Chapter 2903 Re-Visiting Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land

The world was silent. The scent of blood permeated the air. Paralyzed on the ground, the leaders of the Donghuang’s Four Clans looked ashen as if their families had just dropped dead.

They had come prepared and attacked Xuanji Grotto Heaven by surprise. Starting out with an absolute advantage, they had thought the outcome was certain and that the Dugu Clan had no chance to turn the tables.

To think that at the final, crucial moment, Lin Xun had appeared and ruined everything!

Over a thousand experts, all of whom were the backbones of their four Immortal Imperial Clans, had been annihilated in a matter of moments in this place. This kind of loss was too heavy. More than just weakening their forces, it shook their very foundations and made them face the threat of destruction!

Without big figures like them watching over and steering the direction, their clans were destined to become helpless prey in the eyes of other lineages. Anyone with a brain knew this. When Dugu Xiao arrived with a group of Dugu Clan’s experts and saw such a scene, they were rattled and at the same time indescribably pleased.

“I leave these four at your disposal,” Lin Xun casually said.

“You’ve done us a huge favor, Little Friend. Thank you for saving my clan!” An emotional Dugu Xiao bowed.

“Many thanks, Little Friend!” The other big shots also bowed toward Lin Xun.

Dugu Youran couldn’t help but remind them, “Father, Uncles, Lin Xun is a deputy pavilion master of Origin Sky Pavilion, so he’s Granduncle’s equal now.”

Dugu Xiao’s group was shaken. Their eyes went wide.

Deputy pavilion master!!

They had never dreamt that in just a few decades, Lin Xun had already been promoted to deputy pavilion master, a position so high that it was scary. Not to mention in the Seventh Heaven Domain, even in the Immortal Giants in the Eighth Heaven Domain would have to be courteous before such a character!

“I see. Deputy Pavilion Master Lin, please forgive us for our crudeness.” Dugu Xiao hastily changed the way he addressed Lin Xun.

He knew all too well how monstrous the authority of an Origin Sect’s deputy pavilion master was, being able to give orders to their Transcendence elders. Furthermore, Lin Xun was able to become a deputy pavilion master at such a young age. The significance this represented was even more mind-blowing!

Lin Xun said, “Youran and I are friends, so please don't stand on ceremony with me. On another note, even though the enemies in Xuanji Grotto Heaven have been erased, there are still quite a number of experts of the four clans in Ziwei Starfield. Since they are minor characters, I won’t keep sticking my nose in.”

“Leave them to us!” said Dugu Xiao without thinking. “Elders, take manpower with you and tie up the loose ends. I’ll stay and personally entertain Deputy Pavilion Master Lin.”

“Understood!” The elders around took the order and left. Having bellies full of anger with nowhere to vent, they could absolutely use this opportunity.

Lin Xun suddenly had an idea and looked at Dugu Xiao. “Senior, how far are the headquarters of the four clans under Donghuang from here?”

Dugu Xiao replied, “The Yun Clan is the closest. Their base, Yaoguang Grotto Heaven, is right in Ziwei Starfield. The other three are located in Qingguang Starfield.”

Lin Xun briefly estimated the journey and immediately got a rough picture. He asked, “Do you happen to have a map of the territories around these four clans?”

“I can sketch one for you right away,” Dugu Xiao said and retrieved a blank jade slip. He engraved the locations of the Donghuang’s Four Clans into the slip before handing it to Lin Xun with both hands.

Although Lin Xun didn’t care about seniority and status, Dugu Xiao’s words and actions toward him all demonstrated great respect. Lin Xun was a bit uncomfortable, but he didn’t try to change anything.

As a matter of fact, he could not change anything about it. In the cultivation world, the higher the level, the greater the status and seniority. This was something imprinted in the bones of all cultivators since time immemorial.

Accepting the slip, Lin Xun took a look and summoned the four dao bodies of Red Flame, Green Wood, White Metal, and Yellow Earth. He communicated to them the locations of the four clans under Donghuang with a quick thought in his mind. Immediately after that, the four dao bodies flew off.

“Deputy Pavilion Master Lin, are you...” Dugu Xiao suddenly realized something and was moved.

“It won't be a total elimination, since it's bad to kill indiscriminately after all. But there’s no longer a need for the existence of the Donghuang’s Four Clans,” said Lin Xun nonchalantly.

The paralyzed, dispirited Yun Changkong and other three clan heads, when hearing those words, crashed out. They started shouting and yelling, hurling all insults and curses they could think of at Lin Xun. Not waiting for Lin Xun to respond, Dugu Xiao raised his hand and made a palm chop, beheading the four powerful clan leaders. Their blood spilled all over the floor.

Having done this, Dugu Xiao seemed to have finally unleashed all the resentment in his heart. He was much more relaxed as he gestured his arm in a direction. “Deputy Pavilion Master Lin, this way.”

Lin Xun nodded. “Excuse me.”

Then, together with Dugu Youran, they headed to the Dugu Clan’s strategic ground.

......

Half a day later.

The group of Dugu Clan elders who had left to weed out the enemy returned with great news: remaining members of the Donghuang’s Four Clans in Ziwei Starfield had been routed, while the casualties of the Dugu Clan’s members scattered all over the place were not too big.

This completely put Dugu Xiao at ease.

......

One day later.

Lin Xun’s four dao bodies returned one after another. With a thought, he learned everything they had done.

