Coldwind City, White Feather Auction.

Chen Chao sat in the VIP box, watching the lots being auctioned off by various immortal cultivators, but in his heart he was calculating the future of the family.

"Nowadays, there are constantly mysterious forces attacking the family industry, although the family monks can also suppress it, but they have never been able to find out the root of the unknown force, obviously the core power of the mysterious force has not yet been revealed, and any force will not appear out of thin air, it should still be tentative......

But Chen Chao was sure in his heart that the time for the other party to see the poor dagger would not be too far.

"The foundation of the family lies in my father's infant-level strength, but my father's life and death on the battlefield outside the territory are unknown, even if he is safe, I am afraid that it will be difficult to quench his thirst from far away.

If the mysterious force does not appear, the safest solution is actually to break the wrist of the strong man and exchange it for benefits to obtain the protection of other Yuanying families in Cold Wind City. ”

Chen Chao picked up the fruit on the table and continued to calculate while eating.

"As long as my father can return from outside the territory, with my father's strength, I will always be able to get back some benefits, but unfortunately the emergence of this mysterious force has made many people see the weakness of the family.

And the thing that Chen Chao is most worried about is that there are enemies above the Jindan level in the mysterious forces, and the eldest brother Chen Yuanqing can't go out of seclusion, claiming to break through the Yuan Infant Period, but how can it be so easy to achieve the Yuan Infant, and Chen Chao guesses that this may just be the elder brother's delaying tactic, hoping to deter the unscrupulous people and delay until his father's return.

"I can't hope for my father's return, I need to test the ideas of the eldest brother and the fourth brother without alarming others, so that I can make arrangements in time, if the eldest brother is just delaying the army on the grounds of retreat breakthrough, then I must help them make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late to regret it."

Chen Chao calculated his next plan, so he stood up and walked towards the outside of the auction house.

"Fifth Master, this is your auction proceeds."

A guy from the auction house walked up with a bag and said respectfully, "A total of seven hundred and ten medium-grade spirit stones." ”

Chen Chao glanced at it, nodded and said, "Send it to the Chen family and hand it over to the family's housekeepers for accounting." ”

"Yes!"

The guy bowed and stepped back.

"It seems that the market demand for blue ice stone is even greater than imagined......"

Chen Chao secretly said in his heart that he cut about two taels of blue ice stone from the blue ice stone this time and sent it to the auction house for consignment, because he wanted to estimate the actual price, but the price of this material seemed to be above his impression.

Although the White Feather Auction House has a part of the Chen family's investment, but the leader is still the White Feather Chamber of Commerce throughout Nanming, and it is not feasible to sell the blue ice stone through the auction house, this kind of high-value item, the Chen family is only afraid that it is difficult to ensure that the news is not leaked, and rashly taking it out will cause the greed of others.

"At least, you can't make a move in Coldwind City."

Chen Chao decided that this matter should be stabilized first, and first go back to secretly test the truth of the eldest brother and the fourth brother.

Returning to the Chen family's land, Chen Chao went to the Gong Hall as usual, harvesting a wave of golden light points every day, which is the basis for improving his own and even his family's strength in the future.

Coming out of the Hall of Inheritance, Chen Chao returned to his room, he already had an idea about how to probe the reality of the eldest brother and the fourth brother, although the place where the eldest brother retreated had been blocked, except for the fourth brother, even he could not see it, but he could newly obtain the incarnation of the Heavenly Demon.

Chen Chao pinched the trick with one hand, running the Heavenly Demon Transformation Body and Mind Method, and a figure separated from his body, it was the Heavenly Demon clone of Chen Jiangxue in his previous life, at this time he was wearing Chen Chao's dark blue dust-avoiding magic robe, black hair and black eyes, his eyes were full of light, and he was gradually restrained.

Chen Chao's mind turned to the Heavenly Demon clone, stood up, and smiled leisurely at himself in the mirror, an evil temperament arose, and his body gradually blurred, as if he had entered another world, but he could still spy on reality, it was the Heavenly Demon Shadowless Divine Power.

After the body was blurred, the Heavenly Demon clone passed directly through the wall and sneaked towards the retreat of the eldest brother Chen Yuanqing.

