Chapter 54: The medical fairy's father's martial arts are invincible in the world!
Just by hearing the footsteps, Si Yuan knew that there were about ten people attacking him, all of whom were skilled in martial arts.
In the original plot, the life story of the cannon fodder female supporting character Fuling was only briefly mentioned. Even Fuling's master was only described as a skilled doctor in the martial arts world. He didn't even have a proper title and rarely appeared in scenes.
Then the murderers who massacred the village and caused the female supporting character's father to die naturally have even less role to play, and only appear in the mouth of the female supporting character's miracle doctor father when he talks about the past.
Si Yuan's figure disappeared in the night. He directly stopped the dozen people who came to massacre the village outside the village. Their mediocre kung fu were no match for Si Yuan at all. They couldn't even make any sound before Si Yuan pressed acupoints on them and fixed them in place.
Si Yuan looked at the professional night clothes worn by these people and fell into deep thought.
I thought these people were just ordinary bandits who were mentioned briefly in the original plot. After all, it was not uncommon for remote mountain villages to be massacred by bandits in ancient times. Especially in this kind of martial arts world, it is even more difficult to arrest criminals who are high-ranking. The laws of the court are mostly just for show, and ordinary poor people are not protected.
But now seeing the uniform and professional night clothes on these people, Si Yuan felt that they should not be ordinary bandits.
So why did they massacre this ordinary little mountain village?
Si Yuan picked up a man in black and used his spiritual power to search his soul. The man in black immediately foamed at the mouth, rolled his eyes, and became weak all over.
Si Yuan threw the man to the ground, then pulled over another man in black, looked directly into his eyes, and began to search his soul. Soon, the second man in black followed the first man's footsteps.
The other men in black were watching with their eyes bloodshot and their hearts trembling with fear. They had no idea what Si Yuan had done to his two companions. They only saw Si Yuan carrying the men in front of them and taking a look at them. Then their companions foamed at the mouth, rolled their eyes, became limp all over, and lost their breath.
This method of killing people with just eyes really made them feel terrified.
Si Yuan didn't care what these people thought of him. He actually had compassion and mercy towards mortals, but he was already a powerful cultivator in the Void Refinement Stage. In terms of biological level, he was no longer on the same level as ordinary mortals. Therefore, his mercy towards mortals was limited to the mercy he was willing to show. Si Yuan would never show mercy to those who dared to offend him or attack him.
The fact that he could become a powerful cultivator in the Void Refinement Stage in the world of immortal cultivation was not only due to his great talent and strong backing, but also because he had experienced many hardships. With a strong state of mind, his psychological quality was naturally strong as well.
Si Yuan searched the souls of several more people and found the leader of the group of men in black. He then found out their true identities from the leader's memory.
They were indeed not ordinary bandits, but the death squads raised by Prince Duan of the current dynasty. However, only the leader knew that the master behind the scenes was Prince Duan. The others were just tools who were trained to only obey the leader's orders.
The leader is a higher-level tool who is trained to only obey Prince Duan's orders, and the other black-clad warriors are lower-level tools who are trained to only obey the leader's orders.
These dozen or so assassins were ordered by Prince Duan to massacre the village because Prince Duan wanted to rebel and find a good place to station and train his troops.
There is a very suitable valley nearby, which is remote and spacious, with a hidden and flat valley bottom, and a mountain road which is convenient for transporting supplies.
Prince Duan sent people to select a location for stationing troops, and they chose a nearby valley. However, the mountain road for transporting supplies would pass by the back mountain of the remote village where the original owner lived. In order to avoid the secret being leaked, all the people in this remote village were directly slaughtered by Prince Duan's assassins who pretended to be bandits.
After this kind of village massacre was committed in the name of bandits, even if Prince Duan did not step in to suppress it, no official would care about the lives of a group of common people.
In fact, this was indeed the case in the original plot. Except for the original owner's daughter who was lucky enough to be rescued by a miraculous doctor, everyone else died in the massacre. After the miraculous doctor reported the news to the magistrate of the nearby county, the magistrate sent someone to show his respect and closed the case as a bandit massacre of the village. He simply issued a wanted order for the bandits and that was it.
