Sect Leader! Please strengthen our Dao Sect!

As soon as Shen Shanshui shouted, he vanished instantly.

Hearing the commotion, the patrolling guards quickly assembled, armed with various weapons, and surrounded Tang Yan's house.

Although they didn't sense anything unusual, they all cautiously looked around.

They used to be wanderers in the martial arts world, and even if their cultivation level wasn't high, their experience and teamwork were enough to deal with cultivators one or two levels higher than them.

Above the Tang residence, Shen Shanshui's spiritual energy surged, his two fingers joined together. Amidst the swirling snow and wind, the sharp aura he exuded made him appear like a true immortal.

At this moment, Tang Xiao and many servants were also awakened by the commotion and came out of the door.

Looking at Shen Shanshui, who appeared like an immortal in mid-air, one couldn't help but marvel.

"Master, what happened?"

Tang Xiao wasn't even properly dressed. Although he didn't know what had happened, he realized something was wrong from Shen Shanshui's tense and wary demeanor.

Shen Shanshui had no intention of paying attention to anyone else at this moment. His divine sense swept over every inch of the Tang Mansion, not even missing the underground area.

He was certain that the anomaly he had felt a moment ago was not his imagination; someone had broken through the barrier of his divine sense.

"Did you leave after I found you?"

Shen Shanshui frowned, still not daring to relax in the slightest. The opponent's cultivation level might be higher than his own, but with such meticulous divine sense probing, unless it was a Golden Core True Monarch, it would be difficult for someone with a secret treasure that concealed their aura to not reveal a flaw.

A full hour passed before Shen Shanshui finally withdrew her aura and floated back down to the jade platform.

Tang Xiao, the servants in the mansion, and the guards finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Taoist Master, is someone targeting my son?"

Tang Xiaoqiang suppressed his nervousness, his mind racing with thoughts.

That person may have been keeping an eye on the Tang family all along, otherwise the Tang family wouldn't have been able to grow and prosper so steadily over the years.

Tang Xiao was indeed capable, and he had always believed that the Tang family's wealth was the result of his own diligent efforts. He was quite pleased with himself for this, thinking that even if he couldn't cultivate, he was still a unique genius for an ordinary person to have climbed to such a height.

But ever since he recalled that incident, Tang Xiao felt increasingly terrified.

Perhaps for those powerful cultivators, manipulating the fate of a mortal at will only require a single thought.

"It's nothing, perhaps I'm just being overly sensitive."

Shen Shanshui chuckled and waved his hand, not telling Tang Xiao the truth.

With a Foundation Establishment cultivator spying, the others are of no help whatsoever. Rather than causing panic among the crowd, it's better to use deception to calm their nerves.

Upon hearing Shen Shanshui's answer, most of them, including the guards, breathed a sigh of relief.

Tang Xiao seemed to be deep in thought as he walked towards the guards who had immediately stood in front of Tang Yan's house.

He first praised them, then promised them many benefits, encouraging everyone to increase the intensity of their patrols.

He was not a fool. Even if the Tang family's current wealth was deliberately brought up by someone with ulterior motives, Tang Xiao's own extraordinary abilities were also a reason why the family was able to achieve its current status.

If something could make someone as skilled as Shen Shanshui react with tension, then it couldn't possibly be that nothing was wrong.

If something really goes wrong, these guards might not be able to help at all. But this is all Tang Xiao can do now, and it at least puts his mind at ease.

With a sigh in his heart, Tang Xiao felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

The restless night gradually subsided.

Shen Shanshui sat cross-legged on the jade platform, his divine sense constantly extended outward, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

"Could it be those two?"

The Qingyang County government office has two officials at the Foundation Establishment stage in charge.

The two sides had met before, and judging from their auras alone, the cultivation levels of those two were much higher than Shen Shanshui's.

However, that fleeting aura was extremely cold and didn't seem like that of a cultivator from the county government.

His eyes turned toward the room where Tang Yan was.

My consciousness penetrated through the door.

At this moment, Tang Yan's aura was full, and his body was filled with spiritual energy, indicating that he had already reached the second level of Qi Refining.

Shen Shanshui had only heard of the extraordinary talent of the Pure Yang Dao Body, but now that he had seen it with his own eyes, he truly witnessed its incredible physique.

It shouldn't be long before Tang Yan breaks through his cultivation barrier.

Shen Shanshui closed his eyes again and decided to continue his cultivation.

Regardless of the intentions of the owner of that chilling aura, Shen Shanshui can only continue to wait.

Qingyang County is, after all, a county town of the Great Qin Dynasty. If a fight were to break out and alarm the two Foundation Establishment Masters, the other side would not fare well either.

"Something seems off?"

Shen Shanshui had only closed his eyes for a short while before opening them again.

Is Lingxi being too quiet?

Upon first noticing the anomaly, Shen Shanshui's divine sense immediately locked onto Shen Lingxi, followed by Tang Yan.

Compared to his disciples, Shen Shanshui was more concerned about his junior sister.

However, Shen Lingxi remained seated in meditation, and he was so focused on finding the person in the shadows that he overlooked his junior sister's unusual behavior.

When did that girl become so self-controlled?

Damn!

A surge of anger welled up inside me.

in the house.

Shen Lingxi sat upright on the bed, motionless, unusually quiet.

Shen Shanshui, who had appeared in front of his junior sister without him noticing, was about to reach out to check on her.

Unexpectedly, the little girl who had been sitting there quietly suddenly lowered her head, and soft snoring echoed in the room.

"Um?"

Is she... asleep? Shen Shanshui was speechless. He had always thought that with this girl's personality, how could she possibly cultivate so diligently?

This is the junior sister he knows!

"Aha~"

Perhaps sensing that someone was beside her, Shen Lingxi gradually woke up and even yawned.

"Senior brother~"

Still half-asleep, the young girl rubbed her eyes and wasn't surprised to see her senior brother standing in front of her. She didn't see anything wrong with a man breaking into a young girl's room late at night.

"You broke through?"

Seeing that Shen Lingxi was not acting strangely, Shen Shanshui breathed a sigh of relief, but was surprised to find that his junior sister had already entered the sixth level of Qi Refining at some point.

"Huh?! It really is!"

Shen Lingxi was also startled, seemingly unaware of her own breakthrough.

"Could it be that I really am a genius? I broke through just by having a dream?"

He placed his hand on Shen Lingxi's forehead, channeling his spiritual energy into her body to examine her carefully.

Shen Shanshui found nothing unusual, but he still felt uneasy. He had just been manipulating his qi outside, and at such close range, it was impossible for Shen Lingxi to have not noticed anything at all, even if she was really oblivious.

He felt there was something unusual about this that he hadn't noticed.

"You were really sleeping the whole time? Didn't you notice anything amiss?"

Shen Lingxi scratched her head guiltily, thinking she had fallen asleep while cultivating and was about to be scolded by her senior brother, but she still honestly said:

"No, I just had a strange dream."

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