Cultivation begins in the endless sea.

Chapter 67 Too Much Infighting

The Starry Constellation Sect has a history spanning thousands of years and possesses an incredibly profound foundation. Therefore, after Lin Yunfeng achieved the Foundation Establishment stage, the sect "freely" opened up some of his cultivation techniques to him.

Ultimately, taking into account the sect's opinions, he chose "The Secret Record of Starfall and Dao Fixation," one of the sect's three major sect-protecting techniques.

This method emphasizes drawing the power of stars into the body. When cultivated to a certain level, the spiritual light emanating from one's body can rival that of flying swords and magical treasures.

He has only been at the Foundation Establishment stage for a little over ten years, barely reaching the first step, "Initial Transformation of Stars." At this stage, he needs to cultivate eighty-one breaths of star energy to establish the foundation for the Dao of Starfall.

At this moment, although Lin Yunfeng had only refined nine breaths of star energy, he was already able to initially use the supernatural power "Star Finger" attached to his technique.

His eyes shimmered with starlight, and his spiritual energy surged to his right index finger, instantly forming a fist-sized phantom at the fingertip. He then gently touched the Azure Lotus Sword.

"bite-"

The Azure Lotus Sword flew backwards, while the Star Finger followed suit, pressing forward relentlessly…

Seeing this, Lin Qing stepped on the Azure Lotus Sword, and the sword suddenly retreated dozens of meters to widen the distance.

At the same time, he made a hand seal and grabbed in the air, forming a giant palm of azure-blue water spirit energy. Lin Qing opened his mouth and spat out a drop of profound true water into it.

Just then, the Star Finger came crashing down.

"boom--"

The starlight flowing from Xingchen's fingertips collided violently with the giant hand gleaming with a deep, cold light!

A piercing explosion resounded through the sky, a strong wind whipped up the clouds overhead, and the trees beneath their feet trembled and bent over!

Lin Yunfeng raised an eyebrow, secretly shocked.

He never expected that even with the domineering and powerful Star Finger technique of his sect, it would not be able to suppress the family's Heavy Wave Palm.

Or did Lin Qing have another extraordinary encounter?

Before he could think it through, he instinctively tried to cast another spell, but suddenly found that the palm of the Azure Wave suddenly caved inward, emanating endless suction force that frantically pulled at his spiritual energy.

Lin Yunfeng's expression darkened, and he was about to channel the remaining star power from his dantian into it.

The force that had been sinking into Chonglan's palm suddenly reversed and surged outwards, unleashing an immense surge of water elemental power that crashed down!

"Uh..."

Lin Yunfeng felt a sweet taste in his throat, a metallic taste of blood welled up in his mouth, his thumb split open, and his index finger was dripping with blood…

He staggered back a few steps, but luckily the long sword he was carrying was under his feet, preventing him from embarrassingly falling off the clouds...

Seeing that the outcome was already decided, Lin Qing wouldn't press the matter further. He abruptly stopped and took out a jade slip, throwing it directly at the opponent.

"call-"

Lin Yunfeng exhaled a breath of stale air, feeling the star power within his body flickering erratically, clearly indicating that it had been greatly depleted.

He accepted the jade slip with a somber expression.

The jade slip contains images recorded by the image-recording bead:

In the pitch-black, silent night, at the harbor of Wanling Island, young Lin Shenglei nervously gripped the arm of a middle-aged man, his mouth moving as he tried to speak.

When Lin Yunfeng saw his father, his heart sank, and he stared intently at his father's lips.

"...Father...I have failed to achieve Foundation Establishment and am ineligible for the position of clan leader...Can you bear to see your grandson..."

"...He has such excellent spiritual roots...was he wasting his time in the Lin family...?"

"...If the Lin family's spiritual veins weren't of such low grade, how could I have failed!..."

"...As long as you tell the Starry Sky Sect about Feng'er..."

"if only…"

Lin Yunfeng's hands trembled uncontrollably, and his face was ashen white...

"puff-"

He could no longer suppress the pain from his injuries and spat out a mouthful of blood.

