Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 220 – Markets

A third of Liu Zhifei’s battle merits, to Yang Junshan, were still only a third of his battle merits.

However, one third of the battle achievements meant that there were two low grade spirit materials, and their value was not low either. Hearing that Liu Zhifei did not hesitate to give the battle achievements in his hands to him, Yang Junshan naturally refused.

Liu Zhifei laughed heartily and said: “Even though the Heaven-Shaken Sect’s rewards for battle are expensive, they are completely meaningless to me. Therefore, not only this once in awhile, after every battle, I will reward the person who contributed the most to the team with the human head contribution. This time, Little Yang’s contribution is obvious, Little Yang, you don’t have to decline either.

Liu Zhifei and Ning Ran, who were beneath Liu Zhifei, had their eyes flicker, as though they had guessed something from Liu Zhifei’s words, but in the end, the two of them chose to remain silent.

Seeing how determined Liu Zhifei was, Yang Junshan did not continue to be hypocritical, and only expressed his gratitude. The rest of them could do nothing even if they were angry.

This Sirius Gate cultivator with the third level of martial arts realm naturally also had storage bag s on him. Not only did he have storage bag s, he also had a magical equipment, but it waity that he had done something to the storage bag and its magical equipment. After his death, both the magical equipment and the storage bag had suffered damage on their own.

In this battle at the border, every member of the third team could be said to have gained a lot.

However, the commotion caused by this battle was extremely great. The border between the three counties that the three of them had initially been restraining had actually erupted with sucuge conflict. This caused so many Martial Realm Cultivator s to die and injure, causing the relationship between the three great sects to immediately tense up.

In an extremely disadvantageous situation, the third team almost overturned the situation with a group, which also attracted the attention of many, and there was even news that the higher ups of the Heaven-Shaken Sect were praising the performance of the inner sect disciple Liu Zhifei.

Although the disturbance caused by this storm was extremely great, and allowed the three parties to become more sensitive, within the next seven to eight days, the entire southern borders of Mengyu County had become much calmer.

On this day, Liu Zhifei returned from Sha Tian Village, and the group of people all went to welcome him. The only ones who came back were the already heavily injured Chi Ben and a few other Martial Realm Cultivator s who looked like strangers.

Zhuang Guangyu was the first to exclaim happily: Group Chestnut, how are your injuries?

The third, fifth, and seventh squads were all stationed at the same spot, patrolling the same border. They had long become familiar with each other, and this Zhuang Guangyu was also very clever, able to speak with anyone.

This time, however, he smiled and nodded at Zhuang Guangyu, but did not say anything else. Everyone could see the bitterness in his expression.

Liu Zhifei said loudly: “Alright, Junior Brother Lin, you have recovered from your injuries this time, the Fifth Group will be re-established soon, this time we have suffered greatly from Sirius Gate, but this cannot be considered as finished, we will have to find a way back sooner or later, but now Junior Brother Lin still need to be familiar with the new members of the Fifth Group, stay away from the others that are not related to you.”

Liu Zhifei brought the people from the third team to his daily cultivation room. Zhuang Guangyu could not wait and asked: “Brother Fei, did I say something wrong?

Liu Zhifei rolled his eyes at him, and said: “Usually you are the only one who talks so much, do you know whether this is appropriate?”

Zhuang Guangyu’s face became anxious, and said: “Aiyo, Big Brother Fei, I also meant a lot. Quickly tell me what happened, why hasn’t Luo Bingkun returned with us, and how are the other members of the fifth group injured?”

In the last battle, third team Luo Bingkun, Liu Zhifei and An Qingniang had all suffered from some of their injuries, of which Luo Bingkun’s were the heaviest. He was sent to Sha Tian Village to request foreatment from the Heaven-Shaken Sect’s pill refiners, but An Qingniang’s skin injury was not too severe, and even though Liu Zhifei was an internal injury, it was only caused by the excessive consumption of the spirit energy in his body. He should not be considered too heavy, as he had already recovered most of his injuries after recuperating for the past seven to eight days.

Of the remaining five injured members of Squad Five, two were severely injured, one lightly injured, the other two had their arms cut off, and one had his lower leg cut off.

Liu Zhifei said: “Luo Bingkun’s injuries are no longer serious, but after all it’s a spirit fire wound, and my entire back is almost completely burnt up. It will take more time to completely recover compared to ordinary people, and another one of the two heavily injured members of Squad Five has died, so the two who had their arms and legs broken have been sent back in time. With Junior Brother Lin, this time, only four people from Squad Five are still able to return.”

After everyone heard this, they sighed, then heard Liu Zhifei sigh, and said: “Although Junior Brother Lin has recovered, but from now on, there iossibility for your cultivation to improve, and you will only be able to maintain the fourth stage of the martial arts realm for your entire life.”

“Huh?” Everyone had a look of regret on their faces, as an inner disciple of Heaven-Shaken Sect, he was originally in his forties and was in his prime. If all went well, he could advance to the realms of life and even becomrue disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, but now that he was heavily injured, all his hopes were gone. No wonder even though his injuries were already healed, his face was now ashen.

Ning Ran seemed to have thought of something, and sighed: “It’s easy to catch a broken limb, but difficult to cultivate!”

