One person: Lu family bodyguard, who shattered Longhu Mountain with a single palm strike.

"Bosses, you're looking in the wrong direction."

Lin Mo's gentle yet eerie voice rang out silently in the center of the seven-person formation.

Startled and covered in a cold sweat, the members of the Lu family troupe instinctively tried to spread out and retreat.

The moment the seven-colored Qi threads on Wang Ergou's fingertips lit up, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Lesson one: Don't pack your formation too close together."

Lin Mo wore a standard professional smile, and the moment his words fell, a burst of platinum-gold Nine Yang True Qi suddenly erupted from his body.

There was no warning whatsoever.

The first to be hit were Wang Ergou, who was closest and least skilled at defense, and Canglong, who stood in front as a meat shield.

Before the two could react, before they could even raise their Qi, Lin Mo's hands had already struck out simultaneously.

The seemingly effortless Iron Palm technique contains an extremely powerful and unparalleled shock force, penetrating the body's protective Qi as easily as piercing through a layer of paper.

The left palm strikes the back of the Hidden Dragon's chest, and the right palm strikes Wang Ergou's shoulder blade.

Two muffled groans sounded almost simultaneously.

"Holy crap!"

"My God!"

Zanglong and Wang Ergou had no chance to resist; the seven-colored Qi threads at their fingertips were completely severed.

The two men were sent flying backwards in a spread-eagle position, more than ten meters away, and with a bang, they landed precisely on the left and right branches of the same old locust tree outside the courtyard, swaying up and down with the branches.

Canglong clutched his chest and wailed wildly, "Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! How did I end up up a tree?!"

Wang Ergou didn't even have the strength to push his glasses back up. He lay on the tree branch, panting heavily, and turned his head: "Fat Dragon, you're here too?"

"Don't speak."

Zanglong's face turned green. "I feel like none of my bones are mine right now."

Less than three seconds into the game, two key players were rendered useless.

Bai Shixue stared wide-eyed at the two people in the tree, who seemed to be frozen in place: "Is this the true value of a 10% discount on a group purchase?"

The entire formation instantly spiraled out of control, but Zhi Jinhua, who was holding the line in the rear, remained calm.

As the brains of the Lu family team, she immediately tucked the tablet under her arm and shouted loudly based on the data recorded last night.

"Fat Dragon and Er Gou are dead! Everyone be careful, not only are his movements completely unpredictable, but the shockwaves from his close-combat palm strikes are also ridiculously powerful!"

Her mind raced, and within three seconds she devised a highly targeted counter-offensive tactic.

"Lin-ge, find a way to get close and block his movements! Xiaobai, find an opportunity to absorb his Qi and weaken that platinum protective layer! Xiaoxiao, use your breath attack to blast him the moment the protection weakens! Linglong, you stay behind to finish him off!"

The tactics were closely linked, and everyone quickly regained their sense of direction.

"The tactics were very well arranged."

Lin Mo glanced at Zhi Jinhua, a genuine admiration flashing in his eyes, then added with a smile, "It's just that the client's execution difficulty is a bit high."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Lin was the first to move.

"Brother Lin Mo, I apologize for the inconvenience!"

Lu Lin unreservedly activated the second level of Reverse Life, her white Qi transforming into a tangible, transparent membrane. She gritted her teeth, spread her arms wide, and pounced on Lin Mo like a net, completely blocking all angles of evasion.

Unfortunately, in the face of absolute overwhelming power, even the most meticulous calculations are meaningless.

After clocking out yesterday, Lin Mo gained another two years' worth of internal energy, bringing his total to 114 years of pure internal energy.

With the added power of the maxed-out Nine Yang Divine Skill, Lin Mo didn't retreat a single step when facing Lu Lin's all-out attack.

He raised his right hand, activated his Iron Palm technique, and pushed out a palm to meet Lu Lin's white qi.

There are no fancy moves, but the accuracy is outrageous.

This palm strike precisely saw through every blind spot in the flow of white qi within Lu Lin's body.

The two palms clasped together, producing a low, muffled thunderous sound.

