Ordinary People: Starting with the Chen Clan

"Alright, then Xuanzhou, you can stay in the family for a while longer. Even if we have to empty our entire savings, we will do our best to gather some of the items on your list."

Zhang Shangxian spoke up, saying that although the items on Chen Xuanzhou's list were rare, there weren't many of each kind. For the sake of a Foundation Establishment Pill, they were still willing to take the gamble.

"I can't stay here for long this time. I'll stay for a maximum of half a month. During this time, I can send some clansmen at the sixth level of Qi Refining to me. I'll try to help them break through to the late stage of Qi Refining."

After Chen Xuanzhou finished speaking, he clasped his hands in a fist salute to everyone and then left the main hall.

The three elders were about to cast a spell to lift the restriction.

Chen Xuanzhou raised his hand and shot out three talismans. Hundreds of golden blades converged into a three-zhang-long sword lotus, with the inner and outer petals intertwined and rotating. In an instant, it carved out a passage the size of a person in the light screen.

Then he casually walked out.

After a long while, the three elders muttered, "What a waste! Three Thousand Blade Talismans!"

Chen Xuanzhou did not return to the cave dwelling that the clan had left for him. Now that his cultivation had reached the twelfth level of Qi Refining, he no longer needed to meditate and practice breathing exercises, so it didn't matter where he lived.

So he went straight home and sent a message to his younger brothers in the family, telling them to come and pay their respects to him, the head of the family.

With the Foundation Establishment Pill as bait, the group acted quickly and collected 50% of the materials in one go. Chen Xuanzhou was also very generous and left the Foundation Establishment Pill behind. He then left Xizhou with his parents and three disciples.

On the flying boat, Chen Xuanzhou held a storage bag, but his mind was already thinking about what to do next.

He was fairly satisfied with the materials he had collected. Although he hadn't obtained the most important materials, he had managed to gather most of the substitutes.

Chen Shangxian even guaranteed that he could collect about 20% more spiritual materials within two months.

Such enthusiasm is certainly not something that can be achieved with just one Foundation Establishment Pill. In the past half month, nearly twenty new Qi Refining late-stage cultivators have joined the family.

Among them, seven or eight are beings with four spiritual roots, which are essentially negligible.

It was only at this moment that everyone realized the purpose of the Lotus Crossing.

To obtain this right to use it, they naturally put in unprecedented effort.

The main shortage now is of the spiritual material Condensing Vein Soil, which is not only rare but also has a wide range of uses. It is useful for refining magical artifacts, planting spiritual plants, and even enhancing spiritual veins.

Therefore, once they appear in the world, they are usually intercepted by those who have formed their core or become nascent souls, and it is impossible for them to escape to the outside world.

It seems that the only option left is to ask Old Monster Qiong for help again.

However, he didn't have many chips in his hand.

Throughout the journey, Chen Xuanzhou secretly made plans, while the spirit boat was left to his parents and a few younger brothers to control.

Just as the spirit boat flew over a mountain forest, the incense burner in his mind suddenly trembled, and a familiar aura suddenly appeared on the path that the spirit boat was bound to take.

Without a second thought, Chen Xuanzhou threw more than ten talismans forward, and this was just the beginning.

"Enemy attack!"

Before Chen Xuanzhou could finish speaking, his father had already activated several talismans at the same time, and layers of golden light immediately appeared in front of the spirit boat, protecting the spirit boat and everyone behind him.

His mother was equally protected, shielding Chen Xuanzhou completely with an iron shield-like magical artifact. At the same time, she turned the flying boat around and fled to the left.

The others reacted a little slower, but fortunately, the instinctive obedience they had developed over the years with Chen Xuanzhou allowed them to immediately activate their protective magical artifacts.

All of this looks complicated, but it was actually completed in the blink of an eye.

At the edge of the forest, a seemingly ordinary pile of rocks only swayed slightly before returning to normal in the face of Chen Xuanzhou's lightning talisman.

"As expected of a Core Formation disciple, you actually discovered the clue."

Seeing that their presence had been exposed, the other party simply stopped hiding and flew directly towards the airship.

"Foundation Building!"

Chen Houwen exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the figure whose entire body was shrouded in black yet could stand in mid-air.

The others on the flying boat were also speechless with shock. However, unlike the others who were focused on the figure in mid-air, Chen Xuanzhou glanced at the exposed formation instead.

It seemed they wanted to see through the great formation to discern the person hidden within.

Beams of light shot onto the light shield outside the spirit boat, instantly breaking through several layers and bringing Chen Xuanzhou back to his senses.

"You guys each find a direction to run and wait for us at the Hidden Moon Sect's market. Your storage bags are full of talismans, so be careful not to let anyone steal your loot."

As Chen Xuanzhou spoke, he took out several storage bags and handed them to the three of them.

Without any hesitation, the three took the storage bag, jumped off the spirit boat instantly, and transformed into three streaks of light, intending to leave.

Its speed is much faster than that of a typical Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator.

"Trying to escape right under my nose like this, isn't that a bit too disrespectful to me?"

Three beams of light, each 30% thicker than the first, shot toward the direction the three were fleeing. Their speed was so great that even a Qi Refining cultivator could not dodge them.

With a loud boom, one of the beams of light was suppressed by a stone tablet, while the other two beams of light were dispersed by a shield and more than ten lightning talismans, respectively.

He then had no time to pay attention to the three shrimps that had escaped. All he saw were various talismans being hurled at him by the three people on the flying boat, as if they were free.

For the first time, the group of puppet beasts in front of him felt helpless against the overwhelming firepower.

Chen Xuanzhou's methods naturally went far beyond that. He had his parents continue to use talismans to restrain the other side, while he himself summoned the Awakening of Insects Mirror.

At the same time, eight short spears were positioned in all eight directions of the spirit boat, with streaks of lightning flashing on them. In just an instant, the sky, which had been shining brightly, was shrouded in dark clouds.

Meanwhile, the Jingzhe Mirror in Chen Xuanzhou's hand grew to three feet in size, with lightning flashing on it and lightning talismans brewing within it.

Although the Foundation Establishment cultivator in the distance could not see his face, it was clear from the fact that he was no longer as calm and composed as he had been at the beginning.

Unfortunately, the effect of these beams of light was very limited, because most of the beams of light emitted by the late-stage Qi Refining puppets were perfectly received by the stone tablet.

However, being a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his reaction was extremely quick. He only arranged for some puppets to hold them back, while the rest were all aimed at the thunderclouds and a few short spears in mid-air.

The thundercloud was too large a target, and it was quickly riddled with holes by the various beams of light, and most of the originally flashing lightning snakes disappeared.

The beams of light also kept Chen's parents busy, making it impossible for them to keep an eye on all the lightning spears.

"Father, Mother, you only need to take care of the first three places; leave the rest to me."

At the critical moment, Chen Xuanzhou spoke up to calm the two down, and at the same time pointed at Jingzhe Jian, and a series of lightning talismans fell onto the eight lightning spears.

The lightning that had gathered from mid-air suddenly appeared on the spear, transforming into bolts of lightning that shattered the incoming beams of light.