Sword Peak Mountain was one of the world's towering peaks, over three hundred zhang high. To its left, it commanded the Feather Ripple River; to its right, it looked down upon Gullbird Basin. As the saying went, "To pass through Fengjie Prefecture, one must cross Sword Peak Mountain." The Xia court had built a checkpoint here and developed it for many years, turning it into a perilous pass famed across the land.
Sword Peak Mountain's terrain was uniquely shaped. From its base to its summit, it naturally divided into five tiers. Thus, it also bore the alternate name Heavenly Ladder Mountain.
True Person Tai Hua had worked with the terrain and personally overseen the design of the five-stage Great Virtue Carries All Things Array that covered Sword Peak Mountain.
Below, it connected to Great Xia's earth veins; above, it drew upon the clouds and qi of the nine heavens. It gathered momentum and carried intent, suppressing the mountains and rivers of Fengjie.
Once the great array was activated, the power of the earth veins rose stage by stage. By the summit, its might reached its limit, capable of unleashing terrifying attacks of earth-vein power.
The immense damage it endured could also diminish stage by stage from the summit down to the mountain's foot, until it was finally distributed into the earth.
It could truly be called an array that combined offense and defense.
Unfortunately, last year Jiang Mengxiong had smashed it into a hundred-li abyss with one punch, crushing the earth veins outright. No matter what, the five-stage Great Virtue Carries All Things Array could never be restored to its former state.
Years of painstaking effort, destroyed in a single day.
Xie Zhengwen was a Confucian School cultivator who had studied at academies within Xia Kingdom. Last year, he had