Anxious? Anxious?
Why would Luo Chen be anxious?!
It was obvious that the people outside had surrounded them without attacking, which meant they did not have much killing intent toward the people of Slanting Moon Valley.
This was especially apparent in their treatment of those elderly, weak, women, and children at the Early Qi Refining Stage and Middle Stage.
In the Cultivation World, there had never been any fine tradition of protecting the elderly, the weak, women, and children.
In fact, old cultivators and female cultivators were often the very people one needed to guard against.
The former had broad knowledge and rich experience. Whether in battle or other matters, anyone who could live to old age had something exceptional about them.
As for female cultivators, any who could cultivate to great heights were often even more ruthless than male cultivators of the same realm.
Otherwise, they could not stand out from the vast sea of people.
So the question was, why did these hundred-odd elderly, weak, women, and children of Slanting Moon Valley deserve to be spared?
The answer was simple.
This group mostly consisted of productive cultivators.
They possessed many productive skills, such as Spirit Planters, apothecaries, physicians, or Medicine Apprentices, Fire Workers, and Nourishing Pill Disciples from the Pill Hall.
People like them posed no threat and could create considerable value for major powers.
Forget other factions—even Luo Chen would not kill cultivators of this sort.
Then, from low to high, Luo Chen, who had mastered the Pill Refinement Art, was several ranks more important.
Especially since Pill Dust Master's name had become rather renowned throughout Great River Market after the Mountain Shattering Gang's long-term promotion.
Any leader of a faction would not harbor killing intent toward Luo Chen.
They would either befriend him, recruit him, or