Ancient Profound Daoist

After years of development, Spirit Source Mountain has become the largest Rogue Cultivator in the Border Province. Countless Rogue Cultivator without Spirit Vein rent cave dwellings here, cultivate Spirit Field, and run businesses.

As a result, the Spirit Source Mountain Market has prospered, bringing in 20,000 Spirit Stone in tax revenue for the Chen Clan every year in recent years.

Just as Chen Nianzhi landed her flying sword, she saw Wei Xuyuan already smiling and greeting her.

What brings you here today?

"I've come to see my good friend."

As Chen Nianzhi spoke, he glanced at Wei Xuyuan and noticed that Wei Xuyuan had already cultivated to the perfect Third-Layer Purple Mansion realm.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Nianzhi broke through to the Purple Mansion more than eighty years ago, while Wei Xuyuan was delayed for some years due to a failed breakthrough, but now it has been more than seventy years since he broke through to the Purple Mansion.

For the first twenty years or so, without the support of the Spirit Mountain and his salary, Wei Xuyuan's cultivation progressed extremely slowly.

After being invited to oversee Spirit Source Mountain, Wei Xuyuan's situation improved considerably. He not only paid off the Lineage's debts but also spent 300,000 Spirit Stone to upgrade the Wei family's Mount Tian'e to the third-tier lower grade.

Seeing that his friend had cultivated to the Third-Layer Purple Mansion realm, Chen Nianzhi handed him the two Cloud-Pattern Creation Pill that he had prepared beforehand.

"The Cloud-Pattern Creation Pill is precious; how can I possibly accept it?"

Wei Xuyuan quickly declined, feeling embarrassed to accept the treasure.

Chen Nianzhi smiled, shook his head, and said, "My Chen Clan's Nianchuan, along with Uncle Qing Hao and others, have been breaking through to the Purple Mansion realm for thirty or forty years now. I estimate they should be able to reach the Mid-Purple Mansion realm within ten years."

"These Cloud-Pattern Creation Pill were refined by me, and I brought two extra for you."

"Don't be shy. Doesn't your Wei Clan grow Cloud-Pattern Fruit? Come and trade it with me when it's ripe."

Hearing this, Wei Xuyuan put away the Cloud-Pattern Creation Pill.

The Wei family did indeed plant Cloud-Pattern Fruit, but it will take some time for it to ripen.

Although Cloud-Pattern Fruit is not as good as Five-Elements Treasure Crystal, it is still one of the key ingredients for refining Cloud-Pattern Creation Pill and Violet-Qi Cloud-Pattern Pill.

This fruit has always been quite rare, so exchanging it for the Cloud-Pattern Creation Pill is indeed a reasonable offer.

After chatting with Wei Xuyuan for a while, Chen Nianzhi arrived at Yu Qingyan's cave.

Seeing that he had arrived at Spirit Source Mountain, Yu Qingyan rolled her eyes at him and said, "You said you would bring me to the Chu Kingdom to occupy Spirit Mountain, but now I don't even have a single Spirit Mountain."

There's no need to rush this.

Chen Nianzhi smiled and calmly said, "With the Beast Turmoil imminent, even if we conquer the Demon Race's Spirit Mountain and invest in Spirit Mountain development, it will likely fall into the wrong hands due to the Beast Turmoil, making it a losing proposition."

"It would be better to wait until after the Beast Turmoil before fighting; that way, we can have a century of peace."

Hearing what he said, Yu Qingyan felt that it made sense, so she could only nod.

Seeing Yu Qingyan's expression, Chen Nianzhi asked again, "What did you want to see me about earlier?"

"This matter..."

Yu Qingyan hesitated slightly, then gritted her teeth and said, "To be honest, I've come to you today to ask you to avenge me."

"Revenge?"

Chen Nianzhi frowned slightly, glancing at Yu Qingyan. The matter of revenge involved a great deal of Karmic Retribution.

Since obtaining Lin Daoyang's legacy, Yu Qingyan received a treasure worth millions of Spirit Stone, which caused her cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds. Not long ago, she even broke through to the Purple Mansion Late Stage.

Even with her current cultivation level, she's not confident she can avenge herself, yet she wants to drag him into it for help. This shows that her opponent is at least Purple Mansion Late Stage cultivator, and possibly even False Core realm or Golden Core realm cultivator.

