Chapter 174: You Have a Story, Hey, I Have Wine! (Ten thousand words, please subscribe)

"Eight pills?"

In the Four-Elephant Cauldron, eight pills as red as blood were floating quietly.

Luo Chen was very surprised.

This time he put in four portions of raw materials, and it was normal for only one to succeed.

But it was not seven pills, but eight, which really surprised him.

He subconsciously raised his hand, looking at those slender fingers, thoughtful.

"Did the Wanci Hand's handling of the Explosive Ape Demon Blood solve some of the impurities in the demon blood, thereby increasing the number of pills formed?"

"That is to say, there is still room for improvement in the Blood-Burning Elixir recipe!"

Just now, while refining the Blood-Burning Elixir, he remembered that Explosive Ape Demon Blood also belongs to liquid materials.

So he tried to handle it with the entry-level Wanci Hand.

He didn't expect such an unexpected joy.

After the surprise, there was awe.

Sure enough, the way of alchemy is broad and profound.

When he first started, he felt he was gifted.

With small achievements, he felt he could be called a master.

But as he got started with various elixirs and mastered more and more elixir techniques, he found that there was even more he didn't know.

"In this way, there is no need to refine another furnace."

Now he already had fifty-eight Blood-Burning Elixirs, which had already met Tianxingzi's requirements.

He kept eight pills as a backup for the Luotian Society.

As for the remaining fifty, he would go to deliver the goods in a few days!

By the way, he would also see if the Zhenlong Black Market had collected double the medicinal herbs for him.

Walking out of the alchemy room, he found that Gu Caiyi had been waiting for him outside for a long time.

"Waiting for a long time?"

"It's okay."

"Is there anything?"

"It's still about the output of Yusu Elixirs; the Duan family is urging for goods again. In addition, the supply in the rogue market is also insufficient."

When saying this, Gu Caiyi was quite hesitant.

Luo Chen paused and frowned, "Why is the Duan family's demand for elixirs so high? Have they also learned from the Nangong family and closed the clan?"

"That's not the case, but the monthly demand for elixirs is indeed twice that of the Li family and Chen family."

Gu Caiyi couldn't figure it out either.

Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she blurted out, "The Duan family seems to have been frequently contacting Duan Feng these days."

Contacting Duan Feng?

What kind of statement is this?

Luo Chen remembered very clearly that Duan Feng, this cast-off of the Duan family, had a deep hatred for the Duan family ancestor.

Back when they were fighting for the Golden Core ruins, he didn't care about anything and wanted to enter the mountain to seek opportunities.

What he was doing was to increase his strength so he could return to the family for revenge.

That sentence, "The old dog doesn't have many years left to live!", Luo Chen remembered vividly.

What kind of hatred would make a Qi Refining cultivator with a blood relationship call a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator an old dog!

As for the old dog in Duan Feng's mouth, Luo Chen was actually very "familiar" with him.

Duan Qiankun!

He didn't practice properly every day and ran to the Zhenlong Black Market every few days.

Almost every time the market opened, his figure was there.

Luo Chen even remembered the many resources he auctioned, most of which were resources related to cultivation and combat.

Looking at it this way, Duan Qiankun himself knew that his time was running out, so he was preparing for the long-term future of the family.

Elixirs, talismans, medicinal herbs, puppets, magic tools... Now, even Duan Feng, whom he had abandoned before, was being contacted.

Presumably, he also wanted to resolve the hatred between the two sides and bring Duan Feng back into the clan.

Duan Feng is no nameless person.

He had already made a name for himself on the Dao-Discussion Platform for his powerful strength.

But in reality, his weapon-forging talent was even more excellent.

It was just that for the sake of revenge, he started to turn toward combat.

The current Duan Feng is an elder in the War Hall of the Luotian Society, and there is a great possibility that he will break away in the future to form a Weapon Hall.

Luo Chen was not willing to let such a talent go back to the Duan family.

"Don't worry about the Yusu Elixirs; let Zeng Wen go and deal with them; anyway, there is only the normal quota this month."

Gu Caiyi nodded; she was indeed not suitable for doing too many things like rejecting people.

