Zhang Fei - The Abandoned Son

Xi Hongyan leisurely walked behind the guard from the Hong Clan, who led her towards the back area of ​​​​the clan, especially since Hong Quan and his family were there.

"What brought you here, Hongyan?" Hong Quan immediately asked.

Xi Hongyan sat down in front of them. "Uncle Quan, you must already know my purpose in coming here, right? So I don't need to beat around the bush, and I want to talk to you about the division of territory in this realm."

"Haha." Hong Quan laughed upon hearing that. "If you think I want to control most of our territory, then you have thought wrong about me. I have never been interested in dominating this realm like you or Shang Huaqiang, and I only want a quiet life for my family. Nothing to discuss regarding the division of this realm; we should focus on our regions. After the Shang Clan is gone, I will solely focus on this region, the Huo Clan will focus on the eastern region, and you can focus on the western region. As for the northern region, I will leave the affairs of that region to the native clans of that region."

"Then, what about your future grandson-in-law?" Xi Hongyan asked with a serious tone because she felt that Zhang Fei's ambitions were much greater than hers, and she was afraid that he would want to take over her Xi Clan after he destroyed the Shang Clan.

Cai Yinzhi immediately answered her. "Our future grandson-in-law does not have such an ambition, and he wants to destroy the Shang Clan because of his personal issues with them. Furthermore, he told us that he will not stay in this realm, and he is looking for the most suitable realm for his family, so you don't have to worry about him taking over your Xi Clan."

"Is that true, Aunt Yinzhi?" Xi Hongyan doubtfully asked.

"You can try looking for him and Xinxin in our clan." Xi Hongyan immediately spread her senses throughout the Hong Clan, but of course, she couldn't find Zhang Fei and Hong Xinxin anywhere. "The two of them have long left this realm, and they went to check out some other realms now."

Xi Hongyan nodded in understanding before asking again. "Do you guys know about his plans for the Shang Clan?"

"We know his plans for the Shang Clan, but we won't discuss them with you." Hong Chong answered him.

Xi Hongyan looked at Hong Quan and the others, but they all shook their heads as they had no intention of telling Zhang Fei's plans to her, making her grumble in her heart. "In that case, I will return to my clan now, and I hope we will not disturb each other in the future."

Xi Hongyan immediately disappeared from their sight after she broke her returning jade. Yan Yizhen then informed the others. "I just got a voice transmission from Yinqing, and she told me that she met one of Zhang Fei's clones in Tian Yishen's hospital. Additionally, she and Lingyan decided to go with him and Lin Moxian to challenge the tower, but they had to wait for him to recover first."

"Are you interested in joining them, Yizhen?"

Yan Yizhen nodded to her father-in-law. "Senior Hun Di and the others went to that tower, and Zhang Fei also said that that tower was the key to going to the Paradise Realm. My husband and I thought about joining them, but we couldn't possibly leave our clan as long as the Shang Clan still existed."

"I will discuss this matter with Zhang Fei first, especially about when he will execute his plans against the Zhang Clan. If he makes a move against that clan before going to the tower, we will join them." Hong Chong added.

"If Zhang Fei wants to clean up the Shang Clan before going to the tower, your mother and I will also go there with him, and I will hand over our clan to your brother while we are gone." Hong Quang then spoke to his daughter-in-law. "Yizhen, Xinxin is not in the clan now, so I want you to help her take care of Mo Xuanxing."

"Yes, Father."

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In one of the realms in the middle realm, Huoyun Zhiyan walked into a three-story building. Unlike his headquarters, the building was really noisy, and the sound of hammer blows kept echoing in his ears.

Huoyun Zhiyan then went to the top floor, and there was only one room there. Although the room was spacious, it was completely messy with many scraps of forging materials scattered on the floor, and the temperature inside was extremely hot because several furnaces were burning there.

Huoyun Zhiyan rushed over to a middle-aged man who was seriously forging armor. "Why did you come here again, Old Huoyun?"

"I came here to discuss a matter we talked about some time ago, Old Jiang." Jiang Shen immediately stopped forging and turned to Huoyun Zhiyan. "The people in this realm are indeed more than ninety percent blacksmiths, but you should be aware that my pills are very useful to them, so I hope you will allow me to open a shop in this realm."

"I refuse." Jiang Shen replied spontaneously, causing Huoyun Zhiyan to frown. "Old Jiang, your pills are beneficial to us, but I have heard quite a bit about your arbitrary actions in all the realms where you have opened your shops. Just because you are skilled in alchemy and provide many beneficial pills for them, you always pressure the people in those realms to submit to your organization. It was the reason I rejected you some time ago, and it is also the reason I rejected you today."

