No one knew when it had begun, but the enmity between Xiangxi cultivators and Badong cultivators had grown deeper and deeper. They practically saw red the moment they met. The two sects dominating the two regions had reached an utterly irreconcilable point.
Thus, the great battle between the Zhanglong Sect and Gengsang Cave differed from Three Sects Fighting One Sect two years ago. The two sides had forged a blood feud that could not possibly be easily resolved. Not only could the Zhanglong Sect not resolve it, neither could the Xiangxi rogue cultivators who had been conscripted.
No one wanted war, yet when war came, no one wished to flee from it either. Liu Xiaolou was no exception—his teacher, Mister Sanxuan, had taken part in many battles against Gengsang Cave and had been wounded time and again.
But Liu Xiaolou knew his own limits. With his Qi Refining Level 5 cultivation, if he truly set foot on the front line of the war between the two sides, the chances of him not returning were quite high. This was not the time to act on impulse.
That night, Longshan the Rogue Cultivator, Zuo Gaofeng, and the others also came up Qianzhu Ridge. Knowing that Liu Xiaolou had been exempted from conscription due to his status as the Su family's son-in-law, they had all come, without prior arrangement, to entrust their dependents to him.
Longshan the Rogue Cultivator entrusted his disciple, Li Busan, to him. He pressed the sobbing Li Busan to the ground and had him kowtow three times to Liu Xiaolou, telling him to address Liu Xiaolou as "Martial Uncle." Liu Xiaolou knew that by accepting those three kowtows, should anything happen to Longshan the Rogue Cultivator during the war, he would be responsible for caring for and teaching Li