Chapter 19: The Visitors from the Liu Family (Please Collect and Read)
Moonlight as water.

In the small courtyard, in response to Chen An's friendly questioning, He Yong told him everything he knew.

It should be said that this guy's name is Liu Zhen, and he is the third son of the head of the Liu family.

Because his family's spiritual rice has been suppressed by the Chen family for many years, and his family's spiritual fields have recently been persecuted by spirit-eating rats. He suffered setbacks in the market and was unable to compete, so he came up with the idea of ​​destroying the Chen family's spiritual fields.

They found the Wang family, a beast-taming family, and spent a large sum of money to buy a special secret medicine called rat-attracting liquid, as well as some black nematode eggs.

After Liu Zhen sneaked into the Chen family, he quietly released the black nematode eggs he had prepared in advance to confuse the family. After the Chen family relaxed their guard, he sneaked into the spiritual field at night and used a special method to place rat-attracting liquid.

After three days of fermentation, it finally attracted a first-level advanced soul-eating rat!

Chen An's scalp tingled when he heard this. If he hadn't gone out late today, this guy would have escaped successfully.

Without saying a word, he knocked Liu Zhen unconscious again.

After searching the other party's storage bag, he found a whole big jar. As Liu Zhen said, it was filled with rat-attracting liquid, and there was still a little half left!
“This guy is pretty rich.”

Chen An's lips curled up slightly. In his storage bag were about a hundred spirit stones, ten bottles of Qi-nourishing pills, some spiritual medicines and herbs, and talismans, and other miscellaneous items.

There is also a black iron shield with fine scale-like patterns on its surface. It is a mid-grade defensive magic weapon.

"Luckily this guy didn't take out this magic weapon, otherwise the battle just now wouldn't have been won so easily."

Chen An lowered his head to look at Liu Zhen, who was lying in the corner like mud with a pale face. After thinking for a moment, he made up his mind.

Just as he was about to drag him away, he suddenly changed his expression, stripped off the man's robe and put it on himself.

"This robe has good defensive capabilities. It belongs to me."

Chen An had a fruitful harvest and was in a good mood. He grabbed Liu Zhen, who had already fainted, and walked out the door.

The deafening sounds of fighting gradually died down.

It seems that there is no suspense in the battle anymore.

With the elders and family heads in the clan who are in the late stage of Qi training in charge, there shouldn't be too many casualties.

When they arrived at the spiritual field, they saw several seriously injured tribesmen sitting on the ground, and their wailing sounds were endless.

There were as many as six corpses covered with white cloth!

For the Chen family, which has only seventy or eighty cultivators, the loss is not small.

After just a few glances, I saw Chen Zhao walking towards me angrily.

"Where have you been all night?"

Chen Zhao thought that Chen An came only after the event and must have been avoiding the fight on purpose.

Chen An was startled and pointed at Liu Zhen behind him: "Go catch this guy."

Then, he briefly told the other party how Liu Zhen sneaked into the Liu family and attracted the soul-eating rat.

Chen Zhao was furious after hearing this: "This man is actually a spy from the Liu family!"

After saying that, he stepped forward and kicked him hard a few times to vent his hatred.

In a daze, Liu Zhen woke up in pain, wailing and screaming twice, then fainted again in the midst of a violent attack.

Chen An saw that things were not going well, and hurriedly stopped them: "Brother, please show some mercy, just beat him half to death, don't really beat him to death, or take me to see the head of the family first, and let him deal with this man."

As they are juniors, it would not be a good idea for them to deal with them privately. The best way is to let the old guys in the clan deal with it. They will make the decision on whether to kill them or let the Liu family pay a large ransom.

"Oh, this person caused great losses to the family. I couldn't help myself. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. The head of the family and the elders are over there. I'll take you to see them now."

Chen Zhao straightened his messy clothes, combed his hair, and took Chen An to the other side of the spiritual field.

The head of the Chen family and several elders had just teamed up to take out a few first-level advanced soul-eating rats, and they all sat down on the side, gasping for breath.

Looking at the devastated spiritual field, they were discussing how to remedy the situation.

At this time, Chen Zhao and Chen An came hurriedly.

Chen An reported all the dirty things Liu Zhen had done truthfully and presented him with rat-attracting liquid.

Then he woke Liu Zhen up, pierced his other leg, and made him say it again.

The more Chen Qing listened, the angrier he became. Veins popped out on his forehead, his face turned ashen, and he remained silent for a long time.

Chen Zhao, who was standing by, became anxious and stepped forward to beat Liu Zhen, knocking him unconscious again.

Only then did Chen Qing's expression ease a little.

Seeing this scene, Chen An was speechless.

"Chen An, you have made a great contribution by capturing the culprit. I will remember your contribution for now. I will reward you after I have dealt with the Liu family's affairs."

Chen An was delighted and quickly bowed and said, "This is what the younger generation should do."

