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Chapter 352 Heavenly Punishment!

Lin Yu said it was just a matter of convenience, and it really was.

Without even pausing, the moment his words fell, he flicked his sleeve and vanished into the silver light, taking with him the clone he had just possessed.

The next instant, Beixiang City, about forty miles away from here.

The once clear sky suddenly changed color, with rolling dark clouds gathering from all directions, covering the entire city like a pitch-black canopy, exuding a terrifying aura.

"Boom!"

The deafening sound of thunder echoed continuously in the sky.

The blue-white lightning bolts moved like dragons through the clouds.

The terrifying scene, resembling the end of the world, instantly alarmed the entire Beixiang City.

Countless people opened their windows or pushed open their doors, looking up in terror at the dark sky that blotted out the sun, thick as lead, and seemed as if it could collapse at any moment.

The air in the entire Beixiang City seemed to become incredibly heavy, as if an invisible mountain had suddenly descended, making it almost impossible for the more than 100,000 ordinary people in the city to breathe.

In the very center of the northern part of the city, there is a sprawling mansion.

The middle-aged man in fine clothes, who was leisurely sipping tea and enjoying the song and dance in his study, suddenly froze, a strange and inexplicable feeling of unease rising in his heart.

It was as if a cold, giant hand had entered his chest cavity and gripped his heart tightly!

"Clap!"

He trembled violently, and unsurprisingly, the expensive porcelain cup in his hand fell to the ground and shattered.

The scalding tea splashed all over her, and the dancing girl in the room instantly changed color, hurriedly kneeling down to beg for mercy.

But the middle-aged man ignored both the tea and the singing girls, showing no concern whatsoever.

He abruptly stood up, turned his head sharply, and, following that inexplicable feeling of unease, looked out the window in utter horror at the terrifying sight of rolling thunderclouds that seemed to threaten to topple the sky.

The same was true for the other people in the mansion.

From the ladies and gentlemen to the servants and maids, everyone flocked to the courtyard, gazing up at the apocalyptic thunderclouds overhead, their minds completely consumed by immense unease and fear.

"What...what's going on?"

"It was sunny just a moment ago, how could it suddenly..."

"...Could it be that some immortal master has passed through Beixiang City?"

Having heard of the existence of cultivators, the steward couldn't help but speculate.

Just then, the toddler in the wet nurse's arms suddenly opened his eyes wide with excitement, stretched out his chubby little hand, and pointed to the depths of the clouds where the thunder was most violent.

"Auntie! Auntie!"

"Look, there's someone over there!"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the courtyard, including the concubine, was greatly alarmed and hurriedly looked in the direction the child was pointing.

Sure enough, amidst the churning, thunderous clouds, a blurry white figure could be seen!

He was silently suspended in the dark clouds, his body wrapped in blue and white lightning. A violent gale swept past him, but it could not stir his clothes in the slightest...

Is there really someone there?!
The crowd was filled with shock and fear, and they hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to the immortal in the clouds.

Throughout the entire mansion, only the middle-aged man in the study stood tall and did not immediately kneel before the man in the clouds.

It wasn't that he was arrogant and unwilling to kneel, but rather that the moment he looked up, the white-clad figure in the clouds also slowly lowered his eyes, meeting his gaze with indifferent and cold eyes.

The next second, a calm and even voice exploded in his heart like a thunderclap from the heavens.

Upon hearing this, he froze, his face instantly turning deathly pale, his whole body trembling violently, and a wave of fear and despair rising from the depths of his soul surged within him.

"The Marquis of Beixiang in Xiguo was a spoiled young man who loved extravagance, fine clothes, and luxurious houses. He was also lustful and had a particular fondness for married women. Because the second wife of the Zuo family in the east of the city, Lady Zhao, was beautiful, he wanted to forcibly take her as a concubine."

"When Zhao refused, she was forced by the Marquis's tyranny to take her young son back to her hometown to avoid disaster. Unexpectedly, there was a thief in the mansion who secretly communicated with the Marquis's family and leaked the news. This led to the Marquis's guards intercepting and killing her on the way, intending to kidnap her back to the Marquis's mansion for your pleasure."

"Zhao was chaste and loyal, and died for her principles. Your wicked scheme failed, so you took your anger out on the Zuo family and secretly sent people to slaughter their entire family. You then hung their corpses on an old tree in a desolate mountain to expose them to the public as a warning to others!"

"Such heinous crimes are beyond description, and they arouse the wrath of both gods and men—"

"Punishment!"

As the last word exploded in Beixianghou's heart, lightning flashed in the eyes of the white-clad man among the clouds.

Strands of blue-white lightning, as thick as houses, crashed down like sharp swords, tearing through the clouds in an instant and striking the magnificent and ornate mansion with earth-shattering force.

"boom!"

With a single blow, the study, filled with numerous antiques and calligraphy, was shattered to pieces.