After the layers of guards of the Chen family, the Heavenly Demon Clone came to a secret place in the Chen family's land, and those guards with the lowest foundation cultivation could not detect the existence of the Heavenly Demon Clone at all.

Entering the underground secret room of Chen Yuanqing's retreat, he found that the eldest brother Chen Yuanqing, who was supposed to be practicing in retreat, was actually reading a book in the secret room, the title of the book was: "Fox Fairy Yuan", seeing the title of the book, the corners of the mouth of the heavenly demon clone couldn't help twitching, and sure enough, the eldest brother and the fourth brother were bluffing.

This "Fox Immortal Yuan" is not a secret book of exercises, but a novel of cultivating immortals, Chen Chao has also read it, it is roughly written by an ordinary immortal cultivator, who saved a white fox, and then the fox demon repaid the favor and assisted the protagonist's cultivation story, which is also interspersed with a lot of indescribable content.

"Who's there?"

Suddenly, Chen Yuanqing, who was reading a novel, raised his head and looked at the location of the Heavenly Demon clone suspiciously, faintly he seemed to notice that someone was spying on him.

The Heavenly Demon clone didn't wait for Chen Yuanqing's further reaction, got the information he needed, and saw that Chen Yuanqing seemed to have signs of discovering himself, so he silently withdrew from Chen Yuanqing's retreat room.

"Quirky...... I obviously had a feeling of being spied on just now, maybe I was a little tired from reading novels for too long......"

As the Heavenly Demon clone left the secret room, Chen Yuanqing's feeling of being spied on disappeared, and he checked his surroundings again, without any traces of being infiltrated, so he could only continue to pick up the novel and read it with a puzzled face.

When the Heavenly Demon clone returned the same way, the corners of Chen Chao's mouth, who was sitting in his room, also showed a wry smile.

"I said that it is not so easy to break through the Yuan Infant Period, and as I expected, the eldest brother and the fourth brother are too, and the crisis of the family cannot be solved by delaying time...... If there are also old monsters in the infancy stage of that mysterious force, then doing so will stimulate the other party and accelerate the pace of aggression. ”

But Chen Chao also knew that the eldest brother and the fourth brother had no other way to do this, the world of cultivating immortals was originally respected by the strong, and no matter how many schemes there were, as long as the cultivation was strong enough, they could directly crush the past.

Chen Chao sat in his room and meditated, looking for a solution to the family's crisis.

"At present, the biggest crisis of the family is that the strength cannot match the resources it has, causing snooping, and the husband is not guilty of it, not to mention that the essence of the world of cultivating immortals is the law of the jungle.

Chen Chao believes that the eldest brother has also considered a way to transfer benefits, but now it is not so simple as giving benefits, the emergence of mysterious forces has become a pawn for all forces to test the Chen family, before the Chen family and the mysterious forces divide the victory or defeat, even if those families are willing to help, they will let the Chen family give a great price, if the Chen family is defeated by the mysterious forces, they will even sit and watch the mysterious forces destroy the Chen family first, and then sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman. ”

In his previous life, as an undercover agent, Chen Chao was able to hold a high position, and his vision and grasp of the overall situation were not comparable to ordinary people.

"Now most of the people in the family don't realize the seriousness of the problem at all, they always think that paying a part of the benefits can solve the problem, and even struggle with how to reduce losses, but in fact, the Chen family has reached the crossroads of the clan annihilation, and the slightest carelessness will be doomed.

But will those in the family agree? Will the hostile forces let the Chen family leave safely? These things are complicated, and they can only be solved slowly, and what the Chen family lacks the most is time......"

Although the situation was critical, Chen Chao's eyes revealed a look of determination and hope.

"Fortunately, there is also a Heavenly Demon Clone, as a core disciple of the Chen family, I have received too much attention and cannot move freely, but the Heavenly Demon Clone can, this first step is to find a new backer, introduce external forces, the Chen family took the initiative to abandon most of the industrial interests, and most of the hostile forces lost the motivation to attack the Chen family, and then there is a new backer to help, coupled with the Chen family's own remaining strength, it will be enough to protect itself in the short term, as for the future, as long as the Chen family's people are still there, there is still hope for the rise."

How to find a new backer, Chen Chao already had some preliminary ideas in his heart, and the next thing was to convince his eldest brother and fourth brother first, after all, the two of them were the current decision-makers of the family.