Apprentice to the Seven Sword Masters!

Sword Dao elements were visible everywhere within the sect: the scabbards of the disciples' swords were carved with intertwined lotus patterns, the window lattices of their dwellings were hollowed out in sword shapes, and even the tableware for meals mostly consisted of celadon porcelain shaped like sword spines. The Sword Spine Peak rang with the ceaseless chiming of swords, sword qi soaring straight up into the clouds to harmonize with the mountain mist and the green lotuses by the pond. The entire Green Lotus Sword Sect resembled a peerless spirit sword concealed among lotuses, possessing both the fierce sharpness of the Dao of Swords and the refined, elegant delicacy of the green lotus, fully manifesting the sect's core philosophy: "The sword heart hides the lotus, hardness and softness mutually complemented."

You and Li Ruilin had not strolled for long before Xiao Wenming found the two of you and brought you back to the Green Lotus Sword Pavilion.

This was precisely the place where the sect's elders discussed matters.

You and Li Ruilin had just stepped into the hall when several gazes successively fell upon the two of you. Apart from Xiao Wenming, you saw seven unfamiliar figures, among whom you could roughly make out five men and two women.

Xiao Wenming first reported to the man on the main seat, "Sect Master, this younger boy is precisely the possessor of the sword body, whom I have safely brought back. As for the youth beside him, he possesses the Innate Dao Body and voluntarily joins our Green Lotus Sword Sect, which is why I also brought him along..."

"Oh? The Innate Dao Body?" Hearing this, the master of the Green Lotus Sword Sect upon the main seat also seemed somewhat curious. He cast his gaze toward you, inspected you for a