Chapter 1467: Chapter 1467: Winds Rise on Mount Heng

These hundred cultivators are all cultivators living in Xiangyang.

Some open Dao institutes to recruit apprentices in the city, while others establish sects in the nearby mountains to recruit disciples.

When the City Lord has a request, they have to come over even if they don’t want to.

If they were to really clash with the Mount Heng Sect, they wouldn’t have the courage for that.

Hence, City Lord Guo Jing said he was going to negotiate with Mount Heng for people, rather than attacking Mount Heng.

Southern Mount Heng is some distance away from Xiangyang.

This place is located in the center of Xiangzhou, and in this world, one has to cross numerous hills and rivers to get there.

If it were ordinary people, they would be eaten by demons halfway through.

If not by demons, then by mountain brigands.

It’s not easy to travel between states; large scale goods transportation usually relies on large merchant groups.

Whether transporting grain, delivering letters, or carrying other goods, a powerful escort agency must accompany the transport.

Another option is to hire cultivators; with a single storage ring, they can carry a vehicle’s worth of goods and fly between two locations.

Some cultivators have already formed alliances, developing into a nascent express delivery industry, forming a Cultivator’s Cargo Transport Guild dedicated to transporting goods for people.

If they encounter robbery, the cultivator guild provides money and manpower to resolve it.

There are specially constructed spatial teleportation passages between offices of the Imperial Court.

Some major sects and large families also have such passages.

Due to the consumption of large amounts of spirit stones, they are usually left unused. Occasionally, they are used for delivering letters or messages; the cost is a hundred times higher than that of ordinary merchant groups outside, only accepting spirit stones.

Ordinary people can’t earn much money in a year; they don’t have spirit stones to pay for this.

This time, Guo Jing was cornered and had no choice but to spend his own money to let everyone use the teleportation corridor.

First to Xiangzhou Provincial City, then from the provincial city to Mount Heng.

Long Fei, along the way, learned about the transportation methods of this world.

He’s never lacked money, so he didn’t know how people at the bottom communicated goods and information.

Today, he tried the teleportation passage and felt that he had been living in vain before.

If he had known about this earlier, who would have bothered riding giant eagles to fly around?

Chu Feng reminded him that South Yangtze Prefecture is currently not in favor with the Imperial Court, and all spatial domain gates in various places are closed.

Xiangzhou is under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou, which is why it is so convenient to travel around.

Long Fei chuckled, thinking he had underestimated the power of Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is not just a city in the outside world, but like South Yangtze Prefecture, it is a large administrative district.

From Xiangyang to Xiangzhou, this vast area is all within the range of Jingzhou.

While on the road, they asked around about the origins of an old man at the Soul Ascension Stage.

Unexpectedly, the man’s name really isn’t small; at least in the outside world, his family is definitely well known.

He trains on Longzhong Mountain west of Xiangyang City, surnamed Zhuge, with a single name Shi.

He is known as Sword Maniac!

His ancestors are very famous, being the eldest disciple of Xuan Zhenzi, the eldest disciple of Long Eyebrow Immortal, Ancestor of Mount Shu.

After many generations, the Zhuge Family thrived in the Nanyang area.

Zhuge Shi is a branch of the Nanyang Zhuge Family; although he trains in isolation on Longzhong Mountain, he is passionate about officialdom.

Many of his descendants in this generation are officials in Xiangyang, making the Zhuge Family a well-known and prominent family in Xiangyang.

Because of various interests, Zhuge Shi agreed to step out for City Lord Guo Jing’s help.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for a Soul Ascension Stage expert to be moved by ordinary people.

The group headed south in the morning and arrived at Mount Heng by noon.

The Governor of Xiangzhou even extended Guo Jing a favor by coming along with a troop to put pressure on Mount Heng.

Such a major sect is deeply intertwined; pulling any string will affect the whole structure.

The Imperial Court generally can’t handle them, let alone these local powers.

Mount Heng has many peaks, with disciples of the Mount Heng Sect spread across various mountain tops.

The Sect Leader resides on the central peak, which is located on the highest peak, Zhurong Peak.

The Hall of Light is established here, where all external dealings are handled usually.

Guo Jing and Zhuge Shi have been here before and are familiar with this place.

A group of people arrived at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain-guarding disciples immediately came forward with swords to block them.

Guo Jing clasped his hands respectfully and said to the disciple, “Young friend, I am Guo Jing, Lord of Xiangyang, here to visit Sect Leader Daoist Mystic Moon of Mount Heng. I kindly ask you to convey this message.”

“Oh? You are Guo Jing?”

That disciple glanced at Guo Jing with disdain and said, “Are you the Xiangyang Lord who looks down on people with dog eyes? My senior brother was merely outmatched by Three-Headed Evil Jiao, and you mocked him back? Do you still have the face to come to our Mount Heng?”

“You, mind your words?”

Guo Jing’s face reddened, restraining his anger.

This time, he came seeking help and didn’t get angry immediately.

Previously, as a confidant of the Governor of Jingzhou, he had never suffered such humiliation.

Seeing him show weakness, the disciple became even more unscrupulous, saying, “What ‘you’? When you bullied my senior brother, did you not think of today? Our Sect Leader is in seclusion, and you’re not welcome here. Leave!”

Guo Jing felt the anger rising, knowing full well Mount Heng had done wrong by abducting his daughter, yet now it seemed he was the one who had erred.

He yelled in fury, “Fine, you are indeed powerful, Mount Heng Sect. You brazenly abduct my daughter, and still have the nerve to be so rude. If you don’t report us, we’ll fight our way up the mountain.”

He intimidated the disciples for a moment.

The mountain-guarding disciples exchanged glances, sneering coldly, “Think this is Xiangyang City? I’d like to see you dare fight your way up here!”

They immediately drew their longswords, forming a battle formation directly confronting Guo Jing’s group.

Chu Feng found these disciples distasteful and intended to intervene but was held back by Long Fei.

With Zhuge Shi here, there’s no need for them to take action.

They just needed to watch the spectacle from the back and seize the moment to escalate the situation.

Zhuge Shi indeed stepped forward; there, he was the most powerful.

He released the pressure of his Soul Ascension Stage, went forward with hands folded behind, and stared the disciple down coldly, saying, “I am Zhuge Shi, here to meet Daoist Mystic Moon. Ascend to report at once, or I will forcibly break through.”

“Sword Maniac Zhuge Shi?”

The disciples were momentarily shocked, not expecting Guo Jing to have invited this figure.

The fame of Sword Maniac is renowned in Jingzhou.

They say he gets frenzied when fighting, killing anyone in sight, a real tough character.

The disciple dared not act arrogantly any longer, immediately clasped his hands and respectfully said, “Daoist Zhuge, please wait a moment, I’ll send someone to report at once!”

He signaled to his junior brother, who promptly headed up the mountain to report to the Sect Leader.

Everyone didn’t wait long before someone from the mountain came, laughing heartily and saluting Zhuge Shi, “What a good day! Even Daoist Zhuge has been blown here?”

This old man had an extraordinary presence, wearing a grey cloth robe, with an immortal bearing and Daoist bones.

Someone whispered behind, “He’s one of the Three Elders of Mount Heng!”

“He’s the senior brother Mo Yunzi. I heard the third, Sima Qingcang, was killed by someone, so now there are only two elders left.”

“Who did it? So impressive!”

“Wow, didn’t Mount Heng Sect exact revenge?”

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