Su Ming finished speaking and left immediately without waiting for the Lin Family members to speak again. Lin You was the young master of the Lin Family, after all. His words carried a certain amount of weight. Until Su Ming and the others left, the Lin Family members sighed with regret. "A thousand years, You'er, you were too impulsive!" "At worst we would have fought it out with them, when has our Lin Family ever feared trouble!" "True, heroes only contend for the dawn and dusk; You'er, you shouldn't have agreed." Lin You spread his hands. "What else could I do if I didn't agree?" "Did you really expect us to fight to the death with them?" "Enlarge your perspective; our Lin Family has made it this far not for the sake of petty pride." A trace of gratification appeared in Lin Tao's eyes. The child had grown up. With such a perspective, he could rest easy even if the Lin Family were handed over to him. At the same time, however, a pang of heartache surfaced in Lin Tao's eyes. For a moment he didn't know what to say, and finally could only step forward to grip Lin You's shoulders. "Child..." "I've wronged you." "But don't you worry, even if we tighten our belts, we'll give you every last bit of cultivation resources." Lin You looked slightly puzzled. "Brother Tao, what's the situation?" "Didn't we plunder quite a bit from the Five Great Families earlier?" "There's no need for us to be this pitiful, is there." Lin Tao shook his head and said earnestly: "You brat don't run a household, so you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are." "When there's incoming revenue, it's enough." "But now all eight of us old fogies have to break through to the Martial Immortal Realm, and we still have to support your cultivation." "With only outgoings and no income, how many days can what we have last?" Lin You's eyes lit up. "Breakthrough!" "You all need to break through right now, the faster the better!" Second Elder Lin Dong waved a large sleeve and flatly refused. "Nonsense." "If all eight of us are to break through to the Martial Immortal Realm, just how many cultivation resources will that consume." "What is a brat like you going to do?" Anxiety welled up in Lin You's heart. He desperately wanted to make the secrets of the system known to all. He smote his thigh in frustration. "Uncle!" "Just listen to me on this." "Hurry up and break through to the Martial Immortal Realm!" Several of the uncles waved their hands repeatedly, and even began discussing countermeasures. Eventually they decided that four of them would break through in realm first. The remaining four would wait until a thousand years later. All the surplus cultivation resources would be given to You'er. Lin You stood to the side, completely unable to get a word in edgewise, and could only let his mouth twitch. You want to break through a thousand years later? Was he supposed to stop playing the game altogether! Driven to desperation with no other choice, Lin You could only say: "Actually, I lied to you." As soon as those words were spoken. Everyone turned around in unison. "I knew it!" "You brat definitely couldn't stomach this humiliation." "Spit it out, when are we getting ready to make a move? Your Eighth Master is going with you!" The other elders also rolled up their sleeves, looking ready for a brawl at any moment. Lin You staggered half a step. "I'm not talking about that!" "What I mean is, there's a reason why my cultivation has been progressing so fast." Lin Tao looked him up and down suspiciously, speaking in a deep voice: "What reason?" Lin You raised a hand, and the [Yellow Emperor Sword Canon] appeared in his palm. With a solemn expression and extreme mystery, he said, "I received the true inheritance of a mighty expert!" "Countless cultivation resources were left inside!" "That's why I've been able to advance a thousand miles a day!" —Boom. Everyone was completely dumbfounded. Looking at the heaven-grade cultivation manual in Lin You's hand, they finally remembered. That's right. Where on earth did this kid get a heaven-grade cultivation manual from! "Holy crap, and here I was wondering how You'er could be such a prodigy!" "Holy mother of... No wonder he reached the True Fire Refining Spirit Realm at eighteen, it turns out he had a secret stash privately!" "What level of mighty expert, the Martial Immortal Realm? Or the Martial God Realm?" Lin You looked at everyone and bit the bullet, saying: "Higher than that!" Second Elder Lin Dong was dumbfounded as well. Higher? He swallowed a mouthful of spittle and asked uncertainly, "Could it be... the True Immortal Realm?" In order to let everyone break through with peace of mind. Lin You had no choice but to say, "Higher, even higher!" This time. Even Lin Tao couldn't sit still; he hurriedly raised his hand to cast restrictions over the entire Lin Family