Blue and white lightning crackled and spread, seemingly possessing sentience, avoiding the numerous courtesans, and precisely striking the middle-aged man, obliterating him completely. A deafening roar echoed in their ears, and dazzling flashes of lightning were right before their eyes.

Everyone in the mansion was pale and ashen-faced, filled with terror, yet dared not resist. They could only press their heads tightly to the ground, trembling as they prayed that they would not be affected by the lightning.

Unfortunately, for some people, such prayers clearly have no effect whatsoever.

Because after the lightning struck, arcs of electricity splashed out like water droplets, and following the causal connection, they found all the accomplices involved in the matter.

"boom!"

"what!!"

For a time, thunder and screams filled the air.

The stench of urine mingled with the aroma of burnt flesh and blood throughout the courtyard.

Within half a minute, about half of the entire household had perished under the lightning.

Only a few singers, servants, wet nurses, women, and children escaped the disaster, trembling and crawling on the damp ground in the courtyard.

Amidst the thunderclouds, the white-robed youth glanced at the remaining mortals in the mansion, then turned to look at the young boy beside him.

"Now the cause and effect are settled, right?"

"..."

The boy sensed it carefully, then frowned and said, "The old debts are settled, but the new ones..."

He paused, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, don't worry about it. I have transferred all the karma to you, so no matter what the future holds, it will not affect this body."

"That's good!"

The young man in white nodded slightly, not even glancing at the Beixiang Marquis's residence below. With a flick of his sleeve, a burst of silver light appeared, engulfing the two figures in the clouds.

After the two disappeared, the churning thunderclouds in the sky also vanished silently, as if they had completed their mission.

The heavy, leaden-gray sky gradually faded, and the long-lost sunlight shone down again, illuminating the still-shaken Beixiang town, giving people a sense of being in another world.

The people of Beixiang City stood up tremblingly, looking at each other with a mixture of shock from the thunderbolt and relief and joy at surviving the ordeal.

After a moment of deathly silence, countless gazes fell upon the Marquis of Beixiang's residence, which had been struck by lightning.

Upon seeing the ruins left by the ravages of lightning, everyone couldn't help but reveal expressions of ecstatic joy.

This shows just how unpopular this tyrannical and lustful Marquis of Beixiang was.

The people in the city hated him so much they wanted to tear him apart and sleep on his skin!
Now that the Marquis of Beixiang has suffered divine punishment, all his followers have been implicated. It can be said that Heaven has eyes and this is a great relief to the people!
When the news spread, the imperial court was greatly alarmed and hurriedly dispatched an imperial envoy to investigate.

Upon learning of the tyrannical actions of the Marquis of Beixiang in recent years, the Emperor of Xi Kingdom was furious. He immediately stripped the Marquis of Beixiang of his title and demoted him to a commoner. At the same time, he ordered the local government to exonerate the Zuo family and give a grand funeral to all the deceased members of the Zuo family.

Moreover, the local government erected a monument to the virtuous and chaste at the original site of the Zuo family's residence, inscribing Zhao's deeds and the story of how her injustice attracted heavenly lightning, so that future generations could pay their respects and learn from her example.

Of course, the reason why the Xi Kingdom's court reacted so quickly was because they realized that there were cultivators behind this matter.

In order not to offend that cultivator who could easily summon heavenly lightning, they acted quickly and tried their best to show goodwill to him.

Beneath this surface of justice lies an undercurrent of unrest following a reshuffling of power in Beixiang City.

The local powerful families, who were originally suppressed by the Marquis of Beixiang's mansion, and even some Jianghu gangs, began to stir, triggering a new round of struggle for wealth and power...

However, these matters were no longer relevant to Lin Yu, who had already left.

There are actually only two subsequent events that can be considered truly related to him—

Firstly, the people of Beixiang City saw him send down heavenly lightning to rid them of harm, so they spontaneously wrote a poem in his honor, respectfully calling him the Lord of the Clouds. From then on, they worshipped him day and night, and the incense never stopped burning.

Secondly, the noise of the heavenly thunder attracted a Core Formation stage elder from the nearby Hundred Crafts Academy.

After carefully examining the traces at the scene, he concluded that this was definitely a pseudo-Core Formation cultivator or even a Nascent Soul cultivator. Greatly alarmed, he hurriedly returned to Yunmeng Mountain and reported the matter to Baiqiao Academy.

Lin Yu is unaware of these two matters for the time being.

After leaving Beixiang City, he returned to the mountain path and, using the souls of Beixiang Marquis and others as a sacrifice, buried the entire Zuo family who had been hanging on the tree.

Once these steps are completed, this karmic debt will be completely settled.

However, aside from cause and effect, this little guy still has two obsessions that haven't been resolved.

The obsession with 'growing up as quickly as possible' is very simple. Lin Yu only needs to think about it to modify his physical body and transform it into his adult form.

However, another obsession caused Lin Yu considerable distress.

"To join the Ancient Sword Sect..."

Lin Yu frowned in thought, then sighed and said, "Anyway, let's go take a look first!"

(End of this chapter)