After I reconciled with my heart on that subject, finally the most troublesome thing that kept bothering me was resolved, I felt a sense of relief wash over me, thinking that I had finally got rid of the dagger that was aimed at my back, Lu Si existence disappearing meant that I from now on will have much easier time in the Lu Family .
At least for the period that I'm staying in this family for, I'm now 100 percent determined to leave this Family as soon as possible, whatever this family with plotting or helping those Evil Tigers to plot, it shouldn't be something good, if even the Emperor was involved, so even if I'm not afraid of getting up to the 13th ancestor of mine cursed, I will still not want to cross someone who was able to create a dynasty in such a world .
No matter how powerful the Lu family is, I believe that sticking with it was akin to throwing yourself in a fire and hoping that the heat won't burn you alive, whatever they were plotting, I wanted to have no part in, I for myself will try and amass enough money and try to warn as many people as I could just to shut my conscience up .
I after all was nothing but a slave to the family, they shouldn't care about me that much, then after a period of time on this incident, I will then buy my freedom and pay my debt to this family and directly jump from this sunken ship .
Settling down on any place outside of the family with my current strength and abilities could have been much easier, if not for the fact that I was now being targeted and someone was trying to turn me into a Furnace, whatever that meant .
After solving the issue with my heart, ton of other issues appeared one after another, I tried to sleep them out, but no matter how hard I tried to put myself to sleep, there was not even the slightest amount of sleepiness in my eyes, not to mention that my whole body was cold and covered with sweat and had a foul smell to it .
In the end I shocked my head and stood up and accepted that I'm in for quite the long night, the sky was as dark as it could get, so I was able to understand that I still have some time to sleep later, my mind currently was so active to the point that I was beginning to wonder if the life-death encounter from earlier was the reason for this .
I already had an answer in my heart, so I was thankful for that and didn't dwell on it much than needed, I took myself and reached for the place I was training in earlier following the light coming from the lantern .
I took the lantern and the clothes that need to be washed then went to the pond from yesterday directly, luckily it was in another direction, so there was no need for me to even get close to the cursed location from earlier, I washed my clothes by hand since there was no washer here, nor there was any soap as well .
I just soaked my clothes with the water from the bond and kept squeezing the smell out of my clothes while thinking of the countermeasures that I might be able to make in dealing with the Evil Tigers, I can try fabricating my death, but I will still have to go to the Dojo and something was telling me that they had spies inside the Dojo as well, that Lu Chiang could be the informer .
After all, they were able to know that Instructor Lu was leaving even before Deacon Lu know of such an information, so fabricating my death can only work, if I were to give up on acquiring those Nutrition Soups, that was a no go .
After all, I don't have the privilege to do so, even though I already acquired a way to practice and cultivate my Blood Qi, there might be a situation that might required my body to be completely healthy in the future, why put my future at risk then, but also if I didn't find a way to deal with those Evil Tigers, I might not even have a future to held into .
The Furnace they wanted to turn me into will probably end up killing or crippling me, if I was strong enough to secure my own safety and my own retreat route, I would have probably handed myself to them and infiltrated this organization, then tried to perform as poorly as possible, that might make them lose interest in me .
But I'm not even near that level of strength required nor was I certain that they might find another way for myself to perform well, also if I had this much strength, I don't even need to infiltrate their organization, escaping should be easy, so this plan too was a no go plan .
For now, I had no definitive move I could make, that should be able to help me get rid of their attention on me, I'm not even sure whether I was the only one they are focusing on getting, or I'm one of many, either way, the best thing to do now was to stay put, I will first see what would happen, after they become aware of the death of the person who should have been tasked with dealing with me .
With that over, I couldn't help but laugh dryly at myself, Imagine dying because my talent catching someone attention to the point of making them become wary of me and not sparing anything to get rid of me, I also couldn't help but sigh at the fate that might have awaited that Lu Jiu, if he were to have been able to stay alive .
He might just die out of different reason, but his fate was sealed to be bad either way, I couldn't help but pity that guy's fate, he was bound to be used until he seek his own death.
I understood that this world was cruel, but I hadn't even finished my first day in this world and already survived at least two to three life-death crisis, but luckily and as long as I'm not getting suspected to be the killer, I believe that the next few days, should be much better, at least I hope so .
I will try to save the others, but whether the others are willing to be saved or not, that's completely up to them, I will spread rumors while being as discreet as possible, then I will get out of the scene, not wanting to risk being pointed at as the instigator, I will implement this plan when I finally have enough money to leave the Family's Complex and get rid of the influence the Lu Family still had on me .
Leaving this at that, I believe that I have covered all the important details regarding that last incident, I just wonder about if that dangerous accomplice of Deacon Lu will come to suspect something was off, I hope he do, I believe that it might force him to be on guard and at least distract his attention .
Now, I'm free to count my gains out of that incident earlier, the first gain would be that I'm still okay after using that secret technique, the ignition of Blood Qi and Vitality was removed and I was able to use Blood Qi as fuel to use that secret technique and increase my strength .
The amount consumed is currently quite big, but I'm still in the first layer of Flesh Tempering, so I believe that the 3 minutes that I'm able to use that secret technique for should be extended soon with my breakthrough .
I also confirmed that the panel in my head was not only able to remove side effects, but it also could really be used to enhance my mastery over my Martial Skill as well, the second message telling me of poorly execution of Martial Arts was a proof of that .
