Chapter 0022 – You Can Teach Me in Secret – Absolute Returns

I walked out of the Heavenly Demon Book Pavilion and went straight to the Heavenly Demon Hall.

“Father, I’m back.” I saluted respectfully.

My father watched me silently for a moment before speaking, “Come forward.”

I took five steps forward as instructed.

“Closer.”

I took three more steps.

“Come again.”

I walked to the bottom of the steps, just a step away from my father.

I could feel that my father was probing my aura, wanting to know what martial arts I had acquired. But I didn’t utilize the Wind God’s Four Steps along the way, so it’s impossible for him to discern anything from my footwork.

“What martial arts did you acquire at the Heavenly Demon Book Pavilion?” Father asked.

“It’s a secret.” I said, pretending to be secretive.

My father seemed to have anticipated that I would say this, and he wasn’t annoyed, he just smiled faintly, and then released a powerful demonic aura.

“I don’t want to ask a second time.”

This demonic qi was very different from the demonic qi released by those Daoist ghosts before, it wasn’t a pinprick of pain, but a suffocating feeling of being dragged into an endless abyss. My body gradually turned cold, and the operation of my true qi became stagnant.

I had no intention of hiding it from my father, so I answered frankly, “I have acquired a light skill.”

“What lightness?”

“Four steps of the Wind God.”

As soon as the words fell, a dead silence fell over the great hall.

In the next moment, the demonic aura that had been somewhat restrained once again surged forward, completely drowning me.

“Don’t talk nonsense!” There was a hint of anger in his father’s voice.

“A thousand times over.” I said firmly.

The demonic aura was like a giant beast in the abyss, trying to devour me. I felt like I was sinking and had difficulty breathing, as if I would suffocate in the next second. The fear of death lingered like a shadow.

Just then, it was as if I saw, in that endless darkness, a pair of eyes watching me.

‘!’

The moment I looked at each other with four eyes, all the pressure disappeared, and I reentered the Temple of Heavenly Demons, standing on top of the bright red velvet carpet.

Father withdrew his demonic aura and his tone was undeniable, “Show me the martial arts you’ve learned.”

Obviously, he still doesn’t believe that I’ve acquired the Four Steps of the Wind God.

“What are you going to give me for my favor?” I asked with a smile.

The father wore an incredulous expression; in his long life, probably no one had ever dared to make a deal with him.

“Keep you alive.”

I let out a light laugh and retreated a few steps back to the center of the hall before slowly executing the Four Steps of the Wind God.

The moment I executed the Dark Shadow Steps, my father stood up violently. With just the first step, he sensed the extraordinary nature of this light skill.

I finished rehearsing the four steps of the Four Steps of the Wind God one by one.

Although his father was happy and angry, he could not hide his shock at this moment. The Four Steps of the Wind God had long been lost, and this was the first time he had seen this supreme lightweight skill, but he knew the power of this martial art.

“Where did you learn the Four Steps of the Wind God?” There was a hint of disbelief in his father’s voice.

He was already convinced that what I had performed was none other than the long lost Wind God Four Steps.

“Heavenly Demon Book Pavilion.”

Before the words fell, my father’s figure flickered and instantly came to me, grabbing me by the neck, his tone cold and piercing, “How dare you deceive me?”

His eyes were filled with rage, as if he was going to crush me in the next second. This was the first time he had ever made a move against me, and the reason for it was, surprisingly, because I had acquired the Four Steps of the Wind God.

But I wasn’t angry, I knew that my father’s obsession with martial arts was deep in his bones. It was also this obsession that allowed him to achieve his current dominance. I understand him.

“There are no Wind God Four Steps in the Heavenly Demon Book Pavilion at all.” My father’s voice was like ten thousand years of cold ice, causing me to fall into an ice cave.

A cold, bone-piercing chill came from his fingertips, very different from the feeling of the demonic aura from before.

“But I did learn it there.” I met his gaze without flinching.

“A load of crap!”

“Can you guarantee that you’ve read all the secret books in the bookcase? Perhaps it wasn’t on the shelf of light secret books, but was placed elsewhere.”

“So, you already knew that the Four Steps of the Wind God were in the Heavenly Demon Book Pavilion?”

“I don’t know.”

“Lies!”

“I really don’t know, I was going to learn some other martial art, I just happened to find it.”

That part I could only lie about because I had no other way to explain it. Of course, father would never believe it.

My father let go of my neck and asked again, “Where is it?”

“It was padded under a bookshelf as a stepping stone.”

“How did you find out?”

“I saw it put askew and thought I’d set it right, and that’s when I found it.”

My father seemed to be weighing the truth of my words; he wanted to send someone to fetch the secret book, but eventually gave up.

“You must have destroyed the most crucial part of the secret book.”

“How do you know?”

“Because if it were me, I’d do the same thing.”

My father gave me a deep look, then turned back to the window, no less quickly than he had come.

“Memorize the mantra to me.”

I knew it, he would do it! That’s my father!

My aim is not to defeat my father and take his place. Even more so, I don’t want to make the same mistake as in my previous life, waiting painstakingly for the emergence of Hua martial arts.

Revenge is important, but I came back this time to save my father and everyone in the Heavenly Demon Temple.

I won’t let revenge be all I have in this life. Revenge is only the reason I came back, and the reason I came back is to live well.

After killing Hua Wuji and after my father passes on the Heavenly Demon position to me, I will leave the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect, get away with the world, and enjoy this hard-won second life to the fullest.

That’s my real life. I’m going to use this young body to experience all the beauty of this world. I’m going to write my life into a legendary story titled Life as a Sword Wuji.

Therefore, telling my father the recipe for the Four Steps of the Wind God was nothing to me at all.

Of course, I wouldn’t give it to him for nothing.

“I refuse.”

To avoid my father’s anger again, I hastened to add, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”

“As I recall, I didn’t teach you those moves for free back at the hunting grounds.” My father looked at me with a smirk.

“That’s for your drinks at the hunting grounds.” I said cheekily.

My father was defeated by my shamelessness, he shook his head helplessly, “Why didn’t I realize before that you were so brazen.”