Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Journey to the Immortal City

Moments later, in a valley a hundred miles away, two people and a frog revealed themselves.

Li Jizhou put Gua Gua into the Spirit Pet Bag, released the Flying Ship, and threw the still unconscious Wu Daniu onto it, flying away without any hesitation.

“This really surprised me!”

“In this situation, what chance does the Wen family have to turn the tables?”

“And they can still so arrogantly pursue and attack the allied family army, didn’t the Wang family take action?”

Along the way, Li Jizhou pondered carefully, totally not matching his previous expectations.

Even if the Wen family had some trump card, the current situation clearly showed that the Fenglin Wang family was determined to exterminate them.

The two families were nearly impossible to reconcile.

Even if the Wen family’s late-stage Foundation Establishment elder had a trump card, it couldn’t possibly contend against the Fenglin Wang family’s True Core ancestor.

Instead of leading the core members of the family to flee, he still had the leisure to hunt down members of allied families?

And he even declared that he would only kill the invaders today and not hold grudges in the future, does the Wen family still have the confidence to remain here?

As he contemplated, he’d already flown eight hundred miles away.

Along the way, he frequently saw the pursuit of battles, all were Wen family members chasing after nearby small families, and some loose cultivators who went to watch the commotion weren’t spared either.

Li Jizhou circled far around them, without stopping.

Only after reaching the territory of the Yang family did he place Wu Daniu on the ground, directed a wisp of Antitoxic Powder into Wu Daniu’s nostrils, and then was led away by Gua Gua with Earth Escape.

He remembered the kindness Wu Daniu once showed him; when he happened to come across his moment of crisis and had the confidence, saving him was human nature,

However, Wu Daniu was just an ordinary person among the common people, with some small cleverness, a self-serving nature, and many weaknesses now, not a person to be trusted.

Therefore, he wouldn’t leave any trace for him.

As for Zhao Qian, just an acquaintance stranger.

Today, he perished, and that was fate’s arrangement!

After a hundred miles under the ground, he once again piloted the Flying Ship back to Spirit Pearl Mountain Market.

At this moment in the Spirit Pearl Mountain Market, groups of people could be seen gathered everywhere, discussing spiritedly.

“Fortunately I didn’t go! Truly a shocking reversal, the Wen family actually had someone who can stand against Core Formation hidden.”

“The Xiao, Niu, Yuan, and Fang families really hit a tough spot this time, with each family having a late Foundation Establishment elder heavily injured, it will be a long time before they recover.”

“I don’t know who started the rumors, but luckily the Wen family was magnanimous, only executing some of the most stubborn bandits.”

…

Li Jizhou grew more and more puzzled as he listened along the way.

So he simply went to Miaodan Tower to meet with Shopkeeper Wang, engaged in a bit of aimless chatter, and by unraveling the threads from Shopkeeper Wang’s words.

Combining what he had seen and heard along the way, with the idle gossip in the market, he finally understood.

“So that’s it!”

The Wang family didn’t want the Wen family to grow strong and challenge them, so they stirred up other second-tier families to fight.

Similarly, the Golden Sun Sect, the largest power in the eastern part of Qi Kingdom, was the true leader here. They also didn’t want the Fenglin Wang family to grow to the point of challenging them.

In the territories of the Divine Intent Sect and Cold Wind Valley, there were two first-tier cultivation families balancing each other.

Yet, in the range of Golden Sun Sect, there was only the Wang family, a first-tier cultivation family.

This was a hidden threat.

So, Golden Sun Sect secretly nurtured the Wen family, which had the potential to balance the Fenglin Wang family.

In just an instant, Li Jizhou figured out the intricacies within.

During the Inverted Mountain battle, Golden Sun Sect was always holding onto the Fenglin Wang family, perhaps the previous aid from a True Core elder of Golden Sun Sect to ambush the Yu family remnants was an exchange condition.

Golden Sun Sect lured the Wang family to Inverted Mountain, the Wen family took the opportunity to bolster themselves, the Wang family retaliated, the Wen family revealed their trump card to counterattack…

Without a doubt, the so-called trump card of the Wen family must have come from the Golden Sun Sect!

With everything clear, Li Jizhou no longer harbored any worry.

In the current situation, with the Wen family rising and having slaughtered all sides today to establish dominance in this region, they completely lorded over other families in the area.

The next step would be to stabilize the situation, pacify all families within the region, and then develop swiftly.

