Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 586: Chapter 47: The Commandery Prince’s Family Also Has No Surplus Grain_3 Chapter 586: Chapter 47: The Commandery Prince’s Family Also Has No Surplus Grain_3 But the strength of the Wang family lies more in Wang Shouzhe’s unique philosophy and distinctive thinking.

Early spring.

The cold wind was still biting cold.

Over the vast Eastern Sea, the howling wind carried an even more bone-chilling cold.

Among the surging waves, five large merchant ships formed a word-shaped arrangement, battling the stormy seas while steadily moving forward.

The high sails were full of sea winds, all fluffed up.

The massive merchant ships were like five moving fortresses, remaining unwavering despite the raging waves, moving slowly yet unyieldingly towards their destination.

… At the top of the mast, the flag of the Chen Clan of Donggang was rolling in the wind.

On the high lookout tower at the bow of the leading flagship, a sailor in uniform was gazing intently into the distance through a tubular “thousand-mile eye”.

Suddenly.

The coastline near Donggang appeared faintly in the field of view of the Thousand-mile Eye.

The lookout immediately whistled in excitement, signaling the helmsman with a flag.

Soon, this good news spread throughout the fleet like willow catkins scattered in the spring.

This fleet had set off from Donggang last winter, halted at several major ports of the Hundred Islands Guard, made a round at the Ice Sha Floating Island, and till now, it’s been nearly two months.

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Initially, they expected that they could finish the voyage and return to Donggang before the year-end, but a rare winter storm came to the Eastern Sea, blocking the sea route, forcing this Donggang merchant fleet to stay over for New Year in the Hundred Islands Guard.

Fortunately, the commander-in-chief of this fleet was Chen Fanghua, a young core elder of the Chen Clan, and also Chen Xiuwu, the young clan leader of the Donggang Chen Clan, served as the captain and deputy commander of the flagship.

With the presence of these two people, and their intermittent morale-boosting efforts, the merchant fleet held its ground amidst the crisis without any collective agitation or even mutiny among the sailors.

Soon, the news reached Elder Chen Fanghua of the Chen Clan, and Young Clan Leader Chen Xiuwu.

They both came to the bow of the flagship, surrounded by a group of family generals.

When he received Wang Shouzhe years ago, Chen Fanghua was just a young core member of the direct line in the family.

Now, at forty-six or forty-seven, he had grown into an imposing middle-aged man.

He was lucky back then, to catch the tide of family development.

Because of his outstanding abilities and consistent significant contributions to the family, he was gaining more and more attention from the old ancestor of the Chen Clan.

Just last year, with the abundant resource support from the family and a Heavenly Spirit Pill bestowed by the old ancestor, he successfully broke the bottleneck of the Qi Refinement Realm and stepped into the Spirit Platform Realm, becoming the eighth Spirit Platform Realm cultivator in the Donggang Chen Clan, and entered the ranks of the elders.

Such is the alteration of time.

The young talent of yesteryears have now grown up to become the main pillars of the family.

Even Young Clan Leader Chen Xiuwu needs to follow him to learn and hone his skills.

Staring at the long-separated coastline of Donggang, even someone as calm as Chen Fanghua exhaled deeply in relief.

Young Clan Leader Chen Xiuwu, lagging half a step behind him, was also somewhat excited, “Third Uncle, we’ve returned safe and sound after all.

Taking advantage of the New Year festivities, after paying a visit to Mother, I can go to Ping’an Town to see my uncle and aunt, to pay New Year respects.”

After months of exposure to wind and sun, his handsome and heroic face was slightly sunburned, but it made him seem even more mature and steady.

Along the way, the fleet faced dangers and difficulties several times, but he always performed very well, with responsibility and commitment, coped with the crises together with everyone, refused to fly back to the Chen clan in a flying carriage ahead of others, hence winning the respect from the Chen family, family generals, shipbuilders, and sailors.

“Xiuwu, you performed well this time.

Your cultivation base has already broken through to the ninth level of the Qi Refinement Realm.

In three or four years, you’ll be able to attempt breaking through to the Spirit Platform Realm.

Master Shouzhe is sure to praise you when he sees you.” Chen Fanghua comforted his nephew, feeling a myriad of emotions.

The family’s strength is truly important.

Think about Chen Fangjie and Wang Shouzhe when they were young.

At that age and with that level of cultivation, they were already considered young talents of the Longzuo commandery.

But now, Xiuwu is only twenty years old, but he has already stepped into the ninth level of Qi Refinement Realm!

However, even so, his rank among the young generation of the In-laws Alliance isn’t high.

There are many excellent individuals among the young generation of Liu Family of Shanyin, Gongsun Clan of Shanyang, Lu Clan of Yingxiu, etc.

Of course, the most impressive ones have to be those few young people from the Wang family.

Especially Xiuwu’s cousin Wang Liyao, who is said to have already entered the Spirit Platform Realm and have been accepted into the Academic Palace.

She is truly a prodigy.

“I wonder if cousin Liyao and cousin Zong’an came back from the Academic Palace for the New Year,” Chen Xiuwu said with a sigh, “I heard that the Purple Abode Academic Palace is teeming with talents and brimming with experts.

I am not too worried about cousin Liyao, but cousin Zong’an is too soft-hearted.

I hope he isn’t bullied in the Academic Palace.”

“You need not worry about that.

I heard that your Aunt Luo Jing and Aunt Luo Qiu are doing well in the Academic Palace, they are both direct disciples of the master.” Chen Fanghua also proudly said, “With them there, who would dare to bully Young Master Zong’an?

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Besides, our In-laws Alliance isn’t so easily bullied.”

“That’s true.

Once Old Ancestor Ruhong achieves the Tianren realm, we Chen Clan will be a 7th-rank Aristocratic Family.” Chen Xiuwu said excitedly, “By then, in our Longzuo County, with the exception of the city lord, we will have four Tianren Realm Cultivators.”

At the mention of Old Ancestor Ruhong’s imminent promotion to the Tianren realm, a smile appeared on Chen Fanghua’s serious and dignified face.

The gap in status between a 7th-rank Aristocratic Family and an 8th-grade Prominent Family is quite large, mainly because of the existence of the Tianren realm old ancestor.

That represents a leap of class.

Once Ruhong Old Ancestor successfully advances this time, the Chen Clan of Donggang had finally accumulated and launched, breaking away from the sequence of the lower Aristocratic Family, taking a place in Longzuo County, and even qualified to have a name within the scope of Left County.

Suddenly ~

Chen Fanghua’s face changed slightly: “Those ships…

huh, they are Jiaolong’s Gang’s ships.

Why are they appearing in our Donggang?”

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