Lin Feng brought Lin An, the other two, and his newly accepted eldest disciple, Jixiang, to Da Wang Village, a small village near Tie Guan City on the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. After traveling south through many places and seeing countless people and events, Lin Feng found the village's overall atmosphere quite comfortable. Not because it was peaceful, cheerful, or warm, but because it differed from the villages in the heartland of the empire. People here were not so concerned with others' affairs. Lin Feng liked that, so he decided to live here for a while.
When they arrived, Lin Feng told the villagers that his family had once been fallen nobles, and now only a few of them remained. They still had enemies from their family's past in the city, so for their own protection and to carry on the family line, they had left the city and come to live in this border village.
Although the two great empires were not openly at war, both sides constantly made small moves in secret, and minor conflicts still broke out from time to time. Perhaps for that reason, the village maintained a relatively friendly attitude toward people arriving from the Heaven Dou side. Of course, the frequent unrest also meant that the villagers had little energy to concern themselves with others.
Lin Feng paid the village chief and bought a courtyard at the end of the village, where the group settled down. The village's edge was actually the part closest to the Star Dou Great Forest. Although almost no soul beasts appeared in this section of the forest, few people were willing to live there just in case. Other than those too poor to afford homes elsewhere in the village, only people like