Chapter 97 Shop Disturbance

Early summer arrived with the chirping of cicadas. In the afternoon, at Zizai Pavilion, Chen Li had been cultivating the Atmosphere Returning to Heaven Dispersion Method for a month and had achieved Minor Achievement.

Looking at the lush Spiritual Plant fields and spirit rice fields down the mountain, Chen Li felt carefree. Black Magpie Mountain in early summer was full of vitality, and midsummer would arrive soon.

Brother Ox was walking in the rice field with a Spirit Cat sitting on its back. The two would occasionally pick up some Puppets and then direct them to weed.

After the Spirit Cat returned, Chen Li let it stay with Brother Ox. The Spirit Cat was much smarter than Brother Ox, but every time, the Spirit Cat was very patient with Brother Ox. Brother Ox now had its first true friend.

There were few things Brother Ox could do now, mostly Alchemy, but Chen Li gave it a suitable Cultivation Technique, which he had picked from a pile of purchased or seized techniques.

It was called "Great Mountain Pressing Down." It was mainly to give Brother Ox a primary means of attack. This Great Mountain Pressing Down was a domineering technique for close-quarters combat, capable of turning one's own Spiritual Qi into the gravity of a mountain, and then charging forward!

Now, every member of the Family cultivated the Qi Concealment Art, Soul Suppressing Art, and Atmosphere Returning to Heaven Dispersion Method. The remaining killing techniques were all different.

Chen Li had the silver fire spear from the Four Illusions Spear Soul Art, the frost condensing sword from the Profound Shadow Ice Art, the three absolutes disaster severing blade integrated into spear techniques, and the True Fire Burning Heaven Art.

Zhu Lingyue had the moon scooping sword from the moon scooping sword Technique, Chen Songli had the flame fire sword from the flame fire sword Technique, and Chen Songyan was currently focusing on the thunder roar sword Technique. The thunder roar sword was a Magical Artifact that Chen Songxiao had helped him forge.

Chen Songxuan and Chen Songxiao both focused on saber techniques—one the "Nine-Layer Slash," the other the "Great Mountain Slash." Both were powerful and domineering saber techniques. One used the "Nine-Layer Saber," and the other used the calamity severing saber.

However, everyone in the Family knew how to use Formations, so they had Formation assistance for their attacks. In particular, the flame fire sword Formation self-created by Chen Songli had significant lethality; he had seen it before.

Once Chen Songyan's Iron Fire Ant were cultivated and grown, he could also control insects for attacks. The Puppets of the third brother, Chen Songxuan, and the crossbow weapons self-created by the Fourth Brother, Chen Songyan, were all auxiliary attack means for a Cultivator.

These techniques above were all obtained by Chen Li through killing or bought at the market.

However, the Family lacked a unified trump card technique, so Chen Li planned to Cultivate the "Blood Fire Sacred Method." After finishing the cultivation, he would integrate it with the earth vein fire and fuse it with the True Fire Burning Heaven Art to see if he could create a better Cultivation Technique that could take one from Qi Refining to the Golden Core or Nascent Soul Realm.

Zhu Lingyue would take his place for the next patrol, so his seclusion would not have an impact.

Zhu Lingyue's cultivation at the Early Foundation Establishment Stage was enough to protect herself in the county. She simultaneously cultivated two Qi concealment techniques, so her cultivation was also difficult to be discovered by those in the Qi Refining stage or the same Realm.

Chen Li acted as soon as he decided. He returned to the Great Sun Seed Cultivation Cave Mansion and began to Cultivate this unique skill!

Inside the Great Sun Seed Cultivation Cave Mansion, Chen Li began to sit cross-legged and refine the blood fire.

...

Inside the Artifact Refining Residence, Chen Songxiao had already re-forged the calamity severing saber that Chen Li had given him, replenishing the thunder attribute consumed by this blade.

At this moment, Chen Songyan came over.

"Fourth Brother, I've come to learn Artifact Refining from you. The thunder roar sword you forged for me developed cracks during sparring with Eldest Sister. I need to forge my own sword too."

Chen Songxiao said at this moment: "Second Brother, aren't you helping Father hatch that snake egg? How do you have time to learn Artifact Refining!"

"That hatching doesn't happen that fast; it still needs several months. Every day, I just need to adjust the Dharma formula, no need to worry about it!"

"Then Second Brother, you are not allowed to run away halfway through learning this time!" Chen Songxiao was afraid that his Second Brother would give up easily, so he gave a warning in advance.

