turmoil!

Half a month later, you successfully arrived at Mai City and reached the Feng Shi Escort Agency!

Due to your powerful assistance, the Feng Shi Escort Agency changed its fate of being annihilated and was not destroyed in the year 100010.

You saw your Second Senior Sister again, but she had become quiet and often sat in her wheelchair, staring blankly at the pond in the courtyard!

But for some unknown reason, you felt your Second Senior Sister's aura had become increasingly restrained.

You heard that something big had indeed happened in Mount Song City! The Buddha Palace Great Grandmaster went directly to the Martial Arts Academy, demanding they hand over the culprit who killed the Buddha Palace Grandmaster!

Neither of the two behemoths was happy with the other, but the old Headmaster was clearly no match for the Buddha Palace Great Grandmaster, and all the other Great Grandmasters had been transferred to the front lines. In the end, only a mediator dispatched by a higher authority could resolve the situation.

The Martial Arts Academy only managed to protect everyone else; your identity was exposed! After all, four Quenching Marrow Realm Grandmasters had died. Grandmasters capable of entering the Limit State were considered mid-to-high-tier combatants, and every major force valued them highly. Someone had to take the blame!

At that time, only you were not at the Martial Arts Academy, so even if your identity was exposed, you wouldn't be caught immediately. The rest was up to you.

Feng Qingyang told you to Cultivate in peace here, as no one except Feng Qingyang and a few others had seen you!

You agreed, put on a mask, and declared to the Escort Agency that you were a newly hired Protector by Feng Qingyang, serving as a superficial identity to guard the Feng Shi Escort Agency.

You began to tally your gains from this trip.

You obtained the improved Vajra Bell Shield, Buddha Light Gathering Body Art, and Great Niluo Body Refining Art.

You worried that these things couldn't be taken with you, so you decided to Cultivate these arts first.

In the thirteenth year, soaking in enlightenment tea and focusing on secluded Cultivation, with the foundational boost of the Vajra Hand, your Vajra Bell Shield successfully reached thegetting Started (initiation) stage!

In the same year, the clue linking the Feng Shi Escort Agency to a Martial Arts Academy student from back then was traced by the Buddhist sect, but it was interrupted by some mysterious force!

Protection consumed 1 time, 1 time remaining.

Outside the simulator, Chen Fan couldn't help but sigh at how terrifying these major forces were; even the slightest disturbance or old intelligence could pose a fatal threat to him.

In the fifteenth year, with the help of enlightenment tea, the Vajra Bell Shield reached theEntering the room (mastery) stage, and your strength surged! During this time, you represented the Feng Shi Escort Agency in outbidding others, demonstrating the Agency's ability to remain aloof in the chaotic Mai City.

In the seventeenth year, the Vajra Bell Shield reached theMasterful (perfection) stage, and your strength successfully Broke Through to Viscera Tempering Fifth Layer! The situation became increasingly chaotic and turbulent, but with your presence, the Feng Shi Escort Agency remained stable amidst the turmoil!

Your Second Senior Sister seemed to have gained some enlightenment about this world and left in the night, leaving only a letter asking you not to worry.

In the eighteenth year, you continued to conquer the Vajra Bell Shield. Except for Wind Spirits's wedding, where Feng Qingyang invited heroes from Mai City to witness, and you came out to preside, you were almost entirely focused on secluded Cultivation!

On the wedding day, as a Protector, you could feel that among all the people present, only one person you couldn't see through, possibly a Quenching Marrow Realm expert!

After the wedding, he found you and introduced himself as the leader of the Azure Dragon Secret Cult Branch, stating he had no ill intentions and invited you to join their Secret Cult Branch and leave with them.

You politely declined his offer and returned to the Escort Agency, advising Feng Qingyang to relocate as soon as possible, as the Great Wei border was on the verge of complete collapse.

In the nineteenth year, you made further progress in your Cultivation of the Vajra Bell Shield. In the same year, news indeed came that the Great Wei border had completely collapsed, and even Black Stone City had been overrun and lost. Having already prepared, you decisively left Mai City and headed north!

Along the way, you heard that many cities and towns in the southeast had been completely overrun by the Great Qin army, leaving countless common people displaced.

