Chapter 265

"Hiss, that guy, he really strikes hard!"

In Gainie's mansion, Jing Ke was lying on the couch, and Gainie was bandaging his wounds on the side. As a person of the martial arts world, he knew that injuries were unavoidable, so many medicinal herbs for healing and stopping bleeding were items kept in Gainie's mansion, so there was no need to rush out to find them.

Gainie listened to Jing Ke's complaints and said nothing.

After all, at the very beginning, Su Xuan had said that once his sword was drawn, it must see blood, but Jing Ke insisted on challenging Su Xuan, so getting injured in the end could only be said to be his own doing.

After complaining about Su Xuan's ruthless strike, Jing Ke added, "However, he is really amazing!"

Thinking of that sword strike earlier, Su Xuan merely raised his hand and then lowered it, and the long sword flew out, piercing the air, sweeping toward him with an irresistible momentum. In an instant, he evolved various sword stances with the Shuihan sword and even performed his strongest sword move, "Five-Step Absolute Kill." Unfortunately, he still could not block that sword strike that flew through the air. That sword strike ultimately left a hideous wound on his body.

Jing Ke knew that this was because Su Xuan had deliberately held back. If he had wanted to, that sword could have pierced his vital points at any time and taken his life.

He sincerely praised that sword strike of Su Xuan's, and in his mind, the style of that sword strike flying out echoed.

This made him dazed for a long time.

Afterward, he felt some disappointment. There were two reasons for the disappointment: first, he was destined to be unable to learn such a sword, nor could he borrow anything from it, as it was considered a flying sword technique; second, the two pots of fine wine he bought seemed to be undrinkable today.

Having wine today but not being able to get drunk today was truly a painful thing for a drunkard.

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After giving Jing Ke a lesson with a casual sword strike,

Su Xuan closed the door to guests. Inside the room, the lights extinguished as his thoughts flickered, and the faint power of heaven and earth constantly surged toward his body, then was constantly tempered under the effect of the Nine Breaths Qi-Regulating Dao technique and absorbed by his body.

The heaven and earth spiritual energy of this world was actually not very dense; otherwise, it would not be possible to call it a martial arts world. Of course, it barely reached the threshold for immortal cultivation, but just by absorbing the energy of heaven and earth to cultivate, the progress would be a bit slow.

Therefore, in the past, when Su Xuan cultivated, besides absorbing the energy of heaven and earth, he would also combine it with many precious medicinal herbs, using food to absorb the essence of the herbs, and combining the two to cultivate.

This method was not inefficient, and the result was that Su Xuan reached the pinnacle of the world in just a few years. But if one combined it with the fact that this world was a martial arts world, even if he stood at the top, the height was just like that, and it was still boring.

The Thirty-Six Methods of Tiangang and the Seventy-Two Arts of Earthly Transformations, especially the former, were unimaginable great supernatural powers even in the mythological world. Since Su Xuan had obtained them by chance, his ambition was, of course, not limited to standing at the top of the martial arts world. If possible, he wanted to achieve longevity and long-lasting vision, and become an immortal ancestor.

Therefore, after obtaining the Nine Breaths Qi-Regulating technique, he was not in a hurry to improve his realm. If he wanted to, by using the previous method of cultivation, as long as the medicinal herbs were sufficient, he could improve to an unimaginable realm in a short time. But in this way, the foundation would be very unstable. Over the past year, although his strength had improved slightly, compared to the past, the progress was not great. The reason was that he had been tempering his magic power and rebuilding his foundation.

One night passed.

In the early morning, Su Xuan slowly opened his eyes.

He had cultivated for the whole night, but he did not feel any fatigue at all. For him now, not eating, drinking, or sleeping for a long time actually had no effect. Sometimes, the reason he would eat, drink, and sleep was more to enjoy the process. After all, the life of an ordinary person was much longer than the life of a "transcendent." Perhaps one day in the future, Su Xuan would give up being a person, but for now, he did not want to give up everything about being an ordinary person. Love, hate, enmity, and the seven emotions and six desires—he did not want to abandon these things for the time being.

Because if these things were abandoned, it would be extremely difficult to find them again.

"I'll go out for a walk!"

Explaining the Dao to Ying Zheng was a matter for every evening. During the day, Su Xuan did not really want to cultivate. Since he came out of seclusion, he had not gone out for a stroll for a long time. After nearly a year, Xianyang had undergone great changes, and for him, it was becoming a bit unfamiliar.

This was not strange. Every time the Qin state destroyed a state, it would move the powerful families and nobles of that state to the Xianyang area. Fortunately, Xianyang City had no city walls, and there was a lot of open space near the city, so it could constantly expand outward. Since the destruction of the Han state, Xianyang City had expanded I don't know how many times. Later, after destroying the Zhao and Yan states, Xianyang underwent two more expansions.

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To prevent the powerful families and nobles of those destroyed states from causing trouble, although Xianyang had been expanded and rebuilt many times, these people always lived in the core area of the city. They were always under the eyes of the Qin state, and whatever they wanted to do was under the surveillance of the Qin state.

This was actually a suggestion Su Xuan had made at the beginning.

Move the powerful families and nobles from all over to Xianyang.

Although the number of powerful families and nobles from all over was not large compared to the ordinary people, they had operated in their respective states for many years and had extremely vast influence. If such people were not under strict surveillance, if they raised their arms and shouted, many people would respond and carry out rebellion.

At the same time, it was also because they had significant influence, and many people had great prestige among the people of their respective states. To rule the people of those states and win their hearts, one could not kill these people at will.

If these people died, it would only cause the people of those destroyed states to resist.

The residence where Su Xuan and Gainie lived was close to this area where the powerful families of various states lived. Those who lived nearby could be said to be either rich or noble.

But one thing was certain: no matter what status they had in the past, and how arrogant and domineering they were in their respective states, after coming to the Qin state, they must abide by the laws of the Qin state. If they violated the laws of the Qin state, Ying Zheng would have a legitimate reason to execute them.

— Author's Notes —

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