To Rise Again In The Apocalypse

After dinner, Li Xinwen went back to his room. His excuse to his family was, he's too tired today after playing the whole day so he wanted to rest early. While in his room, Li Xinwen looked through the cultivation manual. 'But then... what if there are better cultivation technique for him?' he thought, since there are still more books in the dimension. Even though he said that, he still spend time to read through everything. He put those that are best compatible with Sun Xiao's body constitution aside, then sends the rest back into the dimension.

When he looked at the wall clock, he realized that it was already close to 10:00 PM. "I wonder if Hua- jie is already asleep..." he murmured in a soft voice. Though he already knew the reason why Li Jinghua is protective of her, and how Li Xinwen died, he still wanted to know more about the apocalypse. "She mentions that Mr. Min had created a pill to heal the zombie virus by using the couldron... I wonder if she saw it personally..."

Deciding to enter Li Jinghua's memories once more, Li Xinwen turned the lights off and went to his bed. Closing his eyes, he let his spiritual energy goes inside Li Jinghua's mind once more and started to look through her memories. But halfway through, he suddenly felt that someone had entered his room. Not only that, this person even got onto his bed. Thinking it was an enemy trying to assassinate him, Li Xinwen retracted his senses back and returned to his body. When he opened his eyes, he saw a figure hovering above him. A hand was under his shirt, feeling him all over his body.

"Ah, did I wake you up?" that familiar voice made Li Xinwen frown and he quickly became alert.

'This kind of person... really must not be let off so easily!' Li Xinwen said in his mind before he raised his hand up and pushed the figure off him. Pushing seems to be an understatement since the figure actually flew off the bed.

"Care to tell me why the second young master of the Xue family is in my room this late at night?!" Li Xinwen asked as he got off the bed and approached Xue Liang in a domineering manner.

Xue Liang, was at first surprised when he was suddenly pushed off but it didn't take long for that surprise to change into excitement instead. He stood up and corrected his suit while his eyes never left Li Xinwen. "So, not only did your temparament change, you also became stronger? But you've been in coma for two months, only woke up recently. So how did you manage to get this strong?" Xue Liang asked.

'This guy... something is wrong with his head,' Li Xinwen thought as he stared at Xue Liang's eyes which have a hint of madness. 'I should erase his memories. Then just call Xue Rui to pick this guy up...'

While Li Xinwen was thinking, Xue Liang continued to speak. "You see, I've already asked those doctors around but they said that nothing about you is suspicious. The discharge report says that your body still have several scars that has yet to disappear but when I touched you earlier, your skin is smooth, lacking of any scars..."

"Oh? So what does the second young master want to say?" Li Xinwen asked in a low, dangerous tone. By manipulating the spiritual energy in the room, Li Xinwen put a pressure on Xue Liang, forcing the male to fall on his knees. At the same time, he made sure to only use the pressure that a rank one Houtian practitioner can exert. After all, he didn't want to accidentally turn Xue Liang into a bloody mess on the floor. "No matter, after this, you won't remember a thing."

Li Xinwen crouched down and touched Xue Liang's forehead and he was about to inject some spiritual energy to wipe out Xue Liang's memories for the day when something unexpected happened. Because this was a mortal realm, where most of the mortals are non-cultivator, Li Xinwen had put his guard down after putting a pressure on Xue Liang. After all, it was unheard of that a mere mortal could stand against the spiritual pressure of a cultivator. And yet, Xue Liang had just proven him wrong this time.

Xue Liang moved quickly. In one swift movement, he managed to aim at Li Xinwen's neck, in his hand is a syringe filled with a solution. It was only unfortunate for Xue Rui that Li Xinwen is now a peak 4th stage Houtian, so the flimsy tip of the syringe broke the moment it hit Li Xinwen's neck.

Li Xinwen blinked for a few seconds in disbelief as he stared at Xue Liang. At the same time, Xue Liang was also sporting a look of disbelief as he stared at the syringe with a broken needle.

"You..." Xue Liang began to speak.

BAM!

Li Xinwen aimed a fist right onto Xue Liang, punching him right across his face. This punch didn't have any spiritual energy in it, it was just a normal punch. Of course, if it was up to Li Xinwen, he really wanted to beat this man before thim half to death.

This punch was already enough to make Xue Liang fall to the floor and Li Xinwen frown once again. Earlier, when Xue Liang moved, he thought that it was because this man might also be a cultivator, albeit, a low ranked one. But after seeing this, he knew that his conjenctures were wrong. A cultivator, no matter how weak he is, even if they had just started, it's impossible for them to fall with just a simple punch with no spiritual energy imbued. 'So he really is a mortal... a mortal who can stand against the pressure of a 1st stage Houtian.'

Xue Liang piqued Li Xinwen's interest. He stared at Xue Liang who are currently wiped the blood off his lips after the punch earlier.  Sitting down on the floor with his legs crossed, Li Xinwen continued to stare at the other man. "I'll give you a chance. Tell me why you're here," Li Xinwen said as he then activated Mo Yan to inspect Xue Liang's body. 'Ah, no wonder he could resist slightly,' Li Xinwen thought in his mind as he discovered the reason. 'This man completed the first stage of Body Transformation and is actually close to entering the second stage.'