Chapter 287: Transcendent Qing (24)
The Great Hero Bak Sal, Officer of the Black Wind Three Severances.
At the level of Transcendent Tathāgata, their nicknames were well-known across Murim. These weren't the kind of warriors who'd hole up in some backwater stronghold.
But Gam Mountain Stronghold was no backwater.
It was an inland base of operations for Green Forest.
A waterway flowed both above and below Gam Mountain, making it an unlikely pass-through point for merchant routes.
And even if you raised hell in Henan, you'd just end up surrounded—Shaolin to the east, Huashan Sect to the west.
So from the beginning, Gam Mountain Stronghold wasn't built for banditry and robbery like most mountain lairs.
Instead, it sat at the heart of the realm—western Henan.
At the point where the mountain ranges extended out, stretching north, west, and south into Shanxi, Shaanxi, and western Hubei.
That made it a crucial waypoint connecting Green Forest Headquarters to the west—used by reserve troops on rotation, patrols, and dispatched agents.
It didn’t host enough bandit activity to count among the Eighteen Direct Branches, but it couldn’t be left unmanned either. So it was numbered and treated as a mid-tier outpost.
And when someone of Transcendent caliber ran the place, even as a branch, it was clear this was no ordinary den.