Promotion to the Fourth Realm Within Fifty Years?

Nine Tripod Sect had at least five Third Realm Artifact Cultivators. This was one of the key reasons they had no Fourth Realm cultivators yet could remain standing firm.

Wang Ping had thought Nine Tripod Sect would only send two ordinary Third Realm Artifact Cultivators to help this time. He had not expected Sect Master Lu Shan to come in person. Therefore, Lu Shan surely had other matters to discuss.

There was no grand welcoming ceremony. It was not that Wang Ping was stingy or ignorant of etiquette; Lu Shan himself had requested it. They were discreetly led to the Mountain Top Dojo by internal affairs personnel dispatched by Xia Weny.

Lu Shan had certainly not come alone. He had brought two Third Realm Artifact Cultivators with him. Since they had traveled on foot from Ningzhou Road to Thousand Wood Temple, by the time Wang Ping met Lu Shan, half a month had already passed since Daoist Ying Qing and Hou Jun arrived at Thousand Wood Temple.

During that half month, Nanlin Road had been exceptionally lively. First, pirates harassed coastlines everywhere. Then warships under the Seventh Prince of Linshui Prefecture ravaged coastal regions, clashing head-on with Shang'an Prefecture's fleet twice without either side gaining the upper hand.

Facing Linshui Prefecture's provocations, the Imperial Court urgently issued a recruitment order and summoned laborers to build fortresses and stockaded villages at strategic locations a hundred li from the coastline.

This Spring Festival had been an unpleasant one for Nanlin Road, but it was more vibrant than in previous years!

"On my way here, I saw government troops heading south everywhere. Does Linshui Prefecture really dare invade?" After exchanging pleasantries with Wang Ping, Lu Shan asked this question first.

"Since ancient times, the human heart has never been satisfied—a snake trying to