice said fiercely, "My cultivation technique has flaws. This world is lacking in vital energy, and I am also lacking in talent. I was lucky enough to use external forces and steal other people's bones to barely gather a set of Yin bones for cultivation."

Because of this, it was extremely difficult for me to break through to higher realms as I continued to cultivate!

Each time I break through a realm, I need to use a large amount of corpse energy to nourish my body and refine it, making my physical body strong enough to resist the backlash from breaking through...

Each time the corpse energy refines my physical body, I have to find an ancient tomb, hide inside, and after refining it, I need to sleep for a long time to allow the corpse energy to fully transform my physical body...

When I broke through from the first realm to the second realm, I slept for a full hundred years!

Chen Yan sneered: "And then, after waking up, you've reached the second realm, but I guess... a realm forcibly broken through with such external force is probably based on a weak foundation and the realm is unstable."

So after you wake up, you'll have to continue your arduous cultivation, which will take many more years to stabilize your realm. Hmm, you'll also need to learn some ruthless methods and spells to use when you seek revenge...

So, you didn't actually take revenge until 150 years after the tragedy in your family?

This time, before the voice in the air could answer, Chen Yan coldly mocked, word by word:
"Since that's the case, then go and get your revenge, you damn fool!"

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One hundred and fifty years!

Even the Sun family leaders who wiped out the Li family back then were only in their twenties or thirties!
They'll all be dead after living for another fifty years or so at most!
Moreover, it's been over 150 years!

There's a saying, "Eight generations of ancestors."

Generally speaking, twenty years is considered a generation.

More than 150 years, that's a genuine span of at least eight generations!
In other words, the group that wiped out the Li family back then is the "ancestor of the Sun family for eight generations"!

What the hell did Dean Shen and his wife do to deserve this?
They were born under the red flag! From childhood to adulthood, they experienced hardship—when the Dragon Kingdom was founded, it carried out large-scale class elimination!

The idea of ​​distributing land and punishing local tyrants would have wiped out all the wealthy families of the old society long ago.

Although the Sun family had great power in ancient times, after the founding of the Dragon Kingdom, they were quickly brought back to their original state.

By the time it came to Dean Shen's husband's generation, they all came from humble backgrounds. It was only after the economy opened up that they took advantage of the opportunity to do business and gradually became wealthy.

The relationship with the Sun family from 150 years ago has not benefited them in any way from their ancestors' legacy.

It is said that the premise of "misfortune should not extend to family members" is that "benefit should not extend to family members."

But Dean Shen's husband didn't benefit from the influence of his ancestors for eight generations!

That's all.

You grew up normally, wore a red scarf in elementary school, and your parents were ordinary wage earners.

You were bullied when you were a child, you failed your exams, and your parents had to humble themselves in front of the teachers.

Now that you're grown up, be an honest and upright person, don't break the law or violate the rules. Your parents will use their life savings to buy you a house and arrange for you to get married and have children.

You have some ability, and taking advantage of the favorable economic climate, you gathered your resources to start a business and grew it into a large enterprise.

During this time, you were also charitable and did a lot of good deeds, never forgetting your hometown.

Business is tough, and you've faced many difficulties, but you haven't complained or blamed others. Through your hard work and perseverance, you've finally built a decent business.

Suddenly one day, a person jumped out and said... More than 150 years ago, during the Qing Dynasty, your ancestors for eight generations killed his family.

So, he's going to stab you to death.

I'm asking you, are you convinced?!

Are you wronged?

(End of this chapter)