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Time flies, years pass.

beginning of winter.

A light snow began to fall on Qingyue Mountain, drifting in the wind and covering the mountain forests in a new white coat.

Winter is here.

He's been here for almost a year now!

Yu Huai stood under the eaves, looking up at the snow falling all around him. He reached out and caught a snowflake, feeling a mix of emotions.

During this period, a major event occurred in the market.

That means the Qian family's scheme has been discovered.

The Tian family mobilized Foundation Establishment experts stationed in the market to besiege the Qian family's shops in Luofengfang.

But it seems the family still ran away after giving the money.

It is said that a Qi Refining cultivator in the late stage of the Qian family used a second-tier talisman to block the Foundation Establishment cultivator, and while the cultivator was trapped, he led the others to escape.

Whether it's true or false is hard to say.

Yu Huai simply didn't believe it. How could a Foundation Establishment expert let a group of Qi Refining cultivators escape?

The details of this matter were beyond his knowledge.

And Qian Yi must still be alive.

However, he can no longer pose a threat to them, since the Qian family members are probably no longer allowed to enter Luofengfang.

The tension that had been weighing on him for so long finally came to an end.

When Yu Huai heard the news, he naturally breathed a sigh of relief, but he also felt that the term "luck" was truly magical.

After harming his parents, Qian Yi did not immediately take action against him, perhaps because he was truly preoccupied with important matters.

However, after he broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.

They must have already known about the Tian family's affairs, and might even have been able to leak the information to Old Wang.

Even Old Wang knew that if he made a move in the market, he could frame Jie Xiu for the crime. Qian Yi had time to drink and gamble, but he didn't make a move against him. Now he was being chased by the Tian family and forced to leave the market, so he was no longer a threat to him.

In this context...

Yu Huai believes that there must be an influence of "luck" involved.

Qian Yi couldn't possibly believe he wouldn't run away, and therefore refrain from attacking him.

Even a fool knows that to cut the weeds, you must nip them in the bud.

How could Qian Yi not know?

The Qian family's affair caused a great stir in the market, with cultivators discussing it extensively, and some already sensing that a storm was brewing.

Other than that.

Recently, the bandits have become increasingly rampant, and their presence has been seen both inside and outside the neighborhood.

Nowadays, cultivators who venture out to the market have become highly sought-after by Jie Xiu, and it has been reported that many late-stage Qi Refining cultivators have died at the hands of Jie Xiu.

Among the cultivators who had undergone tribulations, the Duan brothers were the most famous.

Because of this, the vast majority of cultivators hid in the market and dared not go out.

Fortunately, the cultivators were still somewhat self-aware and did not dare to covet the caravans of those Foundation Establishment clans, thus allowing the market to operate normally.

The Tian family also issued an official document saying they would go to besiege the Duan brothers, but in the end nothing came of it.

Yu Huai naturally knew what was going on.

Fortunately, the Duan brothers seemed to be kept outside the market by the Tian family, which greatly reduced the threat to him.

However, even without the threat from Qian Yi and the Duan brothers.

Yu Huai, however, dared not relax his cultivation.

Anyone with eyes can see that a storm is brewing.

Knowing so much more, how could he dare to relax?

During this period, with the help of the inscription and the Qi Gathering Pill, he had pushed the fifth level of Qi Refining to the bottleneck. He was just waiting for an inscription that would help him break through the bottleneck so that he could try to break through.

He has already circulated the first level of the Great Chun Body Tempering Technique, the Chun Wood Stake, for twenty cycles, and is not far from breaking through.

His current spells include Binding Spell, Wooden Spike Spell, Leaf Blade Slash, and Green Bamboo Step. With the blessing of a related spell entry, he has mastered all of them except for Leaf Blade Slash, which has greatly improved his strength.

Among the four arts of cultivation.

He can now draw talismans independently of the inscriptions, creating a mid-grade first-tier withered wood qi-restoring talisman on his own, yielding three out of ten.

Although his alchemy skills improved.

Unfortunately, he never had the chance to refine a low-grade first-level pill.

Therefore, he was not sure how to judge his own alchemy skills.

The remaining two skills.

He, on the other hand, hasn't even tried to get started yet.

Since he was able to draw mid-grade first-level talismans, his finances have become much more comfortable.

Now I have enough money to buy Qi Gathering Pills for cultivation.

However, he is currently saving money to buy a pill furnace and a first-grade low-level pill recipe, and has not spent much more.

He now possesses a superior-grade magic weapon, the Azure Tassel Sword, a silver ring that appears to be a superior-grade concealment magic weapon, a mid-grade magic weapon, the Deadly Nail, and two first-tier superior-grade talismans.

In addition to the previous Sharp Wood Spike Talisman, he purchased a high-grade talisman called the Swiftness Talisman, which was used to save his life and escape.

He also had some mid-grade talismans, a bottle of unused Qi-gathering pills, a book of talisman-making notes, and a book of basic alchemy...

Roughly speaking, he is now wealthier than the average rogue cultivator.

As for the deadly nail, that was the name he gave to the nail that Old Wang had.

With these trump cards, he felt he could put up a fight against a seventh-level cultivator.

dong dong dong.

Yu Huai snapped out of his reverie amidst the light snowfall and heard a series of knocks coming from the courtyard gate.

Ok?

Yu Huai was puzzled.

"Is anyone home? I'm here to collect rent."

Is the rent collector here?

But this voice was clearly not that of the previous Steward Tian.

After a moment's hesitation.

Yu Huai still stepped forward and opened the door, simply because he could sense that the cultivator outside was not highly skilled; his cultivation was roughly at the third level of Qi Refining, posing little threat to him.

Upon opening the door, a young cultivator dressed in a blue cotton robe stood hunched over outside. Seeing Yu Huai emerge, he paused for a moment, then smiled and said:

"Uh, fellow Daoist, half an acre of spirit field and a small spirit pond require 8 spirit stones today. Should we pay with spirit rice or spirit stones?"

As expected, the rent increased again.

This was expected.

But where did Steward Tian go?

Collecting rent is a very lucrative job, so how could Steward Tian just hand it over like that?

Something must have happened.

Moreover, the rent has already increased several times, yet the Tian family sent someone at the third level of Qi Refining to collect the rent. Can they really keep those cultivators with higher cultivation levels in check? Or is the Tian family truly out of options?

Yu Huai pondered to himself.

Yu Huai is currently displaying a cultivation level of the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Several days ago, he told Lu Feng that he was going into seclusion to break through to the next level. Today, he has naturally succeeded in breaking through and is showing himself as a fourth-level Qi Refining cultivator, which will also dispel the covetousness of some unscrupulous people.

Yu Huai naturally possessed eight spirit stones.

However, he did not take it out immediately. Instead, he went back into the house to get some spirit rice and small blue fish, and then took out one or two pieces from his person and handed them to the young cultivator.

This person wasn't too strange.

During this trip, he had become accustomed to this piecemeal method of paying rent.

After a quick inventory, the monk in blue nodded.

"Fellow Daoist, you must also be a member of the Tian family! Do you know where that steward from before has gone?"

While the man was counting the money, Yu Huai handed him a small bag of spirit coins and asked him a question, feigning curiosity.

Ok?

The cultivator in blue robes was slightly taken aback, then his smile widened. He waved his hand, a hint of envy in his expression, and said:

Ha ha.

"You must be talking about Uncle Tian Zhi! He's a direct descendant of the clan and has been recalled by the clan. After several years in Luofengfang, he should be getting a promotion soon."

……

After watching the monk in blue leave, Yu Huai fell into deep thought.

Squeak!

But just then...

The gate to the yard next to his suddenly opened.