Recently, the Zhang Family's days have been getting better and better. With a capable family head to rely on, they now have more backbone and not only feel relieved, but even dare to go out and stroll around.
This was something the Zhang family clansmen didn't even dare to think about before.
Chen Xia didn't really restrict them either, just letting the Zhang Family second ancestor arrange things himself and prepare for expansion. He wanted the Zhang Family to become the top sect in the entire realm, standing at the absolute pinnacle.
The Zhang Family second ancestor was of course overjoyed, and hurried to make preparations. However, the current Zhang Family clansmen were really too pitifully weak, with very few powerful experts, even those at the Mountain Moving Realm were extremely scarce.
This meant they needed to accumulate more strength.
Fortunately, Chen Xia was patient. Every day he just stood by the window, looking out at the boundless sky, thinking about what still needed to be done.
Aside from making the Zhang Family into a top sect, he also wanted to find out who had captured Ma Xiaohong and brought her to this realm, so that later he could settle accounts one by one.
There was no rush about that for now. When he became a Saint, he would naturally go and take them out one after another.
Aside from thinking, usually he would close his eyes and communicate with his external avatars.
He had two external avatars, one in the Great Death Realm, one in the Dead Star Region.
Along with Chen Xia's current main body, that made three bodies sharing one mind. He didn't know if all three bodies fighting together at once might cause his brain to crash.
Anyway, both external avatars were at critical moments in their secluded meditation, so he couldn't disturb them casually.
The avatar in the Dead Star Region was also breaking through to the Saint Realm threshold, and should succeed within at most two thousand years.
The avatar in the Great Death Realm was already at the Saint Realm, and as the embodiment of the Great Death Realm's will, it could slay Saints and quasi-Emperors within the Great Death Realm.
In short, everything was moving in a good direction, so Chen Xia was not worried.
In the Great Death Realm there was also the Wu Xi Great Emperor. According to what he said last time when he came, Xu Zhen had already cultivated to the Saint Realm. Wu Xi Great Emperor even praised this in an admiring tone:
"A thirteen thousand year old Saint Realm, that can be considered a peerless talent."
Generally speaking, Saints could live for forty thousand years, Sages for sixty thousand years, Great Sages for seventy thousand years, quasi-Emperors for eighty thousand years.
Emperors had the most, reaching the span of an ordinary great world era of one hundred thousand years. If they had life extending medicines or comprehended another great dao, they could live for even longer.
For Xu Zhen to reach the Saint Realm at just thirteen thousand years old, his future prospects were indeed limitless.
Chen Xia nodded and told Wu Xi Great Emperor to take more care of Xu Zhen, provide plenty of pills, mystic arts, and treasures, and when he became a fivefold dao Great Emperor, he would naturally get his chance.
This steady approach would ensure benefits down the line.
Fortunately Wu Xi Great Emperor could comfort himself.
Investment required paying out first before returns came back. Growing trees also needed time to mature before bearing fruit.
Chen Xia didn't need to worry about Xu Zhen's matters, so he completely relaxed, intending to slowly comprehend dao in this realm.
A light breeze stirred. Chen Xia was temporarily free of matters.
But some people had come looking for him.
In the distance, the clouds seemed to reveal several indistinct figures that quickly arrived at the outskirts of the Zhang Family residence, floating overhead.
Qin Ji was the leader, bringing a total of four Heaven Filling Realm elders from Triumphant Mountain, looking down condescendingly at all the Zhang Family clansmen below, laughing and asking:
"I heard you Zhang Family killed the over ten thousand cultivators who came to attack you last time. I wonder which person accomplished this?"
The lower level Zhang Family cultivators below looked bewildered, able to sense the aura and pressure of the figures in the sky were extraordinary, and didn't dare to reply, only lowering their heads.
"Qin... Patriarch Qin?!" The Zhang Family second ancestor recognized Qin Ji and hurriedly called out.
Qin Ji glanced over but had no impression of the Zhang Family second ancestor, so he smiled and asked, "You recognize me?"
"I recognize you, I recognize you. We met briefly at the Great Sects Conference before, I was fortunate to meet Patriarch Qin then." The Zhang Family second ancestor quickly answered.
"Mm, I came this time only to figure out how those ten thousand cultivators died. Do you know?" Qin Ji asked again.
"It was accomplished by our family head." The Zhang Family second ancestor said proudly.
"Family head?" Qin Ji raised his eyebrows slightly. Shaking his sleeve he calmly asked, "Your Zhang Family's family head probably doesn't have that kind of ability, right?"
The Zhang Family second ancestor quickly replied, "It's the new family head."
"Oh? There can even be newly arrived family heads?" Qin Ji disdainfully laughed, then waved his hand, "Call him out to see me."
"This..." The Zhang Family second ancestor's expression was awkward. "I'm afraid that would be improper. The family head doesn't like others disturbing him. Why don't you go in to see the family head instead?"
"I should go in?" Qin Ji was angered into laughter by this. He asked word for word,
"Do you know that in the middle strata of realms, my Triumphant Mountain has never taken the initiative to visit others? I don't care who this family head of yours is, hurry and call him out to see me, otherwise in thirty breaths I will raze your Zhang Family to the ground!"
The Zhang Family second ancestor's body shook, caught in an dilemma.
Qin Ji contemptuously flicked his sleeve and arrogantly said, "In five thousand years my Triumphant Mountain has conquered many sects, comparable even to the top sects of the upper realms, able to be called the gods of the middle strata. What is your family head that he dares to make me..."
"You're looking for me?" A mild voice rang out.
Qin Ji glanced over.
In the first breath, his expression was still arrogant.
In the second breath, he plummeted from the sky, smashing into the ground and skidding several hundred meters until stopping in front of Chen Xia. His voice was earnest and loud as he cried out,
"Dad!"