Hero In The Cultivator World

Ch.5 - Liu Family's Higher-ups

“How many slaves are in this dungeon?” Xiang Chen asked the slave hunter.

"There are about 30 of them, sir."

"Then release them all and give each one a piece of bread." Xiang Chen took out a bag of buns.

"Yes sir," the man took it and went to carry out Xiang Chen's order

He did not know where Xiang Chen got the bag of bread under his robe. But considering that young man was a powerful cultivator, he must have a dimensional ring.

Well, even though Xiang Chen doesn't actually have a dimensional ring. He only had a storage room of his own that he created with magic.

The storage space will automatically expand if Xiang Chen gets stronger. It's just that the storage space can only be filled with inanimate objects.

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The Liu Family's branch residence.

This branch of the Liu Family was the strongest among the other branches of the Liu Family, which controlled Wuho City.

Wuho City's Liu Family Patriarch was at the late-stage Martial Emperor realm.

On the Chenwu Continent there are 9 commonly known cultivation levels, namely...

Core Formation

Martial Masters

Martial Grandmaster

Martial Spirits

Martial Kings

Martial Emperors

Martial Ancestor

Martial Saints

Martial Lords

Among the 9 cultivation levels, only Martial Lord is divided into 3 stages (early, middle and late), while those under the Martial Lord level have 5 stages from 1st to 5th stage.

It is believed that there are actually higher cultivation levels, only that the levels above the Martial Lord only strong cultivators above the Martial Lord level know about it.

The Main Elders as well as the Patriarch of the Liu Family were currently in a meeting because the central family demanded more and more slaves.

Every year they sent at least 100 slaves to the central family, but somehow this time the central family asked for more.

It was very difficult to meet the demands of the central family because so far they had difficulty meeting the demands of 100 slaves every year.

Slavery is illegal in the Sun Empire, it is strictly prohibited and will be subject to severe punishment if found out.

Take out the Liu Wuho City branch during this time arresting rural people. They are trying to cover up the rotten deeds they have been doing. More and more the imperial side became suspicious, leading them to place surveillance on the Wuho City branch of the Liu Family.

That's why it was increasingly difficult for them to collect slaves.

They didn't know why the central family always asked for slaves. But the more slaves they shipped, the more resources the central family provided for them.

So all they thought about was resources, not caring about what the central family wanted so many slaves for.

“The central family said that this year would be their last demand for slaves, but they wanted 150 slaves this time. Then the central family will provide us with a lot of resources so that I can break through to the Martial Ancestor Realm.”

The Patriarch of the Wuho City branch of the Liu Family was named Liu Han. He was a middle-aged man with a thin mustache, long hair and beard that were all still jet black.

“Patriarch, then we can begin the plan to take over the Sun Empire.” Said the first elder called Liu Gang.

“We should be kidnapping more people, but the Imperial family has started keeping an eye on us because recently there have been more and more missing citizens.” Great Elder responded.

“No problem, I've obtained the relations of the slave traders in the Cloud Empire. They will be sending 100 slaves so it will be more than enough to add up to the slaves we have gathered here!”

While they were still in the middle of their discussion, they suddenly felt an extremely strong killing aura coming from the backyard of the residence.

Their faces immediately turned pale when they felt that killing aura. Their bodies were even shaking.

“Who is giving off such a powerful killing aura?”

“It came from the backyard. It's where we keep slaves. We have to take a look so something doesn't happen to those slaves!”

Liu Han and all the Elders immediately rushed towards the courtyard of the Perring residence.

It turned out that not only they felt that killing aura but all the higher ups of the family also felt it.

Dozens of Liu Family's higher-ups who were Martial Emperor level cultivators, flew swiftly towards the refining courtyard.

Upon their arrival, they saw a semi-transparent yellow energy barrier.

Liu Han took out his spear which was immediately enveloped in flames.

With a powerful move, Liu Han slashed at the energy barrier.

*Boommm!!

Liu Han was blown away as he attacked the energy barrier. The energy barrier seemed to reflect the attack causing him to receive some burns on several parts of his body, though they weren't serious at all.

"Damn! What kind of energy barrier is this?!” Liu Han cursed in annoyance, "we attack together!"

Dozens of Martial Emperor level cultivators immediately attacked simultaneously, using their respective strongest techniques.

But the result was the same, the energy barrier didn't suffer even the slightest scratch.

“This is no ordinary barrier. This must have been made by a formation master who was at least rank 7. In the Sun Empire there couldn't be a formation master level 7. That means it wasn't from the Sun Empire.” The Great Elder really didn't know what to do in this situation.

There are 9 levels of Formation Expert from 1 to 9.

“If he isn't from the Sun Empire then we can at least engage him in discussion!” Liu Han didn't want to turn those high-level Formation Masters into enemies.

If there was something that had angered this Formation Master to antagonize the Liu Family, it would be best if it could be resolved through discussion.

Formation masters were highly respected on the Chenwu Continent, even on the same level as Alchemists. Because Formation Masters, apart from being able to create formation arrays that could create powerful protection like this and being able to make certain areas have denser natural energy, Formation masters could also strengthen weapons and artifacts.

Enmity with Formation Masters was simply not good.

Even though Xiang Chen wasn't actually a Formation Master. He used a magic circle to form this energy barrier.

However the concept used in the formation array with the magic circle was very similar. Those who were neither Formation Masters nor experts in magic circles would definitely not be able to see the difference.

“SENIOR FORMATION MASTER! I DON'T KNOW WHETHER MY LIU FAMILY EVER OFFENDED YOU, BUT IF THERE IS A PROBLEM, CAN WE TALK IT CAREFULLY?”

Liu Han shouted, hoping that the broadcast would be heard by anyone beyond this energy barrier.

“Ah.. you guys have finally come, I thought you guys would run away after feeling my killing aura.”