95: Chapter 95 Family Changes

A month had passed since Chen Changqing and the others returned from Luoyang Valley.

During this past month, he sent people to investigate the background of that group of people, and later discovered that they belonged to the Zheng Family under the direct jurisdiction of Cang Prefecture.

They had a total of four Foundation Establishment Cultivators under their command, and their highest-cultivation Old Ancestor was only at the Eighth Layer of Foundation Establishment Perfection.

With such strength, he was not worried at all.

In addition, when the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators of the Zheng Family emerged from the cave that day, they discovered that all the Family disciples they brought with them had perished in battle.

In their fury, they spent a heavy price to issue a bounty for the murderer.

Fortunately, Zheng Yanqun and the others, who originally knew the appearances of Chen Lingyang and the other person, had died one by one under the Human-Faced Demon Spider, so the bounty issued by the Zheng Family only contained the characteristics of Chen Lingyang and the other person.

Of course, this did not mean that the Chen Family was not suspected.

Because Chen Lingyang had cast out that chiyang sword that day, such a distinct characteristic, coupled with the fact that the Wuyue Mountain Chen Family was also a Foundation Establishment Family, naturally made them suspicious.

However, the characteristic of a red flying sword, if not ubiquitous, was at least everywhere to be seen.

Moreover, among the families possessing a red flying sword, there were quite a few that were both Foundation Establishment Families and stronger than the Chen Family.

Therefore, the Zheng Family did not act rashly.

The main reason was that their strength did not allow it.

At that time, after they finished dealing with the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen in the cave, they belatedly realized that someone had followed them inside, and there were also traces of the spirit milk being used by someone.

To be able to do so many things right in front of the Fifth Layer of Foundation Establishment Zheng Qingfeng without being discovered, that person's strength at least far surpassed his.

Therefore, the main target of the Zheng Family's suspicion now was those Purple Mansion forces, because only Foundation Establishment Cultivators from Purple Mansion forces might have such ability.

However, suspicion was just suspicion; in the end, they still had to swallow their broken teeth into their stomachs and suffer in silence without being able to voice their grievances.

Fortunately, although they lost dozens of clan members, they obtained nearly a hundred drops of spirit milk, which was equivalent to acquiring resources worth nearly one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

Chen Changqing had no way to stop this either.

At that time, he did not have much time left, and it was already good enough that he hurriedly destroyed more than half.

As for why he did not directly slay those two Foundation Establishment Cultivators with his strength, it was actually very simple to say: there was no need at all.

Because it was an extraordinary period now, and the Zheng Family had also rendered meritorious service in resisting the beast tide a few years ago.

If both Foundation Establishment Cultivators were slain, the Yuxu Sect would definitely investigate to the end.

In previous years, there was a Family that took advantage of its enemy's weakness, thinking they had acted impeccably.

In the end, the Yuxu Sect somehow managed to drag them out and exterminated the entire clan, and even clan members residing in other prefectures were eventually ferreted out and slain.

Such swift and decisive methods deterred all factions harboring dark designs at that time.

In fact, in the past, the Yuxu Sect might not have taken these forces to heart at all.

It was just because of the invasion of the Thirty-Six Demon Nations that if they did not adopt some extraordinary means to appease the people's hearts, perhaps the next invasion by the demon nations would not be so easy to deal with.

Of course, if some Qi Refining Cultivators died, it was not important either.

Coupled with the fact that he had only borrowed the hands of the Human-Faced Demon Spider back then to resolve that group of Zheng Family Qi Refining Cultivators, the Yuxu Sect would investigate even less.

Right now, throughout the territory of Dayan, various forces were racking their brains to enhance their strength.

As long as they did not exceed the limit set by the Yuxu Sect, the latter couldn't be bothered to care.

Although the footsteps of the Yao Race over in the State of Zheng were held in check, who knew whether the Thirty-Six Demon Nations would actually dispatch more troops to attack the State of Zheng, or even invade Dayan once again.

After all, the Thirty-Six Demon Nations did not just correspond to the dozen or so countries surrounding Dayan, but rather the entire Eastern Domain.

Only the major Dynasties of the Eastern Domain dared to say that they could deal with the Thirty-Six Demon Nations.