It was the third message that unsettled me, the apperance of that mysterious energy helped me and wanted to damage me as well, it helped in healing my body in a massive way, I no longer even feel an aching in my body, but the panel message told me that it was for some reason trying to wreck havoc in my body .
I also noted that after stopping the secret technique that strange energy stopped eating my Blood Qi and disappeared, I believe that this mysterious energy as the panel called it was a good thing, if not the panel should have removed it together with the havoc it was causing in my body .
There might be also the chance of the panel just being unable to remove it, so I will need to experience a bit more with it before I get to a definitive answer, I'm happy for the great help that secret technique gave me, it was enough to give me possession of a hidden triumph card up my sleeves, one that I can use to turn my situation around, without thinking much about the consequences .
I also become aware of how powerful I can be after using that secret technique together with the Thunderclap Fist, if I caught someone off guard with it, I can finish that guy in one shot as long as he was in the 5th or 4th layer of Flesh Tempering .
To deal with a person who is in the fifth Flesh Tempering layer, I believe he will need to be off guard, even though I understood the ugly truth about Practitioners in Flesh Tempering still could be killable, I believe that the 4th and 5th layers of Flesh Tempering are people I can challenge into a fight and even kill under some special conditions and circumstances .
The 4th I might be able to deal with due to the advantage of being in the same layer as him after using the secret technique, as for the 5th Martial Apprentice, if he used his Blood Qi to defend himself then the fight will turn into a tough battle of attrition to see who will run out of his Blood Qi faster .
I will need to be swift and decisive with my attacks, after all he will have a great advantage over me in his defense and maybe even strength if we put what Martial Skills he might have practiced .
Then unto the second massive gain, I was able to get from that encounter in my opinion, the experience I was able to get from this incident, that experience will continue to benefit me now and in the future, it gave my mind the ability to analyze its situation and should help me adjust with the surprises that my enemies might throw at me .
If not for how great the new effect that I discovered that panel had, I might even put it in the first place in terms of the gains I got from this incident, I knew how to fight, but how to fight in this world was completely different, there were skills and techniques that could allow you to one shot your enemy or opponent .
This experience wasn't only related to combat, no, it made me learn a few lessons that I only realized their importance after I had finally calmed down and had a chance to contemplate on them .
One of those lesson was one that appeard in the shape of an idiom to me, Being Kind To Your Enemy Meant Being Cruel To Yourself, earlier I could have warned that guy to let go of me or I will make him pay, but even though I can't imagine that conceited guy to have much reaction to this, I was able to see him be a bit more guarded against me, probably leading my attack on him to fail .
So no matter how my enemy looked like, I will deal the decisive blow to him without caring or underestimating the state he is in, unlike the conceited Deacon Lu, I will use my full strength to strike at my enemies and finish the battle as quick as possible .
I will need to enhance my combat experience as well, remembering what happened during the battle, if it can be even called as such, in the end I was maimed after one move, so I don't believe that can be called a battle, a one side beating would be the right word to describe it .
I had made so wrong calls during the skirmish with Deacon Lu, for example I already understood the fact that he was much stronger than me, yet I stood there waiting for his attack to come at me, instead of rolling over .
There was also the fact that I tried to use moves from Crouching Tiger to escape the onslaught, but due to my unfamiliarity with the execution together with the other psychological factors that were in work at that time, not only was I not able to execute it well, I was unable to excuste it at all .
So I do really believe that I need to sharpen my instincts and senses and most importantly my proficiency in executing Martial Skill a lot more than the current, I believe growth through battle will be the best way, even if I just sparred against an imaginary partner for now, but it's necessary .
The fight from earlier and seeing that weird sword strike earlier, gave me a lot of insight Into my own shortcomings, it also filled me with anticipation to see how far would I be able to walk on my own Martial Path, those insights were what made me understand the importance of Martial Practitioners sparring against one another .
Seeing that I have squeezed the clothes in my hand completely, I removed the clothes I wore on and did the same but choose another area of the water due to the fact of not wanting to sullen my clothes by washing them on the now dirty water .
I only have worn them for a few hours, but for some reason not only they were smelling terribly, I saw that there were black mud like spots on the green vest I bought, those dark spots were smelling a foul odor than the rest of the shirt, my body had some of those black like mucus on it as well .
I was shocked and discarding of anything else on mind, I hurried to check if there were any holes in the vest or the trouser, but weirdly enough both clothes were fine, the back of the vest had a few strings loose, but thankfully that was all .
It seemed that even clothes here were quite built different, not able to know the source of those black spots, I first washed them off, then began to repeat the process of washing them in the bond .
This time my thoughts were completely on the last gain, I could be said to have gained by risking my life for it, it was that brown long leather pouch, the one I extracted from Deacon Lu body, that pouch seemed to be quite heavy, so it most likely had some valuable things inside .
It seemed that I will be able to amass the amount of money I will need to get out of the family earlier than expected, I felt there was something weird with it to, so I will need to check it after finishing here .
I continued to squeeze the new clothes of mine while thinking that I might have indeed choose the best place to live in, but just as I was thinking of this, I began to hear whistles being blown from all directions around me, I first didn't react to them much, but after a few seconds .
Then I was beginning to hear the guards yelling that there were a murder and as if my mind was jolted awake, I hurriedly got my clothes and went running back to my hut, I was having a feeling of crisis due to the fact that I had left that leather pouch laying on my straw bed in the hut .