Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 502

What was destroyed was the stone tablet, but it was not just the stone tablet that was destroyed.

In reality, stone tablets are easy to deal with; you can move, smash, or destroy them at will.

But above that ethereal void, this stone tablet was merely a door number pasted on the entrance, making it easier for that gaze to lock onto it.

So no matter what you do with this house number, it's meaningless, because this house will always stand here.

What Chen Yunhai and the three spirits of the Chen family dragon king did was to completely remove the Chen family house and all the descendants of the Chen family from their sight.

From this day forward, the descendants of the Chen family of Qiongya will no longer be blessed by Heaven or enjoy good fortune.

Although Li Zhuiyuan had guessed the outcome beforehand, he was still shocked when he witnessed Chen Yunhai smash the monument with a single punch while sitting on the steps.

But soon, Li Zhuiyuan realized that he was wrong. His understanding and knowledge were still too shallow. He was finally able to truly understand where the spirit of the Dragon King of the Chen family and Chen Yunhai's profound sense of humiliation came from.

The feng shui of the Chen family ancestral home was completely disrupted, but the surrounding feng shui remained intact. With Li Zhuiyuan's feng shui expertise, he could see the changes from a distance.

To give an analogy, if the Chen family ancestral home is considered the center of a vortex, then the surrounding weather follows this center, and the intensity can be calculated from each other.

When the "stone tablet" is shattered and the gaze of Heaven is cut off, the grace originally bestowed upon this place should be taken away, the center should weaken, and the periphery will naturally weaken as well.

However, the surrounding feng shui and atmosphere not only did not weaken, but became more solid and substantial than before. This means that the Chen family's fortune not only did not weaken, but actually strengthened.

Heaven took away its "favoritism," and the money and goods were settled. The Chen family, who should have suffered a serious loss, actually made a profit.

This can only mean one thing: Heaven has never actually given anything extra to the Chen family. Heaven has never provided any additional support. Instead, Heaven has been withholding the share that should have belonged to the Chen family.

This is why, despite possessing an extremely powerful domain, the Chen family of Qiongya has only produced three generations of Dragon Kings to this day.

For most of the time, the Chen family's talents were relatively mediocre within the Dragon King's faction, like crops in a field that don't get water, while the water valves are controlled by the Heavenly Dao.

Normally, they conserve water, but when they sense a major problem in the future, they release the water they have stored to nourish the Chen family genius, light lamps to travel along the river, and suppress the so-called "great evil."

Heaven clearly did not give anything in return, yet the Chen family of Qiongya was given the reputation of "Heaven's Favor" by the martial arts world.

Ordinary members of the Chen family would feel this was an honor and would worship the will of Heaven even more.

But the Dragon King should be able to see through this illusion and understand the true nature of things.

From Chen Jialongwang's perspective, this is simply being antagonized to the core.

If you really take advantage of someone else's position, you'll have to bear the stigma of "illegitimate accession."

You did eat it, but what you ate was not given by Heaven, but rather "family fat and essence" accumulated for you by your family over generations.

Why was Chen Yunhai able to spot the problem at a glance? Because the Chen family's original technique was perfected and supplemented by his generation. In his generation, anyone could try to cultivate it, and it wasn't limited to just one family or surname. Just like how Uncle Qin and Runsheng didn't have the Qin family bloodline, but they could still cultivate the Qin family's Observing Dragon Technique.

Why did the Chen family's domain later develop into a situation where it could only be opened by members of the Chen family bloodline?

In order to better control the valves and achieve targeted irrigation at critical moments.

These aren't lackeys at all... they're clearly pigs that've been kept in captivity, the kind that's only fattened up for special occasions when there's a family event, and whose feed is saved on other days, just to keep them for breeding.

Chen Yunhai, with his back to Li Zhuiyuan, stood before the Tinghai Guanchao Stele, now reduced to dust, and asked:
"Do you understand?"

"Ah."

Chen Yunhai turned around and looked at the boy: "But you don't seem surprised at all."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Heaven's way is ruthless."

Chen Yunhai: "A very good answer, but also a very perfunctory answer."

Clearly, Chen Yunhai did not believe Li Zhuiyuan's correct answer.

