Lin Clan

Biodata

Background

The Green Sun Town Lin Clan was founded by Lin Zhentian after he was expelled from the Lin Family’s inner branch for a failed mission that caused heavy losses. Exiled to Green Sun Town, he built the clan from nothing and spent decades seeking a way back into the inner family. 4 7

Although a branch of one of the Great Yan Dynasty’s Four Great Clans, the Green Sun Town Lin Clan began as a comparatively modest local force. Its path back to the inner family depended on the decennial Lin Family Clan Gathering, where any participant who reached the top ten could enter the inner family regardless of branch origin or prior disgrace. 4

Leadership and Members

Strength and Resources

History

Clan Competition and Hunt

Lin Ge’s appearance transformed the clan’s prospects. He entered the Lin Clan competition as an obscure youth, stunned the spectators with a sword strike performed without Yuan Power, then withdrew and left Lin Dong as champion. Lin Zhentian saw in him a possible route for the clan’s return to the inner family. 9

Lin Zhentian subsequently brought Lin Ge into the Green Sun Town hunt, hoping the prodigy could improve the clan’s long-standing poor performance against the Lei and Xie clans. Lin Ge defeated Lei Li, Xie Yingying, and Wu Yun with a single sword, greatly raising the clan’s standing. 10 17

Conflict with the Lei and Xie Clans

Lin Ge’s breakthrough to the Heaven Origin Realm made him a direct threat to the Lei and Xie clans. Lei Bao attempted to kill him at the Beast Horn Arena, prompting Lin Zhentian and Lin Xiao to defend him and escalating the confrontation into a three-faction standoff. 20 21 22

The Lin Clan formally aligned with the Mad Blade Martial Hall. In return for cultivation resources, Lin Ge promised to safeguard the martial hall for one hundred years, giving the alliance a powerful deterrent against its rivals. 23 24 28

After the Lei and Xie clans intensified their economic suppression and prepared to exterminate the Lin Clan, Lin Ge—now at the Origin Pellet Realm—led the Lin Clan and Mad Blade Martial Hall in an assault on the Lei Clan estate. The conflict exposed hidden Heaven Origin Realm experts from both enemy clans before ending with the destruction of the Lei and Xie clans. 28 29 30 33 34

Lin Ge argued against a broad purge of the defeated clans’ surviving members, confident that the Lin Clan and its allies would continue to outgrow any remaining threat. 34

Later Main-Branch Ties

At the Great Wastelands Ancient Tablet, Lin Clan Main Branch elders recognized Lin Ge as a Lin descendant and attempted to claim him for the main family. Lin Ge rejected their accusation that helping the Huangpu Clan constituted betrayal, stating that the main branch’s authority over him had become meaningless after his father’s death. 104 105

The Main Branch later stated that it had brought Lin Zhentian’s entire lineage into its ranks and planned to persuade Lin Ge to return as well. 126

Relationships

• Lin Family / Lin Clan Main Branch — Parent family. Lin Zhentian founded the Green Sun Town branch after expulsion from its inner branch and worked for decades to regain recognition. 4
• Mad Blade Martial Hall — Formal ally against the Lei and Xie clans; Lin Ge guaranteed the hall a century of protection in exchange for breakthrough resources. 23 24
• Lei Clan — Long-time local rival that economically suppressed the Lin Clan and attempted to kill Lin Ge; destroyed in the subsequent allied offensive. 28 29 30 34
• Xie Clan — Allied with the Lei Clan against the Lin Clan and joined its plan of extermination; likewise destroyed after the Green Sun Town conflict. 29 33 34