Chapter 177: Five Mountain Swords Alliance
Lin Yi ran into his palace and changed from his training clothes into the robe of a chief disciple, taking with him a sword that replaced the emblem. Having done everything in less than a minute, he half-runned to the main palace, where Elder Qin was already listening to Ouyang Ming’s instructions..
“Master Ming, Elder Qin, Lin Yi has come at your call,” he reported as he entered the room.
“Oh, you’re fast,” Ouyang Ming smiled. “Can you guess why I called you??”
“Three years have passed since the last meeting of the Five Sacred Swords, and a new one is approaching,” Lin Yi replied, pretending to think for a second..
Ouyang Ming nodded with satisfaction and said:
“The Five Sacred Swords is one of the most important events of the Alliance. And also a demonstration of the strength of each of our sects. But this time, due to the tense situation, the position of the chief disciple of the Five Mountain Swords Sects will be discussed during the meeting.”
“The main disciple of the Alliance?!” Lin Yi exclaimed in amazement.
He was pretending, of course. He had long known about this, as well as the reasons. The vicious cults have become too active on the borders of the righteous territories, because of this, the alliance decided to appoint a supreme commander capable of coordinating all five sects at once. Unfortunately, this made it even worse. Due to internal contradictions, the exchange of intelligence data between them almost ceased.
But for ordinary students, the reason for appointing a chief student will be the transitional era and the choice of ideology for the future generation. Which would work pretty well, but the elders were too entrenched in their worldviews to change anything. It was they who did not allow the sects to unite in the game and clench their five fingers into a fist that could protect against vicious cults.