Huang Bingcheng and the others were sent to train the new martial artists who had joined the Six Fan Sect. Su Xin took the intelligence files on the Xunfeng Sword Sect and shut himself away in a secret chamber for two days. Then he told Li Huai that he needed to be away for a few days and left the Six Fan Sect Headquarters.
Since the martial arts factions of Jiangnan Circuit were so deeply rooted and tightly united, Su Xin could only find a way to take them down from within. The Xunfeng Sword Sect was his target.
The Xunfeng Sword Sect was an old-established martial arts faction in Jiangnan Circuit. Xun meant wind, and Xunfeng was one of the Eight Trigrams.
The Xunfeng Sword Sect's martial arts also belonged to the Daoist school. Though nothing about them was particularly outstanding, they had inherited the Daoist tradition's balanced and harmonious qualities, so the Xunfeng Sword Sect's disciples had always been consistently capable.
The Xunfeng Sword Sect lay between Jiangnan Prefecture and Zezhou Prefecture. But today, many martial artists from the sect had gathered in Zezhou Prefecture. The reason was that the Xunfeng Sword Sect and the Wen Family of Zezhou Prefecture held a contest every year to compete for the right to use a Spirit Eye.
This so-called Spirit Eye was in a valley outside Zezhou Prefecture. By the workings of nature, the world's essence there was exceptionally dense. Even the herbs and spirit fruits growing in the valley held far greater medicinal power than those found elsewhere.
But there were two martial arts factions closest to the Spirit Eye. One was the Wen Family of Zezhou Prefecture, and the other was the Xunfeng Sword Sect.
Both factions were considered second-rate, and their strength was about equal. Besides, conflicts