With the officials so inactive, it is no wonder that Prince Duan could so recklessly choose the nearby valley as the place to station his troops.
Si Yuan didn't expect that there was such a big secret behind the massacre of the original owner's entire village, and it also involved the court struggle that had always been a background board in the original plot.
There is almost no description of the court in the original plot. It is all about the emotional disputes between the protagonist and supporting characters and the struggle between good and evil in the martial arts world, as if the court did not exist.
The original owner had no memory of the imperial court. He only knew that this year was the tenth year of Chengqian, so the reigning emperor should be Emperor Chengqian. As for more matters concerning the high-ranking officials and nobles in the imperial court, the original owner was not qualified to know them due to his status. The emperor was far away and the original owner, an ordinary commoner, had no interest in knowing about royal affairs.
Si Yuan didn't know much from the memories he searched from the souls of these black-clad assassins, because these people were brainwashed assassins, and were tools that only obeyed orders and would never take the initiative to learn about information from the outside world. They only knew things related to their assassin training and missions.
Therefore, Si Yuan currently has no idea what kind of situation this Prince Duan who wants to rebel is, and what kind of emperor the current Emperor Cheng Qian is.
Si Yuan sighed slightly in his heart. He felt that the situation in this world was becoming more and more complicated. It was obviously not as simple as it seemed on the surface in the original plot.
He killed all of the dozen assassins and even dealt with their bodies. He then personally cleaned up the clues they left behind along the way they came.
When Prince Duan saw that his assassins had not returned for a long time, even if he sent people to look for them, he would think that the assassins had been captured or killed before they arrived at the mission site for the massacre, and disappeared without a trace.
Prince Duan could not have imagined that it was an ordinary hunter in the mountain village where he was planning to massacre the entire population that caused all of his dozen elite warriors to disappear from the face of the earth. He could only suspect that it was his enemies who had been keeping an eye on him and took the opportunity to attack his people.
After Si Yuan dealt with the follow-up issues, he returned to the village, acting as if nothing had happened. He glanced at his sleeping daughter Fuling, and went to meditate.
Although he cannot practice immortal cultivation techniques in this world, it is necessary for him to practice martial arts secrets, which still have the effect of strengthening the body. He does not like the feeling of a mortal body slowly aging.
The next day, as soon as the rooster crowed, the hardworking people in the village got up to work, even though it was still dark.
After Si Yuan waited for the sun to come out and little Fuling woke up, he cooked some rice porridge for little Fuling to drink as breakfast.
Before, little Fuling could only drink rice soup and medicinal soup because of her weak spleen and stomach, but yesterday Si Yuan had already helped Fuling to heal her body. Her body is no different from that of a normal child, and it is time to start letting her slowly eat some liquid food and complementary foods.
After Si Yuan fed little Fuling and had eaten his fill, he carried little Fuling out.
I happened to see the aunt from the next-door neighbor's house carrying a bamboo basket out of the house. The aunt asked with a smile: "Xiao Li, where are you taking Xiao Ya?"
Si Yuan replied, "I'll take her to the city to see a doctor. Auntie, my daughter's name is Li Fuling. She has a name now, so you can call her Fuling from now on."
The auntie was illiterate and didn't know what the two words "Fu Ling" Si Yuan said meant, but after hearing what Si Yuan said, she imitated Si Yuan's pronunciation and called out: "Give the little girl a name, it's good to have a name. Fuling... sounds really nice."
Si Yuan didn't say much to his aunt. He just left with little Fuling in his arms. His aunt looked at his back and didn't pay any attention to him. She knew that the neighbor's Xiao Li was a man who looked cold but was warm-hearted and taciturn. So she went to cut grass for the pigs with a bamboo basket on her back.
Si Yuan nominally brought little Fuling to the county town to see a doctor, but in fact he came to inquire about the situation in the court.
What ordinary people care about is whether they will have food to eat after the last one. They don’t care who sits on the throne. They just hope that God will not arrange a tyrant to the throne, will not let them encounter corrupt officials, and give them a way to live.
Ordinary people don’t know who the current emperor or prince is, or what their relationship is like, but those wealthy and educated families definitely know this information.
