838: Sword Trace

Sword Trace

The white dragon rode on the clouds and soared towards the Dao Sect.

Under Dao Master Lin Xuan's meticulous care, Xiao Chunfeng finally regained consciousness, and Dao Master Lin Xuan revealed a smile. "It's good that Senior Brother Xiao is fine. I've treated you, and the medicine I used wasn't cheap. It amounts to a total of two thousand great abundance coins."

Xiao Chunfeng seemed slightly dispirited, and he said, "Two thousand great abundance coins? I won't owe you, don't worry, I have my abilities. Once I earn the money, I will return it to you."

Dao Master Lin Xuan said with a smile, "If Senior Brother Xiao has no money, you can teach in my Dao Sect and slowly return it to me."

Xiao Chunfeng stretched his limbs and asked, "What's the monthly salary to teach in the Dao Sect?"

"The salary per month is thirty great abundance coins."

Dao Master Lin Xuan said kindly, "This is already the price for a high-leveled directorate. Normal directorates in the Dao Sect only receive fifteen great abundance coins a month. Your abilities are high enough, so you are worth thirty great abundance coins."

Xiao Chunfeng jumped in shock and stared at him relentlessly. He asked with a hoarse voice, "Only thirty a month? If I don't eat or drink or spend any money, I still have to work five and a half years to repay this debt?"

Dao Master Lin Xuan had a guilty conscience and thought to himself, 'Back when Cult Master Qin injured Xu Shenghua and treated him, how did he scam him without even blinking an eye? My face can't hold on any longer. I might just increase Senior Brother Xiao's salary if this continues...'

In Clear Sky Heaven, Yu Chen'zi arranged everything properly, and Clear Sky Sect Master reported to the celestial heavens that the emissaries of the celestial heavens were assaulted. They waited patiently for the celestial heavens to dispatch someone over.

On this day, Clear Sky Heaven's sky split apart, and a flying ship sailed in from beyond the sky.

The connection between the celestial heavens and Clear Sky Heaven had never broken off. Even when the Primordial Realm was sealed and space was overlapped, leaving only the Great Ruins, Eternal Peace, West Earth, and the rest, Clear Sky Heaven could still contact the celestial heavens.

To the worlds like Clear Sky Heaven, it wasn't the worlds of the Primordial Realm that were sealed, it was Eternal Peace and the Great Ruins.

Clear Sky Sect Master hurriedly led everyone out to welcome them, and several half-gods from the celestial heavens stood at the bow, looking at them with smiles that weren't smiles. Behind them were half-gods with wolf heads and human bodies, and they were armed with pikes and didn't give off any sounds.

Clear Sky Sect Master and the rest of the Daoists lowered their heads and didn't raise their heads back up.

"Raise your heads."

The half-god in the lead said with a smile, "Fu Yuntian, you are the sect leader of the Dao Sect's Clear Sky Heaven. Your position is far above mine, a mere constable from the Divine Constable Camp, so there's no need to be so polite."

Clear Sky Sect Master hurriedly said, "High Official is joking. High Official is the imperial censor of the celestial heavens, a high-ranking official. On the other hand, I'm merely a lowly god in the lower bound. How could I be reckless? High Official, it is my Clear Sky Heaven's mistake for allowing the emissaries to be assaulted. My entire Clear Sky Heaven is in fear and trepidation, we are afraid of the punishment from heaven. May High Official please put in a few good words for Clear Sky Heaven when you return. Little God has prepared some small gifts here..."

That half-god laughed loudly and walked down the ship with the people behind him. He shook his head and said, "The celestial heavens have strict laws, so who would dare to accept your gifts? This is a heavy crime with execution as punishment! However, if you were to place them on my ship without me noticing, I wouldn't be able to help it, would I?"

Clear Sky Sect Master smiled and threw glances to the rest of the Daoists. The Daoists hurriedly carried all kinds of treasures onto the ship.

That half-god walked in front of him and gently waved his hand. Those half-gods with wolf heads vanished like the wind. Their bodies disappeared and reappeared in front of all the palaces in Clear Sky Heaven. They went prone and sniffed around, vanishing again after they finish sniffing. When they reappeared, they sniffed around on the ground again.

Clear Sky Sect Master smiled subserviently and said, "High Official, this is..."

