Only I am Venerable

Let’s rewind to last night. After Shen Le and his wife had left, Qin Li considered Lin Heng’s warning. He had only one person in mind for the job: She She. However, sending She She to face the enemy alone wasn’t a foolproof plan.

After all, She She had only just broken through to the Shattered Void Realm. Qin Li wasn’t willing to take that risk. If the two of them became locked in a difficult battle, the other enemies would likely swarm them. At that point, even with help from the Qian Family and the Thousand Mechanism Sect, the Qin Family would be in grave danger.

He had to devise a plan to suppress the Lin Family’s Shattered Void Martial Artist with lightning speed. That way, those other ambitious families and Sects would have to seriously reconsider whether they should still attack the Qin Family at a time like this.

Just then, he saw She She, and an idea struck him. He wondered what would happen if a Spirit Beast with such ridiculously high talent like She She learned the Suppression Technique.

The Suppression Technique was called a Heaven-defying Skill precisely because it didn’t take long to learn. A truly exceptional talent could unleash its immense power in a short amount of time.

The Suppression Technique worked by instantly drawing out the incomparably powerful energy from a Spirit Stone to either use for oneself or to suppress an opponent. And it was She She herself who discovered it could be used for oneself!

A Martial Artist at Qin Li’s level could only use it to suppress others. This was because the surging energy within a Spirit Stone was so violent that even a Venerable Realm Martial Artist couldn’t withstand its instantaneous impact.

But while learning the Suppression Technique, She She felt that her body could seemingly withstand the instantaneous impact of the energy from a Mid-grade Spirit Stone. So, she gave it a try.

One must say: fortune favors the bold! She She’s risky move had unexpectedly shown Qin Li another use for the Suppression Technique.

However, an Upper-grade Spirit Stone was beyond what someone at She She’s level could handle. She had tried once and was nearly injured by it, so she gave up on the idea.

Returning to the present, the Lin Family’s Shattered Void Realm ancestor was being bombarded by a series of ferocious attacks from She She, leaving him almost completely unable to fight back.

They were originally two evenly matched Martial Artists. It wasn’t hard to understand how the situation became so one-sided after one of them suddenly grew stronger.

The Lin Family ancestor’s gray robes were now tattered and torn, making him look like a beggar. He was also coughing up blood repeatedly from She She’s powerful, heavy-hitting attacks.

In reality, the gray-robed elder’s injuries weren’t too severe, but he looked utterly miserable. This made him furious, yet there was nothing he could do.

"Old fool, this is what you get for running your mouth!" She She’s graceful and elegant body suddenly froze in mid-air. A terrifying aura slowly spread out from her as a cold smile crept onto her lips. "You can die now!"

"Wait, wait!" An old man standing beside the Lin Family’s Patriarch, Lin Zixiang, suddenly shouted, "Senior woman up there, please show mercy! The Lin Family... we withdraw!"

Qin Li recognized this old man. He was a high-ranking Elder of the Lin Family, Earth Venerable Lin Yang!

A trace of contempt slowly surfaced in She She’s icy eyes. She looked at the ashen-faced, gray-robed elder and said, "So you’re from the Lin Family!"

The onlookers below couldn’t help but gasp in astonishment. Their gazes toward the Lin Family’s camp were filled with complex emotions.

No one had expected that this great figure of the Shattered Void Realm was actually from the Lin Family!

Did this mean that besides their old ancestor, Lin Taiping, the Lin Family had a second... Shattered Void Realm expert?

Although this elder had been defeated, who would dare to actually mock him?

Besides, the Lin Family had hidden their strength incredibly well. They hadn’t even played this trump card when facing the aggressive Cui Family. If not for the ridiculously powerful Martial Artist on the Qin Family’s side this time, no one would have ever known this elder was from the Lin Family!

"Are you... scared now, too?" She She’s terrifying aura didn’t diminish in the slightest. Her limpid eyes held a faint hint of mockery as she looked at the gray-robed elder.

Are you... scared now, too?

Those five words were like five heavy hammers smashing into the gray-robed elder’s heart. He understood that Lin Yang had called for a stop under the Patriarch’s instruction. No matter what, a living Shattering Void Martial Artist was better than a dead one.

As long as he was alive, the Lin Family would have two great figures at the Shattered Void Realm, and no one would dare to provoke them. If he died, and with the Lin Family’s ancestor, Lin Taiping, in Death Sealing and unlikely to emerge for a hundred years, the Lin Family would enter a period of stagnation for the next century, even if they faced no immediate crisis.

Further significant development would be nearly impossible.

’Is my dignity more important, or the family’s interests?’ The gray-robed elder was caught in a painful struggle. However, he still hadn’t given up hope.

He raised his head, his old eyes holding a pleading expression, and asked She She, "What are you exactly, a human or a Spirit Beast!"

