Chapter 342: Rusty

Chapter 342 – Rinsing
After nearly three years, Chen Fei once again arrived at the Ruan Family in Qinhai City. Many people within the Ruan Family had already revealed a hint of old age, after all, three years was not a short period of time for anyone.

It was people like Chen Fei, whose cultivation had reached the Realm of Practicing Aperture and whose lifespan had reached two hundred, on whose faces, the traces left behind by the years were not yet visible.

“Senior Chen.”

Ruan Qiaojun looked at Chen Fei with a beaming smile on his face. After not seeing him for three years, Ruan Qiaojun had lost her youthfulness, and had more of the heroic aura of a person in power.

Ruan Donglai stood at the back, in these few years, it was not that Ruan Donglai had not thought of seizing power, after all, the Ruan family was such a large industry with so many interests involved.

If he could control it in his hands, the benefits that would end up in his hands would increase exponentially.

But in the end, Ruan Dongle still did not dare to do so. The reason was simple, and that was the relationship of Chen Fei, a strong practitioner of the Orifice Realm.

Ruan Dong Lai was unsure of what kind of relationship there was between Ruan Qiaojun and Chen Fei, and he also didn’t know when Chen Fei would come to the Ruan family again.

If Chen Fei saw that the head of the Ruan Family had changed by then, would he be thunderstruck? The Ruan family was a big family in Qinhai City, but when faced with the wrath of an Orifice Practicing Realm, there was actually very little room for resistance.

Naturally, Ruan Donglai could go and flatter another Realm of Practicing Aperture as a way to fight against Chen Fei, but the relationships of the Realm of Practicing Aperture were sometimes not so good to pull.

The key thing was that the one who was flattered didn’t usually live in Qinhai City. When the time came for Chen Fei to directly kill him with a sword, he wouldn’t be able to resist much.

Taking a risk could possibly be a risk to his life, Ruan Donglai eventually suppressed this tantalizing thought and honestly worked as a deputy in the Ruan family.

In the middle of the lobby, Chu Wennian and Chu Lan looked at Chen Fei, in these three years, the two of them had risen in status in the Ruan family very quickly because of Ruan Qiaojun.

Chu Wennian’s hair has been gray, while Chu Lan was born more and more gentle, at the moment looking at Chen Fei’s gaze, still with a hint of light.

“I came here today to have a matter entrusted to me.” Chen Fei looked at Ruan Qiaojun and smiled.

Instead of probing for information within Qinhai City, it would be better to let this matter be completed by the Ruan Family. In Qinhai City, the Ruan Family knew more about their roots and could save Chen Fei a lot of trouble.

In less than an hour, a stack of information was placed in front of Chen Fei. Chen Fei carefully examined every page of the information, and after a moment, Chen Fei closed his eyes and tapped his fingers on the desktop.

Sword Return Building, located in Western Cloud City, nearly two thousand miles away from this place, with seven Aperture Practicing Realms within the gate, the highest cultivation reached the middle Aperture Practicing Realm, and there were two of them.

This information, was information from five years ago, these years because of the rebels, the transmission of news between the cities, was not as smooth as it used to be.

In five years time, it was possible for things to remain the same, or for great changes to occur, and this point needed to be confirmed by Chen Fei himself when he arrived at Xiyun City.

What Chen Fei had always wondered in his heart was how Sword Returning Floor had obtained the inheritance of the Great Surprising Thunder Sword, and more crucially, in Sword Returning Floor’s hands, were there any other inheritances from the Yuan Chen Sword Sect?

For example, the Yuan Chen Sword Code!
In the information sent by the Ruan Family, there was also a map. There were various markings in the map, in which several forbidden places were deliberately pointed out.

Such a map was worth a lot of money and could prevent Chen Fei from falling into unnecessary danger. Of course, if one was strong enough, these so-called forbidden places might be opportunities.

Chen Fei did not have the intention of exploring these forbidden places for the time being, and first went to the Sword Returning Building to ask about the situation, and if he could retrieve a few more complete legacies, it would be of the greatest help to Chen Fei.