"You—"

Jiang Shen pointed his hot hammer at Huoyun Zhiyan directly. "If you want to open your shop here, you must fulfill one condition of mine. Otherwise, you can forget about your intention, and you don't need to come to this realm again, especially since I will never agree to it."

"What is your one condition?"

"I won't give you a single difficult condition, and it's actually easy." Huoyun Zhiyan frowned when he saw Jiang Shen smirking. "You can open your shop in my realm, but I don't want people from your organization to set foot here. I will choose a special person to manage the shop, so you only need to send the supplies, and I will send the proceeds from their sales to you."

"Do you think I will believe you, Old Jiang?" Huoyun Zhiyan squinted his eyes.

Jiang Shen shrugged his shoulders. "If you don't believe me, you can leave this realm right now. I'm still busy completing my customers' orders, and I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. Oh! Don't think you can use violence in my place, especially since you won't be able to get out of that door if you do."

'This old bastard!' Huoyun Zhiyan inwardly cursed. "I don't have a problem if you want to take care of the shop, but I will still put one of my people here to take care of the items."

"My decision is non-negotiable. Take it or leave it; the decision is yours." Jiang Shen immediately ignored Huoyun Zhiyan and began forging again. "Oh! I heard that all your shops in the Nine Stars Realm have been permanently closed, and someone else has taken over the alchemy market in the realm. Is that true?"

"How did you know about that?"

Jiang Shen told Huoyun Zhiyan about the blacksmithing competition between people from his realm and Duan Zhao's disciples. "If I recall correctly, the person who took over the alchemy market in that realm was Zhang Fei, right? That kid is not only a skilled alchemist, but he is also a skilled blacksmith, and he has relationships with many blacksmith clans from the upper realms."

Jiang Shen's information shocked Huoyun Zhiyan. He knew that Zhang Fei had good relations with Feng Yao and the Phoenix Race, but he never expected that he also had relations with many blacksmith clans from the upper realms.

"Based on my disciples' stories, Zhang Fei will probably come to this realm soon. If he finds out that you opened a shop here, he might also snatch it from you, so you should reconsider your plan." After hearing that, Huoyun Zhiyan did not say anything more to Jiang Shen and hurriedly left the place. "Haha! I don't know what that kid did to him and his organization, but he frightened him so much."

"Do you really think he will come here, Master?" A young man, who had previously competed against Zhang Fei, posed this question.

Jiang Shen gave him a light nod. "I'm sure Zhang Fei will come to this realm someday, but I can't guess exactly when, so we can only wait for him to arrive."

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On the flying artifact, Huoyun Zhiyan seriously thought about his previous conversation with Jiang Shen. He had long wanted to open a shop in the Divine Flame Realm, but he was aware that Zhang Fei regarded him as his enemy. If he were forced to open a shop in that realm, he would definitely size it like his shop in the Nine Stars Realm, which would bring greater losses to his organization.

"Tch! That bastard! If he didn't have the protection of the Phoenix Race, I would hunt him into that realm and kill him with my hands!" Unfortunately, Huoyun Zhiyan was overconfident about himself, especially since he didn't have much information about Zhang Fei's true abilities.

Moreover, Huoyun Zhiyan was still unaware that Zhang Fei and his two women were on their way to the Shrouded Sky Realm, and they would face each other soon.

Huoyun Zhiyan then contacted his two colleagues, but Xiu Hanyu told him that they couldn't open a shop in the Blossom Heaven Realm because Ma Mingxin had disappeared five months ago, and the residents of that realm couldn't make decisions without her.

Huoyun Zhiyan was disappointed by that, but Xiu Hanyu told him other information about the Sun Tower and the groups of people from the upper realms who had come to that realm specifically to challenge the tower.

"What exactly is that tower? Why do people from the upper realms come so far just to challenge it?" Huoyun Zhiyan asked Xiu Hanyu to wait in that realm, and he contacted Sun Jianming, who was in the Azure Sky Realm.

Unlike Huoyun Zhiyan and Xiu Hanyu, Sun Jianming managed to persuade the people from the Azure Sky Realm, and he immediately moved to prepare their new shops in the realm.

Huoyun Zhiyan was relieved to hear that, and he contacted several people in his organization to send their goods to Sun Jianming in the Azure Sky Realm. Since his location was not too far from the Blossom Heaven Realm, he decided to go to that realm to check out the Sun Tower.

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[Daily Quest: Absorb 100,000 Demon Essences.]

[Reward: 100 advanced demon cores.]

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[Daily Quest: Absorb 100,000 Qi.]

[Reward: 100 purple jewels.]

