This matter had only been settled after Lin Qi's death.
Who would have thought that in less than a year, Lin Yu was gone as well.
At a time like this, Great Aunt Lin had no heart to choose another heir.
The Lin Family had thought that if they shut their doors and stayed inside, the cultivators outside would be unable to do anything to them.
After all, the Northern and Southern Heavenly Venerate Mansion possessed formidable defenses, with layer upon layer of barriers stacked together. Unless Golden Yuanzi personally led more than a dozen Mahayana cultivators to attack their gates, there was simply no way to breach it.
But for all Great Aunt Lin's calculations, she had failed to account for the viciousness of those cultivators.
Unable to enter the Northern and Southern Heavenly Venerate Mansion, those cultivators racked their brains to force the Lin Family's cultivators outside.
Their methods grew more excessive by the day, and the most vicious of all was poison!
No one knew how those cultivators had done it, but they had somehow poisoned over a thousand cultivators from the Lin and Gong Families overnight.
The poison was ferocious. Those more deeply poisoned did not even last through the day.
Within a day or two, the infirmary in the Northern and Southern Heavenly Venerate Mansion had been emptied clean. The alchemists and healers were run ragged, their feet never touching the ground, and only barely managed to preserve these people's lives.
Yet as time passed, the poison seeped into their lungs and entrails. In the end, even if there was a way to treat them, they could no longer be saved.
After discussing it with Old Master Gong, Great Aunt Lin used a spell to freeze everyone who had been poisoned, slowing the poison's erosion.