"We're almost at Liangzhou City!"
Commander Li rode ahead, spreading the news. "After this last stretch, everyone can finally rest!"
"At last, we're nearly there."
Chen Sanshi lay sprawled over Qianxun's mane, listlessly flipping through a book.
He was not tired.
It was mainly that they had been traveling nonstop, leaving him little time to practice martial arts. He was truly getting anxious.
Technique: Unity Spear Technique (Proficient) Progress: 168/1000
After all this time, even using the White Swan Horse's divine speed to race back and forth had only raised it by this much.
That was with spirit grain. Otherwise, the progress would have been even slower.
The book in Chen Sanshi's hands was a banned folk publication he had obtained from Fang Qingyun, called the Record of All Sects Under Heaven. It documented some of the great sects and schools across the land.
Even tiny Poyang County had four major martial halls throwing their weight around.
Naturally, larger places had similar organizations.
They simply were no longer called "martial halls," but "sects."
From Chen Sanshi's summary—
The sects of this world had, to a great extent, taken the place of the aristocratic clans and powerful families in worlds where cultivation did not exist. They were forces of paramount importance.
Moreover, the history in the Record of All Sects Under Heaven differed from that in the Book of Great Sheng.
The Book of Great Sheng mainly recorded how Grand Ancestor Cao Xie had been peerlessly valiant and invincible, how immense the merits and hardships of the Founding Ministers had been, while merely glossing over the sects.
But the Record of All Sects Under Heaven was different.
It said that Cao Xie had only gained the chance to unite the realm because of the full support of the thirty-six