Heroes Return

Then it turned into the current situation. The reason is that Lin Yingnan had already prepared himself for his punch to be blocked, and at the same time, he was also prepared to deal with the moves he would use against Lin Jie.

But to his surprise, Lin Jie simply reached out and grabbed his fist.

"Hey little brother, your fists look pretty good, but they don't seem to have any power," Lin Jie said to Lin Yingnan.

At this moment, Lin Yingnan did not speak, but instead attacked Lin Jie with his other fist.

However, Lin Jie simply grabbed that fist and twisted it, subduing Lin Yingnan behind his back.

Lin Yingnan desperately poured his energy into his hand, but it was completely useless. He was still being held by Lin Jie and couldn't break free.

"Damn it!" Lin Yingnan shouted, "You forced me to do this!"

As he spoke, Lin Yingnan unleashed a powerful aura, and a large amount of soil and gravel on the ground around them were sent flying by his roar.

At this moment, a bloodthirsty red light shone in Lin Yingnan's eyes.

"Oh, so this is the complete breathing technique?" Lin Jie said with interest. "Speaking of which, I've never mastered this breathing technique to its complete form."

"Hmph!" Lin Yingnan didn't speak, only snorted coldly. Having used his trump card, his power at this moment was definitely not just doubled or tripled. He then decided to kill Lin Jie within the enhanced time.

As he spoke, he channeled his power into his arm, intending to break free from Lin Jie's control and then give Lin Jie's bastard face a good beating.

Then he struggled a few times, but couldn't break free...

"..."

"..."

After a brief silence and several attempts to struggle, Lin Yingnan suddenly exclaimed incredulously, "How is this possible! Why can't I break free?"

"Oh? So you transformed to break free from my control." Lin Jie said with a sudden realization, "You should have said so earlier! I thought you transformed to do something else! It was just to break free from my control! You could have just told me!"

As he spoke, Lin Jie released Lin Yingna amidst Lin Yingna's barely suppressed expression!

"You'll regret letting me go!" Lin Yingnan turned around and kicked Lin Jie, but to his dismay, Lin Jie caught the kick again.

Chapter 17

After easily grabbing Lin Yingnan's leg, Lin Jie released Lin Yingnan once again.

"You bastard! Are you toying with me?" Lin Yingnan shouted angrily at Lin Jie, "Since you have such power, why don't you just attack me directly!"

“Um…you’re my younger brother!” Lin Jie scratched his head and said to Lin Yingnan.

"Are you trying to humiliate me?" Lin Yingnan had already realized that he was no match for Lin Jie, and that Lin Jie was toying with him like a child: "You don't need to put on this act of treating me like your little brother."

"Huh?" Hearing Lin Ying's rare words, Lin Jie was immediately struck by a blow: 'Did I make my brother angry?'

"But you're my brother, I don't want to hurt you! We're just sparring..." Lin Jie said hesitantly.

"I don't consider you my brother! Show me what you're made of!!" Lin Yingnan was furious beyond measure. He could tolerate Lin Jie being stronger than him, but he absolutely couldn't tolerate Lin Jie humiliating him again and again! Now, somewhat driven mad by Lin Jie's rage, he only wanted a clean and decisive fight to the death. Even being killed by Lin Jie would be better than being constantly humiliated like this.

Thinking of this, Lin Yingnan concentrated his strength to attack Lin Jie.

Lin Yingnan concentrated all his energy into his fist and threw a punch at Lin Jie, unleashing a massive energy surge that swept towards him.

The powerful shockwave carried intense killing intent and a blinding light. Wherever the shockwave passed, the surrounding earth and rocks were directly ripped up and then vanished into the air.

"Oh? It seems you're finally showing some strength this time." Lin Jie calmly raised the kitchen knife with the X-shaped Eastern design in his hand and cleaved the energy that Lin Yingnan had shot at him.

The shockwave was split in two by Lin Jie's slash, then flew diagonally upwards and behind him. After piercing through the protective field, it disappeared into the sky.

"Looks like you really want to fight me seriously." Lin Jie sighed as he looked at Lin Yingnan, who was charging at him again, and simply said this before raising the kitchen knife in his hand that was marked with the logo of X Dongfang.

The people below the stage were all staring intently at the two of them, including the Lin family patriarch, but this time the Lin family patriarch did not utter a single word.

Just kidding, when Lin Jie was on the field just now, he was slapped in the face every time he said a word! That's why he doesn't plan to say anything more. If he gets slapped in the face a few more times, he, who has lived for hundreds of years, will no longer be able to stay in the family.

