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Lin Long quickly arrived at Riverside City and landed in an alley within the city.
The Beauty Preserving Tree was naturally not in this alley, but in the centermost Riverfront Mountain of Riverfront City.
The reason why Linlong didn't go there was because there was a relatively powerful Runic Array at the place where the Beauty Tree grew.
Although the Liang Family was not powerful, they had spent a few lifetimes of effort on the Runic Magic Array protecting the Beauty Tree. Hence, this Runic Magic Array was not something an ordinary Runic Magic Array could compare to.
Of course, with Linlong's current strength, he would be able to break the Runic Magic Formation after spending some time and effort.
However, if he did that, the commotion would definitely alert the people in the surroundings. It would be bad if someone discovered that there was a Beauty Tree in the mountain.
After all, the fruits of the Beauty Tree were limited, and they couldn't be moved away. Once they were discovered, many experts would be attracted. This wasn't something Lin Long wanted to see. Hence, he naturally wanted to obtain the Beauty Fruit without anyone noticing.
Although the Liang Family had the Beauty Preserving Fruit, only Liang Chenglu and a few elders knew about it. No one else knew about its existence.
The reason why Lin Long had come here was that an elder of the Liang Clan lived here. This elder had a token with him. If he placed it together with the Liang Clan Patriarch's token that Lin Long had obtained from Liang Chenglu, he would be able to directly open the Runic Magic Formation that protected the Beauty Fruit. Lin Long would not have to spend any effort to crack it, and he would not have to alarm the people around him.
This elder of the Liang Family was surnamed Lu. Although he was an elder of the Liang Family, he rarely went to the Liang Family. He usually looked like an ordinary old man. The surrounding neighbors would never think that this old man was an elder of the Liang Family.
Linlong soon arrived at the courtyard that Elder Lu lived in. The courtyard was very ordinary and looked very quiet. There was not a single person outside the door.
Linlong went forward and knocked on the door. After a while, the door opened slightly and a young face peeked out. After seeing Linlong, he asked, "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"
"I'm a distant relative of Elder Lu. I have some matters to discuss with him. I wonder if he's here?" Linlong said with a faint smile.
"Elder Lu isn't here." The young man immediately replied. "Please return."
"I remember correctly. Doesn't Elder Lu live here?" Linlong frowned.
"If I say he's not here, then he's not here. Why do you have so much nonsense to say? Hurry up and leave!" The man's expression immediately turned cold.
As he spoke, he pushed open the door and stepped out, looking like he wanted to chase Linlong away immediately.
The moment the other party pushed open the door, Linlong saw a middle-aged man standing not far away. The middle-aged man was looking in their direction.
At this moment, the middle-aged man berated the young man. "Lu Yu is a distant relative of Old Lu. Why did you chase him out?"
The young man was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted quickly and said, "I thought he was a liar."
"Quickly let him in!" The middle-aged man said in a deep voice.
Lu Yu didn't stop Lin Long. Instead, he opened the door and let Lin Long in.
"Little brother, may I know your name, where are you from, and what is your relationship with Elder Lu?" After entering, the middle-aged man immediately sized up Lin Long.
At this moment, Lin Long realized that it was still very quiet inside. It seemed like there were only these two people.
However, with Lin Long's powerful Spiritual Force, he easily discovered that there were a few powerful warriors hidden in the surroundings.
Something seemed wrong. Lin Long made such a judgment in his heart.
"My name is Lin Li, and I come from Gong Jiang City's Mu Ran Village. My mother's maternal grandfather is Elder Lu's cousin," Lin Long said.
Although Gong Jiang City also had the word 'jiang' in its name, it was rather far from Linjiang City.
"What's your relationship with him?" Lu Yu couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard Lin Long's words.
"So it's Little Brother Lin." The middle-aged man nodded and asked, "Then why are you looking for him?"
"Something happened in my hometown, and my life isn't going well. Hence, my mother asked me to come to Linjiang City to seek refuge with Elder Lu … I heard that Elder Lu is very rich here …" As he spoke, Lin Long looked around enviously. Although this courtyard looked ordinary, it was considered pretty good in Linjiang City.
