I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

Since he had already dispatched the spirit beast, Lin Che had no intention of letting Zhao Wenyuan leave alive.

Zhao Wenyuan had initially seen that Lin Che's face was unfamiliar and his aura was sharp, like that of a rogue cultivator with a golden spiritual root. He still harbored a sliver of hope that he could negotiate with him and wanted to use the prestige of the Zhao family to persuade him to leave.

However, when Lin Che summoned the spirit beast, his illusions were instantly shattered.

This person is actually skilled at controlling beasts?

A nightmare figure he had tried so hard to forget, yet which was deeply ingrained in his heart, suddenly overlapped with the person in front of him!

"You...it's you! Lin Che!!!"

Although the aura was completely different, and the ferocious tiger was also different from the one seen on the arena, he had a premonition that the other party was Lin Che!

Lin Che's gaze was icy, and he didn't waste any words.

The venomous dragon in the inner hall might not be able to hold off the other cultivators for long; he must finish this quickly!

"Quickly kill that man, and then help me!" The moment Lin Che sent the order to the three spirit beasts, he activated his magic and transformed into a golden light, rushing forward.

The black broadsword in his hand hummed and trembled, and brilliant golden light burst forth from the blade, with golden true essence surging like a tide.

The Metal Element Sword Technique, Breaking Army Triple Slash, was unleashed with overwhelming force!

First move: Split Formation!

With a swift movement of the blade, more than a dozen crescent-shaped golden blade energies tore through the air, emitting sharp whistles, and fanned out towards Zhao Wenyuan, sealing off his space to dodge left and right.

Suppressing his panic, Zhao Wenyuan waved his hand and summoned a golden array plate covered with runes.

"Golden Light Protective Array, activate!" The yellow array light shield instantly protected it, and dense blade energy bombarded it, stirring up violent ripples.

Before the energy of the splitting array sword technique had dissipated, his figure had already pressed himself against the light barrier!

Second move, Armor-Piercing Move!

The metal-elemental true essence within his body was frantically compressed, all of it converging at the tip of the pitch-black blade.

A single, dazzling golden light appeared, as bright as a star, containing an invincible sharpness.

The tip of the blade touched lightly, not with brute force, but precisely at the point where the previous ripples of blade energy were most intense.

"laugh--!"

A faint yet clear cracking sound rang out, and a hair-thin crack was indeed pierced into the solid array light shield by this golden light!

"Mid-Foundation Establishment stage?! You've actually reached the mid-Foundation Establishment stage?!"

The immense spiritual pressure emanating from the crack caused Zhao Wenyuan's pupils to shrink sharply, and he cried out in alarm.

The shadow of the crushing defeat in the arena had not yet dissipated, and now the opponent's cultivation had actually improved again!

He dared not be arrogant any longer, and frantically urged his divine sense, causing streaks of spiritual light to fly out of his storage bag.

These are all precious Tier 2 attack talismans!

Fire dragons, ice cones, golden blades, vines... seven or eight talismans were activated simultaneously, transforming into a colorful yet deadly rain of light that pelted down on Lin Che, who was standing right in front of him!

Faced with such a dense barrage of talismans, Lin Che neither dodged nor evaded, but instead slowly closed his eyes.

The surging golden true essence around him instantly collapsed and condensed inward, and a sword intent that was unstoppable and certain to die soared into the sky!

The third move: the no-return move!

Man and sword become one!

"Clang!"

Lin Che and his black broadsword seemed to transform into a pure golden streak of light, resolutely crashing into the crumbling array barrier!

Around the flowing light, countless tiny yet incomparably sharp golden blade auras spontaneously generated, circled, and strangled, forming a destructive blade aura storm!

"Bang bang bang bang—!"

The various spells formed from the talismans shattered and vanished the moment they came into contact with the golden sword energy storm, just like snow meeting boiling water, unable to stop it in the slightest!

The golden light continued its relentless advance, carrying the will to shatter everything, and slammed into the tiny crack in the array's light shield!

"Crack... Boom!"

The cracks spread and expanded instantly, and the entire Golden Light Protective Array let out a mournful cry of being unable to bear the burden, and exploded with a bang, turning into countless points of light!

"No—!!!" Zhao Wenyuan's eyes were bloodshot, his face filled with despair and incomprehension.

His formation was strong enough to withstand the fierce attack of a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator, so why was it so vulnerable to the opponent's blade?

The only explanation is that the opponent's true essence is highly refined and the "momentum" contained in his swordsmanship far exceeds that of others of the same level!

With the formation broken, Lin Che's killing intent was resolute.

The blade flashed again, so fast that only a fleeting afterimage remained.

