The appearance of marriageable girls from several major families in the library made Lin Yang understand his situation.

I exposed myself.

That's right, there really aren't any secrets for these big families. And I'm not an elite secretly cultivated by the family. I've always been an open person and haven't deliberately concealed anything.

It can be predicted that as time goes by, more and more forces will discover themselves.

Although the competition between the major families was fierce, it didn't reach the point of killing. This was a major benefit of the alliance. There was a bottom line. If that bottom line wasn't crossed, assassinations wouldn't happen.

So, they used the simplest method, marriage?

But judging from the way the family arranged for Li Meng to take care of him, the family had no intention of using him for marriage, but rather intended to digest him internally.

The rule of not marrying someone with the same surname is not about being within the family, but about being within the family's power structure. A talented member like Li Meng, who has been nurtured since childhood, is the most loyal member and can help them better control my people.

Thinking of this, Lin Yang used his Sky Eye to check Li Meng's information.

"Li Meng, Jindan stage, the rest is unknown."

There is so little information about Li Meng.

It seems that Li Meng must be an elite secretly cultivated by the family. She has never stepped into the spotlight, but this time, she has invested heavily in order to control herself.

Look at Lin Jiu again.

"Lin Jiu, 312 years old, Yuanying stage, orphan, born in the Lin family nursery, with outstanding talent, joined the Dark Guard, was given the surname Lin, competed for the ninth place, entered Xuanhuang City and joined the Guigu Lin family's family team. At the age of 25, he advanced to the Golden Core stage, trained for four years, entered the battlefield at the age of 29, and advanced to the Yuanying stage after a hundred years. He fought in the Yuanying battlefield for another fifty-eight years before retiring and becoming a member of the Lin family's core clan member guard. His current strength is not bad, and he is suspected to be a high-level Yuanying."

Although Lin Yang had long known that Lin Jiu was a ruthless character, he had never expected him to be a pure combat professional. Such a cultivator was just like a professional warrior or ordinary civilian. At the same level, one could easily defeat ten.

Moreover, he is at a higher level than himself, so it is impossible to defeat him.

Lin Yang is now on guard, subconsciously thinking that his situation is unsafe and that everyone around him is an enemy. He is thinking about how to escape from an environment surrounded by enemies.

"The current situation is somewhat similar to that of the ancestor of sword cultivation."

In the library, Lin Yang specifically looked for the biography of the ancestor of sword cultivation. The ancestor of sword cultivation came from the Busan Jin family. Since ancient times, the Busan Jin family has mainly practiced the method of the cauldron hammer. They attack violently and are good at forging and refining equipment.

In terms of weapons and armor, the Jin family is the most outstanding, and its status is similar to that of the jade slips in the Lin family.

The ancestor of sword cultivation was born in Qingcheng, Mount Shu, a base city within the Jin family's sphere of influence. He began to show his talent at the age of seventeen and had amazing talents in refining equipment and swordsmanship.

But at that time, the Busan Jin family practiced their own unique system of cauldron hammer techniques. Swordsmen were those who did not have the talent to practice cauldron hammer in the family, so they would practice this lowly technique.

The sword cultivation method evolved from the cauldron cultivation method, which was immature at the time. Cauldron cultivation focused on attack, while hammer cultivation focused on refinement. The two complemented each other. However, the sword cultivation method only focused on attack, without refinement. Those who practiced sword cultivation were cannon fodder.

A person who was a direct descendant of the Jin family actually practiced the sword skills that were only practiced by slave warriors. In the Busan Jin family at that time, he could be said to be a heretic and a complete eccentric.

Therefore, the relationship between the Jin family and the Sword Cultivator had always been tense. The Sword Cultivator's talent at the time was not only in the sword, but also in the art of refining weapons, so the Jin family intended to let the Sword Cultivator focus on refining weapons.

Faced with the vast Jin family, the Sword Cultivator compromised. He ostensibly gave up his sword cultivation method and switched to the Cauldron Hammer method, quickly advancing his cultivation realm. It was then discovered that the Sword Cultivator was also very talented in the Cauldron Hammer method. The Sword Cultivator's rapid advancement also proved the correctness of their decision.

Although the ancestor of sword cultivation was very proficient in refining weapons, he did not care about improving the cauldron hammer and armor, but instead focused on improving the sword. He continuously improved the level of the sword and improved the defects in sword refining.

Although the Jin family had some objections to this, they didn't take it to heart. Instead, they encouraged it, believing it would add to the family's wealth. As swords became more sophisticated, costs and prices continued to fall, and the number of swordsmen continued to increase. In order to expand the market, they even encouraged low-level cultivators to become swordsmen.

The ancestor of the sword cultivator had been planning for more than three hundred years, and finally after he was promoted to the God Transformation Realm, he turned against his family and formed a faction with his supporters. It was no longer a family inheritance, but an existence similar to a gang.

All swordsmen of low-class origin had always been organized into gangs. After defecting, he abandoned his surname, Jin, and proclaimed himself the founder of the sword art. Under the name of the Shushan Sword Sect, he gathered swordsmen together, forming a major force and beginning to perfect the sword cultivation system!

Naturally, the Jin family would not let it go, so the ancestor of Huashen sent three to fight with the ancestor of sword cultivation. Unexpectedly, the Jin family, which had always had the strongest combat power, lost in a three-on-one situation.

The power of sword cultivation was recognized by people in the cultivation world for the first time, and the number of sword cultivators increased dramatically.

Shushan had long been occupied by the ancestor of sword cultivation. After becoming famous in one battle, the Shushan Sword Sect used Qingcheng as its base and began to build its headquarters, which was similar to an academy, and opened all its sword traditions to the public for free.

Big families like the Busan Jin family, although they valued face, they valued interests more. After discovering that sword cultivation had become a trend, they immediately reconciled with the ancestor of sword cultivation and were the first to concede the status of the Shushan Sword Sect.

After all, the ancestor of the sword cultivator was from the Busan Jin family, and had complicated feelings towards his family, so he agreed to reconcile and obtained the complete inheritance of the ancestor of the sword cultivator.

Finally, the Jin family began to transform, and two major branches emerged within it: the Cauldron Hammer Branch and the Sword Cultivation Branch. From the beginning, the Cauldron Hammer Branch dominated, but now the Sword Cultivation Branch has become the mainstream. The Cauldron Hammer Branch has completely transformed into the Hammermaking Branch, becoming the family's logistical support, specializing in weapon refining.

This demonstrates the immense power of the Sword Cultivation system created by the Forefather of Sword Cultivation! It effectively devoured an entire ancient family, sweeping the entire cultivation world. It became a new era mass cultivation system, a direct departure from traditional cultivators.

This also made the Jin family become the second most powerful family after the Ji family.

At the time, sword cultivators were nearly invincible, both on the battlefield and among other cultivators. At the peak of their powers, the ancestor of sword cultivation organized a war to exterminate demons.

He directly broke through the battlefield between the two worlds and invaded the demon world, almost liberating the demon world. At that time, everyone thought that the demon disaster was over, but he did not expect that he would fail in the end.

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