Preparation

Seeing somwone stopping him he frowned, but when he sensed Zhou fan aura, which he deliberately released, he put on a respectful expression and asked in a polite tone "I don't know why senior brother stopped me. Do you want to ask something."

The person was only a 5th stage Qi Gathering Realm cultivator. Zhou Fan cultivation base was enough for him to not act recklessly.

Zhou Fan looked at him and said "Actually, I want to know, if something big happened recently. I saw that you all are walking in the same direction."

"Looks like senior brother is new in the town, that's why you don't know."

"Yes, I was in a retreat in my cultivation and just finished it." Zhou Fan replied.

"No wonder. Actually it's like this senior brother. 10 days ago a news spread, that there was a 1st grade herb that appeared in the forest outside the city. At first the Li Clan aanted to take it for itself but at last moment the Fan Clan from the next Immortal Town, which is also a Foundation Building Clan stopped them. Both the Clan didn't want to fight for only a 1st grade herb that's why after much discussion, the two Clan decided that both of them will only send the Qi Gathering Realm cultivator of their Clan and compete for it. Whoever has the ability will get the herb.

They also told the loose cultivator of both town that they can also participate in this.

But you know that they are after all Foundation Building Clan and their Clan members are better than us in every way, whether it is Martial arts, weapons or other things.

Therefore, all the loose cultivators from both town came up with the idea to form a team of powerful cultivators, so that they can have a chance to compete with people from both Clan.

We are all going to the location decided. There all the people will compete and the best and most powerful among them will form a team. Of course if you want, you can also go to the forest alone to compete for the herb in two days.

Many loose cultivators who has low cultivation base and know that they won't get selcted have already decided to do this."

The person told Zhou Fan everything.

"Thank you, so much for telling me this." Zhou Fan thanked him.

"No problem, Senior brother. If there's nothing else, then I will take my leave first." The person responded to him and then left.

After that person left, Zhou Fan fell into deep thought.

After learning that there might be a 1st grade herb in the forest outside the city, he did not became happy. He knew how important a 1st grade herb is for Qi Gathering Realm. Even if they are Foundation Building Clan, they will not share this herb with loose cultivators. In their Clan, there are many people who need this herb.

The only reason that they agreed to let the loose cultivators also participate is because Firstly, they do not want to make the loose cultivators angry. Afterall, many loose cultivators after reaching 9th stage Qi Gathering Realm, choose to take shelter in these clan and work for them to get better resources.

If these clans choose to suppress them openly then in the future, who will be willing to work for them. In addition, they have confidence in their clan members that they will definitely get the herb, that's why they allowed loose cultivators to participate and compete.

This is the reason why even after hearing this news, Zhou Fan did not react much. He did not doubt that in the end, the herb will definitely fall in the hands of one of the two clan.

But Zhou Fan was not thinking about this. Instead he was thinking about something else. He knew that in this competition many people will lose their life for that herb. And since Zhou Fan also has nothing to do, he planned to take advantage of this.

He thought to himself "In this competition, many people will die and a lot of people will be heavily injured. And most of them will be loose cultivators. If I do a little hard work, then it might be possible that I will gain huge benefits."

He thought that if he kill and loot those people who died and got heavily injured, then he will have huge gains.

As for feeling guilty, Zhou Fan didn't even have a single thought about it. After all everyone is fighting to become strong. He is also doing the same. As for if someone found out, then he is not afraid at all. He know that once he is powerful, even if some people know what he did, they would not dare to say it. In fact, they will even praise him for being intelligent.

In this world there is onle one rule, that is, The strong is the king and the weak are slaves.

After that, he immediately went towards the market to make preparation.

Zhou Fan came to a shop and went inside. After going inside, he went to the counter and asked "How much does it cost for a High-level 1st Grade Tailsman."

"Sir, what type of Tailsman do you want." The shopkeeper asked with a polite smile on his face.

"Offensive, Defensive and Healing type." Zhou replied.

"Sir, the Offensive and Defensive type Tailsman cost around 100 Low-grade spirit stones while Healing type Tailsman is a bit expensive and cost around 120 Low-grade spirit stones." The shopkeeper replied.

"I want two Offensive Tailsman of Fire attribute, two of Lightning attribute, three Defensive type and three Healing type." Zhou Fan spoke.

"Yes, sir." The shopkeeper replied.

After sometime, he put the Tailsman on the counter in front of Zhou Fan and spoke "Here,sir. These are the Tailsman you ordered. It will cost 1060 spirit stones but with discount you only need to pay 1050 Low-grade spirit stones."

Zhou Fan paid the spirit stones, picked the Tailsman and left the shop. After that he went to another shop and bought some healing and Breath concealing pills. Only after that he returned home.

After coming back he went to meet Nangong Yuqin and told her that he will be going out for some time. He also asked her to stay at home and not go outside during this time.

He wasn't worried about her safety as long as she stayed inside the house.

After doing all this, he went back to his room and continued to cultivate. He wanted to be at his peak form for the next event.