Chapter 55

The Chen family in Linhai county is the oldest family in Linhai county. There has been the Chen family since the county was established.

Thousands of years ago, Lingnan was still a wild land, where all kinds of monsters lived. Monsters on land and in the sea colluded with each other to cross the Hengduan Mountains to harass a big school at the north foot of the Hengduan Mountains.

The sect's founder Yuanying discussed countermeasures with other major sects, and finally prepared to let the sinners under each sect reclaim Lingnan. Those casual practitioners who could not survive in the Central Plains also came to Lingnan, including many Jindan friars, who were ready to establish a sect and leave a foundation.

It was with the help of the great sects in the central plains that the friars gained a foothold in Lingnan. After thousands of years of development, they formed the pattern of "seven counties, two families and one alliance".

The ancestors of the Chen family succeeded in building the foundation by San nearly a thousand years ago, and wisely took refuge in Qingyun gate and helped Qingyun gate to reclaim Linhai county.

Over the past thousand years, the Chen family has also experienced ups and downs, and almost exterminated the family several times, but they have also survived. With the success of the Chen family in building a foundation in Qingyun gate five hundred years ago, the development momentum of the Chen family is becoming stronger and stronger.

Before Shen Yucang came to Linhai County, although the Chen family did not have their own foundation building friars in Qingyun gate at that time, with their previous accumulation, the family had three foundation building friars.

Among the three families in Linhai County, Du Li and Du Li are led by the Chen family. Among the three families, the Chen family has the largest power. Half of the cultivation resources in Linhai county are monopolized by the Chen family, and Li and Du can only unite to fight it.

However, Shen Yucang's arrival broke this delicate balance. If Shen Yucang wants to establish a family in Linhai County, he will touch the interests of the local Haozu. As the largest family at that time, the contradiction between the Chen family and the Chen family is inevitable.

So under the leadership of the Chen family, Li and Du joined hands to make trouble for the Shen family everywhere.

Once, three base building friars of Linhai County ambushed Shen Yucang and killed a base building friar of the Chen family by means of Shen Yucang's thunder, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Chen family and was not enough to suppress the Li and Du families.

In addition, Shen Yucang was born in Qingyun sect, and his accomplishments have reached the realm of false Dan. As a local powerful Chen family, they can only know the current affairs and give up some interests to let Shen Yucang start a family in Linhai County, but both of them have written down their hatred.

What they never expected was that under the leadership of Shen Yucang, the Shen family cultivated three foundation building friars in a hundred years. Together with Shen Yucang in the pseudo Dan realm, they properly became the first family in Linhai county and occupied most of the cultivation resources of Linhai county.

At that time, the Shen family was famous not only in Linhai County, but also in Lingnan.

As the saying goes, prosperity will decline.

A hundred years later, when Shen Yucang's Shouyuan exhausted, the Shen family began to decline, but three foundation building friars in the family could also shake the scene.

At that time, the patriarch also understood that Shen Yucang's position would become difficult, so he began to alleviate the contradictions in the four families and give up some interests.

However, these concessions have not been alleviated. Since the Shen family lost two foundation builders and there was only one foundation builder left in the family.

The families who were once oppressed by the Shen family began to be restless. They annexed the shops in the square city and started on the Shen family caravan, trying to grab the greatest benefits from the former first family in Linhai County, of which the Chen family is the biggest beneficiary.

The Chen family is pressing on the Shen family step by step, trying to swallow this once brilliant family and become the head of the rich family again. If Shen Yucang hadn't been born in Qingyun gate, he would have been connected with Qingyun gate before long. I'm afraid he would have attacked the Mountain Gate long ago.

Since Shen huanchi took over as the patriarch, facing the situation of no foundation in the family, Shen huanchi also made a series of decisions to keep the family.

First of all, Shen huanchi asked the Shen family to withdraw from the list of the four families. Without the foundation building friars, they can't sit with these jackals at all. It's better to give up their names and won't cause more trouble.

Secondly, Shen huanchi decisively gave up four of the remaining five stores in linhaifang city.

At that time, another clan member of the Li family built the foundation. The number of monks who built the foundation in the family was equal to that of the Chen family, but the inside information was insufficient. The Shen family helped him grow up.