Although the two had a good relationship, they had not yet reached the point where they would fight to the death with a high-level cultivator for each other.

"This is a long story."

After glancing at Chen Nianzhi's expression, Yu Qingyan continued her explanation.

It turns out that Yu Qingyan also had some background; she was originally a Yu Clan of the Yu clan Golden Core Immortal Clan in the Cang Kingdom Ji Continent.

About a hundred years ago, the Yu Clan of the Yu Clan faced a generational gap, and the last Golden Core realm Ancestor passed away in the Lineage's Spirit Vein.

When a Golden Core Immortal Clan's rank falls, it naturally becomes a target for other major Immortal Clans, who all rush to get a piece of the pie.

Initially, the Yu Clan of the Yu Clan wanted to protect their assets and cultivate new Golden Core realm with their abundant resources. However, after several major battles, they suffered heavy losses, and one after another, their ancestors passed away for various reasons.

In addition, the last patriarch was incompetent, failing to break through to the Golden Core realm stage three times in a row before passing away, which depleted most of the Yu Clan Clan's resources.

Left with no other choice, the Yu Clan had to give up most of the benefits of the Spirit Mountain, and even relinquished the Lineage's Tier 4 Spirit Vein, in order to barely preserve a sliver of their foundation.

But before the Yu Clan could breathe a sigh of relief, a Rogue Cultivator at the Great Perfection of Purple Mansion realm attacked Yu Clan.

Overnight, the last strength of the Yu Clan was completely wiped out, with only Yu Qingyan being released early due to her exceptional talent.

"The person who attacked back then was named Ancient Profound Daoist, who was the number one Rogue Cultivator in the Cang Kingdom."

"This person's lifespan is nearing its end, but he has already broken through to the False Core realm, and his Daoist temple is hidden within the Ji River."

As Yu Qingyan spoke, a hint of hatred lingered in her eyes.

That Ancient Profound Daoist was ruthless. After killing the high-level cultivators of the Yu Clan, he also hunted down and killed tens of thousands of low-level cultivators of the Yu Clan one by one to prevent the descendants of the Yu Clan from taking revenge. He could be considered a ruthless person.

It was precisely because of this that the cultivators of the Yu Clan were almost wiped out, and no one could protect the mortals of the Yu Clan, which indirectly led to the near extinction of the more than 80 million members of the Yu Clan.

Countless people died in the jaws of Demon Beast and Devil Cultivator. There are even legends that the Demon Cave Master broke through to the late Golden Core stage by secretly sacrificing a large number of mortals from the Yu Clan.

She once swore a blood oath to avenge her Lineage, but now that the Ancient Profound Daoist, if she doesn't take revenge now, she may never have another chance.

After listening, Chen Nianzhi frowned. Generally speaking, wars between righteous cultivators would not involve mortals.

Jiang Linglong occupied Azure Sun Mountain, but she also made proper arrangements for the hundreds of millions of mortals under the Azure Sun Sect.

Most of these mortals were divided up by the various immortal clans nearby, while the rest were taken care of by Jiang Linglong's disciples and grand-disciples, becoming the main source of cultivators for the Heavenly Ruins Alliance.

That Ancient Profound Daoist was ruthless and cruel. In order to prevent the Yu Clan from taking revenge, he hunted down the Yu Clan's cultivators everywhere, but he was unwilling to settle mortals. This indirectly led to the deaths of countless mortals from demons. His actions were somewhat excessive and cruel.

Seeing him frown, Yu Qingyan gritted her teeth and said, "That Ancient Profound Daoist has a Tier 4 immortal sword, which is the most precious treasure of my Yu Clan clan."

"If you join forces with me to avenge him and kill him, all the treasures on his body, including the Tier 4 immortal sword, will be yours."

"Furthermore, I'm willing to offer another 300,000 Spirit Stone as payment for your assistance."

Three hundred thousand Spirit Stone —even Chen Nianzhi was tempted.

Especially that Tier 4 immortal sword; once obtained, it would be an excellent choice whether used for practical purposes or melted down into Treasure Gold to upgrade to Tier 4 Magical Treasure.