estate. "An inheritance even more powerful than a True Immortal Realm mighty expert." "Could it have already reached the True God Realm?" "You'er... you mustn't talk nonsense!" "An opportunity of this magnitude is enough to change the entire Lin Family!" With a sharp slap, Lin You slammed the heaven-grade cultivation manual onto the table as if it were worthless. "Stop asking!" "Anyway, it's higher than you can imagine." "The most urgent task right now is to hurry up and break through to the Martial Immortal Realm." "If we can't stand tall for even a single day, we'll be bullied for a single day." "Once we have strength, what is there to fear from those pathetic Su Family members?" Everyone stared at the heaven-grade cultivation manual on the table, their hearts feeling as though they were on fire. Their very hearts began to race wildly. The power of a single heaven-grade cultivation manual was enough to drive a Mid-Third Grade Family mad! Lin You'd been able to leap realms and slay someone at the Martial Dao Profound Realm entirely thanks to his formidable divine abilities! To say the future of the Lin Family was pinned on this would be no exaggeration at all. Lin Tao laboriously averted his gaze from the manual. "You'er..." "Keep this manual... for yourself." There was an unwritten rule in the world of cultivators. One's personal opportunities were meant to be kept for oneself. Even for beloved family and friends, there was no reason to share them. It was much like an egg. If you were the only person in the entire world to possess a single egg, that egg would be worth a thousand pieces of gold. But if everyone had one. The egg would become worthless. Lin You said indifferently, "Just hurry up and break through already." "The manual was meant to be left for everyone in the first place!" Second Elder Lin Dong squirmed a little, his gaze toward the heaven-grade cultivation manual carrying a trace of heat. Yet he still forcibly suppressed the impulse within his heart. "You'er, this isn't right!" "A heaven-grade cultivation manual—it would be a waste for a bunch of old fogies like us to cultivate it." Lin You's temper flared up. Was there really such a kind of person, dammit. He simply feigned picking up the [Yellow Emperor Sword Canon] and made a motion as if to tear it apart. "You all refuse to cultivate it, is that it?" "Your perspectives are all so small; I'm doing this for the sake of the Lin Family." "If I don't rely on you all to hold off the Su Family, are you expecting an eighteen-year-old kid to do it instead?" "Fine!" "If you refuse to cultivate and refuse to break through, I can't argue with you." "I'm going to tear this manual up right now!" In an instant, all eight elders moved in unison. In less than half a breath, eight aged arms were holding Lin You down tightly. Holy mother of... Weren't they all about not caring? They had even used void-crossing movement skills for this! "We'll cultivate, we'll cultivate, all right?" "Haha, kid, I like your domineering attitude!" "This is a heaven-grade cultivation manual, after all. Fine, we'll humor you this once and all of us will break through." Old Lin Tao's face was piled with smiles. Who didn't like a heaven-grade cultivation manual? Even a stray dog would take two looks at it before walking away. "You'er is right; we old bones lack ambition and enterprise." "Are we really going to make him resist the Su Family?" "Once we truly have strength, to hell with the so-called rules—fists do the talking!" With Lin Tao taking the lead, everyone finally unified their stance completely. Ten thousand alpacas stampeded through Lin You's heart... What was with all that modesty earlier... "Fine." "Since you've all said so, I can rest easy." "Respected uncles, I'm going off to cultivate." Everyone nodded repeatedly. Yet before Lin You could even step into the secret chamber to enter secluded cultivation. An aura surged into the sky from behind him. Brother Tao. Martial Immortal Realm! Dumbfounded, Lin You turned his head back, only to be met with Brother Tao's simple, rustic smile. The latter was currently holding the [Yellow Emperor Sword Canon], having just flipped past a few pages.
He rubbed the back of his head with rather embarrassed sheepishness.
"I've been suppressed for too long."
"I accidentally broke through!"
Accidentally?
Lin You roared on the inside.
What about guarding the Dao?
What about state-of-mind comprehension?
What about closed-door cultivation?
You just break through whenever you feel like it!
You really are a genius!
Before he could even speak, his second uncle Lin Dong broke through as well.
In an instant, the void shattered.
Another Martial Immortal.
What the fuck?
At this moment, Lin You's gaze was just like the one they had given him before.
"Freak!"
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