Chapter 448: Arrangements, Strength Growth and Departure, Hong Gate Spectacle

The Hu brothers could only be considered an idle move!

Both were of medium combat bodies. The elder, Hu Tiejiang, was 38 years old this year, and the younger, Hu Tiechuan, was 36. Their strength was only a little over 5 bristles.

With this aptitude, it could basically be determined that the investment and return would definitely not be equal. Normally, there would naturally be no need for support.

If one had to find a reason to make an exception for Xia Hong, it would probably be fate.

Traveling together for a journey last month, although it was the Hu brothers who took the initiative to approach, it was fate, so it counted.

Besides fate, it might be the two brothers' persistence in class transition.

To put it bluntly, it was ambition!

The two suffered such a great disaster, in the end, it was to shed their lowly status and their wives' slave status. Normally, having suffered so much inhuman torture and so many blows, the two brothers should have had some feelings of regret.

But according to Xia Hong's observation, during the twenty days the brothers lived in the Hong Mansion, they didn't complain once. Not only them, but their wives, Fang Jing and Wang Qing, were the same.

This proved that even though the two brothers suffered so much, they still recognized and persisted in their previous behavior of shedding their status from the bottom of their hearts.

This persistence of not being willing to be ordinary and risking their lives to improve their class and change their fate was rare, never mind Cai Qiu, even in Great Xia.

Of course, not complaining didn't mean there was no hatred.

The brothers' hatred for the Red Tiger Ridge Zhang clan and the Qinghuacheng Law Enforcement Team was almost deep into their marrow.

This point was the core reason Xia Hong supported the two.

Last August, after leaving the Bone-Eroding Path, in order to heal his wounds, he lived in the depths of Changqing Valley with Su Jing and his three siblings for more than four months. During that time, firstly for the four siblings' cultivation resources, and secondly to understand the situation of the cold beasts in Changqing Valley, he hunted countless high-level cold beasts.

Before leaving last month, he only brought five Beast King-level skeletons, and the rest were stored in that cave. That batch of supplies naturally didn't mean much to him, but to the Hu brothers, it was a proper huge sum of money.

Of course, whether the two brothers could make good use of it was another matter.

Xia Hong gave some final instructions and directly dismissed the two.

"If they can really rise up relying on this batch of supplies, then these two can be considered talents worth cultivating. Wanting them to stir up trouble across all of Cai Qiu is unlikely, but a mere Changqing Valley should have some effect;

If neither of them has this ability, then this batch of supplies will only bring them disaster. Risks and opportunities coexist, whether to grasp them or not depends entirely on themselves!"

After the two retreated, Xia Hong turned back to the quiet room in the main building, continued to sit cross-legged on the Enlightenment Lotus Platform, and checked the remaining medicinal pills.

"6 Meridian-Cleansing Pills, 13 high-grade Bone-Shedding Pills. Used about a third in a month, about the same as my previous jade bone situation. It will take another two months to finish. Cai Yunzhou was also present just now, so I can be considered to have warned him as well. In the future, they shouldn't dare to provoke me easily. Setting off for Linchu Juncheng in two months can also be considered to have some guarantee!"

Fabricating a fake background and using intimidation to ensure his own safety was a bit helpless to say, but it was the only way.

Before figuring out the specific strength of the Tribulation Body Realm, he certainly didn't have the guts to go to Cai Qiu Town City, but the lower-level Linchu Juncheng was still fine.

"Moreover, I have to find a way to get another fake identity. The identity of the Great Qin Young Master is intimidating, but it also restricts my behavior in disguise, such as not being able to buy things casually..."

Behavior must match identity. Since the Great Qin Fiefdom he fabricated was so strong, naturally, there were more good things than in Cai Qiu. Last month at the Treasure Pavilion, there were quite a few things he wanted to buy, but to avoid suspicion, he acted with disdain the whole time and basically didn't make any moves.

Even for the three items—Meridian-Cleansing Pill, Bone-Burning Pill, and high-grade Bone-Shedding Pill—when he spent money to buy them, he used the excuse of studying them for reference.

The Bone-Burning Pill was fine, but the Meridian-Cleansing Pill and Bone-Shedding Pill were of great use to him. If possible, he certainly wouldn't have bought so little.

"Thinking about it now is useless. When I get to Linchu Juncheng, I'll think of a way!"

Xia Hong thought for a moment but couldn't come up with a solution, so he simply stopped thinking about it. In short, the current medicinal pills were enough for two months, so he would cultivate first.

He closed his eyes and soon sank into a state of cultivation.

While Xia Hong was in seclusion cultivating, the Hu brothers also began their final preparations before leaving the mansion.

Hu Tiejiang first found the steward Zhou Qing, asked him to take the whole family to the jurisdiction office to shed their slave status and lowly status, and then registered as commoners.

The money for them to shed their status and register was originally snatched by the Law Enforcement Team. After Su Jing and his three siblings went to the jurisdiction office to save them last month, the Law Enforcement Team immediately returned it to them. This time, with steward Zhou Qing coming forward, relying on the huge name of the Hong Mansion, the people at the jurisdiction office naturally didn't dare to have any more obstruction.