"We are just acting according to official business, Clear Sky Sect Master, please don't blame us."

That half-god grabbed his arms and laughed. "Don't call me High Official, don't be an outsider. These few here are my disciples. Those of the Howling Celestial God Race are bailiffs I've raised. I'm Celestial Heavens Divine Constable Camp Squad Leader Qu He, but Sect Master can just call me Old Qu."

His primordial spirit suddenly flew out from his back, and it was three thousand yards tall. That primordial spirit stretched its arms, and there was actually a thousand arms stretching out in all directions with the palms facing outwards.

In his palms were actually huge eyeballs that rolled around to shoot out beams of divine rays in all directions as he tried to search for all kinds of clues.

Qu He continued to hold onto Clear Sky Sect Master's arms and laughed. "Doing official business, don't blame us, don't blame us!"

Clear Sky Sect Master hurriedly smiled subserviently, and he thought to himself, 'I wonder if Yu Chen'zi did everything flawlessly...'

Qu He's primordial spirit flew up and shone in the surroundings. It quickly searched through the entire Clear Sky Heaven, and those wolf-headed half-gods also jumped at extremely fast speeds. They searched around and seized several Daoists for questioning.

After a moment, Qu He's primordial spirit flew back, and those hundred wolf-headed half-gods also suddenly appeared. In their hands were also some Daoists that were beaten half to death. The bailiffs moved to Qu He's primordial spirit and whispered to him.

Clear Sky Sect Master's expression didn't change, but he was truly not confident.

Suddenly, Qu He laughed and said, "Sect Master, I've injured some of your people, pardon me, pardon me. However, all of this is official business, so I seek Sect Master's understanding."

Clear Sky Sect Master lowered his head and said, "I dare not."

"So who was the one that discovered the corpses of the emissaries?" Qu He asked with a narrow smile.

"Yu Chen'zi, who is under me."

Clear Sky Sect Master summoned Yu Chen'zi over, and Qu He stretched his hands to grab Yu Chen'zi. With a flash, they landed on the flying ship, and he said with a smile, "In that case, Yu Chen'zi can bring us to the scene of the crime! Sect Master, please stay here, I only need Yu Chen'zi to lead the way."

Clear Sky Sect Master's expression changed slightly, but Yu Chen'zi hurriedly said, "Sect Master, don't worry, I will be taking a look with the high officials. I will be back soon."

Clear Sky Sect Master forced himself to smile and said, "Treat High Official well. High Official, please take care of my little disciple."

Qu He laughed, and the flying ship rose to fly out of Clear Sky Heaven.

At Surging River Academy, Qin Mu tried searching for Cripple to no avail. He was slowly starting to become secretly nervous.

If it was any other elder from Disabled Elderly Village bringing Celestial Venerable Yu along to walk the martial world, he wouldn't be worried. Cripple was the only exception.

The villagers of Disabled Elderly Village wouldn't put themselves in danger after all, and even the most daring Butcher wouldn't take the initiative to create trouble.

Cripple was the only one with the mission of stealing throughout the world. He would usually head towards danger and go for places with the most treasure. Furthermore, those places were usually the most dangerous places.

"Don't worry, Cripple only remains interested in something for three days at most."

Village Chief consoled him. "Cripple is like an old monkey that likes to play with his toys and cast them aside after he's bored. When he gets sick of playing, he will return Celestial Venerable Yu to you."

"I hope so." Qin Mu's expression didn't change.

Right at this moment, Blind brought Celestial Venerable Yu to Surging River Academy. Qin Mu was beyond astonished and hurriedly welcomed them. Blind said, "I met Cripple at Flame Dragon Tomb. The scoundrel was being chased by a bunch of flame dragons that had set a thousand miles ablaze. They chased him until there was no place he could hide, so he threw this young man to me, telling me to bring him to Surging River Academy."

Qin Mu was finally at ease, and he examined Celestial Venerable Yu up and down. Celestial Venerable Yu revealed a simple and honest smile.

Qin Mu's heart jumped, and he also revealed a simple and honest.

Village Chief and Blind cheered. "Cripple taught well!"

Qin Mu revealed his white teeth, looking pure and innocent, radiant like sunshine. Celestial Venerable Yu also revealed eight teeth, and he was very pure and radiant too. One couldn't put up any guard against him.

