Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 359

[Chapter 359: The Underground Palace]

After coming out of the underground palace, Lin Xiu stood at the gate of Dayu Palace and was about to go back when a voice suddenly came from behind him: “Hey, Blair, come hunting with us today. You haven’t gone hunting with us for a long time.”

Lin Xiu turned around and saw a young man waving at him. This man’s name was White, and he was also one of Blair’s friends.

In recent days, what has troubled Lin Xiu is that the guy who was sleeping in his personal space has a good relationship with people in the School of Different Arts. Not only does he have many friends, but he also has good relationships with the opposite sex.

In the past three days, no less than five school girls have hinted to him that he hasn’t looked for them for several days. They hope to have breakfast with him to watch the sunrise, but Lin Xiu refused because he was too busy practicing recently. If

he had known earlier, he should have investigated and chosen Toby, the fat man with few friends, instead of the playboy Blair.

He was about to refuse White, but the other party strode up to him, took his arm, and said, “Hey, Blair, you are not going to refuse again, are you? You seem to have changed recently. You don’t go to drink with me, and you don’t go hunting with me. You used to like hunting very much…”

Lin Xiu felt helpless. Even if the disguise was hard to tell, his personality could not be changed.

He couldn’t sleep with those school girls who threw themselves at him just to pretend to be more like Blair?

Then what was the difference between him and Emperor Xia?

In order not to arouse suspicion, he could only say, “Let’s go. I’m bored with my practice recently, so let’s go out and relax.”

White patted his shoulder and smiled, “That’s you…”

Lin Xiu followed White and several other noble children to a manor outside the city. This was a place where the Dayu nobles often played. Blair used to come here often, and many people knew him here.

After the waitress with exposed white thighs brought them desserts and drinks, she sat next to them. White and others hugged them in their arms, and their hands were restlessly reaching into their skirts. Not long after, the faces of the waitresses became flushed…

Several people quickly led the waitresses to the attic in the manor.

Beside Lin Xiu, a girl with rabbit ears on her head, saw that he had not made any move, and gently touched Lin Xiu with her thigh.

Lin Xiu was speechless. Who knew that hunting also had foreplay? He was lustful, but not so casual.

He waved his hand and said, “You go and do your work. I’m not interested today.”

Not knowing what happened to Blair today, the girl with rabbit ears looked at him resentfully, got up and left.

After a while, White and the others came out of the manor and saw Lin Xiu sitting there. They asked in surprise, “Blair, why didn’t you go in?”

Lin Xiu glanced at him and said lightly, “You are too fast. If I go in, I will come out in an hour. I don’t want to keep you waiting too long.”

White looked at him with disdain and said, “You are not good enough. I don’t know who goes in the latest and comes out the earliest every time…”

But he didn’t take it to heart. Blair never lacked women around him. Maybe he was not interested today. He waved to Lin Xiu and said, “Let’s go and choose prey.”

Lin Xiu followed White to the underground of the manor and found that the hunting he understood was not the same as the hunting White said.

The children of the rich and powerful in the capital of Daxia often held some hunting activities, putting rabbits, deer, or some ferocious beasts into the hunting grounds. They each contributed money and gathered a generous bonus. The person who finally harvested the most prey could enjoy the bonus alone. This was the game they used to pass the time on weekdays.

Such games were also popular among the rich and powerful in Dayu.

However, their prey is not animals, but slaves.

In the underground cells of this manor, there are ragged slaves, men and women, old and young, with special collars around their necks. Before the hunting begins, they will be put into the mountains and forests and have an hour to escape. After

an hour, the hunting begins. The participants will start from here and go into the mountains to hunt the slaves. The one who gets the most slave collars will win and enjoy all the rewards.

White looked at everyone and said, “How about betting on a fourth-level crystal this time?”

Although the fourth-level crystal is not so precious to the people present, it still costs 10,000 taels of silver to buy. If you can win, it will be a considerable gain.

White and others selected twenty slaves. Soon, these slaves were released into the forest. As soon as they were freed, they ran forward desperately. If they stayed where they were, they would surely die. Only if they escaped to the depths of the forest would they have a chance of survival…

While waiting, White and others were bored with the dice. He looked in a certain direction and asked, “Blair, do you want to play two rounds?”

