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Chapter 173 The Sword Immortal Disappears
After subduing the nine people, Shen Chongming looked down at the Western Wilderness people kneeling in the valley below.

After a moment's thought, he smiled and cupped his hands towards Qi Dashan and Luo Yao, saying, "Seniors, these people of the Western Wilderness... I plan to relocate them to Yunshui Town."

"After that, we'll transfer another group of clansmen from Yunshui Town to mine the veins..."

Yunshui Town currently has a population of just over ten thousand, far from being saturated. There are currently two to three thousand people living in the western wilderness of this valley, all of whom are young and middle-aged.

Send them to Yunshui Town, disperse them, and distribute them to various villages to gradually assimilate them. In a few years, after they marry and have children, they will be completely integrated into the community.

"Alright, little guy."

"Your Shen family need not trouble yourself with the mining."

Qi Dashan chuckled and said, "I know there aren't many people from your Shen family, but there are some from Tao County under the jurisdiction of my Vajra Sect."

"Then I will have my disciples escort some mortals here to mine."

"However, I'm afraid we'll have to trouble your Shen family to provide food and drink for these mortals."

Can you make the decision?

Upon hearing this, Shen Chongming smiled and cupped his hands in greeting: "Senior's kindness is a good thing, and I certainly dare to accept it."

Qi Dashan nodded with admiration in his eyes.

"Then it's settled."

"Fairy Luo, I must return to Jinghe Market. I will leave this place to you."

"Men, guard this mine well and follow Fairy Luo's orders. If you cause any trouble, I'll break your legs later!"

Qi Dashan looked at the group of disciples of the Vajra Sect and spoke.

"Please rest assured, Elder!"

The disciples of the Vajra Sect smiled and spoke.

Guarding the mines is a lucrative job for them; under normal circumstances, every spirit mine contains accompanying spirit crystal fragments.

The unspoken rule of the Immortal Sect is that these spirit crystal fragments are distributed among the disciples guarding the mine.

Now that the Vajra Sect has taken 60% of the profits from this mine, the spirit crystal fragments naturally also account for 60%.

These spirit crystal fragments, once distributed among them, will provide each person with significantly more resources for cultivation each year.

Shen Chongming and his three companions followed Qi Dashan, leading the nine subdued barbarian cultivators and the barbarian commoners away from the valley.

When they arrived at the foot of the opposite mountain, they really gave the villagers of Black Stone Village, which is closest to Hidden Dragon Mountain, a big fright.

More than two thousand barbarians with short hair and tattoos, dressed in animal skins, suddenly appeared outside the village. Many villagers thought that the Western Wilderness barbarians had broken through the mountain defenses and were coming to attack.

When Liu Fang, the steward of Blackstone Village, hurriedly led his men to the scene, he discovered that these barbarians were both men and women, and none of them carried any weapons.

One by one, they looked around with a mixture of confusion, curiosity, and a hint of timidity in their eyes.

Liu Fang spotted Shen Chongming in the crowd and hurriedly stepped forward, bowing respectfully: "Young Clan Leader, this is..."

Shen Chongming said with a faint smile, "The captured prisoners, Chief Liu, go and inform Father to summon the leaders of each clan to the ancestral hall for a meeting."

Twelve-year-old Shen Chongming had been cultivating and living with Shen Yuan since childhood, and naturally already possessed some of the manners of an adult.

Liu Fang was slightly taken aback, then cupped his hands in greeting and hurriedly headed towards the Shen family manor.

The barbarians were physically stronger than the people of Yu Kingdom. After the spiritual energy revival, many of these young and strong commoners reached the Body Tempering Realm, but they had not undergone systematic cultivation.

After more than 2,000 people from ten villages in Yunshui Town were completely dispersed, each village had more than 200 people assigned to each village.

For safety reasons, Shen Wenxing selected all the Body Tempering Realm warriors and some strong men to form a thousand-strong clan army for preliminary training.

The remaining 1,200 people were assigned to various villages and households to serve as tenant farmers.

After the leaders of each tribe took their assigned people, they all left.

Shen Wenxing and his son arrived in front of the nine barbarian cultivators.

Because of the oath, all nine people respectfully cupped their hands and said, "Leader."

"Chief is the title used by your barbarians. From now on, you may address me as the head of the family."

The nine men nodded and changed their address: "Patriarch."