Qin Mu's hand suddenly moved, and there was a pair of underwear in his hand.

At the same time, Celestial Venerable Yu's arm transformed into an illusion, and Qin Mu laughed loudly in joyful satisfaction. "I never wear that, I always feel that it's stuffy... Return my taotie sack!"

Celestial Venerable Yu held a taotie sack in his hand, and since the sack was too heavy, he was spending quite some effort holding it up.

Qin Mu's face turned black, and he threw back his underwear before snatching the taotie sack. He said with a pained heart, "Brother Yu, you didn't learn from the good and now you've learned to be bad from the old hooligan! Look, even though I learned Grandpa Cripple's methods, I never steal. I usually snatch things with my ability. Grandpa Blind, is Grandpa Cripple going to be okay?"

Blind shook his head and said, "Hard to say. The strength of those flame dragons is extremely high, and they are guarding the tomb of an extremely terrifying god. Cripple took your brother in and stole something from the tomb. It must definitely be an important treasure, which is why they are chasing him relentlessly. Looking from afar, I felt that any of the flame dragons could kill me easily, so I laid down a formation to escape with this boy. However, Cripple is always changing, so he might just be able to escape."

Qin Mu was still slightly worried. He looked at Village Chief, and Village Chief understood him. "I will get help from First Ancestor and meet the strong practitioners of Flame Dragon Tomb." After saying so, he left in a hurry.

Qin Mu was at ease, and he said to Blind, "If Grandpa Blind is free, could you follow me to the Dao Sect? I haven't learned Eternal Peace's paths, skills, and divine arts these past few years, so I'm lagging behind. I would like Grandpa Blind's guidance."

Blind was immensely pleased with himself. "You have indeed fallen behind. I have been studying Founding Emperor Era's formations and even had an interaction with Heavenly Teacher Zi Xi in the capital city. Now my attainments in formation skills have already reached an all-new height."

Qin Mu was delighted and said with a smile, "Indeed, no one can surpass Heavenly Teacher Zi Xi's attainments in formation skills!"

Blind shook his head and said, "However, Heavenly Teacher Zi Xi has also fallen behind the times. Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor, I, and many other formation masters created new types of formation markings that even she had never seen before. I even had to teach her. However, I also learned a lot from her. She could still be known as the number one formation master in the world. I'm still inferior to her."2

Over these years, there were more and more attainments in Eternal Peace's formation skills. Other than battle formations, killing formations, and city defense formations, there were all kinds of other new formations appearing. The most basic ones were formation markings.

Like how the sword had nineteen basic sword skills, formation markings were the foundations to construct formations. To be able to add a few more kinds of formation markings to the existing formation markings was already a remarkable feat!

There were numerous formation masters in Eternal Peace Empire, but their area of cultivation was different. Among them, Surging River Academy Grand Chancellor Su Yunzhi was a master in formations, and she mainly cultivated city defense formations. General of Heavenly Strategies Qin Baoyue mainly cultivated battle formations, and he was a god of the army along with Duke Wei.

Sikong Wei Pingbo was in charge of the water conservancy in Eternal Peace Empire, and he was also a formation master. He was skilled in borrowing the terrain to lay out his formations.

Even though Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor was famous for his sword skills, his attainments in formation skills were even above General of Heavenly Strategies and the rest.

These elites of Eternal Peace had absorbed the attainments of Founding Emperor Era and expanded on them, so their attainments were naturally extraordinary.

Qin Mu summoned the dragon qilin and the water qilin. He bade farewell to Su Yunzhi, Yuyuan Chuyu, and the rest before going to the river and calling out to Dragon Rearing Sovereign.

Dragon Rearing Sovereign saw Blind and gave an involuntary shudder. He smiled subserviently and said, "Master Spear God, long time no see."

Blind closed his eyes and examined him with his divine mind's eyes. He opened his eyes and asked, "Why haven't you improved at all? Dragon Rearing Sovereign, your cultivation is too low. How are you going to control the Celestial River from today onwards? If you don't improve, you will be killed sooner or later."

Dragon Rearing Sovereign hesitated and said, "Little Dragon's aptitude is bad..."

