Cultivating a family of immortals

Who could have imagined that Lin Wan, the former fairy of Yinxian Tower, would end up like this?

Lin Wan is also a special person in the Xu family.

She knew almost everything about the Xu family.

Back then, when Xu Guanyi discovered his spiritual root, it was she who guided him.

She witnessed Xu Guanyi's death.

And Xu Changle…

There were absolutely no spiritual roots back then!

This was something that not only the Xu family knew, but Lin Wan also knew very well.

Apart from Xu Guanyi, no one else in the Xu family has been born with spiritual roots.

Back then, Xu Changle hid in a dark room for a long time, fearing that the secret of his ability to cultivate would be revealed.

It wasn't until seven years after the Battle of Mochuan River that the Xu family began to take in the children with spiritual roots who originally belonged to the Haoran Sect, and only then did Xu Changle stop hiding his whereabouts.

There is no other reason.

The information Fang Shouzhou gathered was that Lin Wan... had been missing for several years.

However, a few years ago, the Xu family also began to deliberately spread the news that Xu Changle of the Xu family originally had spiritual roots, but because he had four spiritual roots, the Haoran Immortal Sect did not take him as a disciple. In addition, it was only discovered when he was three years old, so no one paid special attention to this matter.

At that time, only Wu Yuanzuo and Lin Wan knew the Xu family's secret.

With Wu Yuanzuo killed by Lin Feizi with a single sword strike at Lingtian Pavilion, and Lin Wan disappearing, no one knew anything about the Xu family's past anymore.

Of course, there is another very important reason why the Xu family dared to make their ability to cultivate public.

No one could believe that anything could spontaneously generate spiritual roots!

Unless it's a true immortal descended to earth.

Just now, Xu Changle had just reached the top of the hill when he spotted Lin Wan kneeling in the crowd and immediately made up his mind.

This man must be killed today.

Not afraid of ten thousand, just in case!

And it was she who took Kanichi away in the first place…

Now that she has stepped forward and is the first to say she wants to die, Xu Changle is very satisfied.

But I still have some questions.

If she were to harm the Xu family... by revealing what she knows, the Haoran Sect would certainly investigate. At this time, the Xu family has the Xuanyuan Sect's backing, so even if they don't admit it, it will still have an impact.

Therefore, Xu Changle gazed at Lin Wan quietly for a long time.

Lin Wan remained silent for a moment, then slowly stood up, gazing at the churning clouds over Huaxue Mountain and the pristine white snow, before calmly saying:

"Back then, my Uncle-Master Lin Feizi asked me to fetch Xu Guanyi to his cave for a meeting. I saw him about to attack Guanyi. I tried to stop him for a moment, but my Uncle-Master persuaded me with the sake of the sect's greater good."

Two lines of tears streamed down Lin Wan's face.

"He said that if it weren't for the hard work of these elders, the Haoran Sect would have been targeted and destroyed by other sects at any time... Before Guan Yi died, he asked him if the Haoran Sect did not tolerate those with Heavenly Spiritual Roots..."

"My uncle nodded in agreement. Over the past thousand years, the Haoran Sect has killed countless prodigies in order to maintain its status!"

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone present, including Lin Wanxing, stared at her in disbelief.

Lin Wan continued:

"At the time, I thought it was because my uncles and the others had no other choice but to do it for the sake of the sect!"

"But it wasn't until the direct line of the sect died in battle at the Mo Chuan River, and Lin Chenbi from the collateral branch took control of the sect, that I learned..."

Lin Wan's tone turned resentful, and her eyes gradually turned bloodshot.

"It's all greed! It's all selfishness! Who doesn't want to cultivate to the peak?"

Lin Wanqi gave a bitter smile, slowly pulled a wooden hairpin from her hair, and pointed it at her neck, saying:

"When I was imprisoned in the back mountains and abused every day, I finally understood a principle: if a family is rotten to the core, then the entire family, from top to bottom, will be corrupt."

"Even if it occasionally produces fruit like the Evening Star, it's just something the family uses..."

As she spoke, she looked intently at Xu Changle, her eyes seemingly holding a thousand words, but in the end, they all boiled down to one sentence.

"The Xu family values ​​loyalty and righteousness. Jingluo is a promising future for the Lin family. We hope Young Master Xu will treat him well!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she plunged the wooden hairpin into her neck without hesitation.

Instantly, blood gushed out, just like many years ago when she watched Lin Feizi cut off Xu Guanyi's arm.

Blood bloomed like fireworks.

Xu Changle understood the meaning behind Lin Wan's last, wistful glance.

She said, "She probably knows the Xu family's secret, but she didn't tell the collateral branch because she suffers humiliation from them day and night... Besides, this is another form of atonement."

Xu Changle watched her die with complicated emotions, while the sound of people crying reached his ears.

He remained silent for a long time, then pointed to the right and said:

"Survivors, stand here; those seeking death, stand on the left."

The direct descendants remained silent. Although they continued to weep, the vast majority of them slowly stood up and moved to the left.

Only a few people, their eyes darting around, almost without hesitation stood on the right.

Death on the left and life on the right.

The dead are dead.

The living are worse off than the dead.

Xu Changle shook his head, then walked with his sword to the few who had chosen to live. His eyes were calm, and his tone was indifferent as he said:

"Someone from your Lin family's direct line should be held responsible for Guan Yi's death. Lin Qingcang fled without a fight and was killed, and Lin Feizi... died at the hands of our Xu family ten years ago. It seems that the karmic retribution has ended, but I swore then that I would slaughter your entire Lin family!"

"But Lin Wan's death made me change my mind. Some people... genuinely didn't know about this, and they were kind-hearted by nature, so they were spared the death penalty... As for you... hmph!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Changle unexpectedly drew his sword and stabbed at the group of people.

"Young Master Xu, we're trying to survive! Even if you abolish our cultivation..."

Xu Jingluo calmly stepped forward and beheaded the man with a single sword stroke.

Immediately, Xu Jingheng acted simultaneously, killing all of them.

Afterwards, Xu Changle calmly tossed the sword to Lin Wanxing and said, "You can deal with the rest of them. You can abolish their cultivation and expel them from the mountain, or you can simply let them go."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Changle turned around and walked up the mountain.

Lin Wanxing held the sword blankly, glanced at Xu Changle's back, and then looked at the clansmen who should have been begging for death.

Among them, Lin Wanxing called some uncles, some brothers, and some sisters.

In short, we are connected by blood.

For the past ten years, almost everyone has hated the Lin family's collateral branch, wishing they could sacrifice themselves to eliminate it, even if it meant their own deaths.

To this day, the once mighty Haoran Sect was truly slaughtered overnight, leaving only a mere dozen or so survivors.

Only then did they feel grief well up inside them, and truly realize that eliminating the collateral branch, even if they themselves were to perish... would mean the extinction of the Lin family.

Now that they have come back to life and survived, what is their attitude toward the Xu family?

Unbeknownst to them, they were both grateful to the Xu family for eliminating the threat to the Lin family and resentful of the Xu family for causing the destruction of the Haoran Sect.

It's very complicated.

But there was no hatred.

After all, they still had one hope.

Everyone looked at Xu Jingluo.

Wanxing's bloodline is the purest in the Lin family, and with the blessing of the Xu family's son with extraordinary spiritual roots, his future achievements will surely be limitless.

Therefore, they were willing to die, willing to escape this dirty world.