449: Kill and discover (two-in-one thanks to Xiao Yule’s 1,300 coin reward)

On Shuangmu Island, many Cultivators were flying in and out of the island.

After the beast tide ended, the sea area was also full of Opportunities.

Many rare Yao Beasts or precious Spirit Items, usually uncommon, would be left behind.

Therefore, the Lin Family's demon hunting team, as well as Cultivators of all sizes, would travel together to explore the sea area.

Lin Shitao also landed on the highest point of Thousand Wood Peak, carefully cultivating in the Peach Blossom Grove.

In these years, although she had deeply cultivated Alchemy, her Spirit Plant cultivation skills had not fallen behind much.

However, suddenly, Lin Shitao's expression changed, the strength in her hand increased, peach blossom branches were plucked, and she flew up.

Countless Formation Flags scattered in all directions.

In an instant, Spiritual Qi began to intertwine, and golden firelight also emerged throughout the Lin Family's territory.

Although Lin Shitao was only in the Early Violet Palace Stage, her Divine Sense was not inferior to that of a Mid Purple Mansion Realm Cultivator.

Coupled with Lin Shiming's warning that the Yao Race had Magic Treasures for concealment, her Divine Sense did not detect any Yao Beasts.

Instead, she sensed that the Formation secretly arranged by the Lin Family had been triggered.

Those who could secretly approach the Lin Family were either Yao Beasts left by the Jiaolong Clan, or visitors from Nine Dragon Island!

In the center of the sea, the figure seemed to know it had been discovered, no longer concealing itself, and stirred up a huge tsunami, rolling towards them.

The speed was too fast, causing Lin Shitao to directly shout:

"All Lin Family members, be on guard!"

After Lin Shitao finished speaking, she transmitted a message to Lin Houyuan, who was rushing out in the distance.

Lin Houyuan had a Ten Thousand Li Jade.

"Father, please use the Ten Thousand Li Jade to notify Shiming!"

Almost at the same time Lin Shitao shouted, an enormous Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) suddenly burst out of the distant seawater.

This Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) appeared sky blue in the seawater, and transparent in the Void Realm, extremely bizarre.

Its long tail directly slapped towards the spirit barrier on Shuangmu Island.

Its eyes contained an inexplicable aura, as if at this moment, a divine light shot towards the island.

This divine light strangely was not blocked by the spirit barrier; instead, it covered the island, like a light of Divine Sense.

Lin Shitao was extremely surprised by this scene.

But she was also helpless.

She could only frantically make hand seals!

And in the sky, a massive Ten Directions Red Crow Formation instantly descended upon the island.

Lin Shitao controlled it with some difficulty; with her Early Violet Palace Stage cultivation, she could only activate a portion of it, which was also because her primary Cultivation Technique was fire-attributed and highly compatible with this Formation.

But even if she could only control a portion, three Red Crows appeared in the Void Realm, flying out in unison and blasting towards the Discoloration Jiaolong (Flood Dragon).

The scorching flames burned a large part of the sea into mist, with continuous hissing sounds, as if echoing the Red Crows' long cries.

The Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) also continuously surged, spitting out water dragon waves, trying to extinguish the Red Crows.

However, the Red Crows belonged to a fifth-tier Formation and possessed the Bloodline of the ancient true spirit Golden Crow, so the burning spirit fire was naturally not so easy to extinguish!

Instead, it appeared extremely miserable!

Moreover, the Lin Family's methods were far from over; two war treasure ships carried hundreds of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, bombarding the Fourth-tier Late Stage Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) with a barrage of attacks.

This instantly enraged the Discoloration Jiaolong (Flood Dragon), which tried to bypass the three Golden Crows, only to find that in front of it, there was now an additional Fourth-tier Late Stage Spirit Puppet.

As well as a thirty-foot-tall Red-haired Demon Monkey and a Golden Winged Mantis... Meanwhile, as the Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) fought on Shuangmu Island.

Who knows how far away.

Real Person Fengxing and Real Person Xueyun both shook their heads.

No, still no golden dragon fruit tree.

At this moment, the hope of the golden dragon fruit tree being with the Lin Family was completely shattered.

