Chapter 200

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Chapter 200: Yun State

Yun State

The great battle in Anhua City, the great battle of the Five Elements Sect, the humiliation of the three sects, explosive news spread throughout the entire Yun State, causing an uproar in Yun State.

Some people revel in schadenfreude, some people empathize with anger, and some people feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

More people were waiting for the three sects’ next moves, but they were quickly disappointed. All three sects remained silent and quietly licked their wounds.

In this battle, all three sects suffered heavy losses. The Cloud Sword Sect and Five Elements Sect even lost their Soul Changing Ancestor. Every Soul Changing disciple is an irreplaceable treasure for the sect.

As for the casualties among the Golden Core disciples, there were even more. The three sects combined had over a hundred Golden Core disciples perish, while the rest had mostly received injuries.

The disturbances in Yun State have temporarily nothing to do with Lin Jiang. He left and went to the Wilderness. The people from the four major clans are still causing trouble in Yun State. They left behind dozens of individuals who are currently hunting down members of the Lin family. The number of victims is countless.

The development of the Lin family has been excessively smooth. The result is an explosion of population, not only among Lin family cultivators, but also among the daughters married off from the Lin family. It can be said that there are countless individuals in the southwest of Yun State who carry the bloodline of the Lin family. As for how much they need to downplay their presence to escape from being hunted, no one knows.

However, Lin Jiang cannot escape if he is being pursued. He is a second-generation member of the Lin family in Yun State, and his bloodline is extremely pure. He is the person that the four major clans want to kill the most.

Secretly, he arrived at the Wilderness branch of the Five Elements Sect. The Five Elements Sect has already begun to reduce its forces, even abandoning some less important outposts.

"Junior Brother Xiao is going to the Lin family’s outpost?"

"Yes, Senior Brother, do you know anything about the situation at the Lin family’s outpost?"

"The sect ordered me to investigate, Lin family has changed their leader."

"When did it happen?"

"Before the big battle, Li Ruoxu took over."

"Pill King Li Ruoxu？"

Lin Jiang was very surprised. Pill King Li Ruoxu was a well-known independent cultivator for many years. It was normal for him to take over the Lin family’s base, but something felt off.

"Yes, it’s Pill King Li Ruoxu. I heard that Li Ruoxu took over a lot of the Lin family’s wealth."

"Does Senior Brother know where the people from Lin family have gone?"

"I’m not quite sure. It’s dangerous for the people from Lin family to appear. They must have gone into hiding."

The golden core of Five Elements Sect said. Many people want to kill the Lin family now, not only the four major families, but also the disciples of the three sects. They believe that the Lin family has harmed them.

There were powerful forces in Anhua City that suffered great losses. They hated the Lin family a lot because the Lin family had treated them badly.

Lin Jiang stopped asking questions. They probably didn’t know where the Lin family was either. They would have to find them themselves.

For several days, Lin Jiang wandered in the Wilderness. The Wilderness wasn’t very dangerous to him now, as long as he didn’t go to the territory of the fourth-level magical beasts. Most of the time, there wouldn’t be any problems because he was already a golden core cultivator, and Small Shadiao was with him.

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"Martial Uncle Xiao，Martial Uncle Xiao"

After a few more days, Lin Jiang was exploring in the Wilderness when a disciple from the Five Elements Sect quickly arrived.

"What’s the matter?"

"Martial Uncle Wu has sent an urgent message. They have found traces of the Lin family, and they seem to be in a fierce battle."

"Where?"

"The stronghold of the Five Elements Sect is three thousand miles north."

"Please help me thank Senior Brother Wu."

Lin Jiang said a few words and flew away, changing into a Small Shadiao halfway with incredible speed. He arrived at his destination of three thousand miles in no time.

However, when Lin Jiang arrived, the battle had already ended because the one leading the team was Lin Die. They had killed a group of golden core cultivators.

"Lin Wu, why are you here?"

"Third Auntie, I came specifically to find you all."

"Brother, brother!"

Big Shadiao appeared and transformed into a human form, a beautiful girl.

"Are you Big Shadiao?"

"Yes, Brother, I’m Big Shadiao"

"Ahem, your name is Lin Yu, not Shadiao."

Lin Die was speechless. As a girl, why would she be called Shadiao?

"I am indeed Big Shadiao."

"It’s all the same, Lin Yu. Um, your little brother wants to play with you, don’t hurt him."

Lin Jiang didn’t hesitate and sold Small Shadiao. Small Shadiao shivered, wanting to run away. He had been severely beaten after failing to break through the fourth level before.

"Small Shadiao, come here."

Lin Yu waved her hand at Small Shadiao. In her case, hitting her little brother was never a thing. Getting hit by his sister was one of his ways to feel her presence.

"Why are you looking for us?"

"I can’t continue anymore, the Five Elements Sect can’t continue anymore."

"Because of us?"

"Yes, people from the four major families are chasing the Lin family descendants in Yun State. They have a Blood Tracking Secret Technique, and I can’t escape at all, so I can only run."

"Then follow me."

Lin Die nodded. The current Lin family is really miserable, countless people have been killed.

"Where is your father?"

"Disappeared."

