Chapter 1475: Chapter 1475 East Lake Sword Conference (Part 1)

After Long Fei and Chu Feng left the village, they sent Bald Dog to take the Ground Rat Demon King and Da Heiniu to Azure Woods Mountain.

He and Chu Feng started dealing with the disciples of Azure Woods Mountain in the surrounding villages. Azure Woods Mountain wanted to make the fifty miles around a no-man’s land, so they wiped out these dispatched dogs cleanly.

Initially, Azure Woods Mountain didn’t notice anything.

When night fell, the dispatched disciples didn’t return for a long while.

The Elder of Azure Woods Sect sensed something was amiss and immediately sent people to investigate.

It was only through this investigation that they found out all the hundreds of disciples originally plundering the surrounding villages had disappeared.

Their soul lamps were all extinguished, with no survivors.

At Wa Guan Village at the base of the mountain, someone had written several large characters in blood on the broken wall at the entrance of the village, “Azure Woods, Black-hearted, Heaven’s wrath, People’s grievance. If you want revenge, tomorrow night at East Lake of Bamboo City!”

The blood belonged to the disciple of Azure Woods Sect, whose body was hung at the bottom of the large characters.

The Elder of Azure Woods Sect recognized the disciple as an elite inner-gate disciple.

He gnashed his teeth in hatred and immediately took people back to the mountain to report.

Azure Woods Sect had no choice but to change their strategy, recalling all the dispatched disciples to prevent them from being picked off one by one.

The matter spread as if with wings, quickly throughout all of Bamboo City.

By daylight, even the cultivators as far away as Jingzhou had received the news that this time the shared Cultivation Alliance was serious.

They had already killed over a hundred disciples of Azure Woods Sect and planned to have a showdown with their elders at East Lake of Bamboo City.

The cultivation world was abuzz.

At first, everyone was skeptical.

But not now. Someone really took lethal action, which meant this affair was real.

Cultivators from all over Jingzhou Prefecture quickly gathered towards Bamboo City, planning to see the situation that night.

If this Cultivator Alliance won, taking down Azure Woods Sect wasn’t impossible.

This old-established sect, even the watchdog in their backyard had become a spirit.

On that day, just to join the excitement, everyone went, even if they didn’t expect to benefit much. Only fools stayed away.

The next day, wealthy cultivators used the official residence’s teleportation corridor to get there. The less wealthy painstakingly flew on swords or arrived riding various demonic beasts.

The inns of Bamboo City were immediately full, and the innkeepers laughed till their mouths wouldn’t close. They had never seen such a thing before,

Previously Bamboo City, at the bottom tier in Jingzhou, had never been so bustling.

Businessmen wished for them to stir up even longer turmoil, so they could get rich every day.

The official residence’s attitude towards Azure Woods Sect had changed from neutral to angry.

Though the villages surrounding Azure Woods Sect were dilapidated, many of the officials’ relatives worked and held positions in the city, and each reported to the City Lord.

The City Lord didn’t dare move directly against Azure Woods Sect, but could support others to act.

In public opinion, Azure Woods Sect was already at a disadvantage everywhere.

East Lake of Bamboo City was a very famous place, just like in other cities, a gathering place for literati, writers, and young people.

At night, the lake surface was brightly lit, with songboats filled with singing and laughter coming and going.

The lotus flowers on the lake swayed, as if the green clouds touched the sky.

That’s why it’s also called Green Cloud Lake.

Beside the lake stood the largest tavern, the Green Cloud Tower.

Long Fei and Chu Feng were at the highest hall there, with their eyes taking in the beautiful scene of the lake, extraordinarily appealing.

This place had a great view, and it was early occupied by the rich scions and local young cultivators of Bamboo City, planning to watch the spectacle that night.

Young Master Chu, in high poetic inspiration, asked the tavern’s servant for paper and ink, and wrote in a wobbly hand, “From afar, a lake; up close, all water.”

Bald Dog, with hands behind his back, pretended to appreciate it and read it aloud mockingly.

The young people in the hall all burst into laughter, feeling Chu Feng had quite the posture, but unexpectedly had nothing in his belly.

Chu Feng soon wrote the next two lines, “Lotus leaves reaching the sky green, lotus flowers reflecting the sun red.”

Everyone savored it for a moment, and the sneering laughter subsided, followed by applause.

“What talent!”

“What a poem!”

“Those words ‘reaching the sky green’ and ‘reflecting the sun red’ should be passed down through the ages!”

“Who would have thought we had such a poet in Bamboo City.”

“…”

A group of men praised, and the women present went up joyfully to get acquainted with Chu Feng.

Long Fei drank wine, sat to the side fanning himself in amusement.

This Chu Plagiarist has now learned to incorporate his own style into copying, quite impressive.

Chu Feng, hugging a girl on each side, smugly winked at Long Fei and the others.

Even Bald Dog couldn’t stand it, gulping down wine while exclaiming, “Second Brother’s face is too damn thick, I can’t stand it, I want to craft a poem too!”

Da Heiniu laughed heartily, “Forget it, with that bald head of yours, crafting two poems won’t attract any girl’s interest.”

“Who are you talking about? Do you get aesthetics?”

Bald Dog rolled his eyes, asked Long Fei for a fan, and ran to the window pretending to be a poet.

Da Heiniu and the Ground Rat Demon King joined the fun, randomly reciting poems from the outside world, and indeed caught the attention of some girls.

Long Fei watched the lake with a smile, seeing streams of Mysterious Light Sword shadows in the sky, with over a hundred people landing by the lake.

They were dressed in bamboo-green daoist robes, wielding longswords, with menacing expressions. Who else could they be but Azure Woods Sect?

In the hall, Chu Feng and the others were flirting with the girls when someone shouted.

A crowd immediately gathered at the window, peering at the disciples of Azure Woods Sect outside.

Someone shouted, “Who’s leading the team this time?”

“I think it’s an elder of Azure Woods Sect, Yi Jian Piao Hong, Zhong Zhengyang.”

“He’s deployed? Rumor has it he’s broken through to the Soul Ascension Stage, right?”

“Yes, just broke through. Last year there was a change in the heavens and earth, and a large number of hidden experts broke through.”

“Zhong Zhengyang is quite a figure! In the past, when the Southern Ridge Demon Clan was rampant, various sects joined forces, and Zhong Zhengyang alone swept through a dozen demon strongholds, making the Southern Ridge Demon Clan dare not step into Bamboo City again.”

“Too bad, that was all in his younger days. Now Azure Woods Sect is tyrannical and murderous everywhere, long since incurring the wrath of the heavens and the people.”

“Just here for the spectacle, really. Azure Woods Sect sent Zhong Zhengyang over probably to intimidate this provocateur.”

“The provocateur wouldn’t dare come, I think this siege of Azure Woods Sect is just a joke!”

“…”

Among those present, many were quite knowledgeable about Azure Woods Sect.

Long Fei focused on the old man below with a slight frown. This person, like other cultivators, had an immortal bearing and Daoist bones, but his brows exuded too much killing intent. With one glare, he could probably scare someone to tears.

Sword cultivators at this level mostly ended up this way.

Back then, Mount Shu Elder Long Eyebrows evidently realized this problem, so he abandoned the sword cultivator technique and shifted to the righteous path before ascending and leaving.

It’s just that the sect disciples, due to various reasons, persisted in this technique.

Now sword cultivation flourishes, mostly due to the suppression of heaven and earth.

Knowing ascension is hopeless, they might as well take side paths, quickly advancing their cultivation level.