"The Golden Fruit won't ripen for another fifteen days. This news will definitely spread, and when the time comes, every force in Yun Province will likely send Innate Realm Grandmasters to fight over it."
Zhou Shan pondered inwardly.
Although not every Marrow Cleansing Blood Changing Cultivation Technique required the Golden Fruit, such a heavenly treasure could still be traded for other heavenly treasures even if one had no use for it.
Therefore, once news of the Golden Fruit spread, there would certainly be no shortage of forces competing for it.
But for Zhou Shan, this was not entirely a bad thing.
If the Blood Fiend Sect were the only force involved, he would have to face the Blood Fiend Sect alone, making it somewhat difficult to seize the Golden Fruit. But the more forces there were, the more they would keep one another in check.
For instance, the Guiyuan Sect and the Blood Fiend Sect were hostile forces, while Heavenly Sword Manor and the Five Poisons Sect were also at war. When the time came, even the Five Surnames Alliance might get involved.
The more forces there were, the easier it would be to fish in troubled waters.
At most, if he used the Golden Bell Shield, the Shangguan Family's Innate Realm Grandmasters would suspect that he had killed Xu Haoran, and he would face their targeting. But so long as they were not Blood Transmutation Realm Grandmasters, Zhou Shan feared none of them.
Among Yun Province's major forces, only the Guiyuan Sect, the Dongfang Family—the leader of the Five Surnames Alliance—and the Blood Fiend Sect were known to have Blood Transmutation Realm Grandmasters. The other four great families, Heavenly Sword Manor, and the Five Poisons Sect had Innate Realm Grandmasters as their strongest experts.
"First, I'll head to Yingchuan