"What does that mean?"

"My father didn’t tell us about the contingency plan he left behind. On that day, Lin Die and I retreated first. Later, my father and the enemy faced off repeatedly. They probably killed many Soul Changing individuals, but Soul Changing wasn’t his target. He wanted to kill more enemies. We are not high-ranking enough, so we don’t know where my father went. Lin Ying has already gone to look for him, and I’m here to gather the Lin family descendants."

Lin Die shook her head, Lin Batian planned this thing very deeply, he laid out the plan several decades in advance, and she doesn’t know the full plan, she doesn’t know where Lin Batian went now.

"Third Auntie, how much do you know about the Lin family’s identity?"

"Not much, Dad didn’t tell me much. I only know that our Lin family comes from the Qing State’s Lin family. The Qing State’s Lin family is a family that has been passed down from one of the four disciples of the ancient Green Emperor. When Dad talks about the Lin family, he gets very angry and curses the ambitions of the other three families, cursing the Qing State’s Lin family as idiots, letting the wolves in the house and such."

"Are you saying that there is still a Lin family in the Qing State?"

"Yes, we have already made arrangements in the Qing State. We are just about to bring people to the Qing State. The Lin family’s clan members in the Qing State are widely distributed. It can be said that almost half of the cultivators in the Qing State have blood ties with the Lin family. It just depends on the distance. So as long as we hide in the Qing State, the enemy’s bloodline tracking secret technique will be useless."

Lin Die said, the Qing State’s Lin family is ancient, it has been flowing out for so many years, the Lin family’s bloodline has been passed down for countless generations. If they were to investigate, half of the people in the Qing State would have some connection to the Lin family. At that time, the Blood Tracking Secret Technique would be useless.

"Then let’s go to the Qing State and find Lin Batian. I have something to talk to him about."

Lin Jiang said, this is good news for him. The Yun State is too dangerous for him now, he can no longer survive there, he can only go to the Qing State.

"Okay, you come with us."

Lin Die nodded. They are all descendants of the Lin family. Lin Jiang used to be able to stay in the Five Elements Sect, but now he can’t continue there, so it’s better to return to the family.

Lin Die didn’t talk much. The enemy could arrive at any moment, so she quickly gathered people and prepared to evacuate. Before the big battle in Anhua City, Lin Batian had already arranged for the relocation of two or three hundred members of the Lin family. In these days, Lin Die also gathered over a hundred people, so now they had a little over four hundred people.

This was already a very heavy loss. You should know that the Lin family had been operating for nearly four hundred years. Before the big battle, the number of cultivators in the Lin family had reached four thousand. There must still be surviving members of the Lin family in Yun State, but they were powerless. It could be said that out of the Lin family members, only one in ten survived.

"Third Auntie, I will figure out what to do with the remaining people. I will write a letter to my master and ask the Five Elements Sect to help gather the descendants of the Lin family and secretly transfer them to the Wilderness stronghod, and then we can take them away."

"Will the Five Elements Sect help with this? We have caused a lot of trouble for your sect this time."

"Yes, the Five Elements Sect has been deeply humiliated this time. The whole sect is holding its anger. Instead of resenting the Lin family, it is more like resenting the four major families. My task in finding Lin Batian is to form an alliance with the Lin family and prepare for revenge in the future."

"Do you dare to seek revenge against the four major families? Do you know how powerful they are?"

"Why not? If we lose the desire for revenge just because the enemy is strong, how can we continue our cultivation and call ourselves cultivators?"

Lin Jiang said. At present, the four major families are powerful and the Five Elements Sect can only endure humiliation. But the Five Elements Sect will not admit defeat. This is only temporary. The Five Elements Sect will use this as motivation to become stronger.

Lin Jiang believed that the Five Elements Sect would be able to do this, because they had someone like Zhang Wanjing.

"If that’s the case, then thank you. My father was indeed ruthless, but I understand his helplessness."

"Right and wrong, good and evil are not important for now."

Lin Jiang said, judging right and wrong, Lin Batian made a mistake this time. But this is a world of cultivation, where one can encounter bandits at any time when going outside. Is good and evil really important?

After I die, let the world be in chaos. There are countless people with such personalities, and the troubles of the world cannot be explained simply by good and evil. If someone seeks revenge on Lin Batian in the future, it will be his own doing, and Lin Jiang can’t control that.

He only wanted to find Lin Batian now, to investigate the truth behind the four major families and seek revenge to restore the honor of his sect.

Yun State and Qing State are very far apart, with a large Wilderness in between. But as long as the flying boat flies at a high enough altitude, most dangers can be avoided. Even if there are flying monsters, they won’t casually attack things passing by in the sky.

Day and night on the road, Lin Jiang and his group finally arrived in the territory of Qing State. Qing State’s level of cultivation is far superior to Yun State, with numerous high-level cultivators. It is one of the strongest regions of human power in this world.

"It’s the time when being at the golden core stage is worse than being a dog, and Nascent Soul stage cultivators are everywhere."

Lin Jiang shook his head, sighing after spending more than three hundred years cultivating to reach the level of golden core. He thought he would become a great master, but now he feels like he will just remain a minor character.