Bloodline Secret

Seeing Li Huai appear, Wang Ping narrowed his eyes.

At the start of this simulation, his plan had been to go to the Li Family and investigate the situation. He wanted to find out why the Li Family could so easily locate Chi Village's people, and why they did not kill the children.

You were extremely angry and found a way to meet Li Huai. However, you did not act rashly, nor did you consider meeting the Chi Clan Members. If you did, you would surely expose yourself and place yourself in grave danger.

You suppressed the fury in your heart and continued cultivating and studying alchemy. You believed that as long as your strength increased and you investigated further, the truth would eventually come to light.

In the blink of an eye, three years passed. During those three years, you cultivated bitterly, raising your cultivation to the Innate Realm Third Level. Your alchemy also improved greatly, and you were able to refine Second Grade Pills. At the same time, your swordsmanship attained a much higher level.

Your talent made the Li Family value you even more. The Li Family Head betrothed his granddaughter, Li Yan, to you, wishing to bind you completely to the Li Family's war chariot. In order to uncover the truth, you chose to marry Li Yan.

After you and Li Yan married, the Li Family Head valued you even more. At last, he handed the Li Family's treasured Third Grade Pill Formula over to you for study. At the same time, he permitted you to cultivate the Li Family's Profound Grade Ultimate Martial Art, the Spirit Refining Sword Canon.

On the surface, you appeared kind-looking, greeted them with a smile, and seemed immensely grateful. Inwardly, you sneered, swearing that once you were strong enough, you would use the Li Family's martial arts to slaughter every last member of the Li Family.

On May 1st, Great Xia Calendar 490, with the aid of abundant Spirit Stones and pills, your cultivation successfully rose to the Innate Realm Sixth Level. At the same time, under the effects of the Green Talent, Sword Dao Prodigy, after years of cultivation, you successfully trained the Profound Grade Ultimate Martial Art, the Spirit Refining Sword Canon, to perfection. Through it, you even comprehended the Sword Intent Embryo. Though the Sword Intent Embryo remained a distant cry from true Sword Intent, you had found a clear direction and already surpassed countless swordsmen.

At the same time, your alchemy improved at an astonishing rate, and you could easily refine Third Grade Pills.

You had never revealed your true strength. However, relying on your alchemy, you caused the Li Family's overall strength to soar. Their medicine shops grew ever larger, and the Li Family's influence expanded with startling momentum.

Thanks to your presence, the Li Family Head's position became even more secure. Everyone treated him with respect, and he was overjoyed, often boasting about having found such an excellent grandson-in-law and making the Li Family elders green with envy. Your status within the Li Family was like the sun at high noon; even Li Huai treated you with courtesy.

In Great Xia Calendar 495, chaos began to emerge across Great Xia, and uprisings broke out. Over those five years, your cultivation improved further, successfully breaking through to the Innate Realm Seventh Level. In terms of sword cultivation, your Sword Intent Embryo grew more condensed, only a single step away from comprehending true Sword Intent. However, your alchemy made even greater progress. Your pill-refining skill finally advanced again, reaching the level of a Fourth Grade Alchemist, allowing you to refine Fourth Grade Pills.

A Fourth Grade Alchemist stood completely above ordinary Spirit Origin Realm experts. Throughout all of Great Xia, they held an exalted status. Even hegemonic sects such as the Sword Spirit Sect and the Great Xia Royal Family had to treat them with utmost courtesy and dared not show the slightest neglect.

Your existence allowed the Li Family's power to continue growing rapidly, leaving other great factions envious. Because of this, the Li Family Head spent every day repeating the words, "My grandson-in-law has Pill King Potential," leaving people speechless yet envious.

On August 1st, Great Xia Calendar 495, perhaps believing the time was ripe and that you had become an indispensable part of the Li Family, the Li Family Head and the Supreme Elders brought you into the Li Family's underground chamber.

Then, you witnessed a scene that filled you with rage. Those children from back then had all grown up. The Li Family had used pills to erase their memories and kept them penned like livestock for breeding.

"Li Family!" Wang Ping clenched his fists as he read the simulation's contents, consumed by fury.

Several seconds later, Wang Ping took a deep breath. After calming his anger, he continued reading.

He knew that the time to unravel the mystery had arrived.

As Wang Ping continued watching, more words emerged upon the screen.

Then, with the Li Family Head's explanation, you finally learned the truth. After the Li Family had wiped out the Chi Family, they had accidentally discovered a secret the Chi Family had concealed. It was their bloodline.

The Chi Clan Members were Spirit Clan, a Spirit Clan that had gone into hiding. Their bloodline could be used in alchemy. So long as enough Chi Family bloodline could be gathered and a Fourth Grade Alchemist found, Blood Spirit Pills could be refined. Blood Spirit Pills offered the hope of granting their consumers the Spirit Clan's Special Constitution. They also had astonishing effects in helping one break through to the Transcendent Realm.

After learning this secret, the Li Family deeply regretted exterminating the Chi Clan Members. If they had kept the Chi Clan Members penned up and bred them instead, they might have obtained vast quantities of Blood Spirit Pills.

However, after conducting population investigations, the Li Family discovered that the Chi Clan Members had not been completely wiped out. A small number had escaped. This delighted them beyond measure, and they secretly searched for the Chi Clan Members' whereabouts. Yet eighty years passed without any news.

In the end, the Li Family even contacted the Sword Spirit Sect, hoping to use the Sword Spirit Sect's power to find the Chi Clan Members. This was because the current Sword Spirit Sect Leader's wife was a member of the Li Family—she was the Supreme Elder's daughter and the Li Family Head's younger sister.

Ultimately, even the Sword Spirit Sect failed to find the slightest trace of the Chi Family, which infuriated them.

Listening to the Li Family's explanation, you felt chilled to the bone and furious. Yet you controlled your emotions and feigned curiosity as you asked how the Li Family had found them.

Li Huai answered your question. They had accidentally obtained a secret art called the Blood Demon Tracking Art. As long as they possessed someone's blood, they could track that person's location. However, this secret art could only be used to track the Spirit Clan, and it had severe limitations. It could only trace locations where large numbers of similar bloodlines gathered and could not track individuals. Using the bloodline of the dead Chi Clan Members and the Blood Demon Tracking Art, they found Chi Village.

After hearing their explanation and listening to them say things like, "The people of Chi Village really were cunning, hiding deep within Blackwind Forest," you were furious and terrified. At last, you understood why Li Huai could always find the Chi Clan Members, and why they killed only the adults while leaving the children alive.

The children could be kept and bred, and the excuse of adoption could conceal the matter from other factions' eyes and ears. If they brought back too many adults, they would certainly draw suspicion. The Li Family likely wished to monopolize the bloodline and had no intention of letting the Sword Spirit Sect learn this secret!