Unsheathed

The autumn wind rises, the crab roe is succulent. This was the best time to enjoy golden garb crabs in Pond Water City, and the entire city would be filled with the unique fragrance of the crabs whenever it was mealtime.

In fact, some people would travel thousands of kilometers from the Luminous Vermilion Empire to drink and enjoy crab at all kinds of waterside residences and restaurants where they had good relationships. Of course, few people from the Stone Brush Nation which was located closest to Bamboo Scroll Lake came to Pond Water City to enjoy the delicious crab this year. After all, even staying alive was a challenge right now.

The meeting between island masters in Bamboo Scroll Lake was set to begin in about ten or so days, and approximately one hundred island masters would travel to Palace Willow Island, an island where the island master had been absent for many years. There, they would vote for a new ruler of the lake.

The River Severing True Lord, Liu Zhimao, from Cyan Gorge Island was naturally expected to win the popular vote.

However, this was Bamboo Scroll Lake, a place where more than four hundred vagrant cultivators had joined forces to encircle and kill a Nascent Tier cultivator and a Golden Core Tier cultivator immediately after leaving the harmonious banquet.

Another piece of news spread throughout Pond Water City over the past two days, saying that Little Devil Gu was going to visit the city to enjoy some crab. Because of this, Pond Water City's Young City Lord Fan Yan had already started to spend huge sums of money to purchase the fattest and most succulent golden garb crabs available from Bamboo Scroll Lake. This was an extremely rare breed of golden garb crab called the bamboo branch.

These crabs were extremely large, and they were filled with an abundant amount of water fortune essence. Ordinary fishermen didn't need to dream about catching a single one of these crabs in their lifetimes. In fact, they wouldn't even be able to catch a glimpse of one. Indeed, this breed of golden garb crab was a type of treasure that could only be caught by lucky Abode Tier cultivators.

Cyan Gorge Island was at the peak of its power right now, and Liu Zhimao finally stopped expanding his territory and force during the past year. Like a person voraciously wolfing down their food, he had finally become bloated and needed to rest for a while to digest what he had eaten. Otherwise, things might appear great on the surface, yet there would be instability and disunity among the members of the force. Liu Zhimao remained very conscious of this issue, so he was very strict when screening the vagrant cultivator who came to join Cyan Gorge Island. Regarding the specifics, everything was handled by one of his disciples, a female cultivator called Tian Hujun.

She had initially been Gu Can's second senior sister, yet she had eventually become just senior sister. After all, their senior brother had already been killed by Junior Brother Gu Can, so they naturally couldn't leave the position vacant for too long. That would be unreasonable, and it would also be a bad look for their force.

Right now, there was a large group of young cultivators and wealthy descendants with impressive backgrounds hanging out with Gu Can. For example, Young City Lord Fan Yan from Pond Water City was the only child of the city lord, and he was going to host a banquet for his so-called Big Brother Gu. He was completely spoiled by his mother, so much so that he wasn't even afraid of the heavens. It was said that he would not yield to any terrestrial immortals or whatnot, and would only admire truly gallant heroes.

To put it simply, he was someone without a brain.