Chapter 412: The Yin Clan Welcomes The Young Master’s Return!
Yu Huang had been here once.
Although the Yin Clan hadn’t built a city like the Sheng Clan, the Yin Clan was also very imposing.
The Yin Clan was established on the Eight Towers Mountain, which was located southwest of Jingdu. As the name suggested, there were a total of eight mountains on the Eight Towers Mountain. The geographical location of these eight mountains towered from the sky, and they looked like seven stars holding the moon.
Seven mountains about a thousand meters high surrounded the tall mountain that was nearly two thousand meters high in the middle.
The reason why this mountain range was called the Eight Towers Mountain was that there was a cultivation paG.o.da built on every peak. The Yin Clan’s side branches and the Yin Clan’s ordinary citizens lived on the seven short mountains, while the Yin Clan’s core sect disciples lived on the tall mountain in the middle.
This mountain was also called Moon Pointing Mountain. This was because on one side of the cultivation tower at the top of the mountain, there was a towering tree with a strange shape. This tree pointed at the moon. It was a famous mountain in Jingdu.
From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, countless pavilions were built.
The Yin Clan had moved to Jingdu from the south 900 years ago, so the houses on the Eight Towers Mountain still maintained the architectural style from 900 years ago. It was a modern Chinese-style building.
The Yin Clan’s aircraft flew around the Eight Towers Mountain. Yin Mingchong called Yu Huang to the aircraft’s observation deck and said to her, “Ah Huang, you came in a hurry last time and didn’t have the time to properly admire the Yin Clan’s territory. You must take a closer look when you return this time. Don’t get lost when you return to your mother’s house in the future.”
These words sounded like words of concern, but Yu Huang could tell what Yin Mingchong was implying.
He was hinting to Yu Huang that she was a married lady after all. Even if she returned to the Yin Clan to acknowledge her ancestors, she still had to live in the Sheng Clan in the future.
If she returned to the Yin Clan again, it wouldn’t be called returning to the clan. It would be called returning to her maiden home.
However, was Yu Huang that easy to fool?
Yu Huang smiled calmly and said, “Uncle, a home is a home. Why differentiate between the maiden family and the husband’s family?! My father had high hopes for me. If he were still alive, he definitely would have welcomed me to stay in the Yin Clan.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Huang cast an aggrieved gaze at Yin Mingchong and asked in a low voice, “Uncle, could it be that you also think that a married daughter is like water that has been poured out? That returning to my own family in the future is like returning to my maiden family?”
Yin Mingchong was speechless.
This little fox!
Yin Mingchong was already cursing Yu Huang in his heart, but he had to maintain his benevolent and loving image.
Yin Mingchong smiled as he stroked his white beard, and he said, “I’ve said the wrong thing. You’re the Yin Clan’s treasure, so the Yin Clan is naturally your home. I welcome you to the Yin Clan.”
Hearing this, Yu Huang revealed a satisfied smile. “Then I’ll obey and stay in the Yin Clan.”
Then, Yu Huang turned around and said to Sheng Xiao, “Sheng Xiao, the Sheng family isn’t busy recently. How about you stay with me in the Yin family? This is my home, so it’s your home.”
Sheng Xiao was sitting at the bar in the aircraft. He was learning how to make summer drinks from the bartender. He planned to make drinks for Yu Huang in the future.
He liked to see Yu Huang lying in her arms and spouting nonsense when she was slightly drunk.
Sheng Xiao shook the sparkling wine in his gla.s.s. “If you don’t mind, I’m willing to stay with you in the Yin family for a few more days.”
Yu Huang then looked at Yin Mingchong and said with a smile, “The Yin family is so big. You must have a house for Sheng Xiao and me, right?”
Yin Mingchong never expected Yu Huang to be so shameless.
He had just casually said so, but Yu Huang shamelessly took him up on his offer.
“Hehe, of course. Although the Yin Clan isn’t as extravagant as the Caro Clan, we still have the ability to raise two more children.”
“Uncle, you’re so good to me.”
Yu Huang stood on the observation platform and lowered her head to look down at the Eight Towers Mountain. A ferocious glint flashed across her eyes.
She liked Eight Towers Mountain very much.
She had to get it back.
