Cultivation Begins with Daily Intelligence Reports

128: Turning black into whiteThen Lin Chengyuan suddenly pointed his finger at Lin Jingyu in the crowd, his withered finger trembling violently with excitement and malice:

”This scoundrel is the root of the trouble! Lin Jingyu! His parents were destitute back then and had the gall to borrow a large sum of Spirit Stones from the Brothers of Your Fort. And the result? Those two short-lived ghosts kicked the bucket and died, leaving behind this wretched spawn...”

Saliva flew from his mouth as he exerted his talent for distorting the truth to the extreme, his voice growing louder and more inflammatory:

”This little beast! Not only does he not think about repaying his parents’ debts, but he is also insanely obsessed, repeatedly saying things like ’the debt dies with the person.’ Is that even human talk?”

”Is this something a human can do? The Brothers of Your Fort, out of consideration for their shared sentiment as Cultivators, kindly advised him many times and gave him extensions! But what about this little beast? Not only is he not grateful, but he is also cold-blooded and repays kindness with enmity!”

Lin Chengyuan became more and more excited as he spoke, gesturing wildly as if he were the very Incarnation of justice:

”He actually colluded with the clansmen in secret, relying on the support of that old fogey, Family Head Lin Lingshan...”

He suddenly pointed at Lin Lingshan, his eyes filled with incomparable malice:

”He struck out brazenly, launching a sneak attack on the Brothers of Your Fort who had come to kindly collect the debt. Poor two highly-cultivated Brothers of Your Fort; caught off guard, they were severely injured by this pair of treacherous dogs working in cahoots.”

He paused for a moment, his face appropriately showing expressions of ’deep sorrow’ and ’certainty’:

”Later... later, this old man received a Transmission Talisman. That was the blood-weeping last words of one of the Brothers of Your Fort before he died!”

”Every word was written in blood and tears! He said—the ones who killed them were Lin Jingyu and Lin Lingshan, that pair of snake-hearted, ungrateful dogs! This enmity is irreconcilable! Fourth Leader!”

”You must seek justice for the fallen brothers! Although this old man is a member of the Lin Family, in the face of great right and wrong, I will never show favoritism! Today, I am willing to testify and expose the true faces of this pair of dogs...”

This framing, full of loopholes, inconsistencies, and nonsensical logic, was simply an insult and a trampling of everyone’s intelligence present.

Anyone with a brain could hear the absurdity in it. But Lin Chengyuan spoke with such emotion as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

”Boom!”

The Lin Family members instantly exploded! Their suppressed fear was completely ignited by this utterly shameless betrayal, turning into a towering rage:

”Lin Chengyuan! Damn your ancestors! You ungrateful old beast! When has the Lin Family ever mistreated you?”

”Stop your mother’s continuous dog farts! It was clearly you who colluded with the Black Wind Stockade to force the debt first! Brother Jingyu already paid fifty Spirit Stones; it’s you who are insatiably greedy.”

”Utterly heartless! Worse than a beast! You will die a horrible death! The ancestors in the underworld won’t let you off, you old dog!”

”Family Head! Kill this old dog! Tear him into ten thousand pieces!”

Curses and insults were like a boiling oil pan. Countless eyes spitting fire stared fixedly at Lin Chengyuan, wishing they could eat his flesh raw.

Now everyone could see clearly that it was this old dog, Lin Chengyuan, who had colluded with the Black Wind Stockade to wantonly slander and frame the Lin Family.

Lin Lingshan was so angry that his whole body trembled violently, his eyes nearly bursting.

A surge of violent blood Qi rushed through his body like out-of-control lava, almost bursting through the crown of his head.

His eyes were as red as blood, staring fixedly at the old dog who was still chattering and madly accusing. Every word seemed to be ground out from between his teeth, carrying a bone-deep Killing Intent:

”Lin! Cheng! Yuan! You old dog! If I don’t grind your bones to ashes today! If I don’t extract your Soul and refine your spirit! I, Lin Lingshan, am not fit to be the Family Head of the Lin Family! Not fit to be a man!”