Zeng Wen was very suitable.

His role now was mainly to do some dirty work.

"Okay, then I will use the excuse of insufficient output to let Zeng Wen send away the Duan family cultivators!"

"Hmm, by the way, you can also say that the Nangong family took too many Yusu Elixirs."

Gu Caiyi's eyes lit up.

That's right, using this move to shift the pressure to the Nangong family, their Luotian Society wouldn't have to offend people so much.

The Nangong family's closure of the clan is now known to everyone in Dahefang.

Even if the Duan family wanted to find someone to negotiate, they wouldn't know where to find them.

After handling this matter, Luo Chen hesitated for a moment and then decisively walked out of the Medicine Hall.

Outside Xieyue Valley, a new complex of buildings stood side by side along the spacious fighting platform.

This was the station of the War Hall, and currently, most of the War Hall cultivators lived here.

From time to time, Wang Yuan would organize people to conduct small-scale sparring.

The Luotian Society paid them such high salaries not just to escort elixirs and patrol and guard.

Strengthening combat power to deal with conflicts that might come at any time was the top priority.

Luo Chen's arrival was silent.

He stepped with steady steps and gradually came to a house with a huge chimney outside.

Before he even entered, he heard the clanging sounds coming from inside.

There were about five Qi Refining mid-stage cultivators inside, dealing with various ores and metals.

A stinky, hot smell was very clear even in the winter season.

The huge exhaust fan made a rumbling sound.

Luo Chen frowned and looked at the equally huge forging furnace.

Duan Feng, who was shirtless, was forging metal ingots with one hammer after another.

The streamlined muscle lines were not as eye-catching as his ugly expression at this moment.

He looked gloomy, and every hammer strike seemed not to be forging metal ingots, but hammering people.

But it was not purely venting emotions.

Luo Chen could feel that spiritual power was flowing between every hammer strike.

"This is an alternative technique for tempering spiritual power."

Luo Chen's eyes lit up, faintly seeing the mystery in it.

Every hammer strike, spiritual power accompanied the entry and exit, and in the forging, it seemed that impurities were hammered out just like the metal ingots.

The spiritual power finally returned to the body was exceptionally pure.

"However, why haven't I seen Duan Feng use this method before?"

"President!"

"Good day, President!"

While Luo Chen was puzzled, the cultivators in the room finally discovered him.

After all, he was standing at the door and hadn't made any disguise.

Duan Feng stopped his work and turned to look at Luo Chen.

Then he put down the hammer, wiped his hands with a rag, grabbed an outer garment, and walked out.

Under the fighting platform, Luo Chen, wearing a snow-white fox fur, and Duan Feng, wearing only a thin outer garment, were like living in two different seasons.

One was in winter, and one was in summer.

But the moods of the two seemed to be the exact opposite.

Luo Chen chatted with him enthusiastically, while Duan Feng remained cold as usual.

Accustomed to this way of talking, Luo Chen also had ways to mobilize the other party's emotional state.

Little guy, trying to play the silent type with me!

"How is the batch of people you're leading recently?"

Duan Feng finally showed some interest, "It's okay; dealing with some basic metal ores, they can already help me."

"What about magic tools?"

"Currently, it's still in the maintenance and repair stage; it's too difficult to forge brand-new magic tools."

Duan Feng said with distress, "I only have two flying sword magic tool blueprints in my hand, one low-grade and one mid-grade. In your words, they have no market competitiveness if taken out; at most, they can be made for internal use."

Alchemy needs elixir recipes, and weapon forging naturally needs blueprints.

Unless it is like the weapon-forging master Huyan Zhuo of Tianfan City, who has reached the level of being able to innovate and research all kinds of magic tools and treasures.

But it was clear that Duan Feng had not reached that level.

Luo Chen's expectations for him were not that high.

Chatting about this was just to open the other party's chatterbox.

Starting from the aspect the other party was best at and liked most.

Without much guidance, the other party could talk endlessly.

"That batch of second-hand magic tools recovered under Qinghe Mountain back then, I have basically repaired them all. Selling them out will be enough for you to recover your costs and make a small profit."

