Returning home for Chinese New Year

  The sky gradually brightened, and the Jianghu Guild's great battle in Zhujicounty city had lasted all night. Hundreds of residential buildings, wine houses, and inns were burned down and destroyed. The number of Medicine King Gang disciples who died in this chaos was countless. The residence of the Herbal Hall was also breached by the joint attack of the nine major guilds, leaving only a few cats and dogs escaping in a hurry.

  The nine major gangs also suffered greatly, and in the battle of surrounding Nan Tianying, countless elite fighters were killed or injured. They left behind a large number of ordinary gang members to continue pursuing and eliminating the remnants of the Cao Yao Tang who had escaped within the county seat of Zhu Qi.

  The high-ranking members of the nine major gangs did not dare to stay in Zhutiqian County for long, and they quietly escaped back to Pingzhou's capital city, Wan'an City, with a batch of trusted and skilled followers. Because Nan Tianxiong, the head of the Nan family, had escaped last night, and another young member of the Nan family was also unknown where he went, they had to be careful about revenge from the Nan family.

  As soon as the sky brightened, tens of thousands of frightened citizens in the county town, carrying their bundles and leading their children, fled the county town to escape the disaster. Among them were wealthy merchants and large households, riding luxury cars and driving dogs and horses, with dozens of servants anxiously escorting them. There were also poor people and beggars, penniless and carrying nothing but an iron pot and a tattered mat.

  Some of the nine major gangs' fierce and cruel thugs, carrying large knives, were stationed at the four city gates, checking each citizen leaving the city one by one, trying to find any remnants of the "Yuyi" from the Adopting Medicine Hall who might be attempting to escape.

  Many ordinary people are eager to leave the city, but they dare not speak out against these rascals.

  In the county town of Zhugou, some small gangs that had a feud with the Medicine King Hall, such as hoodlums and rascals, joined forces with the members of the larger gangs to hunt down the remaining disciples of the Medicine King Hall. These local hoodlums were very familiar with the people from the Medicine King Hall and could recognize most of its disciples.

  Among the bustling crowds of people, there were two young men who didn't stand out much. They wore plain, coarse clothing and drove a small, grey donkey pulling a two-wheeled wooden cart.

  This cart is very shabby, it's just a donkey, a plank door, and a pair of wooden wheel hubs, can't compare with those wealthy families' luxurious horse-drawn carriages.

  Sitting in the front of the donkey cart, driving it, was a sturdy and strong young man with dark skin, wearing a short shirt, apparently often doing heavy labor, his arms and shoulders were thick and powerful, only his legs seemed to be slightly lame.

  A young man in a coarse linen shirt sat on the flatbed cart, with an ordinary appearance and a somewhat warm and shy demeanor. The whole body was clean and simple. There were also some not very valuable goods packed in baskets on the flatbed cart, wanting to leave the city.

  This donkey cart was bought from a wealthy family in the city early this morning for dozens of silver leaves. The baskets are filled with goods that are rarely seen in rural areas, such as cloth, tea, oil, salt, ceramic jars, and high-quality cured meat.

  The sturdy young man in black, sitting at the front of the small donkey cart, saw nearly a hundred strong men blocking the city gate and became somewhat flustered. He turned his head back to the long-shirted young man sitting on the cart behind him and said in a low voice: "Qin Ge, there are people checking at the city gate, what should we do?"

  "It's all right, just go ahead!"

  The young man sitting in the back calmly said, his hand holding a few grass seeds picked up from the roadside, playing with them.

  When the donkey cart arrived at the city gate, a certain thug from an unknown gang saw the young man on the cart and looked puzzled, seemingly suspicious but not daring to be sure, just as he was about to shout loudly for others.

  The young man in the long shirt on the donkey cart snorted disdainfully, muttered a few spells quickly in a low voice, "Entanglement Technique!" His index finger flicked, and the grass seed he was playing with shot out, carrying his magic.

  The grass seed was wrapped in a strand of law, shot into that little rascal, and grew wildly for a moment, growing into a nearly ten-foot-long thick grass vine, which instantly wrapped up the little rascal, almost strangling him to death. The leaves of the grass vine were still dancing, eerie beyond compare.

  "Wah~, grass demon, grass demon!"

  "It's a monster!"

  The city gate was suddenly in a state of great chaos, the Jianghu heroes were stunned, they had never seen such a "disturbing" grass demon running out under the bright daylight, they dropped their swords and fled with their heads covered, the civilians outside the city were even more panicked, the crowd surged forward like a river flowing out of the city.

  ......

  Half an hour later.

  "It's really strange, our county town has always been peaceful and quiet, how did it suddenly become haunted by a grass monster? It came out to make trouble in broad daylight, almost scared me to death!"

