Alliance Leader

The newcomers were none other than the Three Heroes of Ink Mountain.

Ink Mountain lay west of Dongting and northeast of the Taoyuan Mountain Range, a rather remote place seldom visited in ordinary times. More than ten years ago, when Liu Xiaolou had just followed Lord Xingde in grasping the threshold of refining array discs, he had gone there once. After that, he rarely returned.

Ink Mountain produced Ink Mountain Profound Stone and Spring Essence Jade. Both spiritual materials served as catalysts in refining array discs, magical artifacts, and talismanic charms, though they were not the only possible catalysts. Lord Xingde favored these two spiritual materials, so he had taken Liu Xiaolou there to dig for them. Liu Xiaolou, however, had felt these catalysts were rather ordinary; traveling seven or eight hundred li just to excavate them was truly not worth the loss. Thus, he never went again.

Later, Liu Xiaolou realized that Lord Xingde's claim of favoring Ink Mountain Profound Stone was probably because his purse had been empty.

Conversely, Liu Xiaolou himself had stopped going to Ink Mountain because his cultivation conditions had steadily improved afterward. He had basically never worried over spiritual materials; the overwhelming majority had been delivered straight to his door by others. There had been no need to go.

So many years had passed that he had nearly forgotten Ink Mountain—and forgotten that those three brothers were still there.

But honestly, since the three brothers had come knocking, he still had to receive them. Back then, Liu Xiaolou had solemnly declared that Ink Mountain belonged under the three brothers' jurisdiction, and that this was jointly recognized by the Three Xuan Sect and Purple Extreme Sect. Now, the sect leaders of both sects were Liu Xiaolou himself.

Zhou Tong led the three men into the