If such a spirit fruit tree were in the Lin Family's hands, it would naturally be planted on the Lin Family's Shuangmu Island.

They would do the same; placing it in a Secret Realm was simply too unsafe.

And not finding it could only mean it wasn't in the Lin Family's hands, but rather on Rising Sun Island, with Real Person Hongye, or even possibly with Real Person Xuri.

The few of them exchanged glances, then sighed.

Real Person Xuri had been in seclusion, perhaps precisely because he had found the golden dragon fruit tree and deliberately went into seclusion to avoid them.

However, if it was in the hands of Rising Sun Island, the difference from being in the Lin Family's hands was too great.

Unless they had sufficient evidence, they could only continue to suffer in silence.

Admitting that all three golden dragon fruit trees were taken by the Jiaolong Clan.

"Let's go to the Dragon Nest once, we have no choice but to take some risks!" Real Person Fengxing also had no choice; with the information about the golden dragon fruit tree cut off, they could only take a chance.

Furthermore, since they were guarding Nine Dragon Island, and the Lin Family was attacked, even if the other party couldn't find evidence, they still had to bear some responsibility for the incident.

"The Lin Family's Dao of the Sword Legacy seems good?" Real Person Xueyun said unwillingly.

The bronze dragon was controlled by him, and although he didn't find any trace of the golden dragon fruit tree, the Lin Family's Sword Pavilion was also very impressive.

He naturally didn't want to go to the Dragon Nest to seek trouble with the Jiaolong Clan; they still remembered the fate of Real Person Baihu.

White Dragon Island, there were only three True Persons, and the True Person guarding the island was also severely injured. Now, the only true Golden Core combat power left was Real Person Baiyu and his white Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) Spirit Beast.

However, no one on the scene responded.

Although the few of them also had ideas, not to mention whether the Dao of the Sword was suitable for their Nine Dragon Island.

Just at this point, if they were to destroy the Lin Family, not to mention whether they could silence them, even if they succeeded, their Nine Dragon Island might not be able to protect them.

The Coral Alliance is on the outermost edge of the Six Great Sea Regions, and it also has the most Golden Core True Persons. However, because the various islands are extremely loosely organized, their overall strength appears to be inferior to that of their Nine Dragon Island.

But if they were to truly unite, each island could bring forth a different kind of heritage.

The lightning techniques of Golden Thunder Island, the Spirit Puppets of Thousand Machine Island, the Wood Demons of Tianliu Island... these thoughts alone gave them headaches!

...At the Auction, Lin Shiming took the spirit beast pouch, and the next moment, his expression changed drastically. Although he had auctioned off the Wind Scale Python, he had absolutely not expected that Nine Dragon Island would secretly send a Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) to Shuangmu Island.

"Seventh Grand Uncle, something has happened on Shuangmu Island!" Lin Shiming returned to the private room, his eyes dark.

"I may have to trouble you to organize the aftermath of the Auction. I'm worried that someone might cause trouble at the Auction as well, to prevent me from returning!"

"Furthermore, I'll have to trouble you to oversee the Tianmen Suoling Formation (Heaven's Gate Spirit Lock Formation) and ensure it's activated to its maximum extent!" Lin Shiming transmitted a message to Lin Xianzhi, and also took out a Storage Pouch, which contained a Purple Mansion Late Stage Spirit Puppet.

He had a total of three Spirit Puppets. Lin Shijie's was a Fourth-tier Middle Stage, while Lin Shitao's and Lin Xianzhi's were Purple Mansion Late Stage.

With this Spirit Puppet, and the fact that Lin Xianzhi was also a Sword Cultivator, Lin Shiming felt relieved.

He then took Lin Shijie and flew towards the Teleportation Array.

Even the spirit beast pouch containing the Wind Scale Python cub was directly handed to Lin Shiyuan.

The purple wind boat soared against the wind, flew into Nine Dragon Mountain, landed directly on the Teleportation Array, and immediately teleported towards Shuangmu Island.