Every time you reached a city, after resupplying, you immediately continued heading north! However, with your large group of family and dependents, you were eventually caught. Three thousand cavalry surrounded your group and launched an assault!

You personally intervened, relying on your terrifying combat power, and with the cooperation of others from the Escort Agency, youfront (directly) defeated this cavalry unit! Besides you, the team also suffered heavy losses.

But the misfortune had only just begun; information about your team was completely exposed within the Great Qin vanguard's intelligence network! They even mobilized a large army and countless True Blood Warriors to encircle and annihilate you!

You fought valiantly, giving your all. Wherever you went, even a fifth-tier True Blood Warrior was no match for you, but your casualties grew increasingly severe. After all, you were just one person and couldn't protect the entire team.

Just as you were at your wits' end, one of the Secret Sect strongholds was accidentally overrun by the Great Qin army. This happened to be a fanatical Secret Sect, which chose to undergo fullDistortion (aberration)!

Without being disturbed, the leader directly aberrated into a pig-headed, human-bodied monster comparable to a Great Grandmaster, delivering a heavy blow to the Great Qin army. This greatly diverted the attention of the Great Qin vanguard!

Protection consumed 1 time, 0 times remaining!

Seizing this opportunity, you successfully escaped from the wilderness into the continuous mountains, venturing deep into uninhabited areas, finally stopping your flight and setting up camp!

When you left, the Escort Agency, along with family and elders, numbered several hundred people. Now, there were only dozens; your losses were extremely heavy!

Even Feng Qingyang was severely wounded, and you alone were propping up the entire Escort Agency!

You said that for the next few decades, the entire Great Wei would be in turmoil. This uninhabited place was perfect for recuperation, waiting for the outside war to end! Everyone else also gave up their life of fleeing and agreed with your suggestion.

Thus, you settled down again, transforming from escorting goods to living as mountain villagers! You continued to hold the main camp and Cultivate.

In the twenty-first year, you finally succeeded in Cultivating the Vajra Bell Shield to the Great Perfection stage, your Physical Body strength further improved, leading to a rise in your True Qi Cultivation. You began to switch to Cultivating the Great Niluo Body Refining Art.

Within two years, the atmosphere of the entire encampment began to accept the current way of life, and some who wished to return to civilized life took on the task of exploring for intelligence outside!

In the twenty-third year, five Martial Artists you sent out successively all lost contact; not a single one returned, whether they left on their own or met with misfortune! But this further solidified your idea of staying in the mountains to Cultivate!

During this time, you felt that for some reason, the fierce beasts nearby also became more aggressive, as if they were gradually evolving. Many Martial Artists encountered danger while hunting.

You felt this was incredibly absurd! Humans had lived for ten thousand years without evolving, yet as soon as you moved in, there were signs of evolution!

You understood that your identity as a human harbinger of misfortune was at play, or that the hidden hand was secretly catalyzing some crisis targeting you!

You were also not stingy. Here, you could be said to be the reliance and emperor of the tribe. You began to distribute your fingers and blood as enlightenment tea, rapidly increasing the number and strength of Martial Artists within the tribe! Feng Qingyang and others were shocked that your Physical Body was comparable to Heaven And Earth Treasure, and at the same time overjoyed that they would have a continuous supply of Heaven And Earth Treasure.

In the twenty-fifth year, you successfully Cultivated the Great Niluo Body Refining Art to theEntering the room (mastery) stage. Within these two years, almost everyone in the tribe became a Martial Artist, and there were even a few more Body Tempering Grandmasters.

However, after you emerged from seclusion, Feng Qingyang informed you of a crucial piece of intelligence: the second batch of Great Qin's army had begun to enter Great Wei territory, launching a comprehensive extermination plan targeting True Qi Warriors! Even the Great Wei army had retreated to the vicinity of the imperial capital, and almost the entire Great Wei had fallen into the Great Qin's territory.

Traces of Great Qin soldiers had already appeared on the outskirts of your mountains. All signs indicated that this mountain forest was likely to undergo a cleansing!

Although the evolution of the wild beasts deep in these mountains made you uneasy, you currently had no choice but to take a risk and lead the tribe to migrate deeper into the heavy mountains!