Long story short, the territories of the four clans under Donghuang had all been trampled through, and the ninth grade Heaven Rank laws protecting them had all been taken away by the four dao bodies.

In other words, from today onwards, there would be no more ‘Donghuang’s Four Clans’ in the Seventh Heaven Domain!

On the same day, Lin Xun and Dugu Youran left Ziwei Starfield together. All the members of the Dugu Clan had been placed in the Hunyang Skyliner which Lin Xun carried on him, so that nothing unwanted would happen.

After leaving Ziwei Starfield, they rushed straight towards Tianxuan Starfield where the Yuan Clan was. At the same time, Lin Xun dispatched the Green Wood Dao Body to the Central Core Region.

There were thirty-six blessed lands in the Central Core Region. Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land was one of them, and it was occupied by the Immortal Imperial Zhuang Clan.

Lin Xun naturally wouldn’t forget the treatment he and his senior sister Jun Huan had been subjected to at the Zhuang Clan! He certainly wouldn’t forget how the Zhuang Clan had repaid their master’s kindness with enmity!

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In Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land.

Half a day had passed when Lin Xun’s Green Wood Dao Body arrived here. A hint of reminiscence surfaced in his gaze.

Back then, he and Jun Huan had traveled here in order to ask the Zhuang Clan to help get in touch with Zhuang Shiliu, who had been a deputy deacon in the Origin Sect. Who would have thought that not only had the Zhuang Clan refused to help, they had even mocked and ridiculed the duo. At the end of it, they had even tried to use a scheme to detain them.

The reason was that the Zhuang Clan had long since defected to the Mu Clan, an Immortal Giant in the Eighth Heaven Domain. They wanted to capture them to curry favor with their boss.

That act wouldn't have been so unacceptable if the Master of Fangchun Mountain hadn't done the founding ancestor of the Zhuang Clan a massive favor. Once upon a time, he had helped them defuse a peril and even captured Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land for them. This was why the Zhuang Clan today existed!

𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Despite that, the Zhuang Clan submitted to the Immortal Giant Mu Clan and regarded the disciples of Fangchun Mountain as enemies. Lin Xun could never tolerate such treachery. When he had left Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land back then, he had vowed to sooner or later retract Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land in place of his master!

“Who goes there?” shouted the two guards stationed outside Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land.

Lin Xun snapped out of his thoughts and glanced at them.

Plop! Plop!

The two guards fainted, noiselessly falling to the ground. With Lin Xun’s current status, he didn’t care to kill two small characters. He walked straight into Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land.

As one of the thirty-six blessed lands in the Central Core Region, this realm was picturesque. The primal atmosphere steamed with chaos qi, giving it the reputation of ‘a place where the spiritual essence of heaven and earth gathered, nurturing the primordial source.’

Along the way, Lin Xun saw many figures: servants, errand boys, guards, etc. There were also the Zhuang Clan's members training in the martial arts field. All of them were oblivious to his presence.

He ignored them, as he had never been one to kill indiscriminately. As far as he was concerned, the culprits were the bigwigs who held great authority in the Zhuang Clan.

As for whether or not their descendants would take revenge in the future because he didn’t root them out, Lin Xun didn’t care in the least. When you were strong enough, an enemy’s act of retaliation wouldn't be much different from a moth plunging into a flame. More often than not, even, the enemy’s descendants simply wouldn't have the opportunity to retaliate.

Before long, a verdant, bamboo-planted mountain peak appeared in Lin Xun’s field of vision. This was the core area of the Zhuang Clan.

In an ancient palace hall, Patriarch Zhuang Bibai was brewing tea in leisure. In other halls, the bigwigs of the Zhuang Clan were doing their own things. Some were making pills, some in meditation, some studying scriptures, some sipping on wine...

Just then, they were all startled by a voice that sounded out of the blue: “I, Disciple Lin Xun of Fangchun Mountain, have come to reclaim Emerald Bamboo Blessed Land in my master’s stead!”

The voice reverberated like thunder from the highest heaven, shaking the seniors in various areas of the Zhuang Clan to the point their ears buzzed and their eyes saw stars.

“Lin Xun!”

Zhuang Bibai’s heart trembled and the expression on his face drastically changed.

Back then, Lin Xu had joined the Origin Sect with his first-place battle record and became renowned over it. Many things that had happened with him in the following years had also reached the ears of the Zhuang Clan.

Especially, the news of Zhuang Shiliu dying at his hands had quaked their whole clan. It could be described as a time of panic, to the extent that they had even prepared to evacuate. However, as time had passed without any retaliation from Lin Xun, they had gradually loosened their guard. They even thought that after killing Zhuang Shiliu, he was no longer bothered with them.

Who would have thought that after so long, the thing they were most worried about had come?!

Zhuang Bibai was the first to get up. He shouted in a stern voice, “Elders, heed my order! Quickly go out there and kill the enemy!”

In fact, he didn't need to do so. After hearing Lin Xun’s voice, the high-ranking seniors scattered in the territory had rushed straight out to gather at Zhuang Bibai’s place.

Rustle!

Soon, up and down the verdant mountain peak, countless restrictions were activated while a law power materialized and covered the area like a thick barrier.

Lin Xun watched everything unfold with his hands behind his back, doing nothing to stop it. To the current him, these defensive measures were as good as pointless. He couldn't take them seriously at all!