Late at night, red lanterns hung high in the Lin Family compound of Xinghua Village.
Lin Yuan Kui, the Lin Family patriarch, sat upright in his own small courtyard, his expression shifting between light and shadow.
An inexplicable unease stirred in Lin Yuan Kui's heart. He stared fixedly toward the door and turned his head to ask, "Qingshan, have you still not found any trace of Lin Qingbai?"
Lin Qingshan answered honestly, "Reporting to Patriarch Yuan Kui, we searched the area around our family three or four times, but we still found no trace of Lin Qingshan."
Lin Yuan Kui suddenly recalled how, before he had received news of Lin Jiangye's death, Jiangye too had vanished without a trace for a long time.
"Could it be... Qingbai, like Jiangye, has also met with a cruel death?"
Thinking of this, Lin Yuan Kui shook his head repeatedly. Impossible. Jiangye was merely a minor cultivator at the Third Layer of Qi Refining, so it was not entirely unreasonable that he might be killed for no cause. But Qingbai is a perfected cultivator at the Eighth Layer of the Qi Refining Realm. If anyone in Qingyang County has set their sights on him, Qingbai is no easy target either!
As the head of the Lin Family, Lin Yuan Kui still had a certain degree of confidence in Lin Qingbai's strength.
As long as Lin Qingbai did not encounter a cultivator like Meng Jingshan, who stood half a step into the Foundation Establishment Realm, everything remained within control!
Seeing Lin Yuan Kui deep in thought, Lin Qingshan wanted to offer a few words of advice. "Patriarch Yuan Kui, it is late. You should return and rest first. I will keep watch here, and if there is any news of Qingbai, I will report it