Becoming An Immortal Begins With Marrying A Wife

Chapter 29: Fish Die, Net Breaks

After notifying everyone about this matter, the cultivators from the Bamboo Leaf Gang quickly left.

However, there was still a lot of discussion at the scene.

Catching a spy from the Black Iron Mountain Villa could exempt one from paying rent for a month, and if they caught someone in the later stage of Qi Refining, they could even exempt two months' rent.

This reward was simply extravagant.

It's important to note that this is the core area, where the monthly rent is as high as one medium-grade spirit stone.

The Bamboo Leaf Gang is really going all out this time.

Many cultivators were eager to try and figure out how to catch a spy from the Black Iron Mountain Villa.

Some more perceptive cultivators had already started observing everyone around them, trying to recall if any of these people had shown any suspicious behavior in the past.

Some even had malicious intentions and targeted those who usually had bad behavior.

They thought that regardless of whether these people were spies from the Black Iron Mountain Villa or not, they would turn them into spies and then deal with them, in order to catch the Bamboo Leaf Gang and claim the reward.

Compared to these excited cultivators,

At this moment, Chen An was more worried and uneasy.

The Bamboo Leaf Gang suddenly going all out to clean up the spies made him smell the scent of an imminent battle between the two factions.

Now, the actions of the Bamboo Leaf Gang give people a sense of securing the internal before dealing with external threats.

Apart from Chen An, many cultivators in Green Willow Lane also realized this.

A handsome male cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining deliberately walked up to Wen Zhiyun and smiled, saying:

"Fellow Daoist Wen, I feel that Bamboo Leaf Forest might be in chaos in the coming days. It's not safe for a beautiful lady like you to live alone. How about I move in to protect you?"

"Heh, are you even worthy?" Wen Zhiyun sneered contemptuously. "Just a weakling at the seventh level of Qi Refining. I can crush you with one finger. Where do you get the face to say you want to protect me?"

The male cultivator thought that Wen Zhiyun was concerned about appearances and wanted to get close to her because of his outstanding looks. But he didn't expect to be rejected so harshly in public by Wen Zhiyun, leaving him feeling completely humiliated as he slinked away.

Without even sparing a glance at the male cultivator, Wen Zhiyun turned to Song Huaying and Gu Xinyue and smiled, saying:

"Sister Ying, Sister Yue, there might be chaos in the days to come. How about you two move in with your sister? Your sister is much stronger than your husbands and can protect you better."

The noise Chen An and Gu Xinyue made every night was too loud, often keeping Wen Zhiyun, who lived next door, from falling asleep.

Therefore, she was now trying to lure away Chen An's wives, solving the problem at its source.

Unfortunately, Song Huaying and Gu Xinyue's loyalty to Chen An far exceeded her expectations.

Seeing that the two women didn't even hesitate, they directly refused, saying:

"Sister Ying thinks that our husband will definitely protect us well, so there's no need to trouble Sister Wen. Thank you for your kind offer, Sister Wen."

"Yue also feels the same."

Chen An, who was listening on the side, felt extremely pleased. He thought to himself that he hadn't spoiled these two precious wives for nothing.

Seeing that the two women had no intention of moving, Wen Zhiyun didn't insist and quickly left.

After Wen Zhiyun left.

Chen An asked his two wives to stay at home while he went out to the market to buy self-defense items.

The Bamboo Leaf Forest is likely to become chaotic next.

As the head of the family, he must be prepared for such situations.

He prepared various self-defense items in advance.

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Core area, market.

Chen An walked into the Baibao Tower and went straight to the shopkeeper, asking, "Shopkeeper, do you have anything here that can be used for self-defense?"

"Self-defense items?" After thinking for a moment, the shopkeeper said, "That would be talismans."

Talismans are a kind of spell paper made by talisman makers.

Various spells are engraved on the talisman paper.

As long as the user infuses spiritual power into the talisman, they can release the spells engraved on it.

"I wonder what talismans are available for sale here?"

"We have fireball talismans, protective talismans, lightness talismans, and various other types of talismans. Whatever you can think of, we have them for sale. Even if we don't have them, I can arrange for them to be delivered to you on the same day."

"Then, shopkeeper, give me a few of these talismans, these, and these."

After a brief understanding, Chen An bought a variety of talismans.

Among them, he bought the most protective talismans.

Because his two wives at home didn't have much self-defense ability and needed external protection.

In addition to talisman paper, Chen An also bought a formation similar to an alarm device.

Before using it, the breath of different people can be recorded in the formation.

When used, if there is an unfamiliar breath entering the formation, it will flash with various dazzling lights to alert the owner of the house that a stranger is invading.

After buying all this, Chen An spent nearly one medium-grade spirit stone in total.

He walked out of the Baibao Tower.

He didn't stay long in the market.

Chen An quickly returned to the Green Willow Lane.