He really is a lot like Sister Chen; he can suddenly become smart out of nowhere.

Li Zhuiyuan was not surprised because his own merits from traveling the river had been frozen by the Heavenly Dao. In comparison, the Heavenly Dao was relatively lenient towards the Chen family.

Chen Yunhai looked at the three Dragon King tablets enshrined inside the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall:
"When their lifespan was nearing its end, and they chose to return to dust, they finally realized the truth. The children were filled with resentment; they left with resentment in their hearts."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded.

Holes, as if burned through, appeared on Chen Yunhai's body. His time was up, and he would vanish into thin air.

The sea of ​​clouds inside the Chen family ancestral home gradually thinned out, and the figures of the Qin family dragon kings slowly disappeared.

However, the evil spirits that had filled the ancestral home of the Qin family had all quieted down, and they had returned to the same obedient state as when Li Zhuiyuan first entered the Qin family and brought them out.

Chen Yunhai took a few steps forward, raised his hand, as if he wanted to pat the boy's head.

Although he kept his serious face tense, Li Zhuiyuan could tell that the other party's actions were not intended to touch him, and that he had become someone's substitute again.

"I must thank you on behalf of the Chen family for protecting the Chen family. You have done everything you could for the Chen family."

"You misunderstood. I came here to settle accounts with the Chen family. The head of the Chen family almost struck me dead with a bolt of lightning."

Chen Yunhai: "..."

Grandpa Chen himself probably never expected that, at his advanced age and already a great-grandfather, he would still be reported to the parents.

Chen Yunhai pointed to the numerous evil spirits surrounding them: "So these are what you brought to prepare..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Yes, we're prepared to perish together with the Chen family."

Chen Yunhai: "Of course, the accounts that need to be settled must be settled. Don't worry about me. Anyway, from now on, even non-Chen family members can learn the Chen family's original techniques, so the inheritance will not be interrupted."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Thank you for your understanding."

Chen Yunhai: "You and him are ultimately a little different. He is not as polite and courteous as you. Sometimes, he gives people the feeling of being a bandit."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I envy him."

Chen Yunhai: "Child, you must never follow his example. Doing so will only make you regret it."

Li Zhuiyuan: "What did you see back then?"

Chen Yunhai: "No, I found out from you. He taught that secret technique to Qing'an, and he will definitely regret it in the future."

Chen Yunhai's hand moved to Li Zhuiyuan's head, and the flame in his palm was moved elsewhere, avoiding the risk of the boy being set on fire.

The palm slowly descended.

Li Zhuiyuan moved his head away, leaving Chen Yunhai with nothing.

Chen Yunhai: "You!"

Li Zhuiyuan: "If Qing'an finds out when we get back that I was patted on the head by you in place of Wei Zhengdao, he'll be furious."

Chen Yunhai: "You don't have to tell him."

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "He's having a hard time right now. If even I lie to him, he won't have any fun left."

Chen Yunhai: "I am your elder."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I am of the same generation as the head of the Chen family. Only the Dragon King is a generation above me. You are not the Dragon King."

Chen Yunhai: "Do you want to learn the art of listening to the sea and observing the tides?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "No elder should make fun of their juniors like you."

Chen Yunhai: "You should be like him, learning everything very quickly, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan did not deny it.

Chen Yunhai: "Although I hadn't completed the Chen family's original technique at the time, it wasn't a difficult task for him. So guess why he didn't learn my domain technique back then?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Because if I learn this, it will target me?"

When Wei Zhengdao first saw Chen Yunhai, he should have guessed Tiandao's next plan.

Chen Yunhai: "This is the main reason, but not only that. The Chen family domain of later generations is different from mine back then. I need to accumulate the energy of heaven and earth day by day to build myself up. Even with my talent back then, it would take me at least twenty years of painstaking effort to achieve a certain level of prowess."

For him at that time, it was rather pointless, because with another twenty years, it wouldn't matter whether he studied the Domain or not.

Without the gaze of Heaven, the shackles of the inherited bloodline are broken. The family's misfortune is a blessing in disguise, and more people will be able to cultivate it. It is even more likely that exceptionally talented individuals will emerge. It is even possible that it will be further improved and perfected in the future.

