Chapter 76: Lin Tian, you’re truly audacious!
Xia He covered her slapped face with her hand, lowering her head slightly, her hair obscuring her expression.
No one present had expected Lin Mo to slap Xia He so decisively and swiftly.
Who was Xia He?
She was the treasure of the Xia family, notoriously fiery.
It wasn’t just the Lin family that was surprised; even the Xia family members looked bewildered.
At this moment, everyone present held their breath, not daring to make a sound.
They were all waiting for Xia He’s outburst.
In his heart, Lin Tian gave Lin Mo a thumbs-up. This uncle was truly formidable. He was grateful for the kick he received from his spear-wielding uncle a few days ago; it had truly saved him!
Lin Qingqing was also startled. She covered her mouth, her eyes wide as she watched the scene unfold.
Xia Qianqiu, however, admired Lin Mo in his heart. Despite his status, he disliked his own sister. He could only reprimand her, yet he never expected Lin Mo to deliver a slap right away.
That slap had struck a chord with him. It felt incredibly satisfying.
However, as the leader of the Xia family, he had to put on a show at this moment.
“Fellow Daoist, are you showing too much disrespect to my Xia family by treating my sister this way?”
As he spoke, Xia Qianqiu gathered spiritual energy in his palm. Just as he was about to make a move, Xia He raised her head.
It was clear that both of Xia He’s cheeks were red, and she was breathing heavily.
However, there was not a trace of anger in her expression. Instead, she looked a little excited?
At this, everyone looked as if they had seen a ghost.
Was this still the ‘Xia He’ they knew?
Why was she happy after being slapped?
“Senior Brother…” she uttered the words, almost gasping.
This public humiliation had brought her an unprecedented sense of excitement. She should have been enraged at this moment, but this feeling was strangely captivating.
Xia He herself didn’t know why.
Lin Tian, on his part, wondered if this ‘Xia He’ had some strange fetish.
As he pondered, he got up and slowly walked towards Xia He, tentatively giving her cheek a gentle tap.
“Do you want to die?” Xia He’s expression instantly turned cold. She drew the sword at her hip and stabbed at Lin Tian’s thigh.
“Ouch!” Lin Tian cried out in pain, stumbling backward. He quickly stopped the bleeding and looked at Lin Mo in disbelief, “Uncle Lin Mo, why…”
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Mo kicked him, knocking him unconscious.
At this point, Xia He also realized that only when Lin Mo hit her did her heart race and she feel a rush of excitement. This was probably ‘love’!
“You didn’t listen to a single word of what I taught you during your trials,” Lin Mo said calmly.
“Yes, Senior Brother, I was wrong.” Xia He lowered her head like a student who had made a mistake.
“Why did you plead for the Lin family?” Lin Mo questioned.
The younger generation of the Lin family looked bewildered. What was this uncle talking about?
“Because I thought they were your family…” Xia He answered truthfully.
Lin Mo hadn’t expected that this was Xia He’s reason…
He feigned an awkward cough and continued his lecture, “I told you before, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself. Even if you didn’t kill them all, you should have followed your brother’s instructions and broken their legs.”
“You must eliminate everything harmful to yourself as much as possible.”
Lin Mo’s words were like a thunderclap.
They stunned both the Lin and Xia families again.
A Xia family cultivator, who had been surrounding the Lin family’s juniors, asked, “Does he have a grudge against your Lin family?”
That Lin family junior shook his head, “I don’t know, but judging by this, it seems so…”
The Lin family juniors never imagined that Lin Mo could be so cruel.
Neither did the Xia family.
Xia Qianqiu burst into laughter, “Fellow Daoist, you are truly interesting. Perhaps we could be friends?”
He genuinely appreciated Lin Mo’s personality.
If Lin Mo could handle his sister well, he would be willing to play matchmaker and propose a marriage alliance between the Lin and Xia families.
“If you don’t mind what I’m about to do, then perhaps we can be friends,” Lin Mo replied with a smile.
“What is it?” Xia Qianqiu asked curiously.
“What you just said. Breaking the legs of your people to gain more benefits for my Lin family.”
As Lin Mo’s words fell, everyone present gasped again.
They were increasingly unable to understand this person.
They couldn’t fathom his every word or action.
Some of the Lin family juniors called out, “Uncle Lin Mo, don’t scare us like this. With your constant shifts, our souls are about to leave our bodies.”
Most of the other Lin family juniors felt the same.
“I am, after all, from the Lin family. Naturally, my actions are for the benefit of the Lin family,” Lin Mo continued to explain. “What I said to my junior sister just now was simply to educate her from her perspective.”
The Lin family juniors fell silent, unsure if Lin Mo could actually defeat Xia Qianqiu.
If not, they had endured multiple layers of psychological torment.
Thanks to Lin Mo’s arrival, the atmosphere was no longer as tense as it had been initially.
The two sides began to chat.
Xia Qianqiu no longer had his foot on Lin Zijian’s face. Instead, he asked, “Is your uncle always this arrogant?”
Lin Zijian slowly got up and nodded, “I didn’t know before, but after interacting with him recently, he truly is.”
Xia Qianqiu waved his hand, “Go back to the Lin family side.”
For him, teaching Lin Mo a lesson was more interesting than humiliating Lin Zijian.
Lin Zijian said nothing. Lin Mo’s appearance had completely dispelled the humiliation he had just experienced. He slowly walked back to his own group.