After all, this is not a secret that is difficult to find out. If there is a scholar in the family, the family will definitely want the scholar to pass the imperial examination and become an official. Naturally, they will pay attention to the situation in the court. They may not know the details, but they should be able to understand the general situation.
Si Yuan went into the city carrying a child, and no one would pay attention to what a man with a child in his arms was trying to do.
So he easily sneaked into the county magistrate's house, read a lot of books, and naturally knew who Prince Duan was.
Prince Duan is the uncle of the current emperor. Due to the huge age gap between him and the late emperor, when the late emperor ascended the throne, Prince Duan was just a child. Therefore, he was not feared and was loved and valued by the late emperor. He was raised in the palace together with the current emperor and was brought up by the late emperor. He was deeply favored by the emperor and was named Prince Duan at an early age.
The current Emperor Cheng Qian is the only son of the late emperor. Compared with the late emperor's thrilling road to succession among many capable brothers, Emperor Cheng Qian is a recommended student born in a honeypot. Not to mention brothers competing with him for the throne, he doesn't even have a sister. He is the late emperor's only son.
After the death of the previous emperor, Emperor Chengqian came to the throne as a matter of course. However, Emperor Chengqian ascended the throne at the age of 25. It has been ten years now, and he has no sons or daughters. Whenever a concubine in the harem gets pregnant, she will inevitably miscarry early and cannot give birth to a child.
Emperor Chengqian is 35 years old this year and has no children. Prince Duan, his uncle who is about the same age as him, is naturally eager to make a move. The emperor has no son, but he has a son. If his son can be adopted by the emperor...
Many officials in the court also constantly advised Emperor Chengqian to adopt a son. Among them, the branch of Prince Duan was the branch that was closest to Emperor Chengqian in blood. In addition, with Prince Duan's efforts behind the scenes, many officials suggested that Emperor Chengqian adopt Prince Duan's son as his heir.
However, Emperor Cheng Qian did not give up the idea of letting his biological son inherit the throne. After all, it was not that he could not make his concubines pregnant, but the pregnant concubines had miscarriages for various reasons. He could not help but hold on to the hope that one of his concubines could give birth to a prince for him.
Therefore, Emperor Cheng Qian refused to adopt Prince Duan's son as the crown prince on the grounds that Prince Duan's son was his cousin and was of a lower generation, making it inconvenient to adopt him as his heir.
Prince Duan used to think that it might be because his son and Emperor Chengqian were of the same generation, that Emperor Chengqian was unwilling to adopt his son and waited patiently for his grandson to be born.
For the throne, he was willing to adopt out even his eldest grandson.
But what Prince Duan did not expect was that Emperor Chengqian just did not want to adopt a son, and the issue of seniority was just an excuse, so even if his grandson was born, Emperor Chengqian still did not agree to the adoption.
When Prince Duan realized Emperor Chengqian's intention, he began to think of rebelling. He originally wanted to use a roundabout way to let the throne fall into the hands of his grandson, but since the emperor was so ungrateful, he might as well rebel against him!
Prince Duan began to think about where to station and train his troops.
In the end, the valley near the small mountain village where the original owner lived was chosen, bringing a devastating disaster to the people in the original owner's village.
In addition to Prince Duan, there is another prince of the royal family who is very popular in the court - Prince Xun.
Although the blood relationship between Prince Xun and Emperor Chengqian is a little more distant than that between Prince Duan, it is not too distant and is also within the scope of adoption. The most important thing is that Prince Xun and Emperor Chengqian are of the same generation, and Prince Xun's son is not of a lower generation than Prince Duan's son.
It was just because Emperor Cheng Qian had not given up on giving birth to a prince himself that he was reluctant to agree to the adoption. However, in the court, Prince Duan and Prince Xun had already begun fighting for the throne under Emperor Cheng Qian's control.
At the beginning, Prince Duan had the upper hand. After all, Prince Duan was more closely related to Emperor Chengqian, and the two were raised together by the late emperor since childhood. The relationship between them was not comparable to that of Prince Xun.
However, Prince Duan took advantage of these connections and regarded the throne as something in his pocket, which made Emperor Chengqian quite dissatisfied with him. He raised Prince Xun to fight him, making the two forces evenly matched.