Luo Chen smiled, "You still remember that!"

Duan Feng scratched his head, "That Fenghai Duan family stall, you invested two or three thousand spirit stones in it, and in the end, you only got one thousand back; how could I not remember."

That was true.

Fenghai Duan family was one of the few businesses where Luo Chen lost money.

Because the contraction of the Heavenly Work Seizing Spirit Array in the Golden Core ruins of the Guyuan Mountains led to chaotic fighting among rogue cultivators, which in turn triggered a demon beast riot.

In the end, it affected the business of that weapon-forging stall.

Until now, Luo Chen hadn't even recovered his costs.

"In addition, the many magic tools recovered from the Xieyue Valley battle and the Fu family battle, I am also working overtime to repair them."

"It won't be long before you can take them and use them."

Among those magic tools, there were quite a few high-quality ones.

There were more than a dozen high-grade magic tools.

Among them, there was no lack of high-grade magic tools with defensive attributes.

However, Luo Chen just shook his head and smiled lightly.

"I'm just one person, where would I use so many magic tools!"

Duan Feng was stunned, and only then did he react.

Indeed, magic tools are good, but it's not that the more the better.

A person's energy and spiritual power are limited.

Too many magic tools mean there is not enough energy to familiarize oneself with and master them.

In battle, the limitation of spiritual power also means one cannot use many magic tools at will.

Generally speaking, cultivators of any realm will choose the magic tools that best suit them.

Overall division: one or two attack magic tools, defensive magic tools, movement magic tools, and at most some strange magic tools.

Even with this combination, it must be late-stage Qi Refining cultivators with relatively high realms who can barely do it.

Early and mid-stage cultivators simply don't have that much spiritual power to control so many magic tools.

Luo Chen also knew that he could mobilize many high-grade magic tools.

These things could barely be counted as part of his assets.

But all along, his magic tools were still that original set, and he had only recently acquired a sword pill to complete the deficiency in attack power.

Even the sword pill was because it didn't consume much spiritual power, so he chose to acquire it.

Duan Feng naturally understood this truth, but he hadn't turned the corner before.

He thought for a moment and said, "If you can't use them, you can use them to reward the cultivators of the Luotian Society!"

Luo Chen shook his head.

In Duan Feng's strange gaze, he said slowly, "You should be clear that I didn't come to you to talk about these things."

Silence.

He was silent again.

Luo Chen sighed, "I know, the Duan family has been sending people to contact you recently. What are your thoughts? Can you tell me?"

"Thoughts?"

"Hehe..."

A trace of self-mockery appeared on the man's firm face.

He opened his mouth and finally said dully, "My story, do you want to hear it?"

"I have wine!"

"Uh..."

The two walked to Duan Feng's room unknowingly.

Luo Chen followed the other party inside and found that the small room was very orderly.

Tea cups on the table, clothes in the cabinet.

Some flowers and plants that were rare in winter were placed in the sunny spot by the window.

Faintly, in the kitchen, there was the fragrance of food.

Looking at it this way, it didn't look like the residence of a lonely man at all.

At least, Luo Chen's stone house was extremely simple.

Seeing Luo Chen sniffing, Duan Feng said unnaturally, "It's the food Xia-jie left before going out, for me to eat at noon."

"Oh..."

The drawn-out tone made a rare flush appear on Duan Feng's face.

He hurriedly ran into the kitchen and brought out a few small dishes.

Braised beef, stir-fried vegetables, and...

"Forget the rice! We're going to drink, brother."

Duan Feng sheepishly put the small wooden bucket containing rice back into the iron pot, letting the steam inside keep it warm.

When he came out, Luo Chen had already taken out a yellowish gourd.

And poured him a glass of pale yellow, crystal-clear wine.

"Is this the Yellow Pear Wine from Xiao Yue's house?"

"Hmm."

Luo Chen nodded, a trace of sadness appearing on his face.

As the inner city turned into a Ghost City, Xiao Yue's grandfather also lost contact.

Thinking that the other party was already disabled, in that chaotic upheaval, he had presumably long become one of the thousands of Yin ghosts in the Dahe.

