Celestial Emperor 2
Ch. 474 - The Ling Clan Must Rise
Seeing that the white-robed young man was approaching them, Ye Duan laughed softly then said. “Do you think I'm so easy to die? We have an extraordinary person coming at this time, quickly greet him.” Ye Duan said to the white-robed young man then glanced towards Qin Shan.
The young man's gaze was directed at Qin Shan, he did not know why Ye Duan said that this person was an extraordinary person. But since Ye Duan had said it, then it must be true.
“Ling Yixian salutes Senior, and welcome to our remote Ling clan.” the young man named Ling Yixian cupped his hands respectfully towards Qin Shan.
Judging from his behavior, Qin Shan learned that this Ling Yixian was a properly educated child. Based on his intuition, this Ling Yixian had just turned fifty. Despite his young age, he had broken through to the early Xiantian stage of cultivation. Ling Yixian obviously had quite a high talent.
Qin Shan simply nodded in response to Ling Yixian. He then looked at Ye Duan and asked. “Sister Ye, who is this Ling Yixian? Is he the Ling clan generation after us?”
Qin Shan was already quite curious about this. Since Ling Yixian called Ye Duan as ‘Paman’, it meant he was a generation after them. Doesn't that mean her parents are the same generation as them? Who was Ling Yixian's mother and father?
“Hehe, I knew you would ask. This Ling Yixian was the grandson of the first elder. You could say he was the heir of the clan for a while at a time when Ling Yue was not around.” Ye Duan explained with a smile.
Upon hearing that, Qin Shan was slightly surprised. “The grandson of the first elder? So he was Ling Ciao's son? Then who's the father?”
Qin Shan recalled, the first elder of the Ling clan only had a daughter named Ling Ciao. As he was in the Ling clan hundreds of years ago, Ling Ciao was the one who always looked at him trivially and thought him trash. He will not believe the personality of his parents is inversely proportional to his son.
“That's... Ling Yixian's father is still unknown whereabouts. But according to Ling Ciao's explanation, Ling Yixian's father was a wandering cultivator. That was why he had never been seen in the Ling clan at all. Even the first elder had only met him once.” Ye Duan explained as he lowered his voice. He was worried that this conversation would disturb Ling Yixian.
When he found out about Ling Yixian's background, Qin Shan became very convinced that Ling Yixian was indeed very similar to him. The difference is, he did not know about his mother from childhood, while Ling Yixian did not know about his father.
“No matter what happened in the past, if it has happened then it just happens. All we can do is fix it. Quickly take me to the main hall of the Ling clan. After that tell all the cultivators who are in the clan to gather.” Qin Shan said immediately. His goal to the Ling clan was to make this clan become stronger. In addition he also needed to search for Ling Yue's whereabouts as soon as possible. He doesn't have much time now.
“Good. Ling Yixian, you come with us to the main hall of the clan.” Ye Duan replied and he brought the still astonished Ling Yixian to the clan hall.
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The main hall of the Ling clan was not very large, moreover the building was very simple. There was only a stone floor and a roof supported by several pillars. There are no walls and barriers between indoor and outdoor.
As Qin Shan and Ye Duan walked in, they could see some fairly large prayer mats on the floor. On one of the prayer mats, there was a woman who was sitting cultivating. A pure aura of spirituality surrounded the woman intensely, moments later some sort of Dao law began to appear.
*Twoah!!* Like water seeping out, the woman's cultivation was instantly enhanced a moment after. This was truly a coincidence, just now Qin Shan had entered and he had already witnessed a Xiantian rising level to the Primal stage.
“Congratulations, Mother. This way you're closer to breaking through eternity.” Ling Yixian also congratulated. Since Ling Ciao was his mother, so he should have congratulated him.
On the other hand Qin Shan simply nodded then cupped his hands to congratulate. He did not want to talk much with this Ling Ciao.
“Ah, it turns out Brother Ye is back. It's good that you can return safely.” Ling Ciao said with a smile. “Compared to you, my current achievement is no more than one drop of water in a pond. My path is long, and so are you. We must increase our strength to be able to take revenge in the future.”
As Ling Ciao said his last sentence, a burning ambition could be seen. At the same time, a hateful look was also seen in Ling Ciao's eyes that were so clear.
“You are right, we should indeed increase our strength. But we need not fear the four strongest clans anymore. Right now, the four clans are already destroyed unnoticed.” Ye Duan said calmly. He had no intention of hiding this at all. In fact, the news of the destruction of the four strongest clans would instead contain the Ling clan becoming increasingly eager to return to their peak just yet.
“What? The four strongest clans are already wiped out? No way, Brother Ye, please don't joke.” Ling Ciao gave a disbelieving expression as Ye Duan finished his sentence. Not only Ling Ciao, Ling Yixian also did not believe that. Which person could exterminate the four strongest clans in the Fifth World? Ye Duan's? That's obviously impossible.
Ye Duan had already expected what kind of reaction Ling Ciao would give. That was why he only laughed glancing at Qin Shan who was beside him.
“What is impossible? When this old brother of ours acts, then everything will be possible. Even if he wants to flip the land, he can do it.” Ye Duan said proudly. Eventually over the years he got someone he could be proud of at will. Although the words he had just said were exaggerated, the truth was that Qin Shan could even destroy a planet.
Ling Ciao as well as Ling Yixian looked towards the red-robed Qin Shan. Qin Shan's current appearance did not differ much compared to the last time he was in the Fifth World. Other than his face becoming more mature as well as his body becoming more muscular, there was not much change.
Even in just a single glance, Ling Ciao was able to analyze Qin Shan with ease. “Brother Qin, you have returned.” Ling Ciao's mood becomes jumbled.
Ling Ciao understood very well what kind of power Qin Shan had. Over a hundred years ago, Qin Shan was even able to deal with an Earth Immortal. After a lot of time had passed, naturally Qin Shan's abilities had improved drastically, right?
Ling Ciao was very happy at the moment, yet at the same time he felt very awkward and embarrassed. Years ago, he had always ridiculed and disparaged Qin Shan. But now, it was he who finally had to rely on Qin Shan.
Meanwhile Ling Yixian could only fall silent where she stood. He didn't really understand what was going on right now. But he knew for sure that something must have happened between Qin Shan and his mother in the past.
On the other hand Qin Shan had absolutely no concern for Ling Ciao. No matter whether Ling Ciao had mistakes against him in the past or not, he still would not care about someone he did not consider a friend. After all his goal here was to make the Ling clan rise again.
A short while after, more than ten people had arrived at the main hall of the Ling clan. They were all cultivators who were at least at the Qi Refinement level. Only a few were Xiantian experts. They had all come on Ye Duan's orders some time before.
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