But in any case, the kind of person like Sister Chen, who opened her mind and opened her domain, achieving great success at a young age, is almost a thing of the past.

Because no matter how smart you are or how ingenious your construction plans are, you still have to lay the bricks one by one.

Wei Zhengdao's reason for not studying the domain is very simple: as smart as he is, even if he were to go as fast as he can, he could only replicate Chen Yunhai's speed. In twenty years, what couldn't he do?
As Qing'an said, when they first met Chen Yunhai, none of them, even Wei Zhengdao, could beat him in a one-on-one fight, but that was only true at that time.

For Li Zhuiyuan, twenty years was an unimaginable luxury.

Chen Yunhai: "Let me touch it."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Do you have a solution?"

Chen Yunhai: "Let's touch it first and then talk about it."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I'm afraid you just want to tease me back."

Chen Yunhai's hand fell again.

This time, Li Zhuiyuan didn't dodge, letting the other person's hand land on his head and pat it.

Chen Yunhai smiled: "You guessed right."

This resentment, born from being thoroughly mocked by Wei Zhengdao, had been bottled up for a lifetime, even until his death. He never imagined that it would be released after his death.

Li Zhuiyuan smiled, not angry.

Chen Yunhai: "I should go now."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Goodbye."

Chen Yunhai: "Please pass on a message to Qing'an for me."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Okay."

Chen Yunhai: "Don't be afraid, we're all waiting for him down here."

After speaking, the last remaining clouds and mist inside the Chen family ancestral home were all collected, but not towards Chen Yunhai's body, but rather towards the ground. Various images flickered in these clouds and mist, representing what Chen Yunhai had seen and heard since being "awakened".

Complete annihilation is without any impurities, including memories.

A gust of wind blew by, and Chen Yunhai, who was standing there, returned to the sea of ​​clouds.

The entire Chen family ancestral home fell into silence, if one disregarded the swarms of malevolent spirits that roamed around it.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't walk out of the ancestral hall courtyard, nor did he go to see his poor relatives. Instead, he remained sitting on the steps in the courtyard, calling out to the outside:

"Outrageous! In broad daylight, under the clear sky, how dare evil spirits cause trouble?"

Some of the evil spirits of the Qin family were baffled by these words, but others immediately understood their meaning.

At first, the white tiger was confused. It had originally planned to go forward to greet the person, apologize, confess, and complain, trying to portray itself as a well-behaved little tiger who would do its best and have no ulterior motives.

But it quickly realized what was happening, and immediately waved its hand, letting out a tiger's roar as faint as a mosquito's buzz.

The evil spirits of the Qin family, which had previously surged in like a raging wave, are now retreating quietly like the receding tide.

They came from somewhere and are going back to where they came from, back to where their respective trucks were located. The snake scales are still there, repackaging and sealing themselves, waiting to be transported back to the Qin family's ancestral home.

All the evil spirits left quietly, without any arrogance or ferocity. Even those whose bodies were constantly oozing pus were helped by other evil spirits to ensure that from this moment on, no new evidence of evil spirits causing trouble was left.

As Baihu walked, he shook his head and sighed.

Having been in the Qin family for so many years, he has witnessed the birth and rise of many Qin family dragon kings. Therefore, he doesn't believe everything he hears like outsiders do, and he doesn't have any stereotypes about the Qin family.

But the way the Qin family has acted over generations has proven to it that this stereotype is not unfounded!

Back then, the reason it chose the Qin family instead of a family like the Liu family for protection was because it thought the Qin family's Dragon King was easy to fool, and that the other party might not be able to tell if it deliberately lost.

After all these years, the Qin family has suddenly produced a patriarch who is almost demonically intelligent, which really makes Chong feel uneasy.

Although the patriarch does not have Qin family blood, even if his children inherit only a little bit, it would be enough to change the traditional style of the Qin family.

White Tiger: "The Qin family has finally struck it rich."

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes and let out a sigh of relief.

Driving evil spirits from one's ancestral home is a suicidal act. Indeed, it has been proven that even if you use evil spirits to suppress evil spirits, trouble will inevitably arise, and may even lead to greater trouble.

