"What?! Lin Zhang is back?!!"
Everyone was left stupefied by it; they didn't expect the mad man Lin Zhang to be cured and appear as a normal person suddenly. The sun seemed to have risen from the west that day.
Lin Zhou stood there dumbstruck. His eyes stared at his brother Lin Zhang unbelievably.
He was sweating profusely while recalling all the things he had done in the past few years. He wasn't a good example to his brother and his son. While he thought that his glory would last long, he failed to foretell the eclipse that finally came to an end.
If only he had succeeded in levelling up his cultivation and become more powerful than his brother then he wouldn't have become this tense. He would have defeated him in a duel and no one would question his rule over the clan but now things were different. His realm was still two entire realms lower than his brother's; forget about defeating him, he wasn't even good enough to stand by his side. It was only natural that his brother would take over his position.
Moreover, he was the legal heir of the Lin clan. No one would question his authority now that he came back. He only had to blame himself for his ineptitude to surpass his level during those past seven years. If only he weren't lazy and had trained harder, things wouldn't have come to this.
While he was fretting over it all, Lin Zhang walked towards him with a mockery smirk on his face.
"My brother Lin Zhou, I have heard a lot about you. It appears that you used my position to exercise your authority quite a lot in those years. This brother is very impressed."
He thumped down his big hands upon his shoulders as he remarked. The pressure of his hands was mighty enough to shake the insides of Lin Zhou.
He already lost his sanity at his disdainful comments but still, he pretentiously acted his way out of it: "Haha...brother you have overpraised me. This little brother is only fulfilling his duties. Everything I had done is all for the sake of the Lin clan."
Surely by saying it, he was trying to save his ass.
"Oh? Is that so?"
Lin Zhang glared him with a hint of killing intent.
Lin Zhou gulped at it and smiled through the friction.
He knew that his glorious day was over at that time. His prowess was like an insect in front of a giant elephant and he couldn't do anything about it. His brother was back for real.
Now that things had come to this, he couldn't escape his fate anymore. He gulped at it.
While the two were in conflict; the first elder walked up to them with a merry smile on his wrinkled face.
"Lin Zhang, it's good that you have come back! So the current chief had summoned all of us to announce your return?"
His expectation was high and was only right. Surely in that condition, one would think that the summoned was all for the announcement of the comeback of Lin Zhang; even all the Lin clansmen and the other elders were assuming the same.
Lin Zhang smirked at it and turned towards them with an amusing smile.
With all the anticipation and hope on him, he can't lose the bright limelight; therefore, he turned and replied savagely: "Looks like, my brother keenly looks forward to my comeback. I am very pleased to see you all being summoned here. Since my brother had made such a grand welcome it would be wasted if I didn't declare it, therefore, I hereby proclaimed that from here on; I, Lin Zhang will take back the Chief position and become the Chief of the Lin clan."
Lin Zhou stood there dumbstruck. It was happening for real! The doom.... he anticipated in sweats was finally here and all of the elders and Lin clansmen were smiling at it in pleasure. They were quite pleased that the chief of the Lin clan would now be a person of early fourth-level Immortal realm rather than a person of only second-level Immortal realm. With the power being risen again; they were convinced that the future of the Lin clan will be once again in safe hands.
It was the best thing that ever happened.
The Lin clansmen below rejoiced immensely at the great news; the years of disgust and hatred towards Lin Zhang and his son were all gone like a sudden change of weather.
Now that he became once again a powerful, early fourth-level Immortal, they wouldn't dare to look down on him or to be on his bad side.
Though some of the crowd hated this glorious comeback; they weren't able to make that much of a fuss. They engraved the hatred deep within. The power standing before them was not someone they could offend and thereby, laid low.
The power was doing the speaking here.
Young Lin Yichen was left thrilled to witness it all; before him was the sight of his glorious father's comeback. Everything had returned to normal for the better. His father's recovery was indeed favourable to him.
While the elders on the stage were happy about it; there was one person on the stage who was reddened in anger and bitterness.
Lin Zhang eyed that man and remarked tauntingly: "I sincerely thanked my younger brother Lin Zhou for taking care of my position all this while."
He then beamed satirically.
Though the surface of the words was somewhat pleasing, every wise person knew the anger and mockery behind those words. It was shaming the once arrogant man who thought of himself as higher than the mountain.
It was openly ridiculing the man who thought he owned the moon all to himself.
His once proud and arrogant face was now filled with shame.
As Lin Zhang constantly poked Lin Zhou; the elders turned a blind eye to it.
They knew that Lin Zhang was avenging the years of ill-treatment Lin Zhou had done towards him and his son.
The father and son duo were treated less than a servant in all those years and no one had raised a word about it. Even though they all knew all about it, they kept their mouth shut just for the sake of the Lin clan. Since the chief was in the early second-level immortal and the most powerful in the entire clan, the elders thought that it was unnecessary to put their nose in it, moreover, they didn't want to come on his bad side. They all had overlooked all the mistreats done by him.
Since it was a personal grudge between the two brothers, they stood back and turned their faces away. They didn't want to interfere in the clash between the brothers.
Lin Zhou smiled through the bitterness and replied tactfully: "Haha.. brother, if you hadn't become sane I would have thoroughly enjoyed all the glory and honour for a lifetime but tsk! Too bad, you suddenly became normal and returned. This brother couldn't help but only sigh at it."
The repulsive remark amused Lin Zhang greatly.
"Pfft"
He couldn't hide it anymore.
He turned towards Lin Zhou in entertainment.
Seeing that his elder brother was deriding it, Lin Zhou didn't waste any time coming back to him. He in turn interrogated in suspicion: "Ahh..coming to that, will my brother now share all the clansmen as to how he got better suddenly and who had treated him?
I am sure that behind the sudden cure must have been the hands of some competent master?"