Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil in the Cultivation World

Chapter 86: Chapter 81: Slaying the Noble Family Lackey, Gaining a Seventh-Grade Opportunity_6

He thought that Yunze City had many hidden places.

Especially the residences of the noble families, which surely had basements or secret passageways.

If he could find such a residence and hide inside with Su Weiwei, then he could truly rest easy.

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Another twelve days passed.

During this period, Yunze City faced fierce attacks from the Red Eyebrow Army.

However, relying on its tall city walls and the dedication of its soldiers, Yunze City stubbornly held out and was not breached by the Red Eyebrow Army, with both sides remaining in a stalemate.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties, making a short-term victory for either side unlikely.

But life inside the city was not easy for the residents.

With the arrival of war, food prices in the city soared wildly, increasing several times over.

Even if one had money, it was not guaranteed they could buy food.

Because Yunze City had begun to regulate the sale of grain.

Each resident was allotted a specific amount of food based on the number of people in their household.

This led to widespread complaints from the residents.

Some families even began struggling to survive.

After all, the policy was indeed good.

The problem was the corrupt officials who took advantage of the system for their own gain.

They saw this as an opportunity to make big money.

Prices rose several times over, even selling to ordinary people at ten times the price.

To survive, the residents had no choice but to buy.

Moreover, some local ruffians also caused trouble, looting and robbing everywhere.

This made the internal situation in Yunze City increasingly chaotic, both internally and externally.

However, all of this had little to do with Jiang Fan and Su Weiwei.

Before the war, Jiang Fan had already purchased a large amount of grain, so he did not need to get involved in this chaos.

The two of them stayed at home, living comfortably, watching clouds rise and fall.

In the dead of night.

Jiang Fan left his home because the time for his Seventh-Grade Opportunity had arrived.

Following the guidance of a point of opportunity deep in his sea of consciousness, he crossed several streets and finally arrived at a secluded house.

The plaque at the entrance bore a large character ”Li”.

Without a doubt, this was the residence of the Li Family.

”Hmm?!”

At that moment, Jiang Fan hid in the shadow of a corner wall, cultivating the Soaring Snake Technique, which allowed him to conceal his breath, blend into the darkness, and erase his presence.

This was undoubtedly a top Concealing Breath Technique.

Ordinary people could not detect his existence.

Furthermore, after advancing to the Refining Organ Realm, his five senses became even more acute, and he could hear sounds from quite a distance.

At that moment, he heard some voices coming from inside the residence.

”Damn it, this Bat King Yang Qin is simply a madman, he needs a large number of Blood Slaves every day and treats us Li Family members as slaves. Should we really continue cooperating with him?”

”There’s no choice. Our Li Family had to relocate from Tonghe County to Yunze City and were pressured by the Lu Family to join the Money Gang, essentially taking over our original Dragon King Gang’s influence. Recently, they’ve even broken up many of our Dragon King Gang’s key members, clearly wanting to completely snuff us out and leave us no way out.”

”That’s right, our Li Family now has no other option but to cooperate with the Red Eyebrow Army. Once they breach Yunze City, we’ll be able to become the dominant force, annex the Money Gang, and even destroy the Lu Family to take revenge.”

”It’s true. During this period, we need to endure humiliation and wait for the right moment; a little humiliation is nothing. Eventually, our Dragon King Gang will rise again.”

”Yeah, it’s just a matter of capturing some Blood Slaves; after all, they’re just lowly people. If they die, they die. Their lives and bones contribute to our Li Family’s rise, so they did not die in vain.”

”Right, our Li Family’s lives are much more valuable than those of those lowly people.”

Inside the residence, some people were discussing in whispers.

Swish!

Hearing this, Jiang Fan lightly jumped over the wall, landing on top of it.

Using the cover of the night, he moved like a black cat, merging into the darkness.

No one noticed his presence.

He fixed his gaze and saw in the hall of the residence a man with blood-red eyes and disheveled hair, resembling a demon, completely covered in blood.

The ground was littered with broken corpses.

Their eyes were wide open, showing infinite terror, indicating they had died not long ago.

The blood on the ground was still warm.

Surrounding them were four or five Li Family guards, who also showed expressions of fear.

”The Li Family? Dragon King Gang?”

”Even after coming to Yunze City, these guys still act like savages.”

Jiang Fan’s eyes flashed with a cold light.

He instantly recognized the true identity of the man who looked like a demon. It was none other than Bat King Yang Qin.

After all, Yang Qin’s wanted poster had long been circulated throughout Yunze City.

Everyone knew what Yang Qin looked like.

The previous conversation made it clear that Bat King Yang Qin was cooperating with the Dragon King Gang.

Rumor had it that Bat King Yang Qin enjoyed devouring human blood and was notorious for his evil deeds and countless killings.

He was even more terrifying and cruel than imagined.

He regarded human lives as worthless.

”Wait, isn’t that Zhang Niu’s family?”

Jiang Fan looked closely and immediately recognized the familiar bodies among the corpses on the ground.

It was his neighbor Zhang Niu’s family.

They were vegetable sellers, hardworking, ordinary folk who sold produce at the market.

But now, they had become corpses, lying on the ground, devoid of any signs of life.

The entire family had been captured here and killed by Bat King Yang Qin.

The culprits behind this were undoubtedly the Dragon King Gang and the Li Family members.

Jiang Fan remembered some rumors he had heard recently, about neighbors going missing at times.

But recently Yunze City was too chaotic.

Everyone was preoccupied with their own survival.

Even if some people disappeared, others had no time to care.

Jiang Fan hadn’t given much thought to these disappearance rumors either.

Who would have thought that the missing people had been captured by the Dragon King Gang?

And handed over to Bat King Yang Qin for his blood-sucking.

”Not enough, not nearly enough.”

”With just this little blood, who exactly can it satisfy?”

”You must immediately mobilize more people, and catch at least a few hundred.”

”If you fail to catch them, I’ll suck your blood instead.”

Bat King Yang Qin growled angrily, feeling the Yin Cold Qi within him growing even more intense, almost uncontrollable, with a sense of falling into a demonic path.

He knew that he was facing a tribulation before becoming a Grandmaster.

If he could overcome it, he would become a Martial Arts Grandmaster, achieving Cultivation Perfection.

Then he would no longer need to drink blood.

If he couldn’t overcome it, he would perish, his path ending in failure.

Therefore, no matter what, he needed more blood, to quell the Yin Cold Qi within him.

Otherwise, he would surely die.