The Imperial Sword Villa is one of the three sacred places of the Sword Dao after the split of the Sword God Lake in the past years. The owner, Xiao Qianxiu, is the descendant of the last Lord of the Sword God Lake, and inherited the mission of re-glorifying the Sword God Lake, as well as the humiliation of being defeated by the ‘Sword God’ Nangong Broken Sword.
When Xiao Qianxiu was young, he was extremely ruthless and fierce, wanting to test the world with his sword, and his obsession with the sword was even greater than that of the current Sword Dao Palace’s Yuan Jian Yi.
“When Xiao Qianxiu was young, he injured his kidney veins after a sword fight, and although he was able to have intercourse afterwards, no son or daughter was born.” Qing Yu looked at the dossier on Xiao Qianxiu’s hand, and his heart was, how can I say, a bit complicated.
Funny, or odd, Qing Yu felt both.
Xiao Qianxiu was a single heir, if there was no heir, the Xiao family could be said to have been cut off. So at that time, Xiao Qianxiu was so crazy that he even stopped practicing his sword and took twenty-three concubines, working on them day and night.
Unfortunately, there was still no hint of success.
Finally, Xiao Qianxiu became desperate and adopted a foster son as his successor.
This son was so gifted that he was able to make great strides in the art of swordsmanship and met Xiao Qianxiu’s expectations, but unfortunately he had one flaw: he was not a member of the Xiao family.
And this flaw became a deep barrier between father and son after Xiao Qianxiu had advanced to the level of Tong Shen.
Twenty-four years ago, Xiao Qianxiu, who was already seventy years old, suddenly struck a double blow when the seventh house gave birth to his brothers, Xiao Chengming and Xiao Chengye.
In theory, when one advances to the Tong Shen realm, one is able to repair all dark wounds, and indeed, one is able to make Xiao Qianxiu’s kidney vein wounds fully recover.
However, after the God Realm, a martial artist is no longer an ordinary human being, and the chances of having an heir can be said to be very slim. But it was Xiao Qianxiu’s chance to win.
Even he himself had not expected that he would have two more sons at once.
Amidst a chorus of congratulations, the Imperial Sword Villa had two more heirs, and the previous righteous son began to recede into obscurity.
“Since fourteen years ago, when Xiao Cheng Ming Xiao Cheng Ye formally trained in martial arts, the Xiao family’s righteous son, Xiao Qiye, began to hide within a remote courtyard and never came out. Until half a month ago, Xiao Qiye appeared in the Imperial Sword Villa, at that time, he was already at the True Dan realm cultivation ——”
Qing Yu looked at the dossier, his eyes full of suspicion.
“Xiao Qiye became famous as a teenager more than twenty years ago, and fourteen years ago, he was already a proper mid to late Divine Origin realm martial artist, at that time the two young masters of the Imperial Sword Villa started to practice martial arts, but they shouldn’t have let Xiao Qiye retreat at that was.”
Such a leading figure of the new generation suddenly retired from the scene, Xiao Qianxiu shouldn’t be so stupid. Moreover, with Xiao Qianxiu’s ambition, he wouldn’t let such an iconic figure suddenly retire into obscurity.
“There must be a secret in this.” Qing Yu said as such.
Although it seemed like an ethical scenario for a large family, as long as one seized some exploitable points, it could have an unexpected effect at the appropriate time.
And Xiao Chengming died in Cui Ge Town, and Xiao Chengye was a rotten man who couldn’t hold up the wall. Nowadays, Xiao Qiye is the backbone of the Imperial Sword Villa, and the most favourable contender for the future head of the Villa.
If he could deal with Xiao Qiye, it would be a great blow to the Imperial Sword Villa.
Of course, whether or not to deal with Xiao Qiye would depend on the relationship between the young master and his righteous father. If the relationship between them was bad, hey, there would be more things to do.
Qing Yu continued to look through the Imperial Sword Villa’s dossier, searching for every available opportunity. For the big powers, you have to take them by the scruff of the neck and deal with them little by little, unless you are far more powerful than the other party, this approach is the best and most effective.
“Xiao Chengye has been arrogant and domineering on the basis of his status as the young villains, well, this is also something that can be used ——”
“Xiao Qianxiu has been spending little time with his many concubines in recent years, and the number of times he has shared a room is even less. Has the Shadow House’s intelligence level reached this level? Even this can be checked out, write it down ——”
“And Xiao Qiye ——”
Qing Yu was studying the intelligence when the door to the study suddenly opened and Zhang Xuanji lifted his steps to enter.
‘This Dan devil, can’t you just knock on the door? At least he was once a disciple of Dragon Tiger Mountain and a son of a large family.” Qing Yu thought helplessly in his heart.
Zhang Xuanji had been alone all these years, and had even lived in seclusion in the mountains for several years, so it was a bit difficult to expect him to understand etiquette.
“Brother Xuanji, what is the matter?” Qing Yu asked.
“When I went out to look for suitable medicine man material, I found traces of people from the True Martial Sect and Dragon Tiger Mountain.” Zhang Xuanji said bluntly.
“True Martial Sect, and Long Hu Mountain ——,” Qing Yu mused.
This was in a small town close to where the Imperial Sword Villa was located, and it was unusual for people from the True Martial Sect and Dragon Tiger Mountain to appear here.
Both the True Martial Sect and the Royal Sword Villa were dealing with the Shadow King, so it was reasonable for them to meet. But it was different for Dragon Tiger Mountain.
“Are they all from the True Dan realm?” Qing Yu asked, looking up.
If they weren’t True Dan realm, with Zhang Xuanji’s means of attack, they shouldn’t have returned empty-handed.
“That’s right, they are True Dan realm, two from True Martial Sect and one from Dragon Tiger Mountain.”
Zhang Xuanji’s eyes seemed to shine with green light, full of desire and greed. Long Hu Mountain’s True Dan, Zhang Xuanji had been thirsting for it for a long time, and he couldn’t wait to study the secrets of the lower part of the ‘Nine Cauldrons Dan Sutra’.
“Against these three, although I am certain that I can retreat in one piece and even kill one of them, it will be a thousand times harder to capture the True Elixir of Mount Longhu. That’s why I need your help.” Zhang Xuanji said bluntly.
With Zhang Xuanji’s strength and a sneak attack, it would not be difficult to kill one of them, but what was difficult was to capture the True Dan realm martial artist of Dragon Tiger Mountain.
Martial artists were not props, and True Dan was not something that could not be damaged. In fact, at the True Elixir realm, a martial artist has one more means of fighting for his life.
That is to shatter one’s True Elixir in exchange for a short period of great explosive power.
And even if they could capture the opponent, if they were not careful, they would still give them the opportunity to shatter their True Elixir and kill themselves.
Although there are actually not many people who are so rigid, but there is a guarantee that there is one here?
Moreover, what if the other party recognized Zhang Xuanji?
Although the Dan Devil was not walking around in the jianghu, his fierce reputation was always circulating. If one fell into the hands of the Dan Devil, it was often better to die.
These martial artists of the True Dan Realm were basically all over 40 or 50 years old, and there was a high probability that they had seen Zhang Xuanji before. After all, when Zhang Xuanji had rebelled from Dragon Tiger Mountain, his portrait was plastered all over the rivers and lakes.
“Let’s set off then.” Qing Yu took out the dark gold mask with two parts at the top and bottom and put it on directly.
At this moment, he was already wearing dark gold armour, so he could go out with the mask on.
