Chapter 174: You have a story, hey, I have wine

"Eight pills?"

In the Four-Image Cauldron, eight pills as red as blood were quietly suspended.

Luo Chen was very surprised.

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

But the fact that there were eight pills instead of seven really surprised him.

He subconsciously raised his hand, looking at his slender fingers, lost in thought.

"Did the Huan Xi Hand's processing of the Ape Demon blood resolve some of the impurities in the demonic blood, thereby increasing the number of pills formed?"

"In other words, there is still room for improvement in the Blood-Burning Pill formula!"

Just now, while refining the Blood-Burning Pill, he remembered that the Ape Demon blood also belonged to the liquid material category.

So he used the newly learned Huan Xi Hand to try processing it.

He didn't expect such an unexpected joy.

After the surprise came 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 of a generation.

But as he got his hands on various pills and mastered more and more pill techniques, he realized there was even more he didn't know.

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

Now he had fifty-eight Blood-Burning Pills in his hand, which had already completed Tian Xingzi's request.

He would leave eight pills as a reserve for the Luo Tian Society.

He would go deliver the remaining fifty pills in a few days!

By the way, he would also see if the Treasure Cage Black Market had collected double the medicinal materials for him.

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

"Have you been waiting long?"

"It's alright."

"Is something the matter?"

"It's still about the production of the Jade Marrow Pill; the Duan family is urging for goods again. In addition, the supply in the loose cultivator 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 pills so high? Have they also learned from the Nangong family and closed their clan?"

"That's not the case, but their monthly demand for pills 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 sending people to contact Duan Feng these days."

Contacting Duan Feng?

What kind of talk was this?

Luo Chen remembered very clearly that Duan Feng, this cast-off son of the Duan family, had a deep blood feud with the Duan family ancestor.

Back during the struggle for the Core Formation ruins, he had desperately wanted to enter the mountain to seek opportunities.

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

Luo Chen still remembered that phrase, "The old dog doesn't have many years left to live!" very clearly.

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

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

Duan Qiankun!

He didn't cultivate properly day by day, but ran to the Treasure Cage Black Market every few days.

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

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

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

Pills, talismans, medicinal materials, puppets, magic tools... Now, he had even started contacting Duan Feng, whom he had abandoned before.

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

Duan Feng was no nobody.

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

But in reality, his talent for casting tools was even more outstanding.

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

Now, Duan Feng was an elder in the War Hall of the Luo Tian Society, and there was a high possibility he would break away in the future to establish a Tool Hall.

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

"Don't worry about the Jade Marrow Pill matter; let Zeng Wen go and deal with them perfunctorily. Anyway, there is only the normal quota this month."

Gu Caiyi nodded; she was indeed not suitable for doing too much of this kind of rejecting people.

Zeng Wen was very suitable.

His current role was mainly to do some dirty work.

"Fine, then I'll use the excuse of insufficient production to let Zeng Wen dismiss the Duan family's cultivators!"

"Hmm, by the way, you can also say that the Nangong family wanted too many Jade Marrow Pills."

Gu Caiyi's eyes lit up.

That's right, by using this move to put pressure on the Nangong family, their Luo Tian Society could relatively avoid offending people so much.

Now, the matter of the Nangong family closing their clan was known to everyone in the Dahe Workshop.

Even if the Duan family wanted to find someone to negotiate, there was nowhere to find anyone.

After handling this matter, Luo Chen hesitated for a moment, but finally decisively left the Pill Hall.

Outside the Slanting Moon Valley, a new complex of buildings stood in rows along the spacious combat platform.

This was the base 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 Luo Tian Society paid them such high salaries not just to escort pills and patrol.

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

Luo Chen's arrival was silent.

He stepped with steady footsteps and gradually came to a large house with a huge chimney.

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

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

A smelly, hot odor was very clear even in the winter season.

A 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 a metal ingot with hammer after hammer.

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

His expression was gloomy, and every hammer blow seemed not to be forging a metal ingot, but hammering a person.

But it wasn't purely venting emotions.

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

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

Luo Chen's eyes lit up, vaguely seeing the mystery within.

With every hammer blow, spiritual power accompanied the entry and exit, and in the forging, it was as if impurities were being hammered out, just like the metal ingot.

