Chapter 138 Changes in the Tongzhou Alliance

"I have been practicing secret techniques, which has damaged my vitality. I am running out of time and need something to prolong my life. I have received confirmation that there may be something in the tomb of this master of alchemy.

And fellow Taoists, please help me!"

Wang Yuanqiu bowed and spoke earnestly.

"Fellow Taoist Wang has said so much. If I don't say anything, it would be a bit unkind. I am willing to help you."

Zhang Yuan was the first to speak out and support Wang Yuanqiu.

"Thank you, fellow Taoist Zhang."

Wang Yuanqiu showed a happy expression and bowed.

"I am willing to help you."

Everyone spoke up. Faced with the temptation of the inheritance of an alchemy master, few people could sit still.

Even if there were some risks, everyone was willing to try.

Besides, many cultivators present joined forces, so they were not afraid that Wang Yuanqiu would have other ideas.

Among the cultivators, only Chu Chen decisively refused.

"Please forgive me, fellow Daoist Wang. I had a fight with someone a few days ago, and my injuries have not healed yet, so I can't participate in the adventure."

While speaking, Chu Chen pretended to cough a few times, and blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

"Sorry, my old injury has relapsed. I'll take my leave first."

Chu Chen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and got up and left.

The magic power was running in his eyes, and he saw the flaws of the formation with the perfect spiritual eye technique, and he passed through the formation in an instant.

Only one sentence was left: "Don't worry, fellow Daoists, I swear with my heart of Taoism that I will never spread the news of today's gathering."

Hearing this, Wang Yuanqiu and Zhang Yuan, who were about to stop Chu Chen, flickered their eyes and did not make a move.

"Wang Yuanqiu definitely has bad intentions. He threw out the so-called alchemy master's tomb. The target is most likely the many cultivators in the private room. Zhang Yuan is likely to be his accomplice."

Outside the Juxian Building, Chu Chen looked back at the location of the private room on the second floor.

From Wang Yuanqiu's words, he only heard the word conspiracy.

Whether there is a tomb of the alchemy master or not, he does not want to be involved in this conspiracy.

If he has not found the recipe of the foundation-building pill, he may be tempted, but now, he has no interest in the so-called tomb of the alchemy master.

He left directly and returned to the cave.

...

For a period of time, Chu Chen maintained a two-point one-line life. After setting up the stall every day, he returned to the cave. He rarely contacted outsiders, let alone attended parties.

Of course.

No one invited Chu Chen to attend parties again.

Half a year later, news came out in the market that Wang Yuanqiu, Zhang Yuan and the evil cultivators teamed up to trick more than a dozen cultivators of the Tongzhou League into a desperate place and killed them all.

"Wang Yuanqiu and Zhang Yuan are indeed wrong. It's a pity that several familiar Taoist friends lost their lives because of greed."

Chu Chen felt sorry for several Taoist friends.

After the news came out, the high-level officials of Chiyan Market were furious, and Lingyin Zhenren personally ordered the law enforcement team to conduct a thorough investigation.

Everyone knows that the members of Tongzhou League are equivalent to the outer disciples of Yunshui Sect. If more than ten members of Tongzhou League died at once, wouldn’t it make people think that Yunshui Sect is weak and can be bullied if the matter is not investigated strictly?

Wang Yuanqiu and Zhang Yuan were therefore listed on Yunshui Sect’s Demon Killing Order.

However, the most angry person is Chen Yan, the leader of Tongzhou League.

The members of Tongzhou League were not many, with a total of more than 30 members. The death of more than ten members at once undoubtedly caused great damage to the vitality of Tongzhou League.

It is not a simple matter to replenish the members of Tongzhou League. Each member of Tongzhou League is a high-level cultivator in the market, with strong cultivation, and the skills of drawing talismans and setting up formations.

In a short period of time, the power of Tongzhou League will inevitably be compressed to half of the previous one, or even lower, thus affecting the speed at which he can accumulate 500,000 low-grade spirit stones.

How can this not make Chen Yan angry?

Chen Yan even came to ask Chu Chen about what happened in the private room that day.

Chu Chen reluctantly said that he had sworn that he would not tell outsiders about the gathering that day, which made Chen Yan very dissatisfied, but he could do nothing about Chu Chen.

After the conversation ended unhappily, Chu Chen's status in Tongzhou League fell again and again, and he became a marginalized figure.

"It's better to be marginalized. There is no need to play the game of power struggle with the members of Tongzhou League."

Chu Chen didn't care about it. He joined Tongzhou League just for an identity to facilitate his actions in Chiyanfang City. It didn't mean that he valued Tongzhou League.

After that day.

Chen Yan recruited many casual cultivators with low cultivation, or casual cultivators who mastered the skills of drawing talismans and setting up formations, to join Tongzhou League to curb the decline of Tongzhou League.

He didn't do too much. These casual cultivators could only be regarded as reserve members of Tongzhou League, not formal members of Tongzhou League.

Only when these casual cultivators broke through the seventh level of Qi training and made enough contributions could they become formal members of Tongzhou League.

Thanks to the participation of many independent cultivators, Tongzhou League did not decline, but its power increased greatly, and it had the momentum to control the entire market trading area.

But this also led to many cultivators in the market complaining about Tongzhou League.

With more people in Tongzhou League, Tongzhou League became a mixed bag.

Some independent cultivators who joined Tongzhou League relied on the status of Tongzhou League to bully others in the market, ruining the reputation of Tongzhou League, but Chen Yan had no intention of intervening.

"Chen Yan, what are you doing?"

Chu Chen was a little confused.

It is impossible to say that Chen Yan didn't know these things.

As the leader of Tongzhou League, if Chen Yan didn't know what happened inside Tongzhou League, then he, the leader, would have been replaced by someone long ago.

Chu Chen went to Tiantong Gold Manor to buy a piece of news about Chen Yan, and then he suddenly realized.

"Chen Yan's life span is not long. He must quickly save up 500,000 low-grade spirit stones to exchange for foundation-building pills in order to break through the foundation-building period."

Chen Yan is now over 110 years old. According to the general life span of cultivators above the fourth level of Qi training, he still has at least 50 to 60 years of life.

But when he was fighting with others in his early years, he used some kind of life-threatening secret method to burn his own blood and blood in exchange for powerful strength. Although he killed the powerful enemy, his life span still dropped sharply.

According to the calculations of the people in Tiantong Gold Manor, Chen Yan should only have less than 20 years of life left.

That's why Chen Yan was so anxious.

"People who are about to die are the craziest."

Chu Chen's heart trembled, and he was more determined to have less contact with Chen Yan.

In the following time, he went to Tongzhou League less and less frequently. If it was not necessary, he would generally not go to Tongzhou League, let alone contact with Chen Yan.

This caused Chu Chen's status in Tongzhou League to decline again, so that some cultivators who had just joined Tongzhou League did not know that there was such a person as Chu Chen in Tongzhou League.

Chu Chen did not care much. His identity as a Tongzhou League member was recorded in Yunshui Sect. As long as he did not make any big mistakes, even Chen Yan would not be able to expel him from Yunshui Sect.

Joining the organization is similar to the others.

Therefore, no matter how Chen Yan and a group of casual cultivators stir up trouble, Chu Chen can sit back and relax.

Set up a stall, practice, study the formula of foundation-building pills every day, and try to refine foundation-building pills in dreams.

When the Tianling fruit and cold marrow ganoderma mature, Chu Chen can directly try to refine foundation-building pills in the outside world.

By then, Chu Chen will be able to break through the foundation-building stage.