Chapter 97 Unable to Promote
"What is this thing and how did it get here?"
The moment Zhou Chen came out, he controlled the wooden man to wantonly destroy the Wang family's buildings and kill anyone he saw. He then jumped off the wooden man's shoulder and ran towards his own courtyard.

Everyone was attracted by the huge wooden man and no one noticed Zhou Chen. The wooden man was too huge and masters below the eighth rank had no strength to resist.

Even a seventh-rank master could only passively defend and could not hurt the wooden man at all. After Wang Hu came over, he could only watch. At this moment, a white-haired old man broke out of the ground and slapped the wooden man on the head.

In an instant, the entire wooden man seemed to have lost its life, and in the blink of an eye it turned into sawdust all over the sky. Then the white-haired old man came to Wang Hu's side.

"Meet the ancestor."

"Pass the order down and use all your strength to bring Zhou Chen back to me, regardless of life or death. Is there any news about the person who went to capture his wife?"
"Don't worry, ancestor. We have already sent out the people. I believe they have succeeded by now."

Zhou Chen ran all the way. He didn't expect that there was a middle-third-grade master in this small Ping'an County, and he had offended him to death. Now he could only leave here quickly.

Soon he saw the front door of his house. To his surprise, there was a layer of green poisonous fog around the house. He recognized this poisonous fog. It was Xiaohu's magical power.

Then he quickly contacted Xiaohu through the induction between the two of them. After a while, Xiaohu responded to him, and at the same time, the poisonous fog outside the door also dispersed to create a passage.

Zhou Chen saw several blackened corpses in the passage. He knew what these people were doing without hesitation. Zhou Chen did not delay and went in to briefly explain to Leng Yiyao. Then the two of them took Xiaohu and left Qinghua County overnight.

After the two of them sneaked out of the city, they headed towards Wu'an County. After leaving the city, Zhou Chen finally felt relieved.

At the same time, Wang Hu in the Wang family also received the news that several people who went to capture Leng Yiyao had been poisoned to death, and Zhou Chen had already left the city. Wang Hu was furious and then took out a letter and gave it to his confidant, asking him to deliver the letter to the Wang family in Wu'an County overnight.

At the same time, Lord Xia in the county government office also received the same news. The one who came to report the news was Zhao Kuo, "It seems that I overestimated him. I originally thought that he could help me eliminate the three major forces, but I didn't expect that he was still a little short of being able to deal with the Wang family."

"Forget it, he is already a reserve member of the Demon Suppression Bureau, so just let him go," Zhao Kuo said and left the room.

Five days later at noon, Zhou Chen and his companion saw a huge city. Standing in the distance, they could not see the edge of the city wall at a glance, and the city wall was at least twice as high as that of Qinghua County.

"We're finally here. Let's go into the city, Yiyao." Then he led the two of them towards the city gate. There were a lot of people entering and leaving the city gate at noon, and Zhou Chen discovered that one had to pay silver to enter Wu'an County, which seemed to be twenty cents per person.

Although twenty cents was nothing to them, it was a considerable expense for an ordinary person. Soon it was Zhou Chen and his friends' turn. Zhou Chen didn't want to cause trouble, so he immediately took out forty cents and paid it.

Just when he was about to go in, he was told that Xiaohu also had to pay, otherwise he would be thrown out of the city. Zhou Chen found it ridiculous and was about to argue, but Leng Yiyao pulled his sleeve.

Zhou Chen had no choice but to take out another twenty cents and hand it in, only then was he allowed to pass. After entering the city, Zhou Chen was amazed by the prosperity here. He originally thought that Qinghua County was prosperous enough, but he didn't expect that Wu'an County was even more prosperous.

The streets were bustling with people, and Zhou Chen and Leng Yiyao immediately put their previous unhappiness behind them. After walking for a while, Zhou Chen took Leng Yiyao to find a decent inn to stay in. The two asked for a room on the upper floor, which was not cheap, costing 100 coins a day. Although Leng Yiyao felt bad, Zhou Chen didn't care and stayed there for the time being. Late at night, Zhou Chen sat at the head of the bed and glanced at Leng Yiyao who was sleeping beside him, and then opened his own panel.

Now that he has accumulated enough enhancement points, he can perform another enhancement. According to his guess, this enhancement will be enough for him to enter the sixth-grade realm. From now on, he will be a middle-third-grade warrior and will no longer be looked down upon by those lower-third-grade warriors.

As the memory was received, Zhou Chen's Demon-Suppressing Sword Technique had reached the realm of perfection. Zhou Chen immediately opened his attribute panel excitedly.

What he didn't expect was that his strength was still at the seventh level, and his own strength had reached 1000. Zhou Chen was puzzled. Logically, after reaching one thousand, he should have broken through to the sixth level, but why was he still at the seventh level now, and after increasing from small success to great success, shouldn't it have only increased by one hundred?

Zhou Chen thought about it for half the night but couldn't figure it out. In the end, he had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being and deal with it after he arrived at the Demon Suppression Division.

Zhou Chen once again opened the mission scroll given to him by Zhen Nantian and went deep into Wuhua Mountain to hunt an eighth-grade monster.

Wuhua Mountain is not far from Wu'an County, about five miles out of the city. Zhou Chen planned to hunt a monster in the next two days and then join the Demon Suppression Division.

However, before going there, I still need to inquire about the situation in Wuhua Mountain. After all, this is not Qinghua County, and it is not known whether there are any powerful monsters on Wuhua Mountain.

In the following days, in addition to shopping with Leng Yiyao, Zhou Chen also privately inquired about some things about Wuhua Mountain. However, the people did not know much about Wuhua Mountain and just advised Zhou Chen not to go to Wuhua Mountain unless necessary.

In the end, I had to use some silver to get some information. It is rumored that there are four powerful demon kings in the depths of Wuhua Mountain. As for how powerful they are, no one knows because everyone who has seen them is dead, but it is speculated that these four demon kings are all at the sixth level or above.

When Zhou Chen got the news, he couldn't help but curse, "Luckily I inquired about it in advance, otherwise I would have been so stupid to go to the mountains and never come back."

Zhou Chen had no intention of giving up this mission, because the mission only required him to hunt an eighth-grade monster. Moreover, according to the news, there were many monsters on Wuhua Mountain, and he could encounter eighth-grade monsters even if he did not enter the mountains.

Then early the next morning, Zhou Chen packed up his things and rushed towards Wuhua Mountain. He soon arrived at the foot of Wuhua Mountain.

I heard that Wuhua Mountain has six peaks, so he only needs to move around in the first three peaks and he will be fine. As for the last three peaks, he dare not go there because it is rumored that there are demon kings active in the last three peaks.

After Zhou Chen went up the mountain, he did not stay at the first peak, but went directly to the second peak, because the first peak was full of ordinary wild beasts, and there were no demon beasts at all.

It was only after reaching the second mountain that he slowly saw traces of monster activities, but there were not many and most of them were ninth-grade monsters. Zhou Chen continued to move upwards.

The third mountain is very huge. The size of the first two mountains combined is not as big as this one. This is also the place with the most monsters. Ninth-grade monsters can be seen everywhere, and only an eighth-grade monster can be seen occasionally. However, Zhou Chen was not in a hurry to take action.

(End of this chapter)