Divine Sword Manor.
On a solitary peak.
Jiang Ning soon brought two more solar-term concepts to perfection.
[Technique]: Springtime Canon (incomplete) (proficient 121/2000) (cannot be improved) Minor Heat (perfected 3/1000) Major Heat (perfected 5/1000)
I've collected all six solar-term fragments. Jiang Ning studied his panel.
He closed it and looked toward Divine Sword Manor.
Figures were still busy throughout the manor.
He remained on the solitary peak to keep trouble from breaking out below.
Xie Xiaoj iu and Su Zhi alone could not have suppressed an uprising at Divine Sword Manor.
The manor's people had stayed obedient partly because last night's battle had filled them with fear of him.
The other reason was Shangguan Feilong and Shangguan Jincheng bowing their heads.
As the Shangguan Family's ancestor and patriarch, the two men's stance represented the entire family's.
For the sake of their lineage's survival, they had made the wisest choice.
And all of it was because of him.
Without him there, the people of the manor would never have behaved so well.
Jiang Ning watched the scene below for a while.
Then he picked up the Martial Dao manual Xie Xiaoj iu had just brought him.
[Literacy experience +1] [Literacy experience +1] [Literacy experience +1] [...]
As he read through the Martial Dao manuals and time passed, his Literacy experience climbed rapidly.
The manuals Xie Xiaoj iu had brought were the fruits of Divine Sword Manor's many years of accumulation. Even the lowest-grade among them was an intermediate martial art.
In the blink of an eye,
the sun sank westward, turning the sky scarlet.
The slanting rays of sunset no longer reached Divine Sword Manor. They touched only the solitary peak where Jiang Ning stood.
As time passed,
the last sunlight crept up the peak's sheer cliffs.