Chapter 680: Homeless Dog, Luo Chen's Grudge

A group of people came to Shenyuan City.

This was not strange. Although Shenyuan City was vaguely surrounded by the Demon Beast Alliance, with the name of the Central Plains Tianyuan Dao Sect pressing down, no demon beasts had been seen truly attacking the city for so many years, so cultivators had always been coming and going.

However, this new group of people attracted attention from all sides as soon as they entered the city.

Among them, there were cultivators of all realms, mostly at the Foundation Establishment and Core Formation stages, relatively young, regardless of gender.

The only thing unified was that each of their clothes had the same coral flower pattern family emblem.

These people were full of bloody aura, their expressions numb, yet carrying a bit of the luck of surviving a disaster.

In the dark, spiritual senses were communicating.

"Are these the cultivators of the Coral Sea Zhou family?"

"Judging from that iconic family emblem, it should be correct. I didn't expect that among the three major Nascent Soul families of the Wan Xian Society, it would be the Coral Sea Zhou family that persisted to the end."

"The Tianqu Chen family had dangerous canals as natural barriers, and Wuzhong Valley was known as the place where ten thousand demons never return, but both were broken in just a few years under the Demon Alliance army. Instead, the unremarkable Coral Sea Zhou family, with no danger to rely on, actually persisted for twenty years, tsk tsk..."

"Being able to persist for so long is indeed commendable, but the Zhou family, which once had over a hundred million clansmen and ten thousand cultivators, is probably left with only this many people now."

"Fellow Daoist Li, find an opportunity to visit the Zhou family ancestor together. In the past, when he was over eight hundred years old and trapped at the fourth level of Nascent Soul, he was just a pile of bones in a grave. Now it seems that being able to lead the family cultivators to break out of the encirclement, he is truly hiding his depth!"

"Good!"

The survivor team composed of dozens of Zhou family members was undergoing inspection by Shenyuan City cultivators to prevent Nascent Soul demon cultivators in human form from mixing into the city.

And they found that their ancestor had disappeared since entering the city.

For a time, they couldn't help but feel anxious in their hearts.

The ancestor was their heaven!

Now that heaven was gone, everyone was panicked.

There were those who were steady and prudent who took the initiative to stand up and appease everyone, saying that the ancestor had gone to see a friend to prepare a place to settle the family cultivators.

After this persuasion, everyone finally settled down.

However, facing the sizing-up gazes of many strange cultivators in Shenyuan City, the Zhou family cultivators still couldn't help but lower their heads, like homeless dogs.

Below Little Qiong Mountain, an old man with a long beard wearing green robes hesitated, but finally stepped into the mountain.

As he entered, the clouds and mist took the initiative to bypass, giving way to a passage.

This meant that the master of this place already knew of his arrival.

Seeing this scene, the green-robed old man didn't know why his heart settled down instead.

He walked all the way, and finally saw a young man with a smile on his face in a pavilion on the hillside.

Dressed in white robes, with a gold-red cloud-patterned jade belt around his waist, his pitch-black long hair was draped behind him, tied only with a wooden hairpin.

The young man saw him and shook his head with a light smile.

"Fellow Daoist, following my spiritual pet all the way and coming uninvited is somewhat impolite!"

The green-robed old man hesitated, looking at the young man's appearance, which was vastly different from his memory, and for a time, he was unable to confirm.

He tentatively opened his mouth: "Qingyang Demon Lord Luo Hai?"

Luo Chen's mouth curled up slightly: "My name is Luo Chen, titled Loose Cultivator Huang."

Luo Hai? Luo Chen?

Demon Lord? Loose Cultivator?

The green-robed old man shook his head: "I don't know who you really are; perhaps Loose Cultivator Huang is just one of your aliases. However, I recognize that black dragon; it is the spiritual pet of Qingyang Demon Lord, the master of Penghu in the Wan Xian Society."

Luo Chen asked back: "Can Qingyang Demon Lord's spiritual pet have such ability?"

The green-robed old man was silent for a moment, but soon he said firmly: "If Qingyang Demon Lord can become Loose Cultivator Huang, then it is only natural for his spiritual pet to have such progress."

Luo Chen was dumbfounded.

Alright, the fake identities he had made since coming out of retreat had been exposed one after another before Fu Chaosheng and the Zhou family ancestor, but it was not because his disguise was insufficient, but because his two major spiritual pets had each exposed themselves.

From this point of view, among high-level cultivators, to perfectly hide oneself, it is no longer limited to name, appearance, aura, and spiritual sense.

Completely different spiritual sense and magic power, two sets of completely different iconic means, and even travel vehicles, spiritual pets, and servants—all these aspects must be considered.

Since that is the case, there is no need to cover up.

