Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 105 Preparing for a long journey
At this moment, Ji Chang clearly felt that another peeping mark on him had disappeared.

"Ok?"

Ji Chang's heart moved and he immediately realized something.

"The Wang family is really planning to wipe out the roots."

After confirming who the peeping mark was planted on, Ji Chang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Since half a year ago, Ji Chang felt that the monks on whom he had planted the peeping mark were losing contact with him one after another and had severed their connection with him.

This undoubtedly means that they have met with misfortune and died.

And those cultivators all have one thing in common: they are all cultivators of the Chen family.

Ji Chang was not surprised by this situation.

After all, when Chen Biqi chose to run away, he should have foreseen such an outcome.

The Wang family will definitely take action to cut off the Chen family's foundation.

Moreover, not only the cultivators of the Chen family were hunted down and liquidated, even the mortals of the Chen family seemed to be not spared.

For example, there are Chen Peihe and Liang Yue, two members of the Chen family who Ji Chang had once planted a spying mark on.

We have lost contact in the past six months.

But just now, Ji Chang was surprised to find that it was not just the ordinary branch of the Chen family, this liquidation seemed to have affected a wider range.

Even the Liang family, a local powerful family in Heishan County that rose under the protection of the Chen family, seemed to have suffered the same fate.

Liang Wu, the member of the Liang family whom Ji Chang had once spied on, also cut off contact with him at this time.

Now, Ji Chang can only spy on two cultivators from the Chen family.

One is Chen Biqi, the foundation-building ancestor of the Chen family, and the other is Chen Yinghu, a member of the younger generation of the Chen family.

When Chen Biqi was on the run, in order to facilitate his movement, he only chose a few cultivators from the Chen family to accompany him, including Chen Qiantuo and his son Chen Yinghu.

At this time, Chen Yinghu's cultivation had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining. It would take quite a long time for him to cultivate to the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining and attempt to break through the foundation building stage.

In comparison, his father Chen Qiantuo has already reached the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Unfortunately, he had tried to build a foundation two months ago but failed.

Under the leadership of Chen Biqi, the survivors of the Chen family did not choose to stay in Jiaozhou, but went far north to Dongshan Market in Taizhou.

This Xiuxian market has now become their hiding place.

Because for Ji Chang, Chen Biqi's value has basically been squeezed out.

He also reduced his surveillance of the Chen family. Instead, in the past six months, he often spied on the Wang family's foundation-building ancestor.

The foundation-building ancestor of the Wang family is called Wang Miaotong. He is the only remaining member of the Miao generation in the Wang family and the seventh generation of the Wang family.

The newly promoted genius foundation-building cultivator Wang Changping of the Wang family is a cultivator of the eldest generation of the Wang family and the twelfth generation of the Wang family.

Ji Chang spied on Wang Miaotong in order to get a glimpse of the Wang family's foundation-building method, the second-level inheritance.

The Wang family practices the Dao of Fire. Apart from that, the family also has a second-level alchemy inheritance.

For Ji Chang, it is also quite crucial.

If he could obtain this second-level alchemy inheritance, he would be able to improve his alchemy skills to the second level.

It’s a pity that his approach is different from that of Chen Biqi.

Wang Miaotong’s storage magic weapon is a genuine second-level magic weapon.

There is an imprint of spiritual consciousness in it, and before Wang Miaotong dies, the imprint of spiritual consciousness can be erased.

Otherwise, Ji Chang would not be able to rely on his spiritual sense to spy on the jade slip in the storage magic weapon.

Of course, this was mainly because when in the peeping state, Ji Chang could not use his spiritual sense to interfere with things around Wang Miaotong.

In this way, if Ji Chang wanted to peek at the contents of the jade slip in Wang Miaotong's hand, he had to wait until he personally took the jade slip out of the storage magic tool.

However, during this period of time, Wang Miaotong has been busy tracking down Chen Biqi's whereabouts and clearing out the Chen family's cultivators, and has no time to practice or refine pills in peace.

What's more, Wang Miaotong's life is almost over.

His cultivation level only remained at the middle stage of foundation building, and his hope of breaking through to the false elixir realm before his death and gaining another sixty years of life was slim.

Therefore, for him, cultivation is undoubtedly a waste of time.

But Ji Chang was not in a hurry. He could wait slowly. He didn't believe that Wang Miaotong would not teach Wang Changping how to practice and refine the elixir in the last few years.

It is also a good choice to study as an auditor for a few years.

Even if he couldn't get the second-level alchemy inheritance from Wang Changping, Ji Chang could wait until he arrived at Baishuixian City and then make plans.

……

A few days later, after Ji Chang was ready for his long journey, he called Yuan Yixiao.

Ever since half a year ago, Yuan Shige, the elder of the Yuan family, assisted the Wang family in breaking through the Chen family's protective formation.

Relying on this achievement, the Yuan family successfully rebuilt their family with the help of the Wang family.

However, the Wang family and the cultivators from other families suffered a great loss in front of the Chen family's protective formation.

Although the Yuan family monks were enslaved by the Chen family to set up the formation, there are still many monks who hold resentment towards the Yuan family.

Therefore, the Yuan family’s current situation is not optimistic.

Many people even speculated that this might involve some kind of tacit approval or instruction from the Wang family.

However, after the Yuan family was rebuilt, Yuan Yixiao did not return to the Yuan family.

Instead, she stayed by Ji Chang's side and helped him with some chores, like a maid or housekeeper.

At this time, Ji Chang was about to leave and called Yuan Yixiao to ask her whether she was going or staying.

After Yuan Yixiao came, Ji Chang spoke.

"I plan to leave Jiaozhou and go to Baishuixian City to look for new opportunities."

"You once lent me the spiritual land in the valley to build my foundation. You were very kind to me."

"I once promised to help you deal with the Chen family and help you rebuild your family."

"Now, the Chen family has been forced to the brink of extinction by the Wang family, and your Yuan family has also been successfully rebuilt with the support of the Wang family."

"Therefore, I now give you two choices."

Having said this, Ji Chang paused.

Yuan Yixiao felt an inexplicable tension, she knew that the next choice would determine her future.

Ji Chang continued, "The first option is that I leave you a few bottles of top-grade elixirs, or even a foundation-building method, as a reward."

"These pills and methods are enough to allow you to make further progress on the path of cultivation. It is even possible for you to break through to the foundation-building stage like me."

"The second option is for you to stay with me and go to White Narcissus City with me."

"White Narcissus City is in no way comparable to a remote place like Jiaozhou. You can see a wider world there."

After listening to Ji Chang's words, Yuan Yixiao fell into deep thought.

Her brows were slightly furrowed, and her eyes flashed with a complicated light.

Yuan Yixiao knew that both options had their pros and cons, and whichever one she chose would have a profound impact on her future.

She couldn't help but start weighing the pros and cons, thinking about which option was better for her.

(End of this chapter)