Chapter 1198: Chapter 1198: Is It a Female Cultivator?
The Fang Market operates under an elder council system, with the actual managent in the hands of the relevant functional departnts, which is why Elder Bai can’t command Steward Gao.
However, the Chief Elder remains the head of the Fang Market, there is no doubt about this.
In most Fang Markets, the Chief Elder is a high-rank cultivator, but there are quite a few who are at the interdiate level.
The Chief Elder of the Mingsha Fang Market is at the fifth stage of the interdiate level, on par with Elder Bai.
Feng Jun and the others were reluctant to deal with the Fang Market, leaving Du Fanghui to manage things, while the rest returned to Lantern Town the sa day.
However, Kong Ziyi stated that while she could understand whatever decision the Fang Market made, anyone who wanted to spare Elder Bai was her enemy.
In the end, she couldn’t tolerate Elder Bai’s disrespect towards the Elder Token—you are not even at a high-rank level, yet you flippantly suggested wanting to handle the token personally… You’re really out of line!
The three brothers of the Lu Family conducted considerable business in the Mingsha Fang Market, and were involved in many industries in the form of shared profits—there is no concept of shared profits in this realm, but any industry under the protection of the Lu Family is guaranteed to yield returns.
Feng Jun didn’t understand this at all, so he simply stated, we only care about the visible wealth, and will not touch those things.
They confiscated a significant amount of visible wealth from the Lu Family brothers’ residence, including more than a hundred thousand Spirit Stones—Feng Jun did not verify the exact amount; he just took thirty thousand for Kong Ziyi, kept twenty thousand each for himself and Huang Fu Wuxia, and let the others split the rest.
He took all the cultivation techniques, barely touched the talismans, and the genius treasures hidden by the three brothers were not abundant, but there was a bottle of soul-condensing liquid refined from the wild maple lychee, which he took away.
The three brothers had a lot of industries in the Fang Market; Feng Jun had no intention of getting involved. In his opinion, these things should be left to the Fang Market to handle, and those who put in the effort should fight for so too, which would effectively reduce the negative impression of the Fang Market on him.
Strictly speaking, Du Fanghui, who was left behind to solve problems, also held considerable influence. Although the Du Family was previously oppressed by the Lu Family’s three brothers, it was, in fact, a family with three interdiate-level cultivators, and their age structure was relatively reasonable.
Upon returning to Lantern Town, besides the original four cultivators and Jing Qingyang, Chen Junwei, there was now an additional Du Wentian.
Du Wentian was very friendly towards them, following them with the pretense of “investigating White Pebble Beach,” but in reality, he wanted to get closer to these young cultivators.
By the ti they reached Lantern Town, it was already midnight. Feng Jun did not release the small courtyard residence, but temporarily set up two tents for lodging.
Du Wentian, having fought the whole day, also received more than eight thousand Spirit Stones, and bought a large amount of food in the Fang Market, wanting to celebrate. However, just as he was setting out the food and Spiritual Wine, he noticed Feng Jun leaving the range of the defensive formation and flying into the wilderness.
“Hmm?” He was a bit confused and turned to ask Yang Cultivator, “Yang Cultivator, what is Mountain Master Feng going to do?”
Yang Cultivator’s eyes flashed with an odd look, and he shook his head after a mont of silence, “Don’t ask, just rest.”
Du Wentian hesitated a mont and asked, “Then do we not need to hold this celebration?”
“Let’s wait and see,” Yang Cultivator waved his hand, “It’s midnight, after all, Kong and Huang Fu may not find it convenient…”
Feng Jun went out, of course, to experint with Dong Liuye. The more he interacted with Yang Cultivator, the more he was sowhat embarrassed to be too ruthless, although the other party wanted to beco a subordinate of the Nangong Family, he really couldn’t bring himself to dislike this person.
Coincidentally, Dong Liuye, also an interdiate-rank cultivator, ca right to his door, allowing Feng Jun to practice on her.
He flew alone for more than a hundred miles, stopped in a dense forest, sensed around, and took out a telescope to look around, confirming that no one was in the vicinity, he released Dong Liuye from the Spirit Beast Bag.
Dong Liuye was only under a restriction from Yang Cultivator and was not unconscious. Once she ca out of the Spirit Beast Bag, she looked around.
The light in the middle of the night was not great, and she was in the middle of a dense forest, so what she could see was very limited, but her expression changed instantly, “Mountain Master Feng, spare , whatever you want to do, I’ll comply…”
Being released in such a place in the middle of the night, she had already guessed what the other party intended to do.
Dong Liuye was quite beautiful, comparable to Huang Fu Wuxia, and had an air of mature charm that Chairman Huang Fu did not possess, now pleading pitifully for rcy, was indeed very moving.
But Feng Jun ignored her; he couldn’t forget the viciousness when she shot the poison bead.
He carefully absorbed Spirit Stones into the Stone Ring until he reached the value he set, then reached out to grab Dong Liuye regardless of her bitter pleading, and exited the mobile space.
Arriving at the Earth Realm, seeing the unconscious Dong Liuye, Feng Jun raised his hand, first released the small courtyard residence, connected it to spiritual energy, and then looked around, “Teacher i?”
Before long, Zhang Caixin ca over, “Teacher i is on the phone… Oh, a female cultivator?”
