Chapter 200: Chapter 199: Anshan City, The Four Great Awakeners (Please Subscribe)
Chen Fan carefully stored the two secret manuals and walked to the next person in line.
After feeling around for a bit, he found a bottle of True Qi Pills and another bottle of Qi Blood Pills?
This was somewhat unexpected, but Qi Blood Pills were helpful to martial artists of any realm, to varying degrees.
Opening the stopper to smell them, he found that it was a bottle of Top-grade Qi Blood Pills.
"I’ll give this bottle of Top-grade Qi Blood Pills to Uncle Zhang when I get back."
He felt somewhat ashamed. He had long intended to give a few bottles of Top-grade Qi Blood Pills to Uncle Zhang. After all, even Top-grade Qi Blood Pills were easy for him to acquire, yet he ended up consuming all of them himself.
He continued walking forward.
"Oh, another Inner Power Heart Method?"
Chen Fan looked at the three characters on the secret manual.
[One Breathing Technique].
"I wonder if the True Qi ratio can be stacked. If not, that would be a huge loss."
He muttered to himself and put the secret manual, along with the two bottles of True Qi Pills he found, into a space item.
It seemed his luck had run out. The next few corpses had no martial arts secret manuals or True Qi Pills, only some trivial items.
"That’s normal."
Chen Fan thought to himself.
After all, breaking through the Chong Meridian consumes a lot of True Qi.
If it were him, the first thing he’d do upon obtaining True Qi Pills would be to consume them all immediately; penetrating an additional acupoint slightly increases one’s strength.
Of course, for typical Meridian Refining Martial Artists, True Qi disturbances would occur, often requiring several hours to a full day of recovery time.
This also gave him a bit of an advantage.
"These corpses..."
After a moment’s consideration, Chen Fan decided to take all of them and place them with the bodies at the Chen Family Stronghold’s entrance, then burn them all at once.
Of course, he would keep Guan Dehua’s body for now, in case they needed to unlock space items with fingerprints or face recognition.
He retrieved the scattered arrows around and tied the corpses together with a rope, then quickly headed towards the Chen Family Stronghold after confirming no one was around.
Moments later, he appeared in front of the now-ruined stronghold, where flames were still blazing fiercely.
With a soft sigh, Chen Fan piled the bodies together and retrieved some gasoline from a military truck, throwing a burning piece of wood onto the pile.
With a "whoosh," the flames shot up several meters high.
He then carried Guan Dehua’s body and headed towards the Chen Family Fortress.
He didn’t take the main entrance, as the fewer people who knew about this, the better.
Finding an empty house, he placed Guan Dehua’s body there and then walked towards the training ground.
"Hah!"
The sound of exhalation and exertion came from the direction, along with the clashing of weapons.
As soon as Chen Fan appeared, everyone stopped what they were doing, their faces filled with a mix of surprise and delight.
"Xiaofan is back! Look, Xiaofan is back!"
"Really, it is Xiaofan!"
"Oh my god, I must be dreaming. I felt like I hadn’t seen Xiaofan in days."
"At least four to five days."
"Nonsense, it’s only been two or three days."
Chen Guodong’s eyes also showed excitement, but he quickly hid it, walked over with a smile and said, "Xiaofan, how have you been in Anshan City these past few days? Are you safe?"
Chen Fan shook his head with a smile and asked, "Dad, how are things here in the stronghold? Is everything okay?"
"Everything’s fine."
Chen Guodong nodded.
Soon, Liu Yong and the others gathered around, each asking about Anshan City.
It was clear that everyone was very curious about life in the city.
Chen Fan answered each question with a smile; he didn’t feel annoyed at all.
Of course, Anshan City was better than the Chen Family Fortress, ten times, even a hundred times better. But the warmth here couldn’t be found in Anshan City.
"Ahem."
Just then, a very familiar cough sounded,
"What are you all doing here? Shouldn’t you be training?"
Everyone’s body trembled and they reluctantly dispersed.
"Uncle Zhang."
Chen Fan smiled slightly at the figure ahead.
"Mm."
Zhang Ren nodded, his eyes filled with gratification.
Seeing Chen Fan return safely, a weight was finally lifted off his shoulders.
Moreover, since Chen Fan was here, did it mean that the Awakened person surnamed Guan was already...?
He didn’t dare to think further.
If that were the case, how powerful must Chen Fan be?
"Dad, I need to talk to Uncle Zhang for a bit."
Chen Fan smiled.
"Mm, go ahead."
Chen Guodong smiled knowingly. He had a faint idea of what was going on.
If he wasn’t mistaken, Zhang Ren probably met Xiaofan when he went out this morning?
Looking at the seemingly calm days, who knew how many hardships had been endured.
