In the blink of an eye, a few more months passed. Chen Fan was busy building up his family clan, while Li Lingyu teased the children nearby, creating a scene of growing prosperity.
As for the three brothers, Chen Fan had sent them to take turns guarding the shop in town. Under Chen Fan's guidance, they were very close to breaking through and becoming junior Alchemists.
Because of the supply of higher-grade pills, Chen Fan had broken through to Level 7 Qi Condensation in the past few days, and his wife had also been sustained up to Level 3.
To regularly refine these high-grade pills, Chen Fan often went to Zilong Mountain to gather spirit herbs. Today, he came to the back of Zilong Mountain as usual.
Suddenly, he heard the sounds of shouting and killing coming from a distance. After a moment of thought, considering his newly broken-through cultivation, Chen Fan decided to stay far away and turned to leave without hesitation.
Unexpectedly, another wave of people was fighting right ahead of him. Chen Fan hurriedly concealed his aura.
Among three individuals, one had the highest cultivation, appearing to be at Level 10 Qi Condensation. However, due to severe injuries, he was unable to unleash his full strength. On the contrary, a Level 8 Qi Condensation cultivator beside him was extremely ruthless, every move meant to kill.
Working alongside the Level 8 cultivator was a Level 7 Qi Condensation practitioner. The two were highly experienced; although their cultivation was much lower than that of the injured man, every strike they made left the wounded man struggling to parry, barely able to hold his ground.
Just as the Level 10 cultivator was pinning down the other two opponents, some lower-level cultivators at Level 5 and Level 6 Qi Condensation started fighting in a chaotic melee below, intending to end the fight quickly and support their main fighters with maximum speed.
Chen Fan held his breath and waited, not daring to move an inch for fear of being discovered and becoming everyone's target.
Chen Fan had some impression of these people; they were cultivators from the Zhang family and the Li family in the town.
Across the entire battleground, there were a total of sixteen Zhang family cultivators, including six at Level 5 Qi Condensation, one at Level 6, and the rest having just stepped into Early Qi Condensation.
The opposing Li family's strength was not inferior. Although their numbers were slightly smaller, their cultivation levels were higher.
Seeing the situation, a Li family cultivator took the lead by deploying a flying sword, followed by a small black shield.
With a furious roar,
the dozen-plus Zhang family cultivators reacted instantly, quickly releasing their magical tools. Seven or eight magical tools blocked in front of them all at once.
A few low-level Qi Condensation cultivators seemed not to have enough cultivation to use magical tools, but they still released a few Spiritual Talismans, sending attacks forward.
To everyone's surprise, the person charging toward the low-level cultivators was only making a feint before instantly changing direction and killing their way back.
The two reacted with panic and confusion, hurriedly releasing a layer of Spiritual Power to form a protective shield in front of them, and then deployed several talismans.
In an instant, a brilliant light burst forth, completely enveloping the two figures.
Although these two reacted relatively quickly, they had clearly grown overly confident against the injured cultivator just moments before, instantly allowing their opponent to seize the opening.
Even with their extremely fast reactions, faced with this sudden attack, they could not deploy their methods fully. In the blink of an eye, the protective shield was pierced through, and the Spiritual Talismans were shattered.
Before the two could even attempt to flee, they were cut down by the Li family cultivators.
The dozen Zhang family cultivators had already organized themselves, but under the disparity in cultivation, they were all merely lambs for the slaughter.
The Li family cultivators swarmed forward and quickly wiped out all the enemies, gathered the spoils of war, and hurried away.
Seeing this, Chen Fan still did not dare to make a single move.
Most of these family cultivators who had started fighting were individuals with solid foundations and relatively good cultivation techniques, not to mention the advantage of magical tools.
Seeing their combat power left Chen Fan terrified.
Although Chen Fan possessed the cultivation of Level 7 Qi Condensation, the cultivation technique he had learned was unfortunately common junk. Even his spells were mostly auxiliary ones learned for the sake of building his family clan. He had successively learned Lesser Spirit Rain, Earth-to-Stone, Body-Lightness, Object-Telekinesis, and Spirit-Gathering, and had learned very few offensive spells.
Although he now looked like the head of a family, his clan had just been established, resources were limited, and they had not yet developed.
Faced with the scenes unfolding before his eyes, Chen Fan secretly rejoiced that he had not been too high-profile in his daily life.
The fierce battle continued to unfold elsewhere, and Chen Fan could no longer afford to stand in place sighing; he had to be even more cautious and stay far away from this area.
Steadily gathering his wits and pressing down the panic in his heart, he found his bearings and began making a winding detour.
After a while, a loud shout echoed from afar: "Go to hell!" A flying sword streaked through the air at high speed. Chen Fan hurriedly stopped and looked closely, discovering that the cultivator who had shouted was young, only about twenty years old, but his cultivation was already quite high, reaching Level 6 Qi Condensation.
Opposite this cultivator, a person at Level 5 Qi Condensation was dodging everywhere. Seeing that he could not evade in time, the young man performed a series of hand seals and deployed two Spiritual Talismans, launching them into the air.
From these two Spiritual Talismans, one flew out as a shield, while the other transformed into a cluster of golden needles resembling a streak of lightning, flying straight toward the youth.
The young man's expression changed, but with his cultivation, he could barely manage two magical tools. He steadily deployed a shield-shaped magical tool.
The magical tool spun slightly, emitting a golden light that enveloped the young cultivator inside.
This shield-shaped tool was actually capable of generating protective spiritual radiance, so its grade was clearly not low.
The silver needles pierced against the light shield, and the sound of *ding, ding, ding* rang out endlessly without leaving a single trace on it.
Seeing this, a look of mockery crossed the young man's eyes. Just as he was about to launch a counterattack,
a flash of thunder suddenly appeared right in front of him. With a loud crash, bolts of lightning manifested across the protective shield.
After the young man's shield armor continuously withstood several bolts of lightning, it began to look somewhat overwhelmed. Fortunately, at that moment, the lightning from the Spiritual Talisman also dissipated.
Putting away his shield with a look of heartache, the young man immediately pressed his advantage, swiftly deploying his spirit sword.
Radiant with spiritual light, the spirit sword swiftly sliced through the air, chasing directly after the person who had just fled.
Seeing this, Chen Fan could no longer suppress the excitement surging in his heart, because just as the two were fighting, he had seen one of them stealthily toss a jade slip away.
With no time to overthink, murmuring to himself, "Wealth is sought amidst danger,"
Chen Fan hurriedly invoked his spell and flew toward the jade slip. Lifting it with his Spiritual Power, he quickly used the system's points to record its contents before tossing it right back to where it had been.
With his heart pounding with uncontrollable excitement, Chen Fan had no time to examine what the contents were, and hurriedly found a secluded spot to quietly make his way toward the exit.
Along the way, Chen Fan looked at the cultivation technique engraved within the system's Heritage Records. This Heritage Record had appeared when Chen Fan was perfecting the Scripture Pavilion, allowing him to spend points to upgrade his mastery of cultivation techniques.
There, written in bold characters, was the "Spring Wood Yang Flame Art", a Foundation Establishment stage cultivation technique that could be practiced all the way to Foundation Establishment Peak. Chen Fan suddenly understood why several families had fought and killed each other to this extent.