This is inevitable; the former is an objective condition, and the latter is an inevitable intervention.

The boy didn't believe that the Heavenly Dao was not involved in the final turmoil caused by the evil spirits of the Qin family.

Heaven would never allow anyone in the mortal realm to control and mobilize such a large number of evil spirits to do their bidding. This would overturn the rules of the entire martial arts world, especially since that person is none other than Li Zhuiyuan.

However, this time there is legitimacy in suppressing the evil spirits of the Chen family, the faceless man's massive merits replenishing heaven and earth, the sacrifice of the three dragon king spirits to cover it up, and the specific environment arranged by the Heavenly Dao...

The bad news is that such offsetting is almost impossible to replicate. This time, we escaped the reckoning, but next time, we will still perish together. Moreover, the will of Heaven will inevitably increase its intervention and create more factors that contribute to the chaos.

The good news is that this world is unaware of this.

In the eyes of this martial arts world, what they see is the terrifying commotion they created by using a large number of evil spirits, and that they are not dead and have not fallen into evil ways.

This is enough to deter his enemies from acting recklessly in the open, creating a better environment for the revitalization and development of Qin Liu's family.

As for their underhanded attacks, they will inevitably be more intense and reckless, but that doesn't matter. What Li Zhuiyuan fears more is that they will back down. If they really pull off a plea for forgiveness, that would be truly disgusting.

"call……"

You can leave the Chen family now.

If we don't leave now, the Chen family's previously deployed forces will soon return.

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at A Li lying in the courtyard, then looked at Zhao Yi, who had fainted on the steps.

My friends went up north, and I don't know how it will turn out, but Binbin should be able to bring me at least a good result.

The journey is too far; we need to find them first, and then find another place to heal our wounds.

But before leaving the Chen family, that grudge must be settled.

"Thank you for your hard work, Zhao Yi."

The boy extended his ten fingers toward Zhao Yi.

Just then, an aura rose from underground.

Enveloped in a light cloud of mist, a figure emerged, covered in wounds and on the verge of collapse—it was Chen Pingdao.

Not only did Chen Pingdao not die, he also absorbed some of the mist that Chen Yunhai had dispersed before his annihilation. Li Zhuiyuan stared at him coldly.

Chen Yunhai's stance, the Dragon Kings' stance, and the patriarch's stance are different.

Chen Yunhai values ​​inheritance, the Dragon King values ​​pride, but the patriarch values ​​the continuation of his family line even more.

In the future, the Chen family will inevitably continue to produce outstanding talents, but those talents may not bear the surname Chen.

That depends on what choice Chen Ping will make.

But no matter what he chooses, the score between him and me must be settled.

However, with Ah Li unconscious, Li Zhuiyuan's current consciousness was only maintained by the silver needles inserted in the back of his head, and the evil spirits had also retreated. Of course, even if the evil spirits hadn't retreated, Li Zhuiyuan wouldn't order them to do things for him at this moment.

Chen Pingdao walked step by step to Jiang Xiuzhi. Jiang Xiuzhi's hair was white, and she was lying on the ground, still breathing.

He bent down, squatted down, and gently stroked his wife's face.

His gaze swept around, looking at his children and descendants. The best of them were seriously injured and unconscious, while some had already died.

The Chen family suffered great losses in this calamity, as their ancestral home was destroyed; however, the losses were also small, as only Chen Pingdao's branch was severely damaged, and the Chen family's foundation as a Dragon King's family was preserved.

This existing force is sufficient to protect the Chen family and ensure a smooth transition, allowing them to select and cultivate outstanding disciples from outside the family for the next generation, and wait for new achievements to blossom in one or two generations.

Chen Pingdao stood up and slowly walked towards the ancestral hall.

His face was covered in cracks, as if it had been hastily pieced together, making it difficult for anyone to discern his emotions at that moment.

Each step he took covered a significant distance, indicating that he still retained considerable combat strength.

Just as his figure was about to appear in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, Li Zhuiyuan touched his ten fingers.

Nuo Opera Puppet Technique, activated!
Zhao Yi raised both index fingers vertically, supporting his body.

The next moment, streaks of black skin emanated from Zhao Yi's body, and a large amount of mist spread around him.