Luo Chen smiled slightly, performed a Daoist salute, and bowed: "My name is Luo Chen, I have met Fellow Daoist Zhou."

The green-robed old man breathed a sigh of relief and returned the salute: "Coral Sea... Zhou Yunshen, I have met Fellow Daoist Luo."

He had already concluded that the other party was the Qingyang Demon Lord who had become famous in the Wan Xian Society back then. Being so solemn, he thought that "Luo Chen" must be his real name.

However...

Zhou Yunshen felt the faint magic power fluctuations on the other party, as well as the unscrupulous spiritual sense, and his mood was complex, and his mouth was even more full of emotion.

"When I celebrated my eight-hundredth birthday back then, Fellow Daoist was only at the Core Formation stage. In just a few decades, you have broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, which is truly amazing!"

Luo Chen smiled: "How is Fellow Daoist not hiding your depth? The world only thinks you are at the fourth level of Nascent Soul and are old, but they don't know that you are already at the sixth level of Nascent Soul, only one step away from the Great Cultivator realm of the seventh level of Nascent Soul."

During his days in the Wan Xian Society, Luo Chen was not always closing his door to build a cart.

He not only made wide connections within the Wan Xian Society, but also had contact with the three major external forces that made up the Wan Xian Society.

Wuzhong Valley goes without saying.

And the Coral Sea Zhou family was the party he had the deepest contact with.

Not only did a Zhou family woman marry Zhang Jiadi, who ran errands for him, but he even went to attend the eight-hundredth birthday of Zhou Yunshen, the Zhou family ancestor, and was even received by the other party personally at that time.

Especially later, in order to refine the fourth-grade anti-poison elixir to go to Ziling Island, the Zhou family ancestor opened the door of convenience and ordered people to send him the relevant spiritual herbs he needed.

These trivial details didn't look like much usually, but when the two reached the same realm, they became so-called origins.

At this moment, they complimented each other; after all, people lift each other up!

However, Zhou Yunshen's aged face only had a bitter smile at this moment.

"What is the sixth level of Nascent Soul? No matter how deep you hide, in the face of absolute power, it just means supporting for a few more days."

Speaking of this, he suddenly bowed to Luo Chen again.

"This time, I must thank Fellow Daoist for sending your spiritual pet to resolve the situation of my Zhou family being trapped."

Luo Chen raised his eyebrows: "Black King?"

Zhou Yunshen straightened up and nodded with lingering fear: "Indeed! At that time, the Coral Sea had been surrounded for twenty years and was at the end of its rope. If it weren't for Black King sending tens of thousands of Dragon Earthworms to disrupt the situation, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to bring out the last batch of the family's bloodline. Perhaps, when it truly reached a desperate situation, I could only leave alone and be a lonely person."

Had the situation actually reached such a point?

Luo Chen was somewhat surprised.

He had been in retreat recently and knew very little about external intelligence; he didn't expect that even the Coral Sea had "fallen."

Seeing his surprise, Zhou Yunshen thought that the other party might have been busy breaking through realms these years, so he didn't know about external affairs, and simply gave a brief explanation of the situation of the Wan Xian Society.

After the Demon Alliance broke free from the North Pole Night Demon Heaven, their first target was the Wan Xian Society.

The three-ocean defense line that had been maintained for two hundred years was broken in a few days.

The Demon Alliance began a large-scale invasion of the Wan Xian Society's base, the Fulong Mountain Range.

In the absence of the Mad Loose Cultivator and the Blood Loose Cultivator, and with the disappearance of True Person Long Yuan, the Chen family ancestor, Wuzhong Valley's True Person Yuling, and he, Zhou Yunshen, went to the Wan Xian Society together to help the Moon Loose Cultivator resist the demon army.

But who knew, the Moon Loose Cultivator withdrew at a critical moment, leaving countless loose cultivators of the Wan Xian Society without a leader.

The three True Persons could not hold on in that situation, so they each retreated.

Afterwards, the Tianqu Chen family was broken, and the Chen family ancestor fled.

Wuzhong Valley, known as the place where ten thousand demons never return, repelled three waves of demon beast impacts, but the fourth time, it attracted a powerful Demon Emperor. Not only was Wuzhong Valley destroyed, but the famous True Person Yuling also fell on the spot.

Finally, it was the Coral Sea Zhou family.

"Actually, the demon beast army attacking us was only a small part of the Demon Alliance's strength. The main force went south to impact the territory of the Canghai Alliance, otherwise my Zhou family wouldn't have persisted for so long."

Zhou Yunshen's expression was miserable, showing how hard those years had been.

Especially True Person Yuling, with whom he was on good terms, relied on the geographical advantage of Wuzhong Valley to hold on, but was defeated by the geographical advantage of Wuzhong Valley, and even his Nascent Soul didn't escape.

