“The Hai family?” Li Hengsheng found the name somewhat familiar, but then he suddenly realized. He remembered that the person Lu Qiaoqiao was arranged to marry into was from the Hai family, and he was the second son of the Hai family.

Because of this, Li Hengsheng had learned about the Hai family, which was indeed a large clan. The family had many postnatal experts, and even two prenatal ones.

One was the eldest son of the Hai family, Hai Dongsheng, and the other was the terrifying ancestor of the Hai family, Hai Songtao.

The realm of prenatal perfection. In the entire Minghong Prefecture, it was second to none. The family had a trading company called Minghai Trading Company that was spread all over Minghong Prefecture.

It could be said that they had both money and power.

“Have you heard that something big happened in Minghong Prefecture recently? Is it related to the Hai family?” Li Hengsheng sat down, wanting to seriously hear about the recent events.

“The Hai family has been annihilated. You could say that the Hai family no longer exists.” Zhou Jun’s words made Li Hengsheng’s eyes widen.

“Annihilated?” Li Hengsheng found it hard to believe. With the Hai family’s strength, who could have annihilated them?

“Yes, the ancestor of the Hai family, Hai Songtao, was killed.” Zhou Jun said with a smile, “You should understand, with Hai Songtao dead, those enemies that the Hai family had offended in the past would not miss this opportunity. They all attacked the Hai family, and the entire Water City was turned into a river of blood.”

“The Hai family’s trading companies in the entire Minghong Prefecture no longer exist. The second son of the Hai family was also killed on his way to take up his post in the city. However, it is rumored that the eldest son of the Hai family escaped, and his whereabouts are still unknown. No one knows where he went.”

“But for a prenatal expert, it’s probably hard to catch him if he wants to escape.”

“Our Zhou family also benefited from this incident. This Lingxuan White Tiger’s Tiger Elixir Wine was found in the Hai family in Water City. It is said that Hai Songtao used this medicinal wine to enhance his muscle vitality and alleviate muscle aging. So, this is a good thing.” Zhou Jun said with a smug look, “Our Zhou family got three pots in total. I brought one out when I returned home after completing a mission outside. I immediately thought of you, Fourth Brother, to share it with. How about it, isn’t your third senior brother good to you? I thought of you first when I got something good.” Li Hengsheng was still in shock from the news of the Hai family’s annihilation and hadn’t come back to his senses.

Such a powerful family, reduced to ashes overnight. It was truly terrifying.

“Senior Brother, you just brought the wine out like this, won’t your father beat you?” Li Hengsheng looked at the pot of wine and couldn’t help but laugh.

“It’s just a pot of wine, what’s the big deal if I drink some.” Zhou Jun waved his hand, then said mysteriously, “By the way, let me tell you something unbelievable. Do you know who killed Hai Songtao?”

“To kill Hai Songtao, at least it must be a prenatal perfection expert, or even possibly a Grandmaster who has reached the Great Perfection of the Prenatal Realm.” Li Hengsheng guessed, “In Minghong Prefecture, who could kill Hai Songtao, could it be a strong person from our Dao Mountain Ancient Land?”

“Not really.” Zhou Jun shook his head, “To tell the story, it starts with a trading company called Changqing Trading Company.”

“Changqing Trading Company?” Li Hengsheng was taken aback when he heard the name of this trading company. The name was the same as his father’s. His father’s name was Li Changqing.

However, Li Hengsheng thought it was just a coincidence. Then Zhou Jun briefly explained the grudges between Changqing Trading Company and Minghai Trading Company.

The more he listened, the stranger Li Hengsheng’s expression became.

“Senior Brother, did you just say that this Changqing Trading Company was established by several small families?” Li Hengsheng asked in surprise, “And these families are from Changting Town?”

“Yes.” Zhou Jun finished speaking, paused for a moment, then as if remembering something, he looked at Li Hengsheng with a strange expression, “Fourth Brother, if I remember correctly, you are from Changting Town, aren’t you? Then you must know these families very well.”

“Well, I am from Changting Town, and I do know a bit about these families.” Li Hengsheng felt very strange at this moment.

If the trading company was established by the families of Changting Town, why would they use his father’s name for the company?

Changqing Trading Company? It was so strange. If the trading company was established by people unrelated to Li Changqing, Li Hengsheng wouldn’t think much of it. But wasn’t his father, Li Changqing, currently serving in the Yan family?

This was truly baffling. Moreover, according to Li Hengsheng’s understanding, there were no prenatal experts in Changting Town. The strongest three family heads should be Zhao Yiqiu, Bai Jingfei, and Yan Botao. Their cultivation was at the peak of the postnatal realm.

