Chapter: 5655

"Leaf Tian exclaimed: 'You've been pursued for over three hundred years! Who's after you? The Clear Dawn Society?'"

Lin Wan'er said with a complex expression: "In fact, the Clear Dawn Society was established by my father and his sworn brother and good friend Wu Feiyan during the year the Qing army entered the pass. The two brothers founded the society to expel the Tatars and restore Ming, but after my father's death, the Clear Dawn Society changed completely and had no relation to its name again. Those who are pursuing me now are the later Clear Dawn Society and its subsequent English leader."

Leaf Tian blurted out: "Is the English leader of the later Clear Dawn Society Wu Feiyan himself?"

"No," Lin Wan'er shook her head. "The English leader of the later Clear Dawn Society is actually Wu Feiyun, Wu Feiyan's sister."

"Ah, Wu Feiyun?"

Lin Wan'er thought for a moment and said, "Wu Feiyun's father was one year old when my father was 23 years old. He has now been four hundred years old."

Leaf Tian said, "So she should have also taken the Elixir of Longevity?"

"Of course," Lin Wan'er lamented, "the Elixir of Longevity is our family's and Wu Feiyun's shared mentor, left for them before their final moment, originally one per person, hoping they could continue to rebel against the Qing dynasty;"

"In addition to the Elixir of Longevity, Master also gave Father a ring in your hand, asking him to keep it well, and when the time is right, he can obtain Master's remaining elixir recipe, martial arts, which is said to have an ancient secret that allows one to live up to 1,000 years;"

"But who would have thought that after Master's departure, Wu Feiyun suddenly had a change of heart and heavily injured Father, wanting to take away Father's ring and the Elixir of Longevity?"

"In a crucial moment, the ring sent Father to my presence, and Father just gave me his Elixir of Longevity..."

Lin Wan'er paused, took a deep breath, adjusted her mood, and then said, "I'll start telling you from when the White Lotus Society was first established. Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't understand it clearly."

Leaf Tian nodded eagerly and hurriedly said, "Please go on!"

Lin Wan'er took a sip of tea and began to recount, "My father Lin Hong'en was born in the second year of Tianshun, which is 1622 according to the Gregorian calendar;"

"The Lin family has been loyal since the founding of the Ming dynasty..."

"Ancestor of the Lin family first held official positions in Nanjing, then followed Emperor Chengzu and his family to migrate to Beijing;"

"The Lin family's fortunes gradually declined during the late Ming period, with no officials in the household. When my father grew up and married my mother, the Lin family had lost all official positions;"

"My father was originally just a scholar who had always dreamed of taking the imperial examination and restoring the Lin family's honor, but after the Qing army entered the country, he took up arms and changed his name to Lin Zhiquan, and together with Wu Feiyang founded the anti-Qing society to drive the Manchu back beyond the passes;"

"Wu Feiyang was from Liaodong and was distant relatives of big traitor Wu Shigui, but because they didn't shame Wu Shigui for betraying his country for personal gain, he vowed to overthrow the Qing and restore the Ming;"

"Wu Feiyan should have been around 19 years old at that time and followed her older brother Wu Feiyang into joining the anti-Qing society;"

"After that, my father always brought my mother along with him as he traveled and fought against the Qing army;"

"I was born when my mother had been accompanying my father and was already worn out from their constant travel and fighting, having many health issues even before I turned a month old. When I was still an infant, my mother passed away, and my father sent me to my grandmother's house in Yunnan. I grew up there;"

"The year of Yongle four, which is 1650 according to the Gregorian calendar, the Qing army marched southward and captured Huguang, with the Southern Ming army retreating one by one. The anti-Qing society that had fought alongside the Southern Ming also suffered heavy losses;"

"My father's good brother Wu Feiyang was killed in action that year;"

"Wu Feiyang before his death entrusted his sister Wu Feiyan to my father. However, at that time my father and his family were surrounded by the Qing army with no escape route, caught between life and death. My father could only take Wu Feiyan and hide in the 10,000 mountain peaks;" JrNovels.com