Chapter 733 - 732: Lin Yun’s Bloodiness

Chapter 733: Chapter 732: Lin Yun’s Bloodiness

Patriarch He and Bai Ling were remarkably efficient. Lin Yun had said it must be done before dawn, but in less than a single hour, the entire Li Family was completely annihilated.

And Little Ape was already flying toward the Lin Family’s estate, bringing with him the captured members of the Li Family, as well as the four Honored Guest Elders who had secretly let some of them escape.

Not long after Little Ape left, while the He and Bai Families were still conducting a final sweep, representatives sent by the various great families of Wind City all gathered at the Li Family estate.

When they saw the grounds littered with corpses, the people from Wind City’s great families were all stunned. The He and Bai Families had actually joined forces to wipe out the Li Family.

The representatives who arrived were all core figures in their respective families. Almost all of them recognized Bai Ling and Patriarch He, and a few who were acquainted with them stepped forward to ask what had happened.

In response to their questions, Bai Ling and Patriarch He didn’t hide anything and explained the matter in detail.

Upon hearing that the Li Family had actually hung Lin Yun’s father outside their gates for an entire day, the members of the other families turned pale with shock. This was simply courting death.

The Li Family was well and truly finished. After hearing this news, the people from the great families all dispersed. They had to report this crucial information back to their clans.

Lin Yun’s father was in Wind City—how could they have been unaware of such important news until now? One could only imagine that soon, the Lin Family’s doorstep would be worn down by visitors from every great family.

After a thorough inspection, once they finally confirmed that not a single member of the Li Family was left alive and none had escaped, Patriarch He and Patriarch Bai had their guards clean up the scene.

As for the two of them, they hurried toward the Lin Family estate. Now that the job was done, they naturally had to report back to Lin Yun at the first opportunity.

When Bai Ling and Patriarch He arrived, they saw that the area outside the still-under-construction Lin Family Mansion was already crowded with the patriarchs of Wind City’s various great families.

「At this moment, the sky was just beginning to brighten.」 These people had eagerly rushed to the Lin Family’s gate, where they now stood in small groups. However, none dared to knock on the great doors.

Seeing Bai Ling and Patriarch He approach, the crowd greeted them one after another. Looking at the assembled patriarchs, Bai Ling and Patriarch He knew they were all most likely here to pay their respects to Lin Yun.

After the two reached the courtyard gate, Lin Yun’s voice drifted out from within.

"All of you, come in."

His voice was calm, betraying no hint of joy or sorrow. Hearing this, Bai Ling and Patriarch He were the first to push open the gate and walk in, with the patriarchs of Wind City’s great families following behind them.

Originally, there had been over a hundred families, large and small, in Wind City. However, after the last battle for the city, many of the families that had secretly sided with the Qing Zhu Association were purged, leaving fewer than seventy in the entire city.

But now that word of the Lin Family’s arrival in Wind City had spread, all seventy of these families, large and small, had shown up. Not a single one was absent.

Lin Yun stood in the main courtyard. To his left were Patriarch Li and the Li Family’s four Honored Guest Elders. To his right stood the four from the He and Bai Families who had secretly let members of the Li Family escape.

The difference between them was that all the people from the Li Family were kneeling, while those from the He and Bai Families stood with their heads bowed, not daring to even breathe too loudly.

Everyone entered the main courtyard. Looking at the assembled patriarchs of the great families, Lin Yun said flatly, "Since you’re all here, I’ll take this opportunity to set some new rules for Wind City."

No one spoke a word in response to Lin Yun’s statement.

"Patriarch Li openly hung my father outside the Li Family’s main gate for an entire day," Lin Yun said indifferently. "As a son, if I were to compromise on this matter, my heart would know no peace."

Hearing Lin Yun’s words, Patriarch Li immediately grew desperate. He looked at Lin Yun, crying and begging for mercy, "Young Master Lin, spare my life! Young Master Lin, please! I didn’t know that was your esteemed father! If I had known, I wouldn’t have dared, not even if you gave me a hundred times the courage!"

Patriarch Li wailed piteously, but Lin Yun remained completely unmoved. The moment he thought of the humiliation Lin Xiaotian had suffered, hanging all alone outside the Li Family’s gate, murderous intent surged within him.

"I, Lin Yun, have clawed my way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood for the sole purpose of protecting my family. Now, my father has been utterly humiliated by your Li Family. If I do not slaughter every last one of you, what use is all my power? Today, in front of all the patriarchs of Wind City, the shame my father endured will be washed away by the lives of your entire Li Family!" Lin Yun declared coldly.

As he finished speaking, the Elemental Power of the Spirit Realm erupted from his body. Without any obvious movement, Lin Yun lightly thrust out a palm. The Purple Mist Seal descended from the sky, instantly obliterating Patriarch Li and the other four into a shower of blood and gore.

The entire courtyard filled with the stench of blood. Lin Yun’s methods against the Li Family were indeed exceedingly cruel. But as he himself had said, he had crawled his way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood for two reasons: one, to take revenge, and two, to protect his loved ones.

Now that Lin Xiaotian had been so humiliated while alone in Wind City, if Lin Yun were to heed the tiny bit of mercy in his heart, what use was all his formidable strength?

This time, Lin Yun had no intention of being reasonable. The humiliation of Lin Xiaotian had touched his reverse scale.

’A dragon’s reverse scale—touch it and die. So what if I slaughter your entire Li Family line? So what if the world calls me cruel? All that fills my heart is the sorrow of my father’s humiliation.’

’For my father’s sake, forget a mere Li Family. Even if I had to slaughter everyone in Wind City, I would feel no fear.’ This was what Lin Yun was thinking right now.

He paid no mind to how the people around him might judge his actions, whether they called him cruel or a wanton killer of the innocent.

All Lin Yun knew was that his most beloved father had been shamed. That single reason was more than enough. For his father, Lin Yun wouldn’t even frown, even if it meant tearing a hole in the heavens.

Gazing at the bloody pulp on the ground, the hearts of Wind City’s patriarchs trembled. The methods Lin Yun had displayed this time were absolutely sanguinary.

From the Patriarch at the top down to the servants and maids at the bottom, not a single person in the Li Family was left alive.

He tilted his head to look at the four Honored Guest Elders from the Bai and He Families who had deliberately let the Li Family members go. Under Lin Yun’s gaze, the four of them actually began to tremble.

Facing Lin Yun, the four felt an immense pressure. Only now did they understand why Bai Ling and Patriarch He didn’t dare to defy Lin Yun’s orders in the slightest.

He didn’t kill the four of them right away. After just a single glance, Lin Yun shifted his gaze to the seventy patriarchs of Wind City’s great families present.

"I will not take out my anger over the Li Family’s matter on anyone else. However, let me make one thing clear to all of you: I will not allow anyone to humiliate my family. Anyone who shames my loved ones will receive no mercy from me."

That night, Lin Yun was undeniably domineering and utterly uncompromising. It was all because Lin Xiaotian had been humiliated. Looking at him, the patriarchs all nodded their heads respectfully in agreement.

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