The Looming Crisis
Chapter 51

Bitterness Beyond Words

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"So many people?"

Early in the morning at Shushan, not long after the sky had begun to brighten, Dan Lingsheng brought Luo Bei, Cai Shu, Lin Hang, and the other seven Disciple Geli disciples to a plaza.

The ground of this plaza was actually a single massive slab of mountain rock, bluish-green and smooth as jade. It looked as though someone had cleaved off the entire mountaintop with one sword strike, leaving behind this level plaza.

At the center of the plaza stood an unmarked milky-white stone stele, more than twice the height of a person.

This plaza lay atop Tiancui Peak. Tiancui Peak was within the jurisdiction of the Jingshen Peaks and was farthest from Tianyu Peak, where the Disciple Geli disciples lived. Thus, by the time Luo Bei and the others arrived, all the Jingshen and Tianzhu disciples had already gathered.

At a glance, there were fifteen Jingshen disciples in black robes. The Tianzhu disciples, whom Luo Bei had never seen before and who wore crimson robes, numbered a full thirty-six. In comparison, the Disciple Geli disciples seemed distinctly few in number.

"Could it be that, in our Disciple Geli trial, the fewest people passed?"

Seeing the great number of Jingshen and Tianzhu disciples, all the Disciple Geli disciples immediately had this thought rise in their hearts.

They did not know that Shushan placed the greatest importance on flying sword arts. Disciple Geli specialized in flying sword arts and held the leading position among the three peaks; calling its disciples the backbone of Shushan would not have been an exaggeration. That was why only the Disciple Geli disciples had undergone that life-and-death trial and been granted Jade Condensing Pills. Those who had posed as remnants of the North Yin Sect had all been highly accomplished teachers of the

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