“Knock knock knock!”

A knock sounded on the door, and Chu Lan walked in with refreshments, carefully placing them on the table.

“Brother Chen, these are the pastries kneaded from the newly picked honey water flowers this morning.” Chu Lan stood at the side in a pavilion and said to Chen Fei in a low voice.

“Many thanks.” Chen Fei looked at Chu Lan and couldn’t help but have a hint of a smile on his face.

This scene, could not help but make Chen Fei think of the time when he was in the merchant caravan, Chu Lan would heat up delicious food and purposely bring it over to Chen Fei. Of course, at that time, Chu Wennian was also guarding Chen Fei like a thief.

He was afraid that Chen Fei would cheat his family’s precious granddaughter away, after all, at that time, the cultivation that Chen Fei had displayed was only a simple Calcined Bone Realm.

After all, the cultivation level Chen Fei displayed at that time was only a simple Bone Calcination Realm. And what they were really doing at that time was avoiding a possible pursuit.

Chu Wennian essentially, also did not want to let Chen Fei, a young man that he bumped into on the road, get involved in this kind of thing. The Calcined Bone Realm, really didn’t even have the power to resist.

Chen Fei picked up the Honey Flower Cake and gently bit into it, a fresh fragrance filled his lips and teeth. The flavor was indeed very good, fresh, and beautifully made, making one’s appetite grow.

Chu Lan couldn’t help but have a happy smile on her face when she saw Chen Fei eat the honey flower cake.

“Have you encountered any difficulties recently?” Chen Fei took a sip of tea and looked at Chu Lan.

“No, Grandpa and I have been living very well these past few years.” Chu Lan shook her head.

Ruan Qiaojun was in charge, so naturally, he would not treat Chu Wennian and Chu Lan poorly, two people who had experienced life and death together. And the Ruan family had been prospering under Ruan Qiaojun’s leadership these past few years.

With more money, the natural share of profits to the people in the family had also become more, and all of them embraced Ruan Qiaojun more and more.

“This is for you, you and your grandfather, both can take it.”

Chen Fei thought for a moment, and a porcelain bottle appeared in his hand with some pills in it, which he had gotten from within Qiu Yuanzeng’s secret room.

Within Qiu Yuanzeng’s secret room, he mainly stored things that were beneficial to his cultivation, but there were also some, which were considered miscellaneous pills for the middle stage of the Orifice Training Realm. These pills were not beneficial to the Orifices Practicing Realm, but for martial artists of the Body Refining Realm, they were rare goodies, after all, the fact that they weren’t thrown away by Qiu Yuanzeng as garbage already proved their value.

“Ya?”

Chu Lan looked at the porcelain bottle and froze for a moment, just as she wanted to push back, she was stuffed into the middle of her hand by Chen Fei.

“I still have some things to do, so I won’t stay here for long, I’ll be leaving later, take care of yourself.” Chen Fei smiled and said.

“Not staying for a few more days?” Chu Lan was really frozen this time, her heart was flooded with loss at once, and her previous good mood became gone.

“Later.”

Chen Fei said softly, just that this was said out, Chen Fei also did not know that in the future, he would still come back to Qinhai City.

Half an hour later, Chen Fei left Qinhai City and rushed in the direction of Xiyun City.

The Ruan family had wanted to send a carriage to send Chen Fei to West Cloud City. However, with the speed of the carriage, the distance of more than a thousand miles, plus the trekking over the mountains, without ten days, I’m afraid that he wouldn’t be able to arrive at all.

In that case, it would be better for Chen Fei to travel light on his own.

According to Chen Fei’s body speed nowadays, not to mention rushing with all his might, even if he just maintained his normal speed and rested at night, he could still make it to Xiyun City on the next day.

A few hours passed in a flash, in the middle of the journey, Chen Fei bumped into a few merchant teams, and there was even a merchant team that was fighting with mountain bandits.

