29: The wind rises in the East Desert, and the power gap is huge

Finally, Feng Zixian boarded the Immortal Boat and left with the Grand Elders of the Nine Heavens Immortal Palace.

When she left, she naturally wanted to take her Family with her.

However, how could Feng Keqiang possibly leave at this time?

He and Long Bubai were known as the Twin Prodigies of Feng Town; they were not brothers but closer than brothers. For this, they even arranged a child betrothal between Feng Zixian and Long Aotian.

Unfortunately, Long Aotian could not Cultivate, so Long Bubai naturally couldn't shamelessly let his son, who couldn't Cultivate, marry a daughter who could.

Long Bubai brought his son, Long Aotian, and sincerely apologized, proactively breaking off the engagement!

But Feng Keqiang disagreed, saying he wanted to wait and see, to discuss it after his daughter opened her meridians at eight years old. If his daughter could Cultivate, it wouldn't be too late to break off the engagement. If his daughter couldn't Cultivate, then the two could still be a Mortal couple.

But he never expected that just a few days ago, Long Wuji suddenly came to their door, asking the Feng Family to take over all The Long family's Family businesses. The Long family wanted to break up into smaller units and fight the Imperial City Shi Family to the death.

Long Bubai didn't have time to bring his son to break off the engagement before disappearing. The marriage between his daughter and Long Aotian remained, and he couldn't rest easy knowing his good brother Long Bubai was in trouble.

Therefore, although he deeply wished to leave the Eastern Barrens with his daughter at this moment, he ultimately decided to stay in the Eastern Barrens for now.

Feng Zixian also understood her father's difficulties. In fact, her father surely wanted to take The Long family with them when they left the Eastern Barrens.

Their Feng Family and The Long family could be considered to have become acquainted through conflict. Although Feng Town was said to be a standoff between the Long and Phoenix Families, in the end, not only did both Clan Chiefs become sworn brothers, but she had also been betrothed to Long Aotian before she was even born.

This child betrothal, it was said, was even proposed by her father, Feng Keqiang, back then.

Long Aotian, as a child, was very intelligent and likable. No one could have imagined that he wouldn't be able to Cultivate, especially since the direct lineage of The Long family had always been stronger with each generation. Her father, Feng Keqiang, naturally didn't want to miss out on Long Aotian as a son-in-law and didn't want others to get ahead of him, so he arranged this child betrothal for her.

She had known about this matter since childhood.

She was also satisfied with it.

At least, Long Aotian was very handsome and treated her very well.

She was even born because her father, in his eagerness to secure Long Aotian as a son-in-law, hastily married her mother.

She and Long Aotian were nearly three years apart!

She was born because of Long Aotian!

Long Aotian's position in her heart was naturally pivotal.

But who could have imagined that two years ago, Long Aotian was actually found to have an unprecedented twelve miscellaneous Spiritual Roots, and because of these strange miscellaneous Spiritual Roots, he couldn't Cultivate, thus quietly fading from her heart, gradually diminishing.

The Long family and the Feng Family, their relationship became closer because of Long Aotian, and similarly, their relationship became complicated because of Long Aotian.

But it must be said, the relationship between The Long family and the Feng Family was truly good. A few days ago, when The Long family was going to fight the Imperial City Shi Family to the death, they directly transferred their Family assets to the Feng Family.

May I ask, which other Cultivation Family is as generous as The Long family? And as good to their Feng Family?

No daughter knows her father better.

Although her father said nothing, Feng Zixian, even guessing blindly with her eyes closed, could tell that he definitely wanted to take The Long family with them.

Ultimately, out of helplessness, she requested the Nine Heavens Immortal Palace to leave a Grand Elder to guard her Family and made an agreement with her father that, no matter what, the Nine Heavens Immortal Palace would send another Immortal Boat to the Eastern Barrens ten years later, and by then, all Feng Family members must leave with it.

Feng Keqiang readily agreed, and also allowed any Cultivation Disciples of the Family who wished to leave the Eastern Barrens earlier to do so. Soon, a portion of the Feng Family members also boarded the Immortal Boat.

The Immortal Boat appeared quickly and left just as quickly.

In just half an hour, the Immortal Boat seemed as if it had never appeared at all.

And in Feng Town, people exploded with excitement.

However, before this news could spread, another, more explosive piece of news completely overshadowed the appearance of the Immortal Boat at the Feng Family in Feng Town.

