737: Hometown accident

After the heavy rain, the sky gradually cleared.

Amidst the chirping of a few birds, Lin Yun, who was deep in the mountains and old forests, slowly opened his eyes under a big tree.

"The seeds and those one- or two-year-old medicinal plants have been planted for a night, and by tonight, I will be able to harvest a batch of thousand-year-old spiritual plants."

Lin Yun calculated the number of spiritual plants he had planted.

In the two hundred square meters of land, two hundred plants were planted.

Last night, he would go to the Reverse World every so often to loosen the soil, remove pests, and provide all sorts of meticulous care for those spiritual plants.

This trip would ensure at least a 90% survival rate.

He would harvest at least five thousand-year-old spiritual plants.

However, many of them were Longevity series spiritual plants that Lin Yun was cultivating for a hundred thousand years, so they would not be harvested together for now.

"It's a pity there's still too little land; it would be great if there were more." Muttering to himself, Lin Yun looked at his Storage Bags, which still contained a large amount of unplanted seeds.

He then looked at the Forest King next to him, who was holding a thousand-year-old spiritual plant and starting to gnaw on it, and let out a helpless sigh.

"Ding ~ Host successfully escaped the marriage, made his own choice, triggered 'Live Freely', System reward: Free space land area doubled!"

Ye Tian, understanding the Host's intention, was generous enough to directly reward two hundred square meters of land, supplementing the Host's surplus labor.

Hearing the voice of the System in his mind.

Lin Yun's heart was also filled with joy; the land had actually doubled!

Without any further thoughts, he turned around, picked up his hoe, and headed to the Reverse World.

The flow of time in the Reverse World is different from the outside world.

From the perspective of the outside world, Lin Yun only seemed to be in a daze for a moment before he came back to his senses.

During this time, he had already finished cultivating the land that the System had newly rewarded him and planted the seeds.

Apart from muscle soreness and a little sweat on his body, there were no other changes.

The only problem was that the water used for irrigation in the Reverse World was somewhat insufficient now.

In the original one hundred square meters of space, the water from the lake in the Fenggang Mountain Range could last for thousands, even nearly ten thousand years, in the Reverse World.

But now, the area had directly expanded to four times the original size.

The demand for water for irrigation had soared.

Without going back to look, Lin Yun could guess that the lake in the Fenggang Mountain Range had reached the verge of drying up.

The process of finding a new water source needed to be accelerated.

Lin Yun looked at the new water source collection ball in his hand, pondering in his heart.

The water source collection ball in his hand was something he bought from that Senior in the Reverse World.

Although he said 'bought', in Lin Yun's opinion, it was no different from being given away.

"Let's go home and see Father and Mother first." Putting away the water source collection ball, Lin Yun looked towards the area outside the deep mountains.

More than a hundred years have passed.

He could barely remember the appearance of his Father and Mother. In his previous life, he only learned the news of his Father and Mother's death from old age from Kongtong Frost Snow and attended their funeral.

Actually, this situation.

For most Cultivators from ordinary backgrounds, it is an inevitable part of their journey.

When many grass-roots Cultivators join a sect and formally begin their cultivation, they will decisively sever all ties with their parents.

This is to avoid attracting powerful enemies in the cultivation world later and having their relatives sought out for revenge.

Most of them would secretly help their parents and relatives.

Lin Yun had this idea in his previous life.

And after marrying Kongtong Frost Snow, everything was no longer up to him.

Meeting his parents this time... for his current self, it was just a few years apart, but for Lin Yun, who was reborn from his previous life, this was a reunion after a hundred years of hardship!

Hualin Town.

Relying on the memories in his mind, Lin Yun, with his Golden Core Realm cultivation, took a few hours.

He arrived here near noon.

The first moment he arrived here, he didn't have that familiar feeling of returning home; he only felt an indescribable sense of strangeness...

There were people coming and going on the street.

After Lin Yun came over, he found that these people would look at him from time to time.

While feeling puzzled, Lin Yun was slightly startled.

Although he was a Cultivator, for ordinary people, he was an absolutely revered immortal.

But he didn't write the words 'I am a Cultivator' on his face, so why were these people looking at him so directly?

"Are you... the Child of the Old Lin family, Lin Yun?"

Just then, an Old man stopped Lin Yun and immediately confirmed Lin Yun's identity.

"It's me, and you are?" Lin Yun looked at the person in front of him, slightly frowning.

He didn't recognize the person in front of him.

Perhaps too much time had passed, and he didn't remember most of the people in Hualin Town.

"I am your Father's friend; we often went hunting in the mountains together." The Old man waved his hand, explaining his identity.

Hearing this, Lin Yun nodded in realization.

Looking at the other person's aged but not very tired and clean face, Lin Yun's confusion deepened.

This guy is definitely not a hunter!

"Child, you've finally returned!" The Old man in front of him sighed and spoke.

"What's wrong?" His heart skipped a beat, and Lin Yun's bad premonition deepened considerably.

"Your Father and Mother were taken away by people called by the Kongtong Empress! It was just last night, and I heard your Father and Mother were beaten!" The Old man's tone was urgent, and when he spoke excitedly, he even lowered his voice and cursed loudly.

"Oh dear! Is this the Child of the Old Lin family?!" At this moment, a Middle-aged woman also came down the street: "Child, hurry home and see! Your Father and Mother were taken away by people sent by that Empress, and I heard, I heard it was because you escaped the marriage or something? It angered that Empress!"

"Yes, I don't know what's going on. Your Father and Mother have been living in our Hualin Town for so many years, and last night, they were suddenly taken away by the Empress's people. I heard they have been locked in the prison, what a hard life!"

More people gathered around, revealing this news.

Hearing this, Lin Yun finally understood why these people had been staring at him all the way.

It turned out it was because the Kongtong Empress had taken action against his parents?!

But...

Although that woman was indifferent to everything in the World and had iron-fisted methods against her Imperial official, she didn't seem like someone who would do such a thing!

She was proud; how could she harm his family?

If she really did such a thing, she wouldn't have let him leave yesterday.

The matter here is definitely not as simple as it appears on the surface.

It was also at this moment.

Lin Yun looked at these people around him, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Although these people's tone was enthusiastic and their attitude was kind, like the native residents who had grown up in this Town.

But when Lin Yun looked closely at this time, he found that he didn't recognize any of them!

Although a long time had passed, in the present.

The people in Hualin Town, they hadn't changed generations after a hundred years.

The people should all be the original batch.

There was also a more important piece of information...

That auntie just now said 'Hualin Town.'

Actually, before Hualin Town was renamed, the local people all called it Birch Town. Hualin Town was the name given by the government later.

Local people basically still call it by the original name...