Chapter 683 - 683 461

683: Chapter 461 683: Chapter 461 The Vine Elf was fleeing, no longer concerned about the Fox Demon.

If it hadn’t helped the fox seek vengeance this time, it wouldn’t have suffered such a miserable defeat.

It now somewhat regretted helping out of friendship.

At this moment, it held some resentment towards the fox.

During the escape, the Vine Elf didn’t care about the fox at all.

Its soul was transferring at this time.

The place was full of mountains and many trees, and there were plenty of vines and trees.

It transferred from the roots of one tree to another, to a spot that had been struck by lightning.

Those trees had been burned to charcoal, but not all the trees in the mountains were destroyed.

The Vine Elf successfully transferred to the foot of the mountain and then to another mountain.

During the continuous transfers while fleeing, it felt far from the place it had been beaten but still didn’t feel safe, so it fled thousands of miles away.

The Fox Demon also used the last bit of strength in its severely injured soul to escape from this mountain.

Su Chang’an and the others knew that the souls of the Vine Elf and the Fox Demon had escaped, only their physical bodies had been killed.

At this moment, they did not pursue them any further and focused on rescuing people instead.

Su Chang’an and the others flew up on the Flying Artifact.

He took out two pills from the Storage Bag and fed them to the two unconscious people.

The unconscious woke up amid the Marquis’ worries and, upon seeing the Marquis, they cried loudly, grateful to have been rescued from the clutches of the fox demon.

The Marquis comforted the two young men with a few words, and amid their tears and worried relatives’ reassurances, he told them that their families were safe.

Only then did the two young men crack a faint smile, repeatedly expressing their thanks to Su Chang’an, Luo Yaxuan, and Lai Jianlin for saving their lives.

Su Chang’an didn’t allow them to kneel; he moved his sleeve, and they felt a great force lifting their bodies.

“We are friends of the Marquis; we helped to save you, and now we must first go to see your relatives.”

The two young men looked at the Marquis, and seeing him nod, they gratefully said, “Thank you for saving us.”

“Thank you, thank you!”

Lai Jianlin and Luo Yaxuan watched silently.

The Marquis asked the two young men how they felt.

Learning that they had taken the pills and were recovering, he said, “Then let’s go find your relatives first.” After speaking, the Marquis looked towards Su Chang’an.

Before, the mountain was dense with forests, but after Luo Yaxuan called down lightning, many trees had burned.

He hadn’t caused a thunderstrike in front of the cave, so the trees and the cave in front of it remained intact.

Su Chang’an landed the Flying Artifact in front of the cave where they halted.

Su Chang’an, Luo Yaxuan, and Lai Jianlin were on guard.

The fox and the Vine Tree Elf had just fled, and on this mountain, there were other demonic beasts.

They had noticed these beasts when they first arrived, although these were not as dangerous as the fox and vine tree.

The Marquis used his Magic Wand to open the door of the cave.

The guards at the entrance heard the alert and, seeing the Marquis come in, joyfully announced, “The Young Clan Leader is back!”

Hearing the shout, more than a hundred people, men, women, old and young, came out, including smaller children held by women.

Among them were the families of the two young men who had been rescued; they were crying.

The father of the Marquis came out and smiled when he saw his son returning, but then he remembered the abducted people and told his son that someone had been taken.

At that moment, the two youngsters who had been rescued also came in, and their families, seeing them unharmed, ran over to hug them with joy.

Seeing his son rescuing the people, the old Clan Leader felt very reassured.

“Father, have people dig up the herbs and peach trees here and put them in this Storage Bag; we need to move elsewhere,” said the Marquis.

The old Clan Leader worriedly said, “We have lived in this stockade for over a thousand years; where can we find a good place now?

With so many of us, we won’t be able to survive in a foreign land.”

The old Clan Leader’s words worried the other family members; they had not ventured outside in over a thousand years.

Still, they had been harmed time and again by others or had their clan threatened, and this time by demons such as the fox and vine elf.

