335: Chapter 335 Current Affairs

After Qin Shixuan conveyed the news of Qin Yu's death back to the Family, specifically to Qin Xuanyuan, the other party simply nodded.

Qin Yu was precisely a gift they had given to the Chen Family, and they certainly did not want to cause the Chen Family to harbor resentment against them because of Qin Zichen's side.

Moreover, back then it was also Qin Zichen's lineage that acted arbitrarily, demanding that Qin Yu seduce the personal disciple of Master Baiye, who was now Master Qingling.

Afterwards, that Qin Yu actually joined forces with several Foundation Establishment Cultivators to make a move against the Chen Family.

Back then, the Chen Family was still merely a Foundation Establishment Family, so they tacitly allowed it; but now the Chen Family was a Purple Mansion faction with two Purple Mansion Masters holding down the fort, forcing them to treat the matter with extreme caution.

Competition within their Qin Family was fierce, and if he were pulled down from the position of Patriarch because of such a matter, his lineage would never be able to turn things around.

Just like how they were currently suppressing Qin Zichen and his people.

Among Qin Zichen's lineage, Qin Zichen had the highest talent; as long as Qin Zichen was suppressed, that lineage would find it impossible to replace them.

After putting away the transmission talisman, Qin Xuanyuan resumed meditating and quietly cultivating, preparing to make a Breakthrough to the Purple Mansion next.

On the other hand, Chen Lingtong had already returned to Wuyue Mountain and informed Chen Changqing, Chen Changchu, and the others of the situation.

Upon receiving the news, Chen Changqing merely nodded and instructed her to focus primarily on Cultivate henceforth, temporarily putting aside all Medicinal Pills like the foundation establishment pill.

After all, he did not want a Purple Mansion seed to be delayed by Alchemy just like that.

After expressing that she understood, Chen Lingtong also began preparing to Cultivate.

She was currently at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment and not far from the Perfection of the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment, which she could reach in twenty years at most; had she not spent a massive amount of time on Alchemy previously, she might have already reached the Perfection of the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment long ago.

Yet she had her own distress, and Chen Changqing had his own distress as well; an increasing number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the Family were reaching the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment, and instances requiring Purple Mansion spiritual objects to assist in becoming Purple Palace Cultivators were growing more and more frequent.

It seemed he had no choice but to leave Yan Country for a trip and continue searching for new Purple Mansion spiritual objects.

Currently, several people needed to be prepared, specifically Chen Xuanyi, Chen Lingxi, and Chen Lingtong; these three were the most important.

Aside from these three, the others were not needed for the time being.

Chen Changqing stood atop the peak of Qingyang Mountain, looking down at the countless Cultivators below.

By now, members of the Chen Family had already exceeded one thousand, and Mortals exceeded one hundred thousand.

Had they not occupied at least one-fifth of the territory of the entire Qinghe County and established the Qinghe Alliance to be responsible for supporting a portion of the Chen Family Cultivators, what would give him a headache right now wouldn't just be Purple Mansion spiritual objects.

"Patriarch, the azure-feathered sparrows we raise have lacked in..."

Inside the council hall of Qingyang Mountain, quite a few Family members were discussing matters.

Chen Yuanwen sat in the main seat, listening to the reports of the Family members while remaining silent throughout.

As the person who had served as the Patriarch of the Chen Family for the longest time, he was very well-informed about many matters, yet in the face of numerous issues, he was mostly powerless to resolve them.

"Patriarch, the first-tier silk we were transporting to Cang Prefecture City was robbed, and quite a few Family members suffered severe injuries."

"What did Chen Qishan say? Do we know who the enemy is?" Chen Yuanwen asked, speaking up.

"Fourth Brother is unclear, but that gang of Cultivators came prepared. There are nine of them in total, among whom there are as many as three at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, and every single one of the rest is also at the Late Qi Refining Stage.

