"Don't worry, it's just the Fan family. Since I dared to kill them, I'm not afraid of the forces behind them," Ruan Xiyan said. "Besides, I haven't gone to the Fallen Sword Demon Cave yet, so I won't be leaving for the time being."

"The Fallen Sword Demon Cave? Brother Ling is going there. It's terrifying and dangerous." Lu Lan said with concern.

"Don't worry, Little Deer Orchid, I'll be fine."

Lu Lan nodded vigorously, "Brother Ling defeated the bad guys, I believe in Brother Ling."

Ruan Xiyan looked at Lu Shu and asked, "Young Master Lu, you just mentioned the 'Sha Tuan Guild,' what is that?"

"The Sha Tuan Guild is an organization in Qiongmen Town, or you could say it was established specifically for the Fallen Sword Demon Cave. Young Master Ling must have inquired about it beforehand before he went to venture into the Fallen Sword Demon Cave."

"As the most dangerous place in the Chaotic Land, the danger level of the Fallen Sword Demon Cave is self-evident. Because it is too dangerous, many people go there in groups."

"Thus, there were various Fiend Gangs with different strengths. Some of these Fiend Gangs were strong, while others were weak. They were affiliated with the Fiend Gang Guild, but they also had a cooperative relationship with it."

"A cooperative relationship? What do you mean by that?" Ruan Xiyan asked.

"Each Sha group exists independently, and its members are not fixed. Although they are all members of the Sha group guild, they are not bound by the Sha group guild."

"The Fallen Sword Demon Cave contains malevolent energy that allows people to cultivate quickly. Members of the Fiend Clan spend their days traversing the Fallen Sword Demon Cave, cultivating with the malevolent energy while trying to capture it."

"The power of evil energy is not as gentle as that of spiritual energy. Each person can only absorb a limited amount of evil energy, and the excess evil energy collected can be handed over to the Evil Guild."

"As long as you are a member of the Fiend Clan, you can exchange different amounts of fiend energy for different magical artifacts and pills. For those who venture into the Fallen Sword Demon Cave, both magical artifacts and pills are of paramount importance."

“To exchange for treasures,” Ruan Xiyan murmured. “In the Fallen Sword Demon Cave, those treasures are all life-saving treasures.”

“That’s right,” Lu Shu echoed.

"What does the Fiend Guild need so much fiendish energy for?"

Using something as tempting as elixirs to exchange for malevolent energy will undoubtedly attract many malevolent groups to trade with them, and these groups will obtain a considerable amount of malevolent energy.

Lu Shu shook her head. "I don't know. The leader behind the Sha Tuan Guild is very mysterious. No one has ever seen what he looks like."

"The leader of the Sha Group Guild probably needs Sha Qi for cultivation, but the power that a normal person can absorb from Sha Qi is limited." Lu Shu scratched the back of his head, a look of confusion in his eyes.

As they spoke, they had already left the dense forest and arrived at Qiongmen Town.

“Brother Ling, you don’t have a place to stay in this town, why don’t you stay at my house for now?” Lu Lan said, her eyes filled with anticipation as she wrapped her arms around Ruan Xiyan’s.

“Okay,” Ruan Xiyan replied.

The Fan family is likely to retaliate, and she can deal with them promptly if she stays with the Lu family.

She wanted to see just how powerful the Fan family was, and whether they were as strong as Zhai Hui, the city lord of the chaotic city.

Previously, thanks to Zhai Hui, she broke through her bottleneck in strength. Hopefully, the strong members of the Fan family can live up to her expectations and not disappoint her.

The Lu family home, in a room.

"Father, my sister and I are back." Lu Shu stepped into the room.

"Cough cough cough, Shu'er and Lan'er are back." A violent coughing sound came from the bed.

A middle-aged man was lying half-reclined on the bed, his face pale and his eyes slightly bluish-purple.

The moment Ruan Xiyan saw him, she could tell that the middle-aged man was poisoned!

Lu Lan ran to the bedside and looked at Lu Ce, "Father, how are you? Are you feeling any better?"

"Still the same as always."

"Father, don't be discouraged. My sister and I have brought back some herbs that we've collected. They'll definitely be useful this time. I've already had someone prepare the medicine."

"The herbs that Young Master Lu collected are all useless; Patriarch Lu has been poisoned."

Hearing other people talking in the room, Lu Ce looked at a handsome young man standing in the direction of the door and asked in confusion, "Shu'er, who is this?"

“Father, he is Young Master Ling Xi. We were ambushed by the Fan family in the dense forest. Thanks to Young Master Ling’s help, we were able to return safely.”

"Thank you for saving them, Young Master Ling." Lu Ce tried to get up to express his gratitude, but he was too weak to do so.

Ruan Xiyan stopped her, saying, "It's no trouble at all."

"Brother Ling, you just said that Father was poisoned?" Lu Lan looked at Ruan Xiyan.

"Yes," Ruan Xiyan replied affirmatively.

“But the doctor initially diagnosed it as a cold.” Lu Shu pondered for a moment, then her eyes turned icy cold as she realized something. “It’s the Fan family!”

“My father’s symptoms were not so serious at first, but after we went to the Fan family’s pharmacy to get medicine, his condition deteriorated rapidly.”

"I initially thought the Fan family's sudden attack on us was a coincidence, but now it seems to have been premeditated. They've had their eyes on the Lu family's assets for a long time."

Lu Shu gritted his teeth in hatred, his voice urgent, "Young Master Ling, since you can tell that my father is poisoned, do you have a way to cure him?"

“I know this request is a bit abrupt, but as long as the poison in my father’s body can be cured, anything that the Lu family has can be given to Young Master Ling.”

Ruan Xiyan flipped her hand, and a pill appeared in her palm. "Consider this pill my payment for staying at your house temporarily."

"A pill?!" Lu Shu stared at the pill in shock. "Is Young Master Ling perhaps an alchemist?"

People of such high status as alchemists would never come to a chaotic and barren place like the Chaotic Lands.

As a result, in Qiongmen Town, alchemists are rare, and even doctors are not common.

Qiongmen Town is the closest to the Fallen Sword Demon Cave, and many people in the town are injured. The life-saving medicines sold in the medicine shops in Qiongmen Town have been driven up to exorbitant prices.

Because the Fan family had allied themselves with the Sha Tuan Guild, they controlled almost all of the town's most profitable herbal medicine shops.

Ordinary people who are injured or sick will only face death, while wealthy families can afford to buy expensive medicines, but even they can be wiped out of their fortune if they are not careful.

The pills refined by the alchemist are something that even the Lu family wouldn't dare to dream of.

In the entire Qiongmen Town, it is said that only the Sha Tuan Guild has one alchemist, and that alchemist is a fifth-grade alchemist.

Ruan Xiyan did not answer. She handed over the pill, saying, "This pill can remove the poison from Patriarch Lu's body. Let Patriarch Lu take it first."

"Thank you, Young Master Ling, thank you." Lu Shu thanked him several times in a row.

After Lu Ce took the pill, its effects quickly took hold, and his complexion returned to its rosy hue.

He stood up straight from the bed, no longer feeling the oppressive weight of the boulder, and his whole body was filled with power.

"Daddy, you're all better!" Lu Lan exclaimed excitedly, circling around Lu Ce.

Lu Shu looked surprised. He hadn't seen many precious pills, but he knew that ordinary pills couldn't be effective so quickly. That could only mean that the pills that Young Master Ling took out were of an extraordinary grade.