The Teleportation Array quickly lit up, emitting a dazzling white light. Lin Shiming endured the stinging white light, and Shuangmu Island appeared before his eyes.

Almost at the same time Lin Shiming stepped out of the Teleportation Array, Daoist Jiuxiao and Lin Houwei also appeared in the Teleportation Array.

They had teleported from Tianxiang Island.

The Lin Family had a total of three Ten Thousand Li Jade, connecting the three islands.

The few of them exchanged glances, no words needed, and immediately went to investigate outside.

The Discoloration Jiaolong (Flood Dragon)'s strength was similar to the Discoloration Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) Lin Shiming had encountered before; both had evolved from Color-Changing Lizards and were considered half-Jiaolong (Flood Dragon).

Its stealth ability was extremely strong, but its actual strength was not, and at this moment, it was completely suppressed by the Ten Directions Red Crow Formation, coupled with several of Lin Shiming's Spirit Beasts.

Lin Shiming also continuously leaped with a Leaping Void Disc, and finally, the Great Evolution Sword Style fell cleanly and swiftly.

As the scorching sword light was displayed before countless Lin Family members on Shuangmu Island.

At this moment, Lin Shiming was like a god, and that Discoloration Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) also utterly perished under this one sword strike.

The Soul Suppressing Tower flew out, and Lin Shiming immediately began to search its soul on the spot.

However, the result made Lin Shiming feel extremely strange; there was no Divine Soul at all.

Instead, it was a mass of Divine Soul power, giving him the feeling of a third-tier Yao Beast.

It was as if at the moment he killed it, someone had unilaterally torn up the soul contract, and its Divine Soul had scattered.

This kind of Divine Soul search yielded no useful information at all.

Lin Shiming could only use the Soul Suppressing Tower to refine the pure Divine Soul power.

His Soul Fusion Secret Canon could refine these pure Divine Soul powers to empower himself.

"Seventh Brother!" Lin Shitao gasped, swallowing several Medicinal Pills to restore her true essence, but her face was still somewhat pale. Operating a fifth-tier Formation at the Early Violet Palace Stage was still extremely strenuous.

"At that time, a divine light penetrated the Ten Directions Red Crow Formation, I'm worried..."

"No matter, Shitao, it's good that you're alright!" Lin Shiming nodded. He knew what the other party was looking for.

However, their methods were destined to be futile.

He checked Lin Shitao once, and after confirming she was not injured, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Shiming, let's go check the surroundings again to see if there are any stragglers!" Daoist Jiuxiao also said.

Upon hearing this, Lin Shijie also nodded.

If there was one, there might be a second; checking was the most important thing.

Lin Shiming also re-sorted the Lin Family's Formation, and at the same time, recorded the corpse of the Discoloration Jiaolong (Flood Dragon) with a Jade Slip.

The Lin Family naturally could not suffer this silent loss.

At the same time, all the Lin Family members also gradually checked and deployed detection Formations near Shuangmu Island.

The crimson sunset plunged into the end of the sea.

Daoist Jiuxiao and Lin Shijie had also returned.

Lin Shiming also checked everything, and he guessed that after this incident, Nine Dragon Island would probably give up.

And the time for the Lin Family's Family meeting had also been determined.

After the Family meeting, Lin Shiming would prepare to return to the Eastern Region to search for ningjin fruit.

"Shiming, I'm going back to Tianxiang Island first; it's also quite chaotic there recently!" After learning that Shuangmu Island was safe, Daoist Jiuxiao also bid farewell and left.

Lin Shiming felt touched; the fact that Daoist Jiuxiao could rush back immediately meant that the Lin Family was not merely a business partner in his heart.

Lin Houwei also left with him. After the beast tide, Lin Shiming noticed that Lin Houwei had become much more taciturn, perhaps unaccustomed to separation.

Perhaps it was because many familiar faces were missing from the Lin Family.

Lin Shiming had also looked for Lin Houwei before, and the latter just smiled and said that the higher one's cultivation, the harder it was to find someone to drink with.

That day, Lin Shiming also had a big drink with Lin Houwei.

After drinking, he knew that Thirteenth Uncle was still Thirteenth Uncle.

