This night, everyone in the Lin family slept exceptionally soundly.
There were no chirping insects or bird calls to disturb their dreams, nor the footsteps of patrolling guards to keep them alert.
May they sleep soundly and never awaken, for in ancient times, sages were all lonely, and only sleep could resolve a thousand sorrows.
When the first ray of dawn touched the Lin Manor, it brought no vitality to the estate; it remained a scene of deathly silence.
Lin Yang rubbed his drowsy eyes and sat up from his bed alone, stretching his arms wide in a big yawn towards the sunlight.
He had slept so comfortably!
When he was not cultivating his techniques, he would not allow women to share his bed, not even wanting to touch them. How comfortable it was to sleep alone.
When he pushed open the bedroom door and walked outside the courtyard, he saw no servants attending to him.
"Where is everyone!"
Lin Yang roared. Had it been any other day, servants would have rushed forward in panic, begging for forgiveness. But now, there was no response.
"Where has everyone gone! Are they all dead!"
Lin Yang shouted again, still receiving no reply. Sensing something was wrong, he walked out of the courtyard he resided in.
Outside the courtyard, it was still deathly silent, as if he were the only living person left in this world.
As he passed a fence, he peered inside. Dozens of green-feathered pheasants within the enclosure were headless, yet not a drop of blood had spilled.
They hadn't even spared the chickens!
Lin Yang raised his vigilance, his entire body's mana surging, ready to act. However, he walked a long distance without encountering any danger.
When he cautiously pushed open a room door, he was so startled that he leaped back several yards.
Inside the room, three naked, mummified corpses—one male and two females—were hung from the rafters. Their deeply sunken eye sockets stared at him, their mouths slightly ajar, as if mocking him in silence.
Lin Yang staggered to his feet and frantically pushed open door after door. Without exception, everyone inside had become a dried corpse.
"Ah! Ahhhhh!"
"What is happening!"
Lin Yang could hardly believe it. In the vast Lin family estate, not a single living person could be found.
Let alone people, not even a single live chicken, duck, pig, or dog was seen.
Even though Lin Yang was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he couldn't help but feel terrified and helpless at this moment.
His Lin family, which he had always relied upon, was gone overnight, leaving him as the sole survivor.
At this moment, Lin Yang was enveloped by a profound sense of despair and fear.
"No! I must leave here as soon as possible!"
Lin Yang wiped the cold sweat from his face and was about to head out.
Just then, a black mist rose before him, and a woman resembling a dried skeleton emerged from the mist.
"Lin Yang! Pay with your life!"
"You... who are you?"
He had harmed at least a thousand women; how could he possibly recognize her?
"You killed hundreds of people from my Lin family?"
"So what? Haven't your Lin family killed enough people?"
Xiao Lan had no intention of reasoning with Lin Yang. Ghostly mist billowed around her, and countless blood threads surged from all directions, drilling into Lin Yang's body.
Her blood threads had greatly increased in power after draining hundreds of people from the Lin family. No matter how Lin Yang defended or blocked, the blood threads still invaded his body.
Despite possessing Foundation Establishment cultivation, Lin Yang, bound by countless blood threads, could only stare wide-eyed in terror, feeling his vital essence being drained from within, his life slowly ebbing away.
At this moment, he finally deeply understood how helpless those women must have felt when they died at his hands.
Xiao Lan deliberately slowed the speed at which her blood threads absorbed blood, wanting Lin Yang to suffer more pain. After tormenting him for a full hour, she finally drained Lin Yang dry.
However, Xiao Lan still felt it was too easy for this beast and was somewhat unsatisfied.
Taking advantage of the fact that his remnant soul was still present, she extracted it and continuously roasted it with ghost fire. The remnant soul could only emit screams of agony.
On the other side, after Xiao Fei helped kill some minor characters, he began busy looting the Lin estate.
First, he found a small medicinal garden where rare spiritual herbs passed down through generations of the Lin family were growing.
"I didn't expect the Lin family to hide a Divine Nourishing Tea!"
Xiao Fei approached a small tree, about three feet tall, and observed it intently.
The tree had sparse branches and leaves, with a few branches looking listless, as if they were about to wither and die at any moment.
Xiao Fei had seen in the sect's records that the Divine Nourishing Tea tree was one of the rare treasures in the cultivation world that helped restore the spirit.
However, this tree was extremely demanding regarding its growing environment and was difficult to cultivate. It was said that only a few places in the entire cultivation world produced it, and the yield was scarce, with demand far exceeding supply.
The small amount of spiritual tea produced annually was pre-ordered by major powers long in advance, giving ordinary cultivators no chance even to catch a whiff of its scent.
The Lin family had somehow obtained a Divine Nourishing Tea tree, but the growing environment was clearly unsuitable, and it was not growing well.
Xiao Fei bent down and dug out the Divine Nourishing Tea tree, roots and all, and transplanted it into his space.
After so many years, he had already discovered that the spiritual fields in his space should be able to adapt to the growth of any spiritual plant.
Even the Five-Colored Spiritual Lotus he had just bought from the Ten Thousand Treasures Merchant Guild, which should have grown in spiritual spring water, was now in his space.
After he bought it, he was chased all the way and only hastily buried its roots in the soil. He hadn't watered it, and it hadn't withered yet.
In the Lin family's small medicinal garden, besides this Divine Nourishing Tea, there were several other rare second-tier spiritual herbs, all of which Xiao Fei transplanted into his space.
The space had only three mu of land in total. After moving these second-tier spiritual herbs in, it became quite crowded.
Xiao Fei had to pull out some less rare first-tier spiritual herbs to make space for planting more precious varieties.
Time in the space could increase, and Xiao Fei guessed that the area could also increase, but he hadn't found the correct method yet.
After moving all the spiritual herbs from the small medicinal garden, Xiao Fei headed towards the remaining larger medicinal gardens.
The larger gardens were planted with ordinary first-tier spiritual herbs. Besides being used by the Lin family themselves, the rest were usually sold to outsiders.
These were also money. A mature first-tier spiritual herb could sell for several spirit stones, so there was no reason to let them go.
Xiao Fei summoned his flying sword, plunged it into the ground from one end, and ploughed out from the other end along the roots of the spiritual herbs. A row of spiritual herbs was turned out of the soil.
The flying sword made hundreds of passes, digging out all these spiritual herbs.
Xiao Fei picked up these spiritual herbs as if he were gathering wild grass and temporarily piled them in his space.
Besides the medicinal gardens, the Lin family also had a peach orchard, which Xiao Fei had seen last time. This time, he was familiar with the route and dug out all the spiritual peach trees, piling them into his space as well.
Mature spiritual fruit trees were equivalent to a hen that lays golden eggs, capable of continuous production and considerable returns. They were a symbol of a family's wealth.
After thoroughly searching the spiritual herbs and spiritual fruit trees in the Lin estate, Xiao Fei found several more warehouses.
The first two warehouses he found were filled with worldly goods.
They were nothing more than valuable items like gold, silver, and silk.
These items were not of high value individually, but their sheer quantity made them a significant fortune.
A thousand taels of silver could be exchanged for one spirit stone, so a large quantity was also very valuable.
Xiao Fei took some of each, piling them in a corner of his space. If his space were large enough, he would have taken it all.
However, the Lin family's true treasury was filled with the wealth accumulated by the Lin family over the past thousand years.
Not only were there nearly a hundred thousand spirit stones, but also countless spiritual items such as spiritual pills, spiritual ores, and Dharma artifacts.
Not a single nail or thread from the contents of this place was spared; everything was collected into his space.