My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 165 Battle Reflections

The caravan members couldn't help but cheer loudly.

The cultivators who fought that time were simply too powerful!
Powerful enough to wipe out their entire caravan!

This can definitely be described as surviving a disaster!

However, Shen Changchuan, who was the greatest contributor to the annihilation of the enemy, did not celebrate with them.
Instead, he fell into deep thought after the war.

Recalling the battles with that eighth-level peak Tribulation cultivator, he sighed slightly in his heart.

During the battle,
His sword strike, a flash of green wood, indeed cut the enemy in two without any hindrance, deciding the course of the battle.

But at the same time,
Shen Changchuan also discovered something.

That was when the green wood sword light struck that rogue cultivator at the peak of the eighth level.
Its body had already moved half a meter to the other side.

This half meter may not seem like much.
Nor did they allow that eighth-level peak Tribulation cultivator to survive.
But you should know,

Shen Changchuan activated the Azure Wood Sword Light immediately after fully activating the Soul-Capturing Bell!

With this combo...
Although the opponent still couldn't escape death, being cleaved in two by a single sword strike,
But it actually managed to shift half a meter during that gap to dodge.
This, however, made Shen Changchuan feel a sense of crisis.

"Although the perfected Aoki Sword Light is very powerful, perhaps because its level is too high and it is not complete, there is a half-breath 'casting animation' when the perfected Aoki Sword Light is cast."

"This brief gap in time might not seem like much at lower levels, since half a breath isn't enough to accomplish much. However, as a cultivator's cultivation level increases, their mana, speed, physique, and other physical attributes will all receive a significant boost, in addition to various spells and secret techniques that enhance movement and speed."

"This time, the enemy was only at the peak of the eighth level of cultivation, yet they were able to move half a meter in that fleeting opening. What if we were facing someone at the ninth level of Qi Refining? Or even a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator who had mastered some kind of movement technique?"

Thinking of this,

Shen Changchuan's heart sank.

Back then outside Qingcheng,

He had personally witnessed the speed of a cultivator at the ninth level of the immortal realm!
Judging from the speed of a cultivator at the ninth level of the Tribulation Realm at that time...

With the speed of a cultivator at the ninth level of cultivation, it is not impossible for them to dodge the Azure Wood Sword Light!

perhaps,

After advancing to the eighth level, he needs to consider practicing several more powerful offensive spells to coordinate with each other and unleash even greater strength.
After World War I,
Shen Changchuan reflected on himself and began to have some vague thoughts about himself.

Of course,
Although Shen Changchuan was wary of the speed of cultivators at the ninth level of the immortal realm.

But it didn't reach the point of despair.

After all, actual combat isn't a turn-based game where you go back and forth.

The skillful combination of various techniques, such as the Soul-Capturing Bell, the Bronze Jar, and the Blood Fiend Gourd, in battle.

It's not impossible to let cultivators at the ninth level of the immortal realm directly experience the power of the Azure Wood Sword Light!

And these,
This is precisely the source of Shen Changchuan's confidence in escorting the caravan!
A cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining Realm
I've never actually fought one.

Nobody knows who will win or lose.

And after that battle,
There were no further unexpected events on the caravan's return journey.

Whether before or after that,

There were no more robbery gangs that met their end.

Obviously,

The deterrent effect envisioned by Shen Changchuan is already beginning to take shape.

The numerous, relatively weaker groups of cultivators in the desolate borderlands were wary and dared not launch an attack.

Even if one harbors greed,
They only dared to send people to observe from afar, hoping to find an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Until that battle broke out in the middle of the way,
Seeing that the group of cultivators led by the seemingly somewhat famous, eighth-level peak cultivator had all fallen to Zhang Qingyuan, who was actually Shen Changchuan in disguise.

The gazes that had been hidden in the surrounding area scattered like birds and beasts.

Even that group of people were wiped out, so why should we go and throw our lives away?
From this perspective,

The rumor that Zhang Qingyuan killed a late-stage Qi Refining Stage 8 cultivator and an early-stage Qi Refining Stage 8 cultivator was not true.

With that incredibly powerful guy around,

They estimated that there was no chance left.

So much so that in the later part of the journey,
No one dared to step forward again.

The caravan was able to complete its journey smoothly and enter the territory of Qingcheng.

The spoils obtained from the bandit gangs they killed on the return journey were still nothing that Shen Changchuan found worth his attention.

The results were meager, even dismal!

The storage bags of one cultivator at the peak of the eighth level, one at the early stage of the eighth level, and several cultivators at the seventh level, along with all the spoils, were worth only about three or four thousand spirit stones in total.

This undoubtedly made Shen Changchuan frown slightly.

Could it be that they had the idea that they might lose, so they arranged for spirit stones, materials, inheritances, and their own savings in advance?
if not,

This level of wealth is completely unbecoming of a cultivator at the peak of the eighth level of Qi Refining!
He recalled the thousands of spirit stones he had found in the storage bags of the three Blood Demons after he killed them.

For a moment, everyone was speechless.

However, that's all the spoils we could get.

No matter how much you complain, it won't change the facts.

Shen Changchuan had no choice but to accept it.

Either way,

More or less, it's all spirit stones that I've gained.

Shen Changchuan was not afraid of this.

The various gains over this period, and the receipt of the rent installments in Dawang Village,
This brought Shen Changchuan's total wealth to over 15,000 spirit stones.

This spirit stone,

Among cultivators at the Qi Refining stage, he is definitely among the wealthiest.

Even among those at the peak of the ninth level of the cultivation realm, there are probably not many whose wealth can rival his.

After all, not every cultivator is so fortunate as to have a merchant guild set up shop there and receive a large sum of rent.
Not every cultivator can easily defeat the bandit gangs that attack them one after another and plunder their wealth.

Most ordinary cultivators earn their income by venturing into the mountains and forests to explore, or by managing their family's spiritual fields and medicinal fields to obtain spirit stones.

Naturally, the speed at which spirit stones are accumulated is much slower in this way.

Shen Changchuan's achievements

Many factors were shaped by the times.
Otherwise, even a normal cultivator at the ninth level of cultivation would find it difficult to accumulate even a small amount of a thousand spirit stones in a short period of time.

Carrying a large sum of money,

Shen Changchuan naturally wouldn't bury them all in the corner of his storage bag to gather dust.

After arriving in Qingcheng,

He went directly to Wanling Pavilion.

Inside this Pavilion of Ten Thousand Spirits,

Shen Changchuan purchased three more powerful spells as his means of killing, in order to supplement his attack capabilities and avoid relying solely on the Green Wood Sword Light spell to conquer the world.

(End of this chapter)