Even if the head of a family had recently broken through to the prenatal realm by chance, they still wouldn’t be able to kill Hai Songtao.

What on earth had happened in Changting Town?

“Maybe it’s just like the rumors say, there’s a hidden expert behind these small families.” Zhou Jun waved his hand and said, “Why think so much? Come on, let’s taste this Lingxuan White Tiger’s Tiger Elixir Wine. But isn’t it a bit boring to just drink? Fourth Brother, why don’t you go ask Second Senior Sister for two spirit chickens to go with the wine?” As he spoke, Zhou Jun’s eyes were already shining.Li Hengsheng was left in a state of both amusement and exasperation. Zhou Jun had always been eyeing the spirit chickens raised by their second senior sister, no wonder he came to him with a bottle of wine.

He wanted to mooch off some chicken.

“Alright, it’s not easy for our second senior sister to raise those spirit chickens, let’s not covet them. I’ll go buy some ordinary roast chicken for you, it’s the same,” Li Hengsheng said with a laugh, shaking his head.

“Oh my, Fourth Brother, you really don’t know how to utilize resources,” Zhou Jun said helplessly. “Second senior sister has already said that you can eat the spirit chickens whenever you want, she can even clean them up and deliver them to you. If it were me, I would have her deliver chickens to me every day.”

“Fourth Brother, you really don’t know how to use your own resources,” Zhou Jun said with a tone of disappointment.

“Third senior brother, I think you’re just asking for a beating,” Li Hengsheng laughed and shook his head, then arranged for the people in the mansion to go out and buy some roast chicken and other food.

While waiting for the roast chicken, Li Hengsheng took the opportunity to ask Zhou Jun a question.

“Third senior brother, I am now at the peak of the ninth layer of the Transcendence Realm, and I should be able to break through to the Postnatal Realm,” Li Hengsheng said. “But I don’t feel any internal energy at all. The blood and qi in my body are very turbulent. I’ve tried to break through the qi sea, but I can’t break through the qi sea barrier. Why is that?”

“Unable to break through the qi sea barrier?” Zhou Jun was not surprised at all, because this was a very normal thing.

He casually picked up an apple and took a bite, then stood up and walked behind Li Hengsheng, placing his palm on Li Hengsheng’s back, and said, “Let me feel it, don’t resist.” Li Hengsheng nodded.

Immediately, he felt a powerful force penetrating into his body. That was Zhou Jun’s internal energy.

The power of internal energy far exceeded that of blood and qi. It surged from the bones and muscles, its power was astonishing, and it was not something that could be easily resisted by mobilizing the power of blood and qi.

After feeling the surging blood and qi in Li Hengsheng, Zhou Jun’s originally calm face suddenly changed. He had long known that the power of blood and qi in Li Hengsheng’s body was strong.

But it was only when he truly felt the power of Li Hengsheng’s blood and qi that he realized how abnormal Li Hengsheng’s blood and qi power was!

“Holy shit!” A curse word burst out from Zhou Jun’s mouth, and then he took two steps back, looking at Li Hengsheng with a shocked face.

“Fourth Brother, what kind of martial arts are you practicing? How did your blood and qi power become so strong?” Zhou Jun had never seen such an abnormal Transcendence Realm before.

No wonder he was able to defeat the Iron-faced Man at the seventh layer of the Transcendence Realm. He really had something to rely on. Zhou Jun considered himself a genius, but he was no match for Li Hengsheng when he was at the ninth layer of the Transcendence Realm.

If his own blood and qi power were compared to a small river, then Li Hengsheng’s was simply an ocean.

“So it’s very difficult for me to break through?” Li Hengsheng didn’t answer Zhou Jun’s question. The Sun-Moon Immortal-Demon Divine Body was a secret, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

What he cared more about was how he was going to break through.

“Difficult? It’s more than difficult,” Zhou Jun sighed lightly. “When breaking through the qi sea, the power of blood and qi will be transformed into internal energy. But because your blood and qi power is too strong, the transformation is difficult. More importantly, your physical body is too strong, and the qi sea barrier is also very strong, so it’s hard to break through.”

“If it were an ordinary disciple who had cultivated to the ninth layer of the Transcendence Realm, a single Realm-Breaking Pill would basically do the trick, helping them break through the qi sea. But in your case… the success rate of the Realm-Breaking Pill is probably very small,” Zhou Jun speculated.

“Then what other methods are there?” Li Hengsheng frowned. He didn’t expect that having a strong physical body would also be a problem.

