Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1084: Chapter 741: Shadows Rise, Soul-breaking Blade (Part 2)

Five years have passed, and the young men have grown significantly, their cultivation levels have all improved. Though they cannot be compared to those prodigies, at least they can hold their own.

"What do you think?" Yang Zhenshan stood on the hillside, watching the training ground while asking Yang Xiangheng beside him.

Yang Xiangheng hesitated for a moment and said, "I believe we could seize the Lu family’s Luyuan! Our Yang family’s assets are too few, and they are simply insufficient to support the cultivation of our clan’s younger generation."

"According to customs, our clan should be supported by the granduncles and other elders, but in recent years, granduncles have been subsidizing household expenses, and I truly feel ashamed!"

He knew Yang Zhenshan had no ties with the Yang family, but was unsure of Yang Zhenshan’s intentions in occupying Lingxi Mountain.

Regardless of Yang Zhenshan’s intentions, he has been helping the Yang family all these years.

Not only did he have people train the young men within the clan, but he also subsidized the clan’s expenses out of his own pocket.

To be honest, sometimes he suspected if Yang Zhenshan was indeed his actual granduncle.

If Yang Zhenghe hadn’t said before his death that the Yang family did not have such a granduncle, he would truly believe Yang Zhenshan was his actual granduncle.

Yang Zhenshan smiled and looked at Li Chang beside him, "What’s the situation with the Zhang and Wan families?"

Li Chang said, "There isn’t anything particularly noteworthy, just that the Zhang family wants to take over the Wan family’s assets!"

"Does the Zhang family have any connections?" Yang Zhenshan asked again.

Li Chang chuckled, "Family Head, have you forgotten, last year the County Magistrate took a concubine!"

Yang Zhenshan was taken aback, the County Magistrate took a concubine!

It seems that there really was such a thing.

At that time, he got the news from Lan Peng and even prepared a small gift to send to the county government.

"Someone from the Zhang family?"

Li Chang nodded and smiled, "Exactly, the young daughter of the Zhang family’s Family Head, Zhang Quan. It’s said this lady from the Zhang family is breathtakingly beautiful and evokes compassion from anyone who sees her!"

Yang Zhenshan gave Yang Xiangheng a helpless look, "Forget it, we shouldn’t consider Luyuan!"

Lu Jianghua is the fourth young master of the Lu family. Even Lan Peng treats him courteously, so naturally, he would avoid offending him.

Though a concubine is not of much consequence, the matter is that this concubine is someone beside the pillow, adept at whispering pillow talk.

Risking offending Lu Jianghua for a piece of land like Luyuan is not worthwhile.

Yang Xiangheng said somewhat awkwardly, "I wasn’t considerate enough!"

"No harm done, learn more in the future, aim further, and don’t just focus on immediate gains!" Yang Zhenshan said unconcernedly.

Yang Zhenshan did not dwell on the matter. Compared to matters concerning the Zhang or Wan family, he naturally prioritized the advancement of his own cultivation.

After returning to Spirit Source Land, Yang Zhenshan cast aside the matter and devoted himself to cultivation.

He had just broken through to the Heavenly Gang Stage, and with his cultivation not yet stabilized, he needed to cultivate diligently for several days to stabilize it.

Meanwhile, the cultivation of the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill needs to be expedited.

Although he slowed down the cultivation of the body nourishing method in recent years due to eagerness to break through to the Heavenly Gang Stage, he still managed to cultivate to the third layer of the body nourishing method, reaching the stage of body fusion with wood spirit.

Yang Zhenshan first stabilized his cultivation and then began cultivating the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill.

However, after cultivating for a while, he stopped!

"Body fusion with wood spirit?"

"Golden body tempering?"

While flipping through the cultivation method of the third stage of the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill, Yang Zhenshan suddenly recalled the method of golden body tempering that Lan Peng had mentioned.

Golden body tempering involves guiding the spiritual energy to surge like waves, repeatedly cleansing every inch of skin, each bone, and every meridian, as if enduring a thousand cuts,

While body fusion with wood spirit involves guiding wood-attribute spiritual energy to deeply merge with each cell, achieving a perfect unity of the spirit wood with the body. At this moment, the cultivator’s body is wholly imbued with the power of the wood spirit, with each cell carrying abundant vitality and vigor.

These two stages seem to share similarities.

However, after careful contemplation, Yang Zhenshan felt these two stages also appeared different.

Body fusion with wood spirit is gentler, essentially nurturing the body, permeating every area with wood spirit, and making the whole body rich with vitality and vigor.

Golden body tempering is more aggressive, inherently aiming to temper, enhancing the body’s resilience and solidity.

They are not the same thing, but they seem to complement each other!

"If I can master the Wood Transformation Nourishing Body Skill before the breakthrough, wouldn’t it make golden body tempering easier?"

With this thought, Yang Zhenshan devoted himself more intensely to the cultivation of the nourishing body method.

Meanwhile, as Yang Zhenshan was deeply engaged in cultivation, the Wan and Zhang families started a real showdown.

The truth is, the Wan family isn’t as weak as imagined, even though it’s just a small family on the edge of the Sea of Spirit, they’ve been inheriting for over two hundred years, holding some foundation.

The Zhang family, though strong, isn’t quite strong enough to easily wipe out a family, otherwise the Zhang family wouldn’t have been pressed down by the Xiang family of Nanqing concerning Luyuan initially.

The two families’ struggle, though not yet out in the open, had already seen a battle in the shadows.

There were casualties on both sides.

Wan Jinsui, from the Wan family, sat at the table, his face filled with undisguised fatigue. Though he was a Martial Artist at the Innate Realm Qi Sea Stage, theoretically capable of going days without sleep, the recent troublesome issues had truly exhausted him.

"Have there been any movements from the Yang family?"