Chapter 215: Retreat

At this time, Quliu Town was desolate, and even the shops had been moved away by Wei Yuan, so it couldn't recover its vitality in a short time. The entire town only had life in the few large mansions of the Xu family.

The private secretary brought a few followers and soldiers and arrived at the Xu mansion in a swaggering manner, seeing dozens of sturdy men and family-raised martial artists clearing the shanties in the adjacent area.

The private secretary grabbed a sturdy man and asked, "What is this for?"

The sturdy man had a fierce face, stared with both eyes, and shouted, "Who are you, why are you grabbing your master?"

This big man was born fierce, the private secretary's hand trembled, and he let go, then reported his identity.

The sturdy man heard that it was from the County Governor's office, so he didn't dare to be presumptuous, saying, "There are too many people in the family and not enough room, so the family head wants to build a few more mansions and sent us here to clear the land. Fortunately, there is no one here now, just burn it with a fire."

"Then the warrior can do as he pleases." The private secretary waved goodbye with a smile and went to the Xu mansion gate. After walking a bit further, his face immediately turned gloomy. Most of the people in this Western Region were desperate people, and that sturdy man looked like someone who had many lives on his hands. The private secretary felt there was no need to be the same as him.

In front of the Xu mansion gate, the private secretary reported his name, and a moment later the housekeeper hurried over, saying, "The family head is entertaining guests in the garden, sorry to trouble the private secretary to go over and meet him."

The private secretary hummed, "Your family head has grown a face recently, hasn't he, daring to ask me to go over?"

The housekeeper apologized with a smile, "The family head has important guests and can't get away."

"Fine, I'll see who it is and how important they are! Lead the way!"

The private secretary followed the housekeeper with a gloomy face past the side hall and came to the garden. As soon as he passed the side hall, there was a pungent fragrance, which instantly hooked the private secretary's gluttony.

Quliu Town now had no merchants, and there was very little game in the Broken Realm. After the private secretary followed Yuan Qingyan to his post, he hadn't even eaten a mouthful of fresh meat, and all that was in the kitchen was military rations like dried meat.

Walking out of the side hall, he saw a banquet set up in the pavilion in the garden, with twenty or thirty big dishes already on the table, and the maids were still serving dishes continuously.

There were a dozen people at the table, and Xu Jingfeng was not sitting in the main seat. The person sitting in the center was wearing a jade-colored mask, and the mask was exceptionally beautiful. The others at the table were also wearing masks, and at this moment, they were all quietly looking at the private secretary.

The private secretary's face sank, he walked over with square steps, and said sarcastically, "Good, good! Outside, the common people are living in misery, and the County Governor has only clear porridge and small dishes for three meals a day. The Xu family head's life is so luxurious! As expected of a big family, much better than the County Governor!"

Xu Jingfeng sat still and smiled, "So it's the private secretary. Why, the gift I sent last time has been used up, and you've been missed by the County Governor again?"

Seeing that Xu Jingfeng didn't even stand up, the private secretary hummed and said gloomily, "I was kind enough to remind you last time. It seems the Xu family head didn't take it to heart. I came here this time to tell the Xu family head that several days have passed since the last gift, shouldn't you express it again? The Xu family head is building new mansions and entertaining guests, how can you bear to watch the County Governor have clear porridge and salty dishes, and many colleagues in the government office suffer from hunger and cold?"

As the private secretary said this, he pulled out a chair, sat down at the table on his own, and then picked up his chopsticks and headed for a main dish in the middle.

But just as his hand reached out, he was grabbed by a masked woman beside him. The person snatched the chopsticks, broke them into two pieces, threw them on the ground, and stomped on them a few times.

The private secretary was trembling with anger and shouted, "Rebellion, rebellion! Who is this person, why doesn't the Xu family head send someone to take her down!"

The masked woman said coldly, "Want to take me to prison? Are you worthy?"

The private secretary was even angrier, pointed at the woman and shouted, "Good, good, good, wait until you enter the prison, I'll see how many methods you can withstand! At that time, everyone in the prison will be your husband! If it's still not enough, you can call another hundred big soldiers!"

The masked person sitting in the center said at this time, "If you want to take someone to prison, there must be a reason, right? Could it be that the reason is just that you offended you?"

The private secretary sneered, "Does the County Governor's office need a reason to take someone to prison?"

Xu Jingfeng looked toward the person in the center, and seeing him nod imperceptibly, his face sank, and he made a gesture.

The Xu mansion guards hiding in the dark appeared, came behind the private secretary like fierce gods, and the private secretary's followers and soldiers originally wanted to block, but were pushed to the ground by the guards, so they wisely hid to the side and didn't make a sound.

