Chapter 159: Encountering an Acquaintance on the Rankings

After controlling the terrifying killing intent within his heart, Chen Xian examined the Blood Kill Leaderboard more closely.

He decided to memorize the important figures on these lists. If he happened to encounter them in the future and found that these individuals were heinous villains, he would not mind slaughtering them all in exchange for a huge sum of US dollars.

One must know that the person ranked first on the Blood Kill Leaderboard was a guy named Lu Mintian. Killing him would yield one hundred billion US dollars, equivalent to over eight hundred billion Hualong Federal Dollars—comparable to the total assets of a super family guarded by a Martial Grandmaster.

Chen Xian clicked on the first entry, and Lu Mintian's detailed information quickly popped up, including his native place, date of birth, age, important life experiences, and photograph. It was as detailed as a background check.

Taking a second to memorize Lu Mintian's details, Chen Xian clicked on the information for the second-ranked person...

Two minutes later.

After clicking on an entry named Zhao Tianyang and seeing his appearance, a sharp glint involuntarily flashed in Chen Xian's eyes.

This Zhao Tianyang was none other than the Mr. Zhao from the Xiong family whom Chen Xian had killed. However, the photograph of Zhao Tianyang on this Blood Kill Leaderboard was slightly younger than when he was killed by Chen Xian. It had been published by the Zhao family, an alchemy clan, fifteen years ago.

Moreover, according to the information released by the Zhao family, anyone who could provide the exact location of Zhao Tianyang would receive half of the bounty even without killing him. The total bounty offered by the Zhao family was two billion US dollars.

Two billion US dollars was already equal to the valuation of Chen Xian himself, a newly-minted Grandmaster.

Yet, Zhao Tianyang's cultivation level was only at the peak of Dark Force, and his spiritual consciousness cultivation was about the same.

"It seems this alchemy clan, the Zhao family, cares a great deal about Zhao Tianyang!" After reading this message, Chen Xian muttered to himself: "This is quite easy to understand. Zhao Tianyang carried a treasure like the Danyang Cauldron with him. On the Blue Star, the Danyang Cauldron is an extraordinary alchemy treasure."

Chen Xian thought to himself whether he could ask them for the two billion US dollar bounty if he visited the Zhao family next time.

The Zhao family still did not know that Zhao Tianyang had already died at Chen Xian's hands, so this task was still listed.

Then, Chen Xian continued to flip through the information, reading further down...

Twenty minutes later.

Chen Xian closed the laptop of the Assassin Law-Keeper Dorin, looked at the cold corpse, and executed the *Supreme Chaos Art*, condensing two vortexes between his hands. They spun at high speed, and the corpse spun along with them, rapidly dissolving...

Soon, Chen Xian finished refining the corpse of the Law-Keeper Dorin, left the hotel room, and departed as if nothing had happened.

Arriving downstairs, Chen Xian released his spiritual consciousness and scanned the surrounding area within a radius of one kilometer. Finding no other assassins, he hailed a taxi and left, rushing to Lingshan overnight.

Chen Xian knew that the assassins' target was him, and staying at home would instead bring danger to his family.

At the same time, Chen Xian called Tong Yin, telling him to rush overnight at top speed to XX Community in H City to protect his parents and younger sister.

He did this just as a precaution.

If those assassins could not find an opportunity to strike at him, they would likely shift their targets and make a move on his family in order to draw him out.

After finishing the call, Chen Xian quietly closed his eyes to rest and preserve his energy.

The matter of annihilating the Inoue MX Group would have to wait until the conclusion of the Martial Arts Tournament. Right now, his primary task was to elevate his cultivation level and awaken the fifth spiritual wheel.

Hours later, Chen Xian returned to Lingshan. Arriving outside the courtyard on the hilltop, only Aunt Hong was cultivating, while Tong Yin was nowhere to be seen.

He knew that the other party must have rushed to H City.

Seeing that Aunt Hong was cultivating with utmost concentration, Chen Xian did not disturb her and directly pushed the door open to enter.

A small portion of the Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng in the courtyard had already reached a century of age, meeting the minimum requirement for refining Spirit-Gathering Powder.

He stepped forward, dug up all of these precious traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, and then entered the secret room.

Chen Xian immediately took out the Danyang Cauldron and began refining the first batch of Spirit-Gathering Powder...

The next day, in the afternoon.

Chen Xian walked out of Lingshan and headed toward the Ma Group.

From last night until now, a total of three batches of Spirit-Gathering Powder had been refined by him. He temporarily stopped refining the remaining ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum because he had to attend an important meeting at the Ma Building.

As the frequency of refining Spirit-Gathering Powder increased, practice made perfect, and Chen Xian grew faster and faster at it.

When Chen Xian arrived at the meeting room of the Ma Building, it was packed with people, with only the main seat left vacant.

Chen Xian caught sight of Zhang Xin at first glance and smiled slightly at her.

His girlfriend returned a sweet smile.

After arriving at the Ma Building and gaining a preliminary understanding of the scale of the Ma Group through Ma Tian and Ma He, Zhang Xin could not help but be immensely astonished.

She never expected that it had taken Chen Xian less than half a year to go from starting with nothing to possessing a massive conglomerate worth hundreds of billions. If such a feat were spread abroad, probably no one would believe it.

However, this was indeed a fact.

Chen Xian walked to the main seat, sat down boldly with a commanding posture, waved his hand at the crowd, and smiled, "Everyone, please take your seats!"

With the permission of Chairman Chen, the crowd sat down one by one.

"Ma Tian, tell everyone about the matters to be resolved today," Chen Xian said to Ma Tian, who was sitting beside him.

Yesterday, Chen Xian had only called a few important figures, such as Ma Tian and Ma He, to mention the restructuring of the group; the other core members of the Ma family were still unaware.

"Yes, Chairman." Ma Tian took out a document and began to read aloud...

One hour later, the meeting concluded successfully amidst enthusiastic applause.

The restructuring of the Ma Group officially began implementation, and the Ma Group was renamed the Chen Group.

Under the Chen Group, several subsidiaries were spun off:
Chen Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., with Ma He as General Manager;
Chen Daily Chemical Co., Ltd., with Ma Yida as General Manager;
Chen Starlight Entertainment Co., Ltd., with Ma Xuanxuan as General Manager;
Chen Lingshui Co., Ltd., with Ma Tian as General Manager;
Chen Meizi Cosmetics Co., Ltd., with Zhang Xin as General Manager;
Chen Blue Star Financial Fund Management Co., Ltd., with Chen Nizi as General Manager and Ma Heshan as acting General Manager.

With this, the era of the Ma Group came to an end, ushering in the era of the Chen Group—a grand era of ambitious grand plans and infinitely broad prospects.

The members of the Ma family were not unhappy because of the restructuring; on the contrary, their blood was boiling with excitement.

They knew that led by Grandmaster Chen, the restructured Chen Group would undoubtedly become even stronger, and might even be expected to become the number one conglomerate in the Hualong Federal Republic in the future.

After the meeting concluded, Chen Xian exchanged pleasantries with Zhang Xin, and the two of them parted ways.

Zhang Xin was also in a hurry to rush back to Chen Meizi Cosmetics Co., Ltd. Ma Tian had already transferred thirty billion in funds to the company's account, and a mountain of matters awaited Zhang Xin to handle, including registering the "Eternal Youth" trademark, submitting samples for inspection, and finding brand spokespersons.

After bidding farewell to Zhang Xin, Chen Xian returned to Lingshan and saw that another small batch of ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum had matured in the courtyard.