Vol 7 Chapter 29: The Immortal Lord Strikes

"Master, do you have money? Let's try another round?"

With her master backing her up, Wu Lingxi felt her gambling itch returning.

"What are you playing at."

Lin Jing glanced at her and said, "Ten gambles, ten traps. Have you ever wondered why this gambling house only allows you to purchase their fighting beasts for gambling matches?"

"This Crimson Moon Gambling Den truly has a beast control master overseeing it..."

Wu Lingxi fell silent. She had originally thought beast fighting was a relatively fair game, but hearing Lin Jing's words, she immediately realized: "Could it be that there's also..."

"Mm." Lin Jing spoke: "These fighting beasts may seem ordinary, and you can even take them back to train yourself, but when the gambling house raised them, they already imprinted them with difficult-to-change bloodline marks. How they perform in battle is far more controllable by the gambling house than by you gamblers."

She immediately looked indignant: "So shady! My money! No, I'm going to settle accounts with them."

Lin Jing stopped her: "Forget it. At least in the matches you lost, I didn't detect any foul play. You were just really bad, probably not even reaching the level where the gambling house would activate their cheating methods."

Wu Lingxi: ???

"These small places aren't proper. Come with me. In the future, I'll take you to more legitimate beast fighting venues in the Immortal Realm!"

"Alright... Master."

After accepting this disciple, Lin Jing smiled slightly. Although she didn't seem particularly intelligent, with cunning comparable to the Demon Emperor, her aptitude was truly excellent. With some training, it wasn't impossible for her to become a powerful figure.

His third incarnation could barely manage in these small places, but wasn't suitable for appearing in major occasions. Having this disciple handle some matters in the future would make things much easier.

Most importantly, she might be the key to unlocking the legacy left by the Wu Family ancestors.

............

After finding Wu Lingxi, Lin Jing took her riding clouds and mist, heading toward the Invincible Sect.

However, Lin Jing had only been out for a few days, and as they approached the Invincible Sect, he vaguely sensed something wrong.

His immortal awareness was exceptionally powerful, and from afar he detected a powerful pressure enveloping the area around the Invincible Sect's mountain gate. He couldn't help but think this was bad.

This aura was definitely not friendly.

"Lingxi." Lin Jing called to his disciple. Beside him, Wu Lingxi looked confused and said, "What's wrong, Master?"

"Your Invincible Sect, to be precise, your Wu Family - do you have any enemies?"

Wu Lingxi was startled: "We do. Has something happened, Master?"

"There's an unfamiliar Immortal Lord who has descended upon your Invincible Sect's territory. He seems more enemy than friend."

"Such a thing?" Wu Lingxi immediately became serious: "...Our Wu Family originally wasn't in our ancestral land, but was developing in another immortal city. That immortal city had two major families, and our Wu Family was one of them. The two families opposed each other, completely incompatible..."

"Later, due to an accident, after our Wu Family's Immortal Lord ancestor died, the family fell into decline, and our industries were swallowed by the other family. To preserve ourselves, we withdrew from the immortal city and returned to our ancestral land to develop."

"We've already retreated to such a barren place. Could it be that this Zhang Family still wants to exterminate us completely?"

Lin Jing sighed. Small personal fortune indeed came with small karma. It seemed it wouldn't be so easy to peacefully absorb the mysterious personal fortune left by Lin Jing's ancestors.

"Alright, since I'm scheming for your Wu Family's legacy, I'll bear this karma."

After firming his resolve, he said to Wu Lingxi: "Come, let's go see who's causing trouble at our Invincible Sect while this deputy sect master is away."

"Ah?" Wu Lingxi was stunned. Wait, Master, didn't you just say the other party is an Immortal Lord?!

They were fake invincible - the Immortal Lord was truly invincible.

Invincible Sect Mountain Gate.

Within one month, the Invincible Sect had encountered two incidents.

The first was Lin Jing mysteriously appearing within the sect, though fortunately the crisis was resolved.

The second was the current Immortal Lord attack.

"Zhang Family Ancestor, Zhang Tianlong." Sect Master Wu and the others recognized the old man - he was precisely the ancestor of the Wu Family's rival Zhang Family.

Clearly, under the witness of another Immortal Lord, both families had declared they would have no further dealings.

Why would the other party come seeking them out?

The protective sect array that the Invincible Sect's generation had built couldn't stop Lin Jing, so naturally it couldn't stop Zhang Tianlong either.

"Senior, the grievances between our two families have already been settled. What is the meaning of this!"

Facing Zhang Tianlong who had arrogantly invaded the Invincible Sect yet remained aloof in the air, Sect Master Wu questioned while sweating profusely. Though furious, constrained by the situation, he didn't dare speak more aggressively.

