Chapter 22: The Remaining Diagram of Jiao

  "Child, what are you still hesitating about? The clan elder has come to apologize in person, and this old woman's wish is fulfilled. Your father is gone, after all, he's gone, no matter how much we say it's useless." The old woman sighed.

  "Wang Shi said, 'Mother, I know that even if I don't consider the Wang family, I must consider you and Zi Cao.' After talking with Wang Tingcheng, he clearly knew what to do. The Song family was the biggest threat in his heart. If the Wang family were to be exterminated by the Song family, he could escape, but what about his mother and Zi Cao? Would they follow him in escaping? This was undoubtedly unrealistic!"

  "The Li family has been like this for so many years, I don't know if they will still secretly support them. If that's the case, how can our Wang family compete? Unless..." King Shi's eyes lit up.

  "I hope Zhou's family will come!" Wang Shi said in his heart.

  The old woman then said: "It's good that you know."

  ………..

  Song Family Mansion

  Song Jian cried out in front of the old man: "Grandfather, those Wang family people are getting more and more arrogant, they injured me and took away my 7,000 gold coins! Grandfather, why does our Song family always get oppressed by the Wang family every time? I want to fight back, I want revenge!"

  "Take this dan medicine and recover from your injuries." The old man handed over a smooth, transparent dan medicine to Song Jian, who took it and swallowed it. Before long, Song Jian's injuries had improved by more than half.

  All that could be seen was the old man wearing a black robe, looking somewhat frail and weak, with wrinkled skin, silver hair disheveled, and eyes deeply sunken, yet very spirited. A chill aura emanated from him, causing Song Jian to shiver.

  "Go down and cultivate well. It won't be long before Shishan Town is ours!" The old man said, his words full of confidence.

  "Yes...yes, grandpa..." Song Jian stuttered, cold sweat unknowingly flowing down his back, he was very puzzled why grandpa's aura was so gloomy.

  "Father, are you looking for me?" A middle-aged man walked in shortly after Song Jian left, saying respectfully.

  This person is somewhat short and has an ordinary appearance, but his eyes are somewhat unusual, as if anyone would be enchanted by his eyes. This person is the master of the Song family, Song Lian.

  "Hmm, how's the thing I did for you?" said the old man.

  "That Lai family is getting more and more outrageous, they actually want a Broken Bead Dan! That's a Third Turn Dan Medicine!" Song Lin said fiercely.

  "What's the point of having a Pearl Dan? The Li family is really opening their mouths wide, all these years, my Song family has contributed 15 alchemists, I don't know how many thousands of Second Turn Dan medicines have been offered, and it's still not enough. It's like a tiger falling into a plain and being bullied by dogs!" The old man was somewhat angry, his eyes seemed to be spitting fire.

  "Father, let's stop this. With the accumulation of all these years, I don't believe we can't eliminate the small Wang family. Your body is getting colder and your energy is getting weaker." Song Lian said with some concern.

  "Refine! Of course, we must refine! Although we have already surpassed the Wang family by a lot, we can't just hard fight with the Wang family, and still need the help of the Li family. As long as we annex Shishan Town, our sect can return to Yaicheng again!" The old man's eyes were filled with fervor.

  "But Father, will the Li family give us the opportunity to annex Shishan Town? They are a family from Qingcang City! I'm afraid they'll take the Dan medicine and do nothing." Song Lian said worriedly.

  "Don't worry, I don't need them to do anything, as long as they don't make a move, that's enough. Besides, the Zhou family has never cared about this small town of Shishan, even if they come, it will just be some small fries, not worth worrying about! I've already sent word to my old friend to come and help, with his strength, it should be much easier, don't forget, my former identity!" The old man chuckled.

  Song Hui's eyes narrowed, and he immediately knew what had happened to his father's old friend.

  "In three months, we'll see who's right!" The old man's eyes rarely showed anticipation.

  ………..

  Late at night

  Wang Shi has begun to meditate, in front of him is a black leather-bound tattered book.

  He woke up after a while and couldn't help but sigh: "What's going on, still can't do it?" This martial arts manual was the one he bought from Freedom Street, the "Great Golden Floating Manual". He had spent an entire afternoon trying to master it without success. What puzzled him was that although he remembered the cultivation method clearly, when he closed his eyes and started practicing, it was as if he had forgotten everything - all the steps of the practice were gone!

  At first I thought it might be my own fault, but as the number of failures increased, I realized that this was not my fault at all, but rather because this book is too weird and can't even remember!

  This made Wang Shi somewhat speechless and unwilling to give up. He felt the power of this martial art and wanted to learn it at all times!

  "Ah!" Wang Shi felt a bit restless, so he took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

  "Never mind, let's try Shi Zhu for now!" Wang Shi said quietly.

  Now he already has the strength of the fifth layer of Kaohuang, and can go to impact the stone bead! Wang Shi sank into the air sea, that stone bead was dull and lightless, very ordinary, but this stone bead still constantly transformed its own body, at any time, that kind of subtle feeling, he could still feel it.

  Gushing sound

  Wang Shi's spiritual energy surged towards the Stone Bead, like a tidal wave.

  Only to see that the stone bead began to tremble slightly, and a small seal mark started to shine, getting brighter and brighter. The lines on the seal mark became clearer and clearer, like earthworms, with extremely complex and mysterious strokes.

  "Are you clear about it?!" Wang Shi said.

  However, the talisman became brighter and more indistinct in shape, only to see that the talisman illuminated his entire body, with golden light radiating out.

  "What is this?" Wang Shi was dazed for a moment, and a picture appeared in front of his eyes! As if time and space were chaotic.

  It's like the world behind the golden light!

  The space in front of him seemed to have petrified, like the color of parched earth, with neat cracks like gullies.

  That's a rock painting!

  The picture in the lower left corner of the stone painting gradually emerged, as if a thick fog had been lifted.

  "This is......" Wang Shi looked carefully.

  All that can be seen is a complex diagram consisting of many giant spider webs, with shiny lines crisscrossing each other, filled with an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.

  "Is this a map? Or what?" Wang Shi shook his head at the first one. Maps don't have such complex routes, and Wang Shi only took a glance before feeling dizzy.

  "What is this?" Wang Shi was somewhat puzzled and perplexed.

  Just as Wang Shi was puzzled, the diagram suddenly began to flow slowly! Like flowing water.

  Only then did that obscure diagram suddenly appear in Wang Shi's mind! Such a sudden change shocked Wang Shi!

  The next moment, Wang Shi only felt that his brain was burning like crazy! Extremely hot! He felt himself melting, the sky spinning and the earth rotating.