Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1088: Chapter 743: Advantages and Disadvantages

"Have the three major sects not reacted?" Yang Zhenshan asked.

Lan Peng shook his head and said, "I’m not sure, they should’ve reacted, but we just don’t know."

"I see!"

Yang Zhenshan nodded.

The assassin organization is the most troublesome.

They appear and disappear unpredictably, making it extremely difficult to catch them.

Yang Zhenshan didn’t know much about the Soul-breaking Blade, but he had faced the Divine Sun Sect before.

Back then, Da Rong’s Secret Martial Guards claimed to monitor the world, yet they were oppressed by the Divine Sun Sect for decades.

In such a vast and complex world, hiding is far easier than searching.

Not to mention the Soul-breaking Blade, even Lv Hua’s current Secret Martial Guards are extremely covert, making it nearly impossible to catch them all.

Lan Peng looked at Yang Zhenshan and said, "I’ve come this time with a request for you?"

"Brother Lan, just give your orders, no need to talk about help or not!" Yang Zhenshan laughed.

Others might fear the Soul-breaking Blade, but he wasn’t too intimidated, at most, he found them troublesome.

His greatest trump card wasn’t his own strength or the Thunder Clap Spear, but the Spirit Source Land.

As the saying goes, if you can’t afford to offend, you can at least hide.

If he indeed antagonized an unbeatable enemy, he could just retreat to the Spirit Source Land for ten or eight years without issue.

Unless someone could kill him without his knowledge, it would be really hard to take him down.

Of course, it’s best not to hide in the Spirit Source Land. After all, he had been operating here for five years, hiding there would render those efforts futile.

Lan Peng chuckled, "It’s really nothing major; I wanted to invite Brother Yang to accompany me on a trip to the Wan family!"

"The Wan family!" Yang Zhenshan realized.

The Zhang family in Luyuan suffered an assault from the Soul-breaking Blade. The most likely suspect was the Wan family hiring the Soul-breaking Blade to act.

If Lan Peng wanted to investigate the whereabouts of the Soul-breaking Blade, he naturally couldn’t skip visiting the Wan family.

As for why he invited me, it’s probably because Lan Peng felt anxious, fearing an encounter with someone from the Soul-breaking Blade.

Yang Zhenshan, at worst, is openly a Martial Artist at the Heavenly Gang Stage.

Having him around gave Lan Peng more confidence.

"No problem!" Yang Zhenshan agreed almost without hesitation.

After their conversation, the two rose and headed for the Wan family at Golden Pond Mountain.

Golden Pond Mountain is about ten miles from Lingxi Mountain, and after bypassing three mountain ridges, you reach Golden Pond Mountain, which is much higher and steeper than Lingxi Mountain.

The Wan family doesn’t live on the mountain but in the valley.

At the top of Golden Pond Mountain, there’s an array of pavilions known as Golden Pond Garden.

Don’t underestimate Golden Pond Garden; despite lacking spirit fields and the ability to grow spirit fruits or medicines, Golden Pond Garden contains a pool known as Golden Pond, its water a gold-attribute spirit water beneficial for cultivation, alchemy, and artifact refining.

The Wan family relies on this Golden Pond to establish themselves in the Sea of Spirit.

Besides Golden Pond, the Wan family owns two other territories, one north with over 20 acres of low-grade spirit fields, another east on Yueqiu Mountain with over 10 acres of low-grade spirit fields.

Though the Wan family’s holdings aren’t extensive, their annual Spirit Stone income is considerable, even more so than the Lingxi Yang Family at its peak.

Following the winding mountain road, Yang Zhenshan and Lan Peng quickly reached the village where the Wan family resides.

Wan Village, where the Wan family lives, houses many non-related families. Indeed, the population under the Wan family’s domain is substantial, numbering over two thousand, spread across three villages in these mountains.

At this moment, the Red Flame Army had surrounded Wan Village, and whether Wan family members or other villagers, all displayed expressions of panic.

Yang Zhenshan and Lan Peng rode in, gazing at the blue-brick red-tile dwellings, stroking his long beard.

The Wan family lacked grandiose buildings and lavish decorations, appearing simple and unadorned.

Without the Wan family plaque at the village entrance, outsiders might mistake it for an ordinary village.

"Welcome, General!"

The Wan family members saw Lan Peng arrive and immediately bowed in reverence.

Leading them was a man appearing around fifty, with Wan Jinsui, whom Yang Zhenshan had met before, standing behind him. This must be Wan Qianshan, the cornerstone of the Wan family.

Yang Zhenshan glanced over, finding the Wan family’s foundation rather robust, as while Wan Qianshan’s highest cultivation was just an Earth Evil Stage Martial Artist, among the Wan family descendants were several Qi Sea Stage Martial Artists, at least five of them.

A small family with five Qi Sea Stage Martial Artists, all young too, indicating the Wan family’s intensive investment in its youth. Even if Wan Qianshan were to fall, the Wan family wouldn’t necessarily decline completely.

Despite the region’s superior cultivation environment and techniques compared to the Stormy Sea Area to the west, the cultivation speed here wasn’t necessarily faster, perhaps even slower.

This is because cultivation techniques here heavily rely on various resources, leading Martial Artists to invest time and effort in acquiring resources.

They might spend months, even years, for a single elixir.

This is why most family heads are Qi Sea Stage Martial Artists, as higher cultivation elders have to focus more on their own training, while the younger generation strives to gather resources for them.