Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 566 - 560 Seed 3

Chapter 566: Chapter 560 Seed 3

Steam rose in the misty bathhouse, where the hot water churned, emitting a gurgling sound of bubbles.

Surrounded by high stacks of rocks and artificial mountains.

Lin Xin supported Lin Yaoyang, laying him flat on a rattan chair by the edge of the bath.

Lin Yaoyang’s consciousness was beginning to blur, but his eyes were still tearfully looking at Lin Xin, with black stockings rubbing against each other, pushing the skirt even higher.

"Heh... hehe... What do you want to do?" Lin Yaoyang said with a silly smile, completely destroying the amorous mood with one remark.

"Are you trying to... get on me?~~~"

Bang!

With an expressionless face, Lin Xin lifted her head out of the water with one hand. Water flowed down her long hair.

Lin Yaoyang began to cough loudly, her face wet, and though her cheeks were still flushed, her senses had clearly become sharper.

"Feeling better?" Lin Xin asked with concern.

"Better... much better..." Lin Yaoyang opened her eyes wide in speechlessness, looking at her younger brother.

Thinking back to what she had just said, she also felt her face heat up with embarrassment.

"Then bathe yourself." Lin Xin stood up, casually tossing the jade slip to her. "I don’t need this thing, so don’t do anything foolish in the future. I have my own path and don’t need you directing me."

The jade slip fell onto the water before Lin Yaoyang with a slap, floating up.

Her mind still somewhat groggy, she stared blankly at her younger brother’s departing figure.

"Isn’t it just keeping the good stuff within the family... after all, we aren’t blood siblings..." she muttered under her breath.

"I’ll keep this for now, you’ll come asking for it eventually," she grasped the jade slip.

For the Miblood Clan, sibling relationships with the same father but different mothers were acceptable, there were even cases of full siblings marrying each other, all for the sake of maintaining the family’s blood purity.

So even if the two siblings were to have a union and later have children to inherit the Lin Family, at most they would receive some reproach, but that would be all.

For the Miblood Clan, there was nothing too serious about it.

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Upon leaving the bathhouse, Lin Xin looked back at the entire sect’s manor house.

In the afternoon sunset, the whole Lin Family estate seemed to be shrouded in a thin veil of death qi.

Gloomy, dark, without any vitality.

A small patrol team of the family’s experts passed not far from him, their eyes also lifeless, as if their essence qi was extremely low.

"Ah... Yue’er, why are you standing here alone... your clothes are still dripping wet."

A familiar female voice suddenly came from behind.

Lin Xin turned around and saw Yuan Wanqing being carried in a sedan chair, which was right behind him, looking at him with concern in her eyes.

But just like the others, her eyes were dull and lusterless. Her whole being seemed to be enveloped in a shroud of death qi.

"It turns out to be Mother. Have you returned?" Lin Xin bowed slightly in greeting.

"Yes, I’ve just returned..." Yuan Wanqing said softly. She was still so gentle, but now that gentleness seemed a bit hollow.

"Then Mother should head back to her room and rest early," Lin Xin said with a frown, speaking softly.

"You should also go and change your clothes, be careful not to catch a cold."

Yuan Wanqing let down the sedan’s curtain, and the sedan carriers, rising, smoothly brushed past Lin Xin, entering the courtyard.

Watching Yuan Wanqing go in, Lin Xin snapped back to his senses.

It wasn’t just Yuan Wanqing; even the sedan carriers were enveloped in death qi.

"What’s happening?"

He furrowed his brows.

The underground Seal, Secret Blood, and death qi—what exactly was the connection between the three?

The people of the Lin Family manor were becoming somewhat abnormal, and he could clearly feel that everyone seemed to be lacking in essence qi.

Except for him and his sister Lin Yaoyang.

"Could it be some kind of scheme from Xia?"

He narrowed his eyes.

"But with his level, he shouldn’t be doing such trivial acts."

He didn’t care about the others, but Yuan Wanqing was his mother in this life, and regardless of anything, he needed to clear up this matter.

Death qi was no trivial matter; once it shrouds someone, it signifies that the person is close to death.

"It seems I can no longer suppress myself..."

His eyes firmed up, and he turned to leave.

The situation the Lin Family faced required a rapid restoration of his peak strength from his previous life, as his current body was not strong enough to handle more difficulties.

He had originally planned to strengthen his foundation quietly without drawing attention, but it seemed that he could no longer wait for natural progression.

Now it appeared that he had to solve the death qi issue as soon as possible, otherwise his mother in this life might be in danger.

Moreover, he didn’t like the feeling of being used as a pawn.

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Lin Shangxiu stood with hands behind her back, watching the several pairs of clan juniors practicing their swordsmanship on the open ground. Yet her gaze seemed to drift elsewhere.

"Family Head, Family Head?"

Her deputy called her several times before she snapped back to reality.

"The tenth group has finished their martial demonstration and is waiting for your evaluation," the deputy said softly.

Lin Shangxiu nodded slightly and made some casual remarks before letting the clan members leave.