Now, this Yellow Pear Wine is truly one cup less for every cup drunk!

The atmosphere that Luo Chen had finally warmed up with banter suddenly sank into this sadness.

Along with it was the low sound of Duan Feng's recollection.

"My story, actually, doesn't have that many twists and turns."

In his narration, Luo Chen gradually learned everything he had experienced in the Duan family back then.

Actually, he had already known some of it vaguely through Duan Feng and Feng Xia before.

Now it was just completed through Duan Feng's personal narration.

As the local cultivation family with the longest history in Dahefang, the development of the Duan family had always been lukewarm.

Foundation Establishment cultivators had never been broken, and in hundreds of years, plus the current ancestor Duan Qiankun, a total of three Foundation Establishment True Cultivators had been produced.

During this period, it was not that there was no plan to expand outward, but due to various factors, they could only be confined to one place in the end.

Although Dahefang did not have a second-grade spiritual land on the surface, the Ice-Fire Spiritual Spring that the Duan family occupied early on.

Under special secret techniques, it could briefly form a second-grade spiritual land.

It was enough to supply Foundation Establishment cultivators for cultivation.

The reason they couldn't expand their influence to other places also included the reason that they couldn't bear to part with this spiritual spring.

As a local hegemon, the Duan family still had quite a status in Dahefang.

Therefore, the cultivators within the clan were often a cut above others.

Even marriage was rarely with outsiders, always intermarriage within the clan.

Duan Feng's father had once made a great name for himself.

He even joined the Luoyun Sect and became an inner disciple.

Unfortunately, he later failed to break through to Foundation Establishment and became an outer disciple.

After his path was hopeless, Duan Feng's father worked for the Luoyun Sect on one hand and returned to the family to support the Duan family on the other.

During this period, he intermarried with an outstanding woman in the clan, thus giving birth to Duan Feng.

"Unfortunately, later my father died in a conflict between the Duan family and a cultivation family in Liuguangfang, leaving my mother and me to depend on each other."

"Depend on each other?"

Luo Chen was puzzled, "As far as I know, you had other clansmen in that lineage!"

"There were, but that lineage later produced a genius."

"A genius?"

"Hmm, my cousin Duan Rui."

Mentioning this name, Duan Feng clearly showed a look of dissatisfaction.

This one!

Luo Chen suddenly realized; he had heard the other party's name.

A Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator!

It was just because he came from a cultivation family that he was rarely compared with Han Dang, Fu Xiuxiu, and others back then.

After all, he wasn't from the rogue cultivator batch.

"Father died, and our connection with the Luoyun Sect was broken."

"As for me, at that time, I was particularly keen on magic tool forging." Duan Feng gave a bitter smile, "After all, this is also our family's inherited craft."

"Moreover, the conditions for inheriting the patriarch also included the condition of possessing superb magic tool forging technology."

"I chose that at the time, and it seemed certainly correct. Given enough time, I could also restore my father's reputation and even inherit the position of the Duan family patriarch."

"However, I don't know when, the clan didn't value magic tool forging so much, but instead valued cultivation realm more."

Under Duan Feng's narration, Luo Chen learned why their lineage was gradually neglected by Duan Feng.

Instead, all their cultivation resources were invested in his cousin Duan Rui.

Duan Rui, water-fire dual spirit roots!

Originally, he should have been sent to a major sect like Duan Feng's father.

But precisely because he possessed water-fire dual spirit roots, and the clan had an Ice-Fire Spiritual Spring, it was very suitable for his cultivation.

The Duan family ancestor specially sought out a set of water-fire dual-cultivation techniques for him.

Therefore, for the sake of the family and for the sake of the individual, Duan Rui stayed in the family.

And he had been working hard on cultivation, eventually surpassing Duan Feng and reaching the Qi Refining Great Perfection realm early.

"Perhaps, it also has to do with your Duan family ancestor's lack of longevity." Luo Chen smacked his lips.

Duan Feng drank the Yellow Pear Wine in his cup in one gulp.

Thump!

The wine cup smashed onto the table, and he took a deep breath and said, "That is indeed the case!"

