At the gate of Lin Family Mountain, Zhou Family ancestor Zhou Quan, along with the newly promoted Jindan Zhou Zilin and a junior, was discussing things with Lin Batian. This time Zhou Quan came to Lin Family to propose marriage. The

Lin and Zhou families had a honeymoon period. Five female cultivators from Zhou Family married into Lin Family, but no one from Lin Family married into Zhou Family. Zhou Family felt that they had lost out. You know, female cultivators are also an important resource. When cultivators marry, there is a high probability that they will give birth to offspring with spiritual roots, especially female cultivators with good spiritual roots and high cultivation.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, you also know Yu Min from our family. He is just 45 years old this year and has reached the middle stage of foundation building. Moreover, Yu Min is the eldest grandson of my Zhou Family and the direct descendant of Zhou Family. It is enough for him to marry Lin Ying. In order to show our sincerity, we are willing to..."

Zhou Quan pointed at the junior and talked freely. This person is called Zhou Yumin, who is the best among the juniors of Zhou Family. At the age of 45, he is already in the middle stage of foundation building and has dual spiritual roots.

This time Zhou Quan was seeking marriage for him. He wanted to marry Lin Ying, the tenth of the second generation of the Lin family. Originally Zhou Quan wanted Zhou Yumin to marry Lin Die, the third, but Lin Die was cold and not as lively and lovely as Lin Ying. Zhou Yumin liked Lin Ying more.

The Zhou family also felt that they came with sincerity. If the Lin family agreed, they were willing to pay a large amount of betrothal gifts, including spiritual stones, spiritual medicines, elixirs, exercises, etc., and were willing to integrate resources with the Lin family.

But Zhou Quan didn't see that Lin Batian's face was already very ugly. Lin Batian looked down on the matter of marriage from the bottom of his heart. He was the founder of the Lin family and a great leader. In his opinion, everything the Lin family needed could be cut with a knife or taken with a fist, but it could not be exchanged with a woman. If a family needed benefits and had to exchange women, then this family would be like that, without any backbone.

"Manager Wu, let Lin Ying come."

Lin Batian didn't get angry immediately, but asked Manager Wu to call Lin Ying over. If Lin Ying liked Zhou Yumin, he would agree. If not, then it would be embarrassing.

Soon, Lin Ying, led by Manager Wu, came to the reception room. Lin Batian told the Zhou family the purpose of their visit and then asked Lin Ying if she was willing to marry Zhou Yumin.

"Marry? Dad, I won't marry."

Lin Ying was dumbfounded and immediately refused. Although she was already over 40 years old, she still kept her innocent thoughts. She practiced Taoism every day and went to her brother's place to beg for money. She lived a carefree life. Why should she marry?

"Miss Lin, our Yumin is also here. He is the legitimate son of our Zhou family. If you marry into the family, you will not suffer."

Zhou Quan's face was a little dark. This rejection was too straightforward. He simply didn't give them any face.

"Is the legitimate son very powerful?"

Lin Ying asked. Because the Lin family was a newly created family, the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children was very vague. Not to mention the second generation, even the third and fourth generations basically did not distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children.

For a family to discuss the relationship between legitimate and illegitimate children, it usually takes several generations to develop. The family's development speed is not fast enough, and the cake is not big enough, so it is time to pay attention to how to divide the cake.

Now the Lin family is still in a positive and optimistic state of mind, and the family strength is constantly improving. Whether it is a legitimate son or a concubine's son, they can get satisfactory results, so naturally they don't talk about this.

"You..."

Zhou Quan was furious when he heard it. When he was about to scold Lin Ying, Lin Batian spoke.

"Friend Zhou, you also saw that Lin Ying doesn't want to get married, so forget it."

"Friend Lin, you won't lose by marrying my Zhou family."

"This has nothing to do with whether it's a loss or not. Marrying someone should be based on mutual consent. Since you don't want to, why force it? A forced melon is not sweet, right?"

"Friend Lin, have you thought about it?"

"Yes, I have thought about it."

Lin Batian's eyes became colder and colder. Can't the guy with no sense of taste see that he is already impatient?

"Okay, okay, the threshold of the Lin family is too high, and our Zhou family can't reach it, hum."