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

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

"President!"

"Hello, 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, picked up an outer garment, and walked out.

Under the combat 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, the other in summer.

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

Luo Chen chatted with him enthusiastically, while Duan Feng was as cold as ever.

Accustomed to this way of talking, Luo Chen had his ways to mobilize the other party's conversational mood.

Little guy, playing the silent type with me, huh!

"Is the batch of people you're leading doing alright?"

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

"What about magic tools?"

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

Duan Feng said distressedly, "I only have two blueprints for flying sword magic tools, one low-grade and one mid-grade. In your words, they have no market competitiveness when taken out; at most, they can be forged to satisfy internal use."

Alchemy requires pill formulas, and tool casting naturally requires blueprints.

Unless it's like the tool-casting master Hu Yan Zhuo in Tian Fan City, who has reached the level of being able to innovate and study various magic tools and treasures.

But clearly, Duan Feng hadn't reached that level.

Luo Chen didn't have such high expectations for him.

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

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

Without much guidance, the other party could talk endlessly.

"I've basically repaired the batch of second-hand magic tools recovered under Qinghe Mountain. Selling them will be enough for you to recover your costs and make a small profit."

Luo Chen laughed, "You still remember that!"

Duan Feng scratched his head, "That small stall of the Feng Hai Duan family, you invested two or three thousand spirit stones into it, and in the end, only one thousand was distributed to you, so how could I not remember."

That was true.

The Feng Hai Duan family was one of the few businesses where Luo Chen had lost money.

Because the contraction of the Heavenly Work Spirit-Seizing Array in the Core Formation ruins of the Ancient Origin Mountains led to chaotic fighting among loose cultivators, which in turn caused a demonic beast riot.

In the end, it affected the business of that small tool-casting stall.

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

"In addition, I'm also working overtime to repair the many magic tools recovered from the Slanting Moon Valley battle and the Fu family battle."

"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 over 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 laughed lightly.

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

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

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

A person's energy and spiritual power are limited.

With too many magic tools, one simply doesn't have enough energy to familiarize oneself with them.

During combat, the limitation of spiritual power also means one can't just use many magic tools at will.

Generally speaking, cultivators of any realm will choose the magic tools most suitable for themselves.

Overall, it's one or two attack magic tools, a defensive magic tool, a movement magic tool, and at most some exotic magic tools.

Even with this combination, it still requires a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator with a relatively high realm to barely manage 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 the original set, and he had only recently acquired a sword pill to make up for the deficiency in attack power.

Even the sword pill was chosen because it didn't consume much spiritual power.

Duan Feng naturally understood this principle, but 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 Luo Tian Society!"

Luo Chen shook his head.

Under 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 that the Duan family has been sending people to contact you recently. Can you tell me what your thoughts are?"

"Thoughts?"

"Hehe..."

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

He opened his mouth and finally said gloomily, "Do you want to hear my story?"

"I have wine!"

"Uh..."

The two of them walked to Duan Feng's room without realizing it.

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

Tea cups on the table, clothes in the cabinet.

Some flowers and plants, rare in winter, were placed by the window facing the sun.

Su Yinyin, 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 simple to the extreme.

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

"Oh..."

The elongated tone made a rare flush of red appear on Duan Feng's face.

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

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

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

Duan Feng sheepishly put the small wooden bucket containing the 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 cup of pale yellow, crystal-clear wine.

"Is this the yellow pear wine from Little Yue's house?"

"Hmm."

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

As the inner city turned into a ghost city, Little Yue's grandfather also lost contact.

Thinking that the other party was already disabled, in that kind of sudden chaos, he had probably already become one of the thousands of yin ghosts in the Dahe.

Now, this yellow pear wine was truly one less cup for every cup drunk!

The atmosphere that Luo Chen had managed to warm up with his joking had suddenly become low again in this sadness.

At the same time, there was the low sound of Duan Feng's memories.

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

Through 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 cultivation family with the longest history in the Dahe Workshop, 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 Persons had been produced.

During this period, it wasn't that they hadn't thought about expanding outward, but due to various factors, they could only be confined to one place in the end.