Yin Mingchong narrowed his eyes as he stared at Yu Huang’s side profile, but he thought to himself, “This little girl is indeed cunning and difficult to deal with. Bringing her back to the Yin Clan will probably cause more trouble.”
Yin Mingchong brought Yu Huang around in the sky for a while before ordering the aircraft to descend.
The aircraft circled and landed on the tarmac at the foot of the mountain. The aircraft had been circling in the sky for a long time, and it was enough to attract the attention of the Yin family.
What happened at Saint Pond had long been sent back to the Yin Clan through the phone.
Now, everyone in the Yin Clan knew that Yu Huang had returned safely.
Hearing the sound of the aircraft flying in the sky, the Yin family ran out of their houses.
Some residents who lived at the foot of the mountain even ran to the high slopes on both sides of the tarmac and looked curiously at the slowly descending aircraft.
Their real Young Master was sitting on that aircraft!
Young Master!
Not many people in the entire Yin Clan recognized Yin Fu as the Young Master.
In the eyes of these simple people, the true Patriarch of the Yin Clan had always been Yin Mingjue. The true Young Master was also Yin Huang!
It was only because Yin Mingchong had managed the Yin Clan well all these years and his cultivation had improved very quickly that everyone reluctantly acknowledged his status as the acting Patriarch.
However, no one acknowledged Yin Fu’s ident.i.ty.
Now, their real Young Master had returned!
It was said that their young master was called Yu Huang, and she was the only dual cultivator on the continent. She was only 21 years old, but she was already a Master! She was much more talented than Yin Rong, who was the most talented one in the Yin Clan!
The daughter of Prime Master Yin Mingjue was indeed promising!
The aircraft finally stopped steadily.
As soon as the door of the aircraft opened, the ten elders of the Yin Clan rushed over from various mountains. These ten people were all respected Grand Masters of the Yin Clan, and they were once Yin Mingjue’s trusted aides.
The ten elders stood side by side and looked up at the aircraft.
Finally, the door to the aircraft’s exit was pulled open on both sides.
Yin Mingchong was the first to walk towards the cabin door. He stood at the open cabin door and glanced down. When he saw the elders standing side by side on the square, a gloomy expression instantly flashed across Yin Mingchong’s eyes.
It had been 21 years, but this group of old fellows still refused to acknowledge his ident.i.ty. Usually, when he had important matters to discuss with them, he even had to send someone to urge them.
Now, when they heard that Yin Mingjue’s daughter had returned, they flew over impatiently before the aircraft even stopped.
In the end, they were only loyal to Yin Mingjue.
In these 21 years, he had worked hard for the Yin Clan. He thought that he was doing his best, but why were they unwilling to serve him?
They insisted on serving a person who had died long ago!
Yin Mingchong had acted for his entire life, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a little tired and didn’t want to act anymore. However, when he thought about how the position of Patriarch wasn’t easy to come by, Yin Mingchong took a deep breath and suppressed his resentment.
He turned around and shouted at Yu Huang, “Ah Huang, come quickly. The elders have heard the news and rushed over to welcome you back.”
Yu Huang was also somewhat surprised.
Were the elders of the Yin Clan so proactive?
Yu Huang walked out while in deep thought. As soon as she appeared by Yin Mingchong’s side, all the elders instantly raised their heads and sized her up with burning gazes.
It was during July, and Yu Huang was wearing a red dress and a pair of red diamond strappy high heels as she stood at the exit. Under the scorching sun, the golden phoenix embroidery on her dress suddenly emitted a dazzling light.
She stood there like an empress descending with an extraordinary aura!
Twenty-one years ago, the weak little baby who only knew how to drink milk and smile at them had finally grown up!
Mingjue!
“Did you see that?!”
“Your child is still alive. She’s back!”
She had grown into a person who made all of us proud!
The elders widened their eyes and sized up Yu Huang, as if they wanted to engrave her face into their minds. Their eyes were actually filled with tears.
Suddenly, the ten elders bent down at the same time and shouted in a choked voice, “Welcome back, Young Master!”
The ten Grand Masters bowed in unison. This was the highest form of etiquette in the Yin Clan.
The last time they bent down at the same time was after Yin Mingjue died. Yin Donghai and Ji Linyuan brought their personal sword back to the Yin Clan.