Lin Xiu waved his hand and said, “You guys play.”

His expression was calm, but his heart was in turmoil.

The hunting game of the Dayu nobles was actually hunting humans.

This reminded him of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce and the dignitaries of the Donghai Mansion. When the power and strength of some people reached the peak, in order to further pursue spiritual stimulation and enjoyment, various perverted behaviors would be derived.

The nobles of Dayu were even worse than those in the Donghai Mansion.

This indifference to life made him feel extremely disgusted.

It is conceivable that if one day, when they conquered Daxia, the people of Daxia would also be hunted by them in this way.

Although the law of the jungle is the law of nature, humans are not beasts. Anyone who was born in modern civilization, received modern education, and still had a trace of humanity could not accept this anti-human game.

An hour soon arrived, and everyone was already impatient.

They were all capable people. Some could fly, some could escape underground, and some relied on the magic of wood to be like fish in water in the forest, searching for the figures of those slaves.

Killing those slaves could not bring them any substantial benefits, but it could bring them spiritual stimulation.

But this time, no matter how they searched, they could not find those slaves. The twenty slaves seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and there was not even a trace of them…

Two hours later, everyone returned to the manor. White said with a dark face: “Damn it, they will not be rescued by those people again?”

Lin Xiu glanced at him and asked, “Who?”

White said depressedly: “A group of people who like to meddle in other people’s business. I didn’t expect to meet them. It’s really disappointing!”

Lin Xiu learned from White that there was an organization in Dayu that was committed to resisting the nobles and rescuing these slaves. This matter was most likely done by them.

This surprised Lin Xiu.

This should be considered the Tiandao League of Dayu.

I didn’t expect that they also have comrades on the other side of the ocean.

Although they have different skin colors and nationalities, they do the same thing.

White and other nobles came with high hopes, but left disappointed.

At night, Lin Xiu returned to the room, and with a thought, a dirty figure appeared in front of him.

It was a girl, about fourteen or fifteen years old, ragged and extremely thin. Her face was full of fear at the moment. As soon as she appeared in the room, she kept backing away. Lin Xiu looked at her and whispered, “It’s okay…”

When she saw Lin Xiu, she stopped backing away, because she remembered that it was he who saved them.

Lin Xiu waved to her, and the girl timidly walked in front of him. Lin Xiu held the collar around her neck and broke it with a little force.

Lin Xiu looked at her and asked, “What’s your name?”

The girl whispered, “Lu, Lucia…”

After asking the girl, he learned that her name was Lucia. Like all the slaves that Lin Xiu rescued today, she was from Basha. Dayu once planned the unrest in Basha for Basha’s mineral veins, and brought back many Basha citizens as slaves.

Later, although Lin Xiu used those meteorites to make a deal with Dayu and let them withdraw from Basha, those slaves stayed in Dayu. Basha

is not close to Dayu, but with Lin Xiu’s speed, one night is enough for him to go back and forth once. With the speed of the upper realm of the earth level, he can fly around the planet twice in one day.

These slaves didn’t know how much they suffered in Dayu. As human beings, they were treated as prey that could be hunted at will, which was even more miserable. Lin Xiu sent them back to their hometown in Basha overnight, left them some food, and left quietly when those people knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

When he returned to Dayu, it was already dawn.

The long and intensive journey consumed a lot of his energy, but it would be replenished soon.

Lin Xiu couldn’t take the thing in the underground palace with him, so he could only absorb it crazily. He practiced during the day and went to several slave manors near the capital of Dayu at night to rescue all the slaves and send them back to Basha.

Anyway, saving twenty people is also saving people, saving two hundred is also saving people. For him, except for snatching the big Yuan crystal back, everything else is not difficult.

His little effort can save countless lives,

and Lin Xiu has never been stingy about it. The mysterious disappearance of slaves caused quite a stir in the capital of Dayu. Even the Senate was alarmed and sent strong men to investigate. But even if they set up a dragnet around the manor, the slaves would still disappear inexplicably, as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth. For a time, the people of Dayu had different opinions…

…

In the early morning, Lin Xiu was taken to the underground palace again.