  Cheng Da Niu muttered to himself, sitting in the front of the donkey cart, waving a whip and excitedly driving the cart along the country path. The events in the county town not long ago had brought him great surprise, and he had been muttering to himself for nearly half an hour.

  He is preparing to return to his hometown in the mountains for a trip. This is the first time he has spent so much money, buying so many goods, and his dark red face is smiling with joy.

  After leaving the county town for ten miles, the common people scattered in all directions, and the number of people gradually decreased. The mountain road also became more rugged as we walked.

  A big ox with a sturdy rump drove away the stubborn little grey donkey, occasionally turning its head to glance at Ye Qin on the wooden cart, shouting: "Brother Qin, hold tight, the road is steep, don't fall off!"

  "Great, you just drive safely. I've practiced martial arts for a few years, this cart can't shake me off."

  Ye Qin lay relaxed on the wooden cart, holding a book and flipping through it with a calm smile. He was somewhat worried about Da Niu going back alone, now that the gang was in such disarray, in case they encountered someone with ill intentions who would take advantage of the situation. Moreover, it had been so long since he last went home, he also wanted to go back and take a look. Perhaps, this was his last time going home.

  On his way back home, Ye Qin flipped through several books he had obtained from Nan Tianyong.

  One copy of "Wind Spirit Scripture", one copy of "Five Elements Basic Magic Techniques Compendium", and also a copy of "Nan Clan Genealogy". These things were obtained from Nan Tianxiong's hands, and he needs these things to deal with Nan Tianba in the Floating Island, eliminating the biggest hidden danger for him.

  Ye Qin thought for a moment and first flipped through the genealogy of the Nan family.

  The Nan Clan Chronicle, which details the ancestral origins of the Nan family and records the names, biographies, and deeds of every cultivator in the clan over the past century, as well as every major event that has occurred within the family.

  Of course, those who can enjoy this treatment are limited to the cultivators within the Nan family.

  There are also hundreds of ordinary people who are not cultivators within the Nan family, but these people only have a very simple name and blood inheritance relationship in this genealogy, without any other detailed introduction, and their treatment is far inferior to that of the Nan family's cultivator members.

  The last major event recorded in the Nan family tree is "Nan's expedition to Dingzhou and the war with the Feng family".

  The book contains a detailed account of this event.

  Ye Qin heard a lot from Nan Tian Bao and had some understanding of this, but it wasn't that detailed.

  Twenty years ago, there were five Xian cultivators in the Nan family. The Nan family sent out four of them to conquer the Wu state's Dingzhou, but as a result, three of them were killed by the Feng family. Nan Tianba, Nan Tianba's wife, and Nan Tianba's uncle died, leaving only the weakest, Nan Tianyong, who managed to escape. For over twenty years since then, Nan Tianyong has been hiding with Nan Zhonghao (Nan Tianba's son, who was only six or seven at the time and did not participate in that battle) and Nan Zhongjie (Nan Tianyong's son, born after the war), constantly dodging and hiding, fearing that the Feng family would launch a manhunt against them.

  Ye Qin let out a sigh of relief after reading the description. It turned out that there were only five or six people in the Nan family, and except for Nan Zhongjie, who was only 15 years old and had just reached the first level of Qi Refining, almost all of them had been killed. He didn't have to worry about other powerful cultivators from the Nan family showing up to take revenge on him.

  Ye Qin found a biography of Nan Tianba from the Nan family's genealogy.

  This aroused his great interest.

  "Nan Tianba: The sixteenth head of the Nan family. Life... (omitted). Nan Tianba, with a single earth spiritual root, is the most outstanding cultivation genius in the history of the Nan family, reaching the fifth layer of the Refining Qi stage at the age of 40. Nan Tianba masters two systems of techniques: Earth and Fire. The Earth system includes techniques such as Earth Escape Technique, Flowing Sand Technique, Stone Armor Technique, Stone Shield Technique, Stone Dragon Technique, Stone Puppet Technique, Earth Piercing Technique, and over a dozen basic and intermediate Earth system techniques. The Fire system only includes the Fireball Technique, a basic fire system technique."

  Ye Qin was surprised in his heart. A cultivator with only one earth spirit root, could he cast fire system basic spells? He didn't understand. He had never seen Nan Tianba cast earth system spells either, but he had seen him release a few fireballs before. Putting that aside for now, if the records were correct, then Nan Tianba's greatest advantage and disadvantage should be here - only mastering earth system basics and primary spells, as well as one fire system fireball spell.

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  Today 4 more chapters are completed, with an average of 25,000 words per chapter, and a total of 100,000 words.

  Continue updating tomorrow morning!