The Inheritance of the Fiend Body

Lin Family training ground.

As Lin Dong walked over from Cang Wu's quiet courtyard, he actually heard the sounds of people fighting not far away. Curious, he immediately went over to take a look.

On the training ground, Lin Qingtan, dressed in a black skirt, was currently exchanging blows with a young man Lin Dong had never seen before.

The young man looked fairly young, and his clothes appeared quite luxurious. His strength was impressive as well; to have already reached the Lesser Yuan Dan Realm at such an age showed that his talent was extraordinary.

However, although the young man was clearly already at the Lesser Yuan Dan Realm, he was being beaten back step by step by Lin Qingtan, whose strength was only at the late Earth Yuan Realm.

Lin Qingtan's attacks were extremely crisp and efficient. Though she had no weapon in hand, when her slender palms moved, the sharp momentum they carried was astonishing.

What shocked the young man even more was that Lin Qingtan clearly only possessed Earth Yuan Realm strength, yet the Primal Energy inside her body was strangely troublesome. Even with his Lesser Yuan Dan Realm Primal Energy, he suffered quite a bit every time they clashed.

Bang! Bang!

Lin Qingtan struck down with both palms. Although the young man blocked them, the eruption of sinister Yin energy still made his movements pause slightly.

It was this instant of hesitation that Lin Qingtan seized. She stepped in close, pressed both hands against his chest, and sent the young man flying.

"Pfft!"

While he was still in midair, the young man spat out a mouthful of blood. Before it even hit the ground, it had already frozen into blood-colored ice crystals.

"Don't think you can act high and mighty just because you're from some inner clan. This isn't a place where you get to run wild!"

After defeating him, Lin Qingtan did not continue attacking. She merely gave a cold snort and spoke.

The young man slowly got to his feet and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. A few young men in similar clothing hurried over to support him, but he flung them off with one motion.

"Brother Lin Feng, her strength is too strange. We should go back and ask Brother Lin Chen to come."

One young man spoke in a low voice. It could be seen that although their clothes were luxurious, they were covered in quite a bit of dust and looked somewhat wretched.

The young man named Lin Feng gave an indignant cold snort, but in the end, he said nothing. He simply turned and left.

Only after watching those people leave did Lin Dong reveal himself and come to Lin Qingtan's side, asking softly, "Qingtan, what's with those guys?"

"Brother Lin Dong!"

Seeing Lin Dong walk over, Lin Qingtan's face first lit up with delight, and she called out to him affectionately.

But after hearing Lin Dong's question, Lin Qingtan's fine brows immediately furrowed, and she said rather angrily, "You mean those annoying ghosts? They all came from the Lin Clan."

"The Lin Clan?"

Lin Dong was momentarily stunned when he heard this, then quickly understood. These people had probably come here because of the Ancient Tomb Mansion.

Lin Qingtan nodded lightly and explained softly, "Not long ago, a group of people came looking for Grandpa. They said they were from the inner clan of the Lin Clan. Grandpa was really happy, and he seemed to know the old man leading them. I couldn't sit still, so I came out."

"In the end, as soon as I got here, I saw those bastards bullying people from our Lin Family, so I stepped in and taught them a lesson. Judging by how those bastards looked, they're probably going to tattle."

As Lin Qingtan spoke, she could not help giving another light snort, looking rather indignant.

Clearly, before Lin Qingtan had made her move, some other unpleasant things had probably happened that had provoked her anger.

And when she mentioned them tattling, there was no trace of worry on Lin Qingtan's face. She truly was not afraid of them complaining.

Putting aside whether Lin Zhentian would get angry after hearing about it, even if he did get angry, he would not dare punish Lin Qingtan.

That was because over these past few months, Lin Qingtan and Lin Dong had both been cultivating under Cang Wu. Moreover, unlike the hands-off way he treated Lin Dong, Cang Wu paid slightly more attention to Lin Qingtan. Sometimes, when he was bored, he would even give her a few pointers.

"Didn't expect this, Qingtan. Your strength seems to be growing pretty fast."

Lin Dong smiled unconcernedly, then instead looked at Lin Qingtan with some curiosity and asked.

During this period, Lin Dong was either going into the mountains to fight demonic beasts, or returning home and throwing himself into cultivation, converting the insights from his tempering into his own strength.

Ever since Lin Dong had followed Cang Wu's guidance inside the Ancestral Stone Space and found an inheritance related to the Fiend Body, he had not paid much attention to Lin Qingtan's cultivation.

On top of that, the recent eruptions of sinister energy in Lin Qingtan's body seemed to have gradually come under her own control, so Lin Dong felt even more at ease and focused wholeheartedly on his own cultivation.

"Hehe, right? When I fought Father a while ago, I even defeated him!"

Lin Qingtan said with great pride. In her eyes, being able to defeat Lin Xiao, who was at the Lesser Yuan Dan Realm, was something worth showing off.

Of course, Lin Xiao's strength was indeed not bad. After all, he had all sorts of martial arts Lin Dong had given him that had been perfected by the Ancestral Stone, and his own talent was decent as well. With a solid foundation, he could be considered above average among those in the same realm.

However, what Lin Qingtan did not know was that the inheritance she possessed had an origin that was far from simple. It was something Cang Wu had created back then to teach the Ice Master.

Yes. Like Lin Qingtan, the Ice Master also possessed a Fiend Body.

Or rather, the reason this physique had been recorded at all was because of the Ice Master. Since ancient times, only one person had ever possessed the Fiend Body, and that person was the Ice Master.

When Cang Wu had taught the Ice Master back then, he had been able to use Devouring Power to help her resolve the cold energy erupting from the Fiend Body, but the Ice Master just refused to accept his help.

At that time, Cang Wu was already a famed romantic talent throughout the Heavenly Profound Continent. The Ice Master felt that being enveloped by the Devouring Power was far too intimate, and she could not accept it in her heart, so she simply endured the eruptions of cold energy from the Fiend Body by sheer force.

Forced into having no other choice, Cang Wu personally went to the Extreme North, gave up all resistance, and endured the torment of cold energy invading his body for half a month before finally creating this method of control.

Perhaps she truly was fated with the Extreme North. Later, after the Ice Master underwent reincarnation, the Ice Ancestor Talisman actually went to the Extreme North on its own.

No one knew whether this was the will of the Ice Ancestor Talisman's spirit, or an order the Ice Master had given the Ice Ancestor Talisman before her reincarnation.

It was worth mentioning that the Eight Ancient Lords were the first controllers of the Eight Great Ancestral Talismans. Therefore, the Eight Ancient Lords themselves had an enormous influence over the spirits of the Eight Great Ancestral Talismans.

This was also why Cang Wu paid slightly more attention to Lin Qingtan.

(It is said that at the very beginning, Lin Qingtan was set as the reincarnation of the Ice Master. It was only changed to avoid overlapping with Gu Xun'er's character setup. Here, it is set so that Lin Qingtan's Fiend Body is an external manifestation of the concentration of the Ice Spirit Clan bloodline to which the Ice Master belonged. In other words, the two of them are from the same clan.)