Chapter 302: Entire Huashan is in Ecstasy
While the younger students were busy with the deceased, Xiaoyu led the three comrades with him to the main palace, served tea, and began to tell the story:
“Elder Brother, how did you disappear, the righteous sects suffered one defeat after another. Kaifeng has fallen, Shaolin now only holds its monastery and nothing else. The vicious cults concentrated almost all their efforts in the territory of the Five Mountain Swords.”
Lin Yi nodded - he had already heard this, he needed detailed information. But he didn’t interrupt.
Xiaoyu took a sip of tea and gave it to him:
“The remaining sects quickly surrendered their territories and strengthened their headquarters, but Huashan only recently lost a large area and only after that Master Ming ordered all troops to return to the central province. But here, on Eagle Mountain, we could not do that, because the main task is to create order in the territory of Hangzhou. So almost all of our students are distributed throughout the territory, there were only a thousand here.”
“We weren’t even here,” added Yu Hai.
“Well, that's also true. Master Ming sent us here as soon as we entered the first class, to help the elder of the first class. I'm afraid he also fell in battle. We fought for a week, suffered heavy losses, but what can you do when the enemy knows the defensive structures better than you? I'm afraid, brother, if you had arrived a little later, there would be no survivors here..”
Tears appeared in Xiaoyu's eyes. Once again, his older brother came to his aid at just the right moment. He was alive and remains alive only thanks to this man.
“Brother Lin, Huashan has been very difficult for the past three years. People have no hope of salvation. If it weren't for Elder Brother Linghu, we would all have been exterminated long ago..”