Chapter 123: Saber Cuts Down Return True (5)

He had not expected the plan to be wrecked by this little brat before it even started.

That left him very unhappy. He decided that when he had a chance he would properly knock this brat around, best of all get a handle on him. Word was his mother was Golden Mountain’s number one beauty, even more outstanding than Su Mengyun.

Li Chonghe was thinking of finding a chance to handle and knock Wang Yue. He did not know Wang Yue had already put him on a must-kill list.

Even without the previous life’s grudge, just wanting to take advantage of Ling Xueyan was enough. Mother-in-law was his alone!

"Wang Yue, is it? Representing the Wang Family at an occasion like this at such a young age, you can be called accomplished young. Don’t call me senior this and senior that later. Uncle Li is fine." Li Chonghe laughed it off. One reason was to get close so he could find a chance to handle him.

On the other hand he really did not want people calling him senior, or he would not keep his looks in the twenties. If Wang Yue’s elders had not been here he might even have dared make Wang Yue call him big brother.

Hearing him say that, Su Mengyun and the others all secretly curled their lips and roasted inside: old cucumber painted green!

When a martial artist’s body grew to its peak around thirty, aging stopped. That stop happened naturally and cost nothing extra. Letting the body keep growing also cost nothing.

Only keeping a younger state cost true qi, and the younger you kept it, the greater the cost.

For a Return True expert that cost was not much, but year after year it would still affect cultivation speed a little.

So almost no one did it. Only a peacock like Li Chonghe.

They sat and talked a while. Seeing there was no advantage to take after Wang Yue had wrecked his play, Li Chonghe left soon, but before leaving he gave them his contact, hoping they would help watch for Li Yuankui’s whereabouts.

He was not that worried about Li Yuankui. The boy was already a Nascent Soul expert with rich adventuring experience and was unlikely to run into trouble. He had come to Golden Mountain to play, and to throw his weight around in a small place like this. His strength did not count as that high in Tianhai’s martial world. In Golden Mountain he was invincible.

The trip was still under the name of looking for his son, though. If he did not even put on a show, and later an enemy in the Tianhai Adventurers Association used it against him, that would be hard to say.

From this short chat Wang Yue also figured out Li Chonghe’s true cultivation.

Third layer of Return True!

The very peak of early Return True, one step from mid Return True.

It was not that Wang Yue was especially good at fishing for words. Li Chonghe had no intention of hiding anything. Asked, he said it straight.

It made sense. Across the whole Golden Mountain region, the strongest on the surface was only peak Nascent Soul. Whether some hidden expert was buried in the dark, no one could say.

So forget third-layer Return True. Even someone just entering Return True would be invincible in Golden Mountain. There was no need to hide cultivation. Besides, Li Chonghe’s cultivation was no secret in Tianhai. Anyone who asked around a little would know.

Third-layer Return True. Honestly Wang Yue was not sure he could handle it now. This was still the first Return True expert he had met.

If the gap from Nascent Soul to Return True was about the same as from Earth Threshold to Nascent Soul, there would be no problem. At peak Earth Threshold he had been confident he could beat mid Nascent Soul, even late.

From Nascent Soul to Return True was a huge hurdle, though. What happened to strength after crossing it, he could not say.

After thinking it over again and again he still decided to take the risk.

Li Chonghe could not be left alive. Tomorrow he would definitely go to the Adventurers Association to find little aunt, and with his sky-high lechery he would surely try to take advantage of her.

Wang Yue already fully treated little aunt as his private treasure. Forget another man taking advantage. Even a pervert like Li Chonghe touching her small hand would be more than he could stand.

So for little aunt not to be taken advantage of, he would go all out!

Thinking of that, he was a bit puzzled. With the Li father and son’s nature, in the previous life little aunt, her foundation wounded so she could not advance an inch, would certainly have been forced by them. Either submit, or both sides smash to death.

With her nature she would never submit, and if both sides smashed she could not possibly match the Li father and son.

Yet three years later little aunt still had nothing happen to her. That was very strange.

He thought there must be something he did not know, something even little aunt herself did not know, or she would never have hidden it from him.

Finding it out was actually simple. If he did not step in and let Li Chonghe go force little aunt, he could follow the vine and find some truth.

He would absolutely not do that. He believed that whatever the secret, there would be a day it came out. If little aunt were taken advantage of, that could never be made up.

He admitted his possessiveness was a bit too strong, already at a perverted level, but he did not plan to fix it.

Of course he would not lock up the women he liked and keep them from seeing people. If they were willing, little aunt could still be president of the Adventurers Association, mother-in-law could still be a business tycoon. Doing those things did not have to mean dealing with men.

After saying goodbye to eldest aunt, mother-in-law, and the two from Gusu, he first sent Li Menglan back to the Wang Family Estate, then took Cold Moon and slipped out alone.

Li Menglan had still been wondering whether she could relive that night with Young Master tonight. Hearing he had other business, she pressed down the hunger in her heart. To her, Young Master was Heaven. If he gave her this, of course it was best. Even if he never gave it again, she would follow him a lifetime and never leave.

Leaving the Wang Family Estate, he first went to Golden Mountain City’s black market.

Places like the black market existed in almost every city in the human regions. They sold things that were not allowed to be bought and sold, or that could not see the light. Any martial artist could hide their appearance and go in to buy, sell, or barter. No one would ask where things came from.

He did not buy anything precious or rare. He only bought an anonymous communicator.

Tonight he planned to call Li Chonghe out and kill him. Using his own communicator would probably bring unnecessary trouble.

After buying it he specifically went outside Golden Mountain’s southern suburbs, found a place good for an ambush, used the new anonymous communicator to dial Li Chonghe’s number, and sent a voice call.

It was almost midnight. The communicator rang a good while before it was picked up. An impatient voice came through. "Who is it?"

"Elder Li, is it? Want to know where your son Li Yuankui is?" Wang Yue used true qi to change his voice into a middle-aged man’s.

"You know?" Li Chonghe asked in a low voice.

"Of course. If you want to see him again, come to Golden Mountain’s southern suburbs. After you leave the city gate, follow the main road south thirty li. We’ll talk when we meet."

"Why should I believe you?"

"Believe it or not. If you don’t come, wait to collect his corpse." Wang Yue hung up.

In a hotel inside Golden Mountain City, Li Chonghe’s brows locked. This sudden call was at least more than half likely someone toying with him.

Even if there was only a one-in-ten chance it was real, he had to go look.

As an old lecher who had walked the jianghu for decades he did not lack women, and he did not lack children, but Li Yuankui was his only legitimate son, with the highest cultivation talent, so he was the son he valued most.

More important, Li Yuankui’s mother, Li Chonghe’s original wife, had a status that was not simple, and their feelings were not good. Without Li Yuankui as the tie they might have divorced long ago.

So whether from fatherly love or for his own future, he would not allow Li Yuankui the slightest accident.

After a brief hesitation he set out.

He had come to Golden Mountain alone, and skill made him bold. He did not notify anyone and just went on the road by himself.

The place Wang Yue chose was a dense wood. When Li Chonghe arrived and saw the setting, he could not help frowning.

He still believed no one in the Golden Mountain region could hurt him, so he shouted, "Come out. I’m here!"

Chii!

The answer he got was a sharp tearing of air. A ribbon of saber light flared behind him and chopped straight for the top of his head.