Chapter 17: Liu Yi's Memories
Liu Yi cleared the bloody phlegm in his throat and began to reminisce.
Our Liu family used to be from the Tianyang Empire in the Wind Chasing Continent, and it was also one of the few big families in the capital of the Tianyang Empire.
Twenty-five years ago, the family made a living by selling spirit crystals from alien beasts, and almost monopolized all the spirit crystal transactions in the empire.
My father is also a very simple person, his strength is good, and as long as a person with good character comes up with the corresponding payment, he will agree to their request, because the people of the three empires on the mainland often fight openly and secretly, and as a person from the same empire, they can increase their strength and give them more means of self-preservation, which can be regarded as contributing to the empire.
Those who come to seek the spirit crystal will leave satisfied after getting what they want, and the business is getting bigger and bigger, and the father's reputation is very good.
Later, after the emperor of the royal family knew that the family kept a lot of spirit crystals, he sent someone to ask his father for a spirit crystal of a fifth-order earth-attribute beast, saying that he wanted to find a suitable instrument spirit for his weapon.
At that time, the ruler of the empire was still very young, and he was even more obedient to the opinions of the emperor, and the emperor could be said to be calling for wind and rain in the Tianyang Empire.
Forced by the fact that he was the emperor's teacher, his father couldn't help it, although a fifth-order spirit crystal was important to the family, he still gave the spirit crystal to that person.
Who knew that later, the emperor stepped up and kept squeezing the assets in the family, asking for spirit crystals three times and twice a year, and never bringing any compensation.
The first two times, my father could bear it, but the third time he actually asked for a sixth-order spirit crystal, the sixth-order beast is a powerhouse in the human spirit sect realm, although there are sixth-order spirit crystals in the family, but there are only two, and my father refused his request.
After a few days, nothing happened, we all thought that the matter was over, and life went on, and the family still sold spirit crystals, but some high-level spirit crystals needed to pass through my father's hands.
That night, the family was about to hold its biennial annual meeting, and almost everyone in the family gathered together, but a group of uninvited guests quietly arrived.
The leader is none other than the emperor, who holds a wanted notice in his hand, and the reason is that it is treason, and someone has found out that we have sold a human spirit crystal to the enemy country, and it is also a sixth-order spirit crystal!
The family's control over the spirit crystal is still relatively strict, and this kind of thing will naturally not happen, and at that moment, the father knew that it was a trumped-up charge given to the family by Emperor Shi'an.
But what chilled my father was that many of the people in the empire he had helped had chosen to stand behind the emperor.
The reason given by the emperor to the ruler was that the family was growing in power and would one day threaten the royal family, and the ruler listened to him and issued a paper extermination order.
Although the people who have received favors do not know the situation, one of the conditions given by the emperor is that those who take the head of their father's neck, in addition to being crowned an official and knighted, will be rewarded with an additional sixth-order spirit crystal!
For people in the Spirit Sect Realm, if the sixth-order spirit crystal can strengthen their weapons, the power will skyrocket exponentially, and the strength will also have a qualitative leap.
Under such tempting conditions, those who had received favors, although they knew that their father was not like that, chose to believe in the emperor and joined the crusade against the Liu family.
At that time, the power of our Liu family was not weak, in addition to my father being a ninth-order spirit sect, there were five elders who were also in the spirit sect realm, but the empire had developed for so many years, and there were several spirit sects in the worship, and there was even a spirit emperor.
At that time, I was only twenty years old, and my strength was only in the Qingyuan Realm, so I couldn't help the family. My father took advantage of the chaos to send me out and hid in the home of one of his close friends.
At that time, I was completely discouraged, and except for a few people who had been away all the year round, I was the only one who escaped.
They moved all the valuable exercises and spirit crystals in their family back to the royal family, but because their father had been killed by the Spirit Emperor, the sixth-order spirit crystals promised to the outside world had no follow-up, and they did not fall into the hands of those who had received their father's favor.
After examining the corpses of his people one by one, he did not find me, so he sent people to search the whole city, because only a few hours had passed, and the city was heavily guarded, so he knew that I had not left the city.
I hid for two days in my father's friend's house, and he always reassured me not to think too much about it, and sent me out of the city when the news had passed.
