In the stillness of the night, Luo Chen sat alone inside the green thatched hut. In his hand, a pristine bamboo scroll lay spread open, the very Foundation Establishment gift given to him by Li Yixian.1

The Yi Wood Medicine King Codex. The scroll had clearly been transcribed with great care, its bamboo slats crafted from rare second-tier violet qi bamboo, exuding a faint medicinal fragrance even before it was opened.0

This technique had not come cheap. Luo Chen had paid five thousand low-grade spirit stones for it, and more importantly, agreed to bring the Li family into an official alliance with Luo Tian Society, the Nangong family, and the Dajiang Gang.4

Though the Li family promised not to meddle in alchemy affairs, the alliance itself gave them legitimacy and protection, something not to be underestimated in this volatile cultivation world.0

This was no groundless fear. Anyone could see that, after Luo Chen achieved Foundation Establishment, what was once the weakest, Luo Tian Society, had suddenly become the strongest native force in the Dahe Market.0

With Wang Yuan, a combatant who...0