Sixth-grade Family!

After the great battle.

The Lin Family simply rested and recuperated for a few days.

Then the entire lineage relocated.

To put it grandly, the core figures were actually just the eight elders and Lin You.

The Lin Family had no collateral branches.

Nor any long-term following handmaidens or stewards.

As for the original attendants, after giving them ample compensation, they sent them each back to their own homes.

There were also tiers within the sixth-grade star domains.

The Lin Family chose a mediocre star domain to put down roots.

For one, they would not encounter overly powerful lineages, so as not to repeat past mistakes.

After all, outsiders carving up interests was something that would displease whoever it happened to.

Secondly, the Lin Family had, after all, ascended from the lower three star domains.

Several uncles in the lineage had suppressed their cultivation for a long time, and no one had yet broken through to the Martial Immortal realm.

Biding their time and concealing their strength was the proper path.

Mengbo Star Domain.

The Lin Family took root, recruiting handmaidens from the outside on one hand,

and bustling on the other with how to deal with the other three major local lineages.

You'er... you've reached the True Fire Refining Spirit Realm, too.

Why not... settle the marriage first, at least.

After all, you're already eighteen years old, it's about time to start a family.

Inside the grand hall.

Lin Tao sat in the seat of honor, gripping his teacup tightly, and said earnestly.

The further cultivators progressed, the harder it was to conceive progeny.

At the True Fire Refining Spirit Realm, it was still barely in time.

A head full of dark lines tracked across Lin You's forehead.

How long had it been, and they were already urging marriage?

Eighteen years old... was he really that old?

Brother Tao...

There's no rush about getting married, no rush at all.

Lin You gave a haha, wanting to muddle through it.

"How can there be no rush?"

Second Elder Lin Dong slapped his thigh repeatedly.

"Right now, you're the only remaining seedling in the Lin Family, yet you're not in a rush."

"Do you want our Lin Family's line to die out?"

"When you break through to the Martial Dao Profound Connection and the Martial Immortal realm, you won't even be able to have children if you want to."

"We old brothers are still waiting to hold our grandbabies!"

The Eighth Elder nodded repeatedly, as well.

"I previously contacted the Zhao Family Girl in the eighth-grade star domain."

"If you don't fancy her, this uncle will help you scout around some more."

"I even have this Aphrodisiac Powder prepared for you!"

Faced with everyone's successive encirclement and suppression, cold sweat dripped endlessly down Lin You's forehead.

Good grief...

This pressure was greater than fighting ten geniuses at once.

If he refused, he was afraid of breaking his uncles' hearts.

After all, he was the only remaining seedling of the Lin Family.

If he didn't reproduce, were they supposed to expect this bunch of uncles who had lived for thousands of years to do it?

But if he didn't refuse...

At his own rate of progress, to find a currently matched wife—

It wouldn't take two days.

Before long, the two of them wouldn't even belong to the same world.

How could this marriage even be consummated?

"Uncles... I, I'll think about it more," Lin You stammered.

"Nothing wrong with that!"

The Sixth Elder spoke up; he was the first one to stand on Lin You's side.

"What husband should ever worry about lacking a wife?"

"Isn't it just having babies? Tomorrow I'll go to the Star Picking Pavilion to find ten or eight girls for You'er."

"I guarantee he can pop out a whole litter."

Hearing this, the heart that Lin You had just let drop back into his stomach leaped right back up.

What kind of place was the Star Picking Pavilion?

A brothel!

Did they really take him for a stud horse?

Did this world even have AIDS?!

"Nonsense!"

"If you ask me, the Zhao Family Girl is quite decent."

"She's from a prominent household after all, even if their social standings don't quite match."

"But I've heard that the Zhao Family Girl has extremely high natural talent."

"At only sixteen years old, she has already reached the Five Qi Towards Origin Realm, and she's bound to break through to the Martial Immortal realm in the future!"

Second Elder Lin Dong spoke in all seriousness.

Upon hearing this, the uncles nodded repeatedly.

"Not bad."

"Though she's a bit inferior to You'er, with such talent, she can indeed barely match."

"Splendid, I'll go find the Zhao Family right now to deliver betrothal gifts."

As he spoke, the Eighth Elder actually stood up as if he really was about to leave.

Lin You's head swelled to the size of a bucket.

"Don't!"

"I haven't even agreed yet!"