"But at that time, I didn't know!"

"That old dog had always been secretive about longevity matters. My mother and I were far from the family's top level and didn't know the secrets inside."

"Later I found out that the reason the clan valued Duan Rui so much was to help him break through to Foundation Establishment as soon as possible, so as to continue the Duan family's glory."

Luo Chen twitched the corner of his mouth.

A mere Foundation Establishment family, also talking about glory?

Well, he was a lone man, and he really didn't quite understand the thinking of family cultivators.

"However, what does this have to do with your mother's hatred?"

It was nothing more than unfair resource allocation.

Oh, considering Duan Feng's father died for the family, the orphans and widows left behind were instead treated differently.

It was indeed very disappointing.

But Duan Feng was not just disappointed, but angry.

"He failed!"

"That Duan Rui, he failed to break through to Foundation Establishment!"

"For his sake, the old dog purchased a large amount of resources and even used a Foundation Establishment Elixir that my father had exchanged for with his lifelong merits from the Luoyun Sect back then."

"With everything ready, he still failed to break through to Foundation Establishment."

Luo Chen was surprised, "The Foundation Establishment Elixir your father exchanged for with merits?"

"Yes, that should have been left for me, and it had always been kept by that old dog."

Luo Chen shook his head; this is destroying someone's path!

Duan Feng's cultivation talent was not weak; it was just covered up by his talent for forging magic tools early on.

But as long as he was given a certain amount of time, Qi Refining Great Perfection would not be a problem at all.

In other words, he would definitely have been able to use that Foundation Establishment Elixir.

But changing places, in the situation where his own longevity was running out and the clan was lacking successors.

He, Luo Chen, would also most likely have given the Foundation Establishment Elixir to the most promising Duan Rui!

For the sake of the family, it cannot be said to be right or wrong.

In fact, it is an absolutely correct choice.

Only if Duan Rui succeeds in Foundation Establishment can the Duan family continue to gain a foothold in Dahefang.

Instead of lingering on like the Chen family, or being easily wiped out by Luo Chen leading the Luotian Society like the Fu family.

A Foundation Establishment family without high-end combat power is instead a piece of fat meat that everyone wants to bite.

The situation would not be better than Luo Chen, who was good at alchemy.

But, if this kind of thing happened to the orphan and widow Duan Feng.

It was really too cruel.

And Duan Rui failed!

This was too ironic.

While Luo Chen felt it was ironic, the hostility on Duan Feng became more obvious.

He held the wine cup, the veins on his hand fully exposed.

The cup in his hand turned into powder silently.

"Duan Rui failed to break through to Foundation Establishment and was seriously injured, and it happened to coincide with the opening of the Dahefang Dao-Discussion Platform, attracting three major cultivation families."

"The status of the Duan family was in jeopardy for a time."

"Under these circumstances, the old dog tried to form an alliance with Mi Shuhua of the Poshan Gang, but was politely refused."

Listening, listening.

Luo Chen sensed something was wrong.

How did it get hooked up with the Poshan Gang?

Moreover, with Mi Shuhua's personality, how could he refuse an alliance with the Duan family?

Summarizing the timeline, Luo Chen suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable.

That period of time was about the time he started to shine in the Poshan Gang and refine Yusu Elixirs in large quantities.

At this time, Mi Shuhua should have already hooked up with Miao Wen.

Originally, he had to hand over a portion of the elixir profit to Miao Wen, so he naturally wouldn't want to form an alliance with the Duan family.

In that way, the profit he could get would be even less.

"After being refused by Mi Shuhua, in desperation, the old dog had the idea of marriage."

Duan Feng gave a miserable smile, "You probably can't imagine that the marriage target was Nangong Qin of the Nangong family, and the candidate chosen by my Duan family was my mother."

At this, Luo Chen really couldn't hold it together.

He blurted out, "That old guy Duan Qiankun is crazy!"

No wonder he thought so.

Duan Feng's family, his father died for the family, and Duan Feng himself had outstanding magic tool forging talent.

Moreover, he also left a contribution of a Foundation Establishment Elixir.

No matter how cold-hearted a person is, they wouldn't do such a thing as eating the family's last assets, right!