This can be considered as the current dispute over the throne.
Si Yuan certainly could not find any book that described the court struggles in such detail among the various books in the county magistrate's study. He only inferred so much information from clues revealed in various related books and some official reports.
Si Yuan asked the system: [Have all these books been entered? 】
The system replied: [Everything has been entered. Don't worry, host. Whatever you want to search for, as long as it is in this study, I can find it for you. 】
Si Yuan left here satisfied.
In the previous world, Si Yuan thought that the system's search function was very practical. He could find any information he wanted. It was simply a universal search.
But when he arrived in this world without the Internet, Si Yuan discovered the limitations of the system's search function. He realized that the information he could search in the previous world was all from information from all over the world that the system had entered through the Internet to build such a comprehensive database.
This world is an ancient world, and the system knows no more about this world than Si Yuan does, so this is why Si Yuan ran to the study in the county magistrate's house to find books to read.
The system felt somewhat guilty about its own incompetence: [I’m sorry, host, I can’t help you in this world. 】
Si Yuan comforted him: "It's okay. Your search function is not useless. All the information you entered into the Internet in the last world can still be searched in this world. I am like a person who traveled to ancient times with a modern database plug-in. You have been very useful. 】
Although this function is not of much help to Siyuan, it cannot be said to be useless.
In order to make the system work harder for him, Si Yuan cooked various delicious chicken soups and fed them to the system, so that the system could rekindle its passion for work.
After learning about Prince Duan's situation, Si Yuan quietly went to the valley that Prince Duan had chosen for stationing troops.
The terrain of this valley is indeed excellent. It is remote, but the valley bottom is very flat. It is not easy to be discovered if troops are stationed here, and there is also a mountain road for convenient transportation of supplies.
But for the safety of the whole village, Si Yuan could not allow Prince Duan to station troops here, so he created a mudslide and let the people who came to investigate the missing soldiers and check if Prince Duan had been found in the valley witness the mudslide with their own eyes.
So Si Yuan never saw any suspicious outsiders coming to check out the valley again.
If Prince Duan had no brains, he would not have stationed his troops in a valley that might be flooded by mudslides.
The small mountain village where the original owner lived was safe and avoided the crisis of village massacre this time.
As for the disappearance of Prince Duan's assassins, Si Yuan did not do anything, so Prince Duan spontaneously believed that it must have been his old rival Prince Xun who sent people to do it, and Prince Xun took the blame for Si Yuan.
This remote mountain village temporarily calmed down.
Si Yuan raised his daughter peacefully in this village, but he would not continue to live the same miserable life with little Fuling as the original owner.
He slowly displayed his superb martial arts skills in a way that would not arouse suspicion.
The villagers in the village actually had no idea about the difference between the original owner's mediocre kung fu and those martial arts masters. In the eyes of the villagers, the original owner, who could get something every time he went into the mountains to hunt, was actually a person with great martial arts skills. They envied the original owner for his martial arts and hunting skills. Even if his parents had passed away and there was no inheritance, he could still rely on his own skills to hunt and make money to build a house, marry a wife, and raise his sick daughter.
As little Fuling's health gradually improved and she no longer needed to take medicine, Si Yuan acted like he was living a comfortable life, and the villagers were not surprised.
After all, without the expense of Xiao Fuling's medicine, it was normal for the original owner to live the kind of affluent life shown by Shang Siyuan with his hunting ability.
Before the original owner had a daughter, he also lived an affluent life with meat to eat every day.
Si Yuan found an opportunity to take a few young men from the village to go hunting in the mountains. He taught them how to make traps and how to catch some simple prey. Soon he became a very popular figure in the village.
After all, not everyone is willing to teach their unique skills to other people in the village.
Even the families of the young men he taught sent gifts as a token of their respect for themselves.
Si Yuan did not accept the gift of becoming a disciple. He was just looking for an opportunity to make other families in the village live a better life. Most families in this village were very poor, and he was the only one who lived too well, so he was easily ostracized.
Si Yuan has no intention of moving to a new place for the time being. The beautiful scenery here is quite suitable for living in seclusion and raising cubs.
He also didn't want the child he raised to grow up alone like in the original plot, without even a playmate.
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