Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 954 - 493: Xieluo Mountain

It’s not that these few Taoist priests are meddling in ordinary affairs. After all, considering feng shui and divining the geography, this area is already under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County, at the boundary of the Han River Valley, which truly falls within their sphere of influence.

Indeed, Xieluo Mountain is situated on the right bank of the Han River, looking north towards the Guanlong Three Constellations, isolating Juelong Ridge to the west, blocking Yunmeng Swamp in the south, and merely five hundred miles east to Runan Plain, descending southeast along the river, with Jiangdu reachable in days.

It’s said that back then, during the Human-Demon War incited by the Demon Clan’s rebellion, the rebel army of demons led by Dragon Clan secretly gathered in Yunmeng Swamp, then moved northward against the current of Han River, advancing all the way up to Three Constellations, shaking the Capital. Ultimately, they were blocked at the Xieluo Mountain line, and a massive battle turned the Han River Valley into a thousand-mile bloody swamp, finally being chased back to Yunmeng Swamp by the Eight Vassal Immortal Army.

Unlike the frigid, desolate, and barren Extreme Cold Ice Field of the north, the Southern Border boasts a thousand miles of swamp, Ten Thousand Mountains, abundant resources, fertile lands, countless rare birds and exotic beasts, flowers, birds, fish, insects, and numerous strange treasures and ancient ruins. Every few decades, it can hatch a generation of Demon Gods and Demon Lords, and large demons and devils claiming mountains as kings are countless, springing up like mushrooms after rain, and new ones replace harvested ones. Occasionally, these Demon Gods and Great Demons slip into the Capital, easily capturing tens of thousands for a feast.

Thus, Xieluo Mountain naturally became a front line area requiring strict defense and firm guarding against demons trespassing via water, threatening the Capital. Numerous posts of the Guardian Immortal Army were once stationed nearby, but later emptied due to northern and western expeditions.

However, fortunately, the South is indeed resource-rich, so the Mountain People Loose Cultivators from Central Plains and the Three Great Sects who couldn’t fit in migrated south in large numbers, hunting demons for elixirs, defeating monsters, and seizing treasures.

The Immortal Palace also turns a blind eye to the Mystic Sect People here, even early on distributing the Immortal Records and Divine List here to Xieluo Mountain, intending to use the Demon Sect against the Demon Clan, a strategy of driving tigers to swallow wolves. This suppresses the demon expansion to a certain extent, unlike the north where years of neglect led to a catastrophic beast tide.

Over the years, the Xieluo Mountain lineage has also engaged in battles against demons along the Han River to Yunmeng Swamp line, gradually developing and battling demons, averting crises, and becoming a recognized, deserved leader of the Southern Mystic Sect.

Currently, Xuanyue Yuxu Palace Sect Leader Tongwei Daojun is a renowned figure of Mystic Sect through the ages, one of the Five Elders of Cloud Platform, claiming three guaranteed places and contending for one. Further, he was a top candidate for head in his day, with cultivation immeasurable, even surpassing Lingxu.

However, this Tongwei Daojun is indeed a true recluse, a practitioner of pure cultivation. Legend has it when he was young, he exercised chivalry, slew demons, achieved the martial legend of invincibility, and thereafter primarily sought enlightenment and demon suppression in the mountains while advising and teaching disciples, rarely competing for the ’world’s number one’ title with younger generations. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Nonetheless, Tongwei Daojun’s seat has since seen his five carefully nurtured and truly inheriting direct disciples emerge one after another, becoming renowned, and dubbed Xieluo Five Heroes in Cloud Platform, even Tie Dan has heard of them.

But of course, he only heard vaguely of the ’Five Heroes Seven Monsters Four Great Heavenly Kings,’ without knowing who is who, what ultimate skills they have, or what they look like...

Ahem, in short, nowadays with a Demon Sect Supreme blocking and robbing around someone’s Mystic Sect dojo territory, it’s only right and reasonable for Xieluo Mountain’s True Men to descend the mountain to handle it.

"Your Excellency’s demon aura rushes skyward, divine skill peerless, hand technique exquisite beyond compare; I am ashamed of my inferiority.

Today, with my fellow disciples, we’ll set up a Five Elements Returning to Truth Formation, inviting Your Excellency for a view."

This leading senior brother, Song Xuantong, indeed has the demeanor of a renowned sect, and with the grace of a grandmaster. Even facing the Demon Sect master who instantaneously killed four Nascent Soul Martial Gods, he remains fearless, and challenges with a few juniors openly from afar, no sneak attacks, fairly decent conduct.

Tie Dan is not boasting; he indeed can say, ’under Divinity Transformation, I am unbeatable,’ and he could exchange evenly in Enlightenment, but compared to the old monsters in the Mystic Sect Sect Leader ranking, really incomparable. Even contesting one from Qingtang Sect is tough, and naturally wary of Xieluo Mountain’s Daojun in case they are a sore loser, and soon join in the fight, delaying urgent matters.

Moreover, stepping back a thousand times, this Tongwei Daojun is one of the Cloud Platform Five Elders, likely they had met during sword casting in the past, and shared the benefit of a pot of tea; considering that, dignity must be preserved, he can’t immediately ignore reason and perform a Soul Splitting Beheading, skin and draw tendons, tearing up their direct disciples.

Thus, Tie Dan waves his robe, withdraws the Blood Light Sword Formation from the hall, collects the soul and consolidates the blood, concentrating it within himself, granting one move,

"Please!"

Mountain Lord True Monarchs subsequently take positions at east, south, west, north, with Song Xuantong bowing and chanting,

"Taihe Yuanqi Nourishes the Spiritual Root, Breathing Lake Light and Drinking Green Mist."

"Hoo—"

Four instantaneously absorb Qi, and sound like a strong wind blowing, momentarily seeming to exhaust heaven and earth’s spiritual energy, gathered like Gang Fist Qi Gathering, steadily accumulating powerful Qi Power, rapidly multiplying Tao Power Qi Sensation.

"Great Sound Hears Night Rain, Great Formless Star Gazing."

Briefly all falls silent, four can breathe without exhaling food, momentarily concentrating, their breath nearly entirely vanishes, achieving a magical realm of body merging with heaven and earth, spirit aligning with nature.

Tie Dan’s gaze sharpens instantaneously.

Mystic Sect Proper; indeed, something extraordinary is here. They haven’t even started yet, but this one breath can be heard as extraordinary, something remarkable here.