Li Xiu stared fixedly at every move Lin Mo made. It wasn’t just him; everyone present was watching Lin Mo. Lin Zhan knew what Lin Mo’s problem was, and sweat was starting to bead on his forehead. He also wasn’t sure whether this demon-testing stone would detect that Lin Mo still carried half a demon-clan bloodline.

He did know one thing: a child from a respectable household couldn’t possibly harm his fellow disciples. If it really were demon-blood framing him, then even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn’t wash it clean. After all, in the eyes of these righteous people, the mere existence of demons is an crime.

In front of everyone, Lin Mo slowly poured his spiritual energy into the demon-testing stone. For a moment, everyone held their breath.

Time passed bit by bit, and the demon-testing stone gave no response for a long while. The Lin family members, seeing this, all let out long, relieved breaths.

“I told you — Uncle Mo could never be a demonic cultivator……”
“Sure enough, Uncle Mo has been falsely accused.”

The younger Lin members below cheered and celebrated. Lin Nantian, face full of defiance, looked at the crowd ahead and said, “The result is out; I earnestly hope you will stop framing my grandson.”

As for this outcome, Nangong Bisheng found it simply unbelievable. He looked in puzzlement toward Xuanming Hall’s law-enforcing elder, Li Xiu.

Li Xiu shook his head. The demon-testing stone can’t possibly be faulty… He wanted to help his disciple Nangong Xu blow off steam, but he was here representing Xuanming Hall. Without concrete evidence, he couldn’t take action against the Lin family for his own private grievances.

Chen Sheng’s face was full of disbelief. “How could this happen? Almost everyone from Qingling Sect witnessed Lin Mo practicing demonic cultivation — it can’t end like this!”

Seeing that the crowd before him still wouldn’t give up, Lin Mo sneered coldly, “Have Xuanming Hall’s demon-testing stones rechecked? You lot still spout slogans about eradicating demons and defending the Way, but targeting my Lin family is actually just a pretext to plunder our resources.”

Lin Mo handed the demon-testing stone to his grandfather, Lin Nantian. Following procedure, everyone in the Lin household was tested. Without exception, the stone showed no reaction.

Lin Mo looked coldly at the gathered crowd. “So what will you do now?” At this point, no one had any reasonable justification to keep pressing the Lin family. Unwilling to accept it, Nangong Bisheng shot Lin Mo a glare and waved his hand. “Let’s go.”

“Wait—” Lin Mo called after them. “You came here with a whole group for this operation—do you really expect to just leave like that?”

Seeing this, Lin Tian whooped from below, “Brothers—Uncle Mo is about to bring us wealth again!”

Nangong Bisheng frowned. “What more do you want?”

“I’ve already heard—over the past year your Nangong family has been maliciously smearing every one of our Lin family’s businesses.”

“These are our losses, You don’t intend to make reparations?”

Chen Sheng felt a strange sense of déjà vu. Nangong Bisheng said, “Even if you’ve passed the demon-testing stone, until the Qingling Sect affair is fully resolved, you still haven’t cleared the suspicion of demonic cultivation. When everything is settled, then come back and discuss compensation with me.” With that, he moved to leave the Lin residence.

“Stop!” Lin Mo shouted again.

Nangong Bisheng frowned but didn’t halt. He was, after all, the head of the Nangong family—how could a junior presume to stop him?

Seeing that words were useless, Lin Mo moved to act. As the Three-Thousand Sword Technique erupted, nearly a thousand strands of sword-qi burst into the sky, instantly blocking everyone’s way. Each strand carried power enough to cut down those at the Nascent Soul stage—perhaps even those at the Soul Splitting stage. The display left everyone present stunned.

Only then did Lin Nantian realize he could no longer see through Mo’er’s cultivation. “Mo’er—is this the Divine Transformation stage?” Xuanming Hall’s law-enforcing elder, Li Xiu, also stared at Lin Mo in shock. So young, and already at the Divine Transformation stage—how could that be…

The truth was laid out before them; even if they refused to believe it, they had no choice but to. Lin Mo’s cold, emotionless voice — without a trace of feeling — echoed in everyone’s ears.

“Which one of you dares to try and leave?” In an instant, the crowd became as meek as little rabbits.

They could all feel it: the terrifying force contained in each strand of sword-qi was not something they could withstand. Those looking at Lin Mo had gone from initial contempt to sheer alarm. The younger Lin family members below watched with stars in their eyes.

Their Uncle Mo was simply incredible. To think he alone had held back all the attackers from the Nangong and Chen families, plus the great throng of wandering cultivators converging from near and far…

The scene had them all feeling a flush of excitement. Especially Lin Tian — he was putting on a perfect display of bullying the weak with the support of the powerful.

“Aiya, such tiny Nangong and Chen families, really laughable, laughable.”

“With a smile, Uncle Mo can crush every one of you with a flick of his finger — you’re all trash!”

His tone was arrogant, and it drew angry looks to everyone’s face. Of course, when those words were shouted, Lin Tian was still hiding behind Lin Zijian.

Lin Zijian finally reached his limit. Just as he was about to drag the hiding Lin Tian out, he discovered that the man had already slipped into the ranks of the Lin family’s younger generation, murmuring: “Cousin Zijian, you truly are the bravest among our younger Lin generation — we are proud of what you said!”

Lin Qingqing rolled her eyes at Lin Tian. “You’re really shameless.”

“Aren’t you afraid Cousin Zijian will take up his blade later and cut you down?”

Lin Tian laughed. “Come on—Cousin Lin Zijian’s the one carrying the reputation here. Besides, Uncle Mo is protecting me. What am I afraid of?”

Even so, someone in the crowd couldn’t hold back and struck. “You juniors dare insult us like this—you’re asking for death.”

Lin Zijian felt disaster closing in. The one who attacked him was an elder of the Nangong family, with strength at a half-step into the Soul Splitting stage. He moved so fast that Lin Zijian couldn’t even run.

The next instant, a strand of sword-qi lanced down from the sky and pierced straight through that Nangong elder’s body. “When someone of the Lin family curses you, you’ll swallow it. If you dare lay hands on us, then you’re the ones in the wrong.”

“Having to crash into the sword-qi—that’s just asking for death!” Grumbling or not, no one dared talk back to Lin Mo.

Staring up at the imperious white figure in the sky, Lin Zijian felt an indescribable surge wash through him. Why was his heart racing like this?

At this point the only one with standing to speak was Xuanming Hall’s law-enforcing elder, Li Xiu. Thinking of how far Lin Mo had already gone, he was forced to change his tone. “Since Lord Nangong and Lord Chen have already yielded, for you to keep pressing like this is a bit excessive.”

Lin Mo replied, “We of the Lin family have already cleared ourselves with the demon-testing stone. Yet they still refuse to let it go. Wouldn’t letting them leave like this be a loss of face for my Lin family?”

Li Xiu asked, “If they submit to the demon-testing stone, will this matter be set aside for now?”

“How could it?” Lin Mo corrected him. “What if there’s a demonic cultivator among them—would you just call it closed?”

At that, many secretly breathed easier; after all, everyone sure whether they had ever dabbled in demonic arts. Soon, they began submitting one by one to inspection by the demon-testing stone.

When it came to Chen Sheng, head of the Chen family, Lin Mo seized a moment when no one was watching. In a lightning-quick move, aided by the Mo Yan clan’s secret treasure, he forced the demonic aura that had originally belonged to the maid into Chen Sheng’s body.

The very instant the demon-testing stone flared—

“Everyone look—the demon-testing stone is reacting!”

“Chen Sheng really is a demonic cultivator!”