44: Chapter 44 Qin Family

Yunzhou, Qingfeng County.

A streak of light flew over from afar, and Lin Shen descended from high altitude, arriving directly at the city gate of Qingfeng County.

Qingfeng County had a city-protecting Formation, which forbade flying on swords high in the air inside. Otherwise, if a large group of Cultivators flew around on swords inside Qingfeng County, nobody knew what kind of chaos it would turn the entire Qingfeng County into.

Arriving at the city gate, at this time it was only seven days away from Qin Yuanming's two-hundredth birthday. Coupled with his Breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, countless people came to offer birthday congratulations. A large number of Cultivators were entering and exiting the city gate, and the traffic of people was extremely heavy.

Following this massive flow of people, Lin Shen walked into the city and headed all the way towards the Qin Family.

As Qin Yuanming's two-hundredth birthday was approaching, it attracted many people from surrounding families and Sects to come and offer birthday congratulations. Many Loose Cultivators successively set up mobile stalls on both sides of the spacious streets.

They shouted energetically, hoping to take advantage of Qin Yuanming's two-hundredth birthday to sell off some Medicinal Pills, spiritual talismans, or Yao Beast Materials they had accumulated, in exchange for a handsome sum of Spirit Stones.

Just as they expected, amidst the enthusiastic shouting of the mobile stalls, most of the stalls were very popular, and quite a few Cultivators stopped to purchase items they needed.

Lin Shen also strolled around these mobile stalls and spent more than three thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to purchase some Spirit Medicines that would help him consolidate his Foundation.

Although the age of these Spirit Medicines was not very high, taking them together with the top-grade guyuan pill still had a certain effect in terms of consolidating the Foundation and enhancing potential.

Strolling among these mobile stalls, Lin Shen walked towards the Qin Family unhurriedly.

At the same time, his gaze secretly sized up the surrounding environment. Walking all the way here, multiple hidden paths that were convenient for quickly leaving Qingfeng County had already appeared in his mind.

This was his habit.

Out of caution, Lin Shen basically remembered all the locations and directions of a strange place every time he arrived at one.

Which locations had a wide field of view, which locations were easy to hide in, and at the same time, which roads were easiest to leave by.

Don't look down on these things. They might not be useful on ordinary days, but in case other unexpected changes occurred, mastering this information would give him much more hope of escaping and surviving than knowing nothing at all.

Remembering all the locations and information spots in his mind, Lin Shen walked all the way toward the Qin Family.

About half an hour later.

During Lin Shen's unhurried walk, his footsteps stopped at an extremely vast courtyard residence.

A huge protective Formation enveloped the entire residence, which was not a bit inferior to the city-protecting Formation Lin Shen saw outside Qingfeng County.

On the plaque, two large characters were carved in a vigorous and cursive style — Qin Residence.

The Qin Family!

This extremely vast courtyard residence was none other than the Qin Family.

"As expected of a Family overseen by a Golden Core Old Ancestor, it is truly so imposing!"

Looking at such an imposing Qin Family, Lin Shen couldn't help muttering inwardly.

At this time, the Qin Family was bustling with activity. At the main entrance, more than a dozen Qin Family Disciples wearing uniform attire were welcoming guests and responsible for registering the information of visiting Cultivators.

A large number of Cultivators gathered around the Qin Family. Many experts with Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation had rich smiles on their faces and, under the hospitality of the welcoming Disciples, entered the Qin Family.

Most of these Cultivators gathered around were actually small cultivation families attached to the Qin Family. They deliberately rushed here in advance naturally to show their loyalty, and if they were lucky, they could even strike up a friendship with some big figures of the Qin Family.

There were also quite a few people who came here in advance to see if there were any Prodigy Disciples from other families or Sects, wanting to make friends with them to expand their personal connections.

Watching this scene, Lin Shen did not rush forward, but simply mixed into the crowd, listening to the surrounding Cultivators chatting and discussing with each other.

Anyway, he had already arrived at the Qin Family and had plenty of time; he didn't need to rush so much to enter the Qin Family directly.

Mixing among this group of Cultivators, he might even be able to get some useful things, listen to see whose Luck was relatively good, and hear if there were any rumors about Disciples of some small families suddenly rising to prominence.

After all, when he was in the mortal world, he had read quite a few storybooks.

The descendants of some down-and-out families suddenly obtained an Opportunity overnight and embarked on a path of counter-attacking in life.

Also, someone who was originally nothing more than a good-for-nothing suddenly rose up, displaying astonishing talent and strength, and from then on advanced triumphantly all the way, becoming a supreme existence in the world.

These were all story plots he had seen in storybooks.

Although it might be a bit nonsense, reality was often even more nonsense. Perhaps he could also use some deeds of the children of Luck recorded in the storybooks to distinguish and see if there were any families or Cultivators around with such experiences.

If there were any, he would definitely have to study them carefully; perhaps it would be the next Wang Zhan and the next Li Changye.

However, most of them were just some insignificant news and the sounds of mutual flattery among the surrounding people.

Just as Lin Shen was getting a bit impatient listening, a burst of whispered voices suddenly sounded around him.

Lin Shen couldn't help raising an eyebrow, casting his gaze towards the direction where everyone was discussing.

Only to see that at the main entrance of the Qin Family, a one-armed Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator was suddenly driven out, along with his gifts being thrown out together.

His appearance was extremely disheveled.

"Isn't that Li Haipeng, the head of the Li Family in Qingfeng City? I remember his son Li Yifan was betrothed to the granddaughter of the Fifth Elder of the Qin Family since childhood. Why was he suddenly driven out?"

Looking at Li Haipeng's rather disheveled appearance, some of the surrounding onlookers spoke up in deep puzzlement.

"You are ignorant of this. It seems you are not a person from Qingfeng County either. As early as three years ago, because Li Haipeng suffered heavy injuries and his Foundation was damaged, his cultivation dropped all the way from Foundation Establishment Late Stage to Foundation Establishment Early Stage. Coupled with his good-for-nothing son having only Five Spiritual Roots, the Qin Family called off the engagement long ago."

"Yeah, three years ago the Qin Family drew a clear line with the Li Family. Now this Li Haipeng still has the nerve to come and offer birthday congratulations; no wonder people chased him out."

"The granddaughter of the Fifth Elder of the Qin Family? Didn't she join the Shuiyue Sect as early as three years ago and become a Personal Disciple under a Golden Core Elder? No wonder Li Haipeng is so thick-skinned; he probably wants to help his good-for-nothing son fight for this childhood engagement once more!"

"Bah! That is a high Disciple of the Shuiyue Sect and a Personal Disciple under a Golden Core Elder. Li Haipeng is really daydreaming. They are soaring to success now, plus their Family's Old Ancestor has broken through to the Golden Core, how could they possibly look down upon his good-for-nothing son?"

The people around whispered and discussed animatedly.

Watching Li Haipeng's disheveled departure, their eyes carried a look of banter and mockery.

Of course, they only dared to say these words behind his back. If they faced Li Haipeng, they would only hypocritically express pity for Li Haipeng.

After all, no matter how bad Li Haipeng was, and even if he was heavily injured, he was still in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Most of these whispering people were basically all in the Qi Refining Late Stage and Qi Refining Peak.

It was precisely because of the suppression on ordinary days that now seeing the disheveled appearance of a Foundation Establishment Realm figure, they naturally couldn't help flapping their jaws.