Chapter 206: Fallen Heaven Sword Intent
Sword Solitary exchanged moves with Yan Daozong and comprehended on the spot!
This news spread throughout the sect that very day, drawing discussions from many disciples.
This genius, who had yet to fully grow, once again shocked the sect.
Almost everyone could feel the deep foundation of the Clear Sky Sect.
Every generation of disciples had geniuses worth looking forward to, and this also filled the disciples with pride.
When the news reached Li Qingqiu’s ears, he was not surprised.
After all, Sword Solitary possessed a special fate trait.
He once again pulled up Sword Solitary’s panel to check.
【Name: Sword Solitary】
【Gender: Male】
【Age: 15】
【Loyalty (to Sect Master / Sect): 96 / 90 (Maximum 100)】
【Cultivation Aptitude: Excellent】
【Comprehension: Good】
【Fate Traits: Until Death Do Us Part, Fallen Heaven Sword Intent】
【Until Death Do Us Part: Once he has identified someone as an enemy, he will continue to hate them until he personally slays them】
【Fallen Heaven Sword Intent: Reincarnation of the Fallen Heaven Sword Spirit. As his age increases, the Fallen Heaven Sword Intent within his body will gradually grow. After surviving the first Heavenly Tribulation, he will comprehend the divine art—Fallen Heaven Sword Domain】
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Li Qingqiu had always been very interested in this Fallen Heaven Sword Spirit, but unfortunately, there was no way to learn more about it for the time being.
From the current situation, Fallen Heaven Sword Intent was not only able to grow on its own, but could also guide Sword Solitary’s sword dao comprehension.
When Sword Solitary practiced the sword, he was a rare genius in the world. However, if he cultivated other spells, his efficiency was clearly inferior to the sword dao.
With more geniuses around him, Li Qingqiu’s horizons had also broadened.
He would not try to keep every peerless genius under his direct control. In any case, Sword Solitary’s loyalty toward him was extremely high.
Doing more good deeds was necessary.
Just like Sword Solitary—Li Qingqiu had never deliberately nurtured him before, yet because Li Qingqiu had once saved him and his family, Li Qingqiu held an unshakable position in his heart.
Li Qingqiu held Li Shouzheng and Li Shoumin in his arms, thinking along these lines.
Li Dongyue, seated beside him, opened her mouth and asked, “Sword Solitary’s aptitude is so good. Why don’t you take him as a disciple?”
“I already have so many disciples. How could I teach them all? What, does your Spirit Finance Hall want him?” Li Qingqiu answered casually.
Li Dongyue shook her head and said, “I don’t want him. Although the Spirit Finance Hall doesn’t have peerless geniuses like Zhao Zhen or Sword Solitary, there are still many talents. Sword Solitary’s temperament is too sharp. If he were placed in the Spirit Finance Hall, I would get a headache.”
Zhang Yuchun, seated on Li Qingqiu’s other side, laughed and said, “Senior Brother, I can take him. I’m not afraid of him being overbearing.”
Li Qingqiu snorted and said, “I have two peerless geniuses in my arms. I give them to you, yet you don’t want them.”
Zhang Yuchun felt helpless.
In his view, Senior Brother simply found it troublesome and wanted to dump the two little ones on him.
He was already busy enough on a daily basis and could not take on more burdens.
He did not continue the topic and instead shifted the conversation. “Sixth Junior Brother is following Zhu Xian. They have already shattered Guzhou and are marching straight toward the state capital. The Pei Clan has been defeated like a landslide. By the end of the year, they will probably fight their way into Eastern Tomb Province.”
Previously, Zhang Yuchun had already talked with Li Qingqiu about Zhu Xian, saying that Zhu Xian was one of the few lords in chaotic times who valued the common people the most.
Even when defeated, he would bring the people with him. Because of this, Zhu Xian had suffered greatly.
Many common people were also willing to follow Zhu Xian. Following him, even if they went hungry, they still retained their dignity.
As for other lords, even if they were powerful, they would still do many underhanded things. Power made it difficult for them to restrain the evil in their nature.
“How many more years until the world is at peace?” Li Qingqiu asked.
Zhang Yuchun said, “With Zhu Xian’s momentum, if there are no accidents, at most five years will be enough to sweep across the world.”
