The master went down the mountain

"Why do you all look at me like that? Didn't expect me to come back?"

Tang Zhan was quite pleased with Lin Yuantu and Lin Canglan's expressions at that moment, as they were pretty much what he had expected!

"I didn't expect you to come back so soon!"

Lin Yuantu was the first to recover, suppressing all his negative emotions, and said with a kind expression:

"Come and sit down, I was just about to have Canglan gather all the eligible unmarried girls in the Lin family, I didn't expect you to be back so soon!"

Now that things have come to this, he can only temporarily use marriage to bind his cold uterus!

"Wasn't it you who released the complete list of the anti-Tang alliance in the Dark Kingdom?"

After Tang Zhan sat down, he looked at Lin Yuantu with a smile and asked:

"The Lin family is indeed a member of the Alliance to Destroy the Tang Dynasty!"

Lin Yuantu did not refute, because he knew that refutation was pointless, and asked:

"Did you report this to the Xuanmen Club?"

"No!" Tang Zhan shook his head!

Lin Yuantu and Lin Canglan breathed a huge sigh of relief!

"Name your terms. If you keep this secret, I'm willing to pay a certain price!"

Lin Yuantu adopted a negotiating stance, but in his heart he was thinking about how to kill Tang Zhan!

"Answer me one question, then grant me one request, and I'll keep this secret to myself!"

Tang Zhan poured himself a cup of tea, downed it in one gulp, and said with a smile.

"Go ahead and ask!"

Lin Yuantu had expected Tang Zhan to make an exorbitant demand, but he hadn't anticipated that Tang Zhan would ask him any questions!

"I'm very curious, why is the Annihilation Alliance so determined to destroy the Tang family? Everyone needs a motive to do anything, so what is the Annihilation Alliance's motive for destroying the Tang family?"

Tang Zhan really wanted to know the answer to this question!

Lin Yuantu and Lin Canglan did not expect Gong Han to ask this question!

In their view, Gong Han had absolutely no connection with the Tang family, so there was no reason for him to care about this!

Was it out of curiosity?

"Now that you've seen the complete list, you know how diverse the members of the Anti-Tang Alliance are. They come from the cultivation world, the business world, the political world, the military world, the underworld... and the reasons for bringing them into the Anti-Tang Alliance are different."

Lin Yuantu poured tea for Tang Zhan and continued:

"The Tang family has a history of over 1,400 years, and has collected all the martial arts techniques in the world, including many that have long been lost. This is the greatest temptation for cultivators..."

At this point, Lin Yuantu's face revealed a confusion that had been building up for 16 years:

"Strangely, after we wiped out the Tang family, we couldn't find any of the martial arts manuals that the Tang family had collected in any of their homes, including the Tang family ancestral hall..."

"You'd never find it..." Tang Zhan thought to himself!

Lin Yuantu continued:

"The Tang family was incredibly wealthy, with businesses all over the world. This naturally made many business people envious and jealous. Acquiring the Tang Group was an irresistible temptation for them. In fact, after the Tang family's downfall, all the business people in the Anti-Tang Alliance made a fortune."

"The Tang family wields immense power in political and military circles, with a complex and intricate network of relationships and connections. This poses a significant threat to their political enemies, who will absolutely not allow the Tang family to continue to grow stronger or continue to exist."

"Furthermore, the reason why high-ranking military officials from many countries participated in the alliance to destroy the Tang Dynasty was because the Tang Dynasty's foreign policy was excessively ruthless;"

"Tang Yuan, alone with his sword, swept across the thirty-six islands of the East, defeating all the masters of the East."

"Tang Zheng, single-handedly with his sword, rendered all the cultivators of the Indian Kingdom unable to raise their heads for 20 years."

"Tang Long single-handedly set up a ring across Europe, defeating so many that no one in the entire continent dared to step into the ring again..."

Tang Zhan was thrilled. This was what a man of the Tang family should do: to make China a force to be reckoned with globally, scaring cultivators from all over the world from even daring to mess with China.

However, this also made the Tang family countless enemies!

