The Lin Family and Broken Saber Sect had nearly been wiped out on this expedition to suppress bandits.
Only Lin Shou, Yan Que, and a handful of others had escaped back, gravely wounded. Everyone else had perished in the operation.
Lin Shou had lost an arm, Yan Que was seriously injured, and the rest were barely clinging to life.
The news soon reached the city and spread rapidly throughout White Stone City like a peal of thunder.
The outcome left countless people who had previously thought highly of the Lin Family utterly astonished. They had expected casualties in the bandit-suppression campaign, but they hadn't imagined they would be this severe.
So much so that when some people first heard the news, they could hardly believe it.
However, as the survivors came to their senses, the full picture gradually emerged.
The Lin Family's party had been ambushed by Lianyun Stronghold in the woods along the road to Lin Family Fortress. They had suffered some losses, but nothing too serious.
Later, the two sides had clashed in earnest.
Zhu Hu had fought Lin Fu and displayed the strength of a Practice Force Perfection warrior, killing Lin Fu.
At the same time, a mysterious expert had fought Yan Zheng and killed him in fewer than ten moves.
With Lin Fu and Yan Zheng dead, the morale of the Lin Family and Broken Saber Sect plummeted. Then two Practice Force Perfection experts emerged from Lianyun Stronghold, and the Lin Family's forces collapsed like a landslide.
Unfortunately, Lianyun Stronghold had long been prepared, laying ambush after ambush. If Lin Shou hadn't sacrificed an arm to carve a path through the enemy, perhaps not a single person would have made it out alive.
Even so, nearly everyone who escaped had been seriously injured.
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