Intercepting, Yuanshi Takes Yuding to Biyou Palace to Snatch a Disciple

Chaoge.

The capital of the Great Shang Martial Dynasty.

The city was tall and sturdy, built from ten-thousand-year stones of the Primordial World. Even a Blood Tempering cultivator striking with all their strength could not leave the slightest mark upon it.

This was a stone behemoth forged at immense cost in manpower and resources by Shang Tang, founder of the Shang Dynasty that had overthrown Xia Wu.

After thousands of years of wind and rain, the stones still gleamed jet-black beneath the sun, bursting with a cold radiance. Not a trace of wear had been left behind.

Within Chaoge, the Third Prince's residence.

A broad-shouldered young man with a massive sword at his waist sat upon a tiger-hide chair. He looked valiant and extraordinary.

"Two immortal masters of the Jie Sect? You have sent word requesting an audience with this king. May I ask what brings you here?"

Below the burly young man sat two women of breathtaking beauty, one dressed in green and the other in black.

"I am Wudang. I have come today for your eldest son."

"I am Guiling. I have come today for your second son."

"The two immortal elders have taken a liking to this king's two sons?"

Hearing Wudang and Guiling's purpose, a flicker of astonishment and delight appeared on the burly young man's face.

His teacher, Wen Zhong, was a disciple of Jin Ling of the Jie Sect. Although Wen Zhong had only taught him Martial Dao and never immortal arts, he had told him much about the Jie Sect. Thus, he knew something of its affairs.

Upon hearing the two immortals announce their names, the burly young man understood that they were Wudang and Guiling, two of the five personal disciples beneath the Tongtian Sword Sage, renowned alongside Jin Ling, his teacher