Chapter 112 - 111 White Deer Peak
Taking advantage of the chaos in Ye Capital with people fighting over the Dragon Corpse, repairing the city and extinguishing fires, Tie Dan changed back into his green robe. This time, without any burdens, he directly climbed over the south wall and left the city, heading along the official road towards White Deer Peak.
White Deer Peak lies one hundred and fifty li southwest of Ye Capital, connecting with the Xuan Nu Mountain Range. Among the mountains, there is a green cliff that towers a hundred feet high, standing isolated, with a sky-high seam through the mountain streams. The Stone Gate Path is steep without compare. It is named because a Hidden Immortal who rides a white deer resides here, often releasing the white deer to wander among the cliffs. One can see it from afar.
From the Taoist Collection of the Old Xuan Sect, the Mystic Sect that occupies this place is called the White Deer Peak Xuanji Sect. However, this sect is not one of the prestigious nine major sects, similar to the Yanzi Peak of Tie Dan’s sect, a branch or an Outer Door. Nascent Soul True Men, under the orders of their sect, or perhaps unable to sustain themselves, come out on their own to claim the mountain as their territory, establishing sects and passing down a lineage.
However, as for whether White Deer Peak has a Spiritual Spring Earth Vein or any rare treasures is not crucial for now; its terrain is extremely strategic.
As the shopkeeper said, it connects north to Ye Capital, west to Bai Xing, south across the Gen River, and east to Zhen Country’s Daming Prefecture. It is an important mountain pass on the Genzhou Plain where few strategic points can be found.
Therefore, although the Xuanji Sect lacks power and has a short lineage, its position is clearly significant. It is like driving a stake into Zhen Country’s core area. Nearby wealthy families and villages offer their children as tribute, forming many cultivation families around the White Deer Peak settlements, erecting fortresses using the mountain’s natural barriers and the Mystic Sect’s support, guarding this crossroads, defying orders while still within the Genzhou Kingdom, acting like warlords controlling a portion of territory.
In other words, as Manager Qiao says, it is already considered a boundary of the Mystic Sect.
In a vast plain like Genzhou, densely populated Central Plains, Tie Dan naturally wouldn’t lose his way, his steps light as he heads towards White Deer Peak. However, he didn’t encounter Zhen Baiyu along the way.
No, they had agreed to meet at White Deer Peak, and this was the only road. It had only been a day, could she possibly be that fast? She couldn’t have been kidnapped halfway again, could she? A dignified cultivator who has established her foundation?
Tie Dan was truly speechless. Although he didn’t expect Zhen Baiyu to be able to take down a dragon with a single shot, at least she could be somewhat reliable, right? Even if she couldn’t fight, she could at least help out, form a team, heal some wounds, replenish some Qi, act as bait or something, right?