After shedding their status, Hu Tiejiang didn't rush to leave, but first sent his family back to the Hong Mansion. After leaving his family behind, he went to Changqing Valley with his younger brother Hu Tiechuan.

No one knew what the two brothers went to Changqing Valley for, but after only seven days, the two brothers returned to Qinghuacheng pulling a large cart. The two didn't even enter the jurisdiction office and went directly into the Treasure Pavilion.

On the day of February 23rd, the two brothers finally returned to the Hong Mansion.

Returning to the Hong Mansion side courtyard, the two didn't even see their wives and families, and went directly to the quiet room. Then Hu Tiejiang opened a bundle on his body, which was filled with more than thirty pill bottles of various sizes.

Seeing the pill bottles, the two brothers' expressions were instantly filled with excitement.

"Unexpectedly, the supplies left by the Lord in that cave were so many. Just jade bones alone are 72 sets, high-level beast meat 17,000 jin, and high-level beast blood nearly 8,000 jin, with a total value as high as 15 million taels of silver."

Hu Tiejiang couldn't help but sigh first, then opened a pill bottle, smelling the fragrance emitted by the spirit pills inside, a look of intoxication appeared in his eyes, and then his expression vibrated slightly: "25 bottles of Yu Yang Pills for Cold-Resisting Realm cultivation, totaling 300 pills; 8 bottles of Po Yang Pills for peak Cold-Resisting Realm cultivation, totaling 80 pills. This batch of medicinal pills is enough for the two of us to cultivate for three years."

The most critical thing was that because they borrowed the name of the Hong Mansion, they didn't need to explain the source of this batch of medicinal pills at all, and even in the short term, no one dared to have designs on them.

"I said when I went to the Treasure Pavilion that these were bought for the four young masters of the mansion. Normal people wouldn't believe that we could take out so many things, so as long as we hide them strictly and don't show off casually, basically no one will suspect."

Hu Tiejiang clenched his fists. This batch of medicinal pills was the capital for the two brothers to change their fate against the heavens.

"Tiechuan, we will continue to live in the Hong Mansion for another month. After the limelight passes, we will take Jing'er, Qing'er, and the others to quietly leave the city and return to Changqing Valley. We now have commoner status, plus the protection of Lord Hong, Zhang Yiqing and the others won't dare to move against us easily. However, just in case, we still can't return to Red Tiger Ridge. We will find a small village in the depths of Changqing Valley to settle down, digest this batch of cultivation resources with peace of mind first, and after our strength rises, we will do the things the Lord instructed seven days ago..."

Thinking of Hearing Hong Yu's instructions seven days ago, Hu Tiejiang's heart was full of fear at this moment, but his pupils also faintly carried a trace of strong excitement.

The second brother Hu Tiechuan was even more so. He nodded heavily in response, then touched the scars on his face, his pupils full of excitement, and he couldn't find a trace of fear at all.

At the end of March, on a pitch-black night, the Hu Tiejiang brothers went to the Hong Mansion main building to bid farewell together. Although they didn't get a response from Hearing Hong Yu, the two still kowtowed respectfully, and then quietly took their families and left the Hong Mansion under the cover of night.

Cai Qiu Calendar Year 297, April 20th

Hong Mansion main building quiet room, Xia Hong, with his eyes tightly closed, showed a trace of pain on his face.

His whole body was wrapped in a thin layer of oval-shaped blood-colored medicinal power, like a blood cocoon. The medicinal power continuously seeped in from the skin membrane, scouring the meridians deep in his flesh and blood.

The six-zhang dark red bone image suspended behind him, compared to two months ago, had almost no visible change in height; but the color of the meridians on the periphery of the bone image had gradually transformed from the original transparency to light red. Although it was not the normal blood color, it already had the prototype of true human body meridians.

"Hoo..."

I don't know how long it had passed, the thin medicinal power was absorbed by him. After the flesh and blood meridians returned to a normal state, he let out a long breath, and the six-zhang-plus bone image behind him slowly dissipated.

"Same as before, without breaking through to the late stage, the bones and bone image won't have any changes, and the strength growth is minimal. But the surprise brought to me by the Meridian-Cleansing Pill and the Twelve Blood Meridian Technique seems to be not small..."

Xia Hong clenched his fists to perceive his strength, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

"45 jun, increased by 4 jun. Before breaking through to the late stage, this can be considered a way to improve strength!"

When passing through the Bone-Eroding Path, his basic strength was 40 jun; during the four months of healing and recuperation in Changqing Valley, it only increased by 1 jun; this time, after three consecutive months of seclusion, it actually increased by 4 jun at once.

With Manifestation-level cultivation, every 1 jun of strength improvement was enough to open up a huge chasm with others, not to mention this was the most basic strength improvement. With Xia Hong's many means, he could at least convert these 4 jun into 8 jun of combat power. ===== CHAPTER 449 =====