Yu Huang was stunned as she watched this scene. Only now did she realize that the group of elders who had once followed her father hadn’t yet submitted to Yin Mingchong.
So there were people in this world who were still thinking about her father.
Through spiritual power, the voices of the elders spread infinitely and quickly spread out of the valley and throughout the Eight Towers Mountain.
Immediately after, on the Eight Towers Mountain, countless Yin clansmen bowed in unison and shouted towards the tarmac at the foot of the mountain in pleasant surprise, “All Yin clansmen welcome the return of the Young Master!”
When Yu Huang heard the waves of voices, her eyes welled up with tears.
So this was what it felt like to be home!
Right at this moment, Yin Mingchong heard a strange sound. When he recognized that sound, he realized that it was somewhat like the sound of a metal object striking the stone floor.
When they heard the commotion, the elders and Yin Mingchong looked towards the entrance of the plane at the same time.
The plane platform was built on a wide platform in the valley, and the strange commotion came from the entrance stairs on the north side of the plane platform.
Everyone stared in that direction. They didn’t see anyone, but they could hear the hammering getting closer and closer.
Finally…
Someone appeared.
The first to appear was the person’s head with some white hair.
Following that, that person’s appearance was revealed.
That person had thick eyebrows and big eyes. His lower lip was slightly thick. His facial features weren’t intimidating. Instead, he looked righteous and loyal.
Staring at that face, the elders frowned in unison. They felt that the other party looked a little familiar, but they could not remember where they had seen him before.
Yin Mingchong looked at him with slight bewilderment.
Who was this person?
That person took a few more steps forward. Only then did everyone realize that the man was wearing a slightly tattered Yin Clan uniform. It was not the uniform of the Yin Clan’s disciples, but the uniform of the Yin Clan’s servants.
At this moment, everyone realized that the servant was holding a walking stick in his right hand.
Was this a servant of the Yin Clan?
But the Yin Clan would never hire servants with disabilities!
The man finally finished climbing the stairs. He stood at the side of the plane and raised his head before looking at Yin Mingchong from afar.
Yin Mingchong looked at him with bewilderment while a trace of uneasiness actually arose in the depths of his heart.
Who was this person?
But in next to no time, the man moved his gaze to Yu Huang, who was beside Yin Mingchong.
When Yu Huang saw the person with the walking stick, her lips trembled slightly. She almost called him ‘Father’.
The short-legged man limped to the side of the elders. He stared fixedly at Yin Mingchong for a moment before suddenly raising his hand and tearing off the mask on his face!
In the next second, the face of a middle-aged man with regular facial features appeared in front of Yin Mingchong.
When Yin Mingchong saw the face that he had dreamed of for 21 years, Yin Mingchong suddenly cried out in alarm. “Yin Donghai!”
Yu Donghai put down his walking stick and knelt down on one knee with difficulty. He bowed to Yu Huang, who was on the aircraft. His head was against the ground, and he roared with a sorrowful tone—
“Servant Yin Donghai welcomes the Young Master’s return!”
Yu Huang closed her eyes as tears welled up in them.
Father.
The elders stared at Yu Donghai’s back as he knelt on the ground. They thought carefully for a moment before recalling who he was.
“Donghai! Are you the little slave who followed Mingjue around?”
Even if Yin Mingjue had long abolished Yu Donghai’s slave status, to this group of elders, Yu Donghai was still Yin Mingjue’s slave.
“Didn’t you die a long time ago?” An elder with a beard and white hair looked at Yin Mingchong, and he questioned Yin Mingchong with slight anger. “Second Patriarch! You personally brought Yin Donghai’s ashes back to the Yin Clan 20 years ago, so what’s going on?!”
Yin Mingchong panicked when he heard this.
Yu Donghai raised his head and glared at Yin Mingchong with hatred in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and said, “Oh yeah? I’m dead? As the person involved, I actually didn’t know that I was dead a long time ago! May I ask, Second Patriarch, where did you find my ashes?”
When they heard Yu Donghai questioning Yin Mingchong, the elders became even more confused.
At this moment, Yin Mingchong had recovered some sense of rationality.
His eyes flickered as he quickly came up with an excuse.