Liu Zhifei also agreed, “That’s right, as a cultivator, as long as you are not tenacious, as long as you are not dead, we can survive as long as we have a breath of air; but speaking of weakness, it might be just a small divergence of spiritual energy during cultivation, which would eliminate the possibility of increasing our cultivation in the future.”

Xiong Xiyi suddenly spoke out: “Has the management decided to take revenge?”

Liu Zhifei was startled, then said: “According to the past, if we were to suffer a loss, we would definitely get our revenge, it’s just that we do not know what kind of regulations it is, and today, the news of Chen County’s order to open the field at the border has already spread far and wide, if we were to take revenge on a large scale, I’m afraid that when the time comes, not many Zhang County and Yao County’s people would be willing to come.”

Xiong Xiyi coldly snorted, and said: “I only know that the life and death of a fellow disciple is more important than making money!”

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Liu Zhifei shook his hand, and said somewhat irritably: “It’s all gone now, go back and train properly, and prepare well, there might be a fierce battle at any time, this is the example of the fifth team, don’t think about relaxing at any time, unless all of you don’t want to live anymore.”

On the second day, they were on patrol for the seventh time and the people of third team rested. After discussion, everyone decided to go to the Sha Tian Village’s marketplace and take a look, as well as to take a look at Luo Bingkun who was currently recuperating. Although Luo Bingkun’s injuries were a little more troublesome, it did not affect his cultivation, so third team had been waiting for him to return, and did not supplement the other members.

However, Liu Zhifei had already gone there, so he did not go, and Xiong Xiyi did not participate in the discussions of the crowd at all. In the end, Ning Ran brought the group to the Sha Tian Village.

When everyone saw Luo Bingkun, he was unsteadily walking in a small courtyard. It was obvious that he was in good spirits, but the way he walked was a bit awkward.

After seeing Yang Junshan, Luo Bingkun had to first pay large respects to him to thank him for saving his life. At that time, if not for the fact that Yang Junshan had promptly used his technique to extinguish the magma spirit flame that was produced by the Fiery Waterfall Spiritual Art, even if Luo Bingkun had not died, his internal organs would have been completely burnt by the fire energy. At the very least, his cultivation would have been damaged or even crippled.

Seeing Luo Bingkun being so serious, Fang Zhonghui did not want to accept and said: “This is too unfair, the person who tried to save you at that time was me! Although my Water Gathering Art cannot compare to Xiao Yang’s technique, your heart is the same, why can’t you just thank him?”

Luo Bingkun immediately wanted to slap himself, and quickly apologized with his hands folded in front. In the end, it was Fang Zhonghui who could not hold it anymore, and laughed along with the rest.

At this time, a young woman walked out from the small courtyard. She frowned as she looked at the people in the courtyard, who were chatting loudly. She said, “Who are you people? Don’t you know that it is forbidden to makuckus here?”

Everyone was startled, while Luo Bingkun jumped up and said: “Pill Master Zhou, I’m sorry, they did not know that this was Pill Master Zhou’s pill cultivating grounds, please forgive them.”

After that, he turned around and introduced to the crowd, “This is Heaven-Shaken Sect’s Pill Master Zhou. My injuries were healed thanks to Pill Master Zhou’s pills, otherwise they would not have recovered so quickly.”

When the crowd heard that the person in front of them was actually an alchemist and that she was so young, they couldn’t help but reveal looks of astonishment. However, alchemists had a rather high status in the cultivation world, and since they were patrolling the border, it was unknown which day they would ask for someone else’s help.

“Luo Bingkun, although I have been taking care of your injuries the entire time, when I first sent you over, in order to protect your cultivation from injury, I took the Heart Protecting Pill that Senior Zhang meticulously refined. If not for Senior Zhang’s Heart Protecting Pill, even if I could cure your injuries, your cultivation would have at least been affected.”

Luo Bingkun immediately replied: “Yes, yes, yes, I ask Pill Master Zhou to inform me where you are, if I see you in the future I can thank you in person.”

Apothecary Zhou said, “Senior Zhang is also in the border guard squad, but he is in Squad Fifteen, so perhaps you guys will meet him later when you’re patrolling the border. Oh, right, after you go back, you can directly ask your squad. The twenty teams in the border guard squads are all disciples of the inner sect of Heaven-Shaken Sect, so I’m afraid no one would not recognize you, Senior Zhang.”

Zhuang Guangyu was the most well-informed, and was the first person to ask about this type of thing. Seeing that the pill refiner in front of him was rather friendly, he asked immediately: “May I ask pill refiner, since this Senior Zhang of yours is an alchemist, why is he still joining the border guard?”

Alchemist Zhou glanced at him and said: Don’t think I don’t know what you are thinking, Senior Brother Zhang is a dual cultivator pill refiner, he was originally not sent to Sha Tian Village specially just for this trip, but specifically came here to train. Don’t look at him with just the cultivation of the third stage of martial arts realm, he already has three battle achievements in his hands, and killed a Opening Spirit School cultivator of the late stage of martial arts realm.

Zhuang Guangyu asked curiously: “Who exactly is that Senior Brother Zhang you spoke of?”

“Of course it’s Senior Brother Zhang Yueming Zhang!”