After taking off the blindfold, the teacher from the School of Extraordinary Arts said, “Blair, White, you don’t have to come from tomorrow.”

Lin Xiu was stunned for a moment, and White immediately asked, “Why?”

After the teacher from the School of Extraordinary Arts explained, he lowered his head and said nothing.

These days, although their cultivation progressed quickly, the crystal was also depleted at an alarming rate. From more than ten feet at the beginning, it has now shrunk by one third, forcing the Senate to change its plan.

Their original plan was to use this item to create ten earth-level upper realms and take ninety of the next hundred people on the Tianjiao list, but for some reason, the crystal has been depleted faster and faster in the past half month. At the beginning, when several Tian-level people used this item to practice, the consumption rate was no more than that. If it continues like this, it will probably be used up soon. At

this time, people like Blair and White who are not so talented will naturally be abandoned.

The Senate will concentrate all resources to cultivate the three princes, Raymond, Sean, these top talents, so as to achieve better results in the competition.

The competition is the most important, otherwise, the elders would have used this item to practice.

Of course, the effect of using it to practice for the Heavenly Rank strongmen is not as great as that for the young geniuses, and it cannot help them break through the realm in a short period of time. The Senate also decided to use it to cultivate young geniuses after discussion.

Lin Xiu looked at the crystal in front of him that had shrunk by half. The part that disappeared was largely transformed into Yuanli and entered his body.

He has been practicing for so long, and although he has been accelerating all the way, it is the first time he has experienced this feeling.

Two words to describe it, smooth.

There is no bottleneck, no upper limit, just keep absorbing. If he is allowed to absorb for another half a month, he may be able to break through the Heavenly Rank in Dayou.

Unfortunately, the Senate is too stingy, and today is his last day of practice here.

In order not to waste the opportunity, Lin Xiu decided to go all out this time.

He covered the crystal with one hand, and frantically operated all the power in his body. A huge amount of Yuanli poured in, and even formed a Yuanli storm in his body…

Of course, all the Yuanli fluctuations did not dissipate under the effect of the hidden power.

At the same time, White and several other geniuses beside Lin Xiu also had red faces, and were obviously running their energy with all their strength. At this moment, everyone had the same idea.

Crack…

Lin Xiu was sucking vigorously when he suddenly heard a strange sound.

He had good hearing, and although the sound was almost imperceptible, he still keenly noticed it.

He looked at the crystal in front of him, and it had not changed much from before.

But after Lin Xiu magnified it countless times in his eyes, Lin Xiu found a crack on its surface.

Lin Xiu was shocked. Could it be that he sucked it too hard and cracked it? Just

as this thought emerged in his mind, he heard the sound again.

Crack, crack!

This time, not only Lin Xiu heard it, but White and others also heard it. Even several Heaven-level masters in the underground palace raised their heads and looked over here.

Crack!

A huge crack suddenly appeared on the crystal. Several people who were practicing next to the crystal were startled, and immediately withdrew their hands and stepped back.

Lin Xiu looked at the crack, and through the crack, he saw the inside of the crystal.

This crystal is empty, and the space inside is very large. Lin Xiu glanced over it, and the next moment, his heart was shocked.

He saw a figure sitting cross-legged in the crystal.

The figure had his eyes closed tightly, and there was no breath on his body, like a dead person.

No, not a person.

Although he had a human body, he had a pair of black wings behind him, and a pair of hands, which looked more like bird claws.

At this moment, the cracks on the crystal became more and more, and finally broke completely, falling on the figure’s body and disappearing one after another. The breath of the person with closed eyes was also growing rapidly as the crystal fragments sank into it.

Yellow level, black level, earth level, heaven level…

In a few breaths, his breath grew to a very terrifying level, but at a certain moment, it stopped abruptly.

This feeling was very abrupt, as if his breath could continue to grow, but for some reason, it suddenly stopped here.

When his breath stopped growing, his tightly closed eyes slowly opened.

(End of this chapter)