Zhou Quan snorted coldly, and left with a wave of his sleeves. Zhou Zilin and Zhou Yumin followed closely.

"Dad, I..."

"No need to say more, go back and practice. I, Lin Batian, will not use my daughter to exchange for benefits."

"Thank you, Dad. I'm leaving then."

Lin Ying was heartless and didn't realize the meaning behind this matter at all. She quickly ran away.

"Master, it seems that the Lin and Zhou families are going to break up."

As soon as Lin Ying left, Manager Wu came out from the corner and said to Lin Batian.

"Break up if you want to. I've had enough. I wanted to take action after the Iron Wood Wolf incident. It's not too late now. Old Wu, find a reason to let the Zhou family take action first, and I will destroy them."

"Master, Zhou Zilin has already advanced to the Golden Core stage. You..."

"No problem, just kill them together."

"Over there..."

"No one will pay attention to the corner of Yunzhou,"

Lin Batian said lightly. The Yunzhou cultivation world was originally a corner, and they were in a corner of Yunzhou. Who would pay attention to a mere Golden Core family?

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"The Zhou family wants to marry Lin Ying, it's really unlucky"

At Lingtao Villa, Lin Jiang also heard about the Zhou family's request to marry Lin Ying, and Lin Jiang felt it was unlucky.

Because the Zhou family's reputation is not good, to the outside world, the Zhou family bullies the weak, and even the incident of the clan members robbing and killing the scattered cultivators broke out, and internally, the Zhou family has a lot of shitty things, a lot of dirty things, Lin Jiang doesn't like the Zhou family.

"The Zhou family is indeed not good, your father did a good job in this regard, tough"

Zhuang Rong nodded, Lin Batian married four daughters, none of them were used for marriage, all of them were found by the daughters themselves, and they didn't even care about the other party's wealth, this point, she also admired.

"But the Lin and Zhou families are going to break up. Within 20 years, the two families will fight to the death."

"Jiang'er, it can't be that serious, isn't it just a failed marriage proposal? Isn't this very common?"

"It has nothing to do with this matter. It's purely a matter of interest. There are no small forces around the Lin family. Only the Zhou family is weaker. In addition, the incident of the Iron Wood Wolf a few years ago made my father feel angry. You see, Zhou Quan's death may be a signal."

Lin Jiang analyzed that the Lin family expanded too fast in the past few years and did not digest a lot of territory. In recent years, with the growth of the second and third generations of the Lin family, they have completely controlled it. The Lin family is going to start the road of expansion again.

The Zhou family had a grudge with the Lin family because of the previous Iron Wood Wolf incident. This time, the Zhou family probably relied on Zhou Zilin's formation of the golden elixir two years ago and wanted to marry Lin Ying, which once again angered Lin Batian.

Why did he say that he angered Lin Batian? First, Lin Batian had a hard temper and never used his children for marriage. Second, there were few people in the Lin family who were in the foundation-building stage. There were only a few people in total. Your Zhou family wanted to marry off the daughter of the Lin family who was in the foundation-building stage. It was wishful thinking. Isn't this trying to weaken the power of the Lin family? In Lin Batian's view, it was probably a conspiracy of the Zhou family, and he was bound to be angry.

Zhou Quan's life span was not much, and he didn't know how many years he had left. But if he died, it was likely that the two families would fight. And with Lin Batian's character, once he fought, it would be a life-and-death ending, and one family would definitely die.

"Jiang'er, if a fight really breaks out, don't go."

"It won't be up to me at that time, but I guess my father won't look down on my cultivation level,"

Lin Jiang said self-deprecatingly. There were quite a few cultivators in the fourth level of Qi training in the Lin family, at least 20 or 30. One more or one less would not make a difference. It was still unknown whether Lin Batian would look down on them.

In the dead of night, Lin Jiang closed his eyes and thought about the future again. He predicted that the feud between the Lin family and the Zhou family would happen before Zhuang Rong passed away. It was very likely that he would be recruited by the family to fight. Then he had to change his plan. He couldn't die here.

"Update equipment and practice actual combat"

After thinking for a long time, Lin Jiang made a plan. His cultivation could not be improved immediately, but his equipment could be improved. In addition, he also had to strengthen actual combat practice to develop combat awareness.