2: Destroy both families!
The entire front courtyard of the Lin Family residence fell into a deathly silence.
The metal powder drifting across the sky, like cold, gray sleet, slowly settled, covering the blood-stained bluestone slabs and the hearts of everyone from the Wang and Zhao Families.
The elite disciples who had been filled with Killing Intent and arrogant just a moment ago were now frozen as if by invisible ice; their hands gripping their weapons trembled slightly, the blood had drained from their faces, and their eyes held nothing but shock and terror.
The Wang Family Old Ancestor, Family Ancestor, gripped his bloodied, empty right hand tightly; his heavy breathing sounded like an old bellows, and his burly body could not stop trembling.
It was not pain, but the most instinctive fear stemming from the depths of his Soul when facing an incomprehensible existence.
His giant mountain-splitting axe, forged from deep-sea iron through thousands of hammerings, which had accompanied him in battle for a hundred years and tasted countless blood, had been reduced to powder by the other party's casual flick of a finger!
What kind of inconceivable method was this?!
This was definitely not power that the Spirit Sea Realm could possess!
Even imagining it was a form of blasphemy!
The sinister look on the face of the Family Ancestor had long been replaced by unprecedented gravity.
The ice cones surrounding him no longer hummed; they were completely frozen in mid-air, as if they too had been frozen by that invisible, terrifying pressure.
His pupils had shrunk to the most dangerous pinpoints; he stared fixedly at the young figure in snow-white robes, his heart feeling as if it were being tightly gripped by a cold hand, almost stopping its beat.
Tongtian Realm!
A Realm he had only heard of in ancient texts and distant legends!
A supreme Realm capable of crushing everything in Qingfeng County and viewing the Spirit Sea Realm as ants!
This young man... no! This old monster!
The Lin Family's Old Ancestor, Lin Dao, who should have long since turned into withered bones!
He was actually not dead!
Not only was he not dead, but he had also broken through that nightmarish shackle, stepped into the Tongtian Realm, and regained his youth!
"Tong... Tongtian..." The Family Ancestor's throat was extremely dry; these two words were squeezed out from between his teeth, carrying unconcealable panic.
He finally understood why the other party just standing there made his Spirit Sea Realm Great Perfection cultivation feel unprecedentedly suppressed and insignificant.
That was a fundamental gap in the level of life!
Lin Zhen and the remaining Lin Family disciples finally snapped out of their extreme shock and bewilderment.
Looking at that finger strike which was like a miracle, seeing the fearful expressions on the faces of the Family Ancestor and the Family Ancestor as if they had seen a ghost, and hearing the Family Ancestor's panicked exclamation of "Tongtian," an indescribable ecstasy and the excitement of surviving a disaster surged from the depths of their hearts like a volcanic eruption!
"Old Ancestor! It really is the Old Ancestor!"
"The Old Ancestor has broken through to the Tongtian Realm!"
"Heaven bless my Lin Family! Heaven bless my Lin Family!"
"Sob... We are saved! The Lin Family is saved!"
Many Lin Family disciples were moved to tears, and some even knelt down directly, kowtowing to the white-robed figure, their bodies trembling violently with excitement.
Lin Zhen was even more tearful, and the once desperate and dead eyes now burst with fiery light again.
Lin Dao seemed not to hear the excitement behind him.
His gaze remained calmly fixed on the Family Ancestor and the Family Ancestor, his eyes as indifferent as if he were looking at two already cold corpses.
"It seems you have remembered." Lin Dao's voice was still clear, but it carried a cold, judgmental tone. "Very well, that saves me from wasting any more breath."
He slowly raised his hand, his five fingers slightly spread.
Boom—!!!
The Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth instantly rioted!
Centered on his palm, a visible, massive vortex of Spiritual Qi formed!
The winds and clouds changed color, the sunlight dimmed, and the sky over the entire Qingfeng County seemed to sink a little!
A pressure far more terrifying, vast, and suffocating than before descended with a roar, like the actual sky collapsing!
"Thump!" "Thump!"
The disciples of the Wang and Zhao Families could no longer withstand this pressure; they knelt in droves like mown wheat, and those with weaker cultivation even vomited blood and passed out!
Even the Family Ancestor and the Family Ancestor, these two Spirit Sea Realm Great Perfection Cultivators, had their bones cracking, their faces turned pale as paper instantly, and their legs trembled violently, almost kneeling on the spot!
They desperately mobilized all their Spirit Qi to resist, but they felt like a tiny boat in a raging storm, likely to be completely crushed at any moment!