Luo Chen was secretly shocked; Nascent Soul cultivators are actually extremely difficult to fall.

Even if the physical body is destroyed, the Nascent Soul can use the instinct of merging with heaven and earth to perform the void teleportation method.

Unless the enemy has miraculous magic treasures like the Hunyuan Tripod that can capture the cultivator's Nascent Soul.

He pursed his lips and suddenly asked: "Before?"

Zhou Yunshen was puzzled.

Luo Chen restated: "Before the Demon Alliance, after the Moon Loose Cultivator returned, what changes occurred in the Wan Xian Society, especially... related to me."

Hearing this, Zhou Yunshen's wrinkled face had an unnatural look.

Seeing Luo Chen's persistence, he finally sighed and said: "At that time, rumors were flying everywhere, all saying how many benefits the Moon Loose Cultivator had obtained in the Sinking Sea, and the rumors also mentioned how majestic you were, killing Feiyunzi across realms. I don't know the real situation. But after the Moon Loose Cultivator returned, she began a large-scale purge of forces related to you within the Wan Xian Society."

"As far as I know, Penghu was taken back, the Zhang family of Cailian Island was exterminated, and only my descendant Zhou Shanshan, who I don't know how many generations apart, survived. This was still because the Moon Loose Cultivator gave me face. Well, the Moon Loose Cultivator hides deeper than me; in fact, she is already at the late Nascent Soul stage, and she also knows that I have the sixth level of Nascent Soul, which is why she gave me that thin face."

"The Qingyang small shop you had your subordinates open in Long Yuan Immortal City is gone. Not only that, loose cultivators related to you were also captured, and I heard they were subjected to no small amount of abuse."

"The loose cultivator who was interrogated seems to be called Duan Li. Later, it seems he died under the impact of demon beasts; I don't know the specifics."

"The Tusang Sect was completely exterminated; this is quite a pity. Those among loose cultivators who are proficient in spiritual plant cultivation are all talents!"

Luo Chen listened quietly, but at some point, his originally calm face was already pale.

Zhou Yunshen, who was standing on the side, felt uncomfortable as he spoke. Clearly, his realm was much higher than the other party's, but at this moment, he felt as if he were facing a volcano that had been brewing for a long time.

That deep killing intent was as hot as flames and as cold as ice, making people sit and stand uneasily.

Is this the evil spirit of killing a Nascent Soul cultivator at the Core Formation stage?

He had never done anything like killing a Nascent Soul cultivator of the same rank in his life.

Zhou Yunshen shook his head and said reluctantly: "Actually, there is some good news. The Moon Loose Cultivator wanted to capture a Core Formation loose cultivator named Lushan Jun, but couldn't find a trace. And the Zhang family was not completely exterminated; there was a surviving female cultivator who hid in a cave deep in Penghu and luckily survived, and was later brought back to the Zhou family by my descendant."

Facing this insignificant good news, Luo Chen's pale expression did not change in the slightest.

He just coldly spat out three words after listening.

"Moon Loose Cultivator!"

At this moment, the monstrous killing intent was not hidden, and invisible flames permeated from Luo Chen, burning the void until it twisted.

But this killing intent came fast and went fast, as if those strange flames had flashed and disappeared.

Luo Chen took a deep breath and barely squeezed out a smile.

"Thank you for telling me these things."

"Compared to you saving my Zhou family, it is insignificant." Speaking of this, Zhou Yunshen looked somewhat hesitant: "Black King took that Zhang family orphan from my Zhou family clansmen; I don't know how that girl will be arranged in the future?"

Zhang Jingqing?

Luo Chen said without hesitation: "Thank you for taking care of her for me all these years. After all, her father served me for many years, so naturally, I will take care of her in the future."

Zhou Yunshen looked as if he had expected it, and then a storage bag appeared in his hand.

"Since that is the case, then please pass these things to her for me, as compensation for these years."

Compensation?

Luo Chen frowned.

Zhou Yunshen seemed not to want to say more and resigned on the grounds that his clansmen had just arrived in Shenyuan City and had not yet settled down.

Luo Chen did not force him to stay, just made an appointment to chat when he was free.

After Zhou Yunshen left, Luo Chen stood still in the mountain pavilion for a long time before returning to the cave dwelling.

As soon as he went back, he saw a beautiful woman standing there gracefully, her eyes full of worry as she looked at Black King curled up on the ground.

Luo Chen glanced at her, then flicked his fingers, and a wisp of blue-gold flame appeared suddenly, covering Black King.

In an instant, the blue-gold flame entangled with the faint blue flame on Black King's back.

"Is it the Shark Emperor Liujun?"

Black King bared his teeth: "It's him, one of the three Demon Emperors who besieged the Zhou family was the Shark Emperor Liujun we met before. Being in the sea, I naturally don't fear him! But the flames released by his oil lamp are too threatening to my Desolate Beast body."

