Chapter 377: Chapter 161: Top 16 Sects, Magic Gate Alliance Leader, Luotian Crosses West, Six Branches Gather, Zuo Shanhe Leaves Seclusion!!
Life and Death Mountain and River Sect.
Before Zuo Shanhe disbanded the disciples.
It was divided into ’Mountain and River Hall’ at the mountain peak, ’Dharma Transmission Chamber’ halfway up, and ’Experience Hall’ at the mountain’s foot.
Disciples who haven’t entered the sect or passed the trial are generally at the foot of the mountain in the Experience Hall, tending fires, chopping wood, and fetching water... honing their minds under the assessment of Sect Leader Zuo Shanhe.
Due to the scarcity of disciples in Life and Death Mountain and River Sect.
Most of the temples and buildings are empty, but in the past, they were clean and tidy, used to receive guests or to house believers who offered incense.
However, moving upward from the mountain’s base, the red brick and tile scenery, solemn and simple inner view of the Daoist temple, is rarely trodden by outsiders.
Because this is a rule personally set by Sect Leader Zuo Shanhe.
Even if rumors spread outside that Wuwei Sect’s Feng Zizai, after assassinating King Yin, ascended the mountain repeatedly and snatched the ’Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill’ from him, breaking his Dao practice and damaging his reputation, leading to the disbandment of disciples.
But the gossip might not be true.
After all, the resting place of a fierce tiger retains its residual power.
Even those famed outside and ruling one side must act cautiously when reaching the mountain’s foot.
And Luo Fuyao, disguised and dressed as a handsome gentleman in a ’Mountain and River White Phoenix Robe’, declared to all directions with the identity of ’Last Disciple of Zuo Shanhe’.
With the claim ’Sect Leader is in retreat, do not disturb’, he could hold these people in place for three days!
But...
Three days are the limit.
...
At the mountain’s foot.
The guest incense hall is spacious and solemn.
Next to the carved window lattice, a landscape painting depicts disciples of the Mystic Sect in white garments riding cranes, embroidered with white phoenix patterns, exuding an otherworldly aura.
Ancient redwood tables and chairs show faint traces of time; handles, chair backs, and tables are polished and carved smooth, untouched by dust.
At this moment.
Several silhouettes are sitting in the hall, some seated, some standing.
On the right.
Li Xuanzong, clad in armor, sits upright, using his peripheral vision to assess those long-breathed Martial Dao masters.
For three consecutive days.
These experts from the ’Sixteen Strong Gates’ of Tongye State couldn’t sit still anymore.
Thus, they gathered here, longing to ascend the mountain to meet the legendary ’Mountain and River Immortal’.
In the northwest of the present age, among Great Yin’s Five States, demons control Baoping, and the Changbai State is a wasteland with intertwined mountains.
Except for Central State’s ’Ming Huang State’, Tongye and Fuyao States are known for their talented inhabitants and vast territories.
Thus, experts of various veins often regard this place as the ’Central Plains’, establishing sects and having the ’Eastern and Western Dharma Lineages’ notion.
The Western Sect’s Dharma lineage, located in Tongye State, with ’Life and Death Mountain and River Sect’ being the most prominent, consists of seven families.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Sect’s Dharma lineage, situated in Fuyao State, after revival before claiming ’first in thunder techniques, unparalleled’, reportedly commandeered remnants of extraordinary learning to summon lightning during Great Innate, thus being recognized as the ’World’s First Mysterious Sect’ with Luotian Sect, Luotian Sect being foremost, comprising nine families!
The conjunction is aptly named: Sixteen Strong Gates!
But Life and Death Mountain and River Sect and Luotian Sect have had a rift for over a century; the then Young Immortal Zuo Shanhe once stepped on host Luotian Sect, ruling the younger generation as ’First in Mystic Sect’.
Back then, the second place in the Innate Dao Lineage was Luotian Sect’s current Sect Leader, Luotian Daoist, now a Celestial Human Realm Primordial Pill at the peak of cultivation.
Moreover, since cultivation revival.
There’s a rumor in the Eastern Sect’s Dharma lineage.
That is, Luotian Sect obtained a complete True Man technique from circulating accounts in the ’Grotto Heaven’, hence the Sect Leader Luotian Daoist, can reach True Master methodically.
Due to the former Young Immortal Zuo Shanhe stepping on Luotian, establishing the Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill, with cultivation gradually reviving, the ’Mystic Sect Martial Discussion’ emerged.
Mystic Sect Martial Discussion.
Every ten years, held at a sect from the Sixteen Strong Gates of either Eastern or Western sect.
To determine the ’First Celestial Pride’, ’Magic Gate Alliance Leader’, equating to the demon king’s, Great Yin’s monarch.
As long as no one reaches Fourth Step True Man, the significance and prestige of this title remain unchallenged.
For the past century.
Celestial Pride from the Strong Gates passed like carp crossing a river; in the Mystic Sect Martial Discussion, it was one performance after another from the sixteen gates, always producing a few outstanding new talents.
Yet...
At the pinnacle peak, over a hundred years, the cycle goes on, and it remains that person.
As for Luotian Sect’s Luotian Daoist, he became the perpetual second in the Dharma lineage of Sixteen Strong Gates, head of the Eastern Sect.
And the upcoming Mystic Sect Martial Discussion is imminent.
Luotian Sect and other Eastern Sect’s Dharma lineages will traverse west for the contest to justify the Dao.
Yet somehow...
Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Sect disbanded.
Thus!
Danxia Mountain, ss Mountain, Natural Technique Sect, Sword Immortal Temple, Flying Curse Sect, Puppet Hall!
Six major lineages, each sending experts to Nirvana Mountain to check the situation.
Coincidentally,
they were encountered by Li Xuanzong, instructed by Duke Tongye Li Shen Yao to look for his half-brother ’Li Shunfan’.
At this moment, the presence of vein experts in Li Xuanzong’s peripheral vision... even his father, Duke Tongye, in this critical stance against Great Yin couldn’t help but treat with respect.
"Contemporary Pharmacist of Danxia Mountain, Magic Vein Leader of ss Mountain, Talisman Sect Leader of Natural Technique Sect, Temple Master of Sword Immortal Temple, Sect Leader of Flying Curse Sect, Head of the Puppet Hall..."
