Chapter 139: The Glory Is Gone

When ordinary mortals are about to die, they may do crazy things that others cannot understand.

For example, when a mortal emperor is about to die, he changes his orders every day and slaughters his meritorious ministers at will. That is a common thing.

Not to mention, Chen Yan, a cultivator who has great power and controls the Tongzhou League, may do things that are even more exaggerated than the mortal emperor when he is about to die.

Chu Chen didn't think so before, but when Chen Yan generally increased the prices of talismans and formation flags in the market trading area by 20% to 30%, Chu Chen suddenly felt Chen Yan's madness.

The prices of talismans and formation flags in the market trading area will not fluctuate too much unless something big happens.

Chen Yan's move seems to have destroyed the trading rules of the market trading area, and instantly aroused the dissatisfaction of many casual cultivators in the market.

Some casual cultivators want to report the Tongzhou League, but how can a group of casual cultivators do anything to the Tongzhou League?

There were already several inner disciples of the Yunshui Sect standing behind Chen Yan, and after he made some arrangements, the high-level officials in the market turned a blind eye to his actions.

Even the few casual cultivators who reported the Tongzhou Alliance were inexplicably robbed later, either with their limbs broken or with all their spiritual stones and treasures looted.

The Fangshi Law Enforcement Team made a hasty inspection and did not find the murderer, so they stopped caring.

"If God wants to destroy him, he must first make him crazy."

Chu Chen was awed.

Chen Yan was so crazy about making money. If he succeeds in breaking through the foundation-building stage in the future, it would be fine. If he fails to break through, he will definitely be liquidated by all parties.

Yunshui Sect did not care about this matter, and also wanted to cultivate Chen Yan.

Previously, various forces besieged Yunshui Sect, causing Yunshui Sect to suffer considerable losses and losing two foundation-building real people.

More than a decade later, Yunshui Sect only had one new foundation-building real person.

If Chen Yan can break through the foundation-building stage and fill the remaining vacancy, it will naturally be good for you, me and everyone.

Everyone is happy.

"Chen Yan is old and weak, and his life span has dropped sharply. The hope of breaking through the foundation-building stage is not great."

Chu Chen is not optimistic about Chen Yan.

If Chen Yan was in his prime, or had already broken through the twelfth level of Qi training, he would still have a chance of breaking through the foundation-building stage.

But Chen Yan's life span has dropped drastically, and not long ago, he had just broken through the eleventh level of Qi training, and had not yet stepped into the twelfth level of Qi training.

After the ninth level of Qi training, each breakthrough of a cultivator can increase the chance of breaking through the foundation-building stage by 10%, and the eleventh level of Qi training only increases the chance by 20%.

There is little hope.

As time goes by, Chen Yan's behavior becomes more and more crazy.

Not only does he exploit the casual cultivators in the market, but he also exploits the members of the Tongzhou League.

The monthly membership fee that the formal members of the Tongzhou League have to pay has doubled, which means that they have to pay 300 low-grade spirit stones every month.

Even the reserve members of the Tongzhou League have to pay 100 low-grade spirit stones every month.

This makes many members of the Tongzhou League complain bitterly.

Some reserve members of the Tongzhou League can't stand it and choose to withdraw from the Tongzhou League, but soon, these reserve members who withdrew from the Tongzhou League also suffered a disaster.

Many cultivators of Tongzhou League were shocked and dared not to say they would quit Tongzhou League. They could only grit their teeth and hold on.

Fortunately, Chen Yan's madness lasted less than a year, and everything returned to normal.

Enough spirit stones!

Chen Yan bought the only foundation-building pill in Chiyanfang City with 500,000 low-grade spirit stones, and then entered a deep retreat in order to break through the foundation-building period.

"It's finally over."

After Chen Yan's retreat, countless cultivators in Chiyanfang City breathed a sigh of relief.

