After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 299: All executed without mercy.

Those behind him looked on, feeling as if they too had been shot through.

Where did the chieftain hire this guy? How come he's so fierce?

Perhaps the commotion in the bamboo forest was too great, forcing the people in the village to come out.

The leader was an elderly man with gray hair, flanked by two tall, strong young male cultivators, and followed by a group of guards.

As soon as he came out, the old man said politely, "So it is an honored guest who has come to visit. I just don't know why you have burned the bamboo forest in my village."

Listen to what others are saying; they seem to have a point.

Lin Yan silently stepped aside without making a sound.

She burned the bamboo grove, but she's not the one in charge here.

"Then we'll have to ask your village what you did!" Wu Xixi said calmly, not finding anything wrong with burning the bamboo forest.

They've already come to attack the village, are we supposed to pretend to be friendly?

“Some rebels have emerged from our village. They have already been punished, and we will send them an apology gift another day to express our remorse.”

The old man spoke with the airs of an elder, but without a trace of apology.

Wu Xixi didn't waste any words and immediately gave the order to take action.

The other party didn't expect her to attack so quickly, and was caught off guard.

As the two sides clashed, various poisonous insects emerged, and magical artifacts swirled and collided, creating dazzling colors.

Ignore the battle below; the visuals are beautiful.

Lin Yan stood out in the battle, single-handedly eliminating the poisonous insects and severely injuring a number of the opposing team.

Although the people from the ten villages quickly came to their aid, they still couldn't win the battle.

In the end, it was only through the intervention of several Golden Core elders that the lives of some of them were saved.

The tenth stronghold is ranked quite low. It has a Nascent Soul cultivator in charge, but they have been in seclusion for hundreds of years and will not come out easily. Of course, it is impossible for them to be mobilized for this battle.

Wu Xixi then ordered her men to set up camp and rest in front of the bamboo forest, and to continue the attack the following night.

The fire had been extinguished, and the once lush bamboo forest was now in a state of desolation, with withered leaves and many bamboo stalks gone, having not yet recovered since the battle.

With enough spirit stones, the bamboo forest could recover, but unfortunately, Lin Yan destroyed the formation underneath during the battle.

Bamboo decays very quickly; they don't even have time to flower before they wither and die or disappear.

Before long, the bamboo forest that had blocked the way disappeared completely, and Wu Xixi ordered the tents to be removed, preparing to continue the attack on the tenth stronghold.

The other side was also prepared for battle, but there were always some people in the village who were unwilling to give up their long-standing peace and insisted on making peace.

Before the attack even began, internal strife had already erupted. This was very bad for the upcoming battle.

Wu Xixi led her people into the fray, but they were no match for her and chose to surrender, paying a huge price in return and signing a series of treaties.

If they try to break the treaty during this period, they will be punished by heaven.

The sixteenth village also suffered heavy losses, but after this incident, its territory expanded, its resources increased, and it received a large amount of compensation, enough for the village to develop for a long time.

The deadline for Lin Yan to stay had arrived, and Wu Xixi personally saw her off, offering the remaining spirit stones with both hands, and watched her leave on the flying boat.

Arriving at her husband's tombstone, Wu Xixi took out offerings from her storage bag and knelt down.

As the chief of a village, kneeling before their tombstones is their honor.

"Your sacrifices were worthwhile..." she said, two lines of tears streaming down her face.

The tribesmen who came out saw this and sighed helplessly.

The next day, everyone knew that the chieftain was gentle and affectionate, and deeply in love with her deceased husband.

Wu Xixi didn't care what others were saying; she returned to the village and began dealing with the remaining rebels.

In just a few days, she swiftly located her two husbands who had betrayed her, as well as Wu Ling'er's husband. No matter how much they begged for mercy, she showed no mercy and executed them all without exception.

She summoned everyone to the altar and personally burned their bodies.

This includes her three husbands who betrayed her, Wu Ling'er, and Wu Ling'er's husband and supporters.

Those dissenting voices were silenced, and the previously agreed-upon compensation was distributed.

Her deep affection was known to everyone in the village. Whenever an elder advised her to take a husband, she would pretend to be heartbroken and grieving, and would even go out alone at night to admire the moon and remember her deceased husband.

The villagers praised her for her deep affection and threw rotten vegetable leaves at the elder's door. After this happened several times, no one pressured her to take a husband anymore.

……

Five days later, Lin Yan boarded a flying boat and sailed out of the Baling region, arriving in the plains.

The airship flew low, and she rested cross-legged.

She summoned the little ones to play on the deck, reducing the consumption of spirit stones in the space.

Suddenly, a strong wind picked up, and the extreme weather forced her to find a place to stop the airship.

Before her eyes stretched an endless grassland. She landed the flying boat on the grass and looked up at the dark clouds in the sky.

How unlucky to encounter such extreme weather!

This kind of weather is rare; it usually only occurs when a powerful being undergoes tribulation.

She glanced at it and saw no unusual cloud formations, indicating that no one was undergoing tribulation; it was just normal extreme weather.

The grassland has no mountains or rocks to block the wind, and the wind whistles and crashes against the barrier.

If she hadn't used spirit stones to create a barrier against the wind and rain, her entire flying boat would have been blown away.

It was too dangerous for the flying boat to stop in an open area, so she quickly took out spirit stones and set up arrays around it again.

Soon, a torrential downpour began, pounding against the barrier with loud "bang, bang, bang" sounds.

The extreme weather came suddenly, with strong winds, heavy rain, lightning, and thunder, and the entire sky was covered by thick dark clouds.

What's even more amazing is that the lightning and thunder were very natural, not at all like a tribulation lightning, just very weak lightning.

Could it be that a great being has fallen, and the heavens are weeping?

Even when the elders of the Mo family perished, they had never seen such a spectacle.

But she soon learned the result from Jade Disc Square.

It turns out that the phenomenon was caused by the complete dissipation of a secret realm.

This secret realm was used for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition. When we went in before, there was no sign of it collapsing or dissipating at all. Now, its sudden dissipation is quite unexpected.

Some even suspect that someone was doing something in the secret realm and was discovered, so the entire secret realm was destroyed to eliminate the evidence in order to prevent it from being leaked.

The extreme weather ended in a day, and she continued to maneuver the airship to the sea.

Several more days passed before she arrived at Xihai City, which was near the sea.

She stowed the flying boat and found a place to sit in the rest area outside the city.

Some monks noticed she was alone and came over to ask if she wanted to team up for a trip to the sea, but she politely declined.

Hearing that she was traveling alone and not in a team, many ill-intentioned glances were cast her way.

Lin Yan thought to herself: Great, someone else is looking for death!
One of the male cultivators hesitated for a while before walking over to look at her and whispering a reminder: "It's safer to team up."

She smiled and replied politely, "Okay."

Perhaps seeing that she still had no intention of forming a team, he secretly slipped her a note and then left as if nothing had happened.

After sitting for a while and not hearing any useful information, she went directly into the sea.