Moreover, so many of them relocating together, if they encountered villains again, they simply couldn’t escape.

Within them was their entire clan; once outside, they would lose their ability to survive.

In response to Father’s words, the Marquis explained that this time, he met a friend who had a place for them to live.

He mentioned that this friend was Jiang Tang, and he had even gathered their family members from the foreign country here, over a thousand clan members, all arriving at the same location.

The old Clan Leader felt a mix of surprise and disbelief; surely, transporting more than a thousand people from a foreign country to this place would take over a month by water, needing a very large ship or several boats.

Yet his son had only gone out for little more than ten days—how could he have gone to a foreign country with a friend and rescued the family members so quickly?

Seeing his father and the clansmen’s disbelief, the Marquis could only talk about his trip and then encountering villains.

Upon hearing about the dangers their son faced, the Marquis’ father and the clansmen became anxious and checked if his body had sustained any injuries.

“Father, I’m fine, I’ve already brought those thousand-plus people from the foreign country to a place, returning this time with friends.

Without their help, it wouldn’t have been possible to rescue them so easily and bring you all to another place,” he said.

When the Marquis’ father heard that someone had helped his son, he recalled hearing about the capable individuals in the Cultivation World who, when reaching a certain level, could travel a thousand miles in an hour with their Flying Artifacts.

That explained how so many people could be relocated to Ancient Xia Country in just over a dozen days.

“Father, when you see the relatives later, you will know how they lived before.

Right now, let’s first move to that place together and dig up all these herbs and peach trees,” he suggested.

The old Clan Leader agreed and then arranged for all the clan members to get to work.

He asked his son about the relocation site—was it suitable for housing so many people, and did it have resources for them to be self-sufficient?

The Marquis assured his father that several hundred miles of mountains, rivers, and land belonged to Jiang Tang, official land confirmed by the government’s stamp.

The clan members were already building houses there and were also helping to build houses for them.

“Good, having a place to live with resources is wonderful,” the father said.

The Marquis also told his father that Jiang Tang had helped them create Pills, and now that he had brought the relatives to that place, they could work and cultivate well to earn their own money.

The old Clan Leader laughed with relief.

The Marquis then spoke to his father about the hardships the clan members had endured in the foreign country, explaining that rescuing them and relocating here had been a desperate act.

If it weren’t for their friend’s aid, the clan members could have been tortured to death as slaves.

More so, batch after batch had been sold away.

It was only after rescuing some women that Jiang Tang’s friend became aware of their clan’s difficulties.

With a sigh, the old Clan Leader expressed that back in the day, they knew about their hardships and that’s why they had left.

But little did they expect that upon their leaving, the clan members’ situation would become even harder.

He sighed further over the fact that after the great upheaval of the earth’s fragmentation, the entire Earth had been beset with difficulties.

Every cultivator of different arts had been unable to achieve Ascension, making cultivation increasingly difficult.

To dream of becoming an Immortal was to court a regretful death.

The Marquis then distributed food brought from the base to the clan members.

Having eaten only peaches for several days, afraid to venture out or return home, the relatives could finally enjoy a full meal.

Eventually, they had dug up all the peach trees and medicinal herbs, storing them in Storage Bags.

Su Chang’an, Lai Jianlin, and Luo Yaxuan waited outside, lingering for a full half hour before seeing the clan members, old and young, emerge from inside the cave.

The Marquis instructed the relatives to board the Flying Artifact, which Su Chang’an landed on the ground, allowing them to step in with ease.

The Marquis further requested Su Chang’an to fly the Artifact to the stockade so the clan members could pack their belongings, as they had fled to this cave without taking anything with them.

Su Chang’an nodded in agreement.

He also noticed these people from a foreign country, Blood Clan cultivators, who had but a few with Storage Bags; unlike those from the Cultivation World who could fit their entire belongings within one.

The Flying Artifact landed in the stockade’s grounds, and the Blood Clan members went to their homes to collect their luggage.