Although True Person Tianchen's original reason for seizing the Mountain within a Mountain was no longer clear, since Spirit Herb Mountain's founding ancestor had been such a stunningly brilliant figure, of course its strength could not be limited to what appeared on the surface.
"Although our sect has been passed down to the present day without producing any more experts of the Nascent Soul Realm, we still have more than a dozen ancestral masters at Core Condensation. It's just that they have always been cultivating here in seclusion, so the outside world doesn't know." Yang Xiu lifted his head, his expression rather proud. "In terms of strength, we admittedly cannot compare with Azure Cloud Mountain, First Line Gorge, or Thunder Cloud Villa, but in You Province, we are by no means a third- or fourth-rate sect. We are only slightly inferior to the three giants."
Hearing so many secrets all at once, even with Lin Xuan's shrewdness, he still needed some time to digest it.
Many questions could not help but surface in his mind. With first-rate strength, why was Spirit Herb Mountain so low-profile? Was it because of ancestral instruction, or did they have some other scheme? What had been True Person Tianchen's true purpose in plotting for this Mountain within a Mountain?
If Spirit Herb Mountain was truly this remarkable, then Perfected Master Tongyu appointing him as sect master seemed far too hasty. What considerations did he have, exactly?
Doubts sprouted like tangled weeds, but on the surface, Lin Xuan did not reveal the slightest abnormality. He merely beat around the bush with Yang Xiu, and the other party answered everything he knew; however, the information he understood seemed limited as well.
As they spoke, the two had already arrived before a mountain wall.
There was no road