All of this led to the scene five years ago when Shi Xuan was thrown into the void rift.
The Concealed Edge Sword Sect, the Profound Peak.
Since Shi Xuan's return, the entire Fuyu Peak seems to have come alive, with people coming and going every day.
Not only Fuyu Peak, but the entire Lianfeng Sword Sect has become much more active.
One minute someone from Baicao Peak comes to ask about alchemy, the next someone from Linzheng Peak comes to ask about weapon crafting. Even the dining hall has been adding an extra dish to every meal for a whole month.
In the years that Shi Xuan was away, the small shops selling cheap pills sold out, and they relied entirely on the disciples of Baicao Peak to supply them.
Shi Xuan is back now, and she took a stroll through the affordable shops.
Upon seeing Shi Xuan, Leng Rufeng was so moved he almost cried.
These past five years have been incredibly difficult for him. With his employer's fate unknown, he had no choice but to struggle on his own.
Fortunately, Shi Xuan had previously paid special attention to cultivating the alchemists of the Lianfeng Sword Sect, which kept his supply of pills stable, but there were no particularly unique pills for sale.
The entire western region of Qian Yuan knew about Shi Xuan's matter, and there was no objection to it.
Later, even Lin Zhengfeng's weapon cultivators joined in, along with the magical artifacts he collected from the Langya Sect. Their chain of affordable shops selling pills, talismans, and artifacts are doing quite well now.
Shi Xuan has been busy cultivating in the void for the past five years, but Zeng Mo and the others have not been idle inside Silver Frost.
There's a huge amount of stuff that Shi Xuan has accumulated.
He excluded what he could use and left everything else for Leng Rufeng, even giving him two extra Nascent Soul Pills.
"This is an employee benefit. You and Wang Laosan each get one, although you are still a bit far from reaching the Nascent Soul stage."
Leng Rufeng was still wondering how long it would take for her to form her Nascent Soul, but Wang Laosan suddenly appeared and snatched his Nascent Soul Pill from her hand.
"The boss is so generous!" Wang Laosan hadn't seen Shi Xuan for a long time, and he never expected that the employee benefits here would be so outrageous.
Nascent Soul Pills are something that can be listed in any auction house in the Qian Yuan Western Region. Every sect and family wants to have more Nascent Soul disciples.
Especially for those aristocratic families, if their own children are not talented enough and there is no one to carry on the family line, they may not be able to maintain their status.
The fact that the owner was giving away such a precious item so casually made him wonder for a moment whether it was a Nascent Soul Pill or a Foundation Establishment Pill.
Perhaps the owner made a mistake due to momentary lapse of judgment.
However, upon opening the jade bottle and examining it, they discovered that it truly was a Nascent Soul Pill!
This discovery made him jump for joy.
He had previously tried to recruit his brothers who did business together on the black market to help out at his discount shop, but they were puzzled by his willingness to become someone else's subordinate, feeling that nothing beats being free.
He's just a shop errand boy, not a disciple of a major sect, what's so great about him?
But after a few years, look at them and then look at him. Starting from the same point, his cultivation level has fallen far behind the others.
Not to mention how generously they distributed elixirs and talismans.
The fact that the master hadn't appeared for five years was somewhat unsettling, but when he did reappear, he immediately offered a Nascent Soul Pill.
Those who say he has given up on himself probably won't be able to get their hands on such a pill in their entire lives!
Wang Laosan immediately wanted to take the Nascent Soul Pill to the black market and show it off to those people.
Upon further reflection, he realized that it was best to keep a low profile and not flaunt his wealth in order to protect his Nascent Soul Pill.
Leng Rufeng only realized what his master had given him after he snatched a jade bottle from him.
He was conflicted at this point.
"Master, isn't this... a bit too expensive?"
In fact, Shi Xuan saved his life. He was supposed to owe Shi Xuan a huge amount of spirit stones, but Shi Xuan had never asked him for them. Instead, Shi Xuan had been subsidizing him with various cultivation resources.
So much so that he now feels the Nascent Soul Pill is a bit too hot to handle.
Shi Xuan had long forgotten about the spirit stones he owed back then, but when he brought it up again, Shi Xuan said, "Don't worry, your monthly wages are after deducting the debt."
On the other side, Chen Ji and his son were also busy at their affordable shop.
Chen Ji's cultivation level was already fixed at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, and with his aptitude, it would be difficult for him to make any further progress.
Before Shi Xuan disappeared, he made him take a lot of Marrow Cleansing Pills. Now that they met again, Chen Ji had already reached the Foundation Establishment stage.
Chen Shengjun also made great progress, reaching the eighth level of Foundation Establishment.
He originally had little hope of achieving the Core Formation stage, and his agreement to go treasure hunting was out of a sense of taking a risk and making a gamble.
Looking back now, all he can say is how foolish he was.
Shi Xuan also gave them some pills that they could use, and left a lot of spirit stones for Leng Rufeng, telling him to distribute them to the staff of the cheap shops outside other sects.
Leng Rufeng nodded and accepted the spirit stone. For some reason, Shi Xuan's return gave him a sense of confidence, unlike before when he always felt uneasy.
Shi Xuan is like a mountain to lean on, giving people peace of mind.
Leng Rufeng put away the spirit stones and then reported the business situation of each shop to Shi Xuan.
When the topic turned to the west, Leng Rufeng sighed and asked, "Does the master still remember the Liu family of Jitong?"
Shi Xuan nodded, naturally remembering that when he went to the Liu family to heal Liu Li's dantian, he obtained a soul-gathering stone there.
The Liu family played a crucial role in the senior brother's recovery.
Leng Rufeng sighed and said, "The Liu family has been wiped out."
"What?" Shi Xuan was genuinely surprised. "Who did this? How could this be?"
The Liu family was one of the four great families in the western region of Qian Yuan. Although they hadn't developed as well as the other three families in recent years, even a fallen camel is bigger than a horse, and their foundation was not comparable to that of ordinary families.
Shi Xuan never imagined that someone had the ability to wipe out the entire Liu family.
“It’s said that it was the Tu family of Nuojiang who did it,” Leng Rufeng said. “The Tu family had a fierce feud with the Liu family in those years. After the Liu family was wiped out, the Tu family members kept saying that the Liu family had done many unjust things and offended the major sects, which is why they suffered this calamity. But some people have said that they saw the Tu family members doing it on the day the Liu family was wiped out.”
Shi Xuan frowned. This might not be just news of a family being wiped out.
The Liu family is not easy to deal with. If it was really the Tu family who did it, how could they, as two of the four great families, kill such a large family without anyone knowing?
Leng Rufeng added, "It seems that the Tu family has obtained some extraordinary opportunity in the past few years. The main family's cultivation speed is astonishing. Even Tu Yecheng, who caused trouble here last time, has now reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage."
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