"Shiming, news has come from Nine Dragon Island that those True Persons from Nine Dragon Island have gone out to sea!" Lin Houyuan also flew out from the island.

As this news spread, the Lin Family was completely certain that this time, Nine Dragon Island had secretly made a move.

However, the other party had done everything meticulously and cautiously, and this time they even proactively entered the Outer Sea to seek trouble with the Sea Demon Royal Court.

This was both to complete Nine Dragon Island's mission and to avoid the storm.

After this storm passed, even Real Person Hongye couldn't say anything about them.

They could simply say they were preparing to enter the Outer Sea and were unaware of the Lin Family's attack, as Nine Dragon Island had the Tianmen Suoling Formation (Heaven's Gate Spirit Lock Formation).

The actions of these True Persons could not be hidden.

"Father, issue the Family decree. The Family meeting will not be delayed; it will be held as soon as possible to determine the direction moving forward!" Lin Shiming spoke again.

After determining the direction, he also prepared to go into seclusion once more before heading to the Eastern Region.

For revenge, and for the ningjin fruit!

Although the immediate danger seemed to have lessened, Lin Shiming knew that as the Lin Family's strength was exposed, the benefits it displayed also moved those Golden Core True Persons.

Only by continuously improving their strength could the Lin Family develop steadily.

"Shiming, then I'll go relieve Seventh Grand Uncle!" Lin Shijie also said.

The Family meeting could start without him, a Purple Mansion Cultivator, but it absolutely couldn't do without Lin Xianzhi, the Old Ancestor with the highest seniority.

"No need to relieve him, Seventh Grand Uncle Cultivates the Incarnation technique. It's fine for him to conceal himself for two days in the short term, not to mention there's still the Teleportation Array!" Lin Shiming chuckled and shook his head.

Having obtained the Incarnation technique from the Heavenly Demon Sect, Lin Shiming had used a wooden corpse to refine a Clone with fixed cultivation, which was eventually destroyed in the Qingxuan Sect.

Lin Xianzhi also refined a Clone, but his was cultivated gradually from the Qi Refining stage, making it more flexible and realistic.

This time, he hoped all the Lin Family's Purple Mansion Cultivators would participate.

"Father, also inform Elder Jiuxiao!" Lin Shiming added. Regardless of whether he came or not, the Lin Family had to inform him.

As for other Guest Elders and Cultivators who married into the family, only Lei Xuan and other early members could participate.

Soon, the arrangements for the Family meeting proceeded in an orderly fashion.

The entire Shuangmu Island once again became lively.

Each Family meeting would also feature an unprecedented Family-wide martial arts competition.

At this time, Lin Shiming also took the Opportunity to visit Rising Sun Island, and as he expected, Real Person Hongye would only warn Nine Dragon Island.

However, Real Person Hongye was very interested in the Lin Family's daughter red wine, which was the turtle spirit coconut.

The matter of the Teleportation Array had apparently already reached Rising Sun Island.

Lin Shiming also took out a small pot, letting Real Person Hongye have a taste, and stated that there was temporarily no more leftover wine, and it would be sold after the Loose Cultivator finished refining it.

Real Person Hongye also told Lin Shiming a piece of news: the Cultivator from Golden Thunder Island was still suspicious of Lin Shiming colluding with the Jiaolong Clan.

Lin Shiming's heart also tensed. He knew that this was not as simple as Golden Thunder Island's suspicion; he had already been completely drawn into the vortex of the conservative and pioneering factions of the Coral Alliance.

On the contrary, Nine Dragon Island's probing this time actually proved that the Lin Family had no problems.

Otherwise, Nine Dragon Island would not have let the matter rest.

Especially since the Lin Family had also spread the name of the Spirit Snake Family.

Besides the news, Lin Shiming also once again obtained a purple zenith sandalwood from Rising Sun Island, which counted as Real Person Hongye's return gift for the wine.

Lin Shiming planned to use this purple zenith sandalwood with the newly acquired Divine Sense Cultivation Technique. Perhaps before this trip to the Eastern Region, his Divine Sense could achieve another Breakthrough.