Unsheathed

The immortal mystical realm that Jiang Shangzhen was strolling through right now wasn't regarded as a small world, yet it was actually superior to a small world.

There were extravagant buildings and wondrous flowers here, with ethereal birds calling and spiritual energy as abundant as morning mist. Each step one took would make one feel relaxed and joyful, and Jiang Shangzhen clicked his tongue in wonder when he experienced this. He regarded himself as someone who had seen much of the world, owning the widely renowned Cloud Cave Blessed Land and having wasted sixty years in the Lotus Flower Blessed Land simply for the sake of helping his good friend, Lu Fang, untie the knot in his heart. Of course, he had also used this as an opportunity to rest and relax.

In reality, there were few cultivators as carefree and removed from mortal matters as Jiang Shangzhen. There were countless challenges and barriers on the path of cultivation, and whether or not one was fortunate enough to obtain fated opportunities was naturally very important. However, slowly accumulating experience and strength before quickly soaring to great heights one day was a paramount and timeless method that cultivators had to concede was incredibly effective.

When visiting Mural City back then, Jiang Shangzhen hadn't won over any of the female heavenly officials with his bold and ambitious words. Jiang Shangzhen hadn't thought much about this, but out of curiosity, he had asked Sect Leader Xun Yuan about the secrets of the Flax Robe Sect and the murals after returning to the Parasol Leaf Continent's Jade Tablet Sect. He had asked the right person, and the Immortal Tier cultivator's familiarity with the many celestial maidens and divine maidens in the world was, in Jiang Shangzhen's words, simply shocking.

Xun Yuan had especially traveled to the Middle Earth Divine Continent's Bamboo Sea Small World in the past simply for the sake of taking a look at the divine beauty on Azure Divine Mountain. He had lingered around the mountain and been unwilling to leave, yet he had ultimately failed to catch a single glimpse of the beautiful lady. Not only that, but he had almost let slip the opportunity to step up into the position of sect leader. In fact, the previous sect leader had sent a messenger flying sword through the continents, asking his Ascension Tier good friend in the Middle Earth Divine Continent to forcefully frag Xun Yuan out from the Bamboo Sea Small World.

It was said that after Xun Yuan returned to the Jade Tablet Sect, the old sect leader whose mind and body were withered like decaying wood and who was imminently about to pass away still forcefully summoned the last of his energy to viciously scold his disciple, becoming so furious that he directly threw the sect leader's token from the ancestral hall to the ground.

Of course, these were all unverified rumors that became increasingly dramatized as they were spread further and further. After all, only a few old ancestors who had already extracted themselves from worldly affairs for many years had been present along with the old sect leader and Xun Yuan at the time. Even so, the old cultivators of the Jade Tablet Sect still recounted this matter to their disciples as an interesting story.

However, taking into account the fact that the master and disciple were birds of a feather, Jiang Shangzhen felt like the rumors were most likely true. Perhaps one of the reasons why the old sect leader had become so furious with Xun Yuan was because he had surprisingly failed to catch a single glimpse of the divine beauty on Azure Divine Mountain.

Jiang Shangzhen stopped pretending to make seals with his hands, clasping them behind his back as he walked forward and recalled some secrets that only circulated between a few people at the peak of the mountains. He couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Looking around at the breathtaking scenery here again, he couldn't help but feel heartache for those immortal big sisters.

Sect Leader Xun Yuan had once said that the fated opportunities linked to the eight murals of the female heavenly officials were a critical reason why the Flax Robe Sect had chosen Skeleton Shoal as the founding location for their sect. Perhaps they had planned to establish their sect at the southernmost region of the continent right from the very beginning, and their so-called explanation of being at odds with the sword immortals of the Complete Reed Continent and being forced to venture south was nothing more than a convenient excuse. Perhaps this was an excuse to cover up their true reason for choosing Skeleton Shoal.

Xun Yuan had gone through many secret documents passed down through the generations by the top-notch immortal sects and forces in the Middle Earth Divine Continent, and he had especially gone through many records of the ancient clan that looked after the Confucian Sect's etiquette. From this, Xun Yuan speculated that the eight female heavenly officials from the Heavenly Court were equivalent in status to palace stewards from the censorate or Six Ministries in the imperial courts of mortal empires.