78: Lin family attacked

"Ugh!" Lin Jingyu groaned in reality, suddenly opening his eyes and instinctively rubbing his buzzing temples, which felt as if they were about to split open.

"Damn it! This way of leaving is too brutal! The big shot who set up this stone tablet could definitely use a gentle method to dismiss the meditators, but to do it this way, they must be a guy with a twisted sense of humor!"

He couldn't help but grumble in a low voice, rubbing his throbbing head.

However, the pleasure of complaining was fleeting, as the cold reality instantly engulfed him like a tide. In front, the Black Wind Stockade's jackals, who eat people without spitting out bones, lurked covetously, and behind, the Liu Family's insidious and cunning members waited for an opportunity.

The Lin Family, like a dilapidated boat, was swaying precariously in the storm, liable to capsize at any moment.

He sighed, a deep sense of powerlessness welling up in his heart: "If only I had Transmigrated as a Loose Cultivator with no attachments... With the System in hand, I could run away if I couldn't win..."

Suppressing the turbulent thoughts and that unrealistic fantasy in his heart, he closed his eyes and focused again. He took out a smooth, plump qi gathering pill, emanating a faint medicinal fragrance, and threw it into his mouth without hesitation.

The Medicinal Pill melted upon entry, transforming into a warm current. Under the precise guidance of his clear Mental Energy, this medicinal power was perfectly decomposed and absorbed, without a trace of waste, turning into pure spiritual power, like a gentle stream, nourishing his dry Meridians and continuously enhancing his Cultivation.

He could clearly feel that the Bottleneck from Qi Refining Third Layer to the fourth layer didn't seem like a difficult task for him either.

Just as Lin Jingyu was immersed in the sense of fulfillment brought by Cultivation, and his mind had somewhat settled—

"Boom—"

A deafening, terrifying roar, as if Nine Heavens thunder had exploded directly beside his ear, tore through the dead silence of the night without warning!

The sound was so immense, so violent, as if the firmament had been forcibly torn open by an invisible giant hand!

The entire Lin Family settlement, along with the ground beneath their feet, trembled violently with this colossal sound!

Immediately after, a violently suffocating spiritual power shockwave, like an invisible world-ending tsunami, swept over from the direction of the Ancestral Hall!

Wherever it passed, fragile window paper instantly turned into dust with "puff puff puff" sounds! The flimsy wooden door panels groaned under the unbearable pressure, as if they would be torn apart the next second!

Dust rustled down from the roof beams, and earthenware pots on the stove clattered!

"Ah—"

"The earth Dragon is turning over! Run!"

"The Ancestral Hall! It's over there! Heavens!"

"What's going on? What happened?"

The entire Lin Family instantly plunged into extreme panic and chaos!

Piercing screams, terrified cries, panicked running, the shattering sounds of collapsing objects... all kinds of sounds mixed together, forming a doomsday-like clamor.

All the Lin Family Clansmen, men, women, old, and young, who were awakened by this terrifying roar, were as if struck by a paralysis spell, then like a disturbed hornet's nest, they rushed out of their homes in terror, looking towards the Ancestral Hall!

At that moment, everyone's blood seemed to freeze!

The roof of the Ancestral Hall's main temple, which was originally solemn and majestic, symbolizing the spiritual pillar of the Lin Family, now had a huge, terrifying hole, its edges savagely twisted, blasted open.

Thick beams were broken, and Glazed Tiles scattered like a rainstorm, hitting the ground with a shrill whistling sound!

Even more terrifying was the raging inferno spewing wildly from the broken opening.

Crimson tongues of fire greedily licked the night sky, crackling loudly, dyeing the rolling, churning thick smoke a strange and desperate orange-red!

The ancestral tablets, the remains of ancestors, the spiritual symbol of the Lin clan for two hundred years, were now silently wailing in the monstrous flames, being mercilessly devoured and burned!

"The Ancestral Hall! Our ancestors!" An old Clan Elder, whose hair and beard were all white, beat his chest, tears streaming down his face, letting out a heartbreaking wail, his body swaying precariously.

"You damned beasts! Who did this? Who dared to treat my Lin Family like this!"

Several hot-blooded young men had bloodshot eyes, their canthus splitting, clenching their fists so tightly that their fingernails dug deep into their flesh, yet they could only watch, not daring to advance half a step.

The towering flames and the violent spiritual power fluctuations, like an invisible chasm, firmly blocked them outside.

"It's over... It's all over..." A woman collapsed to the ground, her eyes vacant, muttering to herself, her face filled with despair.

In mid-air, two figures were clashing fiercely at a terrifying speed imperceptible to the naked eye!

Each collision erupted in a deafening roar, like a Heavenly God beating a drum of annihilation! The scattered spiritual power turbulence was like invisible blades, cutting through the air with sharp hissing sounds!

One of the figures was covered in blood! His cyan clan leader's robe was already tattered, soaked in viscous blood to a chilling dark purple!

His hair and beard were disheveled, standing on end, his eyes bloodshot as if about to drip blood! His spiritual power surged and exploded like out-of-control volcanic magma, exuding a destructive Aura! Every strike carried a tragic Aura of mutual destruction, of never resting until death!

Spiritual power transformed into violent golden fist imprints, tearing through the air with shrill, piercing screams, like angry Golden Dragons roaring as they lunged at the enemy! This was none other than the Lin Family's patriarch, Lin Lingshan, who had forcefully broken out of seclusion but had clearly suffered unimaginable heavy injuries!

"Villain! You destroyed my Dao! You severed my Foundation! I will make your Divine Soul perish! You shall never be reincarnated!"

Lin Lingshan's heart burned with towering rage, that fire almost incinerating his sanity!

At the critical moment of his seclusion, when he was attempting to break through to Qi Refining Seventh Layer, at his most vulnerable and unable to be distracted, he was ambushed by a powerful spell, its timing extremely malicious, interrupting his breakthrough!

The violent spiritual power instantly backfired, like countless steel knives wildly churning inside his body! Not only did his advancement fail, but it also damaged the Foundation of his Cultivation!

Even the Ancestral Hall was blasted and completely engulfed in flames, the ancestral tablets and bones of his forefathers burned to ashes!

Two years of arduous Cultivation, countless efforts, the hope for the Family's rise, all turned into smoke at this moment! This was a thousand times more painful than directly killing him!

Even though his body had suffered severe injuries from that insidious sneak attack, his internal organs ached as if displaced, and many of his Meridians were ruptured.

He still disregarded everything, like a vengeful demon that had crawled out of the Nine Hells, burning his last life Origin, only wishing to tear the Devil Head who had destroyed everything he had into ten thousand pieces!

His opponent was a Man in Black, shrouded in a thick, ink-like, constantly swirling and surging black mist!

That black mist seemed alive, exuding a cold, evil, decaying, and nauseatingly terrifying Aura; just looking at it from afar made one's heart turn cold and head spin!

Two points of scarlet light, like will-o'-the-wisps, flickered faintly deep within the black mist, filled with cruelty and mockery!