"Fourth Brother, I won't. Come on! This time I definitely won't run away halfway!"

Chen Songxiao smiled and said: "Okay, Second Brother."

...

At the Dao Seeking Platform, the Spirit Cat was watching Brother Ox Cultivate "Great Mountain Pressing Down," occasionally pointing out problems. The Spirit Cat glanced at the technique and gestured to Brother Ox, and Brother Ox nodded.

"Meow~~," the Spirit Cat: Do you understand?

"Moo!!" Brother Ox: Understood!

One cat and one ox were cultivating the technique at the Dao Seeking Platform; cross-species communication was no problem.

At the "Formation Comprehensive Building," Chen Songli was on the third floor. After taking another bottle of qi overflowing pill and cultivating to absorb the medicinal power, the sound transmission stone sent a message.

Someone was causing trouble at the shop in the county!

Chen Songli took out the teleportation token for Black Magpie Mountain and the shop, walked to the first floor, went to the door of the exclusive teleportation room, performed a hand seal, and was teleported to the shop courtyard in the county city in a moment.

As soon as she teleported, she heard voices.

"Last time I bought a second-grade Formation from your Chen Family shop, and when I went back, the Formation Flag was broken and couldn't be used at all. Compensate me!"

"Senior, this Formation Flag wouldn't have such problems!"

"I don't care, call your boss out!"

The shop assistant was a Non-Clan Cultivator of the Family, at the Qi Refining First Layer, and could do nothing against this Fourth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivator.

A moment later, Chen Songli's voice came from the courtyard.

"Fellow Daoist, let me take a look!"

However, Chen Songli did not walk over but kept a distance of ten meters. When she heard "call your boss out," she became very vigilant!

Seeing Chen Songli come over, the shop assistant breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "Young Miss, this Formation was sold only yesterday. We checked it yesterday, and there were no problems. After one day, he came over saying there was a problem; he is extremely unreasonable."

Chen Songli nodded. Her apparent cultivation level was the Third Level of Qi Refining, preparing to reach the Fourth Layer.

Seeing Chen Songli's youthful appearance, the man must have thought it was the eldest daughter of the Chen Family, and became even more arrogant: "Hurry up and take a look, is your Chen Family selling fake goods?"

Chen Songli wanted to take the object from the air, but the other party wanted to step forward. Chen Songli took a step back. Seeing Chen Songli like this, the man's left eyeball rolled, and he could only let Chen Songli take the object from the air!

Chen Songli watched the other party's small movements and remained vigilant. After checking the flag pole, she smiled: "Fellow Daoist, you brought a flag pole from someone else's place and told me that our Chen Family sells fake goods. What is your intention, Fellow Daoist!"

The man's eyeballs rolled again, and he quibbled: "Hmph, this flag pole is definitely from your Chen Family, don't try to deny it!"

Chen Songli took a flag pole from the shop, performed a hand seal, and on a subtle Formation pattern, two characters appeared: "Chen Family."

"Fellow Daoist, this is our Chen Family's anti-counterfeiting Formation pattern. The secret command spell to reveal it is only known to our Chen Family. This flag pole of yours doesn't have this thing at all!"

After Chen Songli finished speaking, she was calm and composed, crossing her arms, and said: "Fellow Daoist, what else do you have to say!"

At this time, the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivator who came to cause trouble looked ugly. His eyeballs rolled wildly, and he said shamelessly: "That doesn't prove this one isn't from your Family. What if you missed it!"

Seeing this, Chen Songli seemed to have expected it, and said: "Haha, our Chen Family has sold to so many people, you are the only one with a problem!" Then she took out the shadow-recording stone hidden above the shop and said: "Does the Fellow Daoist really want to take this to that step?"

Every time a set of Formations was sold, the person who came and the anti-counterfeiting Formation pattern would be recorded.

Seeing Chen Songli take out the shadow-recording stone, this Fourth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivator causing trouble could no longer pretend. A trace of black Qi appeared in his eyes, and he hurriedly ran out!

When leaving, he still said to Chen Songli: "I will remember today's matter!"

After this person left, Chen Songli returned to the second floor. She thought for a while and felt that this person was not simple!

Her father's reputation had already spread; presumably, those who caused trouble would find out which Family this shop belonged to. But a Fourth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivator still dared to cause trouble, which meant that the people behind them were not afraid of her father!

Chen Songli returned to the courtyard and teleported back to Black Magpie Mountain.