This luxurious purple-robed Middle-aged Man was He Ran the current Zhang Family Head, Zhangtian Ye.
He was also Zhang Zhengqing’s biological father.
Zhangtian Ye helped Su Jin sit down and said in a low voice, "Brother Su Jin, I’m sorry, but regarding Jian Lake’s matter, my Zhang family is truly powerless!"
Su Jin nodded with a smile. "I understand. Since it was an order from the Holy Kingdom, Jian Lake considered itself utterly incapable of resisting, so when facing the Dragon Slaying Ministry’s encirclement, Jian Lake didn’t ask any Family power for aid, so as not to drag too many people into it and make countless innocents die."
Zhangtian Ye sighed helplessly. "Ai, everything was fine, so how did we end up suffering this calamity out of nowhere!"
Su Jin also spoke with deep sadness. "Yeah, everything was fine, so how did one inexplicable prophecy from the Celestial Monitoring Ministry send Jian Lake down the road to annihilation?"
Zhangtian Ye said in a low voice, "Since Brother Su Jin has come to my Zhang family, then stay here for now and rest to heal your injuries. I’ll have Zhengqing arrange this whole residence—no one will be allowed to approach lightly."
Su Jin cupped his fists and said, "Many thanks."
After that, Su Jin and Zhangtian Ye chatted idly for a while. Zhangtian Ye could see that Su Jin was heavily injured, so he left a lot of Healing Pills and then turned around and departed.
After the Zhangtian Ye father and son left, Lin Bai and Su Jin each chose a room of their own and began closed-door healing.
In this place, unfamiliar with people and surroundings, Lin Bai had to restore himself to peak condition as quickly as possible.
Fortunately, in the days that followed, no one disturbed Lin Bai, allowing his Cultivation to gradually recover and his injuries to slowly heal.
After Five days, Lin Bai’s Cultivation had recovered to about half, enough to count as having some ability to protect himself.
That day, Lin Bai walked out of his room into the courtyard and saw Su Jin sitting beneath the big tree in the yard, staring blankly at the green leaves on the branches.
Lin Bai asked curiously, "Have your injuries healed? Why aren’t you healing?"
Su Jin turned back to look at Lin Bai, smiling. "I’m thinking about something."
Lin Bai asked, "What thing?"
Su Jin said, "My injuries!"
Lin Bai asked curiously, "Is there any Technique to save you?"
Su Jin nodded. "When Jian Lake was surrounded and attacked by the Dragon Slaying Ministry, I was heavily injured by one Strong One from the Dragon Slaying Ministry. Although I used a Secret Skill to preserve one life and then used my Cultivation to suppress the injuries, over these few days I’ve been continuously Taking Action, and new and old wounds erupted together—I can no longer suppress them."
"If the injuries keep collapsing at this rate, within half a month I’ll be doomed to die!"
"Originally, I planned to stay in Jian Lake as Dharma Protector for you for a month, and if I didn’t die, then go seek a life-and-death battle with the Longhe Governor to avenge the Sword Lake Disciples—kill as many as I could."
"But now, you risked your life to pull me out from the Longhe Governor’s hands instead."
Su Jin shook his head with a bitter smile as he spoke.
Lin Bai asked, "Is there any other method?"
Su Jin was silent for a long time.
Lin Bai said, "Looks like you’ve thought of another way to save your life?"
Su Jin said, "Unless I disperse all my Cultivation and fall to an ordinary mortal, there is no other way."
When Lin Bai heard this, he also fell silent.
Su Jin was a Strong One at Great Perfection of the Wending Realm; he was someone standing at the peak of the Barbarian Ancient Continent, and it had taken him years of bitter cultivation to gain the Cultivation he had today.
If he were to disperse his Cultivation now and become a mortal...
Don’t even speak of Su Jin—any Warrior in his place would need immense resolve and mental endurance.
This feeling of falling from Heaven straight into Hell is not something just any Warrior can endure.
Once, he was a Strong One who strode across the Barbarian Ancient Continent with wind and clouds stirring, yet suddenly he’d become a mortal who couldn’t even truss a chicken. How could anyone accept that?