His heart surged with towering regret! He hated himself for not seeing people clearly! He hated himself for failing to clean house earlier! He had actually allowed such a tumor to drag the Family into an abyss of eternal damnation!

At the core of this storm, Lin Jingyu, who was frantically identified by Lin Chengyuan as the ” The culprit,” still stood calmly at the front of the crowd.

There wasn’t even much anger on his face, only an almost indifferent coldness.

Watching Lin Chengyuan jumping up and down in a frantic performance, watching him and Gong Yunyu echoing each other, a trace of extremely faint and cold mockery flickered deep in Lin Jingyu’s eyes.

This old dog, Lin Chengyuan, was several times more hateful than the Grand Elder.

Even eating his flesh and drinking his blood would not suffice to quench the hatred in his heart.

Lin Jingyu sneered in his heart, but his face did not move an inch, like the calmest reef in the eye of a storm.

”Did you all hear that? Everyone shut the Hell up!”

Gong Yunyu suddenly let out a violent roar, like a thunderclap, instantly drowning out all the curses.

The Killing Intent on his face condensed like substance, almost dripping blood. The tip of his Silver Spear rose slightly, pointing at Lin Lingshan and Lin Jingyu:

”The evidence is as solid as a mountain; your Third Elder has personally testified. With both human testimony and physical evidence present, the entire Lin Family killed my brothers and yet dares to deny it in every possible way. Do you really think my Black Wind Stockade is a paper tiger?”

He suddenly shook the Silver Spear in his hand, the shaft humming, and a cold Killing Intent swept through the field:

”Today, I will use the dog heads of all the old and young in your Lin Family, use all your blood, to sacrifice to the spirits of my stockade’s brothers in heaven. I will use your lives to restore the inviolable and illustrious reputation of my Black Wind Stockade.”

His sinister gaze was like a bone-scraping steel knife, slowly scanning every terrified and desperate face, finally landing on the group of wolf-and-tiger-like subordinates he had brought. His voice was like ice from the Nine Netherworlds, freezing everyone’s Souls:

”Pass my command! Blockade all directions! Surround them tightly! The entire Lin Family!”

He paused, and word by word, he delivered a bloody sentence:

”Leave! No! Chicken! Or! Dog! Alive!”

”If even one person who breathes escapes...” A cruel smile spread across the corners of his mouth as his gaze swept over his men, ”You all can bring your own heads to see me!”

”Roar—! We obey the Fourth Leader’s command!”

The group of Bandit Cultivators behind him erupted in a bloodthirsty roar, like hungry wolves seeing fresh lambs, their faces filled with undisguised excitement and cruelty.

The sound of swords unsheathing and the flickering light of Magical Artifacts joined together. The aura of death was like a thick black cloud, completely enveloping the entire Lin Family Village.

Liu Chengcai watched this scene where the sky-high Killing Intent was like Hell descending. His face was as pale as gold leaf, his lips trembling, and blood seeped from the cracks.

Cold sweat had already soaked his back.

The Lin Family was surely doomed, but what about their Liu Family?

The strength he had brought was simply not worth mentioning in front of this group of fierce bandits from the Black Wind Stockade.

Could it be that he, the dignified and promising Young Clan Leader of the Liu Family, was about to perish?

A strong desire for survival welled up in his heart, and his mind began to race.

He suddenly shuddered and grabbed onto the sentence Lin Lingshan had previously announced in public about the alliance being void, as if grabbing onto a final life-saving straw.

He almost crawled and scrambled to the front of Gong Yunyu’s horse, bowing so deeply his waist nearly snapped, his voice sharp and out of tune due to extreme fear:

”Four... Fourth Leader, Fourth Leader, please calm your anger, calm your anger! It’s a misunderstanding, it’s all a huge misunderstanding! Please... please listen to me!”

”The Lin Family... the Lin Family just announced it in public. Their Family Head, Lin Lingshan, said it personally. The previous alliance is void.”

”Our Liu Family now has no relation to their Lin Family, not a single bit of relation. It’s true, absolutely true!”