Luo Chen understood.

He had witnessed the power of the Shark Emperor Liujun's oil lamp.

Even the Luo Chen of that time, with a fourth-grade Desolate Ancient physical body, could not resist those faint blue flames and had to cut off one arm, and also needed the Withered-Prosperous True Fire to isolate the blue fire's erosion.

Black King's current physique is similar to Luo Chen's back then, and even with an innate undying body, without the assistance of true fire, he is naturally not the Shark Emperor Liujun's opponent.

Rumor has it that sharks were servants of Desolate Beasts in their early years, and only later turned the tables to become masters.

The blue fire lit with shark oil is specifically used to restrain the bodies of Desolate Beasts.

It is a bit wasteful to erase the residual blue fire on Black King now.

Luo Chen's heart moved, and the Withered-Prosperous True Fire wrapped all the faint blue flames and returned to his purple mansion.

Subsequently, he looked at the woman who looked somewhat familiar.

The woman no longer had the immaturity and clarity of her youth, and her expression had a bit more misery; she originally only resembled her mother, but now she had a bit more spiritual resemblance.

They are all bitter people!

Under Luo Chen's gaze, the woman was somewhat constrained.

She hesitated for a moment, and finally performed a graceful salute.

"Xiao Qing, I have met the True Person."

"From now on, just follow me!"

Luo Chen said softly, and the woman opposite him visibly relaxed.

"Is it actually this rich?"

Luo Chen looked at the storage bag Zhou Yunshen gave Zhang Jingqing; the resources inside were definitely not something a Foundation Establishment early-stage cultivator could match, and the family wealth of an ordinary Core Formation cultivator was just like this.

Black King lay beside Luo Chen and sneered.

"Xiao Qing was very mistreated in the Zhou family, especially after the demon beast army surrounded the Coral Sea, she, a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, was sent to the battlefield. These things are just compensation."

Luo Chen shook his head: "If it were really mistreatment, with ten thousand Zhou family cultivators dying in battle, there is no reason for Xiao Qing to survive."

Black King was stunned, it seemed that was indeed the truth.

Luo Chen handed the checked storage bag to Black King, asking him to pass it to Zhang Jingqing when he had time, and then asked about the detailed situation of that battle.

"Although the Zhou family had no natural dangers to rely on, they operated the Coral Sea like a copper wall and iron barrier, and the blood-sucking corals that filled the entire sea area made the demon beasts miserable."

"According to your statement, Master, it seems they formed a formation, which is why they could persist for so long."

"The reason I was able to kill my way in and break the demon beast formation was that the batch of Dragon Earthworms I brought out from Long Yuan Island made a great contribution."

"That old fellow Zhou Yunshen is really powerful. After deciding to abandon the Coral Sea, he no longer suppressed his realm, showing his full ability, suppressing two major Nascent Soul Demon Emperors with his own strength. However, I can feel that his age is really very old, and such intense action is also a great burden for him."

After seriously understanding the situation of the Coral Sea battle, Luo Chen also knew more about the Zhou family ancestor Zhou Yunshen.

This person is forbearing and will never act easily unless it is a last resort.

But once a decision is made, it is also very decisive.

And the other party's strength should definitely not be underestimated.

But now, the other party has become a "homeless dog," so where should he go in the future?

The other party did not flee to the Canghai Righteous Alliance, which is now the largest force in the North Sea, but came to Shenyuan City; the intention is self-evident.

Is he also wanting to go to the Central Plains?

Luo Chen's eyes narrowed slightly.

His spiritual sense moved, a sound transmission was released, and soon Sang Jinghe walked in from outside.

The other party's eyes were red; it seems he had already learned about the situation of the Tusang Sect from Zhang Jingqing.

"True Person, what are your orders?"

"Go ask Fu Hongzhang when their family head will return to Shenyuan City."

Sang Jinghe was stunned. Asking when Fu Chaosheng will return, the purpose is self-evident; it is to know when they can set off for the Central Plains.

However, once they leave the North Sea, the grudge of the Tusang Sect, the grudge of the Zhang family of Cailian Island, and the grudges of the True Person's friends...

It seemed he guessed what Sang Jinghe was thinking, but Luo Chen did not give any explanation.

After the other party left sadly, Luo Chen sighed softly.

The North Sea is now full of war and danger, and I don't know how many people are looking for a way out.

Revenge?

Not to mention whether he is the Moon Loose Cultivator's opponent now, he has no clue where the other party is.

Some things are just this helpless.

However!

Although this world is big, it is only aimed at low-level cultivators.

When he achieves great success in his Dao path one day, even if he searches the heavens and the earth, he will ultimately find that woman to talk to! ===== CHAPTER 681 =====