Even if none of them had known one another before, after acting together for three days, those who had initially been strangers gradually became familiar.
At least for Zhang Tie, after three days, there was no one in the entire team he did not know.
The leader of this team was naturally Mountain-Bearing True Person, who seemed never to smile.
Below Mountain-Bearing True Person were the knightly husband and wife who looked like an immortal couple. The man was named Lu Zhongming, the woman Lin Huanxi. They came from Gu Province of Great Xia and were a pair of knights living in seclusion on Minling Mountain in Gu Province. The two were also heads of a sect. They had founded the Minling Sword Sect on Minling Mountain, with over a thousand disciples beneath them, and had gained some renown in Gu Province.
In Great Xia, once people became knights, if they did not wish to enter officialdom or withdraw completely from the world, many would find some famous mountain or great river and set up a sect for themselves. The seven major sects were naturally the finest among all Great Xia's sects, but below them, in every province and prefecture, sects founded by knights were simply too numerous to count. This was also an unspoken rule of Great Xia. In places like the Weiyi Subcontinent, many so-called sects had developed from places like Battle Halls. There, let alone knights, even a level-twelve or level-thirteen Great Battle Master or Battle General might establish a sect in some country. But in Great Xia, apart from the gangs of the common streets, every organization flying a sect's banner had to be founded by at least a Black Iron Knight. This also meant that every Great Xia sect possessed, at minimum, a Black Iron