Searching Black Cloud Mountain for Treasure

Black Cloud Mountain lay at the border between Northern Xuan Prefecture and Great Wu Prefecture.

It had once flourished beyond compare. Its mountain lord, Zhao Tianzhu, had been an expert of Strong Martial Seventh Heaven, and his Black Cloud Spear ranked seventh on the Weapons Ranking.

Back then, Black Cloud Mountain's scripture lectures had been a grand event renowned far and wide, enough that even the Fuji Dao Master had to conceal his identity to join them.

The Black Cloud Spear Manual was merely one part of the sect's Treasure Codex, yet it could not compare to the entire codex, which fused countless martial essences and literary treasures.

However, like many sects that had risen to glory only to decline, Black Cloud Mountain had ultimately perished without a sound, leaving behind only scattered fragments passed from mouth to mouth.

As times changed, the ruins of Black Cloud Mountain came to straddle Great Wu Prefecture and Northern Xuan Prefecture, split in two by the border.

Like other ruins, Black Cloud Mountain had long been searched over and over again, until not a single brick or tile remained.

Zhou You had come to pay respects to the ruins, not for profit. Having inherited the Black Cloud Spear Manual, he had come here as Black Cloud Mountain's successor to offer worship.

Desolate wild grass spread everywhere, and the ancient road was broken halfway through. The once-prosperous Black Cloud Mountain had occupied all the land in these hills, but now weeds and shrubs had reclaimed it, leaving no traces of human habitation.

In the tug-of-war between nature and humankind, one side would always lose and flee, yielding its place to the other.

"Black clouds dimly spread across three thousand miles; one spear pierces the Nine Heavens!"

Zhou You looked down over the sights throughout