Yin Mingchong said, “Donghai, looks like what happened back then was a complete misunderstanding. Back then, Ah Huang was stolen, and you left the Yin Clan to search for her. One day, the spirit energy lamp you left in the clan suddenly went out. I was worried about your safety, so with the spirit energy lamp, I chased after you to save you.”
“When I arrived at the abyss, I was still too late. When I got there, there was only a pool of blood and some broken limbs on the ground. I thought you had already…”
When he spoke up to here, Yin Mingchong stopped.
He shook his head and sighed. “It seems that I was wrong.”
The elders were unwilling to believe Yin Mingchong’s words that easily.
The white-bearded elder asked Yu Donghai, “Donghai, tell me, what was the truth of what happened back then?!”
Yin Donghai stood up with the support of his walking stick. He turned around and bowed to the elders first before saying, “Back then, after the Young Master disappeared, I took the Young Master’s personal item to seek the Grand State Master’s help. The Grand State Master told me that the Young Master should have been brought to the Abyssal Origin Forest.”
“The Abyssal Origin Forest?!” The elders were shocked.
The white-bearded elder immediately said, “At that time, the Young Master was only three months old. She was actually thrown into the Abyssal Origin Forest? How did she survive?”
“That’s right!” Yu Donghai told them. “I risked my life and barged into the primeval forest alone. In a col not far from the center of the forest, I found the Young Master. At that time, the Young Master was already so hungry that she had no strength left. Her body was covered in small ants. A level-six Magic Snake that was coiled on a tree wanted to eat her!”
The elders’ hearts ached when they heard this.
Sheng Xiao, who was sitting in the aircraft, felt his heart ache when he heard the secret. He looked at Yu Huang and saw that she was calm. She looked invincible.
Ever since he met Yu Huang, she always seemed to be very calm and strong no matter how many setbacks and hardships she encountered.
She was his cactus.
Sheng Xiao lowered his eyes and heard Yu Donghai say, “At that time, I was only an intermediate-stage Supreme Master. The Magic Snake was already at the peak of level six. I had to protect Young Master and deal with the Magic Snake at the same time. It was inevitable that I would have trouble moving. Soon, I was defeated and my right calf was bitten by the Magic Snake.”
“In order to successfully bring the Young Master out of the primeval forest, I had no choice but to self-destruct my beast form to successfully bring the Young Master out of the primeval forest.”
It was precisely because he had self-destructed his beast form that his spiritual light was extinguished.
Yu Donghai raised his head and stared at Yin Mingchong with a malicious gaze. He asked with a sharp tone, “Second Patriarch, my leg has long since been eaten by the Magic Snake, and the Young Master and I have both escaped from the forest alive. May I ask, Second Patriarch, whose ashes did you bring back?”
Yin Mingchong was rendered speechless by Yu Donghai’s question.
He was so frightened that he stuttered. Yin Mingchong said, “M-Maybe there were other people nearby who fought with demon beasts. I mistook their corpses for yours.”
“Oh, is that so? In that case, I misunderstood the Second Patriarch. I thought that the Second Patriarch deliberately killed someone and used their ashes to subst.i.tute as mine so that the elders would believe that I was dead and that the Young Master was dead!”
Yin Mingchong’s face turned ashen. “What nonsense are you spouting?!”
However, the elders all had their own thoughts.
Actually, just like Yu Donghai, they didn’t believe that Yin Mingchong was innocent.
There were too many suspicious points in the young master’s disappearance back then, and Yin Mingchong’s motive wasn’t simple.
Yu Donghai suddenly accused Yin Mingchong. “Yin Mingchong, I suspect that you were also involved in Young Master’s disappearance back then!”
Yin Mingchong immediately cursed back. “Yin Donghai, don’t slander me! Ah Huang is my niece. How could I harm her? Why would I harm her?!”
Yu Donghai retorted mercilessly, “If you don’t eliminate her, how can you hold on to your position as the clan leader?!”
Yin Mingchong was exasperated. He said with a dark expression, “As a servant, you actually dare to publicly slander the Patriarch and sow discord between me and Ah Huang. Aren’t you too ignorant of your status?! You deserve to be punished!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yin Mingchong suddenly summoned the Yin Clan’s whip and was about to whip Yu Donghai.
“No!” Yu Huang wanted to stop him, but how could a late-stage Master be a match for a late-stage Grandmaster?