Lu Lin felt a powerful and unreasonable force surging towards her, causing her internal organs to tremble violently.

He flew backward at an even faster speed than when he was sprinting, crashing hard onto the grass and sliding a long distance.

Upon landing, Lu Lin's eyes widened in horror, and she knelt on the ground, desperately trying to stay upright.

He discovered that his hard-won stable state of reverse rebirth was visibly cracked under this palm strike, like an ice sheet doused with boiling water, and he almost lost his power on the spot!

In a single exchange, the strongest defense was completely torn apart.

The training ground fell into a deathly silence.

Zhi Jinhua's pupils suddenly contracted, and she was completely dumbfounded.

She never expected that Lu Lin, the hope of the entire village, couldn't even withstand a single move!

The first step of the plan was declared bankrupt, and all subsequent methods of absorbing and exhaling Qi became worthless.

Zhi Jinhua's brain frantically rebooted. She opened her mouth wide, just about to shout out the first word of the backup plan, when a dark shadow suddenly flashed before her eyes.

Lin Mo was already standing in front of her with a smile, less than half a step away.

Zhi Jinhua froze, her back instantly soaked with cold sweat.

Her extremely strong will to survive reached its peak at this moment. She chuckled, swallowed hard, and pleaded softly.

"Boss Lin Mo... could you please not slap me in the face? Could you go a little easier on me?"

Lin Mo looked at the strategist who had surrendered at lightning speed and maintained a five-star service attitude: "Okay, Miss Hua, I will meet your customer needs."

Zhi Jinhua breathed a sigh of relief and cautiously asked again, "Can I give a bad review?"

"Malicious negative reviews will affect future discounts."

Lin Mo's smile remained unchanged.

Five stars! It has to be five stars!

Zhi Jinhua immediately changed her tune.

Before he finished speaking, Lin Mo deliberately restrained his fierce power, transforming it into a very gentle yet completely irresistible palm strike.

Zhi Jinhua gasped in surprise, her body flying backward lightly, sliding a long distance across the lawn before finally landing safely on her bottom.

The tablet on his body was still lit up. He wasn't in pain, but the Qi he had gathered had been completely dispersed, rendering him utterly incapable of fighting.

Seeing this, Lu Linglong's protective temper flared instantly. Her eyes reddened, and she charged forward, raising a fist imbued with the Qi of the Quanzhen Internal Alchemy Technique: "Hua'er! You bastard merchant, I'll fight you to the death!"

Lin Mo stood still, turned to the side, and lightly caught the employer's fist with one hand, dissipating all the force.

"Ms. Lu, would you like to experience takeoff again today?"

Lin Mo raised an eyebrow and joked.

Lu Linglong realized that her fist, which she had used all her strength to punch, was easily gripped tightly by her opponent. There was no chance of a direct confrontation, and the anger on her face instantly vanished.

She stuck out her tongue, blushed, and said haughtily, "With so many people here, can we not fly?"

"No, that won't work."

Lin Mo refused outright without any hesitation.

He handed it over with one hand, his palm as gentle as if he were delivering a package.

Following the force of the palm strike, Lu Linglong flew backward with both feet off the ground, landing precisely next to Zhi Jinhua, and slumped down on the lawn side by side.

Zhi Jinhua adjusted her crooked glasses: "Linglong, you're here too. But he certainly didn't slap me in the face."

"Shut up, thank him for his great kindness!"

Lu Linglong angrily rubbed her clothes and complained.

Seeing both the strategist and the employer defeated and forced to eat grass, Bai Shixue, who had been looking for an opportunity to make a dirty move, decisively raised her hands, covered her head, and shouted out loudly and decisively.

"I surrender! We're not fighting anymore!"

With a sincere expression, she said, "My main responsibility was to observe, and I already had a strong sense of participation in the actual combat. After all, surrendering is also an art."

Lin Mo nodded: "Miss Bai's risk assessment ability is excellent. Her surrender is valid, and her client status will be retained."

Xiao Xiao, the only one still standing in the room, saw this scene and his mouth twitched wildly.

