Chapter 753: Chapter 460: Identity Exposed! Seal off Nanyue! [2nd update, asking for monthly pass!]

The two brothers, Liao Lang and Liao Fan, are collectively known as the ’Er Liao’. They are quite renowned within the circle of Divine Generals in Golden Talisman City. The brothers seldom cause trouble and, since proving their Innate Dao, have focused wholeheartedly on the study of Arrays. These twin brothers have a telepathic connection and are both talented in arrays. When setting up and creating arrays, they work seamlessly as one, adding many unique elements, setting themselves apart.

With this, the Er Liao thrive in Golden Talisman City, never lacking work, and earn quite a bit.

They do not like going out, nor do they enjoy taking risks or being aggressive, but they particularly enjoy making friends. Few Divine Generals in Golden Talisman City have not interacted with them.

Before Yan Chuan hired Liao Ya, he specifically went to the Blood Shadow Temple to buy information about the Liao family of three, to understand them.

But it was the first time they met in person.

Fortunately, the first meeting resulted in a pleasant conversation, as if meeting an old friend. They conversed from past experiences to cultivation, from Martial Arts to arrays, and finally talked about recent gossip—

"Brother Qin, have you ever heard of Yan Chuan from Nanxiong City?" Liao Fan, his face flushed red with alcohol, spoke animatedly: "This Yan Chuan is incredible! In early February in Nanxiong City, he instantaneously killed the Second-Rank Divine General of the Fu Family and even made a fool out of Fu Xixiang, the City Lord of Nanxiong City with twelve layers of Innate, before disappearing without a trace. The Fu Family placed a bounty in the Blood Shadow Temple, which increased from 100 Primordial Pills to 200, and guess how much it is now, Brother Qin?"

"How much?" Yan Chuan remembered when he first arrived in Golden Talisman City, he saw his own bounty, ranked at 100, worth 202 Primordial Pills.

When he went to buy information about the Liao family’s father and sons, he went to the Blood Shadow Temple again, and checked the "Kill List", it was still 202 Primordial Pills then.

It hadn’t even been a few days, and the price had increased?

"210?" Yan Chuan guessed a higher number.

"No, no, no!" Liao Fan laughed heartily: "You can’t even imagine it!"

Yan Chuan was surprised, could it have gone up to 300?

He looked towards Liao Lang, who didn’t keep him in suspense. Liao Lang smiled at Yan Chuan and said, "It’s already increased to 800 Primordial Pills, and the ranking on the ’Kill List’ has risen to 33rd place."

So high!?

Yan Chuan’s eyes widened, doubting his ears.

"Haha!"

"Brother Qin didn’t hear wrong, it’s indeed 800 Primordial Pills."

Liao Fan gloated, "The Fu Family is in a panic!"

This doesn’t make sense.

Yan Chuan was puzzled.

He killed Fu Yuanshan, made fun of Fu Xixiang, and was involved in the death with Fu Manduo, which led the Fu Family to place a 202 Primordial Pill bounty, increasing every time—it was barely understandable.

But—

Primordial Pills?

You could buy a Sixth Rank Odd Weapon, or 16 Fifth-Rank Odd Weapons, or 160 Fourth-Rank Odd Weapons with this amount!

Is the Fu family crazy?

"The Fu Family is indeed crazy." Liao Fan laughed: "Brother Qin must not know what background Yan Chuan has."

"What background?" Yan Chuan was curious about his own origins.

Liao Fan said: "Brother Qin, do you know about ’Heavenly Ladder City’ and the ’King City Competition’?"

Hearing this.

Yan Chuan immediately understood everything: "So they dug up my old background."

The ’Mo Yin Continent’s Royal City Competition’ is the pinnacle event of the entire Mo Yin Continent’s Postnatal Realm, attracting countless attention. It was quite normal for people in Hunxi King City to participate and to be interested.

And Yan Chuan once shone brightly in the Mo Yin Competition, showcasing extraordinary talent, revealing more Absolute Skills in fierce contests—

"Wave Riding Micro Steps".

"Six Meridian Divine Sword".

"Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar".

"Holy Fire Order Divine Skill".

"Seven Injuries Fist".

"Heavenly Mountain Broken Plum Hand".

"Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm".