His father worked hard, the most important legacy was misappropriated, and now he even had to marry off the widow, just to form a marriage alliance for the family and consolidate the family's status in Dahefang.

Moreover, that Foundation Establishment True Cultivator of the Nangong family was young and strong, and still had a long time to live.

Isn't this inviting a wolf into the house?

Duan Feng sneered and was about to drink a cup of wine.

When it reached his mouth, he found it was a handful of porcelain powder.

Luo Chen immediately pushed his cup over.

After drinking it in one gulp, Duan Feng panted and said,

"Of course he's not crazy."

"The Nangong family is new here and is eager to gain a foothold. If my Duan family forms a marriage relationship with him, he can stand firm."

"Moreover, my Duan family also has some incense connection with the Luoyun Sect."

"At least for a hundred years, it's not a matter of inviting a wolf into the house."

Luo Chen couldn't help asking, "Did you agree?"

"Yes, the Nangong family agreed."

Luo Chen was speechless.

Doesn't this mean that Nangong Qin almost became Duan Feng's stepfather?

What kind of divine development is this!

"At that time, both the Duan family and the Nangong family had already agreed."

"Only my mother firmly opposed it. Later, under the old dog's coercion, my mother even died to prove her will, completely cutting off his thoughts."

"It was also at that time that I left the Duan family and went to the inner city to make a living alone."

Luo Chen took out a brand-new cup and poured himself a glass of wine.

After drinking it, he sighed, "No wonder you call him an old dog; Duan Qiankun really didn't do human things!"

He really ate Duan Feng's family to the bone.

"At that time, I knew that magic tool forging and alchemy were just means."

"Only cultivation, only strength, is absolute!"

When Duan Feng said this, he glanced at Luo Chen.

Pointing at something!

Luo Chen shook his head; he was not addicted to alchemy.

He realized very early on that alchemy was just a means to accumulate cultivation resources.

If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have put aside the Yusu Elixirs recently and tried his best to refine the Tongyou Elixir.

Because the Tongyou Elixir is something that can truly increase his strength.

It's just that, enjoying it, always reduces some fatigue.

Duan Feng nodded; he knew Luo Chen was smarter than him and saw things more clearly.

He sneered, "My mother died, and on the Dao-Discussion Platform, the angry me fought a battle with the newly arrived Nangong Qin."

"That battle, I won."

"After coming down, I met him once, and the two of us chatted."

"He told me that marriage is just a means, not him, it would be any clansman of the Nangong family."

"On the contrary, on our Duan family side, there would only be my mother."

Luo Chen was stunned, "What do you mean by that?"

After being stunned, before Duan Feng could explain, Luo Chen instantly understood the logic.

"Duan Rui?"

"Yes!"

Duan Feng took a deep breath, "Duan Rui only failed to break through to Foundation Establishment; after his injuries heal, he can fully try again."

"So, he is still the apple of that old dog's eye."

"Under the circumstances at the time, the only one who could pose a threat to him was me, who had faintly awakened and whose cultivation speed was getting faster and faster."

"He couldn't move me, so he applied pressure to my mother. As long as my mother married out, then I would truly be isolated and helpless in the clan."

Luo Chen looked at the other party with a complex expression.

The inside story was so filthy.

It seems that the inside of a cultivation family is not a piece of iron, and it is not happy and harmonious!

"The marriage didn't happen, and I rebelled out of the Duan family, and the old dog pinned all his hopes on Duan Rui."

"Even at the cost of buying another Foundation Establishment Elixir for him at the auction."

Auction?

Foundation Establishment Elixir!

Luo Chen immediately woke up.

Back at the Yuding Auction, Mi Shuhua didn't take action, letting the four forces divide the Foundation Establishment Elixir.

Excluding Wang Haichao, the Li family, and Kang family from Taishanfang, the remaining one seems to be Duan Qiankun.

Now that he had this second Foundation Establishment Elixir, wouldn't Duan Rui...

"He failed again, right?" Luo Chen asked.

This was not a random guess, because the Duan family still hadn't had a second Foundation Establishment cultivator to this day.

