11: Destruction precedes construction, the light of foundation building

The light screen of the Crimson Sun Profound Water Formation let out a final wail under the full force of the Formation Breaking Talisman's strike, then shattered with a crash.

Scattering crimson light particles drifted away, and the last barrier protecting the Shen Family mansion disappeared.

"We won!"

"The formation is broken! Hahahaha!"

The Lin Family Cultivators, who had been silent for a moment, erupted in a thunderous cheer.

Lin Tianhong stood at the forefront, looking at the disintegrating light screen and the pale, desperate faces within the mansion. An unprecedented sense of exhilaration surged through his chest.

The Shen Family, this thorn that had been entrenched in Linjiang City for a hundred years, would finally be removed by his own hands today!

"Kill!"

He waved his arm forward, issuing the final command.

"Leave no one alive!"

Dozens of Lin Family Cultivators, with grotesque smiles, activated their various Magical Artifacts, transforming into streaks of light, and charged towards the unarmed Shen Family mansion.

Inside the mansion, all the Shen Family clansmen felt a chill in their hearts as they watched the surging torrent of attacks.

It's over. In the end, they couldn't wait for a miracle.

"My Shen Family has no cowards!"

Shen Qiming, the Lin Tianhong, let out a mournful roar. He threw away the Formation Flag in his hand, which had long since run out of spiritual power, drew the longsword from his waist, and leaped up, blocking in front of all his clansmen.

He was facing Lin Tianhong Lin Tianhong of the Lin Family.

"Fight to the death for the Family!"

"Protect our Young Lord!"

The remaining Shen Family Elders, deacons, and those young, inexperienced clansmen, not a single one retreated at this moment.

They used their flesh and blood to form the last line of defense in front of the formation core where Shen Yuanmo sat.

They would use their lives to buy even one more breath of time for the Family's last hope.

Lin Tianhong looked at Shen Qiming, who was like an egg striking a stone, his face full of mockery.

"Shen Qiming, what will you use to block? Your lives?"

The spiritual sword in his hand glowed brightly, and an incomparably sharp Sword Qi had already formed, about to tear Shen Qiming and the clansmen behind him to shreds in the next moment.

Just as all these attacks were about to fall, and all the Shen Family members closed their eyes, awaiting death.

An indescribably terrifying pressure surged up from the center of the formation core in that watchtower!

This pressure was formless and intangible, heavy as a mountain, sweeping across the entire battlefield.

The Lin Family Cultivators, who were charging forward, suddenly stiffened, as if they had fallen into a deep-sea mire ten thousand feet down.

The spiritual light of the Magical Artifacts they had poised to strike collectively dimmed the moment the pressure swept over them, then completely dissipated with a few "pffft" sounds.

Those Spell light spheres, wind blades, and ice cones that had already been unleashed directly disintegrated in mid-air, vanishing into nothingness.

The entire battlefield fell into an eerie silence.

Lin Tianhong's ecstatic smile also completely froze at this moment.

He maintained his sword-wielding posture, but his body was firmly suppressed in place by an irresistible force, unable to move.

He could feel that his Qi Refining ninth-level spiritual power was as tiny as an ant before this pressure.

What's going on?

This power... He struggled to move his eyeballs, looking towards the center of that pressure.

There, should have been the Shen Family's last hope, the young man he had forced into a desperate situation.

Shen Yuanmo slowly opened his eyes.

Two foot-long crimson-gold divine lights shot out from his eye sockets, piercing through the dim night.

His spiritual energy, which was originally gaseous, had now completely transformed into visible, viscous liquid spiritual energy, like crimson glazed glass, flowing slowly around his body.

Above the sky, the wind and clouds changed color.

The Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth seemed to be fatally attracted, forming a huge vortex that frantically poured into Shen Yuanmo's body.

Inside his body, there were crackling sounds like popping beans; that was his bones reshaping, his Meridians widening, and his Dantian and Qi Sea undergoing an earth-shattering transformation.

This was a leap in the level of life!

Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, just one step apart, yet a world of difference!

"This... this is..."

Shen Qiming, who stood at the very front, was the first to sense the change in this Aura.

This Aura was domineering and vast, yet it carried a hint of a feeling he was incredibly familiar with.

He suddenly turned his head and saw the figure slowly rising, saw the flowing crimson glazed spiritual energy, and saw the Spiritual Qi vortex connecting heaven and earth.

First, there was shock, then disbelief, and finally, endless ecstasy overwhelmed him.

"Foundation Establishment... It's Foundation Establishment!"

"Yuan Mo! Yuan Mo, he has reached Foundation Establishment!"

He roared incoherently, this clan chief, under the violent Impact of despair and ecstasy, tears surged in his tiger eyes, his knees weakened, and he actually knelt directly on the ground.

"Heaven has eyes! My Shen Family is saved!"

Behind him, all the Shen Family clansmen who were prepared to die stared blankly at the figure enveloped by the Spiritual Qi vortex, feeling that familiar yet strange powerful Aura. After a brief silence, thunderous cheers and wails erupted.

In contrast to the Shen Family's ecstasy, all the Lin Family Cultivators felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

Their faces were pale, and their bodies trembled uncontrollably.

Foundation Establishment!

Shen Yuanmo, during their full assault, at the last moment of the Family's destruction, actually broke through on the spot and stepped into the Foundation Establishment realm!

Lin Tianhong finally understood that he had been wrong from the very beginning.

Terribly wrong!

What about the Old Ancestor's injuries improving, what about refining life-extending Medicinal Pills... it was all fake!

The Shen Family's true trump card, the Shen Family's only hope, from beginning to end, was not the dying Old Ancestor, but this young man who was only twenty-one years old!

Their Lin Family had become Shen Yuanmo's stepping stone for Foundation Establishment!

This domineering Aura of a newly advanced Foundation Establishment Cultivator not only enveloped the Shen Family mansion.

It swept across the entire Linjiang City like an invisible shockwave.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord, who was tasting tea, trembled, and his teacup fell to the ground.

In various market districts, the Cultivators who were trading suddenly all stopped their movements.

Countless Loose Cultivators in seclusion opened their eyes at the same time.

Everyone turned their gaze towards the Shen Family in the south of the city, their faces filled with horror.

Another Foundation Establishment Cultivator had been born in Linjiang City!

Under the gaze of all, Shen Yuanmo slowly straightened his body.

He took a step.

His figure disappeared from the formation core of the watchtower, and in the next moment, he appeared directly in front of all the Shen Family clansmen, firmly protecting them behind him.

With just his Aura, he suppressed the entire scene.

He calmly looked forward, at Lin Tianhong, whose body was stiff and face devoid of color.

"The Lin Family has overstepped."

Under fear and unwillingness, Lin Tianhong's mind instead gained a trace of clarity.

He knew he had lost, lost terribly.

Facing a newly advanced Foundation Establishment Cultivator, he had no chance.

But he didn't want to die! The Lin Family couldn't be destroyed either!

A hint of mad ruthlessness flashed across his face.

He used all his strength to crush a communication jade slip hidden in his sleeve.

A faint light shot up into the sky.

Having done all this, he sneered at Shen Yuanmo.

"Genius? Linjiang City doesn't need a second Foundation Establishment Family!"

"Old Ancestor, save me!"