Emperor Lin Emerged from Seclusion

Sea Emperor City, as the largest city in the Eternal Sea, is almost unmatched by any other city in the entire sea area.

Even the largest city is not as large as one percent of the Sea Emperor City, which shows how magnificent the Sea Emperor City is.

Overlooking the entire Sea Emperor City, one can clearly see a series of very conspicuous palaces scattered throughout the city.

The Sea Clan in the Sea Emperor City gathered and lived around these palaces, dividing the entire Sea Emperor City into different areas.

A careful count reveals that the number of palaces in the Sea Emperor City far exceeds one hundred.

In other words, these palaces divided the entire Sea Emperor City into more than one hundred areas.

And it is located in the southeast of the Sea Emperor City.

A palace suddenly burst forth with a dazzling blue light, and the crowd gathered at the palace entrance immediately knelt down upon seeing this.

After an unknown amount of time, a figure slowly emerged from the palace.

A thunderous roar erupted from the kneeling crowd.

"Welcome back Emperor Lin upon his return from seclusion!"

Hearing the continuous cheers, the man nodded in satisfaction and said with a smile, "Hahaha, very good, you all are very kind, I am very pleased!"

Upon hearing this, the crowd below looked up at the figure above.

The man had black hair and beard, and a face as round as a silver plate. If it weren't for his beard, he might have been mistaken for a young boy, giving him a very incongruous appearance.

However, the people below showed no surprise.

One of them quickly walked up the steps, bowed to the Emperor Lin, and said, "Master!"

"Hmm! Did anything happen during the year I was in seclusion?"

"Reporting to Master, nothing major happened during your year of seclusion! However..."

"Hmm? Speak! Don't beat around the bush!"

Junior Brother Hai is dead!

"What?"

The Emperor Lin grabbed the disciple who was reporting and lifted him into the air, "Say it again? Who died?"

The captured disciple, suspended in mid-air, dared not resist and could only manage to stammer, "Master... Master, it's... it's Junior Brother Qing Song!"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Lin's face darkened further. He threw the disciple he was holding to the ground and demanded fiercely, "Speak! What exactly happened? Who has the audacity to kill my disciple?"

The disciple who had been thrown to the ground had barely recovered when he scrambled to Emperor Lin's feet and explained, "It was a message from Hai Yue, Junior Brother Hai's father, a few months ago!"

"Hai Yue? I remember Qing Song's father was the lord of a small town, right? How would he know about Qing Song's murder? Didn't I tell Qing Song not to run around and to focus on his cultivation before I went into seclusion?"

The disciple at his feet quickly replied, "Master, Junior Brother completed the task you assigned him in half a year. After that, having nothing to do, he told me that he had been away from home for a while and wanted to go back to visit!"

"So you're giving your permission?"

Upon hearing this, the disciple's heart skipped a beat, but he still forced himself to speak, "This disciple saw that he had already completed the task you assigned him, Master, and as a disciple of the Emperor Lin, no one in the Eternal Sea should dare to harm him, so I agreed! I didn't expect..."

"Call!"

Emperor Lin breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and his disciples at his feet were finally at ease.

Before he could even rejoice, an astonishing aura erupted from Emperor Lin, sending him flying a hundred meters away.

In mid-air, blood gushed out of his mouth as if it were free.

The crowd below felt a chill run down their spines at the sight. Even when the disciple fell to the ground, no one dared to step forward to help him up. They all looked at Emperor Lin on the high platform with fear in their eyes.

After a moment of contemplation, Emperor Lin turned his gaze toward the disciple he had just knocked away.

The disciple was struggling on the ground, trying to get up, but due to his severe injuries, he could not get up after several attempts.

"Hmph! Useless trash, what are you all still looking at? Senior Brother is injured, don't you know to go help him?"

Upon hearing this, the last few people in the crowd quickly helped the senior disciple, who was still vomiting blood, to Emperor Lin's side.

Looking at his eldest disciple, who was kneeling before him and still coughing up blood, Emperor Lin slowly squatted down.

"As the senior disciple, don't you bear any responsibility for your junior brother's death?"

The eldest disciple, his mouth full of blood, was unable to open his mouth to answer. He could only nod frantically, his eyes filled with fear as he looked at his master.

Seeing his eldest disciple's miserable state, Emperor Lin reached out and patted his face, saying, "If there's a next time, I'll kill you!"

Upon hearing this, the eldest disciple immediately prostrated himself on the ground, spitting out blood as he desperately kowtowed.

His forehead was soon covered in blood.

With a disdainful glance at his eldest disciple who was still kowtowing, Emperor Lin turned and walked into the palace behind him. At the same time, his voice reached the eldest disciple's ears.

"Stop making a fool of yourself here. Hurry up and clean this up. In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, bring all your relatives over!"

After an incense stick had burned, the main hall was filled with the Emperor Lin's personal disciples kneeling in the front hall; there were at least two hundred of them.

At the very front of the crowd, the eldest disciple who had been beaten until he vomited blood was prominently featured.

"Hmm! Everyone's here?"

Emperor Lin did not appear; his voice came from all directions of the front hall.

The leading disciple turned around and looked at the crowd behind him, then cupped his hands in greeting and said to the person in front, "Reporting to Master, apart from those disciples who are away on missions and not in Sea Emperor City, all the personal disciples in the city have come!"

"Well! Now that everyone's here, let's get started! Tell me about Qing Song."

The eldest disciple hurriedly relayed the message Hai Yue had sent earlier, word for word.

After hearing his disciple's description, Emperor Lin suddenly appeared in the main hall.

Looking at the disciples below the stage, Emperor Lin sneered a few times, "Heh, mere Human Clan dare to commit violence in the Eternal Sea and even kill my disciple! How laughable, truly laughable! Do you know why it's laughable?"

Faced with their capricious master, the disciples below dared not utter a word, and even the eldest disciple bowed his head like a quail.

"You don't know, do you? Let me tell you! The ridiculous thing is, after finding out about this, not a single disciple thought of avenging this junior brother! They're all just waiting for me to come out of seclusion! Isn't that laughable!"

The disciples were listening to Emperor Lin's instructions when, unexpectedly, Emperor Lin voice suddenly became more forceful when they heard the last two words.

Upon hearing this, the disciples shuddered, and blood trickled from the corners of their mouths.

The leading disciple, ignoring the blood at the corner of his mouth, quickly bowed his head and said, "Master is right, this disciple has failed! I am willing to accept punishment!"

The disciples behind him naturally followed suit, all bowing their heads and saying the same thing.

Seeing the attitude of his disciples, Emperor Lin's expression actually improved somewhat.

However, there was no trace of teacher-student affection in his eyes when he looked at his disciples below the stage; the indifference was something he wouldn't show even to strangers!