Checking In at Ironwood Manor-Even Rewards from The Great Ruler?

After hearing Lin Ken's words, Lin Xiao, standing beside him, also looked at Lin Yan with curiosity.

Just like Lin Ken before him, Lin Xiao had hurried over and seen Lin Yan go toe-to-toe with Lei Ying, even gaining a slight upper hand.

So at this moment, Lin Xiao was also wondering whether this child, Lin Yan, had really entered the Heaven Origin Realm.

If he had, that would be downright outrageous.

After all, he had been cultivating for less than a year, at most.

And yet, in just one year, he had practically fast-forwarded from the Body Tempering Realm straight to the Heaven Origin Realm. That pace was truly monstrous.

"No."

"Uncle Lin Ken."

"Actually, I'm still in the Late Earth Origin Realm."

But Lin Yan shook his head at Lin Ken and Lin Xiao and explained to them.

"Late Earth Origin Realm?"

"That's still pretty good."

The two were naturally a little disappointed. Lin Ken offered Lin Yan a few words of reassurance.

But he soon realized something was wrong.

His gaze turned even more shocked than before.

"Wait, Lin Yan. You mean to say that you're only in the Late Earth Origin Realm, yet you could fight Lei Ying, who's in the Early Heaven Origin Realm, to a standstill—even suppress him a little?"

Lin Xiao was dumbfounded when Lin Ken pointed it out.

"Exactly! Lin Yan, how did you manage to beat someone in the Heaven Origin Realm while you're only in the Late Earth Origin Realm? That makes no sense at all!"

Lin Xiao said, unable to understand.

After all, as a Heaven Origin Realm martial artist, he knew just how enormous the gap between the Heaven Origin Realm and the Earth Origin Realm was.

Whether in physical strength or the purity of their Yuan Power, Heaven Origin Realm martial artists were far stronger than those in the Earth Origin Realm.

Put simply, even if a Heaven Origin Realm martial artist was only in the early stage, the gap between him and a Late Earth Origin Realm martial artist was even greater than the gap between a Late Earth Origin Realm martial artist and one in the early stage of the Earth Origin Realm!

So when Lin Ken pointed this out, Lin Xiao immediately spotted the problem. He stared at Lin Yan, his eyes filled with astonishment.

"I can only say I got lucky."

"Or maybe Lei Ying is relatively weak for someone in the Heaven Origin Realm?"

Lin Yan scratched his head and gave Lin Ken and Lin Xiao an awkward grin.

The two shook their heads solemnly and replied with certainty, "No. Lei Ying isn't weak for someone in the Early Heaven Origin Realm."

"If anything, you're the freakishly strong one, kid."

At that, Lin Ken and Lin Xiao broke into smiles.

The gloom that had weighed on them after Ironwood Manor was destroyed quickly vanished!

They couldn't help saying, "It's infuriating that Ironwood Manor was destroyed."

"But having Lin Yan in our Lin Clan makes us feel incredibly fortunate."

"Luck has a way of balancing itself out. With a child like you in the Lin Clan, we can put up with a little bad luck now and then."

Lin Yan smiled but said nothing more.

He wasn't the sort to show off. Most of the time, he preferred to keep a low profile.

So he didn't carry on with their praise.

Lin Xiao and Lin Ken hadn't just met Lin Yan, either.

They knew that although his strength and talent were terrifying, he was also frighteningly low-key.

So once they realized Lin Yan didn't want to draw attention to himself, they let the subject drop. After all, Lin Yan now meant a great deal to the Lin Clan, and they had to consider his feelings.

"First, go inspect the Ironwood Forest Domain inside Ironwood Manor and see how badly it's been damaged!"

Lin Ken turned and gave the other Lin Clan guards their orders.

"Yes!"

The Lin Clan members promptly answered and began their inspection.

But the report they brought back was far from good—in fact, it was downright terrible. After hearing it, both Lin Ken's and Lin Xiao's faces darkened completely.

The news soon made its way back to the Lin Clan.

As expected, Lin Zhentian, who had immediately rushed to Ironwood Manor after hearing the news, flew into a rage.

Outside the hall, Lin Ken and Lin Xiao heard Lin Zhentian's furious roars from within and exchanged bitter smiles. Lin Ken then said to Lin Xiao, "Looks like it'll take Father a long time to cool down."

"Third Brother, let's stay out of his way for now. If we go in now, we'll probably get an earful too."

"Let's wait until Father's anger has passed before telling him about Yan'er. Once he hears about Yan'er, his troubled mood should lift a little."

Lin Xiao nodded at Lin Ken, fully agreeing with him.

Meanwhile, Lin Yan, who was sitting with Lin Dong on top of a steep cliff, couldn't help twitching at the corner of his mouth.

Even he had never seen Lin Zhentian fly into such a rage before.

"Ah, I'm still not strong enough. I need to keep working hard."

"Even beating someone in the Early Heaven Origin Realm took that much effort. I'm still way too weak."

Lin Yan couldn't help sighing. Thinking of the powerful Lei Clan he would have to face in the future—and how, in the original story, the Lei Clan had even allied with others to destroy the Lin Clan—he became increasingly aware of how inadequate his strength was.

But when Lin Dong heard those words, he couldn't help twitching at the corner of his mouth.

"Big Brother Lin Yan, you're seriously inhuman."

"With strength like yours, you still think you're weak?"

"I might as well quit cultivating. I'm just embarrassing myself."

Lin Dong looked at Lin Yan with a deeply aggrieved expression.

Lin Yan gave an awkward laugh and said nothing more.

He soon told Lin Dong, "Little Brother Lin Dong, I'm going to take a walk around for a bit. Listening to Grandpa roar the whole time is kind of stuffy."

Lin Dong nodded, stood up, and asked Lin Yan, "Want me to come with you?"

Lin Yan shook his head. "No, I have something else to take care of."

Lin Dong rolled his eyes at Lin Yan. "Tch, fine then! Always being so secretive."

The two soon went their separate ways.

As for Lin Yan, he quickly started wandering around Ironwood Manor.

He was doing this, of course, to check in at Ironwood Manor.

He didn't know the exact location where he had to check in, so he could only wander around and hope for the best.

And why had he sent Lin Dong away? Obviously, he didn't want him discovering his secret.

Lin Yan wandered around Ironwood Manor for quite a while.

At first, he'd worried that he might not be able to check in here.

But the system didn't disappoint him.

When Lin Yan reached a small grove that was still intact, the system's voice suddenly rang out. Hearing it, Lin Yan stopped in his tracks.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have checked in at Ironwood Manor!]

[Reward: Samsara Death Seal!]

[Origin: Great Thousand World!]

Lin Yan had assumed that this time's reward would once again come from the Dou Qi Continent. After all, that was where his previous rewards had come from!

But when he heard the system announce the reward, he couldn't help freezing for a moment.

He quickly realized that the reward the system had given him this time wasn't from the Dou Qi Continent at all. It was a reward from the Great Thousand World in The Great Ruler?