My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 17 Disdain
"Brother Shan, shall we go to Dawan Village? He's just a mere Qi Refining Stage 3 cultivator, I doubt he'd dare to go against our wishes. It would be good to send a few more mortals to investigate."

Seeing that Shen Chongshan had not spoken for a long time, Shen Rongguang asked.

However, Shen Chongshan did not respond.

He stared at the map, his brow furrowed, seemingly lost in thought.

"Do not."

Unexpectedly, Shen Chongshan rejected Shen Rongguang's proposal.

His gaze became especially profound at that moment.

He stretched out his finger and pointed in a direction near Dawancun on the map.

"Let's go here."

over there,
This shows the area of ​​Wujiaji.

"Wujiaji?"

"Brother Shan, this doesn't seem to be the Shen family's territory, does it? Why don't we go to Dawan Village?"

Shen Rongguang looked at the map.

He looked up, his face somewhat blank.

“Brother Rongguang, if I remember correctly, the name Shen Changchuan should belong to the patriarch’s thirty-ninth son.”

But at this moment, Shen Cunrui, the weakest of the five and the thinnest among them, who had been huddled in the corner without saying a word, suddenly spoke up weakly.

"The patriarch's offspring?"

"However, I've never heard of this person before, and considering that he's fallen to such a godforsaken place, he must be nothing more than an ordinary illegitimate son, right?"

“Brother Rongguang is right. Shen Changchuan’s mother was just an ordinary maid, born by accident, and had a very low status in the Shen family compound.”

"However, he is usually very cautious in his actions, never makes enemies with others, and rarely goes out. He basically stays at home and is said to be engrossed in miscellaneous books such as travelogues of the ancients. His strength is not strong, only at the third level of Qi Refining. He is very inconspicuous in the Shen family compound, and many people do not even know that the clan leader has such a son."

Shen Cunrui thought for a moment and then spoke in a somewhat weak voice.

He seemed to know something about Shen Changchuan.

However, it is obvious that

Shen Rongguang didn't care about any of that.

"Ha, so he's just a servant's son. No wonder he ended up in such a wretched place."

Hearing this,

Shen Rongguang also showed a disdainful expression.

He certainly has the right to look down on it.

Although Shen Rongguang came from a collateral branch of the Shen family, and from a more distant branch at that.

But he was actually from the direct line of that remote collateral branch.

In terms of identity,
He naturally possessed a sense of superiority.

Because children born to maids are considered to have the lowest social status in large families, they are not even considered respectable.

Just like in his home,
His mother was a cultivator from another small family of cultivators, and was his father's lawfully wedded wife.

Therefore, the children born to his mother were the legitimate sons and daughters of their lineage, and also the highest-ranking members of their family.

But at the same time,

His father had more than one woman. Some women from mortal royal families, great mortal families, or immortal cultivation families became his father's concubines for various reasons.

The children born to concubines are called illegitimate sons and daughters.

Shen Rongguang was naturally superior to those illegitimate sons and daughters, and regardless of age, they all had to bow to him.

There is a clear distinction between superior and inferior status.

But below these illegitimate sons and daughters, there were those of even lower status.

Those were the children born to maids.

As the name suggests, it refers to the bloodline born to maids and servants.

They were basically ordinary maids with no power or background who were born to their masters by chance.

Its own status,
They were no different from servants or slaves.

for example,
If the principal wife of a household is too harsh on her sons and daughters born of concubines, resorting to beatings and scoldings, outsiders might gossip, saying that the women in the household's backyard are jealous and lack magnanimity and dignity. However, if the children are born to maids, directly punishing and scolding them, even breaking their hands and feet for minor mistakes, would not be considered a big deal by anyone.

This is the status of a child born to a maid.

If Shen Rongguang was in a bad mood at home, he could easily beat a maid's son to death.

His father would at most scold him a few times, but would never punish him.

In the eyes of most masters, the children born to maids were not even considered their children.

Therefore, after learning Shen Changchuan's identity,
It's only natural that Shen Rongguang would be arrogant because of his high status.

"Ha, so what if you're lucky enough to be born into the main branch of China? In the end, you're just a child born to a maid."

"Moreover, although he is the son of a concubine, he is still the son of the clan leader. If he knew how to take advantage of the situation and make good use of his bloodline, he wouldn't be only at the third level of Qi Refining and have been banished to such a remote place."

Shen Rongguang did not say what he was going to say next.

However, on the surface,

You could see the arrogance in his expression.

"Brother Shan, that's the clan chief's son. Why don't we go to Dawan Village to pay our respects and see what kind of young master the clan has to offer?"

Shen Rongguang looked at Shen Zhongguang in the center and spoke with great interest.

His tone was somewhat malicious, especially when he used the word "young master." If you listened carefully, you could hear the sarcasm in his voice.

As Shen Rongguang finished speaking,

The young man called Shen Zhifei and another member of the Shen family also became interested and looked in the direction of Shen Chongshan.

Only Shen Cunrui seemed somewhat hesitant and submissive.
He was looking down, seemingly lost in thought.

"If we can find that thing on this trip, it will be a great success. Let's not cause any unnecessary trouble."

Shen Chongshan gave Shen Rongguang a deep look, shook his head, and said in a deep voice.

"Everything is about the mission, and we don't have much time to play around."

"Don't go looking for trouble."

Knowing Shen Rongguang's character well,
Shen Chongshan added another sentence, emphasizing the word "trouble" in his tone.

"Alright then, Brother Shan, I'll do whatever you say."

He understood the unspoken meaning in Shen Chongshan's words.
Shen Rongguang had no choice but to agree.

I suppressed my ulterior motives for the time being.

What happened in the nameless cave,
Shen Changchuan, who was in Dawancun, was naturally completely unaware of this.

And at this moment, he

They no longer had the energy to care about anything else.

because,

He is currently facing a big problem.

That is--

The crocodile demon in the river has come ashore and attacked the village!
The sky was overcast and gray.
The rain poured down relentlessly, with no end in sight.

Rainwater gathered on the ground into streams, washing over the earth, and occasionally one could see leeches swimming among them.

Shen Changchuan, wearing a heavy raincoat and a straw hat, with his boots splashing on the water, stirred up yellowish-brown waves, and quickly arrived at the scene of the incident in a few steps.

At this moment, in a corner on the edge of the village,
Half of a low-lying house had collapsed.

Han Qinhu was leading his men inside to search, carrying out the mutilated corpse.

Inside the surrounding rooms,

Many people craned their necks, gazing at the half-collapsed house, pointing and whispering among themselves.
His face showed worry.

　I'm speechless. I prepared a draft a week in advance, and it's all gone today.

　　Furthermore, because there were previously drafts saved up, the author couldn't see the feedback from the number of favorites when writing, resulting in the chapters being too weak without realizing it.

　　Headache. It seems that saving drafts is not suitable for me. I'll just write and publish one draft at a time from now on.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)