Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Six Inheritance

  "If I had known these guys were so hard to deal with, I wouldn't have made a move and would have gone to accept the inheritance first." Chu Jian thought to himself, his eyes gazing in a certain direction, with a hint of regret in his heart.

  He was indeed a lecher, but there would be many opportunities for him to indulge in the fragrance of his relatives later on. Compared to that inheritance, Liu Qingwu's beauty was really nothing.

  It was unclear how much time had passed when Su Yan slowly came to.

  "Am I dead? What is this place."

  Su Yan opened his eyes to find himself in a massive stone pool, surrounded by dark stone walls that stretched up tens of meters above him.

  It seems like I am in a cave.

  Su Yan wanted to move his body, but found himself completely unable to move.

  As Su Yan opened her eyes, she saw countless black, strange tentacles gathering from the water pool, wrapping herself tightly. These tentacles were extremely fine, with the smallest ones being finer than hair. Many of them even pierced through her skin and entered into her flesh and blood.

  The wound on his chest had healed and become smooth and flat. In this stone pool, there was a warm feeling.

  "Hmm." Looking around at the stone walls, Su Yan was slightly stunned.

  Although there was almost no light, he could still see every detail inside the cave.

  My perception ability... seems to have been greatly enhanced.

  "I didn't die after all, where am I?" Su Yan looked up at the stone wall above his head and muttered.

  Inside Shi Chi, those black tentacles suddenly floated up and formed a huge human shadow above Su Yan.

  That was an old man with a high crown and strange clothes, his eyes full of dissatisfaction, looking at Su Yan shaking his head: "I've waited for tens of thousands of years, finally waiting for a living person, didn't expect it to be you, such a waste, really unlucky."

  "Who are you?" Su Yan looked at the old man and asked loudly.

  "When you see an old man like me, you're not surprised. This young fellow's temperament is somewhat commendable." The old man looked at Su Yan with a hint of surprise.

  "A person who has given up on life, what's there to be surprised about?" Su Yan said with a bleak smile.

  "Heh heh." The old man chuckled: "A person who has given up on life, it's good that you're like this. After all, after accepting my legacy, you are no longer the same as before. You will completely sever ties with your past self, and from now on, you will be a different existence. Your past self is indeed already dead."

  "Inheritance, what inheritance." Su Yan was stunned.

  "I, Xuan Yuan, was a powerful being from 10,000 years ago. On the continent of 10,000 years ago, I was the strongest assassin."

  The old man said, with a hint of pride between his eyebrows.

  "As humans have birth, aging, sickness and death, I am no exception. In my later years, I retreated to this place, and when the time of my death arrived, I suddenly thought that all my life's learning had not been passed on to anyone."

  "So I, the old man, used a forbidden technique to separate out a wisp of residual soul, waiting here for a destined later generation who wants to inherit my skills. What you see is just a wisp of my residual soul."

  "In my younger years, I killed too many people. To avoid revenge from their families, I chose a remote place to settle in my old age. I didn't expect that this would lead to me waiting alone for tens of thousands of years, without a single person passing by, until today when I met you."

  "I've waited long enough, and I really don't want to wait any longer. So today, after you finish receiving the inheritance, I will return to eternal silence, and you young one, will become a pretty good strong person."

  Xuan Yuan Wei also shook his head: "Unfortunately, you're too weak, I don't know if you can accept even one percent of my extraordinary skills, but I've waited long enough and won't wait any longer."

  "My heart is already dead, why should I accept your legacy? Just let me die instead." Su Yan said with a wretched smile.

  Xuanyuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there really anyone in the world who is truly heartless? What is called being heartless must have many things that weigh on one's mind. Death can't solve anything, only living can make up for past mistakes. Moreover, although you claim to be heartless, you must have many people you can't bear to part with, right? If anyone could be abandoned and no one was cared about, how could they be heartless?"

  "What the senior said is right." Su Yan was silent for a moment, then nodded listlessly.

  Yes, in his heart there were many people he couldn't bear to part with: the parents of Qingyan City, the brothers of the Hunting Eagle Squad, and of course, that beautiful girl with eyes as clear as water.

  "Seeking death is the most useless thing, only the strong can grasp their own destiny." Xuan Yuan said, "After all, you are my disciple, so I still hope you can live well."

  "Thank you, senior." Su Yan's eyes also had some spirit.

  Yes! Only by living can we make up for past mistakes and eliminate the regrets in our hearts, while death... is just a cowardly escape.

  Xuan Yuan Wei comforted with a smile: "Young one, your comprehension is not bad, but what I want to tell you is that due to your poor innate talent, if you were to barely accept part of my power with your body, it would have an enormous impact on your lifespan. Of course, when you fell down, you were already considered dead, so in the end, you still managed to gain something. Now I am barely maintaining your life; if you refuse to accept the inheritance, you will probably die immediately."

  "After accepting the inheritance, how much of my lifespan is left?" Su Yan hesitated and asked slowly.

  "It will be five years at the shortest and ten years at the longest." Xuan Yuan said.

  "So short."

  Su Yan's body trembled slightly.

  "After accepting the inheritance, you can go do some things you want to do, but you can't go back to being your original self because you were hurt too badly. Your body has also undergone tremendous changes, and now you are no longer the same person as before."

