My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 46 Worry
It was already late autumn.

The weather has gotten a bit chilly.

In the morning, you can even see white frost on the dry, withered grass.

In the mountains and forests,

Many trees, once lush and vibrant, now have withered and yellow leaves. When the wind blows, the leaves flutter down from the trees, carpeting the entire ground.

Shen Changchuan has been back in Dawancun for several days now.

During the time he was away,
Nothing unexpected happened in Dawancun, and everything is fine.

The worst-case scenario did not occur.

Shen Changchuan also breathed a sigh of relief.

During the few days he returned to recuperate, he also managed to cultivate the Concealing Breath Technique to 100% perfection.

This is not because he has extraordinary talent or comprehension.
He was able to master the art of concealing his breath to perfection in just a few days.

Rather, it was the result of efforts made a month ago while searching for the ruins of a cave.

When he first set out on his journey following the map, he encountered a series of attacks from snakes, insects, rats, and even wild beasts and monsters.

Even with the ability to detect and avoid threats in advance using the Spirit Eye Technique, various forms of harassment continued unabated.

He guessed that this was because he didn't conceal his presence at all, and when he ran into the mountains and forests, he was as conspicuous as a louse on a bald man's head, which was why he kept getting into trouble.

So Shen Changchuan took out the True Explanation of Magic summarized by the Four Fiends of Heshan from his storage bag and learned one of the spells called the Concealing Breath Technique.

Furthermore, this technique is used during the journey to conceal one's breath as much as possible.

As he had predicted, things unfolded exactly as he had foreseen.

With the casting of the Breath Concealment Technique,

To the passing wild beasts, monsters, and other creatures, he appeared almost like a moving piece of stone or wood.

There were not many more attacks.

It is precisely because of this,
After reaching their destination...
Shen Changchuan stayed in the dense forest, secretly observing the habits of the Gale Falcon for several days.
But they were all hidden very well and were not discovered by the other party.

Perhaps it is precisely the experience during this process.

This allowed Shen Changchuan's understanding of this spell to advance by leaps and bounds.

"The unity of knowledge and action may also be a shortcut to cultivating magic."

Recalling the experience of trekking through the mountains and forests,

Combined with the process of perfecting the Concealing Breath Technique over the past few days, Shen Changchuan also gained some new insights into the cultivation of magic.

A seed was planted deep in my heart.

However, Shen Changchuan didn't have time to think about these things in detail.

The day had arrived for the residents of the other six villages to travel together to Wujiaji.

This morning,
Cultivators from six villages, dozens or even hundreds of miles away, had already organized their own forces, each driving three to five horse-drawn carriages loaded with goods, and gathered at Dawan Village.

The entire group consisted of more than a dozen carriages and over a hundred people.

The goods on their wagons were mostly spirit grains.

It was made of inexpensive white jade and was wrapped in a box woven from spirit straw to prevent it from being damaged during the journey and to prevent the spiritual energy in the spirit valley from dissipating.

Among the owners of the six villages,
The Fan, Song, Miao, and Tao families are all small cultivation families that have been around for nearly a hundred years. They live off the spiritual fields that their ancestors painstakingly cultivated, and maintain their family's cultivation tradition.

The Li family moved in decades ago; their village was said to have been bought by a down-on-his-luck man.

The last village was somewhat different; its owner was named Guo Cheng, but his exact origins were unknown.

About a dozen years ago, Guo Cheng came to the desolate Laoshan Village and discovered a spiritual spring with very little spiritual energy in the dense grass of the mountains, thus establishing the foundation of Laoshan Village.

Laoshan Village was not named after Guo Cheng's surname when it was established as Guo Family Village.

Because Guo Cheng established a force called Laoshan Temple within Laoshan Village.

It is said that Guo Cheng was determined to seek immortality and establish a sect to recruit people with affinity as disciples, rather than relying on family bloodlines to pass on his power. Thus, the Laoshan Temple came into being.

Although Laoshan Temple was only established a little over a decade ago, and the temple only had three-tenths of its barren spiritual fields, producing very little spiritual grain after offerings, it possessed a skill in charcoal making. By carefully selecting wood, using spiritual spring water, and other materials, it could produce charcoal that could aid in alchemy and weapon crafting.
They possess a certain value and live a fulfilling life.

Most of the vehicles in the Laoshan Temple convoy were loaded with specially made refined charcoal, clearly intended for trading in Wujiaji.

Among the six people in charge
Guo Cheng was also the strongest, reaching the fourth level of Qi Refining.

The other five,

They are all around the third level of Qi Induction.

"Now that everyone's here, let's go!"

Once everyone had gathered, Shen Changchuan appeared, looked around, and without saying a word, directly told everyone to set off.

Everyone was taken aback at first.
The head of the Li family realized what was happening and quickly grabbed Shen Changchuan, asking him a question.

"Wait, Young Master Shen, are you alone? Is there no one else?"

"Yes, I have a storage bag, enough for one person, what's wrong?"

They were aware of the fact that he had killed the Four Fiends of Heshan, so Shen Changchuan did not hide the storage bag that was a trophy and directly displayed it, waving it at them.

Speaking of,
Seeing these people with their cars and trucks fully loaded,

Shen Changchuan felt that the storage bag in his hand smelled particularly good.

He secretly thanked the four brothers, the Four Fiends of Heshan, for their generosity.

"No, Young Master Shen, this journey is fraught with danger as those bandit cultivators are rampaging outside. Should we wait for the others before setting off together?"

The head of the Li family had no choice but to be anxious.
In the past, they would also travel to Wujiaji together with the Shen family from Dawancun.

But Shen Shiying, the town garrison commander of Dawancun at the time, was also at least at the fifth level of Qi Refining!
With the addition of powerful methods from the Shen family and the assistance of everyone, they were able to easily contend with enemies at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

However, even if the thief uses his full power, he cannot kill everyone.
Once someone escaped and brought the news back to the Shen family, thousands of miles away,
That would be troublesome.

The fate of the Hu family in Dawancun twenty years ago is still vivid in our minds.

Therefore, very few cultivators dare to covet them.

But what's the situation now?
This young man from the Shen family, several months ago, invited them to see the corpses of the Four Fiends of Heshan.
He had once revealed his cultivation level, which was only around the mid-stage of the fourth level of Qi Induction.

And now, the aura emanating from him...

It's not much different from before.
Not much has changed.

If you encounter a cultivator who has undergone a tribulation, they will overwhelm you with their absolute cultivation level, then slaughter you all, dump your corpses in the wilderness to feed the monsters, and destroy all traces.
No matter how powerful the Shen family is behind you, they can't avenge you!

The head of the Li family was quite startled.

"Waiting for someone? Waiting for whom?"

"Um, Young Master Shen, how about having your elders accompany you?"

The head of the Li family probed the tunnel.

In his eyes, it would be best if the senior member of the Shen family who had dealt with the Four Fiends of Heshan could be mobilized.

"Elders? I don't have any elders. I'm all alone. Let's get going."

Shen Changchuan felt somewhat bewildered.

He felt that the other party seemed to have misunderstood something.

But I'm too lazy to explain.

Wujiaji,
He had been looking forward to it for a long time, but he didn't want to delay and miss the deadline.

After Shen Changchuan turned around...
The head of the Li family, Guo Cheng, and the heads of the other four families exchanged glances, their faces showing worry.

This,
This young man is impetuous and stubborn, refusing to listen to advice. What should we do?!
The road leading to Wujiaji,

It's not a easy walk!

　The second chapter update will be tonight; something came up and I'll try to get back on track later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)