He took a deep breath and walked back with his weapon.
Not far off, Gu Ze watched Chen Fan’s back, silently making up his mind.
Inside the house, with the door closed,
Zhang Ren could no longer contain his eagerness and asked, "How did it go, Xiaofan? Did that guy surnamed Guan come?"
Chen Fan nodded and recounted the events in detail.
After listening, Zhang Ren was beyond shocked.
A protective shield?
Instant Teleportation?
Spiritual attack?
Any one of these was formidable.
No, if it were him, he probably wouldn’t even have a chance to force out Guan Dehua’s trump cards.
Because the six Meridian Refining realm martial artists with Guan Dehua would be enough to kill him hundreds of times.
But Chen Fan, alone, took on seven and killed them all. How terrifyingly powerful was that?
Besides shock, he also felt gratified.
He had seen Chen Fan grow step by step. They were not master and disciple, but their bond was stronger than that. There’s no greater joy for a teacher than to see their student surpass them.
"Tap."
A soft sound.
"What’s this?"
Zhang Ren was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts, puzzled as he looked at the small bottle on the table.
"Sorry Uncle Zhang, I was in a rush this time and only brought this bottle of Top-grade Qi Blood Pills. Next time I return, I’ll bring even better elixirs."
Chen Fan smiled.
"No need,"
Zhang Ren chuckled bitterly. "Top-grade Qi Blood Pills are already great."
After all, a bottle costs two hundred thousand. Even when he was in the Martial Arts Association, buying one was quite painful.
Certainly, he didn’t decline any further.
Since Chen Fan became a Meridian Refining Martial Artist, Top-grade Qi Blood Pills weren’t of much use to him.
"Xiaofan, thank you."
Zhang Ren was grateful.
"Uncle Zhang, there’s no need for such courtesy between us, right?" Chen Fan shook his head.
Hearing this, Zhang Ren burst into laughter.
However, his eyebrows soon furrowed as he looked at Chen Fan. "Xiaofan, I know this might not be the right time, but I feel I must say it."
"Uncle Zhang, you want to remind me not to be arrogant and complacent just because I killed an Awakened today, right?"
Zhang Ren breathed a sigh of relief. "I know you aren’t that kind of person, but it’s still necessary to remind you. Guan Dehua was strong, much stronger than a Meridian Refining Martial Artist, but he still couldn’t compare to the other few C-level Awakened in Anshan City."
"Uncle Zhang, that’s one of the reasons I was looking for you."
Chen Fan nodded. "What are the abilities of those other Awakened?"
Guan Dehua’s death couldn’t be hidden for long. To rescue Meng Yu’s sister, he would inevitably have to fight these people eventually. The question was whether they would find him first, or he would go to them.
Zhang Ren took a deep breath. "Among the top C-level Awakened in Anshan City, there are four. The most formidable is Yan Ming, the city lord, who awakened the Flame Superpower. He can launch rapid-fire fireballs and firebombs for long-range attacks and cloak his body in flame armor or his fists, incinerating high-level fierce beasts to ashes with a single punch."
"I see."
Chen Fan narrowed his eyes at this information.
If Yan Ming also had various rare items, he would be even harder to deal with.
"The second is Fang Yun. He awakened a Body Superpower, allowing him to turn his entire body into metal. It’s said that he can withstand a direct hit from a 75mm howitzer without a scratch. Even high-level fierce beast attacks merely tickle him. Moreover,"
Zhang Ren recalled, "He can hold his ground against Yan Ming for dozens of rounds without falling behind."
"So Yan Ming is still stronger." Chen Fan thought to himself.
"The third is an awakened with the Gravity Superpower."
"Gravity?"
Chen Fan was taken aback.
This superpower sounded uncommon, but definitely not weak.
"Yes."
"Three years ago, during the beast tide, I stood on the city wall and saw him raise and lower his right hand, crushing a high-level fierce beast into pulp. Yan Ming seemed wary of him too."
Chen Fan nodded.
It seemed that this gravity awakened’s power was on par with Yan Ming, the city lord.
And Fang Yun, despite his strength, was somewhat weaker than these two.
"The fourth."
Chen Fan quickly refocused and paid close attention.
"The fourth,"
Zhang Ren knitted his brows, "No one knows his superpower. I haven’t heard it from anyone either; he’s very mysterious."
"Oh?"
Chen Fan was surprised. "There’s no one in Anshan City who knows his power?"
"No."
Zhang Ren nodded.
"I even asked the association head, and he didn’t know."
"Not even the association head."
Chen Fan was taken aback.
That was information from three years ago. The head might know now, but it’s uncertain.
One thing was for sure: this mysterious person must be formidable to be on par with those three.
And the fact that no one knew his power after so long implied most who saw it might be dead.