Chapter 298: Are Kings, Nobles, Generals, and Ministers Born with a Special Lineage?

The Emperor looked at Yan Lanbing with a smile that was not quite a smile; there was no anger in his eyes, yet cold sweat instantly broke out on Yan Lanbing.

"Mis-mis-mis-mis-mis-mis-mis-mis... misunderstanding! My Lord Emperor, Ye Lin was forced to jump off the cliff, which is why he accidentally trespassed into the Mountain and Sea Immortal Demon Cave. If we speak of this matter, the Supreme Academy also bears responsibility!"

Yan Lanbing quickly discovered the crux of the problem.

"That's right, we must look past the phenomena to see the essence; it is all the fault of those sons of bitches at the Supreme Academy!"

"You! Talk! Shit!"

Yun Xintong could no longer sit still.

"Yan Lanbing, stop spouting such slander here! My Lord Emperor, how can one believe the one-sided words of that brat! Please teleport everyone from my Supreme Academy out so they can confront him face-to-face; the truth will naturally be clear as day!"

Yun Xintong also very much wanted to know what exactly had happened inside the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm.

Ye Lin had brought out 56 pieces; combined with the number of Mountain and Sea Secret Seals from the other academies, the 108 Mountain and Sea Secret Seals were now complete. If that were the case, did it not mean that their Supreme Academy did not have a single Mountain and Sea Secret Seal? Impossible! He would not accept it!

"There are... no living people left inside the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm." The Emperor's gaze was calm, and it was unknown what he was thinking.

"What? That's impossible!" Yun Xintong's complexion changed wildly, and then he looked at Ye Lin with scarlet eyes, his tone as chilling as a vengeful ghost crawling out of the Nine Nether Hells. "Did you kill them? That's it, there is a faint red light on your body; this is proof that you killed people inside the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm!"

Yun Xintong's murderous intent surged instantly; those five, including Feng Tianyu, were super geniuses carefully selected by the Supreme Academy—it would be no exaggeration to say they were one in ten thousand!

With the five of them dead, it was an absolutely incomparable loss for the Supreme Academy!

"I did kill people."

Ye Lin admitted it generously, and as soon as his voice fell, a wave of uproar erupted throughout the venue!

No one had expected that Ye Lin would actually admit it without any evasion!

"My Lord Emperor, you heard it too! The five people from my Supreme Academy all died at the hands of this madman. Please grant me permission to execute him to console the spirits of my five disciples in heaven!"

Yun Xintong was trembling all over with rage.

"Dean Yun, you have misunderstood. I did kill people, but I did not kill Brother Feng and the others; I killed the murderers who killed Brother Feng and the others."

Ye Lin began to explain, his face full of grief.

"Although I had conflicts with Brother Feng and the others, no matter what, it wouldn't reach the point of life-and-death. After my strength increased greatly, I did think about finding Brother Feng and the others to take revenge, but when I found them, they had already... been cruelly murdered!"

Ye Lin closed his eyes in pain, as if thinking of something he did not wish to recall.

"This is the footage recorded by Brother Feng's mobile phone before he died. Please take a look, Dean Yun."

Ye Lin handed Feng Tianyu's mobile phone to Yun Xintong, and Yun Xintong took it with suspicion.

What was recorded in the phone was precisely the scene of Xie Zhanxin cruelly murdering Feng Tianyu and his group. After the sky-filling thunder flashed, the five of them, including Feng Tianyu, all turned into charred corpses.

When he heard "Draw the blade and leave the forbidden zone, to sever the head of the Emperor," Yun Xintong's expression changed abruptly. What kind of treasonous words were these? He subconsciously looked at the Emperor, and only when he saw the Emperor's expression was as usual did he finally heave a sigh of relief.

The rest of the video contained the content of Ye Lin's great battle against Xie Zhanxin.

Although there was no picture, one could tell the battle was extremely intense just by listening to the sounds. At the end of the video, the footage stopped abruptly when Ye Lin delivered the killing blow to Xie Zhanxin.

Although he still felt something was not quite right, Yun Xintong had checked it; there was no problem with the video. It was a single continuous shot with no traces of editing.

The person in the video was undoubtedly Xie Zhanxin; apart from him, there would not be a second person in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm whose thunder techniques were so powerful.

