Chapter 202 Jiang Shuijie (1/2)
At this moment, there was a rapid ray flying towards Mount Qing Xuan. The mountain was surrounded by fog all year. One could not have a clear view of what was inside, and hence he did not enter but landed at Nanke Town, situated at the foot of the mountain.
The ray landed and a middle-aged Daoist appeared. He looked at the landmark of Nanke Town and he walked inside.
It was also due to how powerful Qing Xuan's Mountain Defense Formation was in protecting the mountain. Nobody could ever break in from the outside.
The four main Daoist sects utilized the geographical position and spiritual opportunity to generate the Mountain Defense Formation. It was deeply ingrained in the heaven and earth and could hardly be affected. The middle-aged Daoist dared not to break in carelessly to protect his lifelong cultivation.
Given the town was situated at the foot of the mountain, he figured that they could be closely related and hence he decided to ask someone.
The moment he stepped in, he immediately saw a bearded man who was walking towards him. He had a herculean build with bright eyes. He was staring at him. For an average person, being under his glance would have made the person go kneeling on the floor as if he saw a fierce tiger. The middle-aged Daoist had some decent mana, along with a great spiritual mind. Hence, he was not afraid and he simply went through the evaluation.
At the same time, the middle-aged Daoist had the eyes of Xuan. He could tell that the Qi that gathered around the bearded man was revealing some lights, which implied that this man had great Xuanmen techniques.
He understood in his heart that it was very likely that this man was a student of Qing Xuan, but as his Qi did not circulate, it could be that he did not go through Dan Dao. However, from his spiritual opportunity and light, he had a much purer mana than those who relied on external alchemy.
He stood where he was and he greeted the bearded man when he was approaching him, ”Are you a respected student of Qing Xuan?”
The bearded man laughed and said, ”I dare not to call myself a respected student as I am still learning. Did you come from Mount Boyun?”
The middle-aged Daoist was slightly stunned. Mount Boyun was located at the downstream of Qingshui River. The Qingshui River was an extremely wide river in Nanjiang, Yuan Continent. It had plenty of rainwater all year and it traversed through several ten thousand miles. Qingjiang Sword Sect was located at Mount Boyun. They relied on the spiritual opportunity provided by the flowing water, and hence all the students were able to continue their cultivations for many generations.
Nanjiang was where the Witchery Daoists conducted their activities. There were also a lot of wicked Daoists hidden in Nanjiang. They were mostly seeking for entertainment instead of immortality. Their techniques were mysterious and violent but Qingjiang Sect's True Wandering Light Sword was different. It was blessed by the power of water.
What made the Daoist stunned was that Qing Xuan assigned this man here knowing he was coming.
In the beginning, he was against the idea of Meng Xunzhen stepping into the deep waters. However, given that he had the highest cultivation in the sect and was the main pillar, it would have a detrimental effect on the sect if he was gone.
It was normal for sword sect to offend others. Since Qingjiang Sect took a footing in Nanjiang, they had found themselves many enemies and some of them were powerful cultivators. They possessed great swordcraft and one could die any moment during such encounter, and as a result, the evils were afraid of them. For the size of the heaven and earth, immortal Zhenren was extremely rare. Even from the four main Daoist sects, there were only a total of fewer than fifteen Zhenrens. Even then it had occupied half of Xuanmen Zhenren's number.
If not because of Guangqing, one sect would have five Zhenren and the four main Daoist sects could have represented the whole of Xuanmen.
As a result, among the nine states of cultivation, to be able to reach Buxu and Powang could be considered as being on top of the world. How important Meng Xunzhen was to Qingjiang Sword Sect was not less compared to how important Ziling Fairy was to Qing Xuan even though the two were fundamentally different.
Qing Xuan caught the master-student pair of Meng Xunzhen but they did not kill them as the Soul Lamp in the sect was still lit. It had been about half a month and nothing had happened, hence the middle-aged Daoist was not particularly in a hurry.