“Five years? I hope he doesn’t disappoint me.”
Li Qingqiu spoke softly.
For the land of the Nine Provinces, five years was already very fast. Guzhou alone was equivalent to nearly half of ancient China in his previous life. Sweeping the Nine Provinces was not easy. Over thousands of years, only the Great Li Dynasty had accomplished it.
When Zhang Yuchun heard this, he felt pressure. If Zhu Xian failed, he would lose face before Li Qingqiu.
Li Qingqiu did not place much importance on worldly affairs. Wanting to become the ruler of the world was not something that could be achieved with a single sentence. The world was too vast, and the manpower of the Clear Sky Sect was still insufficient to control everything.
Waging war in chaotic times was, in itself, a process of establishing order.
With an emperor in place, things would be easier. The Clear Sky Sect only needed to make the emperor obedient.
He steered the topic toward sect construction, and Zhang Yuchun began to report.
The number of registered disciples in the Clear Sky Sect surpassed ten thousand this month.
This number was no small matter.
Adding in menial disciples and craftsmen, the Clear Sky Sect controlled more than fifty thousand people in total. Aside from the true transmission disciples, everyone was busy.
Xunxian Town at the foot of the mountain had already taken shape.
With the assistance of many great families, various shops sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
They also took in refugees from around the Ancient Great Mountain Range. In just a few months, it would bring a steady stream of benefits to the sect.
Cultivation resources from low-tier demon realms, the Source Iron Blessed Land, the Spirit Copper Mountain Range, and the Heavenly Mountain Spirit Pool were continuously being delivered to the Clear Sky Sect. The Heavenly Works Hall worked day and night forging Clear Sky Swords and storage pouches.
“Senior Brother, I still feel that the price of storage pouches is too low. It’s practically like giving them away for free,” Zhang Yuchun could not help but say.
Li Qingqiu smiled and said, “I am giving them away for free. The Clear Sky Sword won’t even have a price. My plan is that in the future, every inner sect disciple will receive one Clear Sky Sword and one storage pouch.”
“This…”
Not only Zhang Yuchun, even Li Dongyue was shocked.
Li Qingqiu continued, “In the future, the sect will create more magic implements and better storage pouches. You don’t need to worry about the sect’s interests. Moreover, letting disciples obtain storage pouches as early as possible will also facilitate the transportation of various resources.”
“The Nine Provinces will inevitably see the rise of other Immortal Cultivation Sects. Completely suppressing them will be difficult. The higher the threshold and treatment of the Clear Sky Sect, the harder it will be to shake. Appropriately giving back to the disciples is nothing. We always say that the Clear Sky Sect is the disciples’ home, so we must show sincerity.”
Zhang Yuchun already knew how vast the Spirit Copper Mountain Range was. What he worried about was not insufficient resources, but the unpredictability of human hearts.
However, since Senior Brother had already made up his mind, he could not persuade further.
After all, Senior Brother was the Sect Master.
Before Li Qingqiu made a mistake, his authority as Sect Master was unshakable.
……
Autumn and winter quickly passed, and another New Year arrived.
This year, Li Qingqiu was about to step into his thirty-first year.
After a year of cultivation, the cultivation levels of the sect disciples had all improved.
Jiang Zhaoxia successfully stepped into the ninth layer of the Nourishing Vital Energy Realm.
Shen Yue advanced like a raging tide, reaching the seventh layer of the Nourishing Vital Energy Realm.
Ji Ya reached the sixth layer of the Nourishing Vital Energy Realm.
Over the past few months, he had restrained himself and devoted most of his time to cultivation, making the sect disciples realize that there was still such a genius within the sect.
Before year’s end, the Three Xiao Brothers and Yun Cai successively stepped into the fifth layer of the Nourishing Vital Energy Realm.
The fastest in cultivation was Zhao Zhen. With outstanding cultivation aptitude and his diligent efforts, his cultivation speed was unmatched by other geniuses.
He also broke through before year’s end, reaching the seventh layer of the Nourishing Vital Energy Realm.
Including this year, he was only fifteen years old.
A seventh-layer Nourishing Vital Energy Realm cultivator under fifteen years old was like a heavy bomb, shaking the entire sect.
