Cultivation Begins with Daily Intelligence Reports

107: Yun Momo’s TribulationsHaving made up his mind, Lin Jingyu got up, straightened his clothes, and pushed the door open to walk out.

Outside the small courtyard, a dozen or so low-level clansmen he had ”punished” by assigning them to patrol were patrolling back and forth with high spirits.

Although it was hard work, compared to the envious and jealous gazes of other clansmen, they felt honored—this was guarding the safety of the Family Head, a sweet job!

Seeing Lin Jingyu come out, everyone bowed respectfully: ”Young Lord Jingyu!”

Lin Jingyu did not know why he was being called Young Lord.

However, this title was not bad, so he did not correct them.

His gaze swept over their dark, honest faces, and he revealed a ”commendatory” smile, saying loudly: ”Not bad, your spirits are high. Keep up the good work! You are currently guarding our Lin Family Head.

Those of you who are guarding faithfully by his side, your family’s spirit fields will definitely be the first batch to be nourished by the ’treasure’ of the Family Head that can increase production by thirty percent!”

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like dropping cold water into boiling oil, and the crowd exploded with excitement!

The patrol members were so excited that their faces turned red, and they chattered, their excitement overflowing:

”Really? Young Master Jingyu?”

”That’s great! If my family’s three acres of spirit fields can increase production by thirty percent, the children will have more spirit rice this winter, and perhaps their Aptitude can improve quite a bit...”

”Long live the Family Head! Young Lord Jingyu, rest assured, we will keep our eyes wide open while guarding, and not even a fly will be able to fly inside!”

Watching this group of clansmen, stimulated by huge benefits and full of drive, Lin Jingyu nodded with satisfaction. This was the effect he wanted—using benefits to command the clansmen!

Let these lowest-level Bloodline members pin their livelihoods and future hopes on the Family Head and himself, completely isolating the Elder Council!

After pacifying the patrol team, Lin Jingyu turned and returned to the small courtyard. Coming out this time was mainly to create the illusion that he was still at home, to confuse the eyes in the dark.

Returning to the room, he quickly changed into an inconspicuous gray coarse cloth short jacket, applied some disguise to his face, smeared a bit of dust, and looked like an ordinary herb-gathering youth.

Afterwards, he came silently to a corner of the courtyard wall.

This was exactly the blind spot where the patrol team’s line of sight alternated.

He held his breath, his body vaulting over the wall as lightly as a civet cat, landing without a sound, and with a few flashes, he disappeared into the shadows of the Lin family’s buildings.

After leaving the Lin family, Lin Jingyu identified the direction and sped towards the ambush location described in the intelligence, a patch of wild forest about seven miles north-by-south of the Southeast Market Town.

The range described in the intelligence was four or five miles large, not very precise.

After Lin Jingyu arrived in this area, he found a hill with an open view that was also easy to hide in, and sat down cross-legged.

While continuing to deduce the subtle changes of Alchemy fire control in his mind, he separated a wisp of Mental Energy, which spread out like an invisible spider web, closely sensing any movement within several hundred zhang around him.

Time passed bit by bit, and the sun rose higher.

Suddenly!

”Clang! Clatter... Ah!”

A faint sound of weapons clashing, the sound of Talisman explosions mixed with a woman’s exclamation, came from about two hundred zhang away in the northeast direction!

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Jingyu’s eyes, he opened his eyes abruptly, and his body sprang up like a spring!

He exerted force with his feet, creating a small pit in the hard soil, and his whole body shot towards the source of the sound like an arrow released from a bowstring!

His speed was too fast! His body weaved through the complex terrain like a flexible Dragon. The branches growing across his path and the vines blocking the way were all narrowly avoided by a hair’s breadth, and he could even use tree trunks to borrow force and accelerate!

His perfect control over every muscle in his body allowed him to vault over walls and walk on roofs like a Martial Forest expert among mortals.

He could even erupt with terrifying speed far exceeding that of an ordinary Qi Refining Fourth Layer Cultivator, with every step covering more than ten zhang!

Under the full sprint without sparing Qi, he was not much slower than riding a flowing cloud kite!

”I am from Miaoling Pavilion! If you dare to intercept and kill me, are you not afraid of the retaliation of Miaoling Pavilion?”