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[Daily Quest: Killing 2000 beasts or demon beasts at the Heaven Realm or above.]

[Reward: Daily gift pack X1.]

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Zhang Fei, who was stabilizing his cultivation, immediately opened his eyes, especially since two of the three quests had changes in their rewards. 'Demon cores and purple jewels, huh? 100 purple jewels are equivalent to 100,000 blue jewels, and 100 advanced demon cores are also equivalent to 100,000 demon coins, so the rewards for both missions have increased tenfold. Mei, how long will it take for my fifth clone to arrive at the Shrouded Sky Realm?'

[With the speed of Hong Xinxin's flying artifact, they should arrive at the realm today or tomorrow, Master.]

Zhang Fei nodded slightly. 'That's good! After I take over the organization, I will connect that realm to the Nine Stars Realm, and I can travel back and forth between the two realms easily.'

[Master, why don't you try using the teleportation device in here? If you can connect that realm to this place, you won't need to go to the Nine Stars Realm to go there anymore.]

'Is that possible?'

[At least, you can try it first using the device that connects you to the phoenix realm, but I think you should talk to Feng Yao first.]

'Yeah, I'm going to meet Feng Yao using one of my clones.'

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A while later, Zhang Fei [4] had arrived above the volcano, where Feng Yao had performed seclusion. He quickly descended into the volcano, finding that she was in her beast form. "You are truly a beautiful bird."

"What brought you here?" Feng Yao inquired as she transformed back into her human form.

Zhang Fei [4] showed her the teleportation device. "Cheng Gaoji has already connected this device to your phoenix realm, and I was thinking of activating it. At first, I wanted to wait for your parents to return, but I thought it would take too long, so I came here to discuss it with you."

"Are you thinking about sending Zhang Yue there and undergoing the ice phoenix test?" Zhang Fei [4] shook his head at Feng Yao and explained his original purpose. "In that case, you can take me back to your training space, and you can activate it directly. If it really works, I will take you to my realm, and your salamander will definitely like it."

A few moments later, they were already in the training space, and Zhang Fei [4] immediately activated the device. Instantly, the device glowed and floated away from his hand before embedding itself in the floor. "Oh? It actually works!"

"Hehe." Feng Yao chuckled and grabbed Zhang Fei [4]'s shoulder, taking him into the portal. "Let's go! We will go to my realm."

Soon, they arrived at the phoenix realm, but they arrived at the outermost perimeter, which was quite far from the Phoenix Castle, triggering several notifications to appear at once in Zhang Fei [4]'s mind.

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[Ding]

[The system has already recorded the Phoenix Realm, and the host can access it through the gate in the future.]

[Starts mapping the entire area of ​​the Phoenix Realm.]

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[Generating new quests]

[Quest: Meeting the fire and ice phoenix ancestor.]

[Quest rank: Easy]

[Reward: Easy gift pack x 1]

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[Quest: Fire elemental law reaches the half-perfection stage.]

[Quest rank: Medium]

[Reward: Medium gift pack x 1]

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[Quest: Defeat the phoenix ancestors.]

[Quest rank: Hard]

[Reward: Hard gift pack x 1]

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[Quest: Helping Zhang Yue pass the ice phoenix trials.]

[Quest rank: Abyss]

[Reward: Abyss Gift Pack x 1]

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[Quest: Finding the lost treasure of the phoenix race.]

[Quest rank: Special]

[Reward: Special gift pack x 1]

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'What the hell with these quests?' Zhang Fei [4] screamed in his heart. 'I'm not surprised by the other quests, but why did the system give me a quest to defeat the fire phoenix ancestor? Moreover, the last quest is to find the lost treasure of the phoenix race; how could there be a lost treasure in their realm?'

[I don't know why the system gave you that quest, Master. As for the lost treasure, you can try asking Feng Yao about it.]

Zhang Fei [4] released a soft sigh and turned to Feng Yao. "Is there any lost treasure in your realm?"

"How did you know about that?" Zhang Fei [4] responded to Feng Yao with a smile. "There is one treasure from my phoenix race that has been lost for a long time, and we still haven't managed to find it. However, I don't know for sure about the treasure, but my ancestor must know about it. If you want to know about it, I can take you to see him."

"Please take me to him, but I want to look around this realm first." Feng Yao immediately led Zhang Fei [4] toward the Phoenix Castle.

The phoenixes guarding every area they passed cheered at Feng Yao's return, but they were curious about Zhang Fei [4]'s identity, especially since they had never seen their princess get along with a man. Even though he was in his human form, they could feel the aura of his heavenly fox bloodline, which surprised them.

- To Be Continued -