Protect Our Chief-Chapter 571 - 43: Xue’an, save me! Shouzhe, save me! _3
"More than ten years ago, under the decision of the patriarch, our clan used foreign cement mixed with soil to reinforce the river embankment, initiated large-scale water conservancy projects, and built terraced fields along the banks, making Ping’an Town a gradually significant granary."
Speaking of such endeavors, Wang Xiaohan also felt quite proud.
The Wang Family’s management of the Ping’an Town area could be said to be generation after generation of tireless effort, regardless of cost. Without such persistent efforts, there would be no Ping’an Town today.
"It is precisely because of families like the Wang Family, who possess pioneering spirit and are willing to strive across generations, that Longzuo County can continuously expand, and our Human Race’s habitat can gradually expand," Qiaan Xuehan gazed at the vast and magnificent terraced fields in the distance, his round face full of emotion and admiration, "The ancestors like Ancestor Zhou Xuan and Patriarch Shouzhe of your noble clan are indeed eminent and admirable."
Qiaan Xuehan was extremely humble and low-key, always placing himself in the position of a junior or a scholar when speaking. But in fact, he was only about ten years younger than Qiaan Xue’an, and similar in age to Wang Shouzhe.
In higher-level families, direct vein males often marry and have children somewhat late. After all, being born into such a family, as long as the talent is not significantly flawed, achieving a Spirit Platform Realm cultivation is almost inevitable, and many direct lineage members aim to ultimately achieve the Celestial Human Realm.
Like Qiaan Xuehan’s father, Qiaan Qinhong, when he was young, he focused solely on cultivation, and only after taking control of the family at age sixty did he start to marry and have children.
Currently, Qiaan Qinhong is just over a hundred years old but has already stepped into the Celestial Human Realm, looking only middle-aged in appearance. This is despite him, as the patriarch, deliberately dressing older to appear mature and steady. If he dressed younger, he’d actually look quite like those "young talents" in the Academy.
"Patriarch Shouzhe is indeed extraordinary." Qiaan Family Elder Qian Jingde also praised Wang Shouzhe highly, "Years ago, when I met him at the Celestial Essence Pill Workshop in Longzuo County, he was truly deep and vast, with an extraordinary demeanor. His future achievements are unlimited~"
Among his descendants, Qiaan Xuefu, who had great promise, became good friends with Wang Shouye of the Wang Family. Due to such circumstances, he was comparatively knowledgeable about Wang Shouzhe, belonging to the faction within the Elder Council that was close to the Wang Family.
This is also why the Qiaan Family’s Elder Council and Patriarch Council sent him along in the diplomatic mission.
Chatting and admiring the scenery, before they knew it, the boat had already traveled halfway and reached the center of Anjiang.
On both sides, the waters stretched endlessly, unable to see the banks, only faintly seeing the peaks layering in the distance like the barriers of the Liping Mountain Range.
From a distance, those mountain ranges seemed as if they were drawn by ink wash, blurry, and at the end, seemed to merge with the sky. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Suddenly.
A dark shadow abruptly appeared in the turbulent waters rushing down the upstream.
It was a small dark awning skiff. It rushed down the river at great speed, like an arrow, heading straight for the ferry boat.
There were two people on the skiff.
One was a rower dressed in a raincoat, wearing a bamboo hat.
The other was a shapely woman.
She was standing gracefully at the prow of the skiff, her face veiled, hiding her true appearance.
The river wind was fierce, yet her long gown that carried a celestial aura was untouched by even a wisp of the wind, with ribbons and pleats naturally draping, as if in a quiet room, not moving an inch.
The rushing river could not hide her refined aura.
"Everyone, be careful!"
In just an instant, Elder Qian Jingde, whose cultivation had reached the middle stage of the Celestial Human Realm, felt a strong sense of crisis.
His expression changed dramatically: "Something’s wrong."
Just as he spoke, the rower on the skiff acted first.
His torso shuddered as the raincoat exploded into countless fragments.
At the same time, his body and bones rapidly expanded, in a blink transforming into a "Vajra Giant" with a height of over a ten feet.
Though this "Vajra Giant" was large, his movements were as agile as a sparrow.
In the fierce river wind, he strode across the river surface as if on solid ground, reaching the front of the ferry boat in a blink.
The next moment.
He soared into the air like a mythical bird, fiercely punching towards the ferry boat.
The wind was fierce, the Qi Force exploded.
In that instant, he descended like a War God Vajra come to earth, imposing and unassailable.
"Immovable Vajra Battle Technique?!"
Elder Qian Jingde’s eyes suddenly turned serious.
As he activated his cultivation technique, a surge of purple Profound Qi burst forth from within him.
Without hesitation, he leaped into the air, surrounded by boiling purple Qi, making him appear like a blazing sun of purple Qi, tremendous in power, instilling fear.
The technique he cultivated was the Qiaan Family’s signature technique "Purple Urgent True Yang Technique," a rare and profoundly mysterious cultivation technique.
It is said that when cultivated to the extreme, the "Purple Urgent True Yang Technique" gives Profound Qi as solid as a mountain, with the first generation founding ancestor of Qiaan Family once using it to fend off three Purple Mansion Realm Ascendants alone, holding for an hour before defeat.
Of course, this tale might be exaggerated, but the Qiaan Family’s lasting existence is indeed owing much to the "Purple Urgent True Yang Technique."
Its combat power is formidable, even among upper-grade techniques it’s notable.
The surging purple Profound Qi condensed into a palm seal, which Qian Jingde countered with a backhand strike.
"Boom!"
Punch and palm collided, a violent shockwave spreading in all directions, shaking the ferry boat and causing waves on the surrounding waters.
The Qi Force also blew off the rower’s bamboo hat, revealing his true face.
It turned out to be a bald monk with a fierce look.
"It’s you... the traitor ’Evil Vajra’ from Prajna Temple?!" Elder Qian Jingde’s expression changed drastically, "You’ve got guts attacking our Qiaan Family openly!"
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