Fantasy: Starting with a bowl, you can exchange it for endless cultivation.

at this time.

Within the territory of the desolate state, at a newly established base of the Yamamoto family, an island nation.

"The investigation is complete." A seventh-rank expert from the Yamamoto family reported to the fifth-rank Yamamoto Jiro: "The murderers who wiped out all our island nation's strongholds in Yuehai County and killed Yamamoto Okamura-kun were several disciples of Shangguan Wuqing, the former chief of the Wilderness Watch. The mastermind was Shangguan Wuqing's second disciple, Gongsun Yuan, the executioner was his fourth disciple, Luo Tianxing, and his youngest disciple, Gu Chen, was responsible for assisting."

"Gongsun Yuan is a second-rank expert, Luo Tianxing is a fourth-rank expert, and Gu Chen is a seventh-rank expert. The one who killed Gangcun Jun should be an expert from the Yuehai County Night Guard Headquarters. What should we do next?" The man looked at Yamamoto Jiro.

"Your Excellency, should we take action against Shangguan Wuqing's disciples?" A group of powerful members of the Yamamoto family looked at Yamamoto Jiro.

Upon hearing this, Yamamoto Jiro pondered for a moment and then shook his head.

The Yamamoto family's strongholds in Koshikai County have now been completely destroyed.

Furthermore, their partner Liu Xun was also purged.

It won't be easy to rebuild.

They don't have the strength to kill Luo Tianxing and Gongsun Yuan.

Killing Gu Chen wouldn't do them much good either.

Yamamoto and the others are already dead. Killing Gu Chen won't bring them back to life.

Instead, it would enrage Luo Tianxing and Gongsun Yuan, who would then launch a frenzied pursuit of them.

It will be even more difficult to re-establish a base then.

It does not align with the interests of the Yamamoto family.

The best course of action now is to remain silent and not let the Night Watch discover that the Yamamoto family has sent people back to prepare to re-establish their base.

Secretly rebuild partnerships.

Here in Jiuwan City, Gu Chen.

After completing a day's alchemy tasks and studying the secret technique of soul attack for a while,

Take out the copper bowl.

Now, some time has passed since he caught Liu Xun, the undercover agent of the cult Drowning Cult, and destroyed all the strongholds established by the Yamamoto family in Yuehai County.

These two major forces have not taken any action against him.

Gu Chen then wanted to use the bronze bowl to exchange for information to see if these two major forces were planning to take action against him.

If so, he can prepare in advance.

Put the silver into the copper bowl.

Gu Chen gave the copper bowl a complete answer: "I want to know the current movements of the Drowning Cult and the Yamamoto family. I captured Liu Xun, killed a group of Yamamoto family experts, and destroyed all their strongholds in Yuehai County. Do they intend to attack me?"

The copper bowl indicates that exchanging this information will cost one thousand taels of silver.

Gu Chen put the silver into it.

The copper bowl immediately provided feedback:

No, the Drowning Cult has chosen to withdraw from Yuehai County, and the Yamamoto family has no intention of attacking you. They have already sent a new batch of strong individuals to re-establish their base and develop new partners. In order to avoid attracting the attention of the Night Watch, they will not provoke you.

"Oh ho, so you've all learned your lesson now, instead of coming to seek revenge on me right away." Gu Chen was somewhat surprised; he hadn't expected these two forces to be so cautious.

The Drowning Cult actually chose to withdraw directly from Yuehai County.

Are they afraid he'll follow the trail and find out more of their people?

Even the Yamamoto family has sent strong members back, and they're being so cautious that they haven't come to seek revenge.

He was also thinking that if these two major forces wanted to seek revenge on him, he would follow the clues and find his two senior brothers to clean up these two major forces and gain another merit.

Unexpectedly, they didn't come to cause him trouble directly.

"How many powerful individuals has the Yamamoto family sent back now? What is the strength level of their strongest member?" Gu Chen continued to ask the bronze bowl.

Now that the Yamamoto family has sent powerful individuals to establish a new base.

Even if they don't provoke him, he still needs to know about these people to avoid being in a passive position.

The copper bowl indicates that exchanging this information will cost 10,000 taels of silver.

"Holy crap, so many." Gu Chen was stunned.