"What are you, to dare question me?"

Under the mediation of another Immortal Lord, an old friend of the Wu Family ancestor, the defeated Wu Family withdrew from the immortal city, with all their industries going to the Zhang Family, but the Zhang Family was not allowed to completely exterminate them.

To smoothly obtain these industries, plus the fact that the remaining Wu Family members truly posed no threat, the Zhang Family had originally agreed.

However, now that Immortal Lord had also died due to an accident, the Zhang Family had no more concerns. When dealing with enemies, one must eliminate the root, otherwise who knows when the Wu Family might rise again.

"You..."

"Enough nonsense. This lord has heard that your Wu Family produced someone with an Immortal Pupil Physique. Where is that Immortal Pupil?" Currently, the Wu Family was already beyond saving. Zhang Tianlong hadn't made his move yet because he knew the Wu Family had produced an Immortal Pupil. The Immortal Pupil was a valuable thing - killing the person and taking the eyes had many uses. But it seemed she wasn't within the sect.

He needed to find out first where the Immortal Pupil was.

"He came for the eyes. See if we can contact Brother Lin Qi and have him take Lingxi far away." The three sect masters communicated via sound transmission. But the next moment, their expressions froze as they thought, this is bad, because from afar... the Immortal Pupil the other party was looking for was immediately brought back by Lin Jing.

Above the clouds, Lin Jing brought his disciple and looked expressionlessly at Zhang Tianlong standing above the Invincible Sect.

"Oh? She's back. It seems I can make my move now." Zhang Tianlong didn't pay attention to Lin Jing beside her, since he was merely a True Immortal, completely different from an Immortal Lord.

"Immortal Lord Third Heaven..." The third incarnation sighed again. What trouble.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, quickly take Lingxi and flee far away! The three of us will hold off this old bastard!" Sect Master Wu's eyes reddened, planning to preserve some of the Wu Family bloodline. Lin Jing's spatial attainments were remarkable - he might have a chance to escape.

However, at this moment, Lin Jing shook his head.

"Although I don't know what happened, old man, I'll give you a chance. Leave now, and I won't kill you." Lin Jing spoke to Zhang Tianlong.

"An ant dares to boast so shamelessly." Zhang Tianlong's expression turned cold, his snort transforming into imposing pressure that swept toward Lin Jing. Seeing this, Wu Lingxi behind Lin Jing instantly turned pale.

"What trouble." The third incarnation felt his head swelling. He didn't want to cause trouble, but why did trouble keep finding him?

An Immortal Lord - to be honest, relying on his own power alone, it would be very difficult to match one.

This body's cultivation was too low, with too few trump cards.

But.

Accompanied by a mournful cry, the next moment, an even more terrifying Immortal Lord pressure spread out, instantly crushing Zhang Tianlong's pressure. Space shattered as a massive immortal bird tore through the void and emerged.

"An Immortal Lord-level beast, the Immortal Knowledge Bird?!" Seeing this, everyone's expressions changed.

Lin Jing had come fully prepared to the Immortal Realm. What he summoned now was the high-grade immortal artifact obtained from the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb - the Feather Crown, woven from the feathers of generations of Phoenix Clan Immortal Kings. When worn by bird tribes, it could command all birds.

At the True Immortal level, it could command True Immortal birds;

at the Immortal Lord level, it could command Immortal Lord bird tribes.

This treasure had originally been given to the Immortal Longevity Crane, but unfortunately, it was useless in the Lower Realm where there were no birds to command, so he borrowed it back from the Immortal Longevity Crane.

The third incarnation had inherited some of the Immortal Longevity Crane's abilities and bloodline, so naturally he could activate the bird tribe genes and barely use this Feather Crown.

This Immortal Knowledge Bird was the strongest immortal bird Lin Jing could sense and summon along his journey.

!!!

The Immortal Knowledge Bird at Immortal Lord Seventh Heaven, belonging to the late Immortal Lord stage, killed Zhang Tianlong with one claw strike, then slowly landed before Lin Jing.

This scene left everyone staring dumbfoundedly at Lin Jing.

"Fellow Daoist Lin... you..."

"Master, you, you..."

Only the silent Lin Jing knew that things weren't over yet.

Although he had dealt with this Immortal Lord, this Immortal Lord-level beast definitely couldn't be wild. He had forcibly bewitched it using the high-grade immortal artifact. Afterwards, there was an eighty percent chance there would be trouble. So this Feather Crown thing was really not easy to use.

"I already said I didn't want to kill you." Lin Jing looked at Zhang Tianlong's corpse, then at the Immortal Knowledge Bird respectfully gazing at him, feeling his head swell. This thing's background... hopefully it doesn't have an Immortal King father.