Chapter 704

Chapter 704: Becoming a Son-in-Law

Huaxia Federation, Yun River City

Chen Jinfa walked to the entrance of Cloud Peak Community, took out an identity card, and the gate slowly opened. As he walked in, he felt a strong spiritual energy enveloping him.

In the community, there were some elderly people walking around in groups. They were ordinary people, but also considered lucky to live in Cloud Peak Community, a famous cultivator community in Yun River City. The abundance of spiritual energy made the prices sky-high. These elderly people, if not original owners in the community, wouldn’t be able to afford to live there.

The environment in the community was very friendly to these elderly people. Living here nurtured their bodies with spiritual energy, making them rarely fall ill. Even if they did get sick, it was easy to recover. With cultivators everywhere in the community, even producing a few Alchemists was easy.

Chen Jinfa returned to his rented house, closed the door, silently activated a formation, and unplugged some electronic devices, including his phone and wristwatch, placing them in a special box that blocked signals.

Chen Jinfa was extra cautious because he had many secrets. When the demon clan attacked Tianya Mountain and wiped out the independent cultivator team that he was with, everyone, including their leader at the Golden Core Period, died. But he survived and brought back almost all of their legacy.

Such matters were not dealt with by the authorities. They had an understanding that rules had to be followed in Shen Continent and at Tianya Mountain Base, but outside, anything goes – it was a lawless land.

However, Chen Jinfa attracted attention from others, especially relatives of his team who perished. Being the sole survivor, they didn’t believe his explanations at all.

"I am in the later stage of Building Foundation, reaching Golden Core. It’s not difficult."

Chen Jinfa felt his cultivation progress. He had reached the later stage of Building Foundation. Twenty years ago, he was just a novice at the Qi Refining level. In two decades, his cultivation had advanced to the later stage of Building Foundation, a speed comparable to the most talented individuals in Huaxia.

Moreover, Chen Jinfa is very confident that breaking through the Golden Core Period is not difficult for him.

"It’s not difficult to achieve the golden core, but living in the sunlight is challenging."

Chen Jinfa sighed again. Despite his shady actions, he still preferred living openly in the sunlight. After all, he wanted to enjoy life. Climbing to his current position and amassing so much wealth would be miserable if he couldn’t enjoy it openly.

Currently, Chen Jinfa wants to settle down in Huaxia and even obtain citizenship there. However, this path is difficult. Huaxia already has billions of people and doesn’t really need more immigrants, so the immigration opportunities are scarce.

The easiest way to immigrate now is to be a technology expert, especially one who understands both science and cultivation. However, there is an oversupply of cultivators in Huaxia.

For Chen Jinfa, breaking through the Golden Core Period might be the best way to obtain citizenship. However, Chen Jinfa is hesitant because his Spiritual Root wouldn’t withstand scrutiny. Starting with Five Spiritual Roots and advancing from the first level of Qi Refining to the later stages of Building Foundation in twenty years would be suspicious. These things aren’t checked if he doesn’t apply for citizenship, but they would be if he did.

"Marrying into the Huaxia population might be a good opportunity."

Finally, Chen Jinfa had an idea. He could marry a Huaxia person, have children, meet certain job requirements, and then be eligible for citizenship.

Feeling more confident about his plan, Chen Jinfa stood up and discreetly expanded his consciousness to observe the surroundings.

Chen Jinfa thought about his own abilities and realized he was very advantaged among regular people. His progress in building foundation was nearing the ceiling among independent cultivators, considering there are only a few with golden cores. If he didn’t have those messy past incidents, he could even return to Jiabang and achieve a high social status.

In Huaxia, there is a high demand for cultivators to marry into families. Many middle-class and even wealthy families in Huaxia like to have in-laws, even if their cultivation level is not high. This increases the chances of their offspring having Spiritual Roots.

"Find a wealthy single woman, marry into her family, then gain citizenship. If the opportunity arises, take over her family’s fortune, if not, find a way to leave. First establish a foothold in Huaxia before proceeding, the opportunities here are greater than elsewhere."