"Hahaha..."

Duan Feng laughed heartily, "Yes, my stupid brother failed again, haha!"

"Water and fire are incompatible; cultivating two methods together, although the combat power is fierce, breaking through the realm is extremely difficult."

"Failed well!"

"If he had succeeded, how could I talk about getting revenge!"

Dual spirit roots are absolutely considered heaven-sent talent.

Second only to heaven spirit roots, or some people with special constitutions.

But it also depends on which two spirit roots are the dual spirit roots.

Like the water-fire mutual restraint spirit roots, not only will they not speed up cultivation, but they will also drag down oneself.

The Duan family just happened to have an Ice-Fire Spiritual Spring, plus Duan Qiankun tried every means to find a dual-cultivation technique.

Otherwise, Duan Rui would have found it difficult to cultivate to the Qi Refining Great Perfection in his lifetime.

Even if he had the Great Perfection realm, the difficulty of breaking through the realm was far greater than other Great Perfection cultivators who only practiced a single system.

Two Foundation Establishment Elixirs went down, and neither succeeded.

According to the time, they must still be recuperating from their injuries!

The backlash of failing to break through to Foundation Establishment is not as easy as it looks on the surface.

What Luo Chen knew was the neighbor Fu Xiuxiu back then.

She relied on her Dao companion's help and her own special constitution to slowly recuperate.

Even with Duan Qiankun's help, Duan Rui's days were definitely not easy.

And Duan Rui's days were not easy, and Duan Qiankun himself was in danger.

Doesn't this mean that the Duan family's days were not easy!

"No wonder they have been frequently sending people to find you recently!"

Luo Chen sighed.

Cultivating in a family also involves so much intrigue, not a bit easier than when he was a rogue cultivator.

Duan Feng nodded, "Naturally they will come to find me; after all, I have done a few things in the past year."

One win and one loss with Nangong Qin on the Dao-Discussion Platform, long-term top three.

Holding an important position in the Luotian Society, trusted by Luo Chen.

In the battle of the Fu family, he fought the Fu family head Fu Zhang alone in the early stage.

The strength Duan Feng displayed was no longer as weak as the orphan who was isolated and helpless back then.

"They frequently contact me, not only giving many promises but even giving some benefits in advance."

"Hmph, to tell you the truth, I have accepted all those benefits!"

"Cultivation elixirs, Duan family secret techniques for tempering spiritual power, etc."

"It's not that I'm a white-eyed wolf, but these are what I deserve!"

Luo Chen raised an eyebrow, "Do you mean you don't intend to return to the Duan family?"

Duan Feng looked at Luo Chen speechlessly, "I knew you were worried about this when you came to me today."

"Hehe..."

Luo Chen smiled frankly and did not hide his purpose.

A gentleman can be deceived by the right way.

Putting this kind of thing on the table doesn't affect anything.

Duan Feng shook his head, "I can't go back."

"Even if I go back, it's to claim a life!"

Inside the house, the furnace fire was rising, incomparably warm.

Luo Chen pulled his collar and advised, "Duan Qiankun doesn't have many years to live, so why bother with him for a moment?"

Isn't it better to wait for him to die of old age?

By then, going to dance on his grave wouldn't lose the style of our generation.

"No, you don't understand. I can't forget the way my mother died tragically at home after cutting her own heart pulse."

Speaking of this, Duan Feng almost ground his teeth.

He trembled uncontrollably, "I must have him die, not die peacefully of old age."

"My father's life, my mother's life, and the unfair treatment my family has received for many years."

"These must all be repaid with his life!"

"Even if it means being smashed to bones and ashes, I will not hesitate!"

Every word was tearful.

Luo Chen sighed, knowing he couldn't persuade him.

But Duan Feng is only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, so how can he talk about competing with a Foundation Establishment cultivator?

He hasn't even reached the Great Perfection yet.

Suddenly, a scene appeared in Luo Chen's memory.

He subconsciously wanted to open his mouth, but seeing Duan Feng's gaze that seemed to be able to devour people, he forcibly took it back.

Can't say!

If he said it, it would harm Duan Feng instead!

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