Having many children brings many blessings; the struggle for power begins with marriage.

Lu Chen was too lazy to say anything to these mortals. He simply waved his hand, and a burst of immortal power sent all the soldiers flying. Then, he walked directly into Shangsha City.

The outer city of Shangsha City is very desolate, with almost no people, and you can only see a few scattered people.

Lu Chen headed straight for the inner city, and just then, a group of soldiers suddenly appeared in front of him.

In a short while, the soldiers surrounded Lu Chen and his two companions. "Who are you? How dare you trespass into Shangsha City!"

Lu Chen examined the strength of these soldiers. They were all at the Mahayana realm, with the leader being at the Tribulation Transcending realm.

They were all mortals, and Lu Chen was too lazy to waste words with them. He directly released his immortal pressure, and the next moment, all the soldiers present were lying on the ground, unable to move.

Lu Chen took a step forward, and the next moment his figure appeared in front of the Tribulation Transcending Realm cultivator. Lu Chen directly used the Soul Searching Technique to see what they had experienced.

After reading the memories of the cultivator at the Tribulation Transcending Realm, Lu Chen murmured, "So that's how it is. No wonder these people aren't afraid of death at all."

Cao Shiyun approached Lu Chen and asked, "Junior Brother Chen, what did you discover?"

Lu Chen said, "The city lord of Shangsha City is using cultivators' blood essence to cultivate, and he is threatening the major families of Shangsha City that if anyone dares to leak this information, he will slaughter their entire family."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, Cao Shiyun and Xiao Xueying were both taken aback. Using a cultivator's essence blood to cultivate, could it be an evil immortal from the Blood Eagle Palace?

Thinking of this, the two women immediately took out their spirit swords from their spatial rings and instantly became alert.

Lu Chen then said to the soldiers present, "You don't actually think that by keeping this a secret for that evil immortal, the news won't get out, do you?"

"How ridiculous!"

"Others treat you as a reserve of food, and yet you still have to protect that person."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, a soldier said unwillingly, "What can we do? We can't leave Shangsha City at all. That immortal is so powerful; we can't possibly deal with him."

Lu Chen chuckled, too lazy to waste words with these people. They had lost the will to resist, and even if they had a chance to save themselves, they wouldn't seize it.

Lu Chen then spread his aura outwards and used his divine sense to search for the city lord of Shangsha City. Just then, Lu Chen's divine sense suddenly detected something, and he flew into the air and then slashed out with his sword.

A powerful surge of sword energy rushed directly towards a certain place in the city lord's mansion. Sensing the threat of the sword energy, a voice of an immortal came from the city lord's mansion.

"Shangsha City is not a place for you!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen sneered and said, "Shangsha City belongs to the Xuan Yue Palace. When did it become yours, this evil immortal's property!"

Whether it was the words "evil immortal" that provoked him or not, a violent red aura formed a tornado and flew out of the city lord's mansion, heading straight for Lu Chen.

The tornado and Lu Chen's sword energy collided and exploded in the air.

Neither of them exerted their full strength; they were merely testing the waters.

Both of them are immortals. If they were to unleash their full power, the entire Shangsha City would be destroyed. Shangsha City no longer has any formations, so even an attack from a mortal immortal would be too much for the entire city to withstand.

At this moment, a red figure flew out of the city lord's mansion and flew towards the vast sea of ​​sand in the distance of Shangsha City.

Without any hesitation, Lu Chen chased after him, and Cao Shiyun and Xiao Xueying quickly followed.

Before long, Lu Chen caught up with the red figure.

The other party had no intention of running away. Judging from his appearance, he deliberately lured Lu Chen into the desert to avoid damaging Shangsha City when he made his move.

At this moment, the fleeing immortal hovered in the air and looked back at Lu Chen.

The man was dressed in a red robe and wore a ghost mask.

When the man saw Lu Chen, he froze, "It's you..."

"No...it's impossible, how could you still be alive..."

The man's body trembled uncontrollably as he spoke. Although his expression was obscured by the mask, his voice and trembling body revealed his deep fear.

Lu Chen was taken aback. Judging from the man's words, did this person know him?

No way, I haven't been back for billions of years, and I've already encountered so many people who recognize me as soon as I return. It seems I'll have to use disguise techniques from now on.

Although those with higher cultivation levels can see through one's disguise, it is still necessary to use disguise to guard against those with lower cultivation levels.

However, judging from this person's words, he must be his enemy, otherwise he wouldn't be afraid of him.

Lu Chen gave the person opposite him a cold look.

As they spoke, Lu Chen probed the aura of the man opposite him and discovered that the man was merely a mortal immortal.

Shouldn't a mortal immortal recognize himself?

Those who still recognize themselves must have at least reached the Celestial Immortal realm in cultivation, otherwise they would have reached their lifespan long ago.

Lu Chen then used the system to identify him.

Name: Yang Yan

[Identity: Former subordinate of Prince Chen, Lord of Shangsha City]

[Strength: Mortal Immortal]

Loyalty: 0

Upon seeing this information, Lu Chen instantly realized why this person knew him; he was a traitor.

Lu Chen sneered, then said, "Isn't this General Yang? How did you end up like this?"

When Yang Yan saw that several major forces were besieging him, he did not betray him immediately. Instead, he stayed by his side and provided the other forces with information about his whereabouts.

If it weren't for Yang Yan, he might have been able to hide in the Tianyan Immortal Realm. In the end, he was forced to flee to Baiyu City. With nowhere else to go, he could only take his wives and concubines into the Chaos Sea.

If Yang Yan had chosen to leave from the beginning, Lu Chen wouldn't have thought much of it. At that time, so many top forces in the Tianyan Immortal Domain were besieging him. Under those circumstances, he, as an Immortal King, had no chance of winning at all.

However, Yang Yan did not leave immediately. Instead, he stayed by his side and informed various forces. The maid buried outside Shangsha City was killed because of Yang Yan's tip-off.

Feeling the deathly aura emanating from Yang Yan, Lu Chen felt a sense of irony. A dignified Immortal Lord had actually become like this.

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, Yang Yan immediately mobilized his immortal energy and unleashed a palm strike towards Lu Chen, shouting, "I've fallen to this state because of you!!!"

The next moment, Yang Yan's palm strike transformed into countless vengeful spirits.

These ghosts were all the ghosts of immortals. The moment the ghosts appeared, dark clouds instantly covered the sky above the desert, and the surroundings instantly darkened.

Yang Yan could naturally sense that Lu Chen's cultivation level was higher than his own, but hatred had made him lose his mind.

(End of this chapter)