After handing over the protective talismans to his wives, he turned and walked into the alchemy room to start refining various poisons, which would be used to set up various traps around the courtyard later.

He didn't know if these traps, which had been proven effective in the cheap area, would still work in the core area where there were many mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators and late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

But no matter what, it was better to set them up than not.

At least it would give him a little more sense of security.

After spending over two hours setting up the traps, Chen An turned around and entered the alchemy room.

But he wasn't going in to refine pills, but to dig a tunnel in the alchemy room.

He thought that when disaster struck, he and his wives might be trapped in the house and unable to escape.

If there was an underground passage leading outside the house, there would be much more space to maneuver, and the safety of the residence would be greatly improved.

Purchase talismans.

Prepare poison and set traps.

Dig tunnels...

By the time Chen An had completed these tasks one by one, the sky outside had already darkened completely.

...

In the blink of an eye, several days had passed.

During these days, the situation in Bamboo Leaf Forest had become chaotic, just as Chen An had imagined.

The undercover agents of Black Iron Mountain Villa had been discovered, and before their deaths, they struggled desperately, putting on scenes of fish dying and nets breaking.

Wherever they went, houses collapsed and corpses were everywhere.

Cultivators with high cultivation levels made a fortune.

But many cultivators with low cultivation levels suffered unjust deaths, their deaths inexplicable.

Chen An had a clear understanding of his own cultivation level.

Since the day the elder of Bamboo Leaf Gang came and said they would clean up the undercover agents, he had been staying at home with his two wives, not venturing outside.

He was worried that if he, with his low cultivation level, wandered around outside, he would easily die on the road.

And during this period, Wen Zhiyun, who used to visit almost every day, had not come to his house again, and he didn't know what she was busy with.

Several more days passed.

On this day, Chen An was teaching his two wives some basic knowledge about alchemy in the alchemy room, hoping to train them as his future alchemy assistants.

As he was teaching, he suddenly felt his body becoming somewhat restless.

It seemed that his cultivation level was about to break through.

Chen An immediately asked his two wives to leave and locked himself in the alchemy room to make a breakthrough in seclusion.

Two days later.

Chen An successfully broke through and became a Qi Refining Fifth Layer cultivator.

[Name: Chen An]

[Cultivation Level: Qi Refining Fifth Layer]

[Alchemy: Intermediate Level One (458/500)]

[Spiritual Consciousness: Intermediate Level One (258/500)]

[Goldfinger: Proficient (196/500)]

[Spouse: Song Huaying, Gu Xinyue]

[Descendants: In Pregnancy (9 months)]

Looking at the panel in front of him, Chen An couldn't help but show a satisfied smile on his face.

Compared to a year ago, he was now like heaven and earth.

His strength had improved so much compared to last year.

At this rate, he felt that he could achieve Foundation Building within twenty years.

If he was more optimistic, he might even achieve this goal within ten years.

Or even, it might not be impossible within five years.

And all of this depended on whether he could become Wen Zhiyun's Dao companion.

Chen An's intuition told him that the reward for being intimate with Wen Zhiyun must be related to improving his cultivation level.

"By the way, when Yinger was pregnant, the system rewarded me with a formula for the Heartbreak Pill."

"I wonder if there will be a reward when the child is born next month."

Chen An was looking forward to it.

...

At the same time.

In a house in the core area.

Several cultivators with a cultivation level as high as Qi Refining Late Stage sat there with worried expressions, drinking.

"Recently, the Bamboo Leaf Gang has been investigating more and more tightly. We can't go out, and it's only a matter of time before we're exposed."

"Ah, the leader of the Bamboo Leaf Gang is too ruthless. In order to root out us undercover agents, he's willing to offer a hefty reward."

"Damn it, since we're all going to die anyway, we might as well go all out and make it difficult for the Bamboo Leaf Gang. If we're going to die, they won't have it easy either!"

"Wu Junior Brother makes sense."

"Huang Senior Brother, what do you think?"

"What else can I think? We can only sacrifice more lives. We need to target auxiliary professions like alchemists, talisman makers, and weapon refiners. These auxiliary professions have a great impact on the Bamboo Leaf Gang, but their own strength is weak. Killing them will yield twice the result with half the effort."

"Huang Senior Brother is brilliant!"

"Huang Senior Brother, I heard that there is a female cultivator surnamed Wen in Green Willow Lane. She is incredibly beautiful and has a graceful figure. Moreover, she is still a virgin. Since we can't escape death anyway, why not enjoy ourselves before we die?"

"Li Junior Brother makes sense."

"Then let's do it. We brothers will first deal with that Wen cultivator in Green Willow Lane, and then we will assassinate those auxiliary professions."

After making this decision, they immediately began preparing their plan, intending to taste the high-quality flower that Wen Zhiyun had guarded for many years tonight.

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