Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

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Lin Feiyu leaned against the wall, looking at his daughter, his eyes bloodshot.

He opened his mouth several times before making a sound.

"You don't understand."

"What don't I understand?" Lin Yanyi's voice rose slightly. "Don't you understand that you kill people to practice your martial arts? Don't you understand that you imprison me? Don't you understand that you scheme against an innocent person?"

"Innocent?" Lin Feiyu smiled bitterly. "In the cultivation world, who is innocent? If Jiang Shi weren't strong, he would have died at someone else's hands long ago. My scheming against him only caused him some trouble; did he lose a single hair?"

Lin Yanyi fell silent.

Indeed, Jiang Shi did not suffer any real harm because of Lin Feiyu's schemes.

It was only with Lin Feiyu's help that he was able to safely pass through the Qi Refining stage and have the resources to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

But that doesn't mean Lin Feiyu was right.

"Father, you've changed." Lin Yanyi's voice lowered. "You weren't like this before."

Lin Feiyu closed his eyes.

He recalled events from many years ago. Back then, the Lin family had not yet fallen from grace, and he was still a young boy cultivating within the Qingyun Sect.

His father taught him to read and write, taught him cultivation techniques, and told him that the Lin family line must continue and must not be broken.

Later, the Lin family fell from grace. The Lu family seized the Shanhai Flag, the Lin family's resources, and their status. His father died in an "accident," and his mother died of illness not long after.

He was left all alone, guarding the dilapidated old Lin family mansion, with young Lin Yanyi by his side.

He changed after that.

He vowed to help his daughter achieve foundational enlightenment and restore the Lin family's glory. He was willing to do anything to achieve this goal.

Bribing the steward of the courtyard, taking on disciples, plotting to acquire cultivation techniques, exploring the Misty Mansion, cultivating demonic arts, using the Foundation-Seizing Technique to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage... every step is calculated, every step involves killing.

He thought he was right.

But now, Jiang Shi stood before him, a Golden Core cultivator who could crush him with a single finger. All his schemes were a joke in the face of absolute power.

"Yanyi..." He opened his eyes, looked at his daughter, and said, "I'm sorry."

Lin Yanyi's tears flowed down her cheeks.

She had been waiting for those words for a long time. Ever since she learned what her father was doing, she had been waiting for him to say sorry.

But when she actually heard it, she didn't feel happy.

"Father, stop." She grasped Lin Feiyu's hand. "Don't kill anymore. The Lin family doesn't need to be rebuilt this way."

Lin Feiyu looked at her hand and remained silent for a long time.

Then he nodded.

"it is good."

He took a small porcelain bottle out of his pocket and handed it to Lin Yanyi.

"This is a Foundation Establishment Pill. I took it from the Qingyun Sect."

Lin Yanyi took the porcelain bottle, her hands trembling.

"When did you...?"

"Two years ago," Lin Feiyu said, "when Sect Leader Lu went to the Misty Mansion."

He coughed a few times, and some blood spilled from the corner of his mouth again.

"I originally wanted to use the Five Elements Human Pill to help you establish your foundation. That kind of pill makes your foundation more solid after establishment, making it easier to break through to the Golden Core stage in the future. But I failed. I didn't have enough materials, and the most important ingredient... I couldn't get it either."

He glanced at Jiang Shi.

Jiang Shi stood at the doorway, his back to them, looking at the osmanthus tree in the courtyard. He seemed not to be listening, but Lin Feiyu knew he could hear him.

"This Foundation Establishment Pill may be ordinary, but with your talent, it's enough for you to establish your foundation." Lin Feiyu placed the porcelain bottle into Lin Yanyi's hand. "Take it."

Lin Yanyi held the porcelain bottle, tears streaming down her face.

"Father, you are badly injured..."

"Even without this injury, I wouldn't live much longer." Lin Feiyu waved his hand. "In the past two years, I've been cultivating demonic arts and forcibly entering the pseudo-core realm, which has already overdrawn my life force."

Lin Yanyi was stunned. She hadn't expected that her father would die so soon!

"I can save you!" Lin Yanyi gripped his hand tightly. "I'm at the ninth level of Qi Refining now, and I'll soon be at Foundation Establishment. I can..."

"Yan Yi," Lin Feiyu interrupted her, "listen to me."

Lin Yanyi bit her lip and remained silent.

"I've made many mistakes in my life," Lin Feiyu glanced at the retreating figure at the doorway, "and now, it's all my own fault, this is my fate!"

Lin Feiyu knew that even if he could successfully recover, Jiang Shi would most likely not spare his life, given his personality!

He's dead now, but at least his daughter can live!

Jiang Shi did not turn around, but he also did not refute.

Lin Feiyu took off a jade bracelet from her wrist and handed it to Lin Yanyi.

"This is the Lin family's token. With this, you are now the head of the Lin family. From now on, you will have the final say in the Lin family's affairs."

Lin Yanyi took the jade bracelet and touched it with her fingers. The jade bracelet was warm to the touch, and it was engraved with the Lin family crest, a coiled dragon.

"Rebuilding the Lin family doesn't require much power or high cultivation," Lin Feiyu said. "As long as there are any members of the Lin family alive, the Lin family is not dead."

He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall.

"Alright, you guys can go now. Leave me alone for a while."

Lin Yanyi knelt in front of him and kowtowed three times.

Then she stood up, wiped away her tears, turned around and walked out of the house.

Jiang Shi followed behind.

When he reached the gate of the courtyard, he paused and looked back.

Lin Feiyu was still leaning against the wall, his eyes closed, as if he were asleep.

Lin Yanyi stood at the gate of the courtyard, her back to him, her shoulders trembling.

Jiang Shi didn't comfort her. He didn't know what to say, nor was he good at saying those things.

He simply stood to the side, waiting quietly.

After a while, Lin Yanyi turned around. The tear stains on her face had been wiped away, her eyes were still a little red, but her expression had returned to calm.

"Thank you," she said, "for not killing him."

"He is, after all, my master," Jiang Shi said, "even though he never treated me as his apprentice."

Jiang Shi had one more thought in his mind that he didn't say aloud: "Anyway, he won't live much longer."

With Jiang Shi's current perspective, he can see that Lin Feiyu has absolutely no chance of surviving.

Lin Yanyi was silent for a moment, then said, "He treats you as his apprentice. It's just that his methods... are too twisted."

Jiang Shi didn't respond to that.

"What are you planning to do next?" he asked.

Lin Yanyi said, "I'll find a place to go into seclusion and use the Foundation Establishment Pill. After I achieve Foundation Establishment, I'll figure out a way to rebuild the Lin family."

She took a wooden box out of her sleeve and handed it to Jiang Shi.

"This is the Lin family's ancestral book of the Five Elements Master. It was left to me by my father, but I feel that you need it more than I do."

Jiang Shi took the wooden box, opened it, and glanced inside. Inside was a stack of yellowed pages, densely covered with writing. It was the Five Elements Master's insights on the cultivation of the Five Elements.

"Thank you," Jiang Shi said.

"I'm the one who should thank you," Lin Yanyi said, looking at him. "Without you, I don't know what my father would have become."