Family Rise by Daily Intelligence

Chapter 11: Chapter 11: Treasure Snatching, Spirit Field Crisis

Three pieces of information, two are about the Spirit Field. However, he has no impression of Kuili Mountain mentioned in the intel. He needs to ask big brother and the others when he returns.

As for the Blood Spirit Insect.

There are still two months’ time. Before that, finding some time to consult at the Marketplace Hundred Herbs Hall should yield a solution.

When his gaze fell on the third piece of information.

Fu Changsheng’s eyes lit up.

Originally, he thought four months were too short, fearing he couldn’t break through to the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation and be unable to kill Li Changtai then.

Unexpectedly.

Just when he was dozing off, someone handed him a pillow.

This Warm Sun Jade came at just the right time.

As for Luo Cunming, he was originally meant to be removed for Molan’s sake, so it was conveniently dealt with.

To avoid unnecessary delays.

He hastened his pace toward Luo Family Village.

Luo Cunming’s home was located at the center of the village, a three-section courtyard, guarded by guards in the front and back. Fu Changsheng, clad in his Invisibility Cloak, swaggered into the Luo Mansion, listening among the servants for a while before learning that Luo Cunming and his wife lived in the Muyun Hall in the second section.

At the main house of Muyun Hall.

A sudden ”snap” sound came from inside, followed by the voice of a middle-aged man:

”That Ten Thousand Flowers Tower has gone too far. Molan belongs to our Luo Family. What right do they have to sell her to Landlord Li? Damn it, I was thinking of keeping that girl in the Ten Thousand Flowers Tower so she could hook another sucker just like her mother. But Landlord Li is notorious for being stingy as hell.”

”Tiezhu’s mother, inform the guards to gear up. Let’s go to the Ten Thousand Flowers Tower together and snatch Molan back. The old Landlord’s grandson in Changli County died young; he’s looking for a virgin girl to accompany him in death, offering three hundred taels. We can’t let Ten Thousand Flowers Tower have the upper hand.”

”Husband, I’ll go call people right away.”

Saying that.

Luo Cunming’s wife opened the door.

As the door opened.

She suddenly felt a chill on her neck.

But before she could react, her head had already fallen to the ground.

Luo Cunming turned at that moment to see this scene.

He shivered in fear.

Soiling his pants.

About to call for help, a dagger silently rested on his neck, and a voice, as if from Hell, sounded from behind him:

”If you don’t want to die, bring out the Jade Pendant from Antique Street.”

”Great... great hero, I don’t want to die, don’t want to die. The Jade Pendant, the Jade Pendant... it’s under my pillow.”

With a flick of Fu Changsheng’s sleeve.

The pillow on the bed lifted, revealing a square Jade Pendant.

The Jade Pendant was entirely emerald green, bursting with an ancient aura. Using a hand seal, the Jade Pendant floated into his palm. After carefully sensing it, he confirmed it was indeed the legendary Warm Sun Jade.

Then the dagger made a gentle slash.

Luo Cunming’s head was immediately severed.

After picking up the two heads.

Fu Changsheng lit fires throughout the Luo Mansion. By the time he left Luo Family Village with the two blood-stained heads, the once prosperous Luo Mansion had been engulfed in a sea of fire.

In the stone cave of Qiuli Mountain.

Upon seeing the heads of Luo Cunming and his wife, Fu Molan knelt facing the direction of the Ten Thousand Flowers Tower, murmuring, ”Mother, you can rest in peace now under the nether world.”

After several days’ journey.

He finally returned to the ancestral land of Luofeng Mountain.

Big brother and third brother, upon learning that Molan was the bloodline left by their Tenth Uncle, couldn’t help but sigh.

Fu Changsheng spoke to the third brother, Fu Changli:

”Third brother, with the Spirit Testing Platform at home destroyed, there’s no way to tell if Molan has a Spiritual Root. You’ll first teach her how to guide Qi into her body.”

”Yes, Patriarch!”

