So right now, he had only one road he could take.
That was to charge forward without looking back—either seize back the Xuanyuan Family, or...
There was no second ending. He could only take back the Xuanyuan Family. He didn't want to die yet.
He'd finally made it to today; how could he just die and be done with it?
Liu Ergou made his decision on the spot.
It was just that he definitely couldn't rush up like a headless fly.
If he did that, he'd just be going to his death.
He had to make some preparations first.
Looking at the wound on his stomach, Liu Ergou didn't really care about it.
That dagger had only sliced his belly; the cut wasn't very deep.
So it didn't affect Liu Ergou.
Thinking of this, Liu Ergou casually bandaged the wound, then took out the piece of Jade Stone Swallow Li had left him, and began today's cultivation.
Right now Liu Ergou couldn't be bothered about time. He only wanted to break through to Innate as fast as possible.
Time flashed by and a whole night passed. Finally, just as the sun was rising, Liu Ergou suddenly snapped his eyes open.
A gleam of sharp light flashed through his eyes.
Then Liu Ergou slowly stood up.
When he straightened, a powerful aura suddenly burst out from his whole body.
The moment this powerful aura appeared, time itself seemed to pause for a second.
But very soon that aura faded away.
And at the same time, Liu Ergou let out a long breath.
"Innate... huh!"
As he spoke, Liu Ergou lightly thrust his palm forward.
With that palm, a huge palm print suddenly appeared on the wall in front of him.
Right after, a stream of cursing came from the other side of the wall.
"Who the hell is it, got a screw loose or what? Smashing walls early in the damn morning! If you wanna die, go do it somewhere else!"
Hearing the cursing, Liu Ergou didn't react much.
He really was in the wrong on this one.
Then Liu Ergou went downstairs and paid for the damage to the room.
Right after that, he was about to leave.
However, just as Liu Ergou stepped out of the hotel, a kid came running up to him.
The kid was holding a letter in his hand.
He handed the letter to Liu Ergou.
"Big bro, someone over there told me to give you this letter, said if I give it to you, you'll buy me the newest model phone!"
Hearing that, Liu Ergou blinked.
Huh?
What the hell?
But Liu Ergou didn't say anything right away. He silently took the envelope from the kid and opened it for a look.
There were only two lines on the letter.
The first line:
"Main branch remnant, Li San and his disciple are in our hands. If you don't want them to die, come to our Xuanyuan Family, half a month from now."
The second line:
"Left by Xuanyuan Family."
Staring at the letter, for a moment Liu Ergou didn't know what to say.
The Xuanyuan Family's collateral branch had actually just declared war on him outright. Were they really this impatient?
But why had they set the time for half a month later?
Logically speaking, if they wanted to kill him, the sooner the better, right? They'd wish they could do it right now.
But half a month later—that was way too long.
And Li San... yeah, that should be Swallow Li's real name.
Didn't expect his real name to sound that lame. But if he remembered right, there was someone else also called Li San'er.
While Liu Ergou was thinking over all this...
The kid in front of him suddenly tugged on his clothes.
"Big bro, you said you'd buy me the newest phone! You can't lie to a kid!"
Right now Liu Ergou couldn't be bothered with this kid.
He took a few thousand yuan from his wallet and shoved it all into the kid's hands.
"No phone. Only this money. If you don't want it, I'll take it back."
The kid had been about to cry and fuss, but after hearing that, he bolted without another word.
And Liu Ergou let out a long sigh, then, carrying those Jade and Jadeite pieces the old Daoist had left him, headed straight for the Yuan Family.
The Xuanyuan Family's collateral branch had given him half a month. He couldn't waste that time; he had to cultivate properly.
As for why he was going to the Yuan Family—
That was to prevent the Xuanyuan collateral branch from going back on their word and making a move on him.
If he hid in the Yuan Family, they wouldn't dare act recklessly.
At least not openly; in the dark... who knew.
Very soon, Liu Ergou arrived at Shen Manxuan's place.
He didn't mention his business with the Xuanyuan Family at all, only told Shen Manxuan that he needed time to go into seclusion for cultivation; he was about to break through to Postnatal and hoped she could help.
As soon as Shen Manxuan heard that, how could she refuse?
She immediately had Liu Ergou placed in a secret chamber, told him to focus on cultivating there, and that someone would bring him food.
After hearing that, Liu Ergou said nothing more. He didn't even ask the Yuan Family for any cultivation resources; he just went straight into the secret room.
And thus began half a month of bitter cultivation.
In Liu Ergou's cultivation state, half a month passed almost in the blink of an eye.
In this half month, Liu Ergou spared no cost, crazily absorbing the Jade and Jadeite the old Daoist had left behind.
His realm climbed all the way up from the Innate Realm, finally reaching the Innate Gang Qi Realm.
This Innate Gang Qi Realm was the final stage within the two realms of Innate.
Once he broke through the Innate Gang Qi Realm, Liu Ergou could step into the legendary Martial Golden Core.
But now, the Jade Stone left behind by the old Taoist has already been completely used up by Liu Ergou.
And time was up as well, so Liu Ergou couldn't keep cultivating.
On this very day, Liu Ergou walked out of the secret room, first washed up, tidied his appearance a bit, then changed into the most ordinary clothes and headed straight for the Xuanyuan Family.
The letter had already marked out where the Xuanyuan Family was, right?
The Xuanyuan Family's base wasn't inside Jingdu, but outside of it.
Following the directions on the map, Liu Ergou finally arrived at the Xuanyuan Family.
However, the moment Liu Ergou reached the family grounds, he saw that many people were already waiting for him.