Blind sneered and said, "You have been to Surging River Academy to give lectures and even become a chancellor there, so you should know that there's the Ancestral Dragon Supreme Mystery Technique in Surging River Academy's Floor of Heavenly Records. Why haven't you learned it?"

Dragon Rearing Sovereign glanced at Qin Mu and smiled subserviently. "Ancestral Dragon Supreme Mystery Technique is such a powerful technique, so how would I dare to secretly learn it?"

Blind didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He shook his head and said, "You're too careful. Your lord has already passed down this technique to the masses, so why would he stop you from learning? Those flood dragons that laid on your body and only know how to cry maha maha from back then have already learned it. Some of the flood dragons' abilities are even above yours. If you still don't improve, it will be your turn to lie on their bodies to cry maha maha."

Dragon Rearing Sovereign was delighted and gave his thanks profusely. He quickly ferried them in the direction of the Dao Sect.

Qin Mu sat on the head of Dragon Rearing Sovereign and consulted Blind about formation skills. Celestial Venerable Yu also listened at the same time. Blind thought that he would have to teach them for half a year before they would be able to master everything, but after six days, there was nothing left that he could teach them.

Blind stared with his eyes wide open. He felt angry for no reason, so he punched Dragon Rearing Sovereign's head a few times.

Dragon Rearing Sovereign felt the pain, but he didn't know what he had done wrong to anger this old master. He could only hear Qin Mu explaining to Celestial Venerable Yu, "As long as you master the basic formation markings before learning the formation skills, you will be able to learn them easily. This is called grasping this fundamental point, and all the rest will follow. However, this isn't enough. You will still have to deduce many things from one case, comprehending new things by analogy. Formation skills aren't pure just formation skills, they can also be used in other areas as well. For example, using them on Dao skills and sword skills. Some people only know how to mechanically memorize, but they don't know that's the dumbest method."

Celestial Venerable Yu said, "It's not difficult to learn them. I've comprehended several formation skills. Brother, can you help me take a look to see if they are correct."

Blind was furious again and punched Dragon Rearing Sovereign's head two more times.

Dragon Rearing Sovereign didn't dare to say a word. He could only continue forward in agony, and the grueling journey finally came to an end. He only let out a sigh of relief when Qin Mu and the rest went ashore, and he hurriedly dove back down into the water.

There was still some distance to the Kunlun Border where the Dao Sect was located, so Qin Mu and the rest hurried on their way. After walking two days, they saw a flying ship stopped in the sky, and there were numerous wolf-headed mutants jumping down from the ship to sniff around.

Qin Mu was startled, and he stopped the dragon qilin. He saw one of the wolf-headed mutants finding a human corpse that had already been defiled by wild beasts. The face couldn't be seen.

'This corpse seems to be a half-god that died in my hands. In that case, these mutants are...'

He looked towards the flying ship and saw a god in golden armor. He stood on the bow of the ship with his hands behind his back, and beside him was Yu Chen'zi.

Qin Mu's heart jumped.

One of the wolf-headed mutants leaped quickly and suddenly appeared in front of Qin Mu and the rest. He sniffed hard and suddenly vanished. He reappeared on the ship and whispered to that golden-armored god.

That golden-armored god, Qu He, looked over at him and revealed a smile. He asked Yu Chen'zi, "This person has appeared in Clear Sky Heaven before. The Howling Celestial God Race smelled his scent there. Do you recognize him?"

Yu Chen'zi cried out bitterly in his heart, and he hurriedly said, "I do. He is Heavenly Saint Cult Master Qin Mu from Eternal Peace Empire. I brought him up the mountain to pay respect to Sect Master."

"Heavenly Saint Cult Master Qin Mu?"

Qu He tilted his head and thought about it. "I seem to have heard that somewhere before... Since he is your old friend, just let them pass."

Yu Chen'zi gave his thanks and said loudly, "Brother Qin, the celestial heavens is conducting official business here. You can just take a detour."

Qin Mu acknowledged him and instructed the dragon qilin to take a detour.

"Wait a moment!"

Qu He suddenly stopped him and narrowed his eyes. "Qin Mu, you cultivate sword skills? Could you execute a sword move for me? I discovered a sword trace on the wall of Clear Sky Heaven's Dao Sanctuary, and it was different from the Dao Sect's sword skills."

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