107: Task span, seeking help
“Senior Sister, stop pinching; my face is going to deform.”
Chen Xuan looked at the bickering Senior Brother and Junior Sister, and the smile on his lips widened.
“Revered Master, staying in the house to cultivate every day is too boring. This Disciple wants to go out and see the world.”
It was Chen Teng who spoke.
His childish voice was mixed with a hint of grievance and resentment.
He inexplicably felt his shoulders were heavy.
From birth until now, Chen Teng felt very tired, mentally exhausted.
Want to go out?
Chen Xuan looked at Chen Teng, who, despite his young age, had the expression of someone much older on his face.
He couldn't help but start to reflect.
Was it too early to lead him onto the path of cultivation?
He was still a child.
However, the Qilian Mountains were currently undergoing tumultuous changes, with an unknown number of mixed individuals pouring in.
Chen Teng was only a Golden Core Realm Cultivator.
Even if he Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, Chen Xuan still wouldn't be at ease.
A few days ago, Supreme Elder Zhuo Bufan, the Returning Void Realm Grand Elder of Kunwu Sect, even came to the Chen Family.
If he encountered an existence like him,
a Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator could probably be easily crushed with a single finger by the opponent.
Just as Chen Xuan was about to refuse, Jiang Mingyue spoke first.
“Revered Master, I can take Junior Brother to nearby Mortal cities and Cultivation markets to look around.”
“With Elder Ren secretly following, there shouldn't be any problems.”
With Supreme Elder Ren Tianxing secretly following, there shouldn't be a big problem.
Chen Xuan pondered for a moment, then nodded.
“Don't go too far, and keep in contact.”
“That so-called Anti-Demon Alliance might come knocking at any time; at that time, Elder Ren will be needed for protection.”
Regarding this,
Chen Xuan said there was nothing he could do.
With his current strength,
he simply couldn't deal with Returning Void Realm Cultivators.
The last time he was able to kill Supreme Elder Zhuo Bufan was because the remnant soul of that Senior, residing in the jade slip, acted again.
But now, the opponent should have fallen into slumber again.
He couldn't borrow its power again.
Right.
There were also the three items it had entrusted to Chen Xuan:
the bodhi fruit, the merit lotus, and the true dragon marrow.
Chen Xuan didn't recognize any of them; he could later instruct the Chen Family's Wind Hall to investigate the whereabouts of these items.
Twice, his life had been saved.
No matter what that Senior in the jade slip needed,
Chen Xuan would spare no effort to find it for him.
Seeing that Revered Master had agreed,
Chen Teng instantly beamed with joy.
“Thank you, Revered Master! Thank you, Senior Sister!”
Before they left, Chen Xuan also exchanged nine top-grade Revival Medicinal Pills and gave them to him, and taught him the method of Physical Body Undergoing Tribulation tempering.
It wasn't just Chen Teng.
Chen Tianzhang also received a share.
And all the Disciples in the Dark Hall.
Everyone received a share.
From now on, Chen Xuan would spare no effort to cultivate their Chen Family's direct Bloodline Disciples.
After all, the daily acquisition of Family points had increased.
Exchanging and supplying some top-grade Medicinal Pills for Golden Core cultivation from the System was now a trivial matter for Chen Xuan.
With the daily acquisition of Family points skyrocketing,
Chen Xuan no longer had to be as constrained as before.
He could now act boldly.
He encouraged Chen Tianzhang, and after once again imparting and guiding him on the essentials of the sword art he had previously taught him, he also spent time alone with Chen Zhen.
He took out a large batch of top-grade Medicinal Pills and gave them to Chen Zhen,
which made him stand dumbfounded on the spot.
It wasn't until Chen Xuan left
that Chen Zhen came back to his senses, looking at his back.
“What kind of existence are you?”
So many Medicinal Pills, taken out directly, didn't seem like they had been refined over time.
It was as if they had appeared out of thin air.
Created from nothing.
This simply defied the operation of Heavenly Dao.
“An anomaly, I hope your existence doesn't affect the Great Tribulation.”
After leaving the Dark Hall, Chen Xuan found Chen Xiao.
He also gave him a batch of resources.
To supply him, Chen Yuntian, and Chen Yinian, these Disciples who were often out handling various Chen Family affairs.
His gaze turned to the System's taskbar.
Many new tasks had been added again.