The moment Chen Pingdao appeared in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, Zhao Yi disappeared from the steps. The dragon skin transformed into a cage, trapping Chen Pingdao. Zhao Yi, with his eyes closed, stood behind Chen Pingdao, making a gesture as if he were about to draw his sword and strike.

At the start, Zhao Yi shielded Li Zhuiyuan from the backlash of the faceless man's red rope, severely damaging his soul. This allowed Li Zhuiyuan to locate the faceless man's body; otherwise, he would have been unable to eliminate him completely.

Before falling into a coma, Zhao Yi adjusted his physical condition in time so that Li Zhuiyuan could seamlessly take over and control him as a puppet when needed.

Zhao Yi was also proficient in puppetry. They learned it together in the underground palace of the snow mountain. At that time, Zhao Yi helped Li Zhuiyuan comprehend it first, and then Li Zhuiyuan gave the rubbing board to Zhao Yi afterwards.

In short, although Zhao Yi was unconscious throughout the entire process, he fought hard from beginning to end.

This is the ability of the first team: to fully utilize their value without stealing the spotlight.

Chen Pingdao looked at Li Zhuiyuan with deeply broken eyes.

He did not resist or make a move, but instead raised his hand and pointed to the ancestral hall.

Li Zhuiyuan's ten fingers moved, and Zhao Yi put away the black dragon skin, unsealed it, and stood in front of Li Zhuiyuan again, holding his sword in a guarded position.

Chen Pingdao continued forward and entered the ancestral hall.

In the Chen Family Ancestral Hall, there are a total of five memorial tablets. He offered incense and paid his respects to all five tablets.

He didn't linger for long before he came out and stood in front of the willow tree.

The willow tree that he had carefully planted and tended was stripped of its lush greenery after Li Zhuiyuan used it as material for a mechanical array, leaving only withered branches and fallen leaves.

As the head of the Chen family, Chen Pingdao bears an unshirkable responsibility for what happened to the Chen family today; but those who orchestrated this were not only the Faceless Man, but also Tiandao and his own ancestors.

He was not a decisive family head, far inferior to Grandma Liu who was saving the family from collapse; nor was he a selfish and narrow-minded family head, inferior to Ming Qinyun's obsession with the family above all else.

Standing there, looking at the willow tree, he was actually looking at his younger self, the shy and innocent young master of the Chen family back then.

This is probably why he planted this willow tree here. It wasn't simply to remember the former Miss Liu, but because he had long known that the position of head of the family was not suitable for him, and he also disliked the position.

Chen Pingdao turned around and looked at Li Zhuiyuan.

The clouds and mist surrounding him were all absorbed into his body.

Chen Pingdao once told Chen Xiyuan that an apology cannot be empty words; it must be accompanied by a gift. He wanted to prepare one, but in the end, he prepared a huge one.

Under Li Zhuiyuan's control, Zhao Yi slowly drew his sword, and pieces of black dragon skin danced like ribbons wrapped around his body.

Although Chen Pingdao has not shown any hostility or intention to make a move so far, Li Zhuiyuan must repay the lightning bolt that Chen Pingdao cast upon him.

Chen Pingdao stretched out his hand, and the space around him rippled, but the domain did not appear.

Because his domain had already been broken when he was blocking the faceless man below.

Moreover, breaking it is completely meaningless.

"puff!"

Chen Pingdao smashed his own ribs and stabbed himself in the chest with his hand. Then, he pulled his clenched hand out and slowly opened it towards Li Zhuiyuan.

In the palm of his hand lay a thick layer of heartfelt blood, within which was wrapped a tiny bead, within which various transformations were unfolding.

This is Chen Pingdao, the origin of the domain.

Every member of the Chen family has it; it is their origin and foundation.

In the past, this thing would have been worthless.

Because every member of the Chen family can, based on their own talent, try to condense this within their body in front of the Listening to the Sea and Watching the Tide Monument; while those without the Chen family bloodline, even if they have this, cannot open their domain.

But things are different now. The bloodline barrier has been broken, and this thing immediately possesses unparalleled value.

In short, if you comprehend and master the Chen family's original secret formula, you can use it to save a lot of your initial accumulation time.

