Chen Fan carefully stored the two secret manuals and walked to the next person in line.
After feeling around for a bit, he found a bottle of True Qi Pills and another bottle of Qi Blood Pills?
This was somewhat unexpected, but Qi Blood Pills were helpful to martial artists of any realm, to varying degrees.
Opening the stopper to smell them, he found that it was a bottle of Top-grade Qi Blood Pills.
"I’ll give this bottle of Top-grade Qi Blood Pills to Uncle Zhang when I get back."
He felt somewhat ashamed. He had long intended to give a few bottles of Top-grade Qi Blood Pills to Uncle Zhang. After all, even Top-grade Qi Blood Pills were easy for him to acquire, yet he ended up consuming all of them himself.
He continued walking forward.
"Oh, another Inner Power Heart Method?"
Chen Fan looked at the three characters on the secret manual.
[One Breathing Technique].
"I wonder if the True Qi ratio can be stacked. If not, that would be a huge loss."
He muttered to himself and put the secret manual, along with the two bottles of True Qi Pills he found, into a space item.
It seemed his luck had run out. The next few corpses had no martial arts secret manuals or True Qi Pills, only some trivial items.
"That’s normal."
Chen Fan thought to himself.
After all, breaking through the Chong Meridian consumes a lot of True Qi.
If it were him, the first thing he’d do upon obtaining True Qi Pills would be to consume them all immediately; penetrating an additional acupoint slightly increases one’s strength.
Of course, for typical Meridian Refining Martial Artists, True Qi disturbances would occur, often requiring several hours to a full day of recovery time.
This also gave him a bit of an advantage.
"These corpses..."
After a moment’s consideration, Chen Fan decided to take all of them and place them with the bodies at the Chen Family Stronghold’s entrance, then burn them all at once.
Of course, he would keep Guan Dehua’s body for now, in case they needed to unlock space items with fingerprints or face recognition.
He retrieved the scattered arrows around and tied the corpses together with a rope, then quickly headed towards the Chen Family Stronghold after confirming no one was around.
Moments later, he appeared in front of the now-ruined stronghold, where flames were still blazing fiercely.
With a soft sigh, Chen Fan piled the bodies together and retrieved some gasoline from a military truck, throwing a burning piece of wood onto the pile.
With a "whoosh," the flames shot up several meters high.
He then carried Guan Dehua’s body and headed towards the Chen Family Fortress.
He didn’t take the main entrance, as the fewer people who knew about this, the better.
Finding an empty house, he placed Guan Dehua’s body there and then walked towards the training ground.
"Hah!"
The sound of exhalation and exertion came from the direction, along with the clashing of weapons.
As soon as Chen Fan appeared, everyone stopped what they were doing, their faces filled with a mix of surprise and delight.
"Xiaofan is back! Look, Xiaofan is back!"
"Really, it is Xiaofan!"
"Oh my god, I must be dreaming. I felt like I hadn’t seen Xiaofan in days."
"At least four to five days."
"Nonsense, it’s only been two or three days."
Chen Guodong’s eyes also showed excitement, but he quickly hid it, walked over with a smile and said, "Xiaofan, how have you been in Anshan City these past few days? Are you safe?"
Chen Fan shook his head with a smile and asked, "Dad, how are things here in the stronghold? Is everything okay?"
"Everything’s fine."
Chen Guodong nodded.
Soon, Liu Yong and the others gathered around, each asking about Anshan City.
It was clear that everyone was very curious about life in the city.
Chen Fan answered each question with a smile; he didn’t feel annoyed at all.
Of course, Anshan City was better than the Chen Family Fortress, ten times, even a hundred times better. But the warmth here couldn’t be found in Anshan City.
"Ahem."
Just then, a very familiar cough sounded,
"What are you all doing here? Shouldn’t you be training?"
Everyone’s body trembled and they reluctantly dispersed.
"Uncle Zhang."
Chen Fan smiled slightly at the figure ahead.
"Mm."
Zhang Ren nodded, his eyes filled with gratification.
Seeing Chen Fan return safely, a weight was finally lifted off his shoulders.
Moreover, since Chen Fan was here, did it mean that the Awakened person surnamed Guan was already...?
He didn’t dare to think further.
If that were the case, how powerful must Chen Fan be?
"Dad, I need to talk to Uncle Zhang for a bit."
Chen Fan smiled.
"Mm, go ahead."
Chen Guodong smiled knowingly. He had a faint idea of what was going on.
If he wasn’t mistaken, Zhang Ren probably met Xiaofan when he went out this morning?
Looking at the seemingly calm days, who knew how many hardships had been endured.
He took a deep breath and walked back with his weapon.

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