"Was it really the Xie family that killed the people of my Supreme Academy? Why would they do such a thing?" Yun Xintong's expression was uncertain.

"I don't know." Ye Lin shook his head honestly. "But I can guarantee that Feng Tianyu and the others were indeed not killed by me. If I have spoken any falsehoods, let me be struck by heaven's five thunders and die a horrible death!"

Ye Lin directly swore a poisonous oath.

"Die a horrible death? Then I shall grant your wish!"

A vast and cold voice came from beyond the distant horizon, and then a black blade aura crossed the endless void and slashed directly toward Ye Lin!

The extremely sharp blade aura tore through the sky, its speed so fast that even sound could not keep up with it, bearing down on Ye Lin.

Wherever the blade aura passed, everything was split in two, like the scythe of the Grim Reaper.

Ye Lin's pupils shrank violently; he felt an indescribable sense of crisis from this strike. If this strike landed, he would undoubtedly die!

"Presumptuous!"

Yan Lanbing shouted deeply and struck instantly, colliding with that black blade aura. Caught off guard, Yan Lanbing was forced back dozens of meters by the slash, and two long gullies were carved into the solid bluestone floor by him.

The head of the Xie family, Xie Hong, holding the divine artifact Black Moon, galloped over with an expressionless face.

"Greetings, Emperor. I am truly sorry; my clan's disciples died tragically, and I lost my composure for a moment. I ask for the Emperor's understanding!" Xie Hong bowed faintly.

The Emperor did not respond to Xie Hong, nor did he say anything, remaining motionless like a statue; no one knew what he was thinking.

Xie Hong turned his head to look at Ye Lin.

"Ye Lin, Xie Zhanxin indeed deserved to die. Even if you hadn't killed him, I would have killed him. Such a treasonous person is useless to keep!"

"But what you should not have done, absolutely should not have done, was kill the other four members of my Xie family! Those four were innocent. You killed my Xie family's people, so I must take you back to the Xie family for disposal. Do you have any objections?"

"Objections? How would I dare to have objections! But I would like to ask one thing of you, Family Head Xie: if your Xie family people want to kill, can others not resist and only wait to be slaughtered?"

Ye Lin laughed, laughing somewhat crazily. He knew very well that his act of killing Xie Zhanxin had completely angered Xie Hong; otherwise, this old guy would not have jumped out personally. And the foreshadowing he had left behind earlier was also time to be put to use!

Seeing this, Ye Lin took the initiative to walk toward Xie Hong, his voice impassioned.

"Xie Zhanxin deserved to die, but the other four didn't? Did those four not know about Xie Zhanxin's actions? If I killed Xie Zhanxin, would the other four have let me go?"

"Family Head Xie Hong, you had better stop looking for such high-sounding excuses. In the end, you just want to take revenge on me! In your eyes, your Xie family people are nobler than others, aren't they? If the upper beam is not straight, the lower ones will go aslant; Xie Zhanxin's thoughts also happen to represent the thoughts of your Xie family!"

After saying this, Ye Lin's gaze swept across all the students from the academies present.

"Everyone! Have you all forgotten the times in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm when you were oppressed by Xie Zhanxin and bullied by the Xie family?"

Ye Lin's words undoubtedly touched the most sensitive nerve in everyone's hearts. Everyone was a youth; who among them did not have a heart full of hot blood and was willing to be humiliated?

Recalling the shame of having their dignity trampled underfoot by Xie Zhanxin in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm, many people clenched their fists.

But thinking of the terror of the Xie family, many people lowered their heads in shame.

They had no power and no background; how could they fight against a behemoth like the Xie family?

"We are all people of ambition; if we had a choice, who would be born willing to be an outlaw? With two golden brands on our faces, mocked by the world for a lifetime!"

"Everyone, do you really want to be ridden on by the children of noble families for your whole lives, and be inferior to others forever? Think about how Xie Zhanxin treated us in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm!"

"A humble origin is not a disgrace! Only those who can bend and stretch are true men! We can be killed! The children of noble families can also be killed! Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born with a special lineage?"

"Everyone, do you dare to follow me, Ye Lin, and draw your swords against the noble families that have never been shaken for ten thousand generations?!"