Infinite Swordsea, clan ancestral hall!
Inside the cavernous ancestral hall, memorial tablets stood in dense rows.
They lay hidden within the dark shadows, utterly still. A deathly silence blanketed the entire hall.
In the great hall before the tablets stood rows of crude wooden chairs, yet at this moment, only two of them were occupied.
The two sat facing each other, not far apart.
On the left sat an elderly man, somewhat older in years. He wore a green sword robe, his hair a grayish green, and his tall, slender body stood like an ancient pine.
Having become a Star God, even in old age, starlight still flowed across his body. Every mustard seed within him was like a star; the skin, features, hands, and feet formed from them naturally shimmered with starlight.
His name was Lin Yun. He came from the Lin Clan's Third Sword Branch and had been its branch master in the previous generation.
He was Lin Xiaoyun's father!
Even as Lin Xiaoyun's father, he was actually younger than Lin Xiao. Thus, his pair of gleaming green eyes remained full of vigor.
Opposite him sat a man in a golden robe. He was around the same age as Lin Jie, essentially in the latter half of his life's prime—the strongest stage of a person's life.
His hair and eyes were gold, and even his skin shimmered with golden light, as though coated in a layer of gold dust.
Such a person seemed to have been formed from a converging golden sea of stars. His entire body radiated blazing, unyielding sword intent and Sword Qi. Ordinary people did not even dare approach him.
This man was named Lin Changkong. He was the branch master of the Ninth Sword Branch, a member of the clan ancestral hall, and the