His question was, in fact, incredibly malicious. After all, whether it was a battle or a struggle for resources, it was an affair between humans. If a Spirit Beast was involved, the entire nature of the conflict would change completely!

Then, the Qin Family would truly be deserted by all. Colluding with a Spirit Beast was something that no one would tolerate!

Sure enough, after the gray-robed elder asked his question, everyone below stared at the black-robed woman in the sky in disbelief. Many others turned their gazes to the Qin Family.

Anger, joy, ridicule, disbelief... all sorts of emotions appeared on the faces of the people in the crowd.

Qin Li, however, stood there expressionlessly. ’Only a few people in the entire Qin Family know She She’s true identity! Besides, even if everyone knew, so what?’

’As long as I’m strong enough to keep these people completely under my thumb, what can they do, no matter how angry they are?’

The so-called rule was that humans and Spirit Beasts were mortal enemies. If there was collusion, neither side would forgive such a traitor. But there was another rule: if a human could gain the allegiance of a Spirit Beast and make it their pet, it wasn’t a transgression at all. In fact, it was a great achievement!

But She She was simply too powerful. No one would believe she was Qin Li’s pet. Moreover, Qin Li would never use such a method to clear his name. In his eyes, She She was a human, a beautiful human woman! Therefore, Qin Li wouldn’t—and disdained to—use such an excuse to absolve himself.

’Trying to reason with a group of people who want to kill you? Isn’t that just pathetic?’

Having been in the human world for so long, She She was naturally well aware of such matters. She didn’t even glance back at Qin Li, because she had complete faith in him. She knew that her master would never betray her, no matter what.

So, after the gray-robed elder asked his question, She She merely glanced at the Lin Family’s camp on the ground and said furiously, "Old fool, you have insulted me time and time again. This is unforgivable! I was originally going to spare your life for the sake of the relationship between my Young Master and your family’s Fourth Young Master, but... you’re courting death! To think you’d try to frame me like this! You’re infuriating me! You... just die!"

As She She spoke, she ignored the pleas of Lin Yang and Lin Zixiang below and completely unleashed her terrifyingly powerful aura. Her eyes were now devoid of any emotion, as calm... as the moment before a storm!

At the same time, She She sent a telepathic message to the gray-robed elder. "Old fool, you guessed right. I *am* a Spirit Beast, and one that has lived for ten thousand years! So what? Hehe, I’m nice, aren’t I? I’ll let you die knowing the truth!"

"AHH, YOU’RE A SPIRIT BEAST! YOU’RE A SPIRIT BEAST, YOU ADMITTED IT YOURSELF!" the gray-robed elder roared madly, his voice booming like a clap of thunder.

Many of the onlookers below couldn’t help but shake their heads.

"Sigh, has the Lin Family’s ancestor gone mad? Even if she were a Spirit Beast, would she be foolish enough to admit it?"

"Yeah, he’s probably been driven mad by the situation!"

"I think we should get out of here. The Qin Family... is not a family that a Sect like ours can afford to mess with."

"Yes, Lu. Sigh, I regret listening to their instigation. The Cui Family’s treasures are tempting, but you need to be alive to spend them..."

More people in the crowd began to quietly retreat. Amidst the tense scene, no one even paid attention to those who were backing away.

"Idiot!" She She spat. An earth-shattering power then erupted from her body like a monstrous wave, instantly engulfing the gray-robed elder.

She She didn’t even give the gray-robed elder a chance to self-destruct. Just now, while they were talking, she had absorbed the entire energy of another Mid-grade Spirit Stone. Now, she instantly unleashed it. The overwhelmingly powerful force left the gray-robed elder with no ability to resist, turning him directly to ash!

This scene would be forever seared into the memories of the countless people present. A great figure of the Shattered Void Realm, a Martial Artist representing the pinnacle of power on Profound Island, had been killed right before their very eyes!

Lin Yang, Lin Zixiang, and the rest of the Lin family stood frozen in shock. At that moment, their hearts were dead ashes, and they seemed to have lost the ability to even think.

Lin Heng couldn’t help but close his eyes and let out a soft sigh. ’Ancestor,’ he thought, ’you can only blame yourself for this outcome. Why were you so obsessed with the woman’s identity?’ Lin Heng glanced at the stupefied Lin Zixiang and sighed again in his heart. ’Sigh, Father, do you understand now why I tried to stop you? Qin Li’s mysteriousness is beyond what you and the family’s elders can comprehend. Perhaps someone can kill Qin Li and destroy the Qin Family, but it will absolutely not be... a power from Profound Island!’

In the sky, the astonishing energy lingered for a long time. She She stood motionless in mid-air, still savoring the feeling of wielding such tyrannical power. ’When,’ she wondered, ’will I possess this captivating power on my own?’

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