The elders nearby also felt their blood boiling after hearing this.

"This time, we must make the Liu family bleed!"

"Why don't we just go up to Qixia Mountain and wipe out the Liu family's lair?" "Hey, Great Elder is being impulsive. We are evenly matched with the Liu family. Even if we can barely take down the Liu family, we will lose most of our clan members. It would be better to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune."

Ten miles away at the foot of Yunwu Mountain.

The head of the Liu family, Liu Yuanjing, and several clansmen hid in a secluded corner.

The Liu family members looked at Yunwu Mountain, anxious as ants on a hot pan.

"Elder, it's almost dawn and it's already past midnight. Why hasn't the Third Young Master come down the mountain to join us?"

"Is something wrong?"

Liu Yuanjing raised his eyebrows and scolded, "Don't talk nonsense. The rat-attracting liquid is colorless and odorless. The means used by the Wang family are also very covert. Not to mention now, even if ten days or half a month pass, I don't think the Chen family will find any traces."

The more he talked, the less confident he felt.

He had made an appointment with Liu Zhen before to pick him up and take him back to the family at midnight. Now that it was almost dawn, he was getting anxious.

Could something really have happened?

Liu Yuanjing pondered for a moment and made a decision.

"Let's wait a little longer. If there is still no movement by noon, we can go to the Black Wind Mountain and ask Chen Qing for a cup of spiritual tea on the pretext of passing by here while hunting monsters. We can then test his attitude."

"This is a brilliant plan. You are the elder. If I were a junior, I would never be able to come up with such a brilliant plan even if I racked my brains."

"With you here, this trip will be worry-free."

Flattery came rolling in, and Liu Yuanjing nodded frequently and smiled happily.

When it was noon, seeing that there was still no movement on the mountain, Liu Yuanjing sighed and took the clansmen behind him to visit the mountain.

Chen family, reception hall.

Liu Yuanjing took a sip of the spiritual tea and said calmly, "On the way here, I heard that your family's fields were invaded by spirit-eating rats. I wonder how the situation is now?"

Chen Qing, who was sitting opposite him, narrowed his eyes slightly and had a half-smile on his face.

Normally, the two families competed with each other and seldom interacted with each other. But he suddenly came to visit at this critical moment, and everyone knew what he was thinking.

Chen Qing smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, Elder Liu. It's just a small matter. The elders of the clan have already taken care of it before midnight."

Not yet midnight?

Liu Yuanjing's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself that something was wrong.

He pretended to be calm and asked tentatively, "That's good, but why did the Soul Devouring Rat happen out of nowhere?"

Chen Qing took a deep look at Liu Yuanjing and said, "Oh, it was a random cultivator who was causing trouble. This person also happens to have the surname Liu, and his name is Liu Zhen."

"I don't know who ordered me to place rat-attracting liquid in my field, which led to this disaster. But don't worry, Elder Liu. I have caught this guy. In a few days, I will take him to the field and chop off his head to commemorate the several members of my tribe who have been killed."

Chen Qing made light of it, but to Liu Yuanjing it sounded like a bolt of lightning.

Liu Zhen used the alias He Yong, how could he not know!

When Liu Yuanjing heard the other party reveal Liu Zhen's real name, he knew that the matter had been completely exposed.

"Master Chen, can you let me meet this person?"

Chen Qing frowned, pondered for a moment, chuckled, raised his hand to call a tribesman, and gave him a few instructions.

Not long after, two members of the Chen family appeared in front of the two men, dragging a wounded and dying young man.

Seeing that Liu Zhen's thighs were stained with blood, Liu Yuanjing was furious. He suppressed his anger and said, "To be honest, Liu Zhen is the son of the head of my Liu family. I wonder if the head of the Chen family can let him go for my sake. Don't worry, I will prepare a generous gift and come to your family to apologize someday."

Chen Qing sneered upon hearing this: "That won't do. Since he is Liu Shilong's son, I will never let him go unless Liu Shilong comes in person!"

"Are you really not going to let go?"

Liu Yuanjing secretly groaned in his heart. If he didn't bring Liu Zhen back safely, not only would the mission fail, he might even lose his position as an elder.

“Hmph, let me tell you, if Liu Shilong doesn’t take ten times the loss of my family, let him see his son in his dreams!”

"I am determined to take him away today!"

Liu Yuanjing grabbed the dazed Liu Zhen, summoned his flying sword, and was about to escape.

"Old man, where are you going?"

Chen Qing was no pushover either. He immediately took out his magic sword and leapt forward to stop the other party.

There were flashes of swords and sabers in the reception room, and the two men started fighting.

The Liu family members who were waiting outside heard the noise and hurried in to help.

"Don't worry about me, save the people first!"

The Liu family members took the order, grabbed Liu Zhen and prepared to escape.

At this time, three figures blocked the door. They were the three elders of the Chen family.

(End of this chapter)