Seeing that the whip was about to hit Yu Donghai’s back, Yu Huang’s eyes instantly turned red.
At this moment, the white-haired elder suddenly stretched out his left hand and caught Yin Mingchong’s clan whip!
The patriarch swung the clan whip angrily, and the whip landed on the hard stone floor of the plane deck, drawing a two-meter-deep gully.
If such a whip struck an ordinary person who had self-destructed his beast form, Yu Donghai definitely had no chance of survival!
Yin Mingchong was trying to silence him!
Yu Huang stared at the crack on the ground, and killing intent suddenly appeared in her eyes.
Yin Mingchong was too outrageous!
Yin Mingchong felt apprehensive and angry when he saw that the First Elder had actually blocked his whip. “First Elder, do I not even have the right to teach a servant a lesson?”
The First Elder glanced at the crack in the ground and snorted coldly. “Second Patriarch, are you going to teach the servant a lesson, or are you going to silence him because your dirty deeds have been exposed? I think you should know very well.”
Yin Mingchong actually didn’t dare to refute.
“21 years ago, there were indeed many mysteries regarding the Young Master’s disappearance. If we don’t investigate this matter clearly, as elders, we won’t be able to give an explanation to the deceased Prime Master Yin Mingjue and even the entire Yin Clan!”
“Why don’t we discuss this matter in front of the entire cultivation world in three days? If the Second Patriarch is really innocent, then there’s nothing to fear. If it’s eventually confirmed that the Second Patriarch was indeed involved in this matter, then…”
The First Elder’s expression immediately turned cold. He said solemnly, “In Yin Clan, those who harm their loved ones deserve death!”
He deserved death!
These words frightened Yin Mingchong so much that his heart skipped a beat.
Yin Fu stole a glance at her father and saw that his fingers were actually trembling. She immediately had a bad feeling.
Could it be that her father had really played a hand in Yu Huang’s disappearance back then?
Yin Rong looked at Yu Huang, whose eyes were fierce and filled with killing intent, and then at Yin Mingchong, whose face was slightly pale. She suddenly had a premonition.
The Yin Clan’s power dynamic was probably going to change…
…
Yu Huang’s return made everyone in the Yin Clan happy.
On this night, the Yin Clan was brightly lit. The Eternal Lamp was lit on the top of the Eight Towers Mountain’s cultivation tower. In the past, the Eternal Lamp would only be lit on the night of the sacrificial festival.
However, today, the young master returned safely. Under the instructions of the First Elder, the Yin Clan specially lit the Eternal Lamp to comfort the soul of Prime Master Yin Mingjue in heaven.
The Eight Towers Mountain was high above sea level. On Eight Towers Mountain, long bright lights could be seen from many places in the capital.
The Grand State Master stood on the top of the Divination Tower and looked in the direction of the Eight Towers Mountain with a smile on his face. “Child, welcome home.”
Ever since Su Xuanye fell from grace, he had been stripped of his position as the president of the Purifying Spirit a.s.sociation. Now, Lin Jiansheng had become the new president.
At night, Lin Jiansheng was also standing on the roof of the Purifying Spirit Master Headquarters building while looking at the bright lights on the Eight Towers Mountain in the distance. He smiled and muttered, “In three days, it will be my turn to fight for you.”
Kong Qing suddenly appeared beside Lin Jiansheng. He was holding a dumpling in his hand. As he ate, he said, “That bandit has been having diarrhea today. Is he going to die?”
This morning, Zhou Buwen learned from Kong Qing that the little girl from the Yin Clan had already returned. Moreover, she was the Young Madam of the Sheng Clan, the only dual cultivator in the Holy Spirit Continent. After that, he started to have diarrhea.
Lin Jiansheng shook his head and said, “No, he’s just too afraid.”
Kong Qing thought about it for a moment and said, “Then let’s bring him to the Yin Clan in three days. What if he has diarrhea in front of everyone?” Kong Qing frowned and said disdainfully, “He will definitely reek.”
Lin Jiansheng smiled gently and suggested considerately, “It’s alright. If he continues to have diarrhea, we can give him diapers.”
Not to mention having diarrhea, even if he was paralyzed, Lin Jiansheng would drag him to the Yin Clan.