Chapter 2657 Infinite Divine Scroll

After a long while, Lin Xun stretched lazily. A thought occurred to him. With a flick of his sleeve, the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron appeared, glowing with divine radiance. From within, a figure slowly emerged. It was Luo Ling.

Ever since that day in the Great Thousand Battle Domain, she had been sealed inside the cauldron. Only now, after all these years, was she finally able to see the light of day once more. She stood in stunned silence, dazed and unmoving.

Sometimes, what made a beauty truly beautiful was that even in hardship and disgrace, her radiance never dulled. Luo Ling was undoubtedly such a beauty. She was slender and graceful, with striking features and a temperament as proud and pure as a lotus untouched by the world. She was stunning in every sense.

Even now, though her complexion was pale and her brow heavy with fatigue, her natural charm was impossible to ignore. She stood frozen for a moment. Then, suddenly her eyes widened in shock. “This...this is Jianjia Peak! This is the Luo Clan!”

“That’s right,” Lin Xun said calmly, sitting up from beneath the ancient willow. “This is the Luo Clan, but it’s no longer the one you remember.”

Luo Ling’s expression shifted slightly. “What do you mean?”

A distant look flashed in Lin Xun’s eyes. “Before I suppressed you, you asked me the same question. If you’ve forgotten, it’s fine. I’ll remind you.”

As he spoke, a jade slip appeared in his hand. Radiant light spilled from it, projecting a stream of vivid scenes.

“You only have your mother to blame. She grew bitter fruits, and your misfortune is one of them.”

In the memory, Luo Ling sneered coldly. Her eyes brimmed with disdain and icy indifference. A haughty pride seemed to radiate from her very bones.

Lin Xun extended his hand in the image, lifted her chin, looked into her eyes, and said seriously, “On the day I destroy the Luo Clan, I will also tell you that I, Lin Xun, is not who you should blame, but your Luo Clan is. That they grew this bitter fruit, and the misfortune that befalls you is called a well-deserved punishment.”

In the vision, Luo Ling's sneer remained the same, “Destroying the Luo Clan? With just you? You probably don't even understand what it means to be an Immortal Imperial Clan. No matter how much we have fallen, we’re simply not something that you, a bumpkin from the Ancient Nebula Road, can shake!”

The scene ended.[1]

Watching silently, Luo Ling’s face shifted with flickering expressions as understanding slowly dawned.

Lin Xun looked at her and repeated the words he had once said, “I told you that when the Luo Clan is destroyed, I’d show you this moment again, so you wouldn’t forget it.

“Now that you’ve seen it...how does it feel?” Lin Xun stared at her.

Luo Ling clearly couldn’t accept what she’d seen. “But Jianjia Peak is still here...and Dragon Ridge Mountain Range too. That means the Luo Clan...couldn’t possibly have been destroyed by you!”

Lin Xun chuckled, “You’re right. The Luo Clan hasn’t been destroyed. And the branch lineage you belong to hasn’t been wiped out either. But...Luo Chong, Pei Ru, He Boyang, Yu Huai, and the others are dead. Oh and your brother Luo Feng and your elders Luo Yunshan, Luo Yunhe...they’re all dead too.”

With every name Lin Xun uttered, Luo Ling trembled, her face twisting with disbelief and fury.

“Impossible...absolutely impossible! Someone like you...how could you possibly...”

Lin Xun cut her off, “You don’t need to believe me. Go see for yourself. This is the Luo Clan you’re most familiar with. I trust your own eyes won’t deceive you.”

Luo Ling took a deep breath, then turned and left in silence.

Lin Xun didn’t stop her.

𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Back then, Lin Xun had spared her not out of mercy, but because he wanted her to witness with her own eyes that even the power she had once relied on could be brought to ruin.

“You’d best not do anything reckless,” Lin Xin warned coldly. “Otherwise, even if I don’t lift a finger, the enraged members of the main lineage won’t miss the chance to take revenge.”

Far in the distance, Luo Ling tensed. Without a word, she turned and fled.

Half an hour later, Luo Ling, covered in blood and barely breathing, was carried back to Jianjia Peak by an elder of the main lineage.

Lin Xun later learned that after discovering the truth, Luo Ling had suffered a mental collapse. Refusing to accept reality, she had gone to Feiting Mountain in a frenzy, demanding to see the imprisoned branch lineage powerhouses.

Unexpectedly, the main lineage cultivators, who had endured years of suppression at the hands of the branch lineage, vented their fury upon her. They beat her so savagely that she was nearly killed on the spot.

“At the end, she said it was you who brought her back to the Luo Clan, so I came to confirm. If not, I would have taken her to Feiting Mountain immediately,” the elder explained. “Considering that she has never directly harmed any of the main clan members, we will not take her life. She will only be imprisoned on Feiting Mountain to reflect on her actions and await judgment under the clan’s criminal law.”

Lin Xun nodded to show he understood and chose to keep Luo Ling. Seeing this, the elder said no more and turned to leave. Looking at the disheveled Luo Ling, slumped on the ground like a soulless shell, he let out a sigh. “Now, do you finally believe it?”

Luo Ling trembled violently but remained silent.