Without Chen Yan's influence, the prices of talismans and formation flags fell rapidly, and Chiyanfang City returned to its former prosperity. The trading area of ​​the market was bustling with people and was extremely popular.

For several consecutive days, Chu Chen earned three or four hundred low-grade spirit stones every day.

The decline and popularity of the trading area of ​​the market did not have much impact on Chu Chen's life. He has been living a peaceful life.

He also studied the formation. In the past, he got a book about formation from the remains of the old cultivator in Qingyi Mansion.

He had no time to study before because he was busy with other things.

Now he can study the formation while waiting for the Tianling Fruit and Hansui Lingzhi to mature.

"As long as the time is long enough, I can not only become a top talisman master, alchemy master, formation master, but also a weapon master."

If the time is extended to a thousand or ten thousand years, even a casual cultivator with poor talent can practice talismans, alchemy and other skills to the master level.

Not to mention, Chu Chen also has the help of the dream world.

Like elixirs, the formation masters in the cultivation world divide the grades of formations into one to nine grades, with the first grade being the lowest and the ninth grade being the highest. Each grade is divided into four levels: low-level, middle-level, high-level, and top-level.

The formation book obtained from the old cultivator records a total of four first-grade formations.

Two first-grade low-level formations, the maze formation, and the soundproof formation.

A first-grade intermediate formation, the Mountain Control Formation.

A first-grade high-level formation, the Five Elements Killing Formation.

The soundproofing formation can isolate sound, and the maze formation can hide traces. There is a huge maze formation outside the Chiyanfang City.

The Mountain Control Formation is a defensive formation that can withstand the full force of cultivators below the seventh level of Qi training.

The Five Elements Killing Formation, as the name suggests, is a great formation that can kill cultivators at the ninth level of Qi training after it is deployed.

"First learn the maze formation and the soundproofing formation, then learn the Mountain Control Formation and the Five Elements Killing Formation, starting with the easy and then the difficult, so that the foundation can be consolidated."

The learning of formations also requires gradual progress.

In the first year, Chu Chen mastered the maze formation, in the second year, he mastered the soundproofing formation, and in the sixth year, he mastered the Mountain Control Formation.

In the tenth year, Chu Chen failed to master the Five Elements Killing Formation.

But a big thing happened in the market.

Chen Yan came out of retreat, but failed to break through the foundation-building stage. Although he did not lose all his cultivation due to the elixir he prepared in advance, his cultivation also dropped sharply, falling to the sixth level of Qi training.

On the day Chen Yan came out of retreat, Chu Chen went to see Chen Yan.

With a head full of white hair, an old face, and a look of great loss of vitality, anyone who saw it knew that Chen Yan's time was coming!

"Chen Yan is in big trouble."

A thought flashed through Chu Chen's mind, and he had foreseen Chen Yan's end.

Chen Yan's previous reckless behavior and oppression of the casual cultivators in the market had already angered the public.

If Chen Yan successfully broke through the foundation-building stage, even if other people in the market had complaints, they would have to suppress them.

Facing a foundation-building real person, even the Yunshui Sect did not dare to treat him casually.

However, if Chen Yan failed to break through, other people in the market would not let Chen Yan go easily.

In the world of immortal cultivation, sometimes dying of old age is an extremely luxurious thing. It is not only the evil cultivators who have the means to extract and torture souls.

Moreover, death does not mean that debts are cleared.

Chen Yan's death does not mean that the cultivators who had offended Chen Yan before will let go of the family behind Chen Yan.

Even though Chen Yan claimed that he was expelled from the family and had no connection with the family behind him when he came to Chiyanfang City, the cultivators would not care about this.

Next, it depends on whether Chen Yan can pay enough to calm the anger of many cultivators.

"If you practice by stepping on others, you can only be glorious for a while. Once you fall into trouble, you will inevitably be retaliated by others."

This was the case with Xuancheng Taoist in the past, and it is also the case with Chen Yan now.