After the Iron Sword Sect's consecutive failed investments in Saibei and Jiangnan, it behaved itself for a while.
It was not just the Iron Sword Sect. The remaining Five Veins Under Heaven—Evergreen Valley, Taihu Palace, Heavenly Fire Sect, and Tuoshan Temple—also fell completely silent.
These Five Veins had originally sprung from the same source. Though they had split apart and fought among themselves, when facing outsiders, the Five Veins still shared branches and breath.
In terms of infighting, they were far more united than the Three Cold Weather Gates.
With the shameless, double-standard mindset of "strangers get half, acquaintances get the full set," Lu Xingshi first came to the Iron Sword Sect, intending to try and obtain their martial arts inheritance.
Compared to the three sects of Imperial Awakening, True Martial, and Zen Heart, the martial arts inheritances of the Three Cold Weather Gates and the Five Veins Under Heaven were not actually complete. Each had taken away only a portion.
The Five Veins' martial arts techniques had originally used the five elements of Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth as their foundation. After the split, each family took one path for itself.
But calling them incomplete was not entirely accurate. Back then, internal strife had caused the Five Veins' martial arts to suffer losses. The secret technique used to unite the five elements, as well as the highest cultivation art, had gone missing. Their Divine Weapon had likewise vanished without a trace.
Lu Xingshi had also learned something: not every martial arts inheritance came with a Matching Divine Weapon. For example, Listening Wind Pavilion possessed a complete martial arts inheritance, yet had no Divine Weapon.
True Martial Sect and Zen Heart Sect were the same. The martial arts inheritances of those two sects also had no Divine Weapons.
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