  Xuanyuan Wei said, on Su Yan's body, the black tentacles suddenly split to both sides, directly tearing his chest open.

  "Ah!" Su Yan let out a miserable cry.

  "What's wrong? Are you in pain?" Xuan Yuan Wei raised an eyebrow.

  Su Yan was momentarily perplexed, indeed there was only a faint sensation of touch, delicate to the extreme, but the pain had disappeared.

  "Take a look at your body now." Xuan Yuan Wei said calmly.

  Su Yan lowered his head and looked at his own chest, and a look of shock suddenly appeared on his face.

  Inside his chest, it was surprisingly empty and hollow, with nothing in it at all.

  There is no dirty organ, and there is no heart either.

  His black tentacles retracted, Su Yan's chest became flat and smooth again, his body still warm to the touch, looking no different from an ordinary person, but Su Yan's heart had turned icy cold.

  Is the current self still an individual?

  Looking at Su Yan's shocked expression, Xuan Yuan Wei sighed and said: "Kid, this isn't my fault. I've already used my greatest effort to bring a dead person back to life."

  "From now on, you are no longer an ordinary person. You don't even need to eat or sleep. The energy you need can be completely supplemented by the primordial energy of heaven and earth."

  "You are still considered a man and can still have fun with the woman you like, but you will never be able to have children again."

  "You will be like this before your lifespan is exhausted."

  "Can I give up on inheriting it?" Su Yan said with a wry smile.

  "No, I've waited for ten thousand years to find you, how can I give up this opportunity? Must I wait another ten thousand years?" Xuan Yuan Wei shook his head and said: "If after completing the inheritance you still want to die, then you can abandon this body. I won't stop you, I'm just a residual soul, only here to complete the task left by my true self. As long as I find the inheritor, my mission is accomplished, nothing else matters."

  "Now, accept the inheritance, accept the arrangement given by fate."

  Xuanyuan Wei's gaze flashed, his face slowly dissipated, countless black tentacles fell into the pool water, gathering towards Su Yan's body, completely wrapping it inside.

  In the stone pool, the water was also boiling up. Xuan Yuan's energy had been infused into the stone pool before his death, and these energies were extremely violent as they surged into Su Yan's body, transforming his physique.

  "Accept my legacy, and for the rest of your life you will only be able to live in darkness, young one. This is your fate, as well as mine."

  "In my lifetime, I was a 7th-level warrior. Before my death, I infused all my energy into the Stone Pool. I don't know how much you can absorb..." Xuanyuan Wei's voice echoed again above the Stone Pool.

  …………

  One minute later.

  The inside of the stone pool was empty and dry, without a single drop of water. Su Yan's body was wrapped in a black cocoon, completely covered by black tentacles.

  Suddenly, all the black tentacles twisted and drilled into Su Yan's body. Su Yan screamed in pain, his whole body covered in blood.

  Black tendrils pierced into his body, twisting and writhing rapidly beneath the flesh, as Su Yan's skin showed rapid moving bulges, looking extremely terrifying.

  After counting his breaths, all the black tentacles drilled into Su Yan's body, and Su Yan's skin also became smooth again.

  "It's actually just a first-level warrior." A phantom face appeared in mid-air, which was exactly the appearance of Xuan Yuan Wei.

  "In my younger years, I was a 7th-level martial artist. You, on the other hand, are only a 1st-level martial artist. Kid, your innate talent is truly not ordinary... it's actually quite poor."

  Su Yan's eyes showed a bewildered expression, and he suddenly stood up, licking his lips with a bloodthirsty gaze, saying in a hoarse voice: "I... am so thirsty."

  "You must be thirsty, accept the legacy of Lao Fu, it will certainly be so." Xuan Yuan said: "So I say, our clan can only forever hide in the darkness, can only forever be an assassin, this is our fate, no one can change it."

  "Go, young one, your time is limited, do what you must. My mission is accomplished, I can finally return to nothingness."

  Xuanyuan Wei let out a hearty laugh, and his face slowly faded away.

  Su Yan jumped out of the stone pool in a daze and walked towards the direction of the cave entrance.

  …………

  Above the river valley, on top of the cliff.

  That black eagle stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at its bloodied and battered child, wailing incessantly.

  A gleaming white hand appeared at the edge of the cliff, followed by another one.

  Su Yan slightly pushed off, jumping onto the cliff, that giant eagle's gaze was sharp and staring at Su Yan, it also sensed a familiar aura from Su Yan's body.

  But Su Yan's appearance had changed so much that it was completely unrecognizable.

  "So thirsty..."

  Su Yan looked at the black giant eagle in a daze, and with a casual wave of his hand, several black tentacles flew out from his palm, wrapping around the eagle's neck. With a crisp sound, the eagle's neck was instantly broken.

  Su Yan waved his hand again, and the giant eagle's corpse was pulled over by him.

  Without the slightest hesitation, Su Yan bowed his head and bit into the giant eagle's neck, swallowing its fresh blood in big gulps.

  After a long time, Su Yan finally released the giant eagle with satisfaction, and his eyes gradually became clear.

  At this time, he also remembered what had happened before.

  Looking at his own body, Su Yan's heart suddenly shook violently.

  This is a completely different body, totally unlike his original appearance.