"In that case, you can stay here for a few days. When Elder Lu comes back, I'll tell him about this," the middle-aged man said with a smile.
"What's your relationship with Elder Lu?" Lin Long asked cautiously.
"I'm just one of Elder Lu's subordinates. My name is Zhan Fei," the middle-aged man said with a smile.
"Oh, it's Uncle Zhan," Lin Long said obediently.
"Lu Yu, find a guest room for Little Brother Lin to stay in," the middle-aged man said immediately.
"Little Brother, please follow me," Lu Yu said to Lin Long and then led him to the guest room on the left.
At that moment, Lin Long realized that the middle-aged man behind him had suddenly made a move. Apart from him, the other warriors who were hiding in the dark also made a move at the same time.
They attacked Lin Long at the same time.
The two strongest warriors among them were only in the Middle-stage of the Martial Overlord Realm. How could Lin Long take them seriously?
Just as their palm energy was about to hit him, he retaliated with a palm.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang …"
With just a few sounds, the few of them were seriously injured by Lin Long and fell to the ground.
When Lu Yu saw that the situation was not good, he quickly ran outside. However, just as he took a step, Lin Long's palm energy had already arrived and knocked him out.
After restraining those few people, Lin Long directly walked in front of the middle-aged man.
"Brat, who are you? Why are you so powerful?" The middle-aged man who called himself Zhan Fei asked in surprise.
He originally thought that Lin Long was at most in the Initial Stage of the Martial Overlord Realm. Although his strength seemed to be lower than theirs, he still asked the few people who were hiding in the dark to attack at the same time.
They did not expect Lin Long's strength to be so much stronger than theirs.
"It doesn't matter who I am. I just want to ask you, who are you people?" Lin Long said coldly.
During this period of time, he could already tell that these people were not from the Liang Family, nor were they Elder Lu's subordinates.
"Why would we tell you who we are?" The middle-aged man snorted coldly.
"Oh, I'm not afraid that you won't tell me." Seeing the middle-aged man's reaction, Lin Long could not help but smile. Then, he directly placed a few restrictions on the middle-aged man's body.
After the restrictions were placed on him and he was tortured, how could the middle-aged man not tell Lin Long everything in detail?
Indeed, as Lin Long had guessed, these people were not from the Liang Family, but from the Wang Family of Zhongjiang City. The Wang Family was much more powerful than the Liang Family. They were not on the same level at all.
Moreover, due to Liang Chenglu's inexplicable disappearance, the Liang Family was no match for them.
Up until now, they seemed to have taken down the entire Liang Family. However, due to the short period of time, in order to prevent the Liang Family from having any more influence, they still stayed in various places of the Liang Family and pretended that nothing had happened to the Liang Family.
If someone else from the Liang Family came looking for them, they would immediately kill them.
The reason why Lu Yu wanted to chase Lin Long away was because he felt that Lin Long's strength was not that great, so he did not take Lin Long seriously.
The middle-aged man, Zhan Fei, felt that Lin Long was not weak, so he let Lin Long in.
After that, what happened just now happened.
After hearing the gist of it, Lin Long immediately asked, "Do you know why the Wang Family attacked the Liang Family?"
Lin Long felt that the other party should have attacked because of the Beauty Tree. However, after thinking about it, he felt that it was somewhat impossible. After all, the Liang Family had been tight-lipped for so many years, and the people nearby didn't even know that there was a Beauty Tree in Linjiang City.
Lin Long thought that the other party would know, but the other party shook his head. "The Patriarch did not say why."
Since the other party didn't know, Lin Long would not continue asking. He immediately asked, "What about the Liang Family's Elder Lu? Where is he now?"
If the other party really came for the Beauty Tree and forced Elder Lu to hand over the token, then he had already gone to Linjiang Mountain to retrieve the Beauty Fruit.
"Elder Lu is currently imprisoned in the Liang Residence's dungeon," Zhan Fei said honestly.
"Then did you force anything out of him?" Lin Long asked again.
"No." Zhan Fei shook his head.
After hearing Zhan Fei's words, Lin Long couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.
Of course, he still had to find Elder Lu to know if that was the case. After all, Elder Lu had left for a long time, and who knew if the Wang Family's Patriarch had obtained the token from Elder Lu during this period of time.
