(The tenth extra chapter for monthly votes. The fifteenth is coming soon... How many chapters can you make me release?)
This was one of the chief reasons the General's Temple had made enemies of the Long-Haired Bandits back then!
The Skanda Temple, meanwhile, was a venerable temple with quite a history. In its early days, it had probably had no shortage of ties to the General's Temple...
In truth, Tang Changsheng might have acted as though he stood far above the Skanda Temple and paid it no mind at all.
But since he had set his sights on its so-called Dragon Pearl, he had done every bit of homework he needed to. He had investigated the temple's background long ago.
He might have held his enemy in contempt strategically, but tactically, Tang Changsheng had never been careless.
That was the mark of his cautious nature!
In fact, the Skanda Temple and the General's Temple had once shared a bond forged through incense offerings.
When chaos engulfed the Central Land, the Skanda Temple's Founding Patriarch fled to the Lower River. It was thanks to the General's Temple's Founding Patriarch Chen Weian taking him in that the Skanda Temple was allowed to establish itself there.
Chen Weian was the Founding Patriarch mentioned before: the one who had nearly cultivated to the Manifest Divinity Realm, only to be wounded by a volley from Foreigners' rifles and never advance another inch...
He was also a member of the Chen Household, one of the Three Families of Xiajiang!
The Skanda Temple's Founding Patriarch had likely fought shoulder to shoulder with Chen Weian. Only later, with the General's Temple's permission, had he moved to the Lower River, settled there, and founded the Skanda Temple's lineage...
That was during the Long-Haired Rebellion. Great Chu had been fighting