At their head was a middle‑aged man.
When he saw Liu Ergou, he snorted coldly.
"You're the last direct‑line descendant of the Xuanyuan Family, right? Once I kill you, we'll be the true main bloodline from now on!"
Then his whole body exploded into motion, and he launched a fierce attack at Liu Ergou.
That powerful aura burst out of his body, making the originally clear sky turn a bit gloomy.
Yet just as the middle‑aged man reached Liu Ergou, his legs suddenly twisted—and he directly knelt down in front of Liu Ergou.
This sudden scene left Liu Ergou completely baffled.
Huh?
Weren't we supposed to be fighting? How did it turn into kneeling all of a sudden?
Kinda inexplicable.
While Liu Ergou was still confused, the rest of them all dropped to their knees as well, every last one kneeling before Liu Ergou.
This made the already bewildered Liu Ergou even more confused.
Right at this moment, a jade pendant suddenly flew out from the body of the middle‑aged man kneeling before Liu Ergou, and flew straight into Liu Ergou's hand.
And Liu Ergou instinctively clenched his fist around the pendant.
The instant he grasped the jade pendant, he understood everything.
The reason these people were kneeling to him was that the cultivation method they practiced had long ago been tampered with by the main family.
Whenever they encountered someone from the main family, they would become completely powerless, unable to even truss a chicken, and could only stretch their necks out to be slaughtered.
And the three manuals in his mind were the true cultivation methods of the Xuanyuan Family—the Inner Canon of Huangdi!
Whoever obtained this jade pendant would also become the new head of the Xuanyuan Family, holding absolute power of life and death over the Xuanyuan Family.
As for why the main family back then was overthrown by the branch family, that was because at that time the branch family was still cultivating their own techniques.
They hadn't cultivated the main family's method yet.
But after they replaced the main family, they started cultivating that flawed main‑family technique.
Thinking of this, Liu Ergou shook his head and laughed.
He had originally thought it would be a bitter battle, with a very real chance of losing his life.
But he never expected such a dramatic scene to play out.
He honestly didn't even know what to say.
However, this was not the time to think about that. Liu Ergou grabbed the middle‑aged man on the ground and questioned him.
How were Li San and his disciple now?
The answer he got was that they were locked up in the dungeon.
After getting his answer, Liu Ergou didn't hold back—he killed the middle‑aged man on the spot.
Immediately after, he stormed into the dungeon and rescued the two of them.
The days that followed were spent completely taking over the entire Xuanyuan Family.
In the end, Liu Ergou spent a full month to firmly seize control of the Xuanyuan Family.
And he himself became the true head of the Xuanyuan Family.
After that, he began to investigate the matter of the Umbrella Company.
He had to remember that the first time he'd suffered a setback was at the hands of the Umbrella Company's chairman.
If he didn't avenge this in this lifetime, he wouldn't be a real man.
This matter was no difficulty at all for the current Xuanyuan Family; in just a single day, they dug everything up clearly.
That Umbrella Company was researching the so‑called Genetic Fury Elixir, and that technology came from the Beautiful Country. The purpose of those Beautiful Country dogs was also very simple: use the Genetic Fury Elixir to deal with the Dragon Country.
To achieve this goal, the Beautiful Country bribed a great many people, even going so far as to spend a huge sum to buy off people from the Ancient Martial Sects, and then they opened this so‑called Umbrella Company.
Liu Ergou later conducted an even deeper investigation, and in the course of it, he discovered some even more disgusting things.
And that was Lang Yu.
Yes, that same Lang Yu who was called the Thousand Shadow Hand!
They had long been secretly collaborating with the Umbrella Company, shipping the Genetic Fury Elixir out of the Dragon Country in batches, while those orphans working at the Umbrella Company were actually the test subjects for the Genetic Fury Elixir.
After all these years, no one even knew how many people had died under the experiments of the Genetic Fury Elixir.
And because all the test subjects they chose were orphans, and few people would know or care when an orphan died, this matter never caused an uproar and was forcibly buried just like that.
When Liu Ergou learned all of this, he was furious beyond words. He hadn't expected the Umbrella Company to do something so filthy. He immediately took action and wiped the entire Umbrella Company off the map.
Right after that, Liu Ergou made his move against the Yuan Family and the Sun Family.
Yuan Wenkang and Sun Gang had killed his eldest brother. Of course, it was only now that Liu Ergou learned that his big brother was not his blood brother.
Even so, his big brother's death was impossible to leave unavenged.
Thus, half of the Yuan Family vanished, and as for why the other half was left alive, the reason was very simple.
The living are always more useful than the dead.
And that remaining half of the Yuan Family had long since become Liu Ergou's people, with the new head naturally being Shen Manxuan.
And Liu Ergou did not kill Yuan Wenkang either.
Instead he crippled him completely, leaving him alive and nothing more.
As for the Sun Family, they were wiped out to the last.
While doing all this, Liu Ergou did not forget another even more important matter: building that Summer Resort Villa of his in his own village.
At last, everything settled.
Liu Ergou brought his many women back to the Summer Resort Villa and began living a semi‑secluded life.
It was the height of summer.
Liu Ergou's women were splashing and playing in the villa's swimming pool, and there was no describing how pleasing that was to the eye; Liu Ergou's eyes practically glazed over watching them.
But as Liu Ergou watched, he suddenly thought of a question.
That was: he now controlled the entire Xuanyuan Family and was the veritable head of the Xuanyuan Family.
So should he now be called Xuanyuan Ergou? Or should he still be called Liu Ergou?
This was a serious question!
(The End)
