While Elder Yue was filled with despair over this situation, Liao Ping had slowly forced himself to calm down.

He knew that anger wasn't the right choice in this situation, so he had to look at this calmly first.

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Even if he wasn't as talented as Lin Ao, he was still the scion of the Liao Family from the upper realm, that wasn't an empty title. He had been strictly trained since he was young and that just wasn't in terms of cultivation, he had been molded by the leaders of the Liao Family and was in fact quite an intelligent person.

While the way he acted before made it seem like he was an idiot, it was only Yue Qingrou who could make him act this way.

From the first moment he had seen her, he knew that she was his goddess, but now…

Now that goddess had been defiled and his heart had been shattered.

No matter how he had denied all of this during the years he had been looking for her, the facts were in front of him right now and he had no choice but to accept them.

But since those feelings were dead, they gave birth to new feelings.

Since he couldn't get what he wanted, how could he let others live a happy life?

His mind began to turn and he turned his attention to Lin Yue who stood in front of Lin Ao and Yue Qingrou. As he looked at her, he began looking over her and he had to admit that she was quite beautiful.

She had inherited the genes of both Yue Qingrou and Lin Ao who were quite beautiful themselves and they had given birth to Lin Fan who was so handsome that he had charmed two princesses...If she was lacking, that really would have been letting down their genes.

His mind turned and he began to think of revenge.

If he were to take both Yue Qingrou and her daughter away from Lin Ao, playing with them night and day, wouldn't that be the perfect revenge?

No, the perfect revenge would be to make him watch and then kill all three of them together, but he knew that wasn't possible with the Lin Family ancestor here.

Of course, this wasn't just because it would be quite nice to enjoy two beauties like this at the same time. It was naturally all because of revenge.

For a second, there was a lewd smile that appeared on Liao Ping's face, but he quickly suppressed it.

Since that was the case, he would just have to make do with what he could get.

Elder Yue was about to make a move when he suddenly heard Liao Ping give a cough from beside him.

Elder Yue immediately turned and asked, "Young master Liao, is there anything I can do for you?"

His tone had immediately changed because of the situation. With how bad the situation was, it was only natural that he would be more respectful when talking to Liao Ping.

Liao Ping gave a nod of acknowledgement and after a second, he said, "I'll take both the mother and daughter, that'll be enough compensation for me."

After saying that, he turned away without even looking back, leaving this matter to Elder Yue.

Elder Yue naturally understood what he was talking about and while that did make him grit his teeth a bit, he still had to accept this since this was the only path for the Yue Family that was left.

He did have some familial feelings for Yue Qingrou since he had watched her grow up, but right now, the survival of the Yue Family meant more than this.

So he turned back to the three in front of him and said, "Rou'er, you're coming back to the family and you'll bring your daughter along with you."

Lin Ao was immediately filled with rage the moment he heard this, releasing all his energy all at once, but that still wasn't enough since the person in front of him wasn't a weak expert from the lower realm.

When Elder Yue sensed this aura that came from Lin Ao, he just gave a soft snort and released his own life energy which completely dominated Lin Ao's. His life energy even surpassed the limits of this lower realm, reaching the Embryo Soul Realm.

This was a realm that couldn't be achieved in the lower realm since the concentration of energy in the air in the lower realm wasn't enough to support this kind of cultivation. To reach this cultivation, one had to reach the upper realm which was the dream of countless experts of the lower realm.

Even with this kind of pressure on him, Lin Ao refused to lower his head, but it was clear that he wouldn't be able to keep this up.

On the other side, the elder from the Liao Family had his guard up as he continued to watch the Lin Family ancestor.

To be honest, he was completely confused why the Lin Family ancestor wasn't making a single move.

Back when they had captured Lin Ao before, this man had slaughtered his way into their stronghold alone and had taken Lin Ao back. It was more than enough to show that this man was hiding his cultivation and staying in this lower realm.

For what reason, they didn't know, but his power was more than enough to make them wary.

They had invested many Embryo Soul Realm Experts and even a Child Soul Realm Expert, but they had all fallen at his sword. That was a loss that was hard for them to recover from.

The only reason they had come down this time after learning of Yue Qingrou and Lin Ao's location was because they had brought along the Yue Family as cannon fodder. They were going to let the Yue Family weaken the Lin Family before working together to take down this monster.

But that plan didn't work out since from the beginning, this monster hadn't made a single move.

But then there was also Lin Fan that everyone had ignored.

Now that he had broken through, he knew what the limit of his powers were after encountering the upper realm reinforcements. For someone like Elder Yue who was only in the low Embryo Soul Realm, Lin Fan was more than enough to deal with him.

The only reason he had been standing on the side the entire time was because the Lin Family ancestor had used powers that surpassed the Embryo Soul Realm to convince Lin Fan from going forward. But Lin Fan couldn't take it anymore.

The Lin Family ancestor could naturally see that, so he reached out and took Lin Fan by the shoulder, using powers that were beyond the Embryo Soul Realm to push down and stop him from moving forward.

But even then, with Lin Fan's strengthened body, he could still push forward if he wanted.

The Lin Family ancestor revealed a bitter smile at this and he had no choice but to say, "It's not your turn yet. This is your father's matter."

It was at this that Lin Fan finally stopped.

The couple facing Elder Yue heard this voice and looked over to see the Lin Family ancestor with Lin Fan.

Without any hesitation, Yue Qingrou came forth and said, "I'll go back!"

Even if he was unwilling, Lin Ao didn't stop him since he knew that this was the best way to end this.

Liao Ping had gone crazy after just finding out that Yue Qingrou had a single child, so how would he react if he found out that they already had two children?

Both of them could tell that Lin Fan had already broken through since they could no longer sense his aura if he didn't release it, which meant that he clearly had a higher level of cultivation than them. The only realm that was left was breaking through to the Legendary Realm.

But even so, that didn't mean that he would be able to fight these people since they were experts that came from the upper realm. The Fragmented Soul Realm was just the beginning of cultivation in the upper realm and these people were far beyond the peak of this lower realm.

That meant that the only way they could keep him safe was by letting Yue Qingrou sacrifice herself.

Elder Yue stopped releasing his aura when he heard this as he said, "Alright, let's go then."

On the inside, he let out a sigh of relief since their Yue Family had just avoided destruction.

Lin Ao looked at Yue Qingrou with conflicted eyes before saying, "I'll come for you."

Yue Qingrou looked right back and said, "I'll be waiting."

Then she stood up with Lin Yue and headed towards Elder Yue.

But Elder Yue wasn't done yet.

He had seen this and to be honest, he was a bit afraid of Lin Ao's talent. The entire Yue Family was.

He had already broken through to the Peak Platinum Realm at his age, if they were to allow him to live, wouldn't that be leaving a big liability for them?

Elder Yue waited until Yue Qingrou had moved away before suddenly raising his palm and with all his strength, he slapped out at Lin Ao.

This was the full strength of an Embryo Soul Realm Expert, so how could Lin Ao possibly dodge this?

As the palm approached, Lin Fan wanted to rush forward to stop it, but he felt the pressure on his shoulder disappear as the figure beside him also disappeared.

There was a single slash as the palm was shattered to pieces.