Starting with the creation of the Immortal Clan through the compilation of the family genealogy.

Chapter 28 Mu Yun Weeps Blood, Her Might Overwhelms the Night Sky

"Break down the door! Arrest them!" Lin Bao grinned maliciously, raising his ghost-headed knife high.

Protect them, protect my children! I must not let anyone hurt them!
This thought instantly ignited the faint yet tenacious spiritual energy within Bai's dantian.

She suddenly raised her head, her eyes no longer filled with fear, but only with a resolute determination to perish together with the enemy!

"Ah—!" Bai let out a piercing scream like a cuckoo crying blood, pushing her hands forward recklessly.

The spiritual power within her body, which had just stabilized at the peak of the first level of Qi Refining and possessed the characteristics of being rich in water and soil and enduring, along with her life essence, poured out wildly like a flood bursting its banks.

The air in front of the room door distorted violently. The ground shook violently.

This time, what gathered was no longer a few faint specks of light, but a visible, stream-like, earthy-yellow spiritual energy.

They were forcibly extracted from the depths of the earth, and under Bai's life-burning will, they were frantically condensed, compressed, and piled up.

A colossal wall, nearly eight feet high, over six feet wide, and two feet thick, rose from the ground like a shield, protecting the entire room behind it.

The heavy pressure emanating from the wall even made the few Azure Scale Guards at the forefront gasp for breath and slow their movements.

Thick earthen walls! Guardians of life!
With his Qi Refining Level 1 body, Bai Shi burned his life essence and pure protective will to forcefully unleash a defense far exceeding the limits of his realm.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Several blades of light from the Azure Scale Guards slashed fiercely at the thick barrier, only producing a few dazzling sparks and a muffled thud.

The barrier trembled violently, and the tortoise shell patterns on its surface shimmered with light. It actually withstood the attacks of several body-refining martial artists, leaving only a few shallow cracks.

"Can't be broken through?!"

"What a hard turtle shell!"

The Azure Scale Guards were both shocked and furious.

"Useless! Let me do it!" Lin Bao roared, his burly body charging forward, his violent blood and qi power at the sixth level of Qi Refining surging into the blade.

Lin Bao casually slashed forward, unleashing a massive, dark red blade of energy that ripped through the air with a sharp whistling sound and a strong stench of blood, which slammed fiercely into the thick barrier.

"boom!"

The barrier trembled violently, and a deep crack instantly spread out from its very center before shattering with a deafening roar.

The immense force of the recoil traveled through the barrier, and Bai Shi in the side room was struck as if by a heavy hammer, his face instantly turning ashen.

He coughed up a mouthful of blood and swayed precariously like a candle in the wind, his breath instantly weakening to the extreme.

The spiritual energy and life essence within her body were almost completely drained by this attack.

"Mother!" "Mother!" Meng Yanqing and Meng Yanwei cried out and rushed to support their mother, their little faces filled with despair.

Tears of guilt streamed down Meng Yanning's face.

Lin Bao grinned maliciously, about to unleash his second strike to cleave through the barrier set up by Meng Xihong in the side room.

At this critical moment!
"enough."

A voice radiating endless coldness suddenly rang out above everyone's heads. The voice wasn't loud, but it seemed to possess some strange magic, instantly drowning out all the shouts, cries, and clashing weapons in the arena.

A tall and imposing figure appeared silently on the ridge of the highest main building of the Meng residence, as if by teleportation.

The cool moonlight shone down, outlining his imposing and dignified figure.

It was none other than Xiao Jingzhan, the magistrate of Wufeng County!

He was not wearing an official robe, but rather a black close-fitting outfit, with a dark purple cloak over it. The cloak fluttered in the night wind, adding to his menacing air.

His face was calm, showing no anger. Only his deep eyes were calmly looking down at the Meng residence, which was like a battlefield. His gaze finally landed on the murderous Lin Bao. Beneath that calmness was a coldness that could freeze one's soul.

"Do you really think Wufeng County has no one to rely on?" Xiao Jingzhan's voice rang out again, not loud, but clearly reaching everyone's ears.

"The Lin family has overstepped their bounds this time. They've touched my people, and now they want to wipe them out?" The last sentence was chilling, like ancient ice cracking open and releasing a terrifying aura that could freeze everything.

"The county magistrate?!" "It's Lord Xiao!"

In the corner of the front yard, the few remaining trusted yamen runners and Zhang Xianghua and Ji Beichuan, who were struggling to get up, saw that figure, and their eyes instantly shone with a light of hope for a desperate escape.

Lin Bao, who was about to swing his knife for the second time, suddenly froze.

His sinister smile froze, replaced by surprise and uncertainty. He looked up and stared intently at the figure on the rooftop, shouting sharply, "Xiao Jingzhan? My Lin family is handling matters, apprehending the murderers who killed our clan's cultivators. How dare you, a mere mortal county magistrate, interfere in the affairs of my immortal cultivation family? Retreat immediately, or don't blame me for being merciless with my blade!"

He was all bark and no bite, trying to intimidate people with the power of the Lin family, but his grip on the ghost-head knife tightened unconsciously.

On the rooftop, upon hearing this, Xiao Jingzhan's lips seemed to curl into a barely perceptible arc, an arc devoid of laughter, only cold mockery.

He no longer looked at Lin Bao; his gaze seemed to pierce through the void, falling upon the deeper darkness beyond the Meng residence, as if conversing with some higher being. His voice was calm yet carried an invisible weight:
"Nephew Lin Lang, have you seen enough? Letting this mad dog under your command run rampant under my rule, do you think there's no one in Wufeng County, or has your Lin family become so arrogant that you no longer respect the laws of Dali?"

The words "my dear nephew" were spoken in a calm tone, yet they resounded like thunder in the silent night sky.

Lin Bao's expression changed drastically in an instant.

He hadn't expected Xiao Jingzhan to be able to identify Young Master Lang so readily. He was even more surprised by the other's forceful tone, addressing him by his given name without any respect.

From the darkness came a cold snort, suppressed with shock, anger, and greed.

On the other side of the highest roof ridge of the Meng residence, the space slightly distorted, and a tall figure slowly emerged. It was Lin Lang, who had secretly come because he didn't trust Lin Bao to handle things.

He still stood with his hands behind his back, his face handsome, but his snake-like vertical pupils had now completely transformed into a pure, dark red that seemed capable of swallowing all light.

Like blood-red eyes opening from the abyss, a chilling, greedy, and seemingly hellish pressure, a hundred times more terrifying than Lin Bao's, descended with a roar, once again enveloping the entire Meng residence.

Bloodshot eyes fixed intently and greedily on Meng Yanning and Meng Xihong inside the room.

"Flawless immortal bones...a divine gift..." Lin Lang's voice had a special magnetic quality, yet it was so cold that it had no warmth at all, like a venomous snake flicking its tongue.

"Lord Xiao, what arrogance you display! This boy carries a priceless treasure that my Lin family has been investigating, and his parents are the murderers who killed my Lin family cultivators. My Lin family is acting in accordance with the covenant between immortals and mortals to cleanse our ranks. How can this be considered overstepping our bounds? If you insist on obstructing this, are you perhaps protecting these criminals and making an enemy of my Lin family?"

His words seemed to be reasonable, but in reality they were aggressive, and his bloodshot eyes were filled with even greater greed. The word "supplies" made no attempt to conceal his true intentions.

(End of this chapter)