Third brother Fu Changli was very pleased to be of help. Never before having been a teacher, he immediately pulled Molan to the side and began to personally demonstrate and teach.

Fu Changsheng then asked the big brother whether he knew about Kuili Mountain. The big brother shook his head cluelessly, only then bringing up the Blood Spirit Insect.

Big brother Fu Changren tried to recall and suddenly said:

”I remember Third Uncle mentioned it once during a lesson back then. Heard that there was once an outbreak of Blood Spirit Insects in the Spiritual Fields of our ancestral land thirty years ago, losing fifty acres of Red Marrow Rice in an instant.”

”Changsheng, why did you suddenly bring this up?”

Fu Changsheng didn’t answer, squatted down in the Spirit Field, searched for a while, and upon crushing a piece of Spirit Soil, he indeed saw clusters of red dots.

These were the eggs of the Blood Spirit Insect.

Big brother Fu Changren froze for a moment, then looked towards the Li Family to the west:

”This must be the trickery of the Li Family.”

”Third Uncle had mentioned that our lineage had once spent a lot of manpower and resources to eradicate the Blood Spirit Insect thoroughly, making it improbable for the insect’s eggs to reappear in the Spirit Field.”

Moreover.

Coincidentally enough.

Just before the upheaval in the Fu Family occurred.

There came news from the Li Family of the Blood Spirit Insect appearing in their Spirit Field.

Fu Changsheng squinted slightly.

The Li Family first planned to ambush the four siblings and then secretly tampered with the Spirit Field, revealing their desires to annex the Fu Family, thinking it vulnerable without the elders present!

Reflecting carefully now.

The Southern Barbarians had already approached the city gates. The Li Family was just next door. Given the bandit nature of the Southern Barbarians, how could they pass by Treasure Mountain unmoved, not even feigning an attack, and then just rob the Fu Family before fleeing?

It’s likely.

The ones who lured the Southern Barbarians here.

Besides the traitor Li Guiming, the Li Family also couldn’t escape blame!

Fu Changsheng was gnashing his teeth in hatred.

The Li Family’s patriarch was at the Peak of Qi Cultivation. With his current cultivation, Fu couldn’t challenge the Li Family. However, if he could eliminate Li Changtai, gradually weakening the Li Family’s power, it would be an ideal opportunity.

With a plan in mind.

Fu Changsheng’s desire to assassinate Li Changtai in four months grew even stronger.

The big brother looked eagerly at the Spirit Field, where Red Marrow Rice seedlings had just sprouted, looking pale:

”Patriarch, if we want to eradicate the Blood Spirit Insect, we can only clear out the soil from fifty acres of Spirit Field before they hatch. The Spirit Field would need to be left vacant for a year, and it wouldn’t be till the year after next that we could plant again.”

In other words.

For three years, there would be no income from the Spirit Field.

Yet despite this.

The amount of Red Marrow Rice that had to be tributed to the Shangguan Family couldn’t be reduced by even half a tael.

Fu Changsheng took a deep breath:

”Big brother, don’t panic. It seems there’s still two months before the Blood Spirit Insect can hatch. If we put our heads together, we can surely get through this crisis.”

But big brother Fu Changren looked desolate.

If there was a way.

The Fu Family wouldn’t have dug out all the Spirit Soil from the Spirit Field back then.

Besides.

Thirty years had passed.

The Li Family handled the resurgence of the Blood Spirit Insect in their Spirit Field the same way, evidencing their inability to find a better solution.

Fu Changsheng quickly returned to his Secret Chamber.

He relied on the intelligence system.

There were still fifty-four points of Clan Contribution Points on the panel, allowing for one lottery draw, and the exchange of two pieces of information.

He intended to gamble:

”Redeem for a lottery draw!”

From the intelligence previously provided by the system.

Generally.

It revolved around the development of their clan.

This issue with the Blood Spirit Insect was a significant crisis.

If he guessed correctly.

The supplies provided by this system should help resolve the Blood Spirit Insect issue.