Once this matter becomes public, the value of the Chen family's remains will likely surpass that of the Feng family.

Moreover, Li Zhuiyuan guessed that this kind of bead is only found in the bodies of the Chen family members who are still alive. The next generation of Chen family members and the next generation of non-Chen family members who cultivate the Chen family's original techniques will not have this.

From then on, the Chen family members cultivated domains like Chen Yunhai's. Among the four underground domains, even the Dragon King's domain was difficult to regenerate after it was damaged. However, Chen Yunhai's Cloud Sea Domain was clearly damaged underground, but it could still regenerate after he woke up. This was something that the Faceless Man couldn't understand at all.

Because Chen Yunhai does not possess this gift from Heaven, which was transferred to him through the talents of other members of the Chen family.

Therefore, the bead that Chen Pingdao is holding now is not only a rare and irreplaceable item from a specific era, but also the highest quality among all the rare items of the time.

Even now, Chen Xiyuan cannot shake her grandfather's accumulated power at the domain level.

Old Master Chen presented this as an apology gift, representing the highest level of inheritance of the Chen family in Qiongya.

And this was the candy Chen Yunhai gave himself after touching his head before disappearing.

Finally, the clouds that fell to the ground, carrying Chen Yunhai's memories from above, entered Chen Pingdao's body. This allowed Chen Pingdao to know what had happened outside, and gave him the strength to wake up from his near-death state and come to the surface to settle this personal grudge.

Seeing that Li Zhuiyuan did not answer for a long time, Chen Pingdao slowly turned his head, looked at the original location of the stone tablet, and then looked at the memorial tablet in the ancestral hall.

Previously, he had been struggling with the question of "right and wrong," but now, his ancestors have judged him through their actions.

"I was wrong...I'm sorry..."

Li Zhuiyuan never considered himself a kind person. Someone who liked to close accounts was, in any case, not kind in the traditional sense.

But in the past, Li Zhuiyuan had never done anything to harm the Chen family; he had even saved Chen Xiyuan. Grandma Liu also always remembered the old friendship between the two members of the Chen family.

Therefore, we must get an explanation for Chen Pingdao's use of that thunderbolt.

Upon hearing the apology, Zhao Yi swung his scabbard forward, striking Chen Pingdao's palm. The bead flew up, and a dragon skin flew off Zhao Yi's body, wrapped around the bead, and carried it behind him, where it fell into Li Zhuiyuan's hands.

The beads are cool to the touch, but after leaving the host's body, they gradually show signs of damage. If they cannot integrate into the body in a short time, they will break down on their own.

This was not a problem for Li Zhuiyuan; he always learned things very quickly.

"Pfft!"

Chen Pingdao was barely clinging to life by the last of the clouds. After giving away the bead, he staggered, leaned against the willow tree, and collapsed to the ground.

The cracking sound of his body came again. Having lost the last foundation of his domain, his body had nothing to rely on. His meridians broke one after another. Even if he didn't die, he would only be a useless person who had to sit in a wheelchair and be pushed around for the rest of his life, whether in cultivation or in life.

Li Zhuiyuan's ten fingers triggered, and Zhao Yi drew his sword and slashed down.

"Buzz!"

Chen Pingdao remained seated there, the willow tree behind him now cut down.

Li Zhuiyuan bent down and picked up all the treasures on the ground, such as the Purple Gold Compass and the Wordless Book, and put them back in his bag. He also put his empty beverage can into A Li's hiking backpack.

Finally, the boy bent down and carried his most precious possession on his back.

The boy hung two very heavy hiking backpacks on Zhao Yi's body.

Li Zhuiyuan carried A Li on his back and walked out of the Chen Family Ancestral Hall.

As I passed by Jiang Xiuzhi, she opened her eyes. With her white hair, she struggled to sit up using her hands.

She had actually woken up a long time ago.

She woke up just now when her husband came up and touched her face; she was deliberately remaining unconscious.

Because the boy had called her "Grandma" when they were in the yard, as "Grandma," she shouldn't have stopped the younger generation from taking revenge. If she had woken up earlier, whether she saw it or not, said it or not, it would have been a form of blackmail.

