While the younger students were busy with the deceased, Xiaoyu led the three comrades with him to the main palace, served tea, and began to tell the story:
“Elder Brother, how did you disappear, the righteous sects suffered one defeat after another. Kaifeng has fallen, Shaolin now only holds its monastery and nothing else. The vicious cults concentrated almost all their efforts in the territory of the Five Mountain Swords.”
Lin Yi nodded - he had already heard this, he needed detailed information. But he didn’t interrupt.
Xiaoyu took a sip of tea and gave it to him:
“The remaining sects quickly surrendered their territories and strengthened their headquarters, but Huashan only recently lost a large area and only after that Master Ming ordered all troops to return to the central province. But here, on Eagle Mountain, we could not do that, because the main task is to create order in the territory of Hangzhou. So almost all of our students are distributed throughout the territory, there were only a thousand here.”
“We weren’t even here,” added Yu Hai.
“Well, that's also true. Master Ming sent us here as soon as we entered the first class, to help the elder of the first class. I'm afraid he also fell in battle. We fought for a week, suffered heavy losses, but what can you do when the enemy knows the defensive structures better than you? I'm afraid, brother, if you had arrived a little later, there would be no survivors here..”
Tears appeared in Xiaoyu's eyes. Once again, his older brother came to his aid at just the right moment. He was alive and remains alive only thanks to this man.
“Brother Lin, Huashan has been very difficult for the past three years. People have no hope of salvation. If it weren't for Elder Brother Linghu, we would all have been exterminated long ago..”
“Don’t worry, I’m back and won’t let anyone destroy Huashan,” Lin Yi said decisively, ruffling Xiaoyu’s hair again.It was only thanks to him that Huashan was not destroyed until now. He will make sure it is never destroyed!
Lin Yi was a man who valued his own life more than the rest of the world. But now, if his escape meant the destruction of Huashan... he couldn't imagine it.
No matter how dangerous the enemy is, he will fight to the end!
And when did he become like this? Yes, emotions are a powerful thing. There was no logic in giving your life in a losing fight. But for some reason Huashan became more important to him than life.
“Well, overall, things are not so bad in Huashan yet,” Xiaoyu continued. “The other four sects can’t stick their noses out of the gate, at this rate they will die of hunger. Elder Brother Linghu with the order maintenance team delivers food to them, breaking through the ranks of enemies, otherwise they would have died long ago.”
Lin Yi nodded silently. The situation was critical; the defenses of the four sects could be broken through at any moment..
Even Huashan had problems, since they abandoned all branches and now only guarded the province around the mountain. One might say that they also abandoned Eagle Mountain, which occupied two huge areas.
If not for the critical situation, the Master would never have made such a decision.
Well he's back so everything will be fixed.
For him, these three years were a rebirth, and for the Five Mountain Swords it would be the same. War and heavy losses strengthened the survivors and created the foundation for rise!
While they were talking, Yu Hai and Han Bai got up and left the hall. Looking back, Hai said:
“Well, shall we report Brother Lin's return right now? This should greatly improve the morale of our students..”
Bai nodded:
“And that’s true, he was gone for three years. I can’t even imagine what our people will think. Although they will definitely be happy. Yes, it’s been a long time since there was good news in Five Mountain Swords.”
Hai nodded and hurried to the dovecote, shouting back:
— I will report immediately!
Han Bai nodded and muttered quietly, looking at the palace: “Long time no see, Senior Brother Lin».
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A dove with a message flew into a dovecote on the middle level of Huashan. The disciple in charge of the post office ran to the top of the mountain to convey the news to Elder Qin.
When he opened the letter, he sighed in disappointment. Eagle Mountain defended itself for seven days, and judging by this message, they didn’t have long to defend themselves. They suffered heavy casualties, even a first-class expert was killed. But Huashan could not help - the distance was too great.
All that was left was to helplessly watch the death of the sons and daughters of Huashan!
Continuing to read the report further, he thought that he had misunderstood the hieroglyphs. Because their students went crazy from hopelessness.
A man riding a divine beast - a giant golden bird - suddenly arrived and killed all the opponents on the mountain. Elder Qin laughed out loud and immediately looked down at the message to find out who this person was..
And his eyes almost fell out of their sockets.
Lin Yi, Chief Disciple of the Five Mountain Swords!
“Ha ha ha! Yes! Yes!”
Elder Qin jumped up from the table, not knowing what to do with joy..
The other elders looked at him in surprise. Is there any good news? Or their mentor went crazy with grief?
In the entire mountain, no one was known as gloomy as Elder Qin. For the past three years he has looked like a father who has lost his entire family..
Not to mention laughter, even a smile was out of the question.
Everyone looked at each other, trying to find the answer in each other's eyes. Did Eagle Mountain win? Or the demons suffered a heavy defeat?
“Nephew And alive!” Elder Qin shouted like crazy. “He's alive! Ha ha ha!”
Knocking the doors off their hinges, Qin skipped and ran to the main palace of the mountain, laughing so hard that even those at the foot could hear it.
“AND? What other I?” the elder asked puzzled.
“Uh, to be honest, I can only think of one Yi, who Qin called nephew...” muttered another elder in a daze. “It’s clearly about Lin Yi!”
“What else is Lin Yi?”
“Like what?! The same one! The main disciple of our sects, who was chased by the Purple Dragon King!”
“What?! He?! The Sword God is alive?! Oh my God, the supreme expert was chasing him! Three years, no word, no sign, and he’s still alive! The gods blessed Huashan, ha ha ha!”
Some of the elders turned pale with shock, others laughed, but everyone felt hope. Dull pairs of eyes lit up one after another, faith in victory replaced despair..
“Lord, didn't I hear? Elder Brother Lin is alive? He will return to us?”
“Ha ha ha, imagine how happy Senior Brother Linghu will be! He’s a great guy, he supported us alone, but together they can fight back! I remember that under Lina I we didn’t lose a single battle.!”
“We will win! Victory will be ours!”
“With the Sword God - definitely! The damned Shaolin donkeys lost Kaifeng, and then all their territories, only because they framed our elder brother! And he still survived!”
“These donkeys deserved their losses! But if it weren’t for their trick, we would have won the war long ago!”
The whole of Huashan went crazy with joy. Big Brother Lin is back! The disciples from the bottom to the top shouted for joy.
The almost dead fighting spirit came back to life in an instant!
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