"Tang Zhan's father, Tang Ao, was even more ruthless. He went abroad to train at the age of 16 and swept across the world, defeating everyone without exaggeration."

"What makes all of Tang's enemies even more hateful is that 18 years ago, Tang Ao, together with his two sworn brothers, ignored all resistance and established the Xuanmen. They forcefully incorporated all cultivators and special ability users from the military and government into the Xuanmen, and also recruited a large number of cultivators and special ability users from the civilian population. With the Xuanmen in hand, no one in China could shake the Tang family anymore..."

At this point, Lin Yuantu's face showed lingering fear and apprehension:

"In that battle 16 years ago, although the number of members of the Anti-Tang Alliance was countless times that of the Tang family, although the Tang family members were scattered all over the world, and although the Anti-Tang Alliance attacked simultaneously from the business, military, political, and cultivation circles, the Tang family still killed and wounded countless people."

"The Tang family was too powerful, so powerful that even after 16 years, the thought still fills me with dread!"

Tang Zhan took a sip of tea: "Finished?"

"I'm done!" Lin Yuantu nodded.

"You're lying!"

Tang Zhan decisively exposed Lin Yuantu's lie, saying:

"If it were only what you've said, the Alliance to Annihilate Tang wouldn't have needed to kill everyone in the Tang family, much less spend 16 years and 10 billion US dollars to try and kill Tang Zhan!"

Lin Yuantu stared at Tang Zhan for 10 seconds before saying:

"What truly lured so many people to join forces against the Tang family was the battle runes!"

"Battle markings?"

Tang Zhan was taken aback and asked:

"What are battle runes?"

Lin Yuantu did not answer directly, but said:

"You are a cultivator, so you know very well that the ninth rank is the Qi Refining Realm, the eighth rank is the Spirit Refining Realm, the seventh rank is the Body Refining Realm... The Qi Refining Realm is the foundation of all cultivation."

"But in this era of depleted spiritual energy, without spiritual energy, cultivators can only use ancient martial arts formations to cultivate internal strength, and then use internal strength as a foundation for further cultivation. And all existing cultivation methods in the world today are like this."

"This has led to the fact that since the depletion of spiritual energy, all cultivation techniques can only be cultivated to the peak of the fourth rank. In other words, there are no first-rank, second-rank, or third-rank cultivators in this world."

"Therefore, all cultivators who have reached the peak of the fourth rank, unable to break through to the third rank, can only try their best to increase their combat power. Since they cannot break through to the third rank, they will focus on increasing their combat power to the third rank."

"But this is too difficult. Countless cultivators spend their entire lives only managing to raise their combat power to the half-step third rank. Over the years, very few cultivators have actually raised their combat power to the third rank."

"The Tang family is different. The Tang family has ancestral battle runes. As long as these battle runes are inscribed on a cultivator's body and then activated, the cultivator's strength can increase dozens of times, or even more..."

Tang Zhan understood: "What the Alliance that seeks most is the method for inscribing battle runes, and the method for activating them?"

"Um!"

Lin Yuantu nodded and said:

"The reason we were so determined to kill everyone in the Tang family, and even spared Tang Zhan when he was only 7 years old, is because we fear that Tang Zhan has battle markings inscribed on his body and knows how to activate them. Once Tang Zhan grows up, he will be a disaster for all members of the Annihilation Alliance!"

There's something Lin Yuantu didn't say: only members of the Tang family who have reached the age of 18 are qualified to have ancestral markings inscribed on their bodies, and only the head of the Tang family has the knowledge to inscribe and activate ancestral markings. Therefore, Tang Zhan doesn't have any battle markings on his body at all!

The Alliance to Destroy Tang had countless members, but only Lin Yuantu knew this secret. The reason Lin Yuantu insisted on killing Tang Zhan was because he was worried that Tang Zhan would find out about the special relationship between the Lin family and the Tang family!

Therefore, Lin Yuantu has never been afraid of Tang Zhan, nor has he ever worried that Tang Zhan could threaten the Lin family after he grows up!