Family Rise by Daily Intelligence

Chapter 642: Chapter 277: Mother’s Keepsake, Elder Qingdeng, Counterkill

Fu Changsheng suddenly felt the world spinning around him. After a brief moment of darkness, a shaft of white light burst before his eyes, and simultaneously, a decayed aura assaulted his senses.

Buzz!

His figure was instantly teleported into a swamp.

A thought crossed his mind.

Fu Changsheng immediately summoned the Three-Transformation Treasure Lotus Lamp, and as it spun, wisps of cyan spirit light descended to envelop him.

Looking around.

He saw towering trees everywhere.

The roars of demon beasts occasionally echoed through the forest.

The abundant Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi even condensed into a thin Spiritual Mist Belt in the air.

Fu Changsheng’s eyes showed a slight delight:

”With such abundant spiritual energy, this secret realm should contain many high-tier Spirit Grass.”

And it opens once every hundred years.

There should be quite a number of Spirit Grass that have matured.

Fu Changsheng popped a Disguise Pill into his mouth, maintaining Xu Changqing’s appearance. He then tapped the Cloud Ring Purple Immortal Tower; with a buzzing sound, a cyan-faced White Fox flashed out from the second layer of the tower:

”Chirp”

Sensing the dense spiritual energy around.

The cyan-faced White Fox was quite excited, flashed with cyan light, and automatically burrowed into the forest to search for spiritual objects.

Fu Changsheng had just stepped into the forest not long before the cyan-faced White Fox returned, gesturing repeatedly at him: ”Found a treasure already?”

Just in case.

Fu Changsheng cast the Invisibility Technique.

Following the cyan-faced White Fox’s lead, he walked forward for about three hundred zhang.

At a certain pool, he caught sight of a Snake Entwining Vine, with three Snake Entwining Fruits ready for harvesting. This Spirit Fruit was Tier Two Middle-Grade, an excellent fruit for those at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment cultivating a Water Attribute Technique to break through bottlenecks.

Fu Changsheng did not reveal himself immediately.

If he remembered correctly, a Snake Entwining Vine was usually guarded by a companion demon beast, a Tier Two Vine Flower Snake. However, in the pool, he sensed no aura of any demon beast:

”Something’s not right!”

Fu Changsheng’s eyes narrowed slightly.

At that moment.

A surprised voice rang out:

”Hahaha, this young master truly is favored by the heavens. I’ve just landed and found a Snake Entwining Vine. Not bad, it’s a good start.”

A male cultivator in Tian Family attire appeared beside the pool in a flash.

The male cultivator took a few steps, intending to pick the Snake Entwining Fruits from the pool, but suddenly stopped, sneering:

”Friend hidden in the forest, if you’re interested in this item too, I’m in a good mood today and could grant you one. Come on out.”

Fu Changsheng was taken aback.

He had clearly cast the Concealing Breath Technique and Invisibility Technique from the start.

Yet this person’s Divine Sense was so strong that they discovered him instantly?!

While hesitating.

The male continued to speak loudly to the air.

Finally.

The male let out a sigh of relief:

”Seems like it’s not a trap.”

Fu Changsheng couldn’t help but chuckle; so the male cultivator had been acting out a self-directed scene, quite clever indeed.

His target was the Profound Yin Grass and the Human Emperor Banner, so he wasn’t very interested in the Snake Entwining Vine. To avoid revealing his identity and causing unnecessary trouble, Fu Changsheng turned to leave.

However.

After walking just a few steps.

A sudden scream came from behind.

Fu Changsheng’s body trembled, he turned to look back at the original pool, and saw the cautious male Tian Family cultivator had already fallen to the ground.

With a splash from the pool.

Another cultivator soared into the sky, also wearing Tian Family attire.

The newcomer waved his sleeve.

Instantly picking up the storage bag on the ground, he glanced at it and muttered:

”Truly a pauper.”

The person rummaged through the storage bag.

Suddenly.

His eyes lit up:

”Finally found it.”

A tattered sheepskin scroll appeared in his hand.

The man flicked his forefinger, dropping a cluster of flames to incinerate the body to ashes, then left with satisfaction.

Fu Changsheng, hiding in the forest watching the whole scene, frowned.

Tian Family cultivators shouldn’t kill each other.

The only possibility.

The bearded man just now, clearly, had also infiltrated with a fake Tian Family identity, or was from a force inserted into the Tian Family from the beginning.

Fu Changsheng felt uneasy.

Decided decisively to exchange some intel first.

A thought flashed:

”Exchange intel.”

Buzz!

The panel trembled.

A surge of yellow light.

Followed by the appearance of text line by line:

[1: The man at the pool earlier was from the Joy Sect, named Yun Tiannan, who was formerly a Great Cultivator of the Purple Mansion, and was a spy sent by Master Yun of Joy Sect to investigate Yun Taiying’s death in North Huai Prefecture]

Great Cultivator of the Purple Mansion?!

Fu Changsheng was stunned for a moment.

It meant.

That the man just now was indeed a Tian Family cultivator, but had been possessed.

Fu Changsheng’s heart shook.

It was his first encounter with someone who had been possessed.

”These people from Joy Sect really are persistent!”

The major noble families had conducted thorough investigations for years.

Yet Master Yun had thought of possession as a way to infiltrate people inside.

Had it not been for encountering this by chance, if Yun Tiannan had traced back to him as the one who killed Yun Taiying, it would have been troublesome:

”Looks like Yun Tiannan cannot be left alive!”

Though Yun Tiannan was once part of the Purple Mansion, he’s now only at Foundation Establishment. No matter what, Fu Changsheng had to find a way to keep him trapped in this secret realm and kill him, as the Joy Sect would not be able to investigate and enter.

It was the perfect opportunity for murder and burial, as the barrier here opened only once every hundred years.

Having made up his mind, Fu Changsheng continued reading:

[2: Six hundred li southwest of you is the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, which holds a Human Emperor Banner. Yun Tiannan will retrieve it from the lake bottom in seven days.]

[3: The Profound Yin Grass is on the second level of the Yinluo Secret Realm]