Two guards were both Dao Foundation cultivators, and they lifted the private secretary like a chicken and threw him out of the pavilion. Although the private secretary was also a Dao Foundation, he belonged to the weakest kind of Dao Foundation and was not in the same league as these guards who had fought their way out.

The private secretary was ashamed and angry, jumping and shouting, "Xu Jingfeng! You have such big guts! What is the meaning of this?"

Xu Jingfeng said coldly, "Did I let you sit at the table? You, a servant, are you worthy to enter my Xu family's banquet?"

The private secretary's old face turned red, and he shouted angrily, "Good, good, good, you wait for me, the County Governor will not let you go!"

Xu Jingfeng sneered, "This young master doesn't go out, and in this mansion, I have the protection of my Xu family's ancestral spirits. If Lord Yuan dares to come in, I welcome him at any time, I'm just afraid he can come in but can't leave!"

The private secretary knew he had kicked an iron plate today and turned to leave. At this time, the person sitting in the center said, "Just let him go like this?"

Xu Jingfeng realized, gritted his teeth, and shouted, "Someone, break one of his legs, and then throw him out of the mansion!"

"Four legs," the person in the center said indifferently.

Xu Jingfeng immediately changed his words, "Break all four legs!"

The private secretary screamed like a pig, begging for mercy and threatening, but the Xu family guards were used to running rampant in the Broken Realm, and everyone had stained quite a bit of blood on their hands. Since the family head had an order, they didn't hesitate at all when they took action, twisting the private secretary's limbs with a "crack," and incidentally crushing several small bones, hurting the private secretary until he screamed like a pig.

This was not all; Xu Jingfeng also let them break all four limbs of the soldiers who came with him, and then carried them all out of the mansion and threw them into the mud pond outside the town.

The eyesores were cleared, and everyone at the table took off their masks and officially started the banquet.

The person sitting in the center was naturally Wei Yuan, and the rest were the young masters and young ladies of the noble families he brought out this time.

Wei Yuan had something on his mind and couldn't eat too much, but the young masters and young ladies were starving, and one by one they ate without heart or lungs. Over the past few days, they had almost been eating dirt in the realm. There was nothing in Qingming, and what they could eat was only various pure grains, or dried meat that was even harder to eat than grains. They almost forgot what delicious food tasted like.

The Xu mansion's cook was quite good, and the branch family here also had a rich inventory of ingredients, everything. Xu Jingfeng was now someone who could observe words and colors, and seeing the green light in everyone's eyes, he had long ago quietly ordered the kitchen to add dishes, serving the best dishes, which instantly made the young masters and young ladies full of good feelings for him. At this time, Wei Yuan said, "It seems our County Governor's life is not very good. How about this, you set up banquets every few days, and set them up in the main hall, so that people outside can see them. You are the family head, eat as well as you can."

That Lord Yuan must want to kill me... Xu Jingfeng thought so, and asked, "But there must be a reason for setting up a banquet, right?"

Wei Yuan said, "Is it hard to find a reason? For example, your mood today, for example, you got up late today. If you really can't find one, they can take turns accompanying you to eat."

Xu Jingfeng immediately understood, this master is planning to anger Yuan Qingyan!

However, Xu Jingfeng was also young and vigorous, and he still remembered the scene where Yuan Qingyan took the gift and drove him away last time. It was rare that Wei Yuan instructed him to anger Yuan Qingyan fiercely, so he naturally wanted to take revenge to the end.

Wei Yuan asked again, "You just said that there is ancestral spirit protection in the mansion?"

Xu Jingfeng hurriedly said, "This matter was originally only known to the family head, and I didn't know it at first. Later, people from the main family came, and after formally appointing me as the family head, they told me, and then took me to do the master-recognition ceremony, only then did I have the qualification to drive the ancestral spirit and fight with the ancestral spirit when necessary. If you are interested, I will take you to see it now."

Wei Yuan nodded, "That's fine, let's go see it now."

The two left the main courtyard and came to the side residence. Xu Jingfeng came to a remote courtyard that looked like no one lived in, pushed the door and entered, bowed deeply to an old tree in the courtyard, chanted a spell, and then said, "Old Ancestor, Jingfeng brought a friend to see you."

The old tree seemed to be awakened by Xu Jingfeng's spell, the trunk squirmed, and an old face appeared.

Seeing Xu Jingfeng, the old tree smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad, cultivation has improved again, and what's rare is that luck is also good! You child have brought great face to our Xu family. Where is your friend?"

Wei Yuan walked out from behind Xu Jingfeng and bowed to the old tree, saying, "Xu Yuan of the Maofei Zhan Tian Gang, meets the Old Ancestor."

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The old tree finally saw Wei Yuan clearly, and showed a look of thought and doubt, saying, "He also has the surname Xu? That's right, he seems to have a bit of Wan Shi's aura, is he that bloodline lost outside? Come, walk closer, let me take a good look."

