Chapter 382: Chapter 163: Is a Maid’s Son Not Allowed to Attain the Supreme Dao? Li Shentong—So What If I Killed Him?
Tongye State!
A remote mountain city near the Prefecture City, named ’Longxiang’, it is said that long ago a Major Sect from Grotto Heaven once flourished here, thus named.
However, as the dust of history settled, the once-great sect has long faded into oblivion, leaving only the name, gradually forming one of six prefectures under Tongye State, Longxiang Prefecture.
Longxiang Prefecture is the westernmost Prefecture City in Tongye State.
It borders Baoping State, now divided by ’demons’, with Shunan Prefecture, using ’rivers’ as boundaries.
And that river is named ’Wei River’.
It was the Half-Demon Emperor who founded Great Yin, allied with three factions, and rose from the northwest barbaric lands, sweeping across them like a tiger, also known as West Sea, where the only pseudo-dragon species ’Jing River Dragon Court’ Dragon Vein resides.
Back then,
King Yin once pointed to this water and vowed to remove the barriers between demons, divine blood, and humans, establishing a unified empire, riding the White Dragon Blood Horse, thus known as ’White Horse Oath, Wei River Agreement’.
However,
A majestic empire arose, leveraging the blood inheritance of demons and half-demons, allowing for early cultivation.
But the problems within grew larger and heavier than before.
Within fifteen to twenty years, with the establishment of a new second generation, chaos erupted, dividing territories, as the fires of Fenghuo Langyan spread, signaling that the empire’s fortune was short-lived.
And this day.
Westward of Longxiang Prefecture, within a domain of overlapping mountains and cities!
It’s cold and frozen.
Rustle rustle rustle!
Iron hooves trample through thick snow, traveling swiftly along Tongye State’s broad official road, sending flying snow scattered all over the sky.
Knights covered their faces with ’iron armor’, passing territories, flying the ’Tongye Duke Banner’, traversing through the snow.
At least a dozen cavalry formations, adding up to nearly a thousand elite troops, spread out like a black armored flood, storming into the forest, seemingly hunting or chasing someone.
Screech screech!
A squad of black armored cavalry that entered the forest and broke past temples returned from afar, stopping before the commander of the thousand riders, and solemnly reported:
"Master, there are True Qi fluctuations ahead, and bloodstains are dragged along, it seems to be traces of ’Life and Death Mountain and River Sect’ disciples!"
The iron-faced general at the forefront, holding a halberd, narrowed his eyes: "Oh? Lead me there for a look."
The group of cavalry rushed into the forest, indeed finding lingering True Qi around, along with two lines of bloodstains buried under the snow, the pungent smell still lingering.
Seeing this, when the whip-wielding knight noticed, his spirit surged:
"Indeed, it’s here!"
"The Duchess once mentioned, the Lord lost countless nights over this technique, repeatedly climbing Nirvana Mountain, praying to the Mountain and River Immortal, only to be turned away downhill, even if he achieved the Primordial Pill, he was told he wasn’t fit for the further cultivation of the ’Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill’, unable to enter the Mystic Sect, barred from entry."
"And now that the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect has fallen, the remaining ’Six Major Strong Sects’ in Tongye State, such as Flying Curse Sect, Puppet Hall, and some experts from ss Mountain, are descending one after another, fighting and killing for the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect’s Secret Scroll Technique, with head and bloodshed."
"The Mountain and River Immortal’s momentum is gone, among these disciples, only Canyuan and Xiu Fa hold most of the sect’s mysteries."
"As long as we capture these two Grandmasters who have cultivated ’Dragon Tiger Divine Power’, we can use the lives of their disciples as leverage, surely obtaining the Dharma Scroll, as the Duchess described."
"The Lord is indecisive, unable to make decisions, so the Duchess takes action directly, now we charge into a prefecture, setting up an inescapable net, we ultimately cornered the Cultivation Taoist!"
"Go, into the mountain!"
The commander, strong in Primordial Pill Realm, gathered True Qi, with a solemn shout amidst the icy world, accumulating the thousand cavalry’s might upon himself, even experts with Dragon Tiger Divine Power couldn’t oppose him.
In the era where cultivation hadn’t returned, people below the mountain exhausted mysteries aiming to reach the ’One Army’s Chisel Array’ technique, in Great Profound’s final days, the Imperial Tutor was a Great Sage of military, a master of battle formations.
If not for later, when King Yin maneuvered through a side path, surprising Divine Capital, causing Great Profound’s fall, and his troops ’sharp energy’ dispersed, divine power waned, the battle for Ming Huang State’s first stronghold, Refusal City, Celestial Prison Pass, victory uncertain.
At this moment, the commander’s blood energy behind him, like a sword unsheathed, bored straight ahead, making him almost reach the ’Celestial Human Domain’, unstoppable!
The cavalry rode the horses, traversing the forest, making a loud commotion.
Suddenly those, in a mountain cave, wearing ’Mountain and River White Phoenix Robe’ disciples of Life and Death Sect, faces taut, extremely pale.
Among them, one with half a sleeve stained with blood, supporting a disciple cursed by ’Three-Nine Curse Scripture’, looked bitterly at their once graceful and elegant brother ’Xiu Fa’, now fallen to the mortal realm, sleeves smudged, and said:
"Brother Xiu Fa, these are the elite cavalry under ’Tongye Duke’, enough to clash with Great Yin’s Divine Blood Iron Cavalry, we are injured, with weak cultivation, merely dragging down."
"Even if we can walk or run, we are destined not to go far..."
"Now Brother Canyuan, to protect previous fellows returning home, went up other faction mountains, and cannot hold back, mountain and river sect heir, only you remain, if you fall, there is nothing left!"
"Please, brother, consider the bigger picture and incense, leave quickly!"
"World’s First Mysterious Sect must not fall under our hands..."
