Chapter 1 Lin Chen's Disguise

Lin Chen took out a set of clothes from his storage ring.

This was an exclusive fashion from the Dragon Spirit Kingdom.

The game *New World* described this outfit as follows:

[Dragon Spirit Wanderer (Male): The favorite attire of some wanderers and rogue cultivators in the Dragon Spirit Realm. The clothing is well-designed, looks very dashing, and will make you stand out from the crowd.]

So, by changing into this outfit, Lin Chen, at least in terms of clothing, was no different from those wanderers, rogue cultivators, or freelancers of the Dragon Spirit Kingdom.

But something was still missing.

Lin Chen had to add some flair to his face.

Otherwise…

He was afraid of being recognized!

He planned to immerse himself in the lives of the people of the Dragon Spirit Kingdom.

As the ancients said, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles.

This saying actually encourages people to go out and see more of the world.

Many things can only be truly felt when seen with one's own eyes.

This is called experience.

For example, now, with the great changes on Blue Star and the arrival of the New World.

If Lin Chen had just stayed in Tianyue City, he would undoubtedly have been like a frog at the bottom of a well.

Even, waiting for his own demise.

He needed to observe more and know more.

He couldn't rely on guesswork for everything.

And now, such an opportunity had appeared before Lin Chen.

He retracted his wings, entered the streets of the town, and found a tavern.

He went up to the second floor and found a window seat.

Below was a street in the town, paved with cobblestones. Across the street was a Western fantasy-style building, and there were many vendors on both sides of the street. It could be said that all sorts of people were present.

Lin Chen asked the waiter for a pot of tea, and then he was a little dumbfounded when he looked at the menu.

Stir-fried two-headed snake meat, stir-fried Tui Shan pig kidney, steamed two-headed crocodile liver…

All monster ingredients.

There were even introductions to the effects of these ingredients.

For example, enhancing qi and blood.

Or, increasing magic points…

However, there were no options to increase attributes, only qi and blood and magic points.

Moreover, they only provided a small increase.

Lin Chen ordered stir-fried two-headed snake meat and stir-fried Tui Shan pig kidney, and decided not to order anything else for the time being. Then, he drank tea while waiting for the food to be served, and at the same time, he surveyed the situation in the tavern.

The second floor was quite crowded.

All the tables were occupied, and many people were talking loudly. Right across from Lin Chen, a table of burly men was especially noisy. One of the men, with a goatee, even squatted on the stool.

"Hey, waiter, why isn't our food here yet? Can you afford to delay these masters' important business?"

"That's right, how do you run a shop?"

"Brother Tu, what do you say we should do with that chick after we catch her later? She looks pretty good, though!"

"Shut up, did I tell you to talk?"

"…"

The four men at that table didn't look like good people.

They all had the air of hooligans.

Lin Chen usually kept a respectful distance from such people.

He didn't plan to do anything.

He just glanced at them.

As a result, the man with the goatee glared at him: "What are you looking at?"

Lin Chen looked away.

Fortunately, the other party didn't make trouble.

But this time, Lin Chen decided to no longer keep a 'respectful distance' from these people.

After finishing their meal, the four men immediately got up together.

"Waiter, check, please."

Lin Chen called over the waiter, paid the bill, and watched the four men leave the shop and walk towards the outside of the town. He followed them quietly until these people actually entered the forest.

The forest was not peaceful.

There were definitely monsters.

However, these people all had a strength of level 120.

In the outskirts of human-inhabited towns like this, powerful Bosses would not appear. If there were any, they would have been suppressed by human experts long ago.

Lin Chen didn't know what they were going to do, so he kept walking outside. Suddenly, he heard the sound of spells clashing in the forest ahead, and the air was turbulent.

He flew up to a big tree and looked down, discovering that the four men he had been following were besieging a woman.

And that woman actually had the appearance of a typical classical Eastern beauty, and her dress was also quite classical Eastern. She was also holding a sword in her hand, constantly shooting out sword qi…

Sword qi and magic intertwined at this moment.

The scene was quite exciting.

But the woman seemed to be slightly inferior in strength.

Moreover, she was being besieged by four people, so she was no match for them at all.

Although this woman was dressed as a classical Eastern beauty, Lin Chen recognized at a glance that she was not from Blue Star, so he naturally had no intention of taking action. But Lin Chen didn't expect that these people didn't kill the woman after subduing her.

"Hehe, this little girl is quite fierce. She resisted a lot along the way. Now it's finally time for your grandpa to enjoy himself, right?" The man with the goatee stepped forward lewdly.

"You!"

The woman said angrily: "Let me go, or when my grandfather comes, all of you will die!"

"Yo yo yo, I'm so scared. Isn't your grandpa right here? Huh? Little beauty, here I come!"

As the man with the goatee spoke, he pounced on the woman.

The woman was restrained and couldn't move. Two people were holding her, and another person was holding down her legs. The person holding down her legs smiled and said, "Brother, why are you talking so much nonsense with her? Don't forget, we are flower-picking bandits. Hurry up and get it over with, and I'll be second!"

