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Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard the Shen family matriarch's words.

The matriarch added, "If one day the Shen family falls into hardship, and you see Shen disciples reduced to wandering the streets, lend them a hand if you can. Consider it fulfilling the bond between relatives."

The Shen family matriarch waved her hand at Zhang Chen. "Go."

Hearing this, Zhang Chen bowed deeply to the matriarch, then turned and walked out of the room.

Watching Zhang Chen's retreating back, the matriarch let out a faint sigh and slowly closed her eyes, seeming to drift into sleep.

As he walked through the brightly lit Shen family estate, passing through familiar corridors one after another, Zhang Chen silently sensed the fluctuations of the Mystic Aura beneath the Shen Family Old Residence. The aura's surges had grown even more turbulent and majestic.

Just then, an anxious cry rang out from afar. "Quick, someone come! Relatives from the northern lands have fled back! Bring the Eight Treasures Heart-Locking Elixir at once!"

Following the voice, Zhang Chen saw seven or eight figures in bloodstained, tattered clothes collapsed on the ground, carried by a group of Shen family guards as they hurried away.

"A great purge," Zhang Chen muttered, then turned toward the estate gates.

What happened to the Shen family had little to do with him. He too wanted to enter the Ancient Water God's great tomb and seize its providence. He too sought the Shen family's benefits.

Halfway there, Zhang Chen spotted Wang Xifeng in golden robes. She was directing her guards with a grave expression as they rescued people. Zhang Chen merely glanced at her from afar before using an escape technique to vanish from the Shen family estate.

When he returned to his own courtyard, the Three Little Ones' room