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Qingyang Mountain.

Following six years of peaceful development and the massive amount of resources brought back by Chen Changqing at that time, the development speed of Qingyang Mountain was extremely rapid.

Back then, the Chen Family only had a single person at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Perfection.

But now, on Qingyang Mountain alone, there were two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, alongside six Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivators such as Chen Yuanjin and Chen Changyue.

Of course, Chen Changqing did not directly take out all the resources he obtained in the Secret Realm of the Wanta Sect back then.

Millions of Spirit Stones worth of resources were enough to make the Chen Family a Purple Mansion faction.

Although only nearly a quarter of it had been used up nowadays, it was already enough that the Family would not need to worry about resource issues for the next few decades.

However, the bulk of it was actually spent on the Spiritual Vein.

Upgrading the Low Grade Tier 2 Spiritual Vein of Qingyang Mountain to the top-grade Tier 2 cost two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

Now Qingyang Mountain not only possessed a Top Grade Tier 2 Spiritual Vein, but also two sets of Tier 3 Formations that Chen Changqing had taken out, which were the only ones he had.

One was a concealment Formation, and the other was a Formation with both offensive and defensive capabilities.

Relying on the concealment Formation, even Cultivators at the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment Perfection could not discover the huge changes in Qingyang Mountain.

As for that offensive and defensive Formation, even Purple Palace Cultivators could not break it in a short time, let alone Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

As for the Cultivators within the clan, in addition to the monthly allotted resources being nearly tenfold higher than twenty years ago, they could also exchange contribution points for some resources that were uncommon in the outside world.

For example, pills like the Yunling Pill for breaking through from the Third Layer of Qi Refining Perfection to the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining.

These resources greatly shortened the time for the Chen Family's rise.

Aside from the main lineage, the branch lineage members also enjoyed the same treatment as the main lineage.

Most of these branch lineage members were children of Mortals with different surnames from the foot of the mountain who went up the mountain to Cultivate after testing positive for Spiritual Roots upon turning six years old.

They more or less possessed the Chen Family's Bloodline, but most of them did not carry the surname Chen.

Therefore, the Chen Family gave them two choices: either change their surname to Chen and enter the Chen Family's branch lineage, or keep their surname and become Chen Family Cultivators just like other Cultivators.

The treatment for the two was naturally different.

Apart from not following the generation-name characters, the branch lineage enjoyed the same Family resources as the main lineage.

On the other hand, those who considered themselves outside-surname Cultivators of the Chen Family naturally could not compare their acquired resources with members of the main and branch lineages, nor could they enter the core of the Chen Family.

However, it was precisely because the Chen Family expanded the scope of recruiting immortal seedlings that they were able to expand the Chen Family's Cultivators to a hundred people over these years.

The back mountain was the secluded cultivation place for the Chen Family's Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

There were a total of four Immortal Caves, left respectively for Chen Xuanyi, Chen Yuanwen, and the couple Chen Changqing.

Although the two of Chen Changqing were not at this place, as Foundation Establishment Cultivators of the Family, these things still had to be prepared.

Because these years had been very peaceful, coupled with the fact that there were no major matters for the Family to handle, Chen Xuanyi and Chen Yuanwen had both been in a state of secluded cultivation.

Chen Xuanyi had entered Foundation Establishment for nearly twenty years, and his cultivation had also reached the Third Layer of Foundation Establishment.

However, in terms of combat power, he considered himself a match for even the Fourth Layer of Foundation Establishment, and dared to fight even the Fifth Layer of Foundation Establishment.

Of course, he couldn't be compared with Chen Changqing.

Chen Yuanwen's cultivation progress over these past six years had not been large, and he was still at the First Layer of Foundation Establishment.

What he cultivated was the Transforming Rain Art.

This Cultivation Technique was not very difficult to Cultivate, but it had many Bottlenecks.

Originally, he had plans to switch to another Cultivation Technique, but it would take a very long time.

His Dao foundation was merely a Medium Grade Dao foundation, so he simply didn't have much time to waste.

Moreover, Chen Changqing had brought back the subsequent Cultivation Technique of the Transforming Rain Art, which could support him in cultivating to the Golden Core Stage, making it even more impossible for him to change his Cultivation Technique.