Four shops were given to two shops of the Li family and one shop of the Chen family and one shop of the Du family. If each shop is well operated, there are hundreds of spiritual stones every year, which is a great wealth for each family.

Finally, he admitted that the Chen family was the first family in Linhai County, publicized it everywhere, and sent a mine as a gift.

At that time, the Shen family was weak, so they had to find a way to make the Chen and Li families fight. The Li family and the Chen family were not divided up and down, and let them fight under the uneven distribution of stolen goods, so that the Shen family could survive in the cracks.

Of course, the Li family also knows these thoughts, but they are not without the intention to break their wrists with the Chen family. After all, whoever can become the first family in Linhai county can obtain more cultivation resources, cultivate more people and make the family more prosperous. Therefore, with the help of the Shen family, they took advantage of the situation.

The Shen family got a break from the struggle between the two families. It was not until Shen huanchi succeeded in building the foundation that they returned to the four families.

At that time, the battle between Chen and Li also divided the victory and defeat. When another monk built the foundation, the Chen family forced the Li family to compromise and give up a lot of interests.

The Chen family became the overlord of Linhai county. There were not only three Zhuji in the family, but also one Qingyun sect disciple who had received the favor of the Chen family. He was successfully promoted to Zhuji and later became the inner sect elder of Qingyun sect, becoming the backing of the Chen family in Qingyun sect.

In the face of the booming Chen family, even if Shen huanchi has succeeded in building the foundation, he has only taken back some of his former industry.

Therefore, prompted by Shen huanchi, he formed an in laws with the Du family, the weakest of the four families. The Du family married a woman to the Shen family and used marriage to maintain the alliance between the two families.

At that time, the Du family was also a foundation building friar. The Shen family's cards also showed the family's heritage. The Du family was also willing to climb up the relationship with the Shen family and jointly compete with the Chen and Li families. Although this marriage was not very reliable, it was the best way for two vulnerable families to support each other at that time.

In recent years, although Shen Jinghua has successfully built a foundation in Qingyun gate, due to the clan system, it is not very helpful to the family.

Therefore, the Chen family occupies the most resources in Linhai county. The Li family and the Shen family take almost the same cultivation resources, and the Du family gets the least.

Due to the checks and balances between the families and the strength of the Shen family, the Chen family dare not move the Shen family openly. Although the two families have a long history of gratitude and resentment, they can only use some covert means.

Over the years, the Chen family has been secretly tit for tat with the Shen family to suppress the Shen family's forces. The Shen family will also secretly attack the Chen family. The two families know it, but they don't say it. They maintain the apparent peace of the four families.

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Shen Ruiling knows more or less about the grudges between the four families in Linhai county. He has been educated since childhood. When meeting people from the Chen family, he should be careful to kill each other if possible, but he can't reveal his identity, otherwise the family can't protect him.

Although this means of attacking each other's people are being used, they are all secret and can't leave a handle. Otherwise, the family will hand him over for face.

This indiscriminate means is very disgraceful. If both sides have foundation builders, they will not be able to afford this loss, so this is also the consensus among families.

But if there is no evidence, even if you know it was the other party's hand, there is no way. The demons and scattered cultivation in the fairy world can kill the friar.

In recent years, many children of the Shen family have died outside, most of them by the hands of the Chen family. Even the death of a famous alchemist indirectly points to the Chen family, but without evidence, the Shen family can only remain silent.

For such a big thing as this, it's already over the line to fight against the mortals of the Shen family. After being implemented by the Shen family as the means of the Chen family, the Chen family will face the questioning of the Qingyun gate, because the population under the Qingyun gate is too small, and the Qingyun gate is very concerned about the population of mortals. It can't be guaranteed that a mortal with excellent spiritual roots will come one day.

So Shen huanchi doesn't think that in order to deal with the Shen family, the Chen family will take such a big risk, not only facing the pressure of Qingyun gate, but also facing the Revenge of the Shen family.

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"Well, you go down and settle the mortals first. Start the search to see if you can find some clues. The rest will be discussed after Jinghua comes."

After letting Shen Ruiling leave, Shen huanchi fell into meditation again. Facing the black hand behind him, he felt a crisis.