The folding fan in my hand had fallen to the ground sometime earlier.

His manly pride compelled him to take a step forward, gritting his teeth and roaring tragically, "We've come all this way! We can't just end this without even making a move!"

Lin Mo looked at him: "Boss Xiao, are you sure you want to continue? I respect the experience of every customer."

"Come!"

Xiao Xiao took a deep breath, his chest bulging to its limit, compressing his internal energy to a dangerous critical point, and unleashed a destructive exhale at Lin Mo.

The powerful shockwave sent pebbles and grass flying, heading straight for Lin Mo's face.

Lin Mo didn't even try to dodge, nor did he raise his hand.

The white-gold Nine Yang True Qi on his body suddenly surged.

The forceful exhale slammed into the protective aura, like a bucket of water poured onto a red-hot iron plate, vanishing with a "hiss" without even causing a ripple.

Lin Mo stood firmly in place, not even a hem of his clothes trembled.

Xiao Xiao's pupils shrank sharply, his face filled with despair, and he even forgot to breathe.

The next second, Lin Mo swung out a wave-like palm strike from a distance.

Xiao Xiao's feet lost their footing, and he was struck in the chest by the palm wind, sending him flying into the air.

He did two somersaults in the air, and with a thud, landed solidly on the grass under an old tree more than ten meters away.

Canglong looked down at him under the tree: "Old Xiao, you're here too?"

Xiao Xiao rubbed his back and stared at the sky: "Shut up."

This is the end.

The brawl on the training ground has come to a complete end.

Lin Mo withdrew his palm strike, glanced down at the stopwatch on his watch, and muttered to himself, "23 seconds. Not bad, 7 seconds faster than expected."

He wrote a line on the training record sheet in his hand: "First round of group stress resistance completed. Average customer survival time: 3.28 seconds. There is significant room for improvement."

With difficulty, Canglong, still hanging from the tree, said, "Boss Lin, I request that you not hang me on the tree next time."

"Can."

Lin Mo didn't even look up. "The landing buffer service is 500 per trip, with discounts available for monthly subscriptions."

Canglong decisively closed his eyes: "Never mind, I didn't ask."

Lin Mo took the notebook and walked back to the lawn, squatting down in front of Lu Lin, who was kneeling.

He placed his palm on his back and sent a gentle, vital stream of Nine Yang True Qi through him.

Lu Lin instantly felt the turbulent Qi within her body being forcibly calmed, and the cracks in the Reverse Life Second Stage rapidly healed.

"The meridians are undamaged, the membrane is intact; this is normal relaxation from training and will not affect subsequent cultivation."

Lin Mo gave his diagnosis in a calm tone.

Lu Lin looked up at him, opened her mouth, and asked in a dry voice, "Just now... how much force did you use?"

Lin Mo thought for a moment and answered honestly, "About 20%? Maybe less."

Upon hearing this, the Lu family troupe members, who were sprawled on the lawn and hanging from the trees, were utterly devastated.

Seven people combined couldn't even force this monster bodyguard to use 30% of his strength?!

On the second-floor balcony, Lu Jin, who had witnessed the entire one-sided crushing defeat, was completely out of breath.

The fingers resting on the railing were so tight they turned white.

He had initially thought Lin Mo was just a gifted young man.

But the instantaneous breaking of the formation, the exquisitely precise control, and the vast, unparalleled white-gold true qi that occurred in those 23 seconds completely overturned Lu Jin's understanding.

That was a second-level Reverse Life Realm that he spent 200,000 to get!

He was almost knocked out of his martial arts by a single palm strike!

Lu Jin gripped the railing tightly, a terrifying thought flashing through his mind that made him feel uneasy: If I were to go up there myself, I'm afraid it wouldn't be easy to win.

Reason told him that he probably wouldn't gain any advantage against this working-class man who was always shouting that he wanted to get off work, even if he was one of the few people of the older generation!

Just as Lu Jin was reassessing Lin Mo's combat strength, his gaze shifted from shock to extreme apprehension.

Lu Jin's specially made phone suddenly vibrated.

