Fang Mingyuan

Fang Mingyuan (方明远), head of Fang Family, late Sea Expansion expert
He was a lean elder beside Huo Changsheng.
Similar to how Zhu Di executed the 10 families closest to Fang Xiaoru in the Ming dynasty, Fang Mingyuan and Chai Gaoyang executed the entire Huo family, including the women and children. They then backstab Long Chen and try to poison him to steal his Earth Flame, but Long Chen kills them both.
== Story ==
=== Betrayal ===
Chai Gaoyang smiled and walked up to Long Chen. He patted him on the shoulder. "Long Chen, it's all thanks to you."
"Senior is too courteous. In truth-"
PFFT!
Long Chen suddenly felt a burst of pain from his chest. He saw a black thorn sticking out from it. Space suddenly trembled and the surroundings changed. Long Chen found himself in a barren land.
Long Chen looked down at the thorn through his chest. Although he hadn't seen where it had come from, based on the angle, it seemed like it had been Fang Mingyuan who had shot him.
This arrow was clearly poisoned. It was a kind of mixed poison, one with practically no cure. Furthermore, this poison was extremely fast-acting. Before you could even figure out what poisons were part of this mixture, you would already be dead.
Long Chen slowly raised his head to look at Fang Mingyuan. He sighed, "Can you tell me why you did this?"
A slightly guilty expression appeared on Fang Mingyuan's face. "Long Chen, don't blame us for being heartless. We did this for our families."
"You want my Earth Flame?" Long Chen looked up at the stars. It was difficult to say what expression he had right now.
"Correct. Earth Flames are treasures of heaven and earth. There's not a single alchemist that wouldn't long for one. During the finals, despite how critical that moment was, you still chose not to use your Earth Flame. My guess is that your Earth Flame hasn't matured, and you are unable to connect with it, so you can't use it for alchemy.
Long Chen pulls the arrow out of his body, and the wound heals via the chaos bead.
Long Chen then kills Fang Mingyuan and Chai Gaoyang using Split the Heavens 2.
=== Next day ===
When the day came, the news that the Huo, Fang, and Chai families had undergone an all-out war with each other shook all of Pill Yang Prefecture. The Huo family's destruction caused countless people's jaws to drop.
The result of their battle had been the destruction of the Huo family, but the Fang and Chai families had also taken grievous losses. Both their families heads, as well as the Fang family's legendary Long San, had disappeared.
The Fang and Chai families underwent a large scale search. Half a month later, they finally found scars of a terrifying battle in a barren land. Then, after searching through the soil, they found their two families heads' corpses.
At the same time, they found a half destroyed body wearing Long San's robes. Those robes proved this semi-destroyed corpse was Long San.
They concluded that Long San and the others had run into shockingly powerful enemies here, and as a result, both sides had lost their lives to take down their opponents. That was because they found all kinds of broken body pieces around. It was impossible to tell exactly how many people there had been.
Fang Chang and Chai Liehuo had burst into tears right then and there. In this one day, they had not only lost the pillars of their families, but they had also lost a good brother.
They had immediately brought Long San's corpse back into the Fang family and buried it in their ancestral land.
When the alchemy world learned that Long San, a generation's top genius, had died, there was not one person that didn't sigh in lament. He had only just become the champion of the Pill Emperor Competition and had just been about to dazzle the world when he fell.
This news caused Pill Valley to send someone to take a look. But they only did take one look before leaving.
Before leaving, all they had said was that the Seven Treasure Jewel Tower's beast flames had been stolen, and that damage would have to be compensated by the Fang and Chai families. As for the destruction of the Huo family, as long as the sales of medicinal pills didn't decline, they wouldn't investigate this matter any further.
In truth, to Pill Valley, the Pill Towers were just ways for them to interact with the mundane world. They didn't care who came to look after these strongholds. All they cared about was that this stronghold didn't look bad and made money.
This was also why the three families had dared to fight so openly. 
Originally, the Huo family had been the rising star, waiting for the moment to completely devour the other two families. But that plan had been ruined by Long San. As a result, before the decisive battle, their strength had sharply fallen, and it was them that were devoured by the other two families instead.
Currently, the Pill Tower was truly the land of the Fang and Chai families. But Fang Chang and Chai Liehuo didn't feel any happiness. Instead, they felt endless pressure.
All the heavy responsibilities had fallen on their shoulders overnight. But the name of Pill Valley was something no one could provoke. No one dared to do anything to the Pill Tower.
Provoking Pill Valley? In this world, there really were few powers that dared to be that crazy. So despite the Huo family's destruction, the rest of the Pill Tower was completely safe.
=== Return ===
As for Long Chen, the one who had caused this chaotic conclusion, he had long since stepped onto a transportation formation and returned to Suzhou, rushing back to the Xuantian Supermonastery.
When he saw that familiar mountain gate, Long Chen finally had a feeling of a loafer son returning home. Here were his loved ones, here were his brothers, here were the ones he wanted to protect.
"Brothers, I, Long Chen, have returned!" Long Chen suddenly roared, his roar shaking the sky.
== Chapter Appearances ==
==References==
Category:Fang Family
Category:Killed by Long Chen
Category:Sea Expansion