Shen Wenxing nodded and asked, "What are your names?"

He looked at the barbarian cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Refining on his left and said, "State your names and cultivation levels."

The middle-aged barbarian cultivator cupped his hands and said, "Reporting to the patriarch, this subordinate, Wuli Cuo, is at the sixth level of Qi Refining."

Next, the others also announced their names, and Shen Wenxing frowned upon hearing them.

The names of these barbarian people are very strange, hard to remember, and difficult to pronounce.

After some thought, he said, "Now that you have submitted to my Shen family, let's change your names from today onwards."

Shen Wenxing, also wanting to avoid trouble, thought for a while and then used the "Wu" from "Wulicuo" as their surname, giving them the names "Wu Yi" to "Wu Jiu".

The nine people didn't seem to notice this, since barbarians don't have surnames.

After they had each memorized their names, Shen Wenxing spoke again:

“You should all know how to fight. From today onwards, these nine of you will be in charge of training these thousand barbarian people.”

"I will teach you the art of summoning clouds and rain later. In your spare time, you will also need to plant spirit rice."

“Simple breathing techniques can also be taught to them.”

"If we do it well, we won't have to worry about magic tools, pills, spells, and the like."

Upon hearing this, all nine people showed expressions of excitement.

They were all rogue cultivators in the Western Wilderness and had almost no contact with the things used by real cultivators.

Before coming here, I had long heard that the Shen family in the East was favored by the Immortal Sect, was very wealthy, and had many opportunities to become immortals.

Upon hearing Shen Wenxing's words, the slight resentment in their hearts instantly dissipated.

For independent cultivators like them, it doesn't matter who they work for.

Aside from a simple breathing technique and a few people obtaining a magic artifact, they had never seen anything like spirit crystals, spirit rice, or pills while following Hundred Beasts Mountain.

"Alright, take him away."

"Keep an eye on them. I will send a tutor over later to teach them to read and write and to explain the clan rules of my Shen family."

"If anyone dares to violate the clan rules in the future, don't blame me for being impolite."

Shen Wenxing waved his hand, signaling a member of the Shen family to lead them away.

After everyone had left, Shen Chongming came up to him triumphantly and said, "Father, I did the right thing, didn't I?"

Shen Wenxing smiled and nodded. His son had learned quite a few skills from his father over the years.

The Yunyan Stone mine was robbed, and Hundred Beasts Mountain was naturally unwilling to swallow this insult.

But just as Luo Yao had predicted, Hundred Beasts Mountain was used to being arrogant and domineering, and had a bad reputation among the major immortal sects in Qishan. It even had grudges against Qiyun Valley and other immortal sects.

Now, their ancestor has been deep in Qishan Mountain for several months, trying to seize the Female Yuanhui Pearl.

Terrifying battles frequently erupted in the mountains, and the leaders of Hundred Beasts Mountain had been on tenterhooks, fearing that their ancestor might perish in the fighting.

If that's the case, the many immortal sects of Qishan will certainly not let this opportunity pass.

Western wilderness.

Yang Xun, the chief disciple of Hundred Beasts Mountain, had just finished communicating with his master, and his face was extremely grim.

The sect was unwilling to send a Nascent Soul Realm expert to handle the affairs of Yangnao Land, and also told him to be careful, and that everything should wait until the sect's patriarch returned.

Despite his anger, Yang Xun had no choice but to endure it.

With Hundred Beasts Mountain backing down, the Shen family's defenses in Hidden Dragon Mountain finally got a chance to breathe.

Blackwater Pool Manor.

Shen Yuan stood in the backyard, watching the little ones playing in front of him, a smile on his face.

Now, among his grandchildren, Shen Chongming has reached the peak of the fourth level of Qi Refining in the mountains.

Shen Chonghong also successfully sensed spiritual energy a few days ago and entered the Qi Refining Realm.

The Shen family currently possesses only two methods of immortal cultivation.

"The Mist Dragon Nourishing Pulse Technique" and "The Moon-Illuminating Pine Mountain Technique".

Shen Chonghong ultimately chose the "Mist Dragon Nourishing Meridian Technique" as his cultivation method.

