After a meal, everyone happily ate until late into the night. Jiang Ruoxin took Zhan Tai Ruomei and others away by taxi. Lu Fan, Liu Ruyan, and Li Jingjing also returned to the teahouse.
Li Jingjing pouted and returned to her room. Lu Fan reached out and picked up Liu Ruyan, entering her bedroom.
"Tch! Useless! So impatient!"
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After staying in the provincial capital for three days, Jiang Chao and the Bai family all invited Lu Fan for drinks. The Bai family had already heard about the matter concerning the Xue family of Yinqiang. When Fifth Master Bai Bin of the Bai family heard the news, a chill ran down his spine, and his legs went weak.
Back then, Old Master Bai had forced him to give up his shares in Lu Fan and Bai Xuemei, and he was still very dissatisfied. Now, he realized that Old Master Bai had saved his life. Lu Fan had successively destroyed the Lin family and the Lei family. These were not public matters. However, it was said that Lu Fan had challenged the Xue family in broad daylight.
The Xue family's strength was a hundred times greater than their Bai family's, yet Lu Fan had annihilated them. What was a mere Bai Bin in comparison? If it weren't for Bai Xuemei's sake, he, Bai Bin, would have been finished long ago. At the dinner table, Bai Bin kept refilling Lu Fan's wine.
On the fourth day, Lu Fan, Liu Ruyan, and Li Jingjing drove back to Twelve Dao Gou Village. Lu Fan's home became lively again. Zhao Rongrong held Liu Ruyan's hand and asked many questions, wanting to know if there were any reactions from Liu Ruyan's belly. She was eager to hold her grandson.
"Xiao Fan! I've opened a fish pond by the river and raised a lot of fish. They are now supplied to several hotels and resorts in the provincial capital. The consumption of spiritual liquid is a bit high every day. You need to think of a solution," Wang Yan seized the opportunity to approach Lu Fan and said.
"Alright!" Lu Fan nodded.
"I also want to take advantage of the innate convenience of the Twelve Dao Wanzi River to raise freshwater crabs. Those things are valuable. You need to find a way! Also, I've spoken to Ya Jie about our company hiring. She might contact some senior students among the graduating students of their university and ask if they are willing to develop in the countryside. If there are any, she'll introduce them." Wang Yan added.
"You are the manager of Bufan Company, so you can arrange these matters!" Lu Fan nodded again.
"Hmph! Blockhead!" Wang Yan rolled her eyes and turned to go to the kitchen.
Seeing Liu Ruyan chatting happily with his mother, Lu Fan turned and walked out of the room, heading towards the back mountain.
"Xiao Fan!" Old Waizi Wang, who was busy in the chicken and rabbit coops in the back mountain, saw Lu Fan and hurried to meet him.
"Uncle Waizi!" Lu Fan called out.
"Xiao Fan! In the last two nights, when I came to check around midnight, I faintly heard beast roars in the mountains," Old Waizi Wang said suddenly.
"Oh?" Lu Fan's brow immediately furrowed. "I know, Uncle Waizi. Don't come up the mountain late at night from now on. It's quite dangerous. No matter how valuable these mountain chickens and rabbits are, they are not as important as people."
After Lu Fan's reminder, he hurried towards the back mountain.
Normally, it was difficult to hear beast roars from the back mountain, let alone at night when many wild beasts wouldn't come out to move around at midnight. Could something have happened at the Luoyan Sect?
As soon as Lu Fan entered the mountain, he dashed forward, his body darting through the forest like an arrow released from a bow. When Lu Fan arrived at the entrance of the Luoyan Sect's cave, he suddenly found his second senior sister and several wild boars seemed to be injured. Not far from the cave entrance, there were also the corpses of several snakes.
"Damn it! It turns out the Luoyan Sect has been discovered!" Lu Fan cursed and rushed towards his second senior sister.
*Swish...* As soon as his second senior sister saw someone approaching, she became alert. Upon seeing it was Lu Fan, she quickly ran over.
Lu Fan saw that his second senior sister had two knife wounds, each half a foot long, on her back. The large wild boars that had been watching from a distance also had knife wound marks on their bodies.
When his second senior sister reached Lu Fan's side, she affectionately rubbed against his leg.
Lu Fan immediately took out some fruit to feed his second senior sister. Then, he took out some medicine for wounds and applied it to her injuries.
After feeding his second senior sister something, Lu Fan went to the cave entrance. It was no wonder this place was discovered; the dense spiritual energy around the cave entrance made it impossible not to find it. As long as a cultivator passed by here, anyone would surely notice something unusual.
Entering the cave, the spiritual energy inside was even more concentrated. Lu Fan took out the spirit gathering bottle and sat down to cultivate. The spiritual energy inside the cave immediately began to decrease.
Suddenly, Lu Fan opened his eyes again. He got up and collected all seven colorful stones from inside. Then he looked at the twelve stone figures. It wouldn't do to leave the Liuyun Formation here. If he wasn't around and his second senior sister couldn't stop the opponents, these items could easily be stolen. Since this place had been discovered, how could the opponents give up so easily? Moreover, anyone who could injure the wild boar herd and snake group must be no ordinary person.
With a thought, Lu Fan moved the twelve stone figures one by one into his storage ring. Just as all twelve stone figures were moved away, a rumbling sound... the ground suddenly began to sink.
The ground had sunk before. Lu Fan learned his Luoying Swordplay here, so he was not surprised. However, after the ground sank, Lu Fan found that the swordplay on the wall had disappeared. There were clear signs of it being smudged away. And a hole had appeared on the wall.
"Could this be the work of the untidy old Daoist?" Lu Fan couldn't think of anyone else who could smudge away the swordplay besides the untidy old Daoist. However, looking at the hole, Lu Fan hesitated for a moment before walking directly into it.
The hole was not very deep. Only about thirty meters ahead, it suddenly opened up.
"So this is the Gathering Hall of the Luoyan Sect!" Lu Fan muttered to himself. He saw a grand hall in front of him, with a dragon-shaped desk at the head and a tiger-skin chair behind it. On both sides of the hall were rows of stone tables and stone stools. It seemed that this place was originally intended to be built as the Luoyan Sect, but the Luoyan Sect was destroyed halfway through the construction. This place was then put aside. m..oΓg
Suddenly, Lu Fan saw a book on the dragon-shaped desk. He rushed over to pick it up and saw that it was titled: The Six Great Hidden Families!
The Six Great Hidden Families? Lu Fan's brow twitched slightly. He suddenly remembered Hua Laoda and others from Huarong Mansion, who could not reveal their family information. Could they be related to these Six Great Hidden Families?
Just as Lu Fan was about to examine the book carefully, he suddenly heard some movement outside. His eyebrows flickered, and he hurried towards the outside of the mountain cave.
At this moment, outside the mountain cave, one woman and two men, three people dressed in tight-fitting clothes, were facing a group of wild boars with sharp blades in their hands!