“Annihilate/subdue the Returning Void Realm force Liang Family, annihilate/subdue the Returning Void Realm force Yellow Maple Valley, annihilate/subdue the Returning Void Realm force Taiyi Palace.”
These were three tasks targeting Returning Void Realm forces, rewarding 500,000 Family points and 10 Void Spirit Pills.
There were also two tasks targeting Body Integration Realm forces.
“Annihilate/subdue the Body Integration Realm force Lietian Sect, annihilate/subdue the Body Integration Realm force Cloud Sea Pavilion.”
Rewarding 1,000,000 Family points and 10 Spirit Integration Pills.
“Dominate the Northern Barren, rewarding 2,000,000 Family points and 10 Dao One Pills.”
The previous tasks had not yet been completed.
In fact, the Chen Family was still a long way from the phased task of dominating the Qilian Mountains.
New tasks had already been issued again.
The span was surprisingly large.
Nascent Soul Realm forces were even skipped directly by the System.
It should have detected the changes in the Chen Family's strength.
After all, within the current Chen Family, there was indeed a Returning Void Realm Cultivator who had joined the Family.
It was just that he was currently out and had not yet returned.
“Old Ancestor, how should our Chen Family conduct itself next?”
Next,
Chen Xuan pondered for a moment and roughly had a plan.
That was to first annex the three Nascent Soul Realm forces in the southern Qilian Mountains.
Firstly, it could complete the System tasks.
Secondly, it could significantly increase the Chen Family's prosperity and daily acquired Family points by increasing its population.
Currently, relying solely on Chen Xuan, a Nascent Soul Realm Early Stage Cultivator, it was still relatively difficult to achieve this.
However, he could borrow power.
Jiang Mingyue had brought the entire Blood Demon Sect to the Chen Family.
This could be said to be ready-made labor that shouldn't be wasted.
After making up his mind, Chen Xuan personally went to meet the Blood Demon Sect's Grand Elder, Supreme Elder Liu Xiangzi.
Supreme Elder Ren Tianxing had gone out with Jiang Mingyue.
Gong Zhan, being in the Returning Void Realm Middle Stage, was suitable for staying and guarding.
Although Supreme Elder Liu Xiangzi's cultivation was the lowest, at Returning Void Realm Early Stage, dealing with a few small Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators should still be a piece of cake.
Chen Family Ancestor Chen Xuan came to visit.
Supreme Elder Liu Xiangzi dared not neglect him and immediately came out to greet him.
This was the Revered Master of their Blood Demon Sect's Saintess.
Naturally, he had to be treated courteously.
“Elder Liu, are you satisfied with your stay in the Chen Family?”
Satisfied?
Even if he wasn't, what could he do? He still had to say he was satisfied.
“It is excellent, of course.”
Actually, to be honest,
it wasn't good at all.
Originally, the Qilian Mountains, within the Northern Barren, were not a region with very dense Spiritual Qi.
Otherwise, the highest cultivation level of forces surviving here wouldn't be limited to the Nascent Soul Realm.
If the Northern Barren was considered the barren land of the Tianxuan Continent,
then the Qilian Mountains could be said to be the barren land of the Northern Barren.
For Cultivators,
what they relied on for survival was Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
Without the absorption and refinement of Spiritual Qi, their cultivation would stagnate.
As one waxes, the other wanes; in the Cultivation world, if you don't progress, relatively speaking, you are regressing.
So,
the Spiritual Qi concentration here at the Chen Family was still a bit too low; cultivation inevitably required the aid of Spirit Stones and Spirit Gathering Arrays.
Staying for a short period of time was barely acceptable.
But to permanently settle here as one's cultivation Dao field was absolutely impossible.
Even if it were the Saintess's command, Supreme Elder Liu Xiangzi would vehemently object.
No matter how overbearing, one still had to be reasonable, right?
Having been together for three years, Supreme Elder Liu Xiangzi felt that the Saintess was not an unreasonable person. Her bringing the entire sect to the Chen Family this time was probably due to concern leading to confusion, coming to protect him for a period.
Soon, they would return to the Blood Demon Sect's stronghold in the Northern Barren.
Only the surging Spiritual Qi erupting from the Spiritual Veins there could support the daily cultivation needs of Supreme Elder Liu Xiangzi and the tens of thousands of Disciples of the Blood Demon Sect.