79: If you're too scared, I'll do it.

The Man in Black's movements were eerie and elusive, like a ghost without a physical body, leaving trails of afterimages in the night sky.

As he waved his hands, streaks of ink-black ghost claws, chains, and poisonous mist, exuding a bone-chilling aura, attacked the vital points all over Lin Lingshan's body like maggots clinging to bones, insidious and ruthless!

The aura of cultivation emanating from his body was undeniably that of a genuine Qi Refining Seventh Layer Demonic Cultivator!

That immense pressure shrouded the entire Family like a mountain!

"Family Head! It's the Family Head who has come out!" A sharp-eyed clansman shouted with a sobbing tone, his voice filled with a glimmer of faint hope amidst despair.

"Who... who is that Devil Head? Destroying our ancestral hall! Burning our ancestors! He deserves to be sliced into a thousand pieces!" The clansmen's eyes were split with rage, their teeth clenching and chattering, yet they could only curse powerlessly.

"The Family Head... the Family Head's aura... so violent... so unstable! He is too heavily injured!" A clansman with slightly higher cultivation noticed the signs, his voice trembling with endless sorrow.

The black spiritual energy on the Man in Black completely trapped Lin Lingshan below, who was charging left and right like a crazed Yao Beast.

He emitted a hoarse, grating sound like a night owl:

"Hehe, unexpected, isn't it? A Top-Grade Tier 1 Explosive Fireball Talisman failed to send you to Hell! Family Head of the Lin Family, you do have some ability... but unfortunately, you met me... Hehehe..."

"Where are the Elders? Third Elder! Grand Elder! Where are you? Hurry and help the Family Head!" Someone roared hoarsely in the direction where the Elders lived, their voice appearing so weak and powerless amidst the earth-shattering roars and the wails of the clansmen.

The battle above the ancestral hall was a life-and-death duel between Late Stage Qi Refining Cultivators! The spiritual energy impact released merely from the aftermath of the battle was like an invisible heavy hammer; any Early Stage Cultivator approaching within a hundred zhang could potentially be shaken into vomiting blood and sustaining heavy injuries!

A Qi Refining Mid-Stage Cultivator might barely be able to approach, but they would be like a lone boat in a raging storm, liable to capsize at any moment!

At this moment, however, not a single Elder was in sight! Could a Qi Refining Mid-Stage Cultivator not even withstand a single move before a Late Stage Qi Refining Demonic Cultivator?

Who would be willing to step forward and court death?

"What about the Grand Elder? Didn't he once withstand a Bandit Cultivator at the Late Stage of Qi Refining for a quarter of an hour? He is the strongest Elder in our Lin Family!"

Someone desperately recalled the legend circulating in the Family, like grasping at the last straw.

But that "needle that calms the sea" in whom such high hopes were placed was nowhere to be found at this moment!

Lin Jingyu's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpricks! His heart pounded frantically in his chest like a dense barrage of war drums, almost bursting out of his ribcage!

He could clearly sense that Lin Lingshan's aura was violent and chaotic to the extreme, like a powder keg about to explode!

His spiritual energy was leaking and spiraling out of control, with every burst accompanied by the groaning of his own Meridians under the unbearable burden!

That was clearly burning his life Origin! It was overdrawing his future in exchange for short-term combat power! This state could not possibly last!

"It's over... the last hope is also..." A cold chill instantly shot from his tailbone to his scalp, making every hair on his body stand on end!

Now, the Lin Family's only hope—the Family Head Lin Lingshan, who was about to achieve a Breakthrough to the Late Stage of Qi Refining and shelter the Lin Family from the wind and rain—had actually been ambushed and heavily injured by a mysterious Demonic Cultivator at the critical moment, causing his advancement to fail and his Foundation to be damaged!

The Lin Family, this broken ship struggling in the raging storm, had completely lost its last helmsman and ballast; like a kite with a broken string, it could be torn to shreds by the violent waves at any moment and fall into an abyss from which there was no return!

"Brother... brother... the ancestral hall... the ancestral hall is on fire... the fire... such a big fire... the Family Head... he is bleeding..."

Lin Jingxia had run over at some unknown moment, her little face pale as paper, devoid of any color, her whole body trembling like a fallen leaf in the wind, her teeth chattering.

Tears rolled down like broken beads, large and heavy, her voice filled with a heavy sobbing tone and boundless fear.

The scene before her made her feel as if she had instantly returned to that cold, bone-chilling night when the news of her parents' death arrived, or even more desperate!

At that time, at least there was still a Family to rely on, and the Family Head and Elders were maintaining a superficial order. But now, the ancestral hall was burning, the Family Head was fighting in a pool of blood, and the Elders were nowhere to be seen... The sky was truly about to collapse!

Lin Jingyu snapped back to reality. Seeing his younger sister's terrified, helpless, and tear-stained appearance, his heart felt as if it were being fiercely gripped by an invisible hand, hurting so much that he almost suffocated.

He grabbed his sister's cold, trembling, sweat-soaked little hand and squeezed it hard, as if to transmit his own strength to her.

His voice was resolute and decisive, carrying an unquestionable determination and strength that pierced through the surrounding noise and chaos: "Don't be afraid! Brother is here! Even if the sky falls, Brother will hold it up for you!"

He channeled a stream of spiritual energy over, giving Lin Jingxia a sense of warmth.

Then, he stomped his feet hard!

The spiritual energy of the Evergreen Art within his body erupted like floodwaters released from a dam!

His clear Mental Energy was highly concentrated, precisely guiding every ounce of power.

His entire body was like an arrow released from a string, or a goshawk diving toward its prey, shooting toward the battlefield in the direction of the ancestral hall, which was like a Shura purgatory!

His gaze was sharp as a knife, without a shred of hesitation or retreat!

Others dared not go to save Lin Lingshan, but he would!

Regardless of anything else, as long as Lin Lingshan remained as the Family Head, whether it was the Grand Elder or the Third Elder, or even the Liu Family, or even the Black Wind Stockade.

The first wave of the storm would not fall upon Lin Jingyu's head.

Even if the sky fell, Lin Lingshan would be there to hold it up, and the Grand Elder would not dare to act recklessly without restraint.

If he were to fall, the Lin Family would instantly become a piece of fatty meat surrounded by packs of wolves!

And he, Lin Jingyu, and his sister Lin Jingxia, as the "first birds to be shot" and "soft persimmons," would inevitably bear the brunt and die without a burial place!

His right hand lightning-fast reached into his bosom, his fingertips touching that Talisman flowing with deep purple light, its surface covered in thunder patterns moving like living creatures, exuding a destructive aura—the "thunder fiend talisman"!

The Talisman felt slightly numb in his hand; the violent thunder power inside the Talisman paper was restless, like a trapped ancient Vicious Beast, crazily slamming against its cage, yearning for destruction and release!

This was his final trump card!

He hadn't used it on that old dog Lin Chengyuan, but now, he had to use it to fight to the death against a Late Stage Qi Refining Demonic Cultivator in their prime with eerie methods!

However, the grand righteous, extremely rigid, and extremely Yang thunder power was the natural nemesis of these Demonic Cultivators who Cultivated evil techniques and were wrapped in resentful and baleful Qi!

Moreover, his Mental Energy was now powerful and pure, and his Realm had also improved from Qi Refining Second Layer to Qi Refining Third Layer; he was simply incomparable to his former self.

This time, the power of the thunder would be at least fifty percent higher!

Coupled with relying on Mental Energy to release the thunder power in a more concentrated manner.

Working together with Lin Lingshan, who was burning his Origin to fight for his life, he definitely had a chance to keep him here!