It was so difficult to enter the Postnatal Realm.

“Well, the methods…” Zhou Jun pondered for a while. “Under normal circumstances, either rely on pills or try to break through on your own. But in your current situation, the possibility of breaking through the barrier on your own is very small. But if you rely on pills, ordinary Realm-Breaking Pills probably won’t work, unless you get a high-level Realm-Breaking Pill.”

“High-level Realm-Breaking Pill?” Li Hengsheng asked curiously. “Are there different levels of pills?”

“Ordinary pills naturally don’t have levels, like the ones you eat during your daily cultivation, they’re all the same. But high-level pills naturally have levels, they can be divided into nine grades.”

“If it were an ordinary disciple, eating a first-grade Realm-Breaking Pill would naturally allow them to break through. But in your case, I guess you need at least a fifth-grade Realm-Breaking Pill,” Zhou Jun said with a smirk. His junior brother was really expensive.

“Fifth grade?” Li Hengsheng was taken aback, then said, “Then I’ll go to the main peak to buy one later.”

“That’s not easy to buy,” Zhou Jun shrugged. “Whether we have it in Dao Mountain Ancient Land or not is hard to say. After all, the pills in Dao Mountain Ancient Land are all made by our alchemists here. The level of our alchemists in Dao Mountain Ancient Land is limited, and the medicines they make are enough for ordinary disciples.”

“But asking them to make a fifth-grade pill might be a bit difficult for them. Moreover, the higher the grade of the pill, the more precious it is. It’s hard to say what price you need to pay to get one. But you can ask the master to see if there are any other methods. I can’t help you with this.” Li Hengsheng nodded solemnly.Not long after, the servant returned with the meat. The two of them finished the pot of wine along with the roast chicken.

It must be said, the potency of the Lingxuan White Tiger’s Tiger Pill Wine was indeed great, and the spiritual power it contained was abundant. After drinking it, one could feel the internal energy and blood in their body surging, even stronger than the impact brought by ordinary pills.

Even Li Hengsheng, with his constitution, felt dizzy after drinking it. He couldn’t withstand the strength of the alcohol. He originally wanted to ask Xu Muhai about his breakthrough, but ended up sleeping soundly all night, only waking up at noon the next day.

By the time he woke up, Zhou Jun had already left. Li Hengsheng didn’t expect to get drunk from just half a pot of wine.

The alcohol was really strong. He even had some blackouts, and he couldn’t remember what happened when he was drinking with Zhou Jun. He didn’t know if he had done anything embarrassing.

When Li Hengsheng wanted to find Xu Muhai to ask about things, Xu Kui said that someone had come to visit. Li Hengsheng was curious about who it was.

To his surprise, the visitor turned out to be Yan Yuyun.

“Brother Li,” Yan Yuyun revealed her small tiger teeth as she smiled, “I was passing by Mu Haifeng and thought I’d come up to see you. I hope I didn’t disturb your cultivation?”

“Not at all, I just woke up. It’s rare for someone to visit me here at Qingyu Mountain, so you’re a rare guest, Sister Yuyun. Please, have a seat.” As they were from the same hometown, Li Hengsheng greeted her warmly. Besides, Yan’s family was his father’s employer.

After exchanging pleasantries, Yan Yuyun said, “Brother Li, I’m planning to go down the mountain.”

“Are you going back to Changting Town?” Li Hengsheng looked at Yan Yuyun.

“Yes, I haven’t been back for a long time, so I came here to ask if you want to go back together. If we go together, we can share the journey.”

“I…” Li Hengsheng really wanted to go back, but after thinking about it, he shook his head. The previous incident still made him feel uneasy.

Moreover, Xu Muhai had told him that it was dangerous for him to leave Dao Mountain Ancient Land at this time. He should wait until he had the ability to protect himself.

Li Hengsheng had thought that if he asked the Canghai Escort Agency to escort him back to Changting Town, they could ensure his safety on the road.

But what about after he returned to Changting Town? He himself might be fine, but what if the people from the Longevity Sect suddenly appeared and implicated those around him?

Especially, Li Hengsheng didn’t want to put his father, Li Changqing, in danger. The people from the Longevity Sect were ruthless and might harm his father.

So Li Hengsheng didn’t want to go back for the time being. He would wait until he had the strength to protect his father before going back to see him.

“I see, well then, I guess I’ll have to go back alone.” Yan Yuyun looked somewhat disappointed.

“By the way, Sister, do you know anything about the recent events at the Changqing Trading Company?” Li Hengsheng asked Yan Yuyun.