Seeing this, Lin Xun felt it was all rather meaningless now and lost the desire to deal another blow. “I won't kill you, but that doesn’t mean you’re forgiven. Everything will be handled according to the Luo Clan’s ancestral laws.”

“Why won’t you kill me? Aren’t you afraid that if I live, I’ll come back for revenge one day?” Suddenly, Luo Ling lifted her head, her bloodshot, swollen eyes locking onto Lin Xun.

“You won’t get the chance,” Lin Xun replied.

It was a calm and casual remark, yet it caused the light in her eyes to gradually fade, turning dull and vacant. In the end, she could no longer hold back and buried her face against the ground, weeping bitterly.

Lin Xun’s gaze remained indifferent, utterly unmoved. Behind every pitiful person often lay hateful traits. Luo Ling’s downfall was entirely of her own doing!

In the end, Luo Ling left Jianjia Peak like a soul without a body. Alone, she returned to Feiting Mountain and quietly accepted her fate of imprisonment.

......

To Lin Xun, Luo Ling’s matter was just a minor episode, and not worth much emotion or thought. He had far more important matters to attend to. Lin Xun turned his hand over and a scroll appeared.

It looked like jade yet wasn’t jade, like iron yet not iron. It felt warm and smooth to the touch. Ancient immortal inscriptions from the previous epoch were engraved upon its surface: The Infinite Divine Scroll! This was the supreme inheritance treasure of Lu Boya’s sect.

Lin Xun had obtained it after killing Luo Chong, retrieving it from the shattered remains of his primordial spirit.

“I wonder what kind of mysterious inheritance is recorded in this scroll...”

Lin Xun raised his hand to unfurl it, but to his surprise, the scroll was sealed by an immensely powerful restriction force that was impossible to break by brute strength.

“It seems Luo Chong never managed to unlock the inheritance within...” Lin Xun murmured thoughtfully. The fact that an immortal figure like Luo Chong had failed to undo the scroll’s seal meant that this treasure was far from ordinary.

Lin Xun’s expression grew solemn as he sent his spirit sense probing into the scroll. Time passed. Eventually, in a moment of deep concentration, a series of intricate restriction arrays manifested before his eyes.

Within each array, god-like phantoms emerged. Each one radiated boundless, terrifying might like sovereigns of the heavens. The sight was utterly beyond comprehension. The moment Lin Xun sensed the nine restriction arrays, he was overwhelmed by awe and astonishment.

Marvellous!

Each array seemed to be expounding the most primal secrets of innate restriction formations, brimming with infinite variations, each distinct and unique from the other. It was completely beyond Lin Xun’s imagination.

Only after quietly meditating for a long time and thoroughly deducing the myriad mysteries of the nine restriction arrays did a strange glint flashed in his eyes. He had seen these nine restriction arrays before!

Back then in the Miluo Grotto Heaven, he had once broken through nine layers of restriction forces to enter the sacred cultivation side of Mister Lu.

Those layers had been named in sequences: First Sequence Array, Second Sequence Array, Third Sequence Array...all the way to the Ninth Sequence Array! Now, the nine restriction arrays in front of him seemed to share the same origin.

However, the difference was clear. The nine sequence arrays Mister Lu had arranged were far simpler than the nine restriction arrays before him. There was no overwhelming divine aura, nor any god-like phantoms born from the restrictions.

“That‘s right. The Infinite Divine Scroll was part of Mister Lu’s sect legacy. Naturally, the formation he used originated from this scroll...” While deep in thought, Lin Xun had begun attempting to unravel the first restriction array on the scroll.

......

Time flew by. A day later, a sound snapped Lin Xun from his concentration. Looking up, he saw a tall and imposing figure walking out from the hall in the distance. Dressed in black robes, with flowing long hair and a striking, dignified face.

It was Luo Qingheng!

Lin Xun stood up. “Uncle, you’re awake?”

The tall figure paused, then a flicker of joy lit his face. “Xun’er...is that you?!”

Lin Xun nodded with a smile.

Luo Qingheng burst into hearty laughter, “No wonder...no wonder! I was wondering why Pei Ru would suddenly show mercy and release me. So it was you! Little guy, you came!”

His voice trembled with emotions, joy, gratitude, and a sense of relief.

Lin Xun stepped forward and recounted everything that happened in the Luo Clan the previous night. When he heard that Pei Ru, He Boyang, and Yu Huai had all been killed, Luo Qingheng couldn’t help but exclaim ‘Good’ three times. He was clearly excited.

When he learned of Luo Chong’s betrayal, Luo Qingheng’s face darkened, his eyes burning with rage and hatred. “Killing him like that was too merciful!”

Furthermore, when Lin Xun explained how all the key figures of the Luo Clan’s branch lineage had been captured and imprisoned at Feiting Mountain, Luo Qingheng was visibly astonished.

He fixed Lin Xun with a sharp gaze and asked, “You don’t hate them? Why didn’t you kill them all?”

Lin Xun answered, “I hate them. I wanted to kill them. But back when they seized control of the Luo Clan, they didn’t wipe out the rest of the main bloodline. They were wrong in countless ways, but because of that, I won’t go to extremes.”

Luo Qingheng was silent for a moment, then suddenly reached out and clapped Lin Xun firmly on the shoulder. “That’s how a true man conducts himself!”

1. See chapter 2515 if you want to go back ☜