Wu Man’er and Li Dongyue successively crossed into the sixth layer of the Nourishing Vital Energy Realm, while Li Sijin also reached the fifth layer.
Ever since Li Qingqiu spoke to her about the future, Li Dongyue feared that her lifespan would be too short to accompany Li Qingqiu through more years.
Thus, she began cultivating desperately. Her aptitude was not particularly outstanding, but it was not bad either. With increasingly abundant cultivation resources, her cultivation steadily improved.
Li Sijin could not spare as much time for cultivation as she could. There were simply too many matters she needed to research daily.
Worth mentioning was that Wu Man’er and Yan Daozong had actually come together.
Wu Man’er now stayed daily in the Martial Sect, practicing martial arts together with Yan Daozong.
Yan Daozong called Wu Man’er a genius. Although he did not look particularly clever, his mind was free of distractions, making him very suitable for martial cultivation.
Training martial arts alongside Yan Daozong, Wu Man’er’s strength advanced by leaps and bounds, far more effective than when he followed Yang Jueding.
Thus, Wu Man’er also obtained the status of a Martial Sect elder.
For this junior brother, Li Qingqiu never expected him to accomplish anything great. Being safe and happy was enough.
Wu Man’er was also the only person outside the Sect Master’s faction who could cultivate the Heavenly Gang Golden Body Art. Even Yang Jueding and Shen Yue did not receive this treatment.
This New Year was the first Spring Festival Yan Daozong spent in the Clear Sky Sect. With many disciples returning, he felt the true liveliness of the Clear Sky Sect.
He grew increasingly fond of the Clear Sky Sect. There was not much scheming here, only the drive to advance toward a common goal and a healthy competitive atmosphere. He could fight to his heart’s content at the Martial Arena without worrying about his身份.
Even a true transmission disciple could pose a threat to him. This feeling made him feel wonderful.
At Tianxuan Mountain, there was no one who could make him take things seriously.
After the festival passed, on the fifth day.
Yuan Qi came to the Martial Sect and found Yan Daozong and Wu Man’er, telling them to prepare to head to the Lingxiao Courtyard for a meeting.
“I can go as well?” Yan Daozong asked in surprise.
He had been in the Clear Sky Sect for nearly half a year and knew what a Lingxiao Courtyard meeting represented.
“The Sect Master personally named you,” Yuan Qi said.
After leaving these words behind, Yuan Qi turned and left.
Yan Daozong frowned. He secretly prayed that it was not his junior brother causing trouble. He did not want to be caught between the Clear Sky Sect and Tianxuan Mountain.
He did not continue to worry and led Wu Man’er up the mountain. Along the way, the two discussed martial dao again.
Although Wu Man’er cultivated immortality, his techniques all originated from the martial path, giving them many common topics.
By the time the two arrived at the Lingxiao Courtyard, quite a few people were already seated and waiting inside.
Shen Yue waved at Yan Daozong, signaling him to sit beside him, while Wu Man’er went to sit beside Yang Jueding.
Yan Daozong sat down next to Shen Yue and suddenly felt two sharp gazes.
They were Jiang Zhaoxia and Xu Ning.
These two made him feel extremely dangerous. His intuition told him that these two were stronger than Shen Yue.
Could they be the legendary Jiang Zhaoxia and Xu Ning?
Within the Clear Sky Sect, beneath the Sect Master, the strongest three were Xu Ning, Jiang Zhaoxia, and Shen Yue. No one could shake their positions.
Jiang Zhaoxia and Xu Ning quickly withdrew their gazes. They bore no hostility toward Yan Daozong; they were simply itchy for a sparring match.
Soon, this long table with historical depth was filled. When Li Qingqiu walked into the courtyard, everyone stood up.
Li Qingqiu walked to his chair and sat down, signaling for the others to sit.
“Today, I have summoned everyone to discuss a troublesome matter. After several years of calm, enemies have appeared once more.”
Li Qingqiu swept his gaze across the crowd and said calmly.
Upon hearing this, most of the people present did not frown. Instead, their eyes lit up.
There was a typo earlier. It is Martial Sect, not Martial Hall. It has already been corrected~