He snapped out of his daze, took out his phone, and after seeing the caller ID on the screen, his long, white eyebrows shot up sharply. He couldn't help but mutter, "Old Master?"

Lu Jin's expression turned serious, and he took a deep breath to calm his turbulent emotions.

He keenly sensed something unusual, turned around and strode into the study, closing the glass soundproof door to the balcony behind him.

He answered the phone, his tone tinged with both respect and doubt: "Master, what brings you here today to call me, such a remarkable person?"

The voice of Zhang Zhiwei, the old Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, came from the other end of the phone. It was steady but slightly weathered, and sounded completely different from his usual relaxed demeanor.

"Old Lu, things haven't been peaceful lately, so I'm thinking of convening a meeting of the Ten Elders. I have a new idea regarding this year's Luo Tian Grand Ceremony."

Lu Jin frowned and lowered his voice to ask, "Oh? What new idea could possibly require you to personally call and inform this old man?"

The old master sighed heavily on the other end of the phone, dropping a bombshell in a very complicated tone.

"My junior brother's grandson has finally appeared."

Lu Jin was clearly stunned, his face full of confusion: "Which junior brother? Old Tian? No way, where did he get a grandson?"

The old Celestial Master's voice deepened completely as he answered, word by word: "He's my junior brother, that big-eared scoundrel, a descendant of Zhang Huaiyi. That child's name is Zhang Chulan."

Lu Jin suddenly realized what was happening, her pupils contracted sharply, her grip on the phone tightened slightly, and she gasped, "You mean the descendants of Zhang Huaiyi have appeared after the Jia Shen Rebellion?!"

"good."

The old Celestial Master spoke calmly, "Since the matter can no longer be concealed, I will place the qualification for the Celestial Master's successor in this Luo Tian Grand Ceremony. It's better than letting them reach out recklessly in the shadows."

The study door was tightly closed, cutting off all sound.

However, at this very moment, Lin Mo, who had just finished his work in the center of the training ground, was brushing the grass clippings off his sleeves when his hand suddenly stopped in mid-air.

With 114 years of refined internal energy and the maxed-out Nine Yang Divine Skill, his physical senses had become so acute that they were absurd and extremely terrifying.

The straight-line distance is more than 20 meters, plus the burglarproof and soundproof balcony door.

Ordinary people would never have heard even half a word.

But Lin Mo heard it.

The extremely minute air vibrations inside the ear canal captured every single word of the phrases "Luo Tian Grand Ceremony," "Zhang Chulan, the grandson of the Big-Eared Thief," and "the qualification to succeed the Celestial Master"!

A fierce light suddenly burst forth from Lin Mo's dark eyes.

Zhang Chulan has appeared!

The Luo Tian Grand Ritual is about to begin!

What does this mean?

This means that the entire sect is mobilized, a trap is set up at Longhu Mountain, and all the major sects gather together.

The entire world of supernatural beings is about to be engulfed in an unprecedented storm, the likes of which have not been seen in decades!

In Lin Mo's mind, a top-notch working man, there are no storms or crises in the world.

Those were security tasks involving countless high-risk items!

That's called an unlimited business trip allowance that can make you so rich you won't know what to do with it!

That's an epic, multi-layered outsourcing project that brings together all the top families in the world of supernatural beings!

The sparring fees for various extraordinary geniuses, the high-risk emergency appearance fees for Xu Xiang, and the head bonuses for those from the Quanxing sect who lined up to offer themselves up.

This was all the down payment and full payment for his river-view luxury apartments in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen!

Lin Mo's breathing quickened. He quickly reached for his phone, opened the notes app, and solemnly typed a line at the bottom of the "Housing Fund" section.

[New Opportunity Alert: Luo Tian Grand Ceremony. Estimated Returns: To be evaluated (minimum six figures guaranteed, no upper limit).]

The memo has been saved.

Lin Mo locked his phone, looked up, and stared intently at the closed study door on the second floor. His professional smile was more genuine and radiant than ever before.

An epic deal has finally arrived.

Mr. Lu, count me in for this high-paying business trip!

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