"What are you all rushing for, one by one?"

He slapped his thigh, sitting in the chair like a scoundrel.

If you can't find it by searching the book title, try searching for the author instead; maybe it just changed its name!

"If you want to marry, you marry them!"

"Anyway, I'm not marrying!"

Everyone fell speechless, and silence enveloped the grand hall.

Lin You raised his head in confusion.

Could it be that he had been too aggressive just now and broken his uncles' hearts?

But the next second,

from the sound-transmission jade slip in the Eighth Elder's hand, a female child's roar of utter fury rang out.

"Lin You!"

"You fucking bastard!"

"Since when did I, Zhao Ling'er, become so desperate that nobody wants me even if I throw myself at them!"

"You just wait, sooner or later I'm coming over to sort you out!"

Everyone heard it crystal clear.

Lin You slapped his forehead and rolled his eyes.

He looked speechlessly at Eighth Master.

"You old man really are efficient."

"The moment you finished talking, you contacted someone the very next second."

"Isn't this setting me up to make enemies?"

Everyone curled their lips, unable to hold back their snickers.

The gazes they cast at Lin You were entirely filled with the expression of people waiting for a good show.

That'll teach you to run your mouth off, kid.

Done for now, aren't you?

Once someone actually tracked you down to your doorstep, you couldn't beat them, nor could you out-scold them.

It all boiled down to two words.

No logic!

Lin Tao quietly picked up his teacup, dropping all mention of making babies, and said earnestly:

"Offend anyone... but never offend a woman."

"If someone heard those words of yours, they'd definitely think you were humiliating her."

He took a sip of tea and spat out the tea leaves.

"Two words."

"Troublesome!"

Roars of laughter erupted from everyone.

The Eighth Elder awkwardly closed the sound-transmission jade slip connecting to the Zhao Family.

Right at that moment.

Someone knocked on the door outside the room.

--Thud...

--Thud-thud...

Everyone exchanged glances simultaneously.

The visitors meant no good.

The Eighth Elder stepped forward and pulled open the front door.

Three middle-aged men who looked to be in their forties stood at the threshold.

The man leading them wore luxurious, formal attire, and a scholarly aura pervaded his brow.

He nodded slightly.

"Could you gentlemen be the Lin Family who came from the seventh-grade star domain?"

"Su Ming pays his respects."

The Su Family.

The number one lineage in the Mengbo Star Domain.

On the surface, the Su Family and two other major lineages shared the star domain.

But in reality.

The Su Family's strength surpassed the other three major lineages combined.

"So it is the head of the Su Family."

"Please, come right in."

Lin Tao welcomed them first.

A mighty dragon does not crush a snake in its local waters, and the Lin Family had just ascended to the sixth-grade star domain.

There wasn't a single Martial Immortal realm cultivator in their clan.

They couldn't yet count as a mighty dragon.

Naturally, they had to host them properly.

"This junior greets the Lin Family Head." Su Ming smiled and nodded, walking through the front gates.

"I wouldn't dare; you broke through to the Martial Immortal realm long ago. On the path of cultivation, those who achieve mastery first are seniors." Lin Tao kept his posture very low.

"I merely capitalized on fortune."

"The lower three-grade star domains are suppressed by the Everlasting Families, forbidden from breaking through to the Martial Immortal realm."

"If I had been born in a ninth-grade lineage, I might not necessarily have done better than any of you in the Lin Family."

Su Ming shook his head, walking slowly toward the interior of the grand hall.

As those words landed.

Everyone's hearts instantly sank.

A show of force?

It sounded as though nothing at all had been said.

Yet in his every gesture and movement, he had already displayed the lofty superiority of the Su Family to the utmost.

Citing the lower three grades and ninth-grade star domain at every turn.

Without a doubt, it meant:

I am entirely clear on all your background details.

Lin Tao forced a smile onto his face, pouring the other man a cup of tea first.

"I wonder what brings the Patriarch Su here?"

Su Ming picked up the teacup and took a light sip.

"I've come to chat with you all about this matter of resource distribution."

A slight stir moved through Lin Tao's heart. I'm all ears.

Just as everyone waited quietly for the other man to continue, Su Ming suddenly turned his head and looked at Lin You.

"This must be Lin You, the number one of the Heavenly Pride Competition, right?"

"What a young fellow!"