Chapter 303
Having decided to head out and consolidate his forces, Lin Hui began making arrangements to secure his departure.
With Gongsun Xinlian and Zhang Yao's full cooperation, vast resources poured in to construct over a dozen layers of temporary protection arrays around Clear Emerald Mountain. Combined with the defensive arrays he had already deployed, the entire vicinity was forged into an impenetrable fortress within a matter of days.
Yet at that very moment, grim news arrived from the Lin Manor's inner courtyard.
By the time Lin Hui arrived, everyone in the Lin Manor was already present.
Liu Xiao and Liu Wujun stood together, faces ashen, heads lowered in silence.
"She clearly took the longevity medicine—so why?!" Lin Shunhe seized the old physician's hand. His eyes were bloodshot from days without sleep. For a man of his constitution to look so hollowed out meant he had pushed himself well past his limits.
"I am powerless..." the old man sighed. "Second Madam has been afflicted by the Sea Cry's power... Coupled with her own weak constitution..."
Off to the side, Yao Shan muttered to herself, fingers working a string of dark brown beads as though in prayer. Since joining the White Child Sect, she had grown increasingly erratic, and something unsettling clung to her now—a quality that had no easy name.
The rest of the Lin Manor's household stood gathered at a distance, a heavy silence pressing down over everything.