"Xuanming Divine Palm".

...

Too many.

At the same time, in the battle of Nanxiong City, Yan Chuan also exhibited the Absolute Skills like "Wave Riding Micro Steps", "Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar", and "Holy Fire Order Divine Skill".

Even though there exists a certain barrier between the Postnatal and Innate, between Heavenly Ladder City and reality, with the Fu Family’s capacity and the Blood Shadow Temple’s abilities, given a bit of time and luck, connecting ’Tan Valley Team’s ’South Sea Crocodile God’ from the ’Mo Yin Continent’s Royal City Competition’ with Nanxiong City’s ’Yan Chuan’ wasn’t difficult.

After the connection was made—

"Brother Qin!"

"Can you imagine, that Yan Chuan was still struggling in the Royal City Competition last November, unable to even make it out of the Ten-day Tournament! But in just three short months, by February of this year, he could instantly kill a Second-Rank Divine General, unafraid of Third-Rank Divine Generals!"

"Such rapid growth!"

"It’s terrifying!"

"Too terrifying!"

"The Fu Family was obviously scared, hence raising the bounty."

"800 Primordial Pills."

"Under such a heavy reward, there will surely be brave men. In Golden Talisman City, many Divine Generals have taken heed of the news, rushing to Nanxiong City to track Yan Chuan’s whereabouts."

"However, Nanyue Lake where Yan Chuan first appeared has been completely sealed off by the Fu Family. Watching their posture, it seems they intend to dig out Yan Chuan, eliminating the great threat by any means necessary!"

Liao Fan spoke passionately.

That Yan Chuan, within three months, not only proved the Dao to Innate from Peak State but also made Rapid Progress, his progress was unbelievably fast.

Yan Chuan!

With boundless potential!

In stark contrast, the Fu Family seemed flustered, fearing Yan Chuan would escape and grow into a major problem. The bounty rose sharply to 800 Primordial Pills, making a grand show of sealing off Nanyue Lake, they were indeed panicking.

"This young man has the air of a War God!"

"Facing such a genius, having become enemies, of course, they can’t let him go." Liao Lang laughed, a basic operation of any historical family.

...

After Yan Chuan left the Liao family, he called Wang Zhengyi and recounted to him the news he heard about the Fu Family sealing off Nanyue Lake, intending to dig three feet deep: "This is just what I learned from Er Liao, I’ll go to the Blood Shadow Temple later to purchase detailed intelligence. Your ’Alligator Beast Avatar’ must be careful in Nanyue Lake."

"I indeed didn’t know." Wang Zhengyi immediately became serious.

The Fu Family sealing off Nanyue Lake?

When did this happen?

His ’Alligator Beast Avatar’ has been meditating in the cave for the past few days, in the crucial stage of refining the fifth Fire Bud Crystal, so he hasn’t noticed the changes in the outside world.

Digging three feet deep?

Sealing off Nanyue Lake?

"Then I’m in danger!" Wang Zhengyi frowned.

The Fu Family is powerful, with many Divine Generals and abundant martial arts, and under their command, they have top elite forces no less than the ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’, wiping out Nanyue Lake is a piece of cake.

Now it’s a matter of how much strength and determination the Fu Family has.

"Many, including Er Liao and other Divine Generals in Golden Talisman City, think the Fu Family raised the bounty on me and targeted Nanyue Lake because they found out about my details in the ’King City Competition’; they aim to eliminate future troubles, but I just don’t think that’s right." Yan Chuan said.

Wang Zhengyi’s eyes changed, "Could it be—"

"That’s right!" Yan Chuan nodded.

Targeting a mere Divine General not yet grown, whose strength is still under Third Rank, even though Yan Chuan’s growth is rapid, he thinks there should be no threat to the Fu Family below Fifth or Sixth Rank.

Why is the Fu family so reactive?

If not just because Yan Chuan is incredibly talented, why significantly ramp up the bounty?

The average person wouldn’t think of this.

Only Yan Chuan and Wang Zhengyi knew—

"In Nanyue Lake!"

"There’s Fire Bud Crystal!"

... 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Wang Zhengyi furrowed his brows, "Others think the Fu Family increased your bounty because you are talented enough to pose a considerable threat, and their motive to seal off Nanyue Lake can thus be attributed to you. However, in reality, the raised bounty is a cover, and even your performance in the King City Competition might be a smoke screen released by the Fu Family."

