Martial Hero Rebirth

“Why are you so happy?” Lin Yi was surprised.

“Hehe,” Zecheng smiled meaningfully and patted him on the shoulder. “Little Brother Lin, are you still pretending? I've already heard everything about the Hangzhou region!”

With an admiring and almost idolizing look, Zecheng jabbered:

“Defeated forty-nine second-class peak experts in a row without a single defeat, exterminated all the bandits, and even captured Eagle Mountain, killing a first-class expert on the spot, and then united with three famous clans to jointly rule Hangzhou. Junior Brother Lin, do you have any idea what you did? Everyone in Huashan is amazed! Now the place of the main student is definitely yours!”

He said the last part so loudly, as if he wanted the entire peak of Mount Hua to hear. And judging by his happy face, if someone spoke out against it, he could get into a fight.

“Therefore, Junior Brother Lin, I came to congratulate you! In my eyes, you are already the top disciple of Huashan!”

Lin Yi was at a loss for words. Wasn't Zecheng going to compete with him for this position? Of course, he completely agreed with himself, but where did his fighting spirit go??

Without waiting for an answer, Zecheng looked around and asked in a whisper:

“Junior Brother Lin, tell the truth. You killed a first class expert yourself?”

Lin Yi nodded, but noticing that Zecheng was on the verge of hysterical laughter, he hastened to explain:

“But first I allowed the subordinates to weaken him with the whole crowd so that he could use no more than ten percent of his strength.”

“Haha, no need to explain, no need, I already understood everything!” Zecheng laughed with a childish, sincere laugh of joy. When he suddenly grabbed Lin Yi’s hand and said loudly: “Brother, there is no need to belittle your merits. It doesn’t matter which method you used, the main thing is that the first-class expert was killed by you! Besides you, in the entire lower and upper courtyard, do you think anyone could have killed him? Or, if the entire lower courtyard and the upper court united, could they? In general, it seems to me that even if you cannot defeat Linghu Feng, you will definitely get a draw.”

Taking a deep breath, Zecheng slapped his thigh and said with a serious face:

“So now you are my elder brother and future chief disciple, Lin Yi. Everyone is waiting for your competition with Linghu Feng. Don’t even look at me, I definitely won’t win, therefore, on behalf of the Yu family and dozens of other families, as well as on behalf of the lower and upper court, I ask: become the future head of Huashan. Brother Lin, everyone supports you, so don't let us down!”

Lin Yi did not refuse. He knew that half of Huashan was behind Zecheng. Before that, they valued him personally and promoted him to the top, but after Lin Yi appeared, they made him their representative as a familiar new candidate.

This time, Lin Yi had achieved such a thing that they sincerely believed in his victory, even if they ended up in a draw with Linghu Feng..

However, in reality they just wanted to gain power over him. Zecheng turned out to be a weak pawn, so now the elders behind him wanted to get a new one.

He had no power in Huashan, he lived alone in his palace - apart from the servants, and although his prestige grew at an insane speed, these people believed that with their favor they could buy and control him.

Perhaps Zecheng did not understand this and was sincerely happy about his success, but Lin Yi saw everything clearly.

And it’s not difficult to understand Zecheng’s happiness. He saw with his own eyes the young man who, less than a year ago, approached the gates of Huashan and climbed to its peak. In a way, he was his mentor and also partly had a hand in this rise.

Lin Yi was of course grateful to him and did not want to make Zecheng's life more difficult. So I just nodded and said:

“Thank you, Brother Yu. Thank them on my behalf for their support..”

“Junior Brother Lin... Oh, I mean, Senior Brother Lin, do you really agree?!” Zecheng exclaimed joyfully. Rubbing his hands, he laughed: “Okay, I’ll run and tell them! Together we will launch you into the sky!”

And he ran away.

As soon as the doors closed behind him, the smile disappeared from Lin Yi's face, and a mockery took its place..

They want to use him as a pawn. Why shouldn't he do the same??

Cards are never superfluous.

There are no more than eighty first-class experts in the entire Huashan. Among them, thirty-six stood guard over thirty-six branches, another twenty roamed the world, and only ten to twenty people guarded Huashan.

Among them all, only thirteen had almost reached the peak of first class. But it was so difficult to conquer the peak that in the entire sect only Ouyang Ming succeeded..

Each of the thirteen great elders represented his own family, one of the three. Like three trees that took root in Mount Hua.

So the competition for the position of head disciple was actually a competition between the three largest factions. The first and strongest is the Linghu family, they had three great elders on their side, and a total of more than twenty elders. In second place was the Yu clan, which temporarily united with others to fight Linghu.

The rest are centrists who have taken a neutral position. So, no matter who wins, they won’t get anything from it, but they won’t lose anything either. At least while Ouyang Ming is in power, not allowing the fight to openly.

But in secret, such waters raged that the unprepared were ground into pieces!

Of course, no one killed anyone, but the struggle for power did not stop for a second.

Overall, Huashan was quite balanced. As long as the Sect Master kept an eye on everything, everything would be fine. But as soon as he departs for another world, the conflict will come out of the shadows into the light and everything will fall apart.

This was one of the main reasons for the collapse of Huashan in his previous life. The vicious cults attacked just in the middle of a power struggle, because of this, no one was able to coordinate the students and the demons took the lives of almost everyone. The remnants retreated to the mountains and hid for ten years. Because of this, the Five Mountain Swords Alliance was not complete and therefore fell apart..

So it was from Huashan that the defeat of the righteous sects began.

Less than a year after the start of the war, Ouyang Ming was invited by other sect masters to fight against the greatest masters of the evil cults, but he was seriously injured and died a few hours after returning.

He was the first expert at the peak of the first class to die in the war..

Then the whole fist world shook with fear and everyone finally realized what danger they were in.

Linghu Feng, as soon as Ouyang Ming died, took his place and pretty soon the elders behind him began the wholesale eradication of other clans.

A terrible internal war finally finished off Huashan. But as soon as only representatives of the Linghu clan remained in the sect, the demons of the Ming cult came and exterminated everyone.

The team leader was Ao Tianjiao, at that time a first-class expert who had discovered the three outer meridians. But thanks to the Platinum Sutra, his strength was comparable to that of experts at the peak of the first class, and his endurance was even greater. Any battle with him turned into a battle of attrition, and while Linghu Feng fought with him, the army of demons exterminated the Huashan disciples.

At the peak there were only five great elders left out of thirteen, they could not stop the entire army.

Ao Tianjiao defeated them all one by one, killing three on the spot. Linghu Feng managed to partially learn the Nine Lonely Swords and the Purple Mist Divine Skill, so he delayed the enemy, but over time he simply ran out of strength.

Having lost, he was only able to protect several people, with whom he escaped.

And it all started with a competition for the position of chief student. If not for this, Ouyang Ming would not have died and Huashan would have remained alive.

For quite a long time, Lin Yi was silent, clenching his fists tightly. If he wants to change the fate of the sect, then he needs to start with this struggle between the factions.

The door opened. The maid came to tell him that the Sect Master had called him.

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