Guanshan Town was actually nestled among a cluster of mountains. Otherwise, why would it not be called Guanhai Town or Guanhe Town?
A hundred and twenty li east of Guanshan Town, three great mountains rose straight from the earth and pierced the clouds.
All three mountains had names. The first mountain to the north was called Woodcutter Forest, the one in the middle was called Fallen Axe, and the one farther south was called Dragon's Turn Peak.
The person who named these three mountains was Kou Zhendao, the ancestor of the Kou Family, one of the four great families of Guanshan Town. He had once been a disciple of the Great Dream Sword Sect and had been ordered to develop villages and towns on the Black Earth Plains, but he had ended up building Guanshan Town instead.
Kou Zhendao had lived for a total of 359 years, yet he had never broken through the Golden Core Stage before his death.
No one knew what insights he had gained in his later years, but that was why he had given these three nameless mountains such names.
But that was no longer important. What mattered was that after traveling throughout the surrounding mountain ranges, Zhang Yang had ultimately decided to establish the Heavenly Sword Gate on these three barren mountains.
This time, it was truly official.
This place would become Zhang Yang's headquarters, his true lair—the sort he had no intention of leaving once he entered.
For this, he had even borrowed twenty thousand Immortal Stones at the price of Nine Out, Thirteen Back. Well, he had only received eighteen thousand, and would have to repay twenty-six thousand a year later.
Although he had never intended to repay it from the very beginning, this was enough to prove Zhang Yang's sincerity.
Truly,