“Not just a female cultivator, but an interdiate-rank one at that,” Feng Jun smiled, “So I’m telling you, the interdiate-rank stage is just less dangerous, not entirely without danger. Don’t blindly be overconfident.”
He intended to use this opportunity to issue so warnings, but Zhang Caixin’s focus was entirely elsewhere, “This woman… she’s quite pretty, did she reject you?”
“Ridiculous!” Feng Jun snapped at her irately, “Am I such a casual person?”
Zhang Caixin responded with a mischievous smile, “It’s hard to say; could you honestly claim you’re not flirtatious?”
Feng Jun understood then, Xiao Caixin was indeed fishing for a complint, “Do you think I’d take a liking to a woman of this caliber?”
Sure enough, Zhang Caixin blinked, “I think she’s pretty too.”
Feng Jun answered blandly, “She doesn’t even asure up to you.”
Xiao Caixin bead at this, but her eyes turned crafty again, “Then how about compared to others?”
At this mont, Feng Jing’s voice ca from not far away, “Who’s being compared to whom?”
Zhang Caixin playfully stuck out her tongue and stopped talking.
Once Teacher i walked over, she too was surprised, “This ti… it’s a female cultivator? You’re capable of dealing with won too?”
She was well aware of why these interdiate cultivators ended up unconscious.
Feng Jun took out his mobile phone and swiped it a few tis, shaking his head with a wry smile, “Well, this person has a fractured sea of consciousness and more than half of her soul is damaged… even if she survives, brain death is avoided, but she will most likely be in a vegetative state.”
“Vegetative state?” Zhang Caixin’s eyes flicked, “Aren’t you quite adept at treating vegetative patients?”
Feng Jun shook his head, “It’s not the sa; these are two different kinds of vegetative states. Elder Yuan was able to be awakened, but Dong Liuye has suffered damage to her sea of consciousness… her life value is only fifteen percent left.”
The last sentence was murmured softly, but not intentionally suppressed, and hearing this, both Zhang Caixin and Feng Jing couldn’t help but express surprise in unison, “How did you co up with that figure?”
“It’s hard to explain,” Feng Jun smiled slightly, murmuring again, “It seems healing is unlikely.”
“What if she can’t be healed?” Teacher i looked at him, “Do you still need my help?”
She didn’t know what Feng Jun was doing, but if this person couldn’t be healed, perhaps… she didn’t need to be sent to that realm?
Feng Jun pondered for a mont, then shook his head, “If I can’t heal her, it doesn’t an others can’t. I’ll still need to trouble you.”
Feng Jing blinked, “Right now?”
“No need,” Feng Jun shook his head, “Let’s cultivate for a few days; I still need to spend so ti here.”
After cultivating for a dozen days, Elder Yu finally sent a ssage, saying he had secured an oil storage facility in Jin Province, with six storage tanks of 80,000 cubic ters each. Initially, the second phase of construction was supposed to have ten more such tanks, but the work has halted.
Hearing this, Feng Jun sighed inwardly, It wasn’t in vain to journey to the Cultivation World, and so he asked, “How’s the security in the surrounding area?”
Elder Yu indicated that this oil storage base was built close to railway and highway access. Previously it was a state-owned forest farm, now a deserted area with clear land ownership, no residents living there, and at most, villagers occasionally coming to chop wood and make charcoal.
This oil storage base isn’t large, but since Jin Province is an inland province, having such a scale is already rare.
As for security, there are about twenty guards there, working in shifts to protect the basic facilities.
Elder Yu offered, if you find the place acceptable, I can arrange to replace the guards with personnel we trust.
These trusted personnel aren’t military forces, but so business collaborators of the Yu Family. Anyone operating in business or running a factory inevitably employs security personnel, and it would be simple to dispatch a few over.
Thinking about how the mobile space was conveniently paused at White Pebble Beach, Feng Jun expressed that he needed to inspect the place first.
Thus, his journey in Chaoyang concluded, and he drove directly towards Jin Province.
To reach Jin Province, he had to pass by Zhengyang, but Feng Jun did not return to Luohua; he rely made a phone call en route to inquire about the current state of Luohua.
Everything in the manor was fine, Elder Yu, Elder Yuan, and Elder Peng enjoyed a relaxing ti, Chen Shengwang was busy shuttling between House No. 1 and the bamboo forest in the valley every day, occasionally inquiring about the manor’s affairs but never ddling aimlessly.
Shen Qingyi’s situation was quite similar, although owing to her different status, she had much less ti to cultivate…
Everything was normal at the manor, but upon hearing he wouldn’t return, Sister Hong was restless, chasing them in a car and finally successfully intercepting them, forcing Gazi to detach from the main group and return to Luohua to keep watch.
The next morning, Feng Jun brought three won to inspect the oil storage facility.
Work here had already stopped. Allegedly, this site was initially developed by a private enterprise, but was ordered to be halted for not complying with policy regulations. Currently, the official governnt wishes to take it over, though the price negotiation is at an impasse.
The private company wished to recoup more to mitigate losses, but the official governnt regarded the construction as non-compliant and irrelevant to the national energy layout, asserting that the purchase was essentially for scrap usage.
Even now, the two sides are still haggling, and the security currently guarding the oil storage facility is hired by the private enterprise.
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