Although the Dahe Workshop didn't have a second-grade spirit land on the surface, the ice-fire spirit spring that the Duan family had occupied early on

could briefly form a second-grade spirit land under special secret techniques.

It was enough to supply Foundation Establishment cultivators for cultivation.

The reason they couldn't expand their influence to other places was also because they were reluctant to part with this spirit spring.

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

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

Even marriage was rarely done with outsiders, and it had always been intermarriage within the clan.

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

He even joined the Jade Cauldron 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 Jade Cauldron Sect while returning to the family to support the Duan family.

During this period, he even 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 the Flowing Light Workshop, leaving me and my mother to depend on each other."

"Depend on each other?"

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

"There are, 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 guy!

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

A Great Perfection Qi Refining cultivator!

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

After all, he wasn't part of the loose cultivator crowd.

"Father died, and our family's connection with the Jade Cauldron Sect was broken."

"As for me, I was particularly keen on magic tool casting at that time." Duan Feng smiled bitterly, "After all, this is also our family's inherited craft."

"Moreover, the conditions for inheriting the clan leader also included having high-level magic tool casting skills."

"I chose that at the time, and it seemed absolutely correct. Given enough time, I could also restore my father's prestige and even inherit the position of Duan clan leader."

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

Under Duan Feng's narration, Luo Chen learned why that lineage had gradually neglected Duan Feng.

Instead, they invested all their cultivation resources into his cousin Duan Rui.

Duan Rui, water-fire dual spiritual roots!

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

But precisely because he possessed water-fire dual spiritual roots, and the clan had an ice-fire spirit spring, it was very suitable for his cultivation.

The Duan family ancestor specially found 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 his cultivation, eventually catching up from behind, surpassing Duan Feng, and reaching the Great Perfection of Qi Refining early.

"Perhaps, it also has to do with your Duan family ancestor not having much lifespan left." Luo Chen smacked his lips.

Duan Feng drank the yellow pear wine in his cup in one gulp.

Thump!

The wine cup slammed 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 tight-lipped about lifespan. My mother and I were far from the family's top brass and didn't know the secrets within."

"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, and they talk about glory?

Well, he was a lone wolf and didn't really 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 distribution.

Oh, considering Duan Feng's father died for the family, the orphan and widow 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 Pill that my father had exchanged for with his lifelong merits from the Jade Cauldron Sect."

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

Luo Chen said in surprise, "The Foundation Establishment Pill your father exchanged for with merits?"

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

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

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

But given a certain amount of time, Great Perfection of Qi Refining was not a problem at all.

In other words, he would definitely have needed that Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, putting himself in their shoes, with his lifespan running out and the clan lacking successors,

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

For the sake of the family, it couldn't be said to be right or wrong.

It was even an absolutely correct choice.

Only if Duan Rui succeeded in Foundation Establishment could the Duan family continue to gain a foothold in the Dahe Workshop.

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

Their situation wouldn't be any better than Luo Chen, who was good at alchemy.

But if this kind of thing happened to the orphaned Duan Feng,

it was truly too cruel.

And yet, Duan Rui still failed!

This was too ironic.

While Luo Chen felt it was ironic, the murderous aura on Duan Feng became more and 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 be the time when the Dahe Workshop's Dao-Discussion Platform opened, attracting three major cultivation families."

"The Duan family's status was precarious for a time."

"In this situation, the old dog tried to form an alliance with Hearing Mi Shuhua of the Mountain-Breaking Gang, but was politely refused."

Listening and listening,

Luo Chen sensed something wrong.

How did it get hooked up with the Mountain-Breaking Gang?

Moreover, with Hearing 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 seemed to be about the time he started to shine in the Mountain-Breaking Gang and refine Jade Marrow Pills in large quantities.

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

Originally, he had to hand over a portion of pill profits to Deacon Miao Wen, so naturally, he wasn't willing to form an alliance with the Duan family.

That way, the benefits he could get would be even less.

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

Duan Feng smiled miserably, "You probably wouldn't guess that the marriage target was Nangong Qin of the Nangong family, and the candidate chosen by the Duan family was my mother."

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

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

It was no wonder he thought so.

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

Moreover, he had a contribution of a Foundation Establishment Pill.

