Chapter 24: 23. New Home

23. New Home

Manager Ouyang was submerged in the sea of fire from the explosion and went silent; it was unclear if he was dead or alive.

Chen An, who was ten meters away from the carriage, was also blown away by the powerful shockwave generated by the explosion.

He rolled on the ground more than ten times before barely coming to a stop.

His whole body ached unbearably, and his head was ringing.

"Husband!"

Gu Xinyue, in the distance, saw this and rushed out, disregarding her own safety.

With a face full of worry, she came to Chen An's side, knelt down, and carefully helped him up.

Supported by Gu Xinyue, Chen An managed to sit up from the ground, his breathing slightly disordered.

He was fine, just a bit dizzy, and his body hurt severely.

After catching his breath for a moment.

Chen An stood up from the ground and smiled at Gu Xinyue beside him:

"Don't worry, Yue, your husband is fine."

Just as he finished speaking, another anxious, concerned voice came from the front.

"Husband!"

It was Song Huaying's voice.

At this moment, she was walking and jogging slowly toward Chen An with a big belly, her delicate little face full of worry.

"Your husband is fine. You two hurry back to where you were and stay there; don't come any closer."

After dropping these words.

Chen An immediately circulated his Spirit Power to make his fingers turn golden and bright, while simultaneously opening his sensory perception to the fullest, walking cautiously toward the still-smoking carriage.

He wanted to see what the situation was with Manager Ouyang now.

Whether he was dead or alive.

If he wasn't dead, he would finish him off; if he was dead, he would desecrate the corpse.

The wives and concubines were very obedient. Seeing that their husband really seemed to be unharmed, they felt slightly relieved and returned to their original spot to hide, so as not to distract him.

Soon, Chen An stopped at a position ten meters away from the carriage, not moving any closer.

He raised his fingers and unleashed a barrage of shots at the smoke-billowing carriage.

Dazzling golden flashes shot into the billowing smoke one after another, emitting a series of dull thudding sounds.

"Thud!"

"Thud, thud, thud!"

"Thud, thud!"

"..."

He fired for nearly the time it takes to burn an incense stick, until the Spirit Power in his body was exhausted and he could no longer maintain the Golden Light Projection, only then did Chen An stop his attack.

By this time, the smoke that had been billowing from the carriage had dissipated quite a bit, revealing a pile of carriage wreckage and a patch of pockmarked yellow mud.

On one of the pieces of carriage wreckage, Chen An saw the charred body of Manager Ouyang.

At this moment, Manager Ouyang's body had been blown to pieces, missing arms and legs, half of his head was gone, and his entire body was covered in holes left by the Golden Light.

He lay on the ground motionless, with no signs of life to be felt.

But even so, Chen An did not dare to rush forward to check the situation.

He was very cautious and chose to take a Lower Grade Spirit Stone from his bosom to restore his Spirit Power.

After recovering for a moment, he once again circulated his Spirit Power to use his Golden Finger, unleashing a round of inhumane, frantic bombardment on Manager Ouyang's corpse, wildly desecrating it.

However, this was not to vent his anger, but because he feared the other party wasn't dead and was just lying on the ground playing dead.

Out of caution, he spent a full quarter of an hour desecrating the corpse.

Only when Manager Ouyang's body had been shot into a hornet's nest, such that even an immortal couldn't save him, did he dare to step forward to check.

"As expected of a Qi Refining Seventh Layer expert, the body's durability is truly exaggerated. After being hit by a Dust Bomb and shot so many times by the Golden Light, he can still barely maintain a human shape instead of turning into a puddle of meat."

Chen An sighed, then quickly squatted down and began to loot the corpse for spoils of war.

After looting the corpses of the Black Iron Villa cultivators around the carriage, he went into the woods to find Manager Zhang's corpse and continued looting.

After a thorough search, the harvest was as follows:

2 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.

58 Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

Plus several small items that looked quite valuable.

The harvest was large, but it wasn't very profitable.

Because the belongings in the carriage had all been blown away, a large sum of money had already been lost here.

After collecting all the spoils of war.

Chen An beckoned his wives and concubines over, having Gu Xinyue help him clean up the scene, piling all the corpses together and burning them with a fire.

Afterward, he went into the woods, dug a deep pit, and buried the remains of the corpses.

To be safe, he even dug up a sapling and planted it on top as a cover.

In a few years, when this sapling grows up, the remains buried underground will never be discovered by anyone.

By the time Chen An finished dealing with all this, from the initial ambush to the counter-kill and cleaning up the scene, nearly an hour had passed.

Fortunately, this stretch of road was remote and rarely traveled, which is why it hadn't been discovered after such a long time.

"Speaking of which, how did these people from Black Iron Villa know that I would set off for the Core Area today and pass through this road?"

After calming down, Chen An suddenly thought of this question.

He could not fathom the reason no matter how he thought about it.

After thinking about it later, he guessed that there must be many eyes and ears from Black Iron Villa inside the Bamboo Leaf Gang.

When he set out, he was seen by those eyes and ears who tipped them off, and then he was intercepted and killed.

"Husband, what exactly happened just now?"

Seeing that the matter seemed to have been resolved smoothly, Song Huaying could no longer suppress the curiosity in her heart and could not help but ask her husband.

Gu Xinyue was also very curious, waiting silently on the side for her husband to explain.

However, Chen An did not tell them the truth; instead, he urged them, "Remember not to spread word of today's events. Just act as if it never happened, that we never saw those masked men, and that we don't know Manager Zhang is dead."

"Understood, husband."

"Mm, Yue understands."

The two wives nodded repeatedly to show they understood, saying that their lips were sealed and they would never spread it.

Afterwards, the three of them walked toward the Core Area.

Song Huaying was inconvenienced by her large belly, so Chen An carried her the entire way.

Gu Xinyue, on the side, watched with great envy and also wanted to be carried by her husband the whole way.

【You carried your wife Song Huaying for over ten miles, husband-wife affection +1.】

When they arrived at the Core Area, such a notification message popped up before Chen An's eyes.

He glanced at it and ignored it, continuing to carry Song Huaying forward.

It was not until they were about to reach a place with people that he set Song Huaying down from his body to avoid attracting too much attention.

He figured that they were now only a few hundred meters away from their new home, a distance even a pregnant woman could easily walk.

Soon, the three of them arrived at their new home.

Upon seeing the luxurious mansion before them, both wives were immediately incredibly excited.

The number of rooms was three times that of before!

The combined area of the two courtyards was more than twice that of before!

Most importantly, the kitchen, latrine, bathroom, and everything else were extremely bright and spacious!

It made them feel particularly comfortable.

"Husband, is this really our home?"

Thinking of the old, broken, and small place they lived in before, Gu Xinyue felt as if she were dreaming; it felt a bit unreal.

Song Huaying, on the side, felt much the same.

Although she was a young lady of a noble family in the past and had lived in mansions since she was a child.

But those were mansions in the mortal world, which were completely different from a large mansion in the cultivation world.

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PS: Setting out my bowl, begging for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!