This time, Yue Buqun had failed to catch the fox and ended up covered in filth instead. Who knew how many pairs of eyes in the martial world were fixed on the "Bixie Sword Manual"? Although the Mount Hua Sect was not as easy to bully as the Fuwei Escort Agency, it could not withstand having so many enemies.
The Mount Hua Sect's difficult circumstances over the years had made Yue Buqun cautious and meticulous. He keenly sensed an undercurrent forming against Mount Hua, so he immediately made a decisive move, setting up several feints. The entire Mount Hua Sect split into smaller groups and returned to Mount Hua from different directions.
Mount Hua lay northwest of Fuzhou, yet he had deliberately gone the opposite way, traveling east with his wife, daughter, and Lin Pingzhi until they finally reached Yangzhou.
Thinking of the enormous detour they had taken for nothing, Yue Buqun was furious enough to curse his mother. Especially the culprit who had gotten there first and stolen the "Bixie Sword Manual"—Yue Buqun had secretly cursed that person countless times. He had even muttered vicious things about their line ending and their wife being stolen.
If others in the martial world learned of the things he cursed in his heart, the reputation of the "Gentleman Sword" that he had cultivated for years would probably be ruined in an instant. But if he did not curse like this, he could not ease the hatred in his heart.
Back then, the conflict between the Qi and Sword factions had greatly weakened the Mount Hua Sect. After the Mount Song Sect rose to power, Mount Hua became even more precarious. Yue Buqun had walked on thin ice day and night just to barely keep the sect afloat, yet any hope of turning