A crisp female voice with a crying tone, filled with terror, grievance, and despair, pierced through the thin mist and clearly reached Lin Jingyu’s ears.

Lin Jingyu’s spirit lifted, and he increased his speed by another fraction!

Within a dozen breaths, he had quietly sneaked to behind a dense bush on the edge of the battlefield.

Through the gaps in the branches and leaves, the situation on the battlefield was clear at a glance!

Four masked black-clothed Bandit Cultivators surrounded a young girl in a goose-yellow dress in the center in a fan shape.

Three Qi Refining Fourth Layer Cultivators were guarding the perimeter to block the retreat and using Magical Artifacts for long-range attacks.

A Qi Refining Fifth Layer Bandit Cultivator with the most imposing stature condensed a thick, earth-yellow giant palm of Qi in his hand and slammed it fiercely towards the girl!

That girl was none other than Yun Momo!

She was extremely beautiful, with picturesque features and an elegant, refined temperament, like an orchid in a mountain stream.

But at this moment, that stunningly beautiful face was full of panic, her big eyes were filled with tears, her delicate nose tip was red, and her body was uncontrollably trembling due to extreme fear.

Her heart was ice-cold, colder than the morning dew.

She knew very well that once she fell into the hands of these beasts, what awaited her would be humiliation far worse than death!

Therefore, she had just tried her best, throwing all the usable attack Talismans on her body all at once, just to fight for a glimmer of life.

Supporting her last hope was the distress jade Talisman that had already been quietly crushed at her waist.

According to common sense, Southeast Market Town was only six or seven miles away from here, and with the strength of the few guest elders of Miaoling Pavilion, they should have arrived!

But why... why had no one come yet? As time passed second by second, her heart sank bit by bit into the abyss of despair!

”Pfft!”

A soft sound like a bubble bursting came, and Yun Momo’s face instantly turned pale as paper!

The last protective item on her body, a protective jade Talisman capable of withstanding several attacks from a Qi Refining Seventh Layer Cultivator, finally could not bear the burden under the full-force strike of the Qi Refining Fifth Layer Bandit Cultivator Leader, flashed with light, and shattered completely!

The last barrier had disappeared!

She was like a snail stripped of its shell, completely exposed to the claws and fangs of the pack of wolves!

The immense fear left her mind blank, her body frozen in place, forgetting even the instinct to run, and she could only watch helplessly as the Qi giant hand controlled by the lecherous, smiling Qi Refining Fifth Layer Bandit Cultivator grabbed towards her!

”Hehehehe... Little beauty, don’t be afraid, I will take good care of you...”

The Bandit Cultivator Leader let out a disgusting, strange laugh, lecherous light flaring in his eyes.

The employer not only gave a generous reward, but this ”prey” captured was the best of the best!

The moment he thought of being able to pin this little beauty from Miaoling Pavilion under him and play with her at will, his heart burned with heat, and he drove his Qi even more fiercely!

Just at this critical moment!

”Halt!”

A violent shout, like thunder from the Nine Heavens, and also like the demonic sound of Hell, exploded without warning in the depths of the Bandit Cultivator Leader’s Sea of Consciousness!

This sound contained Mental Energy condensed to the extreme, turning into an invisible, bone-chilling poisonous needle, which stabbed fiercely into the Bandit Cultivator Leader’s defenseless Divine Soul!

”Argh!”

The cruel smile on the Bandit Cultivator Leader’s face instantly froze, replaced by extreme pain and confusion!

He felt as if his head had been smashed by a giant hammer, or as if it had been pierced by countless steel needles at the same time!

Severe pain, dizziness, nausea... various negative feelings engulfed him like a tide, golden stars danced before his eyes, his ears buzzed, and even the condensed Qi giant hand shook violently, nearly collapsing!

Immediately after, he saw with horror a gray figure shooting out from the bushes on the side and rear like a ghost!

The speed was so fast that it left an afterimage!

What terrified him even more was that the figure’s pair of eyes were cold and indifferent!

As if a high and mighty god was looking down at an ant!

It was also like the pair of pupils of the Foundation Establishment Stage Tiger Demon he had once glimpsed from afar in the depths of the Black Mountain, filled with pure, trembling ferocity!

Being stared at by these eyes, the blood in his whole body seemed to freeze, he could not raise a single thought of resistance, and it was difficult to even move a finger!