Jiang Xiuzhi reached out and combed her dry, white hair behind her ears, trying her best to look presentable.

"Xiao Yuan, you're leaving already?"

"Ah."

"Stay at home for a few days, Grandma will tidy up the most spacious yard for you."

When Chen Xiyuan was in Nantong, Liu Yumei gave her her bedroom to sleep in.

Li Zhuiyuan looked around.

Jiang Xiuzhi smiled somewhat awkwardly. The Chen family ancestral home was in a state of disrepair, and the only spacious courtyard was probably the Chen family ancestral hall. They couldn't very well let the family sleep in the ancestral hall.

"It's alright. Our Chen family has many villas in Qiongya, with much better scenery than here."

"Grandma, the Chen family is coming back soon."

Jiang Xiuzhi nodded: "That's true, it's better to be cautious."

"Goodbye grandma."

"Xiao Yuan...can I go see Sister Liu?"

"My old lady now has her old sisters to keep her company."

After giving Jiang Xiuzhi a final nod, Li Zhuiyuan carried A Li outside.

Zhao Yi followed behind.

Just as they stepped out of the barrier surrounding the Chen family ancestral home, several auras appeared ahead, indicating that the Chen family members had rushed back to their ancestral home at all costs.

Under the boy's control, black mist rose from Zhao Yi's body, enveloping the three of them.

The other party was already exhausted from using secret techniques to travel, and coupled with their eagerness to get home, they did not notice the presence of Li Zhuiyuan and his group.

Li Zhuiyuan headed north, his goal clear and unambiguous. Above a mountain peak, the rainbow light had not yet faded.

Some things that the faceless man thought he had earned were actually temporarily placed there by the Heavenly Dao.

The formation on the mountaintop collapsed from within, allowing Li Zhuiyuan to easily ascend the mountain and find a field of severely injured people.

Wang Lin should be the one with the least injuries.

Although Li Zhuiyuan couldn't tell where the chubby boy was the lightest, the boy chose to make a preconceived notion.

Chen Xiyuan and Runsheng leaned against a pile of amber shards.

Runsheng unconsciously ground his teeth, his hands still groping around, as if he hadn't had enough of gnawing on something, but it was gone.

Chen Xiyuan's body was covered with wounds, but each wound glistened in the sunlight.

Under Li Zhuiyuan's control, the black dragon skin on Zhao Yi's body spread out, enveloping all the injured people, like a black spider with many tentacles.

Perhaps even Zhao Yi himself did not expect that his body could be developed in this direction.

Wang Lin was brought before Li Zhuiyuan.

The boy asked, "Where do you live?"

Wang Lin closed his eyes, unconscious, and remained silent.

Li Zhuiyuan: "If you do not answer within ten breaths, it means you are possessed by an evil spirit and are trying to infiltrate our group. I will eliminate you completely."

Wang Lin immediately smacked his lips and mumbled as if talking in his sleep:

"Once upon a time, there was a mountain, and on the mountain was a temple..."

Li Zhuiyuan obtained the address of the dilapidated temple, and he planned to take everyone there to rest and recuperate for a few days.

As I turned to head down the mountain, the dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, and a rosy sunset appeared on the distant horizon.

Li Zhuiyuan unconsciously stopped in his tracks, wanting to take a second look.

On his back, Ah Li's hair fluttered in the wind, gently caressing the boy's cheek.

The setting sun looked like the enormous figure that sat in Fengdu.

After this ordeal, the image of "Master" in his heart suddenly became much more majestic.

The Emperor of Fengdu never harbored any illusions about the Way of Heaven; he always diligently cultivated his own power and influence.

"Master's attitude... is perhaps the right one."

Now, with the Chen family's domain pearl in hand and Wei Zhengdao's rotten tree root found, combined with the crystal found during the last trip to Northeast China, they have a complete set of skills.

Li Zhuiyuan finally had the confidence to face the challenges ahead.

In short, when Tiandao suspects he might become the next Wei Zhengdao, what he should do is not kneel down to explain or beg for mercy, but prove himself to it:
"I really can become the second Wei Zhengdao!"

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Tomorrow is 15,000.

(End of this chapter)