The strength of the mountain bandits was not weak, but the strength of the merchant team was clearly stronger. Nowadays, in this kind of situation, the caravans that still dared to run around were all very strong, or else they would be swallowed up in minutes.

Under the night, in a dense forest, a bonfire rose, Chen Fei sat cross-legged, the firelight jumped, reflecting Chen Fei’s face bright and dark.

Chen Fei was examining the jade slip of the Great Surprising Thunder Sword in his hand, and after a moment, Chen Fei put the jade slip back away.

Nowadays, Chen Fei was not able to cultivate the Great Surprising Thunder Sword because only the first two layers of the Yuan Chen Sword Codex were intact, and the third layer was crippled. If Chen Fei cultivated the Great Surprising Thunder Sword now, without the Yuan Chen Sword Dictionary’s centering and harmonizing, the Yuan Power would clash with each other.

At that time, Chen Fei’s strength would drop in the light case, and in the heavy case, the orifices might be damaged, so the loss would outweigh the gain.

“If the Great Surprising Thunder Sword is melted, the orifices opened by the three disciplines will just reach one hundred.”

A thought crossed Chen Fei’s mind, a gong method that could open up a hundred of them was already an extremely rare existence in the Orifice Practicing Realm.

And with the three techniques complementing each other, the power of the moves displayed would also be extremely strong. If the Yuan Chen Sword Sect possessed such an inheritance, its strength would definitely increase a lot.

Nowadays, it was just unknown whether or not there was an inheritance of the Yuan Chen Sword Code in the Sword Return Building.

The night wind whistled and the cold pierced the bones, but for Chen Fei, it didn’t have much of an effect. Chen Fei got up and started practicing the Spirit Slaughtering Art.

Slash!

Chen Fei used his hands instead of a sword, his hands transformed into shadows and began to slash towards the front.

This kind of cultivation method, if seen by others, was bound to be suspicious, after all, this was for the Orifice Practicing Realm, simple slashing did not help in the slightest.

However, at this moment, there were no other people here, and the only company was the moonlight in the sky.

As Chen Fei continued to hack and slash, insights about the Spirit Slaughtering Art continued to appear in his mind. The subtlety of the Spirit Slaughtering Technique was something that Chen Fei had long experienced in recent days.

Thus, the cultivation of the Spirit Slaughtering Art was something that Chen Fei must do every day. More than three months had passed since the last successful completion of the Spirit Slaughtering Art.

During these three months, Chen Fei had been practicing diligently, and his proficiency in the Spirit Slaughtering Technique had been rising, especially since his realm had recently been approaching the Great Circle, Chen Fei’s cultivation times had also become more and more frequent.

Chen Fei wanted to see if there would be any other changes in this Spirit Slaughtering Art, after cultivating it to the Great Perfection Realm.

Time passed little by little, the bright moon in the sky was covered by clouds at some point, the dense forest was dim in all directions, and the only thing that was rising was a flame.

A cold aura appeared in the surroundings at some point, and between the dark pokes, there seemed to be eyes peering at Chen Fei from afar.

Chen Fei’s arms, which were constantly chopping and slashing, suddenly gave a slight lurch, as countless Spirit Slaughtering Art epiphanies collided in Chen Fei’s sea of consciousness. In the next moment, Chen Fei’s right arm, which had stopped, slashed a sword forward with a gloomy expression.

With this chop, the senses that covered Chen Fei’s sea of consciousness suddenly stagnated, and then instantly rotated, transforming into the last piece of masonry and hitting Chen Fei’s mind.

Spirit Slaughtering Art, Great Perfection!
A biting aura rippled from Chen Fei’s body, turning into ripples that spread out.

Within the Sea of Consciousness, the Illuminating Shadow Beheading Sword flickered slightly, and through this moment of the Spirit Slaughtering Technique’s Great Perfection, countless inspirations surged out from his mind and soul.

In the next moment, a sword intent flickered and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.

(End of chapter)