She had been contemplating the meaning behind the words of that contact person.

Qiushi, though not as powerful as the strongest major sects, was an extremely troublesome and dangerous place nobody from the outside world wanted to come to.

You see, not only was half of an Evil God sealed here, but there was also a massive formation created by utilizing the power of all the sealed Evil Gods.

No one knew the terrifying existence within.

It was precisely for this reason that even the most powerful sects from the outside world dared not meddle in the affairs of Qiushi.

And this group of powers...

Originally, they were supposed to support her in the struggle for the position of Family Head with resources and other means, but now...

Lin Shangxiu furrowed her brows.

"They actually dared to send people in... What exactly are these people plotting..."

However, none of these mattered. She too was one of the Miblood, albeit only a secondary one. The secondary Miblood of the previous generation naturally no longer had much power.

But if those people’s method really worked, then she would become the first secondary Miblood to inherit the position of Family Head of the Seal!

"That flaw... that fatal weakness..." A spark of ambition flickered in Lin Shangxiu’s eyes.

"It has to succeed... it must, as long as Lin Yaoyang loses control, the clan will definitely not let her remain Family Head, then it will be my time to step forward."

"Are you ready?"

A deep, sinister voice suddenly penetrated her ears.

"Of course, everything’s ready. But from your side, how high is the chance of success?" Lin Shangxiu coldly thought back.

"Don’t worry, when the time comes, the heads of the Ling Family, Kong Family, and Duanqing Family will return. Silently and without a trace, you can take the position of Family Head. Even if it fails, the Wind of Death will not make a mistake."

A chill settled in Lin Shangxiu’s heart.

She hadn’t expected that even the Family Heads of these three families had already been quietly usurped, and now they were even coordinating with her organization.

The power of this organization was no small matter; no wonder there had been no major casualties reported in these three families’ territories for so many years.

With this organization backing them, their strength was naturally far beyond that of a regular Sealing Clan.

"Are all three families our own people?" Lin Shangxiu regretted it slightly, as she had planned to let go of this organization after the success. She didn’t expect the other party to be so powerful.

"Correct, the three Family Heads will give their all to help you secure the Seal," said the voice gravely.

"Don’t think too much. In the Society of Exterminating Worlds, we have already won over more than seventy percent of the great clans. This operation is bound to succeed."

Seventy percent!

Lin Shangxiu’s pupils constricted.

After a long while, she slowly exhaled.

"I understand..."

"We have no intention of taking over your influence in Qiushi. What we need is the combined sealing power of your union for strategic deployment. So you don’t have to worry about becoming an empty puppet, and we demand the same of the other families," said the voice, as if understanding her concerns.

"I understand."

Lin Shangxiu nodded slightly.

"When is the time set?"

"The Day of Offering to the Gods, next year’s Day of Offering to the Gods." The deep voice finished speaking and slowly fell silent.

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Lin Xin sat cross-legged in his room, the candlelight from two candles flickering unsteadily, dimming and brightening intermittently.

It had been three days since Lin Yaoyang got drunk.

In these three days, he did not suppress the strengthening of his own attributes.

Instead, he took the most torturous route, striving to break through with all his might.

The Rushing Thunder Sword had reached the Seventieth Layer and could advance no further, lacking a Divine Weapon or sufficiently strong Thunder Energy.

The purpose of Thunder Energy, other than acting as a power source, was to temper the physical body.

Lin Xin simply decided to use his attributes as the breakthrough point, intending to forcibly breach the limit of his physical body and then replenish his body with the Positive Yang Technique.

He certainly could not find stronger Thunder Energy for the Rushing Thunder Sword, but over the years, he had been experimenting with another direction, which had yielded some clues.

In the Primordial Times, there were countless deities, and even in the universe, there were countless great beings, each with their own unique frequencies and wavelengths.

If you were close, you could summon their power through matching their frequency. But from afar, even after tuning to their frequency, a significant amount of energy was needed to create resonance and receive a response.

Lin Xin had been attempting to find the frequency of a deity or great being related to the Thunder System, much like how he stumbled upon the frequencies of the Qilin and San Yin Luo.

After trying for several years and with his cultivation practice of the Running Thunder Sword making his outbursts faster and faster, along with using his Sacred Body to research the general wavelengths of Primordial Stars, he had been refining his experimental frequency.

He was gradually finding some clues.

"The waveband of the Running Thunder Sword reaching the frequency of the Mother Star of Yuan Dou, then starting from the smallest frequency I can master, combining three different frequencies of Thunder Energy..."

Lin Xin looked straight ahead into the void.

At this moment, his Sacred Body was seen holding an imaginary sphere in front of him, with a semi-transparent purple orb of light condensed in his palms.

Within the orb, hundreds of red and white dots collided incessantly.

Every two dots that collided would spark and create arcs. The incessant collision of hundreds of dots created a symphony of crackling sounds.

This was an inspiration Lin Xin got from the knowledge acquired on Earth, which he called the Spiritual Particle Collider Furnace.