After several days of brewing, The Long family finally made a move. Many of the Imperial City Shi Family's properties in various Royal Cities were heavily damaged by powerful experts from The Long family.

For a time, the entire Eternal Leaf Imperial Dynasty was stunned, and then even more so, in an uproar.

A Royal City Cultivation Family declaring war on the Shi Family, one of the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City?

Damn it, which Cultivation Family is it, to be so fierce?

The Long family thus topped the Eternal Leaf Imperial Dynasty's trending topics, becoming known as the crazy Family to all Cultivators in the entire Eternal Leaf Imperial Dynasty.

Upon hearing this news, Shi Gandang was absolutely furious.

He recovered from his injuries while traveling, spending several days to finally return to the Imperial City. Then, he teamed up with the Lei Family to ask the Imperial Family to intervene and go together to Immortal Severing Mountain to break the formation.

As a result, just as he was about to leave the Imperial City for Immortal Severing Mountain to break the formation, he received news that someone was retaliating against their Shi Family's businesses in various Royal Cities, and the Family suffered heavy losses.

How could he, as the Clan Chief, possibly leave?

Especially, hearing that over a dozen Nascent Soul Realm Family Elders had fallen, Shi Gandang was so enraged his lungs almost exploded. He abandoned the Imperial Family and the Lei Family, returning directly to his Family to gather the Shi Family's experts, vowing to find those destructive bastards.

Once the Shi Family left, the Lei Family also decided not to go, planning to stay and watch the Shi Family's drama, perhaps even stabbing their old rival, the Shi Family, in the back.

The Imperial Family's experts saw that both the Shi Family and the Lei Family, the main parties, hadn't left, so they naturally had no reason to go alone. Thus, they all stayed to watch the show.

Someone dared to pull the Shi Family's tiger whiskers; this was a very interesting matter, how could they not watch?

The Long family's actions also indirectly created time for Long Aotian to empty Immortal Severing Mountain.

The Imperial City Shi Family also lived up to its reputation as one of the Five Great Cultivation Families. The next day, they traced the Cultivation Family that launched the retaliatory actions against them to The Long family, one of the three great Cultivation Families of Thunder Dragon Royal City, and effectively launched several counterattacks, killing several Golden Core Realm experts from The Long family.

When Shi Gandang heard this news, he almost split apart. He hadn't expected it to actually be the insane Long Family.

At that moment, Shi Gandang deeply regretted not having directly slapped Long Wudi to death back then, but letting him go instead.

Yet, he never reflected on why he had slapped Long Wudi in the first place, leading to so many troubles.

The Long family, hidden in the dark, launched organized and planned fierce attacks. The Shi Family, with its strong foundation, quickly counterattacked. Both sides exchanged blows, suffering mutual losses.

But overall, the Shi Family's losses were far more severe than The Long family's. Most of The Long family's dead were Golden Core Realm Family Elders, while most of the Shi Family's dead were Nascent Soul Realm Family Elders.

Clearly, The Long family's three Great Ancestors, Supreme Guardian God, and Long Wudi, the Clan Chief, all made their moves.

They were the Peak strength of The Long family.

One Early Stage Out-of-Body Realm, and four Ninth Revolution Peak Stage Nascent Soul Realm experts who were just a step away from the Out-of-Body Realm.

Both sides exchanged attacks and fought for about ten days, eventually ending with The Long family's retreat.

But it was clear that this matter was not over.

Although both sides fought for about ten days, The Long family had always been in the dark, plotting against the Shi Family. As long as they didn't encounter the Shi Family's Family Guardian, the Shi Family was almost always suppressed.

It was very frustrating.

The Long family and the Shi Family were not done.

The Shi Family was also not done with The Long family.

But The Long family was hidden in the dark; they fought when they wanted to, and hid when they didn't. The Shi Family had no way to deal with them.

They had to constantly guard against possible sneak attacks from The Long family, which made the Shi Family very passive and annoyed.

However, it seemed that after the first confrontation, The Long family understood the general disparity in strength between the two sides and never again actively sought trouble with the Shi Family. The Shi Family was both gnashing their teeth in anger and suffering greatly in their hearts.

As long as this hidden danger of The Long family was not removed, their Shi Family would not have peace for a single day.

Just this prolonged standoff meant the Shi Family had already lost in the psychological warfare...