Chapter 948: White Jade Capital, Senior and Junior Brothers
After all, Senior Brother Yu was still waiting at White Jade Capital, so Lu Chen was in a hurry to travel. He and Hao Su used the Three Mountains Talisman.
The mountains and rivers on the earth coiled like dragons and snakes.
It was a splendid landscape entirely different from that of the Haoran world. The landmass of the Nine Provinces of Haoran stood like mountains and peaks within the four seas, while the Fourteen Prefectures of Qingming seemed to be cut apart by those great rivers.
A brilliant sword light fell straight into Shenxiao City.
It was the imposing figure of the Executioner Official Hao Su.
Dong Hua Fu and a group of young sword cultivators arrived one after another.
Hao Su was like an Executioner Official who had popped out of nowhere.
Back then, the sword cultivators who followed Daoxuan Mountain to the Qingming world numbered sixteen in total, led by the old Nascent Soul sword cultivator Cheng Quan. Afterwards, they went their separate ways. Nine of them chose to practice swordsmanship in Shenxiao City of White Jade Capital. Except for Dong Hua Fu, who refused to accept Shenxiao City's ordination, the other eight were now all Daoist officials of White Jade Capital.
Cheng Quan led several young sword cultivators and chose to join Wu Shuangjiang's Suichu Palace, being included in the gold and jade registry. For a top-tier sect like Suichu Palace, it was customary to grant private talismans to cultivators. White Jade Capital would also recognize this kind of independent Daoist lineage. Cheng Quan was granted a certificate and became a Daoist official, thus conveniently serving as an offering in the Patriarch Hall.
As for the old sword cultivator placing that cotton-wrapped sword case on the resting dragon stone beside the Stork Tower in the great waters, White Jade Capital turned a blind eye. In fact, they knew very well that in the future, Suichu Palace would have one more great sword immortal, Nalan Shaowei, who would be reincarnated through a life-extending lamp.
Additionally, Yan Ming went to Xuandu Temple.
Of the nine young sword cultivators who devoted themselves to sword training in Shenxiao City, half were currently in seclusion. Shenxiao City valued these sword cultivators highly and exceptionally passed down more than ten kinds of supreme magical swords that were usually only taught to direct disciples. Dong Hua Fu selected a secluded mountain peak within the thousand-li peach forest, built a thatched hut, and had not yet visited the main city of Shenxiao.
Hao Su looked at those young people wearing Daoist headscarves and robes. The only exception was probably Dong Hua Fu.
There was also an outsider, a middle-aged Daoist wearing a golden hibiscus crown, with a warm smile. He introduced himself as the deputy city master of Shenxiao City, Wang Qing, with the Daoist name Jin Qing.
With outsiders present, Hao Su had no scruples. He got straight to the point, "My name is Hao Su. My hometown is the Ling Shuang Blessed Land in the Haoran world. I served as an Executioner Official at the Sword Qi Great Wall for many years, but I never went up to the city wall to kill demons with my sword. So whether you recognize my status as an Executioner Official or not is up to you. But before I came here, I promised the Hidden Official that if you ever encounter trouble and are willing to ask for my help, whether I can help or not, I will stand up for you. Don't be polite with me. Each of you has one chance, and it's yours to use or not. If you think inviting an outsider to a sword duel goes against the identity and tradition of the Sword Qi Great Wall's sword cultivators, I won't stop you. But afterward, I will try my best to collect your corpses and then avenge you."
None of the young people nodded or shook their heads.
Dong Hua Fu was the first to speak, "Did the Second Shopkeeper say when he would come here?"
Hao Su shook his head, "Actually, I'm not familiar with him. We don't really talk about personal matters."
A young female sword cultivator asked curiously, "Lord Executioner Official, is it true, as the rumors say, that after you left the Sword Qi Great Wall, you went to the Central Divine Continent to seek revenge, twisted off the head of an old Flying Ascension realm cultivator, and threw it at the mountain gate? Then, within the time it takes to burn an incense stick, you killed that Flying Ascension great demon from Xianzan City? That beast from Xuanpu didn't even have time to explode its golden core or shatter its Nascent Soul before it died?"
Hao Su hesitated, then had to temporarily learn from the Hidden Official's thick skin. He nodded, "Something like that."
After all, this secret matter involved Chen Ping'an and the Confucian Temple of the Central Divine Continent. Otherwise, Hao Su wouldn't have had the face to admit to killing Xuanpu.
Now, throughout the entire Qingming world, everyone knew that the last Hidden Official of the Sword Qi Great Wall, together with White Jade Capital's Third Master Lu Chen, brought Ning Yao, Qi Tingji, Hao Su, and Lu Zhi deep into the barbarian hinterlands. This group strolled through that vast world as if entering an uninhabited land. With brute force of their fists, they broke Xianzan City, formed from a Daoist hairpin of the world's number one Daoist in the past, into two halves. Taking advantage, the Executioner Official Hao Su killed the Flying Ascension great demon Xuanpu. Then, at Tuoyue Mountain, which held a status equivalent to White Jade Capital in the Qingming world, they killed the great disciple of the Barbarian Great Progenitor...
After all, a bright moon had suddenly appeared at the dome of the Qingming world. For such a major event, any Daoist official would not turn a blind eye, nor could they afford to ignore it.
Especially those heretical Daoist officials and mountain spirits, water monsters who followed the path of moon worship, it was like a long drought meeting rain. They felt genuine gratitude toward the long-heard-of Sword Qi Great Wall and the young Hidden Official they had never met.
In the third month of the barbarian world, She Yue, one of the youngest ten people in several worlds, had her Daoist temple located on a bright moon called Chang Gong.
The old throne great demon, the Lotus Flower Nunnery Master, had her Daoist temple called Yu Gou. Dong San'geng killed that great demon with his sword, forcefully dragging a moon down to the mortal world.
The bright moon "Hao Cai," also known as "Jin Jing," which once resided in the center of the barbarian night sky, was moved by four sword cultivators together into the Qingming world.
Yu Dou personally left White Jade Capital to guide the bright moon.
Bai Ze, who had returned to the barbarian world, wanted to stop this matter, but was himself stopped by Li Sage.
One move affects the whole situation. The profound impact of this act on three worlds would likely require a "look back" after a hundred or a thousand years.
Wang Qing smiled and invited, "Let me, a poor Daoist, show the Lord Executioner Official around Shenxiao City?"
Hao Su cupped his fists, "Thank you for your trouble."
Dong Hua Fu said, "I'll go along too."
Wang Qing was a little surprised. This genius sword cultivator from the Dong family of the Sword Qi Great Wall, since arriving at Shenxiao City, had only once traveled to Xuandu Temple. Apart from that, he had been living in seclusion in the peach forest.
Wang Qing had a good impression of the famous last Hidden Official. Publicly, because of this group of sword immortal seedlings, Shenxiao City's status within White Jade Capital had risen somewhat. And the reason these sword cultivators chose Shenxiao City was probably due to the Hidden Official's secret instructions. Otherwise, why not go to the sword-qi-rich Ziqilou to cultivate, or practice swordsmanship by the Thunder Pond in Yushu City? Privately, of course, it was because Wang Qing's master, the previous city master—the Daoist saint who guarded the sky dome of the Sword Qi Great Wall—had left a "family letter" to be handed to