But just as Lin Jie raised the kitchen knife in his hand, the Lin family patriarch stood up again and subconsciously jumped back a step.

Lin Changping, standing beside him, looked at the Lin family patriarch with some confusion, but then he understood why. A sense of danger suddenly arose in his heart.

'If I stay here any longer, I will die!' Lin Changping felt this sense of danger, but it was too late.

When Lin Jie raised the kitchen knife, Lin Yingnan on the stage stopped in his tracks in shock. A feeling of fear washed over him.

Seeing Lin Jie raise the kitchen knife, Lin Yingnan couldn't help but feel: "He's going to kill me!! I'll die by this knife!"

Upon realizing this, Lin Yingnan immediately retreated. However, facing Lin Jie's murderous aura, he was horrified to discover that although the knife in Lin Jie's hand remained unchanged, in his perception, Lin Jie's cleaver began to grow larger and larger in front of him.

Like the shadow of death, no matter which direction Lin Yingnan dodged, Lin Jie's cleaver seemed to enlarge and extend in that direction. Subconsciously, he knew there was no way he could dodge this cleaver.

Immediately afterward, the kitchen knife in Lin Jie's hand came crashing down. This time, not only Lin Yingnan, but also anyone among the onlookers of the entire Lin family with a certain level of martial arts skill, believed that Lin Yingnan was doomed.

As the cleaver fell, the protective barrier was instantly shattered in the middle. All of Lin Yingnan's defensive mechanisms activated at that moment, with various forms of defensive barriers simultaneously commencing.

Then, to his astonishment, the defensive barriers seemed utterly useless as Lin Jie sliced ​​them open with a single cleaver.

The blade flashed, and the entire arena fell silent.

Lin Yingnan's clothes ripped open in the middle and flew off to both sides. However, unlike when he used the "clothes-ripping slash" in the past, Lin Yingnan was still wearing his underwear this time.

After the kitchen knife fell, Lin Jie slowly walked towards Lin Yingnan.

During this time, Lin Yingnan did not react at all. He just let Lin Jie walk up to him little by little without any reaction. In fact, it would have been impossible for Lin Yingnan to make any reaction at this point.

Lin Jie walked up to Lin Yingnan, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Alright, that's enough fighting. Let's go down. You should go back and change your clothes too."

Lin Yingnan did not react at all.

"Then I'll go down first." Lin Jie said and walked out of the martial arts arena. After Lin Jie left, Lin Yingnan took a deep breath and then sat down on the ground.

"This is simply a monster!" Lin Yingnan said with difficulty, "I never imagined there could be such a terrifying person."

After Lin Jie left the training ground, everyone made way for him.

"Brother, you were so strong!" Lin Wan looked at Lin Jie in surprise. "I never knew you were this strong!"

"You never watched me fight before, so how could you know my strength?" Lin Jie said to Lin Wan, but the next second Lin Wan hooked her arm around Lin Jie's neck and whispered to him, "Brother, I suddenly remembered that when you graduated from high school, didn't you suddenly bring back a box of money? At that time, you said it was because your friends sponsored your living expenses when you retired from crime. Now that I've seen your strength, brother, did you steal that money from somewhere?"

"What kind of person do you take me for?" Lin Jie said unhappily, "I'm not the kind of person who robs banks for no reason, nor do I engage in any extortion or blackmail."

"Really?"

"If I do this, may I be a single dog for the rest of my life!" Lin Jie said. "Wait, being single for the rest of my life is too terrifying. How about this, if I do this, may I eat instant noodles without the seasoning packet for the next few days!"

"Brother! Your statement only makes me more suspicious!"

Regardless of what Lin Jie and Lin Wan were saying below, this battle undoubtedly brought a great shock to the Lin family.

Everyone simultaneously sensed one thing: the Lin family was very likely about to undergo a major upheaval! Not just very likely, but definitely going to undergo a major upheaval.

Lin Jie has thoroughly proven his strength in today's battle; everyone witnessed his fight with Lin Yingnan. It wasn't even a real battle; it was more like an adult bullying a baby.

Among the Lin family members present, who could have imagined that the Lin family's recognized genius among the younger generation would be dragged out and thoroughly beaten by his own twin brother?

The twin brothers were of contrasting backgrounds. One was discovered to have extraordinary talent from a young age and was given special attention and training within the family. The other, however, showed no particular talent and was expelled from the family's inner circle along with his parents.

Over the years, one of them grew into a leader of the younger generation in the family, and was also the most outstanding member and successor. The other was different; he turned into a monster.

