So what if I'm useless? I'll become a saint!

After confirming that Ling Jiuan was safe and sound, Lei Tingyi spoke calmly.

"I shouldn't stay here for long. Be careful."

Ling Jiuan nodded.

"That's good, so that your family won't see you and cause you trouble later."

Hearing this, Lei Tingyi turned and left, his figure quickly disappearing from Ling Jiuan's sight.

After the people walked away, Jiuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It feels really good to have someone protecting you!

After making sure that Lei Tingyi had left, Chen Yan withdrew his gaze and looked at Ling Jiuan thoughtfully.

"What is your relationship with him? He is really strong. I dare say that there are few people stronger than him in the whole Chenzhou."

"You already have someone like this as your backer, why don't your Ling family like you?"

Hearing this, Ling Jiuan raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Chen Yan with a smile.

"How do you know that the Ling family doesn't like me?"

She avoided the question about her relationship with Lei Tingyi, with a hint of teasing in her tone.

To be honest, the relationship between her and Lei Tingyi was simply a give-and-take of life-saving favors!

As for many more people, I’m afraid they may not even be considered friends.

Chen Yan curled his lips.

"Not many people from our Chen family came this time, so our initial strategy was not to form a group to win the first place, but to come in and frantically collect cultivation resources. But your Ling family, more than ten people came in at once! I noticed that everyone was surrounding Ling Jiuze and Ling Jiuxi, and Ling Jiuze was so cruel to knock you down to the Spirit Valley. Isn't this obviously not liking you?"

After hearing this, Ling Jiuan couldn't help but smile slightly.

She did not directly answer Chen Yan's question, but asked in return, "Then what do you think I should do?"

Chen Yan was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Ling Jiuan to ask this.

He thought seriously for a while before speaking slowly.

"In fact, you already have a very powerful backer. As long as you are willing, you can use his power to change your position in the Ling family."

In Chen Yan's opinion, if you have a backer, you naturally have to rely on the backer!

Upon hearing this, Ling Jiuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

She knew that Chen Yan was talking about Lei Tingyi, but she didn't want to rely on the power of others to change her destiny.

What she wants is to fight for everything she wants with her own strength.

After all, one day, Lei Tingyi will leave.

Now that his strength has recovered, it is only a matter of time before he leaves.

If you rely too much on him, you will suffer a great loss sooner or later.

"Thank you for your advice. But I think I will still choose to fight for it on my own."

After hearing this, Chen Yan couldn't help but admire Ling Jiuan even more.

But while he admired him, he also felt that Ling Jiuan was a little silly.

Ling Jiuan was well aware that she and Chen Yan had different concepts of cultivation, so she did not dwell on this matter too much.

She sighed softly and pulled herself together.

"Let's go and look for some more cultivation resources. For someone like me who is not valued in the family, if I don't take this opportunity to prepare some cultivation resources, it will be even more difficult to get them in the future."

Chen Yan nodded upon hearing this, agreeing deeply.

"Yes, we have to act quickly."

He looked around and continued.

"Let's go and find more resources."

So the two of them left the area around Linggu.

After all, this place left Chen Yan with some psychological trauma.

Along the way, they cooperated well and were not afraid of danger. They successfully hunted several low-level spirit beasts and harvested a lot of spirit beads.

In addition, Ling Jiuan has been collecting spiritual medicines that can be used around him.

She knew in her heart that although the quality of the pills she was refining now was not high enough, she could make up for it by increasing the quantity.

She had no hope for the Ling family, so she had to work hard to increase her bargaining chips and confidence in case of emergency.

At this moment, a fox with extremely bright fur suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.

The fur of this clever fox is as brilliant as colorful clouds, shining brightly and making one unforgettable at first sight.

Jiuan's eyes lit up and a strong desire surged in his heart.

Without any hesitation, she pounced over and grabbed the fox.

The fox spirit was still young and weak, so Ling Jiuan easily captured it.

However, it did not seem angry. Instead, it nestled peacefully in Ling Jiuan's arms, seeming to enjoy the feeling of being cared for.

Chen Yan looked at this scene with an expression of surprise on his face.

"Did this little guy come out specifically to look for meal tickets?"

He said jokingly, causing Ling Jiuan to laugh as well.

At the same time, the fox spirit rubbed Ling Jiuan's palm.

Ling Jiuan couldn't let the little guy go and couldn't help asking Chen Yan.

"What does this little thing eat?"

Chen Yan touched his chin.

"Spiritual medicine, the flesh and blood of spiritual beasts."

Ling Jiuan and Chen Yan continued their actions of hunting spirit beasts and collecting resources.

Whenever they hunted a spiritual beast, they would carefully feed the beast's flesh and blood to the spiritual fox.

However, peaceful times are always short-lived.

Just as they were concentrating on feeding the fox, a long whip came like a poisonous snake, heading straight for the fox in Ling Jiuan's arms.

The long whip was infused with powerful spiritual energy and flashed with dangerous light.

Ling Jiuan's eyes flashed and he quickly raised his hand to grab the whip.

She pulled hard, and the owner of the whip was pulled out, revealing his figure.

When he saw clearly that it was Ling Jiuxi, Ling Jiuan's face suddenly turned ugly.

"It's you?"

There was a hint of coldness in Ling Jiuan's voice.

If possible, she would like to kill Ling Jiuxi right now.

But she knew it was impossible, she was too weak now.

She has no way to compete with the entire Ling family.

When Ling Jiuxi saw Ling Jiuan, his eyes were full of shock.

"You're actually still alive?"

she blurted out.

What kind of monster is Ling Jiuan? He fell into the abyss of Linggu and yet he was able to come out alive.

Ling Jiuan smiled coldly.

"You're not dead, how can I die?"

"Third sister, according to our ages, you should die before me!"

Just then, Ling Jiuze walked out from behind. He looked at Ling Jiuan coldly with an icy voice.

"Ling Jiuan, let Jiuxi go."

Ling Jiuan glanced at Ling Jiuze and a surge of anger rose in his heart.

Instead of letting go, she gripped the whip tighter.

"What if I don't let go?"

Ling Jiuan is very clear about his current strength.

Although it's possible to take a gamble, it's not impossible to try it with Ling Jiuze.

After all, in public, Ling Jiuze might not dare to kill him for the sake of his good reputation!

If her guess was correct, Ling Jiuze's target should be the position of the original owner's eldest brother.

It’s a pity that compared to all his peers, the original owner’s eldest brother is a well-deserved genius.

Therefore, if Ling Jiuze wants to bring him down, he must protect his own reputation!