Sure enough, three days later, a True Core elder from Golden Sun Sect, along with a representative from the Wang family, personally came to Spirit Pearl Mountain Market and summoned representatives of all families in the region.

They solemnly warned all families in the area to stay stable and united, and develop harmoniously.

They also concluded the event, presenting a late-stage Qi Cultivation robber, who publicly confessed to being influenced by the Demon Dao, deliberately framing the Wen family, intending to incite conflict between the Wen family and other families.

He was then beheaded publicly.

The end result was, the other four second-tier families compensated the Wen family for their losses, and thereafter this area would follow the Wen family’s lead.

Furthermore, they sternly cautioned the Wen family’s patriarch not to be narrow-minded and take revenge on those beguiled families.

They even allowed other families to report injustices to the Golden Sun Sect.

The Wang family representative seemed distracted throughout, with little sense of involvement.

All the small families in the region heaved a sigh of relief.

To this, Li Jizhou simply chuckled and shook his head.

All under heaven bustling, is all for profit. All under heaven bustling about, is all for profit.

For the sake of profit, these so-called grand sects and great families truly go all out!

However, this is understandable.

In this world with limited resources, when you gain, others lose.

In order to prolong the power and family line, some things have to be done.

Among the four things needed for cultivation, wealth is always the first priority.

Resource competition is everywhere!

The storm subsides, everything returns to normal.

Only the Zhao family’s patriarch, Zhao Kunwu, still searches everywhere for his son.

Their small family hasn’t yet reached the point where they can use Soul Lamps and such Divine Soul Artifacts, so they can’t know Zhao Qian’s fate of life or death at the moment.

That day when the Wen family rose up, a red-faced fat Daoist suddenly summoned a Tier Three Vajra Golem, instantly tearing off the arm of a middle-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The battle instantly turned around.

Pandemonium ensued, and Zhao Kunwu urgently switched sides, joining the Wen family in attacking the cultivators of other families.

Truly no idea of Zhao Qian’s whereabouts!

As for the Wen family, many clansmen died, and many who pursued others never returned.

Foundation Establishment families still have too few means to employ.

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In an annex at the foot of the mountain,

Li Jizhou activated three Restriction Talismans and applied them to the protective formation of the courtyard, before activating a Spirit Trapping Talisman.

Only then did he cautiously take out a jade bottle.

He was holding an Ice Soul Talisman in his hand.

However, the moment he opened the jade bottle, Li Jizhou’s brow furrowed slowly.

Inside, the milky-white little flame had shrunk to the size of a soybean.

The milky-white fire was teetering, as if it were about to go out.

Fearing tricks from the Fire Spirit, he painstakingly used several Spirit Trapping Talismans, waiting a day and night.

“Is it going to perish?” Ultimately, Li Jizhou had to accept the reality.

This Fire Spirit, already so young, was on the verge of perishing!

Looking at the Little Fire Spirit, even Li Jizhou’s usually calm demeanor was slightly unsettled.

Dreams come true, then turn to emptiness!

“Wood generates fire!” After some thought, holding a mindset of trying, Li Jizhou let the Eternal Spring Magical Power from his body swell out, slowly penetrating the jade bottle.

The little flame, upon feeling enveloped by the Eternal Spring Magical Power, moved slightly.

It then began to continuously consume…

“It works!” Li Jizhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Uncertain whether it was the five elements generating each other, wood generating fire, or his Eternal Spring Magical Power possessed infinite vitality, the result was, the Little Fire Spirit evidently enjoyed the nourishment of the Eternal Spring Magical Power, its aura slowly recovering.

The only thing leaving Li Jizhou a bit speechless was, this guy swallowed too quickly, like a whale guzzling or an ox drinking, leaving his long and thick Eternal Spring Magical Power feeling inadequate.

After a brief trial and seeing the Little Fire Spirit’s aura stabilize somewhat, Li Jizhou decisively retracted his magical power.

Right now, the information on Fire Spirits was all based on past life ancient texts, exactly what they could do was still uncertain.

Moreover, whether it could bring value to him was uncertain, how could he blindly nurture it with his magical power?

A month later, after replenishing his reserve of trump cards once more, he waited for the Little Fire Spirit’s aura to completely stabilize, Li Jizhou completed the rental withdrawal at the market management,

bid farewell to Shopkeeper Wang at Miaodan Tower,

and then, with no attachments, rode the Flying Ship, heading east towards Golden Crow Immortal City.

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