Chen Jinfa finally set his strategic goal. The opportunities he could gain in Huaxia were unparalleled elsewhere. Just like his former boss, without his identity in Huaxia, how could he have planned those malicious schemes before? Finally, he obtained a Nascent Soul treasure, becoming a top figure among independent cultivators. It was just unfortunate he didn’t enjoy a few more years of life.

········

"North Immortal Kingdom turned out to be useless, played by a group of spies."

In Haigang City, Lin Jiang in his office cursed loudly. The incident involving North Immortal Kingdom erupted suddenly, everyone knew something was wrong. Lin Jiang arranged for an investigation and immediately discovered clues and found out the masterminds behind the scenes were actually a group of spies.

"These spies are very professional. Once their job is done, they immediately ditch their identities, now they can’t be found."

"Hmph, where can they escape to? Let’s send someone to investigate."

"Uncle, these people are obviously part of the hunter organization, hiding among the cultivators, it might be difficult to investigate."

"There are many spies in the hunter organization, we need to sort it out, those hunters above the gold rank might pose a big problem."

Lin Jiang said, honest work doesn’t bring wealth, in the hunter organization, any hunter above the gold rank is not clean, not to mention the spies. Lin Jiang won’t let them go.

"Uncle, are we still going after the Stone King?"

Cao Ying said, spying is a complicated matter, she doesn’t want to deal with it, she just wants to know if we’re going after this Stone King or not.

"We will, I’ve been wanting to deal with them for a while, if the Stone Monster breaks through to the seventh rank, it’ll be hard to kill, I wanted to keep them before, but now we can’t."

Lin Jiang said, the Stone Monster requires little resources and has a mild temperament, so Lin Jiang hasn’t bothered them until now, but there’s an excuse now to deal with them.

"What should we do if we are used as the spear by the North Immortal Kingdom?"

"What else can we do, let them pay, we won’t lose anything anyway, let the secretary handle it, unless the North Immortal Kingdom sheds blood first, we won’t go, as a Tao Achieving, the appearance fee shouldn’t be too low, right?"

Lin Jiang said. The North Immortal Kingdom is being fooled, so Lin Jiang will try harder, as he doesn’t want to lose out.

"Hmm, how about a million spirit stones?"

"Would a million spirit stones be enough to invite Tao Achieving to help?"

"A million?"

"Too low."

"Uncle, you’re really a savvy merchant!"

"Scarcity makes things valuable. What’s called savvy? This is a reasonable business practice. We are not from the North Immortal Kingdom. Let the secretary group handle negotiations. Don’t focus on specific values, but aim for some policy-related benefits."

Lin Jiang thought, a mere million or billion spirit stones mean nothing. He wanted to demand benefits in the name of Huaxia. If a policy came out, it could potentially bring billions of spirit stones in benefits. This way, they could better conceal their greed and not be so obvious. Even if it leaked, they would have excuses.

The secretary group accepted the task and quickly began planning, sending people specifically to the North Immortal Kingdom to investigate the situation, which was not good at the moment.

Due to the presence of bio-weapons, Luanshi Mountain was not suitable for ordinary wild animals and low-level monsters to live in. The Stone King led the monsters of Luanshi Mountain out, and they conquered several cities and mountains with spiritual veins.

The North Immortal Kingdom was naturally unwilling, so they started a war. The cultivators of North Immortal Kingdom were not strong enough, but they had technology weapons and spiritual energy weapons.

After several battles, the North Immortal Kingdom was defeated by the Stone King. The defeats sparked the appetite of the monsters. They had been confined to Luanshi Mountain before, and most of them had never tasted human blood. However, after several battles, they found human blood to be delicious and humans to be weak.

The law of survival of the fittest in the genes of the monsters was awakened. They started attacking humans as food and even challenged the authority of the Stone King.

Despite their brave fighting, the North Immortal Kingdom was no match for the monsters of third, fourth, and even fifth levels. They kept losing lands.

People who sought help left the North Immortal Kingdom in groups. Now, kingdoms capable of aiding the North Immortal Kingdom were all eyeing the situation, even the former allies. After all, they couldn’t pass up such a good opportunity.

The North Immortal Kingdom, in distress, was infuriated after meeting several envoys. They felt they were being taken advantage of in the worst way.