He was beaten up again, bullied again. The people whom he had tortured before, had now flipped the table and came to torture him once again.
But the Qi Guan Rui now, was still different from the Qi Guan Rui from the past.
When he’d endured it in the past, it was in order to have fewer injuries. For him to endure it now, it was for him to rise again in the future.
Qi Guan Rui swore that once he’d climbed back up, he wouldn’t have any feelings for those people from the same family. For anyone who wasn’t obedient towards him, they would all be destroyed by him!
But with a destroyed Wu Ti and all of the power lost, in such a weakened state, no matter how much he endured, it was still painful.
And within such pains, Qi Guan Rui’s heart became even colder and hardened. At the same time, his emotions also dulled.
He thought, “Ah, how stupid was I in the past? Between humans, isn’t there only the relationship of ruling and being ruled over? What’s a family? What’s a family member? I only need to control the ones that are useful, and kill all the ones that are useless.”
In the beginning, such thought only appeared suddenly when he was in his most painful state. But as time went on, followed by his growing despair at his own Wu Ti, it became the belief that supported Qi Guan Rui to live on.
When he was beaten unconscious again, dazed, he remembered the past from long ago.
He remembered Zi Ju Shu Bai.
The one and the only person who had been good to him, the only person who hadn’t given him a cold shoulder when, back then, he’d thought he was an insect.
In that instant, Qi Guan Rui had almost wanted to immediately rush into the cave within the mountain, and dig up that Yupei.
He also realized during that time, he thought he had forgotten that period of time from when he was younger, but thinking back on it now, those scenes played in front of his eyes, clearer than ever.
He wanted to take the Yupei and find Zi Ju Shu Bai, he wanted to know if that person had also lied to him.
But Qi Guan Rui hadn’t moved.
With his power then, there was no way he could’ve protected that Yupei.
What was delivered to Qi Guan Rui later on, were the countless shames.
The head of the Luo Family, who used to keep on trying to make him marry his daughter, no longer even spared him a single glance.
Qi Guan Rui had actually already mentally prepared inside…the engagement between him and Luo Susu, it probably wasn’t gonna last long.
Luo Susu was a beauty, he used to think that marrying a beauty wouldn’t have been too bad. But now, he thought beauties were like snakes and scorpions, one should never throw any bits of feeling into it.
He’d started to rejoice about it, if he hadn’t seen Luo Susu’s real side clearly then, to marry her and to be betrayed after he’d developed feelings for her, then he would most likely not only have lost a great amount of face.
But one time, when he was being beaten up, Qi Guan Rui suddenly heard that Luo Susu had put off their engagement, because she was going marry the city governor of Tian Du Cheng.
…Wasn’t that Zi Ju Shu Bai?
He used to think that even though Zi Ju Shu Bai had hidden his surname from him, the fact that he revealed his identity before leaving, also showed that he valued him.
But why did he have to marry the woman who shamed him?!
That was betrayal.
Zi Ju Shu Bai, he was actually going betray him too!
The strong reluctance and sorrow caused Qi Guan Rui’s eyes to redden.
That night, he stumbled as he ran to the back of the mountain. He was gonna find the Yupei immediately, and go and interrogate Zi Ju Shu Bai!
After all, at that stage, there was no hope for his Wu Ti to recover…at the most, it would just be him getting beaten to death by the Zi Ju Shu Bai, who’d turned on him.
And to the him now, what did that matter?
The Qi Guan Rui who was covered in wounds, hadn’t realized there were people following behind him.
The people who had bullied him in the day still hadn’t let him go, even at that time, they followed him to the cave, saw him digging up the Yupei and were also going to steal his Yupei!
Qi Guan Rui struggled with all his might and escaped as he protected the Yupei.
As he ran and ran, in anger and hatred, he went ahead and jumped off a cliff.
He’d rather die than let those people take advantage of him!
With this one jump, it became the second turning point in his life.
A great power boiled within Qi Guan Rui’s blood, and it seemed like it was almost going to devour him whole. A violent murderous intent filled his brain in an instant and made him suffer from unbearable pain, but at the same time, it made him have a strange and satisfying feeling.
That was the feeling of being alive!
It was also…the feeling of power!
The surging power immediately flowed through Qi Guan Rui’s whole body, his whole body boiled. A small, far off voice rung in his head and awakened the power within his hidden bloodline! Infinite information surged into his brain and in just an instant, he understood his real origin!
The blood of the Sky Devouring Python!
Those people who had looked down on his mother would never know his mother was a descendant of the Sky Devouring Python!
Qi Guan Rui had all the characteristics that the historical python needed, and so he successfully inherited the power.
In that instant, he wasn’t the locked-down dragon anymore. But a dragon who hid deep below the surface and was ready to burst into the sky at any time!
So, he wasn’t as impatient anymore.
The Sky Devouring Python had nothing it wouldn’t devour, even the remaining Dao Tian Wu Ti within Qi Guan Rui’s body was devoured by the greedy blood. But his body still felt very empty inside.
He needed…more power.
For Qi Guan Rui, who had the natural abilities, wasn’t afraid of anyone then, he transformed into a great python and shot out from the bottom of the cliff.
Those people, who had originally wanted to catch Qi Guan Rui, were bitten in the neck by his snake fangs, he sucked in the food and hid it deep within his blood, to awaken the Wu Ti’s blood. All of their cultivated powers were also all sucked away by him.
Quickly, Qi Guan Rui had recovered over half of his power.