The little guy has a fire-attribute spiritual root, so the "Mist Dragon Nourishing Vein Technique" isn't actually very compatible with his spiritual root. However, fortunately, this cultivation method comes from the Dragon Tamer's Mansion, unlike the cultivation methods of the major immortal sects, which have particularly high requirements for the compatibility of spiritual roots.

The little girl Shen You has just reached the Qi Refining stage and keeps clamoring to surpass her brother Shen Chonghong, which really gives Shen Yuan a headache.

Spiritual practice is a gradual process that requires patience and meticulousness.

How can you be so impatient and lack patience?

Besides the two of them, there was also Shen Chongxu, who had only started cultivating this year.

Shen Yuan discovered that although his youngest grandson was usually mischievous, his fierce determination during cultivation was no less than that of Shen Wen'an when he was young.

He even felt that Shen Wen'an was just very serious when he was young, and was unwilling to do anything other than cultivation.

Shen Chongxu, however, was different; the little guy's cultivation was nothing short of self-torture.

The three of them had just finished their cultivation and were playing in the courtyard, their playmates naturally being the big black dog.

The big black dog has lived in the Shen family for almost ten years, but it shows no signs of aging. Its fur is shiny and as smooth as silk.

Shen Yuan had always been curious whether this beast had transformed into a demon beast.

However, the big black dog did not possess any demonic energy; it was merely more intelligent and perceptive.

Not far away, Hu Yufen was holding He Chongyi, who was seven or eight months old, while Shen Wenping sat quietly in the pavilion, staring blankly at a weeping willow tree next to her.

She has been doing this ever since He Zishi's death.

Her former cheerful and lively personality has vanished. She no longer cries or fusses, and spends her days either soothing the child or sitting in the yard in a daze.

Seeing that the four little ones would probably play a little longer, Shen Yuan put his hands behind his back and went to the pavilion.

After teasing He Chongyi, he sat down next to Shen Wenping.

Shen Wenping turned her head and glanced at him, then softly called out, "Father."

Shen Yuan nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "Your elder brother told me a few days ago that the He family sent people."

"They said they want to set up a memorial tablet for your grandfather in the ancestral hall. They asked us whether to place Zishi's memorial tablet in the He family's or the Shen family's?"

Shen Wenxing had been talking about this for several days, but he still didn't know how to bring it up with his daughter.

I'm afraid that mentioning it will make her sad again.

A trace of sadness flashed across Shen Wenping's face, and tears suddenly slid down her cheeks.

She then sobbed, wiped away her tears, and looked at He Chongyi, who was babbling in Hu Yufen's arms.

"Zishi originally planned to work with his daughter to renovate Yunshui Town after the baby was born."

"He drew many blueprints of the town, saying that after all these years he finally knows what he likes."

"He wants to transform Yunshui Town into the kind of place he likes..."

A gentle breeze blew, and Shen Wenping gazed quietly at the sky, where He Zishi's face appeared before her eyes once more.

She reached out her hand, then sadly lowered it again.

“Chongyi and I are both in Yunshui Town. Zishi will definitely not want to leave me and the child, so he will stay in the county town.”

Shen Yuan nodded; he understood his daughter's meaning.

"Alright, then I'll have someone inform the He family."

“Girl, look ahead. Zishi in heaven wouldn’t want you to live like this all the time.”

"You still have Chongyi."

Shen Wenping nodded and got up to take the child from her mother's arms.

Seeing a hint of familiarity in the little guy's eyes, her sadness was somewhat soothed.

Shen Yuan sighed softly and left from the backyard.

As soon as he arrived at the front yard, he saw a guard leading Wei Qiuling, who had a solemn expression, towards him.

"Master, Fairy Wei has arrived."

Shen Yuan waved his hand, and after the guard left, he cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards Wei Qiuling.

After returning the greeting, Wei Qiuling spoke directly:

"News has come from Danzhou that Sword Immortal Ling Shan ventured deep into Qishan more than a month ago. For some unknown reason, she was attacked and killed by a demonic beast at the peak of the Golden Core realm. After a fierce battle, Sword Immortal Ling Shan has now disappeared without a trace."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yuan frowned deeply.

Pei Zhao once said that the reason why Hundred Beasts Mountain did not go all out last time and chose to compromise was because the old ape was afraid of Ling Shan Sword Immortal.

Now that the Sword Immortal Ling Shan has disappeared... will there be any new developments at Hundred Beasts Mountain?
(End of this chapter)