The Yin family.
Unlike other families, the Yin family controlled dozens of cities, but its members rarely spread out across these cities.
Almost all of the Yin family’s people were gathered at their headquarters.
The city housing the Yin family’s headquarters had no outsiders.
Even at noon, the headquarters city appeared extremely eerie and terrifying, with dense yin energy swirling around, enveloping the entire city within a radius of hundreds of miles.
At this moment, four Skyward Boats streaked across the sky, appearing dozens of miles outside the Yin family’s territory.
On these four Skyward Boats were Lin Xiao and his group.
Looking at the eerie headquarters of the Yin family, shrouded in rolling yin energy, Lin Xiao felt a chill run through him.
This place didn’t seem fit for the living, only suitable for the Yin family members who refined corpses. Even if the Yin family opened it to others, likely no one would dare enter.
No wonder the Yin family only controlled other cities, with few members staying long-term in those places.
This location was extremely suitable for cultivating yin-based techniques.
“If the Blue Corpse Puppet cultivated here, it might have a chance to break through to the Ninefold Martial Lord, or even the Half-step Martial Emperor realm,” Lin Xiao thought to himself.
The Blue Corpse Puppet’s aura had already reached the Eighth-tier Martial Lord realm.
Advancing further would be difficult, but this place, shrouded in yin energy, must have something special. If the Blue Corpse Puppet cultivated here, it might be able to take another step forward.
Having reached the Eighth-tier Martial Lord realm, the Blue Corpse Puppet could already contend with a Half-step Martial Emperor. If it advanced to the Ninth-tier Martial Lord, even if it couldn’t defeat a full Martial Emperor, it could likely overpower a Half-step Martial Emperor with ease.
If the Blue Corpse Puppet reached the Half-step Martial Emperor realm, it might even possess the strength to truly challenge a Martial Emperor.
If that happened, Lin Xiao would gain a tremendous asset, capable of single-handedly sweeping through other families without fearing Martial Emperors.
Of course, to target the Yin family’s headquarters, they first needed to deal with its members.
“Who dares trespass in the Yin family’s forbidden territory!”
At that moment, a thunderous shout rang out, and a sinister-looking elder emerged from the rolling yin energy.
This elder’s cultivation had impressively reached the Ninth-tier Martial Lord realm.
Behind him were more than a dozen others, their cultivations ranging from mid to high-tier Martial Lord levels.
It seemed that after the Yin family’s main force had gone to attack the Zi family, their headquarters had tightened its defenses significantly.
“Zi Gong!”
Seeing Zi Gong’s face on one of the Skyward Boats, the Yin family elder’s expression darkened instantly.
He didn’t recognise the others, but he knew Zi Gong well, the current leader of the Zi family.
Their Yin family, led by the great elder himself, had joined forces with other families to attack the Zi family.
How was it that, with no news yet from the great elder and the others, Zi Gong, the Zi family’s leader, had come to their Yin family?
And with four Skyward Boats!
As his divine sense swept over the four Skyward Boats, the elder sensed that they were filled with Ninth-tier Martial Lord experts!
There were also a few, like Zi Gong, whose strength he couldn’t fathom.
“Trouble, retreat!” The Yin family’s Ninth-tier Martial Lord’s expression changed, and he shouted immediately.
This level of strength, with four Skyward Boats full of high-tier Martial Lord experts, was something they couldn’t resist.
Hearing this, the dozen or so people who had rushed out with the elder were startled and quickly retreated with him into the yin energy of the Yin family’s city.
“Retreating won’t help!” Zi Gong sneered, saying, “Not even sparing the dead, the Yin family has no good people! Everyone, in my opinion, we should just wipe out the entire city.”
“It’s said the Yin family buried countless corpses to refine them, and today, it seems true. Who knows how many lives the Yin family has taken to create such dense yin energy? Destroying them is only fitting!” the Half-step Martial Emperor from the Gunlong Sect remarked.
“Then let’s wipe them out!”
Lin Xiao’s eyes narrowed slightly. If this yin energy came from buried corpses, the sheer number of bodies was terrifying to imagine.
Such a family was nothing but a scourge!
Rising into the air, Lin Xiao took out the Nether Sky Demon Pillar. The fifth level of the Nether Sky Demon Technique surged, and torrents of demonic energy poured into the pillar.
The Nether Sky Demon Pillar seemed to awaken, with rolling black energy and terrifying waves emanating from it.
“Attack!”
At that moment, the Half-step Martial Emperor from the Jiuxiao Sect shouted, and half of the group rose from the Skyward Boats, launching an attack towards the Yin family’s city within a hundred-mile radius.
Lin Xiao swung the Nether Sky Demon Pillar, condensing a massive, tangible black pillar of energy. It radiated rolling black energy and fierce black winds, smashing towards the Yin family’s city, as if it would shatter the void itself.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”
At the same time, dazzling bursts of light erupted, and powerful palm strikes surged like a raging storm, sweeping towards the Yin family’s city.
With six Half-step Martial Emperors and thirty to forty high-tier Martial Lords, mostly Ninth-tier, their combined strength could engulf a dozens-mile radius. The shockwaves from their attack could likely affect a hundred-mile area, causing widespread destruction.
And this was only the first strike.
However, just as the sea-like torrent of power crashed towards the Yin family’s city, a massive yin-light barrier lit up, enveloping the entire city and blocking their attacks.
“Rumble!”
A deafening roar echoed, the ground trembled, and the yin-light barrier erupted with towering energy waves, surging outward in all directions, spreading across a hundred-mile radius.
Everyone was stunned. The Yin family had actually set up such a powerful defensive formation?
Even the combined attack of six Half-step Martial Emperors and thirty to forty high-tier Martial Lords was blocked?
“Attack again!”
As the shockwaves rolled in, Lin Xiao and the others launched another assault, their torrential power parting the waves and crashing into the Yin family’s defensive barrier once more.
“Rumble!”
Another ear-splitting roar rang out, and their power again transformed into a sea-like wave of energy, surging in all directions.
The defensive barrier showed no signs of breaking.
“How is this possible?”
Everyone’s expressions changed. With such a powerful formation, how could they destroy the Yin family today?
Were they to return empty-handed?
“Sss!”
But just as they prepared for a third attack, dense yin energy seeped out from the yin-light barrier.
As if a hundred-mile-wide vent had opened, thick, endless yin energy filled the sky, rolling towards Lin Xiao and the others, enveloping the entire heavens with an aura of apocalyptic destruction.
The mere presence of this aura made Lin Xiao feel as if he were suffocating, on the verge of death.
This aura was far too terrifying, even more so than the Martial Emperor aura he had sensed.
“How is this possible?” Lin Xiao’s face paled in shock. Hadn’t the Yin Emperor already entered the Sacred Emperor’s Ruins? How could the Yin family still have such a terrifying existence?
“Danger, retreat!” Even the Half-step Martial Emperor from the Gunlong Sect sensed the aura of death and shouted in panic.
But everyone on the scene felt as if they were stuck in mud. Even the Half-step Martial Emperors moved with great difficulty, their speed painfully slow, unable to leap into the Skyward Boats just a few steps away.
The rolling yin energy drew closer from the sky, and the terrifying aura grew denser.
Lin Xiao and the others were almost frozen in the void.