In that instant, he recalled the moments he had spent alone at the Starry Sky Gate:

When refining Qi into his body, there was no family subsidy, and every spirit stone had to be carefully calculated... Therefore, he couldn't bear to buy a Qi Stabilizing Pill when tempering his meridians. At only eight years old, he gritted his teeth and endured the pain of having his bones scraped and marrow ripped out by thousands of spiritual Qi!

During the sect's minor competition, despite possessing a superior spiritual root, he lacked a powerful magic weapon and his cultivation technique was merely based on the sect's foundation. At the age of fourteen, in front of over a thousand peers, he was sent flying by a fellow disciple's mid-grade magic weapon, becoming a laughingstock...

He hid in a cave in the back mountains to recuperate for a whole month, and no one paid him any attention...

He had imagined countless times his parents, his siblings, his whole family, living happily together, working hand in hand…

He thought the Starry Sky Sect had discovered him, and his family had no choice but to send him away...

At the age of thirty-seven, he achieved foundation building.

He thought he could now fly freely in the sky, but little did he know that choosing a cultivation method would require signing a lifelong contract...

Countless scenes flashed through my mind: the heartache I felt when my father lost his arm, the hesitation I felt when I received the offer to take Lin Qing's place at the "Nine Clans Alliance"...

"So... I was the one who was superfluous?..."

"Why!... "

Lin Yunfeng's face was contorted with rage. During his Foundation Establishment, he had broken through the barrier of divine consciousness with a heart filled with the spirit of "all things under the frosty sky are free," but now he was deeply wounded and on the verge of collapse...

"Brother Feng!"

Lin Qing secretly used the "Beast Roar Technique" from the "Beast Suppression Manual" to forcefully disperse Lin Yunfeng's emotions, and quickly stepped forward to put a Fallen Feather Pill into his mouth.

With a gentle tap in mid-air, he helped the pill slowly dissolve.

The two of them then landed in the woods.

"Brother Yunfeng, look..."

Lin Qing looked at the distraught Lin Yunfeng and pointed to the towering trees in the distance, which had been whipped up by the battle between the two...

Upon hearing this, Lin Yunfeng subconsciously looked up and, following Lin Qing's finger, saw a bird's nest swaying precariously atop a tree...

Inside, five or six newly hatched chicks were chirping loudly... while an adult bird spread its wings, trying its best to protect them... Unfortunately, the wind was too strong, protecting the left side but leaving the right side exposed...

"you…"

Lin Yunfeng's heart stirred, and his agitated emotions gradually calmed down.

"Thank you…"

After a long while, Lin Yunfeng spoke in a low voice with a look of shame on his face.

"Don't advise others to be kind if you don't know their suffering." Lin Qing said slowly, "Everyone has their difficulties, I understand, and the Ancestor understands too."

"Therefore, to this day, only the three of us know about this jade slip."

"But," Lin Qing paused slightly, turning her gaze away from the bird's nest, "when the nest is overturned, how can the eggs remain intact?"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a gust of wind completely overturned the nest of chicks, causing them to fall to the ground. In a panic, the adult birds instinctively grabbed one of their own, while the rest were about to fall to their deaths...

A blue figure swiftly swept past, and Lin Yunfeng steadily caught the falling bird, picked up the nest, placed the birds inside, and then soared up to put the nest back in its original place.

He stood in mid-air, letting out a soft sigh:

"Clan leader, Yunfeng is completely convinced..."

"This jade slip contains information about the sea monster tides collected by the Starry Constellation Sect over the past thousand years. Hopefully, it will be of some help..."

After saying that, he tossed a storage bag over, gave a slight bow, and strode away…

Lin Qing accepted the storage bag and watched him leave…

"Chieftain..."

Lin Qing smiled, it seemed that the long-standing estrangement among the clan had been resolved relatively smoothly.

As for Reber…

"He'll probably calm down after this. If he really doesn't calm down..."

Lin Qing's brows furrowed; clan rules were not just for show!

A moment later, he took out his storage bag.

Inside the bag was a jade slip and an ancient token engraved with a star pattern.

"This is the Star Constellation Token of the Star Constellation Sect. The holder can directly communicate with the sect."

"Isn't it like a fast-track pass?"

Lin Qing nodded in satisfaction.