Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1137: Chapter 767: Making the Fan Family the Perfect Scapegoat!

Night falls, inside the Fan family’s tavern.

Fan Chengyue sits in the room on the third floor, the table before him is covered with wine jars and glasses.

Indeed, these are all Spiritual Wine from the Yang family’s winery.

Speaking of Snow Valley Town, even the entire Cold Valley County, the Fan family is the only power with expertise in Spiritual Wine. The Fan family has always regarded the spiritual wine business as its exclusive privilege; anyone or any power wishing to engage in the spiritual wine business in Cold Valley County must first obtain their consent.

And today, a Yang family’s winery suddenly emerged in Snow Valley Town, naturally, the Fan family would not ignore it.

Fan Chengyue is the person in charge of the Fan family in Snow Valley Town; at this moment, he is carefully savoring the sensation brought by each type of Spiritual Wine.

Until he finally gulps down the Hundred Fruit Brew, he suddenly lifts his head.

"Are these all Spiritual Wines from that Yang family winery?"

His face is narrow, cheekbones slightly protruding, cheeks deep-set, skin taut against the bones; his eyes resemble cold pools, profoundly bottomless, shimmering with a cold light, as if capable of seeing through human hearts, holding disregard and calculation for all things in the world.

The young man standing opposite him hears this and hurriedly lowers his head, cautiously replying, "Uncle, these are all Spiritual Wines from the Yang family’s winery, which I and my seventeenth brother personally bought from there!"

Fan Chengyue’s thin lips are tightly pressed, corners of his mouth slightly downturned, "Tomorrow, check out what this Yang family is all about!"

At this moment, he already views the Yang family as the greatest threat to his own family.

The most crucial source of income for the Fan family is this Ice Soul Spirit Wine, and the quality of the Yang family’s Hundred Fruit Brew surpasses the Ice Soul Spirit Wine. If they allow the Yang family to sell the Hundred Fruit Brew, it will definitely impact their Spiritual Wine business.

This is no trifling matter.

Cutting off one’s financial supply is like killing one’s parents.

Cutting off cultivation resources is an endless, blood-deep enmity.

The Fan family has survived for over three hundred years, all thanks to the financial path of Ice Soul Spirit Wine.

But suddenly a strange color flickers in his eyes, "Spiritual Wine, the Yang family can actually brew so much Spiritual Wine? If my Fan family could also brew these Spiritual Wines~"

A cold chill flashes in the pair of eyes sunken in his eye sockets.

More than driving away the Yang family as a competitor, he is more inclined to seize the Yang family’s Spiritual Wine as his own!

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Within the courtyard of the Cold Cloud Sect’s main hall.

Ji De’an carefully fills a cup with wine and places the glass in front of an elderly man with white hair and beard.

"Grandfather, this is the Yang family’s Hundred Fruit Brew! I’ve tasted it; this brew has the effect of refining True Qi, and is particularly effective for Martial Artists in the Heavenly Gang Stage and Earth Evil Stage in refining True Yuan!"

The elderly man before him is Ji Linfeng, one of the six strongmen in the Heavenly Gang Stage of the Cold Cloud Sect, and he’s also one of those stationed in Snow Valley Town.

In the Cold Cloud Sect, the Ji family is a significant faction. The so-called Sect is actually an alliance of several families; many sects, after decades or centuries of development, even evolve into the situation of one ruling family.

The family and sect become one, with the sect paradoxically serving as a tool for the family’s growth and expansion.

Internally, the Cold Cloud Sect has not developed into one ruling family; rather, several long-standing families control the sect’s power, and the Ji family is one of those families.

Ji Linfeng lifts the wine glass and drinks, then closes his eyes to carefully feel the warm Spiritual Energy spreading within his body. In his Dantian Qi Sea, strands of pure Spiritual Power rain down like threads, merging with his True Qi, transforming into strands of True Yuan.

Moments later, a flash of joyful brilliance crosses his eyes.

"The efficacy is surprisingly no less than that of the Qi Nourishing Pill!"

"Hmm, grandson believes this Hundred Fruit Brew is even better than the Qi Nourishing Pill; the Qi Nourishing Pill cannot be taken frequently, but this Hundred Fruit Brew can!"

"The Qi Nourishing Pill can only be taken once a month, whereas even if this Hundred Fruit Brew can only be drunk once a day, the effect in a month is comparable to taking three Qi Nourishing Pills!"

"The most crucial part is that its price is cheaper than the Qi Nourishing Pill, even if without a discount, it’s only twenty Spirit Stones per pound!"

Ji De’an says with bright eyes.

For Innate Martial Artists, the most important task is to refine True Yuan.

From the onset of the Earth Evil Stage, Innate Martial Artists’ cultivation involves attracting Spiritual Energy into the body, refining True Yuan.

This is an extremely slow process, requiring much effort and patience.

There are two conditions to accelerate this process: the first is to find a place brimming with Spiritual Energy, which makes cultivation much more effective. The second is to consume various spiritual things or elixirs that can enhance the body’s Spiritual Energy.

Low-grade Spirit Pills still have some effect for Earth Evil Stage Martial Artists, but are almost useless for those in the Heavenly Gang Stage.

The effect of Mid-grade Spirit Pills is quite acceptable; they can roughly enhance cultivation speed by thirty percent.

However, the price of Mid-grade Spirit Pills is much higher.

A Low-grade Spirit Pill costs only a few Spirit Stones, like Wood Spirit Pills or Water Spirit Pills, which cost merely one or two Spirit Stones.

Whereas a Mid-grade Spirit Pill costs tens of Spirit Stones, a Qi Nourishing Pill, for example, costs fifty Spirit Stones.

A pound of Hundred Fruit Brew is equivalent to a Qi Nourishing Pill, yet it costs only twenty Spirit Stones, and can even be discounted by twenty percent.

How did Yang Zhenshan, Yu Qingyi, and Zhou Tianci elevate their cultivation to the Heavenly Gang Stage within five to six years?

The near-unlimited supply of Spiritual Wine in the Spirit Source Land is one of the primary reasons.

Ji Linfeng looks down at the empty wine glass in his hand, the joy and excitement in his eyes grow more intense.

"If I could regularly drink this Spiritual Wine, then perhaps I might have a chance to try and break through to the Martial God Realm!"