"You despicable things, you are all beasts!"

The woman continued to curse.

At this time, Lin Chen really couldn't stand it anymore.

But he still didn't act.

Until…

When the woman was struggling to resist, she shouted: "I… I am from the Huo family, do you really dare?"

"Huo… Huo family?"

The four men were stunned.

Obviously, they were afraid.

Just because of the Huo family name.

Who was the Huo family?

Lin Chen also knew.

Huo Zhi Jin! (Fire Ember)

The Huo clan.

One of the eight Marquis families in Zhenhai Province.

It could be said that in the territory of Zhenhai Province, the Huo family's power was the strongest.

Don't look at Lin Chen destroying a Marquis family, but the De family was the weakest of the eight families. Moreover, the head of the Huo clan, Huo Zhi Jin, was said to be even stronger than Jin Qiang!

"Could it be that Lake City is actually the territory of the Huo family?"

Lin Chen was thinking to himself.

At this time, the man with the goatee spoke: "Brothers, who cares if she is from the Huo family? We are already in this situation. If we don't do it, won't we still offend the Huo family? Since we have already offended them, we might as well be happy ghosts!"

"That makes sense!"

The others echoed.

Lin Chen shook his head slightly.

This time the problem was big.

Originally, these four lecherous thieves might have just been after her beauty.

But now it was better.

After robbing her of her beauty, they might even have to kill her to silence her.

"Huo family… if that's the case, I can try to use her to get close to the Huo family and explore their foundation. If I can talk to Huo Zhi Jin, that would be the best!"

Lin Chen made up his mind.

The next moment, Tianji was unsheathed.

Swish swish swish!

In almost four or five breaths, the four lecherous thieves were all lying on the ground.

The last person to fall was the man with the goatee.

He fell somewhat comically, his rolling eyes seeming to realize something. Before his death, the man with the goatee asked unwillingly, "If you're going to kill, just kill... why... why did you steal my beard?"

He was very depressed.

If you're going to kill, just kill…

Why did you have to steal his beard!

What kind of special hobby was this?

At this time, Lin Chen had a goatee on his face.

Moreover, a row of them also appeared in front of his nostrils.

He looked much more mature.

Of course, Lin Chen didn't let go of the souls of these four people either.

But for Lin Chen's current cultivation, these were just mosquito legs.

Lin Chen turned around and left.

"Hey, senior!"

The woman chased after him.

But Lin Chen smiled.

Then, he quickened his pace instead.

However, Lin Chen deliberately controlled his speed, maintaining a speed that the woman could keep up with.

After walking like this for a while, the woman seemed to be tired of chasing. She stopped, panting, and shouted, "Thank you for saving my life, senior. I am Huo Ni Chang, and I am eternally grateful…"

After saying that, she fell straight down.

But Lin Chen caught her with lightning speed.

"Is she really from the Huo family?"

Lin Chen murmured.

He was very cautious and had not let Huo Ni Chang see his true face before.

Huo Ni Chang woke up slowly, saw Lin Chen holding her, her face turned slightly red, and she said, "Senior…"

"You're awake? Where is your home? I'll take you back."

Lin Chen deliberately changed his accent to make himself sound more like a person from the Dragon Spirit Kingdom.

"My home… is in Heyang City to the north."

Huo Ni Chang responded.

Lin Chen nodded and then accelerated.

He didn't speak along the way, arriving at Heyang City before sunset.

Finally, according to Huo Ni Chang's directions, he took her to a huge manor.

Judging from the scale of the manor, her family was indeed very powerful.

But to Lin Chen's disappointment, when he met the so-called grandfather in Huo Ni Chang's mouth, he found that this person was not Huo Zhi Jin.

"I am Huo Zhi Li, thank you, young hero, for bringing my granddaughter home… If it's convenient, please have a simple meal in the manor and let us thank you properly." Huo Zhi Li was an old man with graying temples, at least seventy or eighty years old.

However, his skin was still full and he looked very energetic.

"May I ask how to address you?" Lin Chen asked.

He was asking about Huo Zhi Li's identity.

After all, it wasn't good to call him by his name directly.

Huo Zhi Li smiled and said, "Just call me Manor Lord. I don't have any other identity. If I have to say I have one, I can only say that I used to be a young master of a Marquis family! Now… I'm old!"

"I am Zhang Chunlin!"

Lin Chen cupped his fist and also gave his name.

However, when his name was about to be spoken, Lin Chen hesitated and said Zhang Chunlin's name instead.

There was no way.

Listening to Huo Zhi Li's words, it seemed that he should have a close relationship with Huo Zhi Jin.

Lin Chen originally wanted to get close to Huo Zhi Jin, so he naturally wouldn't waste this opportunity, but if his own name was spoken, he believed that the Huo family would immediately know his identity.

Then he could only borrow someone else's name.

Who told Zhang Chunlin to be such a good brother?

Lin Chen almost blurted out his name without thinking.

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