Chapter 420: Chapter 284 Hidden Sword Manor
People all say immortals are great.
But in this world, where is there truly carefree and unrestrained, clean and detached? It’s nothing more than the dirty, hard, and offensive tasks, all done by someone else for you.
In this forsaken place in the mountains, with snakes, insects, rats, and ants, where only bear-dug caves can serve as shelter, you’d have to search high and low just to find a sip of clean spring water.
No ordinary mortals have collected enough sand, stones, copper, and iron to build your palace and temples, and no deacon child squats in the incense furnace to refine elixirs and concoct medicine for you.
No Flying Star from the outer mountain comes through wind and rain to kill and behead for you, making everyone kneel at your door, begging for mercy.
No carts of gold, silver, jewels, money, and provisions are offered at your mountain gate for you to use.
How many people can sit high in this mountain, be carefree and unrestrained, commanding with a look, and cultivate quietly for a long time?
Who the hell are you pretending to be an immortal?
Tie Dan chopped off a heap of heads as a first-meeting gift, stuffed them in his sleeves, and followed Zhao Dan to the Hidden Sword Manor on the outskirts of Ye Capital.
Actually, as long as there are Sword Sect disciples staying there, any manor can be called Hidden Sword Manor. However, this place in Ye Capital has some history; it was originally the main base of the Sword Sect’s outer door, an industry set up by the Shen Family’s old ancestor, making it Shen Jianjia’s old home.
Originally, Hidden Sword Manor acted on behalf of the Sword Sect, recruiting people from Jianghu, forming alliances with heroes from all directions. The Family Head, Shen Huai, even with his capability, rose to the position of Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch. The family, with four sons and eight daughters, each well-known heroic and chivalrous figure, was famed in the North as the number one martial family, addressed as the Northern whatever wherever Jun You.
But later, when Prince Li fell from power, the Shen Family followed suit, and those recruited ’talents’ scattered immediately. Lands and property were first seized by nearby rich families and gate valves, later offered as bribes to eunuchs in the palace. Then the Northern Soldiers came to loot, and after several twists and turns, the place was ravaged by rebel soldiers, dilapidated and abandoned, with no one coming for a while.
Therefore, Sword Sect disciples who trained outside seized the place back and rebuilt Hidden Sword Manor as their operations headquarters.
The rebel army in Ye Capital City probably should know they’ve gathered here, but so far, neither side has encroached upon the other’s territory. The rebel army hasn’t initiated conflict with the Mystic Sect, stopping just at the Mystic Sect’s mountain gate boundaries, and no one from the Mystic Sect has gone to slay dragons in the palace.
After all, the Northern Army is a rebel army, and is not the Mystic Sect a Demon Sect? In the context of the Three Constellations, both sides are essentially foreign evil forces. Since they drove away the Immortal Palace, they must quickly gain local power’s support and assimilate the Immortal Palace’s legacy to stabilize their footing in Genzhou.
And what the rebel army wants is the urban population; the Mystic Sect wants the Spiritual Mountain Earth’s veins. The resources they fight for don’t highly overlap, and with the Demon Clan as a common enemy overhead, there’s indeed potential room for cooperation. No wonder the Honzan has so many thoughts.
Of course, no matter what the Honzan plans, Tie Dan has to kill Stone Dragon to sever mortal karma. However, last time he tried to kill Stone Dragon, he realized Stone Dragon had cultivated to a Mechanical Golden Body and had witnessed the peak of the Immortal Palace’s combat power. He is self-aware, knowing that he is not currently a match for that instantaneously releasing Three Hundred Gang Fist Dou God General.
Too weak, still too weak, at least need to raise the destructive power to the level of Old Man Cang Song...
"Stop!"
"Clang!"
Two treasure swords crossed in front, stopping the bow-headed Tie Dan who was walking into the Hidden Sword Manor at the gate, casting the sword light onto the ground.
Tie Dan looked expressionlessly at the two Sword Attendants.
Zhao Dan was shocked! Hastily apologizing!
"Forgive us, two senior brothers! Immortal Tie has been long at the outer mountain and doesn’t know the rules! True Man, please wait a moment! I will go report to True Monarch Tianyin!"
Tie Dan looked at him, then at the Nascent Soul cultivator inside the wall, clearly sitting high in the manor, having locked his Divine Sense onto him.
"Do I need to announce these few steps? Let these two dogs give me a show of force!"
"Presumptuous!" "Insolent!"
The two Sword Children were furious, drawing swords into stance, sword energy gathering, killing intent burgeoning.
Zhao Dan also secretly lamented, speaking with a hardened scalp,
"True Man, please don’t make it difficult for me, you understand the rules of the Mystic Sect, perhaps there’s some secret that cannot be known to the Outer Door, it’s indeed impossible to transmit, absolutely can’t step into the hall. We disciples are all acting on orders, please you..."
Tie Dan raised a hand,
"Enough, go report."
Zhao Dan, as if granted amnesty, hurried in to report, the two Sword Children glaring angrily.
They are all cultivators, a sweep of Divine Sense can tell what’s happening inside and outside.
When Zhao Dan reached one door, he was blocked at the second door, saying True Monarch Tianyin was meeting with distinguished guests, and miscellaneous people could not disturb them, and was stopped again.
Tie Dan certainly knew what tricks they were playing, just using the rules to pressure him, forcing him to violate them. He merely smiled faintly and sat at the entrance, taking out a Daoist Book given by his brothers to read.
So, he waited for two whole hours, before True Monarch Tianyin leisurely finished the meeting, announcing he could see the outer disciple Tie Dan.
Zhao Dan returned to transmit the message, his face turning red, gritting his teeth, bowing down,
"Made True Man, wait long."
Tie Dan originally wanted to mock him a few words, but seeing his miserable appearance, he realized that the poor lad was also being manipulated, forcibly waiting for two hours. So, he was too lazy to vent on him, waving a sleeve, and casually tossing him a Soldier Repelling Coin.
"Thanks for leading the way."
The Sword Children were stunned on the spot for a moment.
Tie Dan was too lazy to talk nonsense; since they allowed him in, he walked straight into the Hidden Sword Manor, finally seeing the real master.
Inside the manor, an array was clearly set up, with lush grasses, jade trees, and rare orchids. Amidst the rising Dan Qi, a scene of an immortal family, there sat four Nascent Soul True Men in the hall, obviously waiting for him.