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"Not bad, it actually withstood the bombardment of five of my Rock Dragon Techniques," Fang Chen said with an expression of appreciation.

What pleased him even more was the enormous size of the spiny dragon.

If this animal hide were refined into high-grade talismans, it should yield one hundred pieces.

Monsters come in all sizes.

Not all high-level monsters are extremely large.

Not long ago, Fang Chen hunted a fiery red fox, which was also a high-level demon beast. However, its hide could only be made into about twenty high-level talismans. In comparison, Fang Chen preferred large demon beasts like the Spiny Dragon.

After carefully collecting the spoils of the Spiny Dragon, he then led Wu Feng back to Yixiantian.

Seeing his master's divine might, Wu Feng secretly felt a surge of tension, determined to catch up with his master's pace.

Six months passed quickly, and the day of departure finally arrived.

"Manager Qin," Fang Chen said, bowing. It was the caravan members who led him to the gathering place.

"Master Fang, have you been waiting long? Here is the storage bag you requested. We've brought it to you. We'll give you storage bags when you arrive in Tingshan City, so why are you in such a hurry?" Steward Qin said, handing a small yellow bag to Fang Chen.

"I'm afraid the amount of this bag from the sect isn't very large," Fang Chen said, taking the bag and examining it carefully.

"How much stuff are you planning to put in this? You're complaining that the storage bag the sect gave you is too small?"

Fang Chen smiled but remained silent.

There was a large box of talismans in his secret room; he couldn't let his wealth be exposed.

If they weren't stored in storage bags, wouldn't a high-level cultivator's divine sense easily reveal their identities?

After Fang Chen finished his inspection, he gave Steward Qin an equivalent amount of demon beast materials, then returned to the secret room, put all the talismans and spiritual artifacts into his storage bag, and then felt relieved.

After making preparations, Fang Chen led his disciples and three recruited rogue cultivators on their journey with Steward Qin.

Of the three rogue cultivators, only Fu Yunzi and Huang Yunjian were old acquaintances of Qinglan.

The third person was named Changmei, and he was also a mountain-carrying man.

The reason Fang Chen recruited him, besides Fu Yunzi's recommendation, was primarily because the other party had participated in a sect war, which greatly interested Fang Chen.

As time went on, Steward Qin's team grew larger and larger.

Fang Chen deliberately lagged behind and started chatting with the mountain-carrying man named Changmei.

"What exactly is going on with this sect war?" Fang Chen asked.

"Reporting to the Abbot, I have only participated in this sect war once. The last time was relatively simple. It seems that I swept away a small Foundation Establishment sect. I felt that I did not have to exert much effort along the way, and I only stayed for nine months before returning."

Fang Chen has now broken through to the late stage of Qi Refining, while Chang Mei is only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, so his attitude is still very respectful.

"Only nine months? Then how long do you think this will last?"

"This time, the one starting the war is the Tianyou Sect, which is about as powerful as our Tianbi Sect. The two are like oil and water, but neither can do anything to the other. It will probably become a protracted war, just as the sect order says."

We can only return after our five-year term is up, allowing families from other regions to take over.

As for how long the Tianbi Sect and the Tianyou Sect intend to fight, no one can say for sure.

After all, they have fought wars for over a century without ceasing.

It is said that this time, after a long period of friction at the border, they finally launched an undeclared war and captured the Heavenly Nether Sect's fortified immortal city in one fell swoop. Now, sending us there is precisely the time to sweep away and seize territory.

The long-browed man explained things in exceptional detail, which puzzled Fang Chen greatly.

As the leader of a faction, I don't even have many sources of intelligence. How could a cultivator in the mid-stage of Qi Refining know so much?

"How do you know all this so clearly?"

"I only heard these things from Tianxianglou in the market. They are all hearsay. If the abbot wants more accurate information, he should buy it from the owner of Tianxianglou."

"Tianxiang Tower, isn't that a brothel?"

"Haha, that's just a facade. In reality, they're in the intelligence business. Have you ever heard of a contest between courtesans?"

Fang Chen nodded.

The so-called "Flower Queen Contest" is a dance performance by the girls from various boudoirs of Tianxiang Tower, which attracts guests to give rewards. Whoever receives the most spirit stones as rewards becomes the Flower Queen of the season.

There, the number of spirit stones handled in a single beauty contest often exceeds ten thousand.

Fang Chen was extremely shocked when he first heard about it, never expecting there to be a hidden story behind it.

"Master, you may not know this, but the courtesan competition is actually a way of giving tips. In reality, you get different levels of secret information depending on how many spirit stones you bid. However, what's special is that the guest who gives the most tips will go to the courtesan's boudoir and be told by the girls of Tianxiang Pavilion in person."

At this point, Long Eyebrows revealed a knowing smile.

"I see," Fang Chen nodded.

It seems that the power of the cultivation world should not be underestimated. They are not inflexible and, in some respects, are comparable to those of the previous generation.

"Now, back to the sect wars, you just said you were sending us to sweep through, what is that?"

Long Eyebrows continued to explain, "The so-called sweeping means that after the Tianbi Sect breaks through the immortal city, they will rush forward to conquer the next one. The distance between the two immortal cities is extremely far, with a large number of markets and a huge number of small cultivation families in between."

Those places were like chicken ribs to the sects—tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away.

If we were to fight, sweeping through each area one by one would be too time-consuming.

If they don't fight, firstly, the spiritual materials gathered in the spiritual eye lands of these small families are not insignificant.

Moreover, if the Tianyou Sect launches a counterattack, these smaller families are likely to be attacked from both sides by other high-level cultivators, which would put the sect's elite disciples in danger.

Therefore, the best method is to recruit cultivators from similar small families like ours.

While attacking the Heavenly Nether Sect's Immortal City, they also swept away the cultivators of the surrounding small families.

We will remove their spiritual eye sites one by one and replace them with our own formations.

Even if they are outmatched, it will still take the enemy considerable effort to remove these nails.

Changmei explained in great detail, and even Fang Chen himself couldn't help but sigh. It seems that the wars between sects in the cultivation world are not just cultivators going up and fighting randomly, but are fought in a very orderly manner.

"I thought we were going to gather all the cultivators together in one place for a decisive battle."

Fang Chen couldn't help but sigh.

The man with long eyebrows stroked his beard and laughed, "How could that be? If we all gathered in one place, wouldn't we become easy targets for those Foundation Establishment and Core Formation cultivators? If they came down and started a massacre, how could we Qi Refining cultivators possibly resist?"

"Does this mean that high-level cultivators like those at the Foundation Establishment or Core Formation stages can attack us Qi Refining cultivators at will?"

Fang Chen couldn't help but feel anxious.

"That's natural. With high cultivation, one can kill whomever one wants without any scruples."

"But if both sides' high-level cultivators attack each other's Qi Refining cultivators, wouldn't that create chaos?"

Fang Chen's words prompted Changmei to sigh.

"It's all in chaos. When the sect war comes, who cares about propriety and shame? Normally, high-level cultivators might disdain to attack low-level cultivators, but in the sect war, there are many high-level cultivators who kill in a fit of anger and slaughter at will. If your cultivation is weak, your life is as worthless as grass."