64: Changes in the Eastern Wasteland

Soon, Lin Yang gathered Tang Xuan, Xue Changming, and Xin Ru Yin.

Sure enough, after they had all assembled.

Two of them had unwilling expressions, while the third stared at him with a mischievous smile, seemingly up to no good.

"Bastard, if you want to go on such a boring mission, go by yourself! Why drag us along? To chat with you?"

Tang Xuan rolled his eyes impatiently, grumbling his dissatisfaction with a look of strong resistance.

"You're a Three-star Martial Ancestor?"

Xue Changming stared at Lin Yang for a moment, then asked with some surprise.

"Damn it! Only a few months have passed, why have you broken through to Three-star Martial Ancestor?"

Tang Xuan looked unconvinced; ever since Lin Yang defeated him that day, he had been in seclusion, cultivating diligently.

Yet, even so, he was only a Two-star Martial Ancestor now.

As for Lin Yang, when he first arrived at the Holy Emperor Sect a few months ago, his Realm was still far behind him.

But now, only a few months later, the other party's Realm had surpassed his own.

At this point, he no longer even had the advantage of a higher Realm.

He was even less willing to accompany Lin Yang on missions...

Half an hour later.

Wrapped in a flash of spatial light, Lin Yang, Tang Xuan, Xue Changming, and Xin Ru Yin were teleported to a desolate city tens of millions of miles away.

Outside the city, yellow sand filled the sky, and an endless desert stretched before their eyes.

"What kind of a 'snake-person rebellion' is this? I can handle it alone!"

As soon as they arrived, Tang Xuan immediately left the group, choosing to act alone.

Xue Changming glanced at Lin Yang and Xin Ru Yin, then also quietly walked away, evidently intending to complete the mission assigned by the Sect in his own way.

"Brother Lin Yang~, look at them, they're not team players at all, only good at being individual heroes. You're much better, you know how to cherish and protect women, staying to accompany me, we can..."

Xin Ru Yin walked towards Lin Yang with a sweet smile.

However, before she could finish speaking, she saw the space around Lin Yang twist strangely.

The next moment, Lin Yang, who had been standing in front of her, mysteriously vanished.

"......"

In just the blink of an eye, the four people who had been perfectly fine upon transmission were now reduced to only Xin Ru Yin remaining in place.

"Fine, fine, fine! All of you, don't want to play with this old lady, huh! Well, I don't want to play with you either! Ah, ah, ah! You're making me so angry!!!"

Seeing the three leave without looking back, Xin Ru Yin stomped her small foot in frustration, then angrily departed as well.

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Just as Lin Yang and the others were carrying out their mission.

In the Eastern Barrens, Cloud Utmost Empire, Black Cloud City.

A horrifying massacre occurred.

"Tragic! Too tragic!"

"Who did the Nangong Family provoke?"

"Their Family was destroyed overnight, with everyone dead!"

"Not a single living soul was left, male or female, old or young; the killer's methods were too cruel!"

"Didn't the killer know that Nangong Xueli of the Nangong Family was accepted as a Disciple by the Celestial Immortal Academy in the Central Province?"

Black Cloud City buzzed with discussions.

Everyone was shocked and bewildered.

Who exactly was it?

Whose methods were so ruthless!

Even if Nangong Xueli had fallen out with the Nangong Family, there was still a familial bond between them.

Blood is thicker than water!

Who would dare to wield a butcher's knife against the Nangong Family, unafraid of Nangong Xueli's retaliation once she learned of it in the Central Province?

However, the killer's methods were too swift and clean; after some bolder Martial Artists went to the scene for a thorough investigation, they found not a single clue related to the culprit.

And just as Black Cloud City was in a state of panic over this massacre.

Ten thousand miles away, a handsome Young Master in white clothes and white shoes, accompanied by a Grey-robed Old Man, was heading aggressively straight for the Lin Clan's territory.