He's just a few thousand taels short of having enough money to buy pills to break through to the Perfected Breakthrough Realm.

I just spent a thousand taels of silver, which I had to exchange for my own safety.

Now that it costs so much silver, there's no need for him to exchange it.

The Yamamoto family no longer intends to deal with him.

It's unnecessary to spend 10,000 taels of silver to exchange for these people's information.

He needs to spend money on everything now, so he has to be careful with his spending.

The next two days.

There are many rumors circulating in Jiuwan City.

In a teahouse in Jiuwan City.

Several cultivators who were drinking tea said, "Have you heard? Wen Wushuang, the young master of the Wen family, is coming to our Jiuwan City."

"I've heard about it, and I've also heard that he came because the Cheng family, a newly rising power in Jiuwan City, is unwilling to submit to the Wen family."

"This is interesting. Behind the Cheng family is Gu Chen, the director of the Night Watch of Jiuwan City. The Wen family's attack on the Cheng family is probably aimed at Gu Chen."

"I heard that Wen Lingtian, the eldest son of the Wen family, has become the apprentice of the newly appointed Chief of the Night Watch. His younger brother, Wen Wushuang, has also made a special statement during his visit to Jiuwan City that he will challenge Gu Chen, the Chief of the Night Watch, tomorrow."

"Wen Wushuang is currently ranked higher than Gu Chen on the Prodigy Ranking, and he broke through to the True Essence Realm some time before Gu Chen. I wonder if Gu Chen can be his match."

"I think Gu Chen is stronger than Wen Wushuang. After all, Liu Chen, a core disciple of the Qingyun Sword Sect who was also at the early stage of the True Yuan Realm, was defeated by Gu Chen. Wen Wushuang is also at the early stage of the True Yuan Realm. I guess if he comes, he will just be Gu Chen's sidekick."

"This is going to be interesting. If Gu Chen defeats Wen Wushuang, do you think his older brother Wen Lingtian will come and attack Gu Chen directly? Wen Lingtian is ranked in the top 400 on the Prodigy Ranking. If his younger brother is defeated and humiliated by Gu Chen, it would be interesting if he couldn't help but challenge Gu Chen again."

"It's not that bad. Wen Wushuang is a master in the late stage of the True Yuan Realm, two minor realms higher than Gu Chen, and several years older than him. If Gu Chen were that age, he might not be a match for him. Coming to deal with Gu Chen now seems like bullying the younger one."

The group had a heated discussion.

Gu Chen, on the other hand, was completely unmoved.

He continued to refine elixirs in his mansion every day, living the life of a hands-off manager.

The tasks of the Night Watch were all left to Liang Xiaoyun and Lin Fei.

Cheng Mengling came to see him specifically today.

After the Cheng family refused the Wen family's offer to incorporate them into their own household.

In the past few days, the Cheng family has been targeted by some of the Wen family's subordinate families in some business dealings.

However, the impact on the Cheng family is limited.

The Cheng family's businesses are now mostly concentrated in Jiuwan City.

Jiuwan City is his territory, and the families and forces within Jiuwan City don't dare to target the Cheng family. If they dare to do so, Gu Chen can make it impossible for them to survive in Jiuwan City.

Currently, the Cheng family is mainly being targeted at their businesses in Chiyang City.

Gu Chen has already written to Tie Yangtian, asking him to help take care of things. With Tie Yangtian's help, the targeting of Chiyang City should be alleviated after a while.

Now that Wen Wushuang, the young master of the Wen family, has come, these actions are his way of showing his attitude towards the Cheng family.

Wen Wushuang spread the word that he would challenge himself tomorrow.

It's estimated that they want to resolve the issue of the Cheng family's ownership in one battle.

If they were to lose, the Cheng family would only have two choices: either submit to the Wen family or be forced to leave the desolate state.

If they win, they will stop targeting the Cheng family.

Ancient dust felt nothing.

Since this Wen Wushuang likes to come here and make a fool of herself so much.

Then I'll grant his wish.

With his current strength, he wouldn't fear even a master at the peak of the Breaking Aperture Realm, let alone Wen Wushuang.

Even if his older brother Wen Lingtian came, it would be the same.

I can easily defeat it.

It's good that they're here. We can deal with them once and for all, so they won't target the Cheng family again and cause us any more trouble.