Chapter 1664: Chapter 1666: Washing Sword Peak
Feng Jun heard Qu Jianlei’s words and felt deeply moved as well. “No wonder he’s a disciple of the Four Great Sects, truly thodical.”
“That’s necessary,” Master Qu laughed, “Don’t thank , just thank Master Sumiao. The two pairs of teleportation formation plates are hers.”
Ginkgo Square Market is not far from Sword Forging Peak, only about five hundred thousand miles away, and Sword Forging Peak itself has a transmission array connected to Ginkgo Square Market, but due to security concerns, it’s rarely activated.
In fact, the Four Great Sects are the sa, with external transmission arrays stationed ten to twenty thousand miles outside the sect.
Anyway, five hundred thousand miles, with fast travel, it only takes two days, and leisurely travel wouldn’t exceed five days.
However, the range of a teleportation formation plate isn’t particularly far, except for custom-made ones. Generally speaking, two hundred thousand miles is considered quite far.
Master Sumiao carried two pairs of teleportation formation plates with her, just right for use here. After two teleportations and flying a hundred thousand miles, it’s done. Anyway, the teleportation formation plates have Taiqing imprints and are guarded by disciples of Taiqing, so no problems are expected.
Feng Jun increasingly realized the benefits of being part of a major power. Most mbers were well-trained, and various tasks could be promptly assigned, making things truly convenient.
He and the four ladies rested for a whole night at Qiuchen Market, and early in the morning, followed the tracks here. Although there were hundreds of miles from the tracks to their base, it didn’t take long. At present, it was only around nine o’clock.
After two teleportations, everyone traveled in a flying boat and reached a riverbank, just ten thousand miles from Sword Forging Peak, before nightfall. They camped overnight there, and entered Sword Forging Peak early the next morning.
Sword Forging Peak also has a mountain gate. Master Sumiao revealed her identity, and the cultivators guarding the gate dared not obstruct her, only daring to ask, “May I ask the Master, what brings you here?”
Sumiao was too lazy to answer; it was Kong Ziyi who spoke up and said, “What we’re here for is not sothing you can ask about.”
The ten-plus cultivators guarding the gate truly dared not stop them, because this mountain gate was better than nothing; many cultivators who didn’t want to go through the gate directly climbed over the mountain, not to ntion Golden Core Masters—if Sumiao didn’t want to follow the rules, she didn’t need to pass through here.
Moreover, these guarding cultivators were rotated by various families to guard here, epitomizing “motley crew”—most clans cared more about their own peak’s mountain gate, while the public mountain gate was just a formality.
Such a situation would never happen at the Four Sects’ Wutai gates because they would hold accountable for it.
However, here, one cultivator attempted to speak, but another pulled him aside and said, “Do you want to cause trouble for your Jie Family?”
After everyone had entered, he asked perplexedly, “Shouldn’t Sword Forging Peak stick together?”
The one who advised him sneered, “Of course we should stick together, but… what if it’s a personal vendetta?”
His aning was, if it didn’t concern the entire Sword Forging Peak but was just between soone or a particular clan and Taiqing’s Golden Core, they could stand by, only intervening when necessary, rather than confronting right from the start.
The young Jie Family mber, full of youthful vigor, asked heatedly, “Then what’s the point of guarding this mountain gate?”
The other sneered, “Of course there’s a point. If the opposition targets the entire Sword Forging Peak and charges directly, we must fight back desperately, even if they’re Taiqing Sect’s Golden Core.”
Soone else chid in, “Enough, hurry up and notify the family… truly are two newbie chickens!”
This is the usual reaction at Sword Forging Peak’s main mountain gate: upon encountering a not-so-hostile Golden Core from the Four Great Sects, everyone obediently lets them pass and quickly informs the family to see if they’ve offended anyone, considering if they can forge ties with them.
To add, if a Golden Core from Wutai were to co, these guarding cultivators would be a bit more assertive—Wutai, after all, is sowhat weaker than the Four Great Sects, and Sword Forging Peak essentially prefers to unite against external threats.
Actually, four Golden Cores arrived, but only Sumiao appeared, the others remained inside the flying boat, unseen.
Flying boat? That’s right, this is another peculiar phenonon at Sword Forging Peak, where flying is permitted in the mountains.
Sword Forging Peak’s area isn’t large, a circumference of six hundred thousand miles, which ans simply assuming the area is a thousand miles long and six hundred miles wide, converted to kiloters, it’s five hundred kiloters long and three hundred kiloters wide, the size of Jin Province.
This short distance doesn’t require a flying boat either; the speed of Void Soaring’s physical flight isn’t bad, but since it’s a power, there must be rules, and it’s best not to fly freely.
However, Sword Forging Peak is truly unique. The seven families each occupy a major peak, and flying within the family’s peak is certainly allowed, up and down; without using Flying Artifacts, it’s really inconvenient, and outsiders have no right to interfere with internal matters.
Then ca the problem: could Flying Artifacts be used between peaks?
Originally, Sword Forging Peak had rules, for safety reasons, prohibiting flying between peaks—within peaks, it’s really unmanageable.