The Lin family juniors no longer had any intention of mocking. Admitting someone else’s strength was not difficult.
Clearly, Xia Qianqiu, who could defeat Lin Zijian so easily, was undeniably powerful.
“Everyone else step aside. Let me see what capital you have for such arrogance.”
Xia Qianqiu had no intention of continuing the idle chat.
He sent a ‘Blazing Palm’ towards Lin Mo.
Lin Mo, holding the Liuli Sword, casually swung it. The fiery palm formed by spiritual energy was easily sliced in half by the sword energy.
At this moment, a trace of solemnity appeared in Xia Qianqiu’s eyes. His gaze towards Lin Mo became serious.
Lin Qingqing then asked Lin Zijian, “Brother Zijian, is Xia Qianqiu’s Blazing Palm really that easy to block?”
Lin Zijian’s eyes were also fixed on Lin Mo, “It’s not easy at all. Each palm I blocked took a lot of effort.”
He couldn’t quite judge at this point whether Lin Mo’s effortless demeanor was an act…
The scene that followed completely negated his idea.
Xia Qianqiu continuously unleashed Blazing Palms, each one more ferocious than the last.
Lin Mo responded with the Three Thousand Sword Art. Each sword qi effortlessly dissolved the immense fiery palms.
Xia Qianqiu, who had the initiative, was beginning to struggle to defend against Lin Mo’s offense.
Everyone watched with their hearts in their mouths.
Lin Zijian also began to realize the gap between himself and Lin Mo. He had only managed to block Xia Qianqiu’s first three palms, dodging the subsequent ones with his movement techniques. He never expected Lin Mo to block them all and even gain the upper hand.
Of course, Xia He was not surprised by this outcome.
After all, her senior brother had fought against three Golden Core cultivators when he hadn’t even reached Nascent Soul yet.
Especially Poison Eyebrow Old Man, who was practically half a step into Nascent Soul.
“How is this possible?” Xia Qianqiu’s rhythm was completely broken. Small and large sword wounds appeared all over his body.
Lin Mo’s swift sword attacks made him feel as if he were facing Empress Zhu Shiyao, that ‘demoness.’
Recalling Empress Zhu Shiyao’s words about losing to Lin Mo, he began to doubt if their match had even been about swordsmanship.
“Fellow Daoist, your sword is indeed powerful. I wonder if you can withstand my final move.”
Xia Qianqiu had no choice but to reveal his trump card. Blazing Palm was a lower-grade Earth-tier Cultivation Technique, but its essence was derived from a fragmented excerpt of a Heaven-tier Cultivation Technique.
However, based on that fragmented excerpt, Xia Qianqiu had cultivated the Heaven-tier technique to the third level.
But executing it came at a price.
In a short while, Xia Qianqiu’s skin turned red. The color of the condensed flames in his hand began to change.
From pale yellow to white, and finally nearing cyan blue.
Even from a hundred meters away, everyone present could feel the intense heat radiating from Xia Qianqiu.
“Take this.”
Wherever the fiery palm passed, the ground turned scorched black. Even the small pool of water splashed by the waterfall evaporated into mist as the palm swept over it.
Lin Mo dared not be careless. He unleashed the intermediate-grade Earth-tier ‘Seven Kill Sword Art.’
Seven terrifying sword qis overlapped. The moment they collided with the fiery palm…
The outer sword qis began to dissipate one by one.
By the fifth layer, the fiery palm instantly vanished into nothingness.
Xia Qianqiu was unable to move. His right hand, which had executed the flames, was already charred black. His spiritual energy had also been completely depleted after that last palm.
The remaining sword qis from the Seven Kill Sword Art shot towards him.
He was unable to think. The fear of death spread throughout his body.
Just as the sword qi was about to pierce Xia Qianqiu’s body, Lin Mo swung his sword again, deflecting the trajectory of his own sword qi.
Xia Qianqiu, who had narrowly escaped death, fell to the ground. He couldn’t comprehend, “Why didn’t you kill me?”
Lin Mo never showed mercy to women. He smiled, “You should be glad that you didn’t harbor killing intent towards my Lin family at that time.”
“As you suggested, I should do what I need to do.”
As soon as he finished speaking, sword qi, swift as lightning, swept through the Xia family team.
Before they could even register the pain, all the Xia family cultivators present, except for ‘Xia He,’ felt a sharp pain in their legs and simultaneously collapsed to the ground.
The reason Xia He was unharmed was, of course, because she had spoken up for the Lin family at that time.
Lin Mo’s character was always to reward and punish clearly, to repay kindness and to retaliate against malice.
A few seconds later, sounds of pained moans echoed from the Xia family team.
The Lin family juniors were utterly dumbfounded. They had never expected Lin Mo to be so powerful. Thinking back to their previous skepticism and distance from this young uncle, they now deeply regretted it.
Lin Zijian, at this moment, was filled with profound admiration.
He had previously thought Lin Mo to be arrogant and had even cursed him, hoping he would meet misfortune. Now, he realized he was the clown.
During this time, Lin Mo continued to accumulate various amounts of Regret.
Lin Tian slowly woke up and stared at the scene before him, dumbfounded.
Seeing everyone’s gaze towards Lin Mo, he guessed the general situation and instantly lunged towards Lin Mo’s feet, crying out, “Uncle, you are my real uncle! From now on, if there’s anything you need me to do, I will spare no effort, of course, except for going through fire and water…”
Lin Mo: “…”