Openly repairing the plank roads while secretly crossing at Chencang!

And the Fu family’s real aim is ’Fire Bud Crystal’, is the ’Moth Vine’!

"This is just my speculation." Yan Chuan felt quite certain: "The Fire Bud Crystals in Nanyue Lake are scattered on the beasts in the water; if the Fu Family is investigating me and reaches Nanyue Lake, encountering a Beast King carrying Fire Bud Crystals by chance—this probability is small, but not impossible."

Where there’s existence, there’s trace.

The Moth Vine forms Fire Bud Crystals that shoot in all directions; unless Yan Chuan, Chen Ze, Wang Zhengyi, and Baili Qingfeng intercepted nearly a thousand Fire Bud Crystals altogether, they would surely leak out, eventually exposing the Moth Vine.

Both men frowned.

Yan Chuan shook his head: "It’s too difficult to block the news of the Moth Vine. Since the Fu Family found out, it can’t be stopped." He looked at Wang Zhengyi, "Nanyue Lake is treacherous; how do you plan for your ’Alligator Beast Avatar’?"

"A wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall." Wang Zhengyi stated cautiously, "I shall retreat first!"

Wang Zhengyi left the ’Alligator Beast Avatar’ in Nanyue Lake primarily to oversee the Moth Vine, waiting for its next crystallization, and to continue searching for Beast Kings and seize the scattered Fire Bud Crystals from them.

But now that the Fu Family is coming, should they truly find the Moth Vine, they will undoubtedly sweep through Nanyue Lake with the force of a thunderbolt, leaving no place for the ’Alligator Beast Avatar’—it must be relocated at once.

"There’s no time like the present."

"I’ll leave now."

Wang Zhengyi, with his Monkey King Avatar instantly meditated, his consciousness transferred, and he went to his ’Alligator Beast Avatar’ in Nanyue Lake.

"Let’s hope there is still time." Yan Chuan sighed, turning back to the Divine General’s Courtyard to continue his cultivation.

However, before the day was half over, Wang Zhengyi came to him again—

...

"Old Yan! Sorry to interrupt." In Nanyue Lake, the Alligator Beast Avatar opened its mouth and spat out Yan Chuan.

"There’s no need for such words between us." Yan Chuan waved his hand, he came fully armed, looking around as soon as he arrived, and when he saw five strong enemies around, he asked Wang Zhengyi: "Did you discover Divine Generals from the Fu Family?"

"No, no." Wang Zhengyi hurriedly, not bothering with apologies, said urgently: "I discovered traces of Ying Li!"

Not the Fu Family!

But Ying Li?

Yan Chuan certainly remembered this Beast King, Innate Ten Heavens, it was one of the Third-Rank Beast Kings that participated in the ’Fire Bud Crystal’ snatch at Moth Island, intercepting at least sixty Fire Bud Crystals, truly a mobile treasure trove.

Since the Moth Island event, Wang Zhengyi’s Alligator Beast Avatar primarily focused on two things—

First, fully refining the ’Fire Bud Crystals’.

The second was tracking the whereabouts of various Beast Kings in Nanyue Lake.

Earlier, he had found the traces of the Eight-winged Centipede, Silver Hair Crab, and Golden Python, obtaining a total of 35 Fire Bud Crystals, personally securing 32 of them, increasing his held Fire Bud Crystals to 193 pieces. With just 18 more, his ’Alligator Beast Avatar’ could also accumulate enough for 211 Fire Bud Crystals, directly aiming at a Sixth Rank Physique.

Unfortunately, the arrival of the Fu Family ruined Wang Zhengyi’s opportunity.

Yan Chuan, Wang Zhengyi originally thought it was near hopeless, or they would have to ask Chen Ze to divide the remaining 18 Fire Bud Crystals.

But to their surprise, as they were about to leave, Wang Zhengyi happened to find traces of Ying Li.

Opportunity cannot be missed!

Once missed, it won’t come again!

No matter the current risks lurking in Nanyue Lake, Wang Zhengyi couldn’t care less nor could he worry that Yan Chuan was cultivating; in urgency, he called out.

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