Wei Yuan had already sensed that the old tree's cultivation was profound, and it was probably already in the late stage of Dharma Form. It was just that his state was special, seemingly nourishing the human Primordial Spirit with the tree body, so his perception was a bit slow, and his thoughts were also a bit slow.

Dealing with such old tree spirits and plants, Wei Yuan now had plenty of ways. He released a little bit of the Laurel Immortal Branch's aura, mixed in a bit of the Xu family's sixth elder's aura from that day, and only then walked to the old tree, ready to manifest the long tripod at any time.

The old tree looked at Wei Yuan carefully, sniffed hard again, and felt both a bit close and inexplicably in awe, saying, "Not bad, quite good! With such talent, you should recognize your ancestors and return to the sect! I will give you an item now; take it and go to the main family, find those people in the Elder Hall. When they see my token, they will naturally give you a good arrangement. How can a descendant like you be lost outside?"

As the old tree spoke, he shook his branches hard, and then a branch fell into Wei Yuan's hand. There was a green fruit growing on the branch, which looked like it had just grown out.

"You can eat the fruit, it is beneficial to cultivation. Now I... want to sleep for a while..."

Growing this fruit seemed to consume a lot of the old tree's energy, and he slowly closed his eyes, his face also faded, and he became an ancient tree again.

Xu Jingfeng was dumbfounded, and then his expression was a bit strange, secretly thinking that this master wouldn't really have the surname Xu, right? If he really had a trace of the Immortal Ancestor's bloodline, then the fact that both sides fought to the death before would be a bit ridiculous.

Wei Yuan naturally knew what he was thinking and said coldly, "There is a word, called old eyes dim."

Xu Jingfeng hurriedly agreed.

Wei Yuan picked the half-ripe fruit and stuffed it to Xu Jingfeng casually, saying, "This fruit has extra benefits for the Xu family bloodline. It's for you."

"For, for me?" Xu Jingfeng almost didn't catch it.

"It's for you. Now you go out for a while." Wei Yuan stared at the side room and pushed Xu Jingfeng out of the courtyard.

Seeing Wei Yuan's solemn expression, Xu Jingfeng didn't ask much, ran out of the courtyard immediately, and went to call those noble family young masters and young ladies.

Seeing Wei Yuan's expression, Xu Jingfeng knew that something had come in. Something that could make Wei Yuan face a great enemy, and that the old tree hadn't sensed at all, was simply not something he could deal with, so he had to find help.

Behind the window of the side room, a charming and bright red-clothed woman appeared. She sat by the window, holding a book in her hand, and was looking at Wei Yuan.

She was clearly sitting there, but Wei Yuan had a feeling of unreality, and Xu Jingfeng didn't see her at all.

The red-clothed woman walked through the wall and came to Wei Yuan. She looked bright and charming, possessing a kind of lazy moving quality, but Wei Yuan couldn't feel the slightest temperature from her, nor any feeling of real flesh and blood.

The red-clothed woman suddenly smiled and said, "You can actually see me, you are indeed one of the most outstanding people of the younger generation. I am Zhu Yuanjin of the Haotian Temple, and I have some grievances with your grand-teacher Fenhai."

So it was a senior of the sect, Wei Yuan hurriedly bowed, "Meet the Grand-Aunt!"

The red-clothed woman said, "This old tree in the Xu family has some cultivation, and has accumulated for several hundred years. Once it erupts, the power is considerable. So I specially came to watch this old tree nearby, first to not let him sense anything abnormal, and second, at the last moment, you can also have a retreat."

The red-clothed woman said it lightly, but being able to give Wei Yuan a retreat at the last moment, her Dao magic must also be earth-shattering.

"Then when is the last moment?" Wei Yuan asked.

The red-clothed woman said, "Maybe tomorrow, maybe it will never come. It depends on how you toss."

Wei Yuan felt a bit guilty. He felt that if he tossed seriously, he would probably have to run away tonight. But tossing like this was not a question of whether he wanted to or not, but related to luck. Wei Yuan also didn't expect that he would reincarnate what might be the most important genius of the Shaman tribe in a thousand years with a casual grab.

Just at this moment, Xu Jingfeng led a team of people to rush into the courtyard, and before he could see the situation clearly, he shouted, "What monster dares to break into my family's old mansion? Quickly hand over my master, and I can spare your life, otherwise, I will refine your soul with true fire and burn you for forty-nine days before you die!"

After shouting, Xu Jingfeng realized something was wrong and hurriedly said to Wei Yuan, "My lord, why are you the only one here? Where is that monster just now? What does it look like, has it already run away?"

Wei Yuan didn't know what to say for a moment.

The red-clothed woman stood beside Wei Yuan, quietly watching Xu Jingfeng jump up and down.

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