Inside the gate of Zhou Family Mountain, Zhou Quan, the old man of Zhou Family, was discussing countermeasures with several senior members of Zhou Family. They already knew that Lin Batian had driven away the women of Zhou Family, and this was also within their expectations.
"Don't be depressed, think of a solution,"
Zhou Quan said to several senior members. Zhou Quan was once a genius of Zhou Family, a genius in cultivation, but he was not very good at how to manage and run the family. These things were all handled by other people.
"Ancestor, you are too rash this time. I have said it long ago. If you don't move against Lin Batian, it's fine. If you move, you must hit him with a fatal blow. Now it's difficult to end it,"
Zhou Ziming complained as soon as he opened his mouth. He is now equivalent to the patriarch of Zhou Family. He handles all the affairs of Zhou Family. He has already discussed with Zhou Quan how to get along with Lin Family.
Zhou Ziming was the first person to threaten Lin Family. He believed that once Zhou Quan passed away, Lin Family would definitely annex Zhou Family, because there were no small families near Lin Family. It had expanded to a certain limit. If it wanted to continue to expand, it would have to start with families of the same level. Among the families around Lin Family, only Zhou Family was facing the situation of lack of successors.
Zhou Ziming's strategy was to make friends with the Lin family first, and then find an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to Lin Batian. Once Lin Batian was gone, the rest of the Lin family would be vulnerable. The Zhou family could easily annex the Lin family and plunder the Lin family's property. Maybe the Zhou family could cultivate new Jindan-stage immortal cultivators, but now it's messed up.
"How do I know that Lin Batian is so powerful? He is the same as me, in the early Jindan stage, but this time he killed the third-order middle-stage Ironwood Demon Wolf. The cultivation method he practiced must be very powerful."
Zhou Quan was also very annoyed. In his opinion, this was the best opportunity to kill the Lin family. The wolf king of the Ironwood Demon Wolf was in the third-order middle stage, equivalent to the human Jindan middle stage. He also dragged other members of the Lin family into the water, distracting Lin Batian. How could he not die?
"If we start a fight, we have to be decisive. Lin Batian must pay a price for killing the Iron Wood Wolf. The ancestor must kill him at all costs at that time."
"He ran too fast,"
Zhou Quan said. He didn't dare to admit that he saw Lin Batian explode with his own eyes and nailed the wolf king of the Iron Wood Wolf to death with one shot. He was directly stunned and didn't dare to take action.
"Hey..."
"Stop sighing and tell me what to do."
"Ancestor, if we start a war now, can we beat Lin Batian?" "
It's difficult. Lin Batian is young and energetic, and I am old and weak. If we start a fight, my chance of winning is less than 20%,"
Zhou Quan said. At this time, he must tell the truth. His life span is less than 20 years, his qi and blood are badly weakened, and his strength has been reduced a lot. Lin Batian is in his prime, so he can't compare. Moreover, judging from Lin Batian's combat power this time, he may have hidden some of his strength in normal times. A 20% winning rate is conservative.
"In that case, we can only make peace first. Bring gifts and go to the Lin family to apologize."
"This..."
The other senior members of the Zhou family immediately showed unhappy expressions. The Zhou family, a big family with hundreds of years of history, has to bow to the Lin family? Where will the Zhou family's face be?
"A real man can bend and stretch. What's the use of apologizing? We have to sacrifice some of our family members. Now our Zhou family's hope lies in Zilin. If Zilin can break through the Jindan stage, everything will be fine. Maybe he can even kill Lin Batian."
Zhou Ziming said coldly, and then he set his eyes on a silent man. He is Zhou Ziming's younger brother Zhou Zilin. He has perfected his foundation-building stage and is only one step away from the Jindan stage.
Now all the hopes of the Zhou family are on him. If he can break through the Jindan before Zhou Quan passes away, then two against one, or even Zhou Quan dragging Lin Batian to death together, may not be impossible.
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At the Lin family’s mountain gate, Manager Wu saw Lin Batian coming out of the room, he immediately stepped forward and said, “Master, how is your injury?”
“Nothing happened, has the Zhou family responded?”
“Not yet.”
“How hateful, how hateful, they killed my descendants, I wish I could wipe out the entire Zhou family immediately.”
“Master, don’t be angry, the Zhou family is just a grasshopper in autumn, it won’t be able to jump for a few days, once old Zhou Quan dies, you can annex the Zhou family openly, then you can avenge all your grudges.”
“You have all the skills but cannot use them, it’s so frustrating.”
“Be patient a little longer, you’ve endured it for nearly a hundred years, these twenty years won’t make a difference.”
Manager Wu persuaded again, he knew that Lin Batian’s strength was not just as simple as it seemed on the surface, Lin Batian’s background was extremely shocking, only a few people in the entire Lin family knew about this, not even Lin Batian’s wife knew about it.
"I know, I can bear it, hey, I don't know when I can go back..."
"Ahem"
"I know, don't say, don't say, you've worked hard these years"
Lin Batian was interrupted by the cough of Wu Guanshi, and said to him with apology, Wu Guanshi helped him a lot these years, the Lin family can expand so fast, relying on a group of guest officials, and Wu Guanshi is the leader of these guest officials.
"This is what I should do, it's not hard, but the head of the family has been wronged these years"
"Let's not talk about this, how is the family situation"
"Fortunately, the descendants of the head of the family all have the family head's heroic spirit, they are all preparing for war, not afraid of the Zhou family at all, even the sixth son is back"
"Sixth son, hey, forget it, don't mention him, I get angry when you mention him"
Lin Batian was speechless, but he said this, but he felt better in his heart. Although the sixth son was a waste in cultivation, he was quite filial. He was the first in the family to take his mother away to take care of her. This time he performed well, and he would not come when there was something wrong with the family.
"Although the Sixth Young Master is not good at cultivation, he is quite talented in business. When Lingtao Villa first came into his hands, the annual income was only 200 to 300 Lingshi, but in the past two years, it has exceeded 800 Lingshi."
"It's useless to have low cultivation. The life span of the Qi training period is only a hundred years. It's not the time for my Lin family to maintain the status quo. We should expand forward."
Lin Batian shook his head. He knew Lin Jiang's business ability. Lingtao Villa has done well in recent years. If the Lin family has been a family for several generations, such a person will definitely be reused.
But now it's not possible. The Lin family is a new family. The rising spirit is still there. We must expand as much as possible while this spirit is still strong to lay a solid foundation for the future. If we don't expand now, it will be difficult in the future.
"Report"
"Report to the head of the family, the Zhou family has sent someone here."
Just as the two were talking, someone outside shouted loudly, and the Zhou family's statement finally came.
"Who's here from the Zhou family?"
"It's Zhou Ziming, with five guards and a carriage. It looks like he's here with gifts."
"Humph,"
Lin Batian snorted coldly. The Zhou family's reaction was within his expectations. The old man Zhou Quan didn't have the courage to go to war with him, so he came to apologize.
Soon, Lin Batian met with Zhou Ziming, who presented him with a generous gift and apologized in person, saying that it was because Zhou Quan, the old man of the Zhou family, was injured by the Ironwood Demon Wolf that the Zhou family's troops were defeated, allowing the Ironwood Demon Wolf to return to its nest, causing the Lin family to suffer heavy losses.
Lin Batian didn't get too entangled. The Zhou family gave him a way out, so he took advantage of the situation to back off, indicating that this conflict was over and the two families would still live in harmony in the future.