At that time, I was extremely angry that those so-called friends of my father had done such a terrible thing. I wanted to fight with them at that time, but my father's friends stopped me, and after calming down, I decided to leave here first, and then improve my strength.
He was the only friend my father could trust, so I believed in him very much, but I was afraid that it would trouble them, so on the third night I fled out of the city by night.
I still underestimate the vigilance of the emperor, and there is a strong man in the Underworld Realm guarding the entrance of the city.
Despite the uneasiness in my heart, I walked to the door, hoping that he would not recognize me. Unfortunately, that powerhouse of the Netherworld Realm knows my appearance very well, and he has my portrait in his hand.
Even though I was dressed in disguise, he found out. With the strength of my Qingyuan Realm, I was naturally not his opponent, and I was quickly captured.
When my father's friends found out that I was missing, they found the entrance of the city, and just in time to see that I had been arrested, the guard had signaled to the royal family, and that a strong man would soon come to answer me.
When time was short, his father's friend rushed up, and at that time, his strength was only one step away from the Spirit Sect, and he was at the peak of the Spirit Yuan Realm.
After quickly eliminating the powerhouse of the Netherworld, I was asked to flee the city quickly, I wanted him to leave with me, but he said that he still had his wife and children at home, and he couldn't leave them behind.
After driving me away, he remained in the city forever on charges of remnants. Even his wife's infant daughter and a seven-year-old son died tragically at their hands!
Although I escaped, the Emperor Master still sent many people to hunt me down, and he had already decided that I was the only one who knew the whereabouts of the sixth-order spirit crystal. I ran for three months, and for three whole months, I didn't sleep a single soundly.
When I ran into a remote valley that day, I was about to rest for a while, but just after three hours of rest, the pursuers arrived.
Just when I was in despair, a cloud of black gas kept dangling around me, and a strange sound appeared in my head, which I remember very clearly, like the sound of broken porcelain, sharp and hoarse.
The voice said to me that he could save me, but he needed me to give my soul. The anger in my heart has always driven me, telling me to kill them, improve my strength in secret, and then take revenge, so I didn't think much about it, after planting that magic seed in my body, my strength suddenly skyrocketed to the Lingyuan realm, although the breath was erratic, but it was enough to deal with those pursuers.
After killing those people, the voice appeared in my head again, telling me that after devouring their souls and flesh, trying the feeling of increasing strength, I still chose to believe this voice in order to protect myself with stronger strength.
Although I vaguely felt afterwards that the origin of that thing seemed to be a demon, but after I absorbed the flesh and blood of those people, the demon seed continued to feed back its power to me.
That's when I realized that only this quick source of power could help me improve my strength so that I could take revenge later. The anger in my heart grew and began to affect my mind, and I vowed that one day I would make those people pay.
Later, I fled to this Yang City, and the old city lord saw that I was pitiful and took me in, and later the royal family also found here, but because of the strength of the old city lord, they didn't dare to do it.
During my ten years in Yangcheng, I kept going out to find those who had received my father's favor, and after killing them, I would devour their souls and flesh, and my strength was also improving rapidly.
After some time, I married a woman and gave birth to Yan'er. The year Yan'er was born, the old city lord died, and I had already reached the Lingyuan realm at that time.
After taking over the position of the city lord, I always remembered my hatred for the Tianyang Empire, so I began to develop my own power, and after finding those remnants of the clan, I began to strengthen the Liu family.
At that time, Xiao Chi had the largest chamber of commerce in Yangcheng, and watching the chamber of commerce make a lot of money day by day, I also coveted it at that time.
After a few years, I found that the magic seed was a little out of control, and in order to improve my strength, I would sometimes kill some innocent people by any means, but by the time I found out, it was too late.
Until ten days ago, after killing the Second Elder of the Liujin Chamber of Commerce, my magic power reached the Third Order Spirit Emperor. After devouring it, I completely lost the ability to control my body and became a puppet.
If it weren't for you, this Yang City would have been destroyed in my hands today. My daughter will too...
I knew I was doing something wrong, but I had to avenge my family blood feud. Luckily, you stopped me when I was about to get out of control at the end.
I finally have a reluctant request for me... Say goodbye to my daughter, okay?