"Young Master, the relationship between the Lin Family and the Nangong Family in the Lower Realm is well-known. If you destroy both Families, it might attract unnecessary attention..." the Old Man said with some worry.

Mere small Families in the Lower Realm.

If they were destroyed, then they were destroyed.

It was no big deal.

However, they were people from the Upper Realm, and this time they had secretly descended through a Realm crack, carrying an important mission.

If the mission was not completed, they would likely face extremely severe punishment upon their return.

Therefore, in the Old Man's view, the two should prioritize the mission at hand and truly had no time to waste on other matters.

One must know that although the overall strength of the Lower Realm was not as great as the Upper Realm, some old monsters were not to be trifled with.

If those old monsters discovered them, these 'smugglers,' they would be in serious trouble.

"Hmph! Those ants of the Nangong Family truly deserve to die! If they hadn't been so snobbish and ostracized my Nangong Xueli sister, how could Lin Yang of the Lin Family have taken advantage of the situation?"

Upon mentioning this, the white-clothed Young Master became furious.

In terms of prior acquaintance, he had known Nangong Xueli even earlier than Lin Yang.

Due to his Family's ancient grand plan, when the white-clothed Young Master was young, he was secretly sent to the Lower Realm by his Family to search for the whereabouts of a fragment of an ancient treasure.

And that ancient treasure fragment was rumored to be within the declining Nangong Family.

While the white-clothed Young Master infiltrated the Nangong Family to investigate, he met the girl he wished to protect for life, Nangong Xueli.

At that time, Nangong Xueli was still a three-year-old girl, fair and tender, adorable and lovely.

She was like the most beautiful pink rose in the world, making one's heart flutter.

The white-clothed Young Master fell in love at first sight, even forgetting his Family's mission to investigate information.

Unfortunately, the news was inadvertently leaked later, and to avoid being intercepted and killed by powerful experts of the Lower Realm, the white-clothed Young Master had no choice but to hastily return to the Upper Realm overnight as per his Family's instructions.

But before leaving, he secretly left a precious token for Nangong Xueli's mother, Shangguan Bingtang, without his Family's knowledge.

He also left a message for his mother-in-law, stating that he would definitely return in the future to marry Nangong Xueli!

Originally, he had planned that on this trip to the Lower Realm, he would immediately go to the Nangong Family and express his feelings to Nangong Xueli.

But what he never expected was that during the more than ten years he had been away, the Nangong Family had undergone such a great change.

His mother-in-law, Shangguan Bingtang, had unexpectedly died of illness midway!

His father-in-law had also disappeared without a trace!

Only Nangong Xueli was left alone and helpless in the Nangong Family.

Moreover, she later mysteriously lost all her cultivation and was subjected to scorn for several years.

When the white-clothed Young Master first heard these tidings, his heart was twisted in pain, but what made him even more furious came later.

Perhaps Shangguan Bingtang was not entirely satisfied with him as a son-in-law; although she was forced to accept his token back then, she did not convey this matter to Nangong Xueli in the slightest.

As a result, when Nangong Xueli grew up, she didn't even remember that such a person existed.

And what was even more heartbreaking than this was:

Nangong Xueli, whom he yearned for day and night, had actually become engaged to another man!

"Lin Yang!!!"

"I, Ji Bai, will definitely kill you a hundred times! A hundred times!! Ah!!!"

Thinking of this, the white-clothed Young Master felt a surge of rebellious Qi in his chest, so angry he wanted to go mad.

In his opinion, if it weren't for those fools in the Nangong Family deliberately alienating and ostracizing Nangong Xueli after she became a cripple, Lin Yang would never have had the chance to enter Nangong Xueli's heart.

"Those idiots from the Nangong Family not only ruined the marriage of me and my Nangong Xueli sister, but they also drove Nangong Xueli sister out of the Family. They all deserve to die!"

The white-clothed Young Master's eyes were terrifyingly cold, like a sharp blade.

"As for the Lin Family, a bunch of ants, they can all go down and be buried with them!"