After knocking them out with a single palm strike and locking them up in a room, Linlong headed straight for the Liang Residence.
With Lin Long's strength, he quickly entered the Liang Residence's dungeon without anyone noticing.
In the dungeon, Lin Long saw Elder Lu. Elder Lu was actually locked in a separate cell, which saved Lin Long a lot of trouble.
"Young Master, are you here to rescue this old man?" When Elder Lu saw Lin Long suddenly appear in the dungeon, he was elated.
Elder Lu was around seventy years old, and he was obviously tortured during this period of time. He looked haggard and haggard.
"If you give me what I need, I can let you out," said Lin Long with a faint smile.
"What do you want?" Elder Lu immediately felt that something was wrong when he heard Lin Long's words.
"Naturally, I want the token to enter the Runic Magic Array in Linjiang Mountain," Lin Long said.
"Who are you? How do you know that our Liang Family has the Beauty Tree and that I have the token?" Elder Lu couldn't help but ask.
Even the Wang Family's Patriarch didn't know that he had the token. Otherwise, he would definitely be tortured even more cruelly.
"You won't know who I am even if I tell you. You just need to give me the token," Lin Long said.
"No, I'm from the Liang Family. I won't give the token to you even if I die!" Elder Lu shook his head.
He paused for a moment before continuing. "Not to mention that it's impossible to enter the Runic Formation with just my command token. Only by obtaining the command token of our Liang Clan's Patriarch and combining the two into one will you be able to enter … As for our Liang Clan's Patriarch, his whereabouts are unknown since a long time ago. It's utterly impossible for you to obtain his command token, so just give up."
Elder Lu said those words to cut off Lin Long's thoughts. After all, even they couldn't find Liang Chenglu after spending so many days, so they naturally didn't think that Lin Long could find Liang Chenglu.
Linlong couldn't help but smile when he heard that. Then, he took out the token that he had obtained from Liang Chenglu.
"Look at this. What is this?" Lin Long said as he raised the token in his hand.
"This is the Patriarch's token, which is also the Liang Family's Patriarch Token. Where did you get it from? Do you know where our Patriarch is now? "Elder Lu couldn't help but ask when he saw the token.
"Your Patriarch is already dead," Lin Long said indifferently.
"You … are lying," Elder Lu said in disbelief. Due to Lin Long's Dantian Record's ability to conceal his aura, he couldn't sense Lin Long's strength. Therefore, he didn't believe that Lin Long could kill their Patriarch.
"Cut the crap. Tell me where the token is," Lin Long said again.
"Impossible. I can't tell you where the token is," Elder Lu said through gritted teeth.
Lin Long couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense with him. He directly placed a restriction on Elder Lu's body. After a while, Elder Lu could only tell Lin Long the location of the token.
The token wasn't with Elder Lu but in a room in his courtyard.
After Lin Long interrogated Elder Lu, he heard a series of hurried footsteps coming from above. It seemed that the people outside had realized that something was wrong.
Linlong immediately walked out of the dungeon. Sure enough, as soon as he walked out of the dungeon, seven or eight people immediately surrounded him.
"Who are you?" They immediately shouted when they saw Lin Long.
Lin Long directly attacked them with his palm. The strongest among them was only in the advanced stage of the Martial Overlord Realm. Therefore, he didn't care about them at all.
When he attacked with his palm, a few of them were immediately sent flying.
"Everyone, let's attack together!"
Seeing that Lin Long was powerful, these people hurriedly rushed forward. In the end, they were all defeated by Lin Long.
After dealing with these people, Lin Long immediately left the Liang Residence and sprinted toward Elder Lu's courtyard.
Soon, he returned to Elder Lu's courtyard and found the token under a brick in the room.
The token was originally with Elder Lu. However, when he realized that someone was attacking him, he had an idea and hid it.
After obtaining the token, Lin Long directly went to Linjiang Mountain.
He was worried that the people from the Wang Family who might know the Liang Family's secret had already begun to attack the Runic Magic Array.
After all, Elder Lu wasn't the only one in the Liang Family who knew the secret.
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