But then problems arose; prohibiting flying was easy, but who would oversee the prohibition?
At first, Sword Forging Peak had related supervisory institutions set under the Peak Lords’ Council, managed by it.
However, the Peak Lords’ Council itself was rely a deliberative body, without even a chairman—there used to be one, but two consecutive chairpersons tried to monopolize power and mysteriously died, one of them even perished at the hands of a Nascent Soul.
The external world said this was internal strife caused by Sword Forging Peak’s families’ power struggles, but the seven families insisted it was the Four Sects or Wutai, aiming to prevent Sword Forging Peak’s rise.
The two speculations both made sense, but for the sake of internal unity, the Sword Forging Peak insisted on the second one.
Aware of the suppression from the Four Sects and Wutai, the chairmanship beca difficult to achieve, so they simply changed the Peak Lords’ Council into an institution similar to the Elders Council. All major decisions were made by vote, and no one could make decisions single-handedly.
However, this structure resulted in inefficient operation of the supervisory agency.
Take the flight prohibition, for example. Soone would inevitably make a mistake because the Sword Forging Peak is entirely mountains, and flying is certainly much easier than climbing. Then the problem arises: who to punish for sneaking a flight, and who not to punish?
Over ti, the flight ban between peak tops beca just an empty piece of paper, which is an inevitable result of not having a strong core.
Nowadays, many incoming flying boats dare to fly within the Sword Forging Peak, and generally, they aren’t checked—unless they cause trouble.
Master Sumiao’s flying boat flying at the Sword Forging Peak wouldn’t have anyone checking it either.
The peak where the i Family is located is called Washing Sword Peak, which is relatively far from the mountain gate, but even if it is far from the mountain gate, it’s not a thousand miles away; for a flying boat, it’s just a matter of ten minutes.
Sumiao didn’t intend to make a big deal out of it—in fact, no one who ca intended to make a big deal out of it. Showing off is not appropriate in such a place!
Going out of one’s way to chase a debt of ten thousand Spirit Stones, is this sothing to be proud of? What if soone finds out? It’s not enough to make one lose face!
So the flying boat flew close to the ground, drawing little attention, and stopped on its own before reaching Washing Sword Peak’s mountain gate.
The others stayed on the flying boat, and only Nie Chifeng and Qu Jianlei followed Feng Jun out. Master Qu was adept at concealing himself, compressing his aura to resemble that of an Interdiate Level cultivator.
Back in the day, you did missions without knowing how many people you fooled! Feng Jun glanced at him, secretly muttering to himself and making up his mind: He’d have to get this costu secret technique from old Qu back.
Next, Kong Ziyi also stepped down, naturally following the three of them.
Master Sumiao also ca out but didn’t go far; instead, he set up a sun umbrella, releasing tables and chairs, leisurely drinking tea.
Gu Yue and Xiao ng simply stayed hidden in the flying boat. Anyway, although the flying boat wasn’t large, there weren’t many people on it. Additionally, with basic protection, it wouldn’t be too hot in the scorching sumr.
Feng Jun brought three people to the gate of Washing Sword Peak. The inspection here was much stricter, but they were two High-Rank cultivators and two Interdiate Level ones. The guarding cultivators were still very polite.
Feng Jun directly reported his identity as Master of White Pebble Beach, Feng Jun, and even took out an identity token to show it, saying he was looking for i Jiushan.
i Jiushan was currently the brightest star of the i Family. The i Family guards didn’t quite catch Feng Jun’s identity but knew this group of people was quite impressive and that they were here to see i Jiushan, which was enough.
They didn’t even ask what Feng Jun was here for—after all, with the celebration just passed, what could it be about?
Nothing more than missing the celebration or discussing so cooperation with i Jiushan. A newly promoted High-Rank has substantial value.
They very apologetically expressed that Master Jiushan had gone out to return so gifts and might be back soon.
Before he returned, the guests could rest first; they had guest accommodations and various teas and dry fruits.
Thus, the four of them were led into the guesthouse, a rather large courtyard with intricately designed doors and windows, spanning at least ten acres.
The guard still apologized, “This is a place for entertaining distinguished guests. Usually, we only host guests like you here, but currently, there are quite a number visiting Master Jiushan, so pardon us…”
Before he finished speaking, four people walked out from inside, two n and two won, one High-Rank, one Interdiate Level, and two Initial Level.
Their total rank was a bit lower, but if they t on the streets, it was unlikely for any conflict to occur between the groups.
The four of them saw Feng Jun and the others, were slightly surprised, then smiled and nodded without deliberately greeting them.
They were reserved, and Feng Jun was no less so, nodding in return and choosing a stone table to sit down.
Everyone was waiting for i Jiushan, and they all had companions, quietly conversing with each other but not engaging in exchange.
However, today, Nie Chifeng was a bit excited because it had been a “long ti” since she had seen Feng Jun. Dressed in a palace outfit and having just received the Yin Yang harmonization, she appeared incredibly mature and beautiful.
Compared to her, Kong Ziyi couldn’t be said to be not beautiful, but she did seem a bit green around the edges.
The other High-Rank cultivator also noticed Nie Chifeng, glancing her way frequently.
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