Top-level Qi Luck: Leading My Clan to Cultivate Chapter 2185: 1117: Shocking Upheaval (Part 2)

Upon hearing this account, Lin Xingyuan gave a nod before detailing his own recent experiences.

According to Lin Xingyuan, he followed the instructions provided by Lin Shilu, spending several initial days traveling to the Liang Family and the central altar of the Myriad Cultivators Alliance to deliver urgent warnings.

When he reached the territory belonging to the Liang Family, both Clan Leader Liang Shaoguang and Great Elder Liang Shaoping provided him with an immediate audience.

Subsequently, Lin Xingyuan shared the intelligence gathered by the Lin Family alongside their theories regarding the Blood Red Alliance, which immediately captured the full attention of the Liang Family leadership.

With the benefit of Lin Xingyuan's detailed explanations, the elite members of the Liang Family accepted the proposal from the Lin Family, committing to a deeper level of cooperation between the two sides to collectively withstand any potential retaliation from the Blood Red Alliance.

This arrangement reflected the pact originally struck by the three major families of the Jinfeng Nation following their internal civil war.

However, as the decades bled away without any significant aggression from the Blood Red Alliance, the major powers of the Jinfeng Nation had grown somewhat complacent.

Now that the Blood Red Alliance had finally taken action, the Liang Family possessed a clear understanding of the grave nature of these events.

Consequently, Liang Shaoping gave his word to Lin Xingyuan that he would mobilize the entirety of the Liang Family’s strength to prepare for the looming threat of retaliation.

Should the Lin Family come under siege, the Liang Family pledged to dispatch scouts and cultivators to the Lin Family Clan Grounds to bolster their defenses.

Under the established alliance terms, the Lin Family was equally bound to send reinforcements should the Liang Family find themselves under attack by the Blood Red Alliance.

This arrangement effectively satisfied the strategic requirements of the Lin Family.

Once these arrangements were solidified, Lin Xingyuan departed for the central altar of the Myriad Cultivators Alliance, located within close proximity to the Liang Family territory.

At the center of the Myriad Cultivators Alliance, Lin Xingyuan met with representatives from the Lin Family and the Yang Clan, relaying the strategic decisions reached by the high-ranking members of the Liang and Lin families.

It was decided that the Myriad Cultivators Alliance would maintain a state of heightened vigilance, prepared to mobilize the moment any allied territory was assaulted.

After finalizing these tasks, Lin Xingyuan pressed on, intending to visit the Yang Family territory.

After several days on the road, he finally reached the domain of the Yang Clan as planned.

However, he found the Yang Clan’s territory in a state of total upheaval, with panic-stricken cultivators fleeing in every direction.

Among those displaced were various members of the Yang Family themselves.

After making contact with these individuals, Lin Xingyuan learned from them that a massive force from the Blood Red Alliance had suddenly descended and splintered into several groups, zeroing in on the Yang Family mountain gate and the vital market cities within their borders.

With over a hundred invaders led by the Nascent Soul Stage expert Song Chufeng, the invading force held a crushing advantage over the Yang Clan, which was famously the weakest of the three major Jinfeng Nation powers.

Despite the presence of a Mountain Protection Array, the Yang Clan members were like mantises trying to stop a carriage against the might of Song Chufeng and more than a dozen Golden Core Stage cultivators.

The defensive array lasted only half a day before it was shattered, resulting in thousands of casualties and leaving only a handful of lower-level cultivators to vanish into the chaos.

Most of the Yang Family survivors Lin Xingyuan encountered were at the Qi Refinement Realm, with merely a few possessing the strength of the early Foundation Establishment Stage.

It was through these harrowing accounts that Lin Xingyuan understood the tragic fate of the Yang Clan.

Continuing his journey to the Yang Family territory would have been futile.

The leadership and elite forces of the family had been largely butchered by the brutal tactics of the Blood Red Alliance, leaving the clan in name only.

Attempting to deliver messages to a defeated clan would be meaningless and would only jeopardize his own safety.

If a Golden Core Stage cultivator from the Blood Red Alliance were to detect him, Lin Xingyuan would certainly become the next target for the hunt.

In such a scenario, he would have been unable to fend for himself.

Recognizing the danger, Lin Xingyuan immediately turned his path back toward the Lin Family Clan Grounds.

He understood clearly that every moment was measured in lives.

Time had become the most precious commodity for the Lin Family.

The Blood Red Alliance’s blitzkrieg had devastated the Jinfeng Nation so thoroughly that the Yang Family fell before they could even mount a formal defense.

By returning to the family as quickly as possible to deliver his report, the Lin Family would gain the vital head start needed to prepare and minimize their own losses in the coming struggle.

Understanding this, Lin Xingyuan ignored his exhaustion and the physical toll of his frantic travel.

He spent the next several days pushing forward without a single moment of rest.

His relentless pace allowed him to reach the Qingyun Mountain Clan Land in record time.

Upon his arrival, he sought out Lin Shilu immediately to inform him of the catastrophic fall of the Yang Family.

As he heard the news, Lin Tianming’s features darkened with grim gravity.

The other present clan members shared his expression, a heavy cloud of despair settling over the room.

Lin Shilu had not anticipated that the Blood Red Alliance would move with such terrifying swiftness.

Only ten days prior, he had received the first reports of the Blood Red Alliance’s encroaching movements.

At that time, Lin Xingrong had rushed back to the Qingyun Mountain Clan Land with the intel.

Yet, in little over a week, the Blood Red Alliance had traversed several borders to strike directly at the heart of the Jinfeng Nation.

In complete silence, they had eradicated the Yang Family.

One had to remember, the Yang Family had possessed a Golden Core heritage for over two thousand years. While they were not as powerful as the modern Lin Family, their history was significantly more profound.

Nevertheless, a mid-level Golden Core force of this magnitude within Qingzhou could not hold out for even a full day before being dismantled, their entire upper echelon and elite fighting force wiped out in a single slaughter.

For all intents and purposes, the Yang Family had ceased to exist.

It was clear that the Yang Family would soon be vanished from the historical archives of Qingzhou entirely.

Their erasure served as the opening act of the Blood Red Alliance’s campaign, sounding a warning signal for every other Golden Core force in the region.

Lin Shilu and his kin realized that the Yang Family’s tragedy acted as a silent sacrifice for both the Lin and the Liang families.

The individuals within the Lin Family clan grounds felt the shadows of an incoming storm closing in around them.

Observing their somber expressions, Lin Shilu felt his own tension rise.

He sighed deeply, turned to the gathered kin, and addressed them: “Fellow kin, you all understand the implications of what Xingyuan has just relayed.”

“Given the existing enmity between our Lin Family and the Blood Red Alliance, we are surely their next target.”

“Therefore, the Lin Family must make every preparation for the worst-case scenario. If the Blood Red Alliance decides to retaliate, we must not be found wanting.”

With a hardened tone, Lin Shilu declared, “A Great Calamity has descended upon the Lin Family.”

“From this moment on, the entire clan must prepare to mount a desperate defense when the Blood Red Alliance arrives.”

“Especially now, as Tianming remains in the critical final stage of his closed-door seclusion to stabilize his cultivation, we must hold the line under pressure.”

“If Tianming can emerge successfully from his seclusion, the disaster brought by the Blood Red Alliance may be mitigated.”

“Ultimately, time is our most vital asset.”

“Furthermore, the Blood Red Alliance may also decide to strike at the Liang Family.”

“Should that occur, we are duty-bound by our agreement to send reinforcements to assist the Liang Family as well.”