Zhao Wenyuan felt a chill on his neck, and his vision involuntarily spun. In his last moments of consciousness, he was filled with boundless fear and resentment towards that cold figure.

On the other side, the three spirit beasts had already finished their battle.

The fierce tiger, its paws pressed down on the lifeless body of the Zhou family member. Seeing that Lin Che's side had also been dealt with, it let out a low growl to signal.

Lin Che waved his hand, returning the spirit beast and the corpse of the spy to the Qingxuan Secret Realm.

He quickly surveyed the battlefield and began making arrangements with practiced ease.

Arriving beside Zhao Wenyuan's corpse, he lightly touched the space between his eyebrows with a finger, and his pure spiritual power transformed into a fine needle, carefully destroying part of his soul structure.

The method was ingenious, disguised as the backlash from a severe mental shock.

In this way, even if someone tries to search the soul afterward, they will only get a chaotic, broken, and worthless fragment of memory.

Lin Che glanced at the storage bag at Zhao Wenyuan's waist and scanned it roughly with his divine sense, but did not find anything particularly noteworthy.

He deliberately did not take anything, creating the illusion that he was "eager to escape after killing a powerful enemy and did not have time to loot".

Finally, he used his movement technique to leave several clear escape traces and faint traces of metallic spiritual energy in the direction leading to the west of the ruins.

Having done all this, Lin Che did not linger. He quietly activated his Absolute Concealment Technique, and his figure disappeared completely from this area filled with blood and poisonous miasma, as if merging into the air.

Not long after, Zhao Wenxuan led the remaining members of his clan and finally retreated from the nightmarish experimental hall in a sorry state.

However, what he saw outside the door struck him like a thunderbolt, and his eyes widened in horror!

Amidst the rubble, Zhao Wenyuan lay there quietly, lifeless. At the edge of a fatal wound on his neck, the sharp, incomparably powerful aura of metal-based blade energy still lingered, emitting a faint glow.

"Wen Yuan—!!"

Zhao Wenxuan's body trembled violently. He staggered forward and shakily picked up his younger brother's still-warm body.

His fingertips touched the cold, stiff skin, and looking at that familiar face devoid of life, an overwhelming sense of grief and heart-wrenching pain instantly overwhelmed him.

Then came a volcanic eruption of rage!

The betrayals in the ruins, the attacks by monsters, the tragic deaths of his clansmen, the fall of his younger brother... all these images churned and exploded in his mind, ultimately pointing to the same target—the Zhou family!

"The Zhou family...good, what a fine Zhou family!!!"

Zhao Wenxuan gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, practically spitting fire. "This is an irreconcilable feud! I'll never forgive you!"

He suddenly looked up and surveyed his fellow tribesmen, who were equally grief-stricken and wounded.

A sliver of reason told him that the Zhou family currently held the upper hand, and a terrifying pseudo-third-tier demonic beast might be chasing after them; now was definitely not the time for a direct confrontation.

"Go! Get out of here first!" he growled hoarsely, forcibly suppressing the murderous intent and grief that was about to burst forth from his body.

This blood debt must be repaid, but it requires a plan and strength.

We must return to the family immediately and explain everything!

After taking one last deep look at his younger brother's body, Zhao Wenxuan carefully put it away, then soared into the sky on his sword, transforming into a streak of light filled with grief and determination, speeding away from the ruins.

His clansmen followed closely behind, filled with resentment. They had come full of ambition, but returned only with burning hatred and the cold corpses of their companions.

……

In stark contrast to the somber atmosphere filled with grief and hatred at the Zhao family's residence, Lin Che, who had already fled to a safe area, wore a faint smile that suggested he had everything under control.

His plan to sow discord succeeded.

Instead of expending energy dealing with the Zhao and Zhou families personally, it would be better to use clever tactics to make them distrust each other and kill one another.

This is far more effective than killing a few ordinary cultivators, and it can fundamentally shake the foundation of both families in this place.

"Zhao Wenyuan...the core of the Zhao family's Wen generation, a Foundation Establishment cultivator." Lin Che recalled the person he had just killed.

The Zhao family has only nine Foundation Establishment cultivators. Losing such a core member is tantamount to losing a finger, enough to seriously injure them.

The grudge of the assassination attempt by the Zhao family has now been avenged, with interest added.

Furthermore, the Zhao family had meticulously planned to use this place to curse and harm him, but instead, their own carefully cultivated fourth-generation elites were the first to suffer the consequences.

This "return gift" is undeniably generous.

"In this way, my feud with the Zhao family is considered settled."

As for whether the Zhao family also harbored such thoughts, Lin Che had no idea…