According to Fourth Brother, those people are definitely not Loose Cultivators, because Loose Cultivators do not possess this kind of strength; otherwise, with Fourth Brother's strength at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, even if he were facing two people at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, it would be absolutely impossible for him to be defeated, let alone the fact that the caravan Fourth Brother was in charge of also had several Family members at the Late Qi Refining Stage," the other person continued.

"I see. Since they are not Loose Cultivators, and a Foundation Establishment faction could not possibly be so bold and reckless, then it can only be a Purple Mansion faction." Chen Yuanwen pondered for a moment.

However, Cang Prefecture had a good twenty or so Purple Mansion factions; who knew which one it was, and there were already two or three that had some enmity with the Chen Family.

Moreover, aside from Cang Prefecture, the possibility of certain Cultivators crossing prefectures to commit crimes could not be ruled out.

While they were discussing, Chen Changqing was listening from outside.

He was currently the pillar of strength of the Family; some matters did not require his participation, nor did they require his personal effort.

As long as he held down the fort in the Family, he was the Family's greatest source of confidence.

By the time everyone finished their discussion, a full hour had already passed.

Seeing everyone leave, Chen Changqing quietly walked into the council hall.

"Tenth Uncle."

"Hmm? Changqing, why have you come?" Chen Yuanwen had originally been deep in thought in the main seat, but upon seeing Chen Changqing arrive, he immediately yielded the main seat.

Chen Changqing smoothly sat down in it.

"Tenth Uncle, after a while, I will be returning to Tang Country once again. I will have to trouble you, Qingling, and the others to take charge of and look after the matters within the Family," Chen Changqing said.

"Has something happened again?" Chen Yuanwen asked, puzzled.

"Nothing has happened; it's just that more and more people in our Family are reaching the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment now, and the number of people who need Purple Mansion spiritual objects will only grow increasingly larger," Chen Changqing explained.

"I see." Chen Yuanwen nodded.

Purple Mansion spiritual objects were a problem that no Purple Mansion faction could bypass, and the foundation establishment pill was the same.

It was simply that Purple Mansion spiritual objects were even harder to come by; in Yan Country, those Purple Mansion spiritual objects were almost completely controlled by the Golden Core factions. If one wanted Purple Mansion spiritual objects, the only way was to leave Yan Country oneself in order to find them.

Purple Mansion factions with the strength to head to the outside world had already dispatched people to leave.

Even those Golden Core factions had already sent personnel to develop over there, except that the Cultivators they sent were not Foundation Establishment Cultivators, but rather Purple Palace Cultivators.

After all, as Golden Core factions, they all had some Purple Palace Cultivators on hand, but their experiences in developing territories in the three countries of Tang, Chu, and Zhao were even more difficult.

Because as Golden Core factions, they had higher visibility than the factions under their command, leading to the ostracization and targeting they suffered from local Golden Core factions being far more severe than what their subordinate factions faced.

Yet there were also exceptions; for instance, Biluo Palace cooperated with a Sect in Chu Country, and the two sides reached an agreement wherein the other party granted Biluo Palace a piece of territory to settle down, making it convenient for them to acquire resources, while Biluo Palace was required to render assistance when the other party was in trouble, provided it did not violate fundamental interests.

However, situations like Biluo Palace's were extremely rare, whereas cases like the Yuxu Sect—where they had just finished leasing a territory, only for accidents to occur within it every once in a while—were conversely much more common.

For example, if it wasn't a caravan being robbed today, it would be a Foundation Establishment Cultivator under their command disappearing.

Or powerful Yao Beasts would suddenly pop up to attack their territory.

Everyone knew who was doing these things, but none of them probed too deeply into it.

In particular, some Golden Core factions had no other choice and could only withdraw their personnel.

In fact, it was precisely because of this that over the past few thousand years, not many Golden Core factions would go to those three countries to establish territories.

Because no Golden Core faction would allow any uncontrollable factors to appear within the scope of its rule.

At most, they would go there alone.

For instance, Golden Core Masters like Master Yuxu had also traveled around the three countries of Tang, Chu, and Zhao in their early years, and had even been to the Five Dynasties.