After Lin Bai was silent for a long while, he smiled. "That’s not so bad either. If you废 your Cultivation and become a mortal, you can completely turn into an Old Wine Ghost who only knows how to drink and eat roast chicken."
"Hahaha!" Su Jin was amused by Lin Bai’s words.
Lin Bai’s expression suddenly turned serious. "Make your decision quickly, don’t drag it out any longer. If you keep dragging it out, it might not be as simple as just废ing your Cultivation."
Su Jin said, "But if I废 my Cultivation, then what about Jian Lake’s vengeance?"
Lin Bai said, "For people, being alive is what gives hope. If a person dies, then there’s nothing left."
"I once saw a saying in Ancient Books—’A man in poverty can do no more than beg, but as long as he doesn’t die, he’ll rise one day!’"
"Being alive is what matters most."
"Only by living can there be hope."
Lin Bai looked at Su Jin as he spoke.
"Decide for yourself."
Lin Bai said a lot, but he didn’t dare make the decision for Su Jin. He only tried to persuade him a little.
Then Su Jin raised his head to look at the tree leaves of the big tree in the courtyard and grinned wickedly. "I think being a carefree Old Wine Ghost who only knows how to drink isn’t bad at all!"
"You’re right. Only by living can there be hope!"
Su Jin chuckled softly.
Right then, Su Jin walked back into his own room and began closed-door retreat.
And Lin Bai likewise returned to his room to continue healing.
In Thousand Leaves City, Lin Bai and Su Jin stayed for a long stretch of time.
Half a month later, Lin Bai’s injuries had basically healed. Now Lin Bai would walk into the courtyard and start practicing Sword Skill.
After Lin Bai’s encouragement that day, Su Jin had decisively chosen to give up his Cultivation and preserve his life.
Now, Su Jin sat in the courtyard every day, a Pot of Wine in his arms, drinking himself drunk daily while watching Lin Bai practice sword in the yard.
From time to time, he would even complain that Lin Bai’s Sword Skill wasn’t precise.
"The Sword Scripture is but a fragment!"
"But in the Sword Scripture fragment Jian Lake obtained, there are also twelve kinds of Sword Skill Divine Powers!
"However, this kind of Great Divine Skill has extremely high requirements for Cultivation and Spiritual Power!"
"I once saw a record in Ancient Books, saying that someone once used a Great Divine Skill and with just a single Great Divine Power Technique drained all the Spiritual Power of an entire Minor World."
"..."
"And now, the twelve Sword Skills within the Sword Scripture fragment also have requirements for Cultivation and Spiritual Power!"
"The Three Techniques Jian Lake obtained are Tearless Jianghu, Boundless Fallen Leaves, and Great River Eastward."
"These three Sword Skills are the Divine Powers in the Sword Scripture that have the lowest Cultivation requirement!"
"Tearless Jianghu only requires Cultivation at the Wending Realm to be used!"
"Boundless Fallen Leaves requires Cultivation at the Third Level of the Wending Realm to be perfectly unleashed."
"Great River Eastward requires Cultivation at the Fifth Level of the Wending Realm to be used!"
"..."
"If your Cultivation isn’t enough and you forcefully use them, you’ll be bitten back by the Sword Skill—at light, heavily injured; at worst, you’ll die on the spot."
"Just like that day when I barely used the ’Azure Sky Demon-slaying Sword’, that one sword almost took half my life!"
"If the Unbeatable Sword Skill hadn’t boosted my Cultivation up to the Fourth Level of the Wending Realm, I’d probably have died before that sword even left the scabbard."
After practicing Sword Skill for a while, Lin Bai sat cross-legged beneath the big tree in the courtyard, muttering in a low voice, "Since that’s the case, I’ll learn them one by one. Let’s start with ’Tearless Jianghu’!"
I’ve almost forgotten how many I owe. How about this, everyone sit down and talk it over—let me prepare a bit, and in a few days I’ll爆 about 20 Chapters or so, and then the tab between us will be wiped clean, okay?
How’s that? Dear readers...

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