Carelessly, he threw the few corpses down the cliffs and while it was still night, Qi Guan Rui quickly returned back to the family house.
The first thing he was gonna do, was to devour his aunt’s blood.
The descendant of the Sky Devouring Python, he alone was enough.
The devouring went very successfully, Qi Guan Rui’s martial skill was far above his aunt’s, his blood had already awakened, while his aunt’s was still hidden. At the same time, he had already received the inheritance, and so already, the other line of blood couldn’t be accepted.
That was right, there was only one Sky Devouring Python in the world, and because it was an out of the ordinary species in both heaven and earth; if another one were to appear, then the two could only fight each other to death and leave the winner to stand.
Qi Guan Rui won the match without a single drop of sweat.
At the same time, his blood became even thicker because of it.
The Qi Guan Rui, who was now already stronger than before, smiled satisfyingly as he broke through High Leveled High-Rank Wu Shi and became a Wu Jun.
Then, he created a great thunderstorm within the family once again.
Except this time, Qi Guan Rui’s heart had already turned as cold as steel, he had also learned to…fake himself.
When he’d been stepped over for the second time, the faces and mouths of those people who’d stepped all over him said he was “cocky, violent, condescending” they said that he “oppressed his own clan and family, abused the ones who were weaker than him.” So, all those people wanted to get their revenge on him.
So, this time, Qi Guan Rui became kind, peaceful, making people think he was approachable. He also showed compassion for the weak, as for the others who had once abused him and were now frightened of him, he seemed to have forgotten all about that past. He never brought up his hate for them, and just acted as if there was never any bad blood between them.
Quickly, those oldies within the family…including Qi Guan’s Rui’s father, who was the head of the family; under the circumstance of believing he’d eaten some kind of unknown, rare medicine that revived all his power and made his skills advance greatly, they all believed his attitude.
They all thought that arrogant brat had finally understood that, without the family’s support, he was nothing. After tasting the bitter end, now he finally knew to have respect for the family.
Slowly, in just a short time, they had all lowered their guards.
Qi Guan Rui was very happy, he realized that those people were all very foolish.
…They actually believed that he would forget about those shames they’d bought upon him?
No, those foolish people only deserved to be controlled, they had no rights to keep their conscious.
Qi Guan Rui trained day and night, nonstop, with his intelligence, he quickly grabbed hold of some of the little tricks from the inheritance.
Like the snake gu, when first summoned, it was a venomous snake as the base. It grew through devouring a martial artist’s blood and meat, then later; as both sides swallowed each other, it would be completed. After it was completely formed, then it could control any person that he wanted to control…as long as they were beneath his power level, then there would be no problems.
For the very first snake gu, Qi Guan Rui hadn’t wanted others to notice, so he’d used his aunt’s body.
After all, it was a body that had once contained the Sky Devouring Python’s blood, so after it was devoured by the venomous snake, it had actually turned the venomous snake into the king of the snake gus. Also becoming the first royal underling of Qi Guan Rui’s.
Later, people within the Qi Guan Family slowly disappeared.
Starting from the lowest, the servants that no one paid attention to, disappearing one by one.
As for the snake gu within Qi Guan Rui’s grasp, there were more and more.
Finally, as some of the most normal people within the family disappeared without a trace left behind, people started to notice that something wasn’t right.
Qi Guan Rui smiled then, because he knew, it was his time to do it.
So, during a family meeting, Qi Guan Rui; who was a highly skilled martial artist and an important individual directly related to the head of the family, sat in the last spot. He watched as those old craps argued with each other, fighting for authority. Then looked at his father, the head of the family who seemed to be an unpredictable person, trying to balance out all the different characters; it all seemed just like a stage play.
Then, at least ten black shadows suddenly leaped out and quickly flew around the room.
How pitiful, the strongest person of this family’s main bloodline was Qi Guan Rui in the first place. For those below him, the highest was only a High-Rank Wu Shi.
As for the more powerful people hired by the family, none of them had the qualification to attend this kind of family meeting.
This was really too convenient.
Not even fifteen minutes later, everyone’s expression changed.
Dumb, stiff, no signs of liveliness at all.
They had all turned into Qi Guan Rui’s puppets.
From then on, the Qi Guan Family became Qi Guan Rui’s world alone.
Later on, he used the same tactic, and the whole Town of the Blue Goats became Qi Guan Rui’s world alone.
As long as he had control over the main bloodline of the family, then that meant he had control over the whole Wu Zhen’s lives.
In here, there wasn’t anyone who dared to do things against his wishes.
Qi Guan Rui smiled very joyfully, he sat on the parent’s seat of the wedding ceremony and looked down at the pair of to-be-married people.
His blood related elder brother, the eldest son of the main family bloodline, the one who carried most people’s hope of being the heir, with talents way below his and only a Beginner High-Rank Wu Shi, Qi Guan Yao. And the one who viewed herself too highly, the daughter of the Luo Family, his ex-fiancée, Luo Susu.
One was handsome and tall, and the other was as beautiful as a flower, with the same dumb look on their faces, it made him feel that they…suited each other extremely well.
That was it, how joyful.
The Luo Susu, who was unable to marry the city governor of Tian Du Cheng, still chose to have a marriage with the Qi Guan Family.
The marriage wasn’t called off, and the partner for her wedding was switched to Qi Guan Yao.
Qi Guan Rui felt like he was being a really good person then, after all, he had fulfilled their wishes.