At night, Qin Ming once again walked to the bottom of Medicine Mountain, the roar that has just been suppressed roared again, echoing throughout the mountain. From afar, there was golden light, the mist roiled, and you can faintly hear the sound of earth shattering.
Qin Ming tried to walk forward, and it caused the roaring to turn more violent, shaking the whole mountain too.
"What is being held captive in there?"
Qin Ming started to felt unease, who dares to get near something like this? Could it be that the thing wants to take over Asura Blade, that why it called me?
"You again!" Ling Xue appeared, and her tone was unfriendly.
"What’s inside?" Qin Ming asked.
"Don’t ask what you shouldn’t know, step down!"
"Even Azure Cloud Sect couldn’t hold it down? Why are you letting it roar?"
"Step down!!"
"It affect my sleep. You guys better take care of it." Qin Ming pointed at Medicine Mountain, then left.
Ling Xue was speechless, but the weird thing happened again, as soon as Qin Ming leave, the roars stopped.
The second day afternoon, Qin Ming just finished delivering item, he came near the Medicine Mountain with the stone vat. With him here, the roar sounded again from Medicine Mountain, although it wasn’t very loud, but it still echoed to the four or five nearby mountains, shocking thousands of disciple.
A Lot of people felt unease, it used to be at night, what is happening to it today?
Qin Ming left the Medicine Mountain after waking it up, after he left, the roar stopped soon after.
In the next few days, Qin Ming would periodically come by Medicine Mountain, every time he was here there would always be roars. He was showing a message to them, stop annoying me, I won’t go in! And also to pressure the elders, to quickly get rid of the problem. Outsiders might not know, even elders are confused, could it be that it is breaking out? Should we have some precaution?
Today, Azure Cloud Sect had a team arriving.
Eight male and females riding on top of handsome horses, stopped in front of the sect, raised their head and looked at the three huge words – Azure Cloud Sect.
"Azure Cloud Sect, this is my first time here." the leading youth at the front said, he had an air of royalty, with two wide sleeves at the side, his posture was wild. His height was tall, he had a bronze coloured skin, his features were well defined, and his mouth curved into an arc.
"Azure Cloud Sect is part of the eight sects in the North, although it is a little low-key, it has prospered for hundreds of years, and it’s roots are deep." the man on the left had white hair, but still looks neat and tidy, his clothes also clean.
"I came for Qin Yue, I hope I won’t be disappointed." a youth said.
There were already disciples who had noticed them at the main gate, thus they went forward to stop them : "Stop! Get down from your horse! This is Azure Cloud Sect."
The youth continued going forward in this horse, and the horses head was held high with no intention of stopping. The party behind him followed closely arrogantly, and didn’t care much about these disciples.
Just when the Azure Cloud Sect disciples was going to draw their swords, the high grade disciple leading them noticed a unique pattern : "Python King Palace?"
The youth takes out the medal on his waist: "Notify your Sect leader, Cao Wu Jiang of Python King Palace would like to meet him."
THe accompanying elderly laughed : "Python King Palace's Leng Shan, would also like to me
the Sect leader."
Azure Cloud main peak, Qing Xiao
Azure Cloud Sect' Sect leader and other elders came here to wait personally.
The influence on Python King Palace is similar to Azure Cloud Sect, in terms of status and background, Python King Palace actually had the upper hand.
"Senior brother, long time no see." a white hair man said, as he bowed to the Sect leader of Azure Cloud Sect.
The Azure Cloud Sect Sect leader looked at Cao Wu Jiang, then said: "junior brother Leng Shan, why have you come."
"Senior brother Meng is still concerned, not bad." the man brought the price from Python King Palace to sit, as he faced the Azure Cloud Sect's elders: "It has been more than ten years since I came back to Azure Cloud Sect, fellow Sect members, do you still remember me, Leng Shan."
One female elder calmly said : "One of the seven heroes of Python King Palace, 'Six Yang Wolf' Bai Shan"
The man laughed lightly : "I meant my status in Azure Cloud Sect."
A slightly plump elder blew on his tea, and softly said: " you are no longer a disciple of Azure Cloud Sect the moment you left."
"It doesn’t matter whether Azure Cloud Sect acknowledges me or not, I have always treated Azure Cloud Sect as my home, and everyone as my clansmen."
"Really?" the slightly plump elder glanced at him.
"It’s been more than twenty years, no matter where I go, I will always remember that I came from Azure Cloud Sect, this is my first home."
"Enough." The slightly plump elder smashed his cup, as the wine spilled all over the table : "When you harmed those Azure Cloud Sect elders and attacked our Azure Cloud Sect's spirit stone mine back then, did you remember that you are part of Azure Cloud Sect? "
"It has already been more than ten years, didn’t I already apologized back then?"
