Unsheathed

Pei Qian still wasn't feeling sleepy, but she was ordered to go to bed by Chen Ping'an. As Chen Ping'an passed by Cen Yuanji's courtyard, he could still hear the sounds of her working conscientiously on her fist techniques, and Zhu Lian was standing by the entrance, looking at Chen Ping'an with a wide smile.

The two of them walked along side by side. The men of the Eastern Treasured Vial Continent's north were primarily quite tall on average, and they were renowned across the entire continent for their impressive physiques and mighty strength.

The Great Li Empire's standard issue armor and sabers were forged in the Cao Clan style and the Yuan Clan style, respectively, and they were renowned for their immense weight, only to be equipped by warriors of worthy stature and strength. As he developed into early adulthood, Chen Ping'an had grown a lot taller, while Zhu Lian was habitually hunched over, so their heights varied drastically.

Chen Ping'an was planning to send Zhu Lian to Bamboo Scroll Lake to deliver to Gu Can, Zeng Ye, and the others the grain rain coins required to organize the Liberation Rite of Water and Land and Heavenly Worship Ceremony, and Zhu Lian raised no objections to this.

Dong Shuijing was also going to be accompanying him on the journey, and they were going to part ways at Pond Water City, where Dong Shuijing would meet with Guan Yiran in secret. Both Zhu Lian and Dong Shuijing were very reliable people in Chen Ping'an's eyes, so he had no qualms about having the two of them travel together.

Chen Ping'an also revealed the state of the world to Zhu Lian, who didn't offer much of a reaction. He said that he had been nothing more than a frog at the bottom of a well in the Lotus Flower Blessed Land, and that now that he had come to the Majestic World, he wasn't going to think about such grand and consequential matters. At this point, he was content to only carry out some trivial tasks like sweeping snow and mending tiles.

Upon entering the first floor of the bamboo building, Chen Ping'an invited Zhu Lian to take a seat while he began packing for his imminent journey. He was going to be boarding an intercontinental ship at the Ox Horn Mountain ferry station in two days, which would set off from Old Dragon City before traveling to the Northern Complete Reed Continent from there.

His destination was a landmark so renowned that he had even seen extensive mention of it in the immortal book from Stalactite Mountain. It was called Skeleton Shoal, and it was an ancient battleground situated in the southern region of the Northern Complete Reed Continent. The immortal sect that presided over the Skeleton Shoal was the Flax Robe Sect, a lower sect of a prominent sect on the Middle Earth Divine Continent.

There were a hundred thousand yin soldiers and yin generals being kept in the sect, but despite its close proximity to ghostly and yin entities, the sect had a stellar reputation, and its disciples took it upon themselves to subjugate all of the malicious ghosts and evil spirits wreaking havoc in the world of the living.

Furthermore, the inaugural leader of the sect, who had moved to the Skeleton Shoal from the Middle Earth Divine Continent with sixteen fellow sect members, had established a rule, which stipulated that sect disciples were not to ask for any compensation from those that they saved from the spirits that they subjugated.

This rule applied to all beneficiaries, whether they be wealthy and powerful officials or ordinary people, and anyone who broke this rule would have their bridge of immortality shattered before being cast out of the sect.

Hence, the cultivators of the Flax Robe Sect were also ardently referred to as the junior heavenly masters of the Northern Complete Reed Continent.