Return to Small Mountain Village

After weighing things in his heart, Lin Fan had sorted through every gain, loss, advantage, and disadvantage with perfect clarity.

Staying at Sunset Glow Courtyard was not absolutely safe, but there was not much danger either. There were far more experts in the county city, so demonic cultivators of the Transforming Force Realm did not dare go there lightly, and few dared commit grave crimes.

Moving to the county city would indeed make things slightly safer for himself. But for the Su Family, the danger would increase countless times over. Should a powerful enemy come knocking, the entire Su Family would have nowhere to retreat. Lin Fan understood these trade-offs quite well.

He let out a long breath of stale air and forced down his chaotic thoughts. No matter how much he thought about it now, it was better to cultivate steadily and earnestly.

The vast amounts of gold and silver stored in the warehouse also gave him the confidence to remain here.

Lin Fan raised his eyes toward the several locked warehouses nearby. Their bronze locks were heavy, and inside, tens of millions of taels of gold and silver lay piled to the ceilings in silent slumber. Should a powerful enemy truly come to his door, that sleeping gold and silver would become his formidable fighting strength.

As night gradually deepened, Lin Fan, who had cultivated for two or three hours, sensed the Inner Qi within his body. After recovering over the past two days, his Inner Qi had returned to nearly three hundred strands. More than half had been restored.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning. Day broke, and the faint morning light streamed through the window lattice into the room.

Lin Fan woke from a full night's sleep, his mind refreshed. He