"Sen... Senior! Spare me!" The Family Ancestor no longer cared about the dignity of an Old Ancestor; the shadow of death had completely enveloped him. He screamed, his voice filled with fear and begging, "It is we who were blind! We offended the majesty of the Tongtian Realm! I beg Senior, considering... considering that our cultivation was not easy to achieve, please spare our lives! The Wang Family... the Wang Family is willing to offer all our assets, from now on take the Lin Family as our master, and serve as slaves and servants forever!"
The Family Ancestor was also scared out of his wits and hurriedly shouted along: "The Zhao Family is also willing to submit! We only ask Senior to spare our ant-like lives!"
In the face of absolute power, any ambition or dignity became a ridiculous joke.
Their only thought at this moment was to survive!
Upon hearing this, the corners of Lin Dao's mouth curled into an extremely faint, yet bone-chillingly cold mockery.
"Begging for mercy now?" He shook his head gently, his tone calm but containing unquestionable decisiveness, "It's too late."
"When you stepped into the Lin Family, intending to commit genocide, you should have anticipated this outcome."
Before his voice faded, he gently pressed down with his slightly spread fingers.
It was not aimed at any one person, but covered all the invaders from the Wang and Zhao Families in the entire front courtyard!
Hum—!
An invisible yet vast and terrifying power crashed down like a sacred mountain from the Nine Heavens!
"No—!!!" The Family Ancestor and the Family Ancestor roared in despair and unwillingness, exhausting their last bit of Spirit Qi to resist. The moment their protective light flared up, it shattered instantly like a bubble!
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
A series of dull popping sounds rang out!
Including the Family Ancestor and the Family Ancestor, all the Wang and Zhao Family disciples who had broken into the Lin Family had their bodies explode on the spot without warning, like overinflated leather bags!
Turning into clumps of thick blood mist!
No screams, no struggle.
Only the hair-raising, dull sound of flesh and bone being instantly ground into the finest particles.
A gentle breeze blew by, and the heavy smell of blood permeated the air.
The elite forces of the two families, which had just been a black mass filled with Killing Intent, were now gone, leaving only dozens of shocking, dark red stains slowly soaking into the bluestone slabs, and the blood mist and dust still drifting in the air, not yet fully settled.
Silence.
Deathly silence.
The surviving members of the Lin Family, including the Family Head Lin Zhen, all stared dumbfounded at this scene, which resembled a Shura field. They watched as the Old Ancestors and elites of the two great families, who had once called the wind and summoned the rain in Qingfeng County and driven them almost to the point of Family destruction, were simply wiped out by their own Old Ancestor with a casual press, as if crushing a group of ants.
Shock, fear, and a hint of indescribable, fanatic awe were intertwined on their faces.
Is this the power of the Tongtian Realm?
Is this the strength of their Lin Family's Old Ancestor?!
Lin Dao slowly withdrew his hand, and the overwhelming pressure dissipated in an instant, as if it had never appeared.
His white robes remained spotless, and not even a strand of his hair was disheveled.
It was as if the person who had just unleashed that thunderous power and wiped out the lives of dozens of Cultivators was not him.
He turned around, his gaze falling on Lin Zhen, who was still in a state of immense shock.
"Clean this up." Lin Dao's tone was calm and waveless, as if he were just asking someone to sweep away fallen leaves in the courtyard. "In addition, summon all the people in charge of the clan to meet me in the meeting hall."
"Yes! Yes! Old Ancestor!" Lin Zhen shuddered, snapping back from his stupor, and hurriedly bowed in response, his voice trembling violently with excitement.
The look he gave Lin Dao was filled with endless fanaticism and awe.
Lin Dao nodded slightly and said no more. He took a step, and his figure disappeared from the spot like a ghost. The next moment, he had appeared at the end of the corridor leading to the inner mansion's meeting hall, dozens of feet away, and with another flash, he was completely gone.
Leaving behind a courtyard of deathly silence, heavy blood, and a group of Lin Family members who felt as if they were in another world, their hearts surging with emotion.
[Ding! Family crisis detected as resolved; intimidated Qingfeng County; Family prestige significantly increased.]
[Reward: Cultivation feedback increased; Host's cultivation raised to the second level of the Tongtian Realm.]
[Ding! Infinite Treasury permission initially unlocked; Host can extract basic resources (Medicinal Pill, Spirit Stone, Cultivation Technique, etc.) at any time.]
The cold System notification sounded in Lin Dao's consciousness.
An energy even purer and more vast than before surged into his limbs and bones again, consolidating and improving the Realm he had just broken through to.
Lin Dao did not stop his pace, his eyes deep.
Qingfeng County is just the starting point.