It wasn’t clear when Lin Xiao and Lin Feng had become the thorn in the reformists’ flesh. The older one had been too old, and the younger one so young that not even Lin Wuyi, the seventh branch mistress, had cared enough to give them a second look. But now Lin Feng was in the top two hundred of the minor reges mundi ranking, which put him in the top three among the three hundred participants from the Lin Clan. The old man, Lin Xiao, was even more remarkable. The Sword in the Forest was the thorn in their side. Even though they still had disdainful expressions on their faces, the resentment in their hearts was growing.1

"The old and young are both obstacles for the alliance....1