"Your so called apology was to send back their heads?" the slightly plump elder stood at, as he pointed at Bai Shan angrily.
"Everyone has different ways to express their apology, if it wasn’t because we were in the same sect, you might not even be able to see their heads." Bai Shan's voice become very soft at the end, and within it was light laughter.
"You…."Azure Cloud Sect's elder all stood up.
"All sit down." the Azure Cloud Sect wasn’t angry. "Bai Shan, you are no longer a disciple of Azure Cloud Sect since the incident ten years ago, the reason why I met you today, was because of your status in Python King Palace, it’s the prince beside you, prince Wu Jiang."
"I represent the Python King Palace, to come here today." Bai Shan tapped on the table, and shouted towards the door : "Guests are visiting, yet there is no tea? Do you disciples know basic etiquette."
The disciples outside the door ignored it, until the slightly plump elder coughed lightly twice, only then did a few disciples walk in with tea, and put it down in front of Bai Shan and prince Cao Wu Jiang.
Bai Shan picked up the tea cup, and took a sip, then closed his eyes to savour it : "Azure Cloud Sect's water, Azure Cloud Sect's tea, it’s been almost twenty years."
Prince Cao Wu Jiang only touched the tea cup, and didn’t take a sip, he also didn’t care about the tense situation in the hall, and it looked like it has nothing to do with him, as his gaze would occasionally wander outside, towards the standing Azure Cloud Sect disciples.
After Bai Shan finished his tea, he slowly said : "the reason why I came today was to congratulate on behalf of Python King Palace, I heard that you have managed to nurture a genius called Yue Qing. Reaching Profound Martial realm at the age of sixteen."
"Your news source are quite fast." the female elder harrumphed coldly.
Bai Shan put down his tea cup, and looked at Sect leader : "Will Yue Qing attend the Eight Sects Summit?"
"What does the Eight Sect Summit have anything to do with your Python King Palace?"
In the Northern region, there is five kings, and eight sects, these was considered the dominant places in others eyes, and countless warrior's dream to train here, and Azure Cloud Sect as one of the eight sects, it’s status was high.
Every two year, the eight sects will hold a meeting, all the huge figureheads, and elders will meet, then there will also be disciples who will spar with each other.
This is the tradition of the eight big sects for hundreds of years, it was also their way to tell everyone their exalted position in the Northern region.
After a long time, the Eight Sect Summit became one of the more important even in the Northern region. The sparing between disciples are also given a special meaning, it became a stage for sects to show their own elite disciples. Every summit will have a top five, not only will there be prizes, they would be given titles too.
Whoever can get a title in the Eight Sects Summit, will definitely become a prominent figure in the Northern region.
Every summit, the eight sects will always bring their most elite disciples, one reason was to try to get a good ranking, another reason is to observe other sects elite disciple.
The disciples performance also became a way to set each sects standard, since the birth of a genius, will definitely affect the sects strength.
Bai Shan continued laughing : "for the past three summits, the Azure Cloud Sect has never made it into the top five, and only some in the top ten. Has Azure Cloud Sect declined? Does Azure Cloud Sect not have the capability to nurture a genius? Or has the other seven sects become stronger?"
"You’re living in Python King Palace, we are happy that you still care so much about Azure Cloud Sect. But it is only two or three summits, it doesn’t affect Azure Cloud Sect's ranking."
"It doesn’t affect ranking, but it affected your face. But now there is a hope, with Yue Qing's talent, going into top five should be no problem, I represent Python King Palace to congratulate you beforehand."
THe Sect leader and elders were suspicious, congratulate beforehand? When did Python King Palace care so much about Azure Cloud Sect?
"There has been some misunderstandings between Python King Palace and my Azure Cloud Sect, thus our relationship aren’t very close. This time Python King personally arranged to have me come over to fix our relationship, what do you think?"
The sect leader of Azure Cloud Sect didn’t reply immediately, instead he tried to guess the reason why Bai Shan came. He was pretty close to Bai Shan when he was younger, but ever since he left twenty years ago, he became weirder, and both of them to drift apart, until ten years ago, when Leng Shan joined Python King Palace, and had to harm Azure Cloud Sect as a way to demonstrate his loyalty.
After all these years, Leng Shan became stronger and stronger, and his Python King Palace's status become higher and higher, all the way to top seven, becoming the right hand men of Python King Palace, and now they wanted to reconcile? Even bringing the prince here?
Leng Shan waited leisurely : "this prince has always yearned to be in Azure Cloud Sect, this is his first time here, I wonder if senior brother can arrange someone to bring him out for a walk?"
Azure Cloud Sect sect leader signaled the disciples outside to arrange it.
"See you later." Cao Wu Jiang stood up bowed, and he exchanged glances with Leng Shan, before walking out the hall.