In fact, when Lin Jie unleashed that strike that even the patriarch was terrified by, everyone looked at Lin Jie as if he were a monster.

Lin Shuntian and Lin Shunren both looked at Lin Jie with complicated expressions. After a while, they exchanged a glance, snorted at each other, and then left separately.

Originally, the patriarch intended to take this opportunity to see the skills of the other younger members of the Lin family, but after Lin Jie used that strike, no one was in the mood to watch the performances of the other family members anymore, especially since the entire training ground had been destroyed by the two of them.

"Sword energy stretches across thirty thousand miles, a single sword's cold light illuminates nineteen provinces!" The patriarch recalled Lin Jie's cleaver strike and couldn't help but recite these lines.

His words sent a chill down Lin Changping's spine.

"You mean he just used something?" Lin Changping asked in surprise.

“You’ve made a mistake. I saw it once three hundred years ago; that was the last sword cultivator at the time,” the Lin family patriarch said solemnly.

"You mean Lin Jie used..."

"A flash of cold light from the sword." The Lin family patriarch said directly, "A skill only a true sword immortal would use!"

"How is this possible!" Lin Changping exclaimed in shock. "Sword Immortals should have become legends long ago!"

"What do you know! The reason why sword cultivators became extinct was actually because of the Great Calamity of the End of Dharma!" The Lin family patriarch said, "When the Great Calamity of the End of Dharma came, countless immortals perished, and even the most tenacious sword cultivators were no exception, all of them perished one after another. That's why sword cultivators became legends. But immortal swords were not buried. Sword cultivators have always been about defying the heavens, so how could they not leave behind any inheritance?"

"You said Lin Jie obtained the sword cultivation technique..." Lin Changping's breathing became rapid at this moment: "But if it's the end of the Dharma calamity, how did he manage to forge this sword technique!"

“You don’t understand. The cataclysmic end of the Dharma era ended more than a decade ago,” said the Lin family patriarch. “Otherwise, why do you think I was able to break through ten years ago? Now spiritual energy has returned to the Great Thousand World. Do you remember the giant snake that was killed by that man in black five years ago? That is the best proof that the cataclysmic end of the Dharma era has ended.”

"You mean the World Snake?"

"Have everyone disperse first. I have something to discuss with that brat Lin Jie. Bring him to my room later," said the Lin family patriarch. "Remember, only the three of us can know."

"I understand."

Chapter 18

"Understood!" Lin Changping replied solemnly. If Lin Jie had truly become a sword cultivator, then this matter would be of great importance to the Lin family, and Lin Jie's importance would also increase significantly.

After the gathering ended, Lin Changping led Lin Jie towards a deep mountain on the edge of the ancestral land.

"So, what exactly do you want to see me about?" Lin Jie asked Lin Changping while looking around. "And why did we come to the mountains?"

"Alright, we've arrived." Lin Changping said to Lin Jie, "Yingjie, when you see the Ancestor later, you still need to pay attention to your manners."

"Please just call me Lin Jie, I'm not used to you calling me Ying Jie," Lin Jie said.

“In my Lin family, you are a member of the younger generation of the Ying generation, so naturally you are called Yingjie,” Lin Changping said to Lin Yingjie. “Actually, your full name should be Lin Yingjie.”

"Huh? But my ID card and household registration both list me as Lin Jie." Lin Jie said to Lin Changping, "So just call me Lin Jie. To be honest, I really don't like the name Ying Jie. And I don't plan to change my name."

The reason Lin Changping addressed Lin Jie as Lin Yingjie at this point was quite simple. He was indirectly telling Lin Jie that the Lin family had accepted him. However, he hadn't expected that the little boy Lin Jie, whether genuinely oblivious or simply unwilling to answer, would either fail to grasp the meaning. He could only sigh helplessly and say, "Alright, in that case, we'll call you that when you decide to accept the name Yingjie."

"Oh, you're more comfortable just calling me Lin Jie," Lin Jie replied.

As they were talking, the two of them suddenly found themselves in front of an antique-style building.

"Is this where the Ancestor lived?" Lin Jie asked.

“That’s right, let’s go in.” Lin Changping said, leading Lin Jie into the building.

After the three entered and exited the building, they met the Lin family patriarch in a room.

"Ancestor, I've brought Lin Jie with me," Lin Changping said to the ancestor.

"Sit down and talk," the Lin family patriarch said, beckoning two wooden chairs that flew to Lin Jie and Lin Changping's feet. After they were both seated, the patriarch addressed Lin Jie, "I never imagined that our Lin family would produce such a prodigy as you! Even I wouldn't have dared to easily withstand that strike you delivered today."