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

His father worked himself to death, his most important legacy was misappropriated, and now he even wanted to marry off his widow, just for the sake of family marriage and consolidating the family's status in the Dahe Workshop.

Moreover, that Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Nangong family was in his prime and had a long lifespan left.

Isn't this inviting a wolf into the house?

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

When the cup reached his mouth, he found it was a pile of porcelain powder.

Luo Chen immediately pushed his own cup over.

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

"He certainly wasn't crazy."

"The Nangong family had just arrived and was eager to gain a foothold. If my Duan family formed a marriage relationship with them, they could completely stand firm."

"Moreover, my Duan family also had some incense relationship with the Jade Cauldron Sect."

"At least for a hundred years, it couldn't be called inviting a wolf into the house."

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

"Yes, the Nangong family agreed."

Luo Chen was speechless.

Doesn't this mean that kid 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 agreed."

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

"It was also at that time that I left the Duan family and entered the inner city to fight alone."

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

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

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

"At that time, I knew that magic tool casting 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 wasn't addicted to alchemy.

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

If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have shelved the Jade Marrow Pill recently and tried his best to refine the Tong You Pill.

Because the Tong You Pill could truly increase his strength.

It's just that being happy in it always reduces some fatigue.

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

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

"In that battle, I won."

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

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

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

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

After being stunned, without waiting for Duan Feng to explain, Luo Chen instantly understood the principle.

"Duan Rui?"

"Yes!"

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

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

"In that situation, the only person in the clan who could pose a threat to him was me, who had vaguely 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 in the clan, I would truly be isolated and helpless."

Luo Chen looked at the other party with complex emotions.

The inside story was actually so filthy.

It seems that cultivation families are not all of one piece and harmonious!

"Marriage failed, 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 Pill for him at the auction."

Auction?

Foundation Establishment Pill!

Luo Chen immediately realized.

Back at the Jade Cauldron auction, Hearing Mi Shuhua didn't take action, letting the four forces divide the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Excluding Wang Haichao, the Li family, and the Kang family from the Taishan Workshop, it seemed the remaining one was Duan Qiankun.

With this second Foundation Establishment Pill, wouldn't Duan Rui...

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

This wasn't a wild guess, because the Duan family still didn't have a second Foundation Establishment cultivator to this day.

"Hahaha..."

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

"Water and fire are incompatible; cultivating two methods is indeed powerful in combat, but how difficult it is to break through the realm."

"Failed well!"

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

Dual spiritual roots can definitely be considered a heaven-sent talent.

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

But it also depends on which two spiritual roots they are.

Like water and fire, which restrain each other, not only will they not speed up cultivation, but they will drag the person down.

The Duan family just happened to have an ice-fire spirit spring, and Duan Qiankun tried every means to find a matching dual-system cultivation technique.

Otherwise, Duan Rui would probably have been hard-pressed to cultivate to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining in his whole life.

Even if he had the Great Perfection realm, the difficulties in breaking through the realm were far greater than those of other Great Perfection cultivators who only cultivated a single system.

Two Foundation Establishment Pills down, and he still didn't succeed.

According to the time, he was probably still recovering from his 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 his former neighbor Fu Xiuxiu.

She relied on the help of her Dao companion and her own special constitution to slowly recover.

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 unable to protect himself.

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

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

Luo Chen sighed.

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

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

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

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

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

The strength Duan Feng showed was no longer as weak as the isolated orphan he was back then.

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

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

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

"It's not that I'm an ingrate, but these are what I deserve!"

Luo Chen raised his eyebrows, "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, not hiding 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, extremely warm.

Luo Chen pulled his collar and advised, "Duan Qiankun doesn't have much lifespan left, only a few years to live, why do you have to haggle with him over a moment's length."

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 cut her heart pulse and died miserably at home."

Speaking of this, Duan Feng almost bit his teeth.

He trembled uncontrollably, "I must have him die, not live out his natural lifespan peacefully."

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

"All these, he must pay with his life!"

"Even if it means crushing his bones and scattering the ashes, I will not hesitate!"

Every word was blood-stained.

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

But Duan Feng was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, so how could he talk about contending with a Foundation Establishment cultivator?

He still had a long way to go before reaching Great Perfection.

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

He subconsciously wanted to speak, 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!

(End of chapter)

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