"The secret of leaving home?"
“That’s right.” Li Liuxin nodded slightly to Lu Yuan, then continued, “Now that you’ve found this place, you must have heard about the Li family’s special bloodline, which sets them apart from ordinary people, right?”
"certainly."
Back when he hadn't yet entered the Myriad Realms Heaven, Lu Yuan learned from the Jiang family about the special nature of the Li family bloodline. It could transcend the constraints of principles and simultaneously contract two beasts. Those with even greater abilities could even contract more at the same time.
Putting everything else aside, just based on this special bloodline alone, Li Jia is enough to become someone that everyone envies and looks up to in this world where each person can only contract one beast at a time.
However.
Faced with such a powerful advantage, Li Liuxin, a member of the Li family, was filled with deep hatred.
Outsiders can only see the glamorous surface of Li Jia, but they don't know that this extraordinary bloodline talent was actually obtained at the cost of countless lives!
Li Liuxin clenched his teeth, his whole body trembling slightly.
Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan was slightly taken aback and couldn't help but frown.
What does that mean?
Before coming to rescue Li Liuxin, he had guessed that Li Liuxin might know or possess something that could seriously affect the Li family, but he never expected that it would be related to the Li family's bloodline.
Seeing Lu Yuan's puzzled expression, Li Liuxin did not answer immediately. After a moment of silence, she calmed her emotions and looked up at him again.
"This is indeed too unbelievable, but have you ever thought about why, in a world where each beast tamer can only contract one beast, it is the Li family who can contract multiple beasts at the same time?"
At this point, Li Liuxin paused for a moment before continuing.
"Outsiders only envy the good fortune of the Li family members, who suddenly obtained a great opportunity, but they have never investigated why the Li family suddenly became such a unique bloodline. Only a very few people within the Li family know that it is all because the head of the Li family made a deal with the demon back then!"
demon?
trade?
Lu Yuan frowned, unable to fully grasp the meaning behind Li Liuxin's words for a moment.
"What kind of transaction was it exactly?"
Faced with Lu Yuan's question, Li Liuxin did not answer directly, but instead gave a speech that seemed to be irrelevant to the question.
"For decades, Li Jia has never given up searching for me. His purpose is not to kill me, but to capture me and bring me back to Li Jia, imprison me here, so that I can become the mother of the ancient ferocious beast cub."
An ancient ferocious beast?!
Upon hearing these four words, Lu Yuan's expression changed drastically.
When he first met Bai Ze, he overheard him mentioning ancient ferocious beasts. He still remembers the tone Bai Ze unconsciously used at the time, which was full of vigilance.
When he tried to press Bai Ze for more information, Bai Ze refused to say anything, as if he were wary of something.
It should be noted that Bai Ze is a divine beast. Although it is not the type that is good at fighting, its combat power should not be underestimated.
Even so, when talking about ancient ferocious beasts, Bai Ze would still unconsciously reveal such a tone, which is enough to show how terrifying the ancient ferocious beasts were.
Lu Yuan thought he would no longer be involved with the ancient ferocious beasts, but he never expected to hear those words from Li Liuxin again.
"What exactly did you discover?" Lu Yuan couldn't help but ask.
Li Liuxin didn't notice the change in Lu Yuan's expression. She seemed to be lost in painful memories and struggled for a moment before continuing to speak.
"That year, I was admitted to the most famous academy in the myriad realms with my outstanding grades. The first thing I thought of was sharing it with my family. But when I returned home, I was surprised to hear my parents, who used to love me so much, actually choosing someone to mate with me with the head of the family, just because I have a pure yin constitution that is rare to cultivate in thousands of years."
Every word from Li Liuxin is a gem, every sound a tear of blood.
She once thought she was the apple of her parents' eye, but this conversation she overheard tore open the facade of harmony, revealing a bloody hole and a cruel truth that she found hard to accept, so she rushed forward to confront them.
"When they discovered that I had overheard their conversation, they completely abandoned their pretense and forcibly locked me up, waiting for me to marry the person they had chosen, so that they could use my body to raise the cubs of ancient ferocious beasts."
Hearing this, Lu Yuan was filled with mixed emotions.
Having said that, he basically had a general understanding of what had happened back then.
Years ago, Li Jia made a deal with an ancient ferocious beast. In return, Li Jia painstakingly cultivated Li Liuxin, a woman with a pure Yin constitution suitable for conceiving cubs of ancient ferocious beasts. After she came of age, Li Jia couldn't wait to start breeding cubs of ancient ferocious beasts. However, Li Liuxin overheard this, so Li Jia stopped being secretive and directly imprisoned Li Liuxin, intending to carry out their plan.
However, Li Liuxin unexpectedly escaped, so the Li family kept sending people to search for her whereabouts, wanting to bring her back.
After all, a pure Yin constitution cannot be cultivated casually. They still need the Li Su Xin, and as elders of the Li family, they cannot tolerate the Li Su Xin, who is used as a tool, escaping their grasp.
However, perhaps it was fate that led Li Liuxin to not only flee for twenty years, but also to marry and have children without their knowledge.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan was unaware of what Li Liuxin was doing outside, otherwise his situation would have been much more dangerous, and even his ability to successfully enter the Myriad Realms Heaven would have been questionable.
It's likely that Li Liuxin had considered this situation, which is why, after giving birth to Lu Yuan, she entrusted him to the Lu family and resolutely embarked on a path of escape from which there was no turning back.
but.
Compared to these, what puzzled Lu Yuan even more was another question.
Do you know the name of the ancient ferocious beast they're talking about?
Seemingly surprised that Lu Yuan would ask such a nonsensical question after listening, Li Liuxin paused for a moment, then frowned and tried to recall, before hesitatingly speaking after a long while.
"I think it was something like... Taotie."
"A gluttonous beast?!"
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