The Wind Sword Sect of the Lower Four Sects

"Wang Hao, how many more days until we reach Great Cloud City?"

Inside the carriage, Dai Xuanyu withdrew his gaze from the outside window and casually tossed the question to his accompanying death-squad commander.

The next instant, Wang Hao's figure appeared inside the carriage.

He immediately bowed in salute and respectfully replied:

"Reporting to the Young Lord, at our current pace, we should arrive at Great Cloud City in about three days."

As he spoke, he offered an unfolded map with both hands for Dai Xuanyu to inspect.

"Mm, have the men push a little faster." Dai Xuanyu roughly scanned the terrain and mountain ranges on the map, giving the calm instruction.

"Understood, Young Lord." Wang Hao acknowledged the order and backed out of the carriage.

Great Cloud City sat in the northeastern part of the Star Luo Empire.

In name, it did not belong to the direct jurisdiction of the Star Luo Empire, instead falling under the Heaven Frost Duchy.

Although it was not the capital of the Heaven Frost Duchy, its scale was unrivaled within the duchy to say the least.

Even within the entire territory of the Star Luo Empire, it belonged among the very best.

This was simply because Great Cloud City was surrounded by mountains on three sides, with rolling ridges and distinct four seasons.

This served both as a natural defensive barrier and added a touch of elegance to its livability, while also creating a uniquely advantageous place for the growth of medicinal herbs.

Those mountains on three sides were like a gathering treasure basin, with a large amount of rare medicinal materials buried within them, quietly waiting for herb-gatherers to unearth them.

Moreover, although the city leaned against precipitous mountains, it stubbornly retained a wide, flat highway connecting north and south.

This made the transportation here extremely convenient, drawing incoming and outgoing travelers with great ease and comfort.

Therefore, the herbs gathered locally in Great Cloud City never worried about finding a market.

As long as the quality passed muster, herbal medicine merchants arriving here from all over the Douluo Continent would scramble to buy them.

Because of this, Great Cloud City had long enjoyed the fine reputation of the "Herbal Medicine Capital" throughout the entire Douluo Continent.

The ones who truly propped up the peace and order of Great Cloud City were the Wind Sword Sect, one of the Seven Great Sects' Lower Four Sects.

It was no exaggeration to say that without the Wind Sword Sect maintaining the laws and order within the city, even with such favorable weather, terrain, and human conditions, Great Cloud City would still find it difficult to achieve today's prosperity.

After all, a stable order with someone to maintain it was simply too important.

The Wind Sword Sect... In this era of Douluo I, they can still be considered a major power, but it's a pity they backed the wrong side in the later stages.

Dai Xuanyu pondered in his heart, and the various descriptions of the Wind Sword Sect from the original work surfaced in his mind accordingly.

The Wind Sword Sect was one of the current Lower Four Sects of the Seven Great Sects on the Douluo Continent.

The sect's inherited martial soul was the tool martial soul—Wind Sword, and the disciples within the gate were mainly Power Attack System or Agility Attack System Soul Masters.

The characteristics of the Wind Sword martial soul bestowed upon the sect's direct disciples a very rare ability to traverse the skies, and they excelled in combined-formation combat.

The Wind Sword Sect had mastered many powerful sword formations, such as the Wind-Thunder Sword Formation, the Wind Pressure Sword Formation, and the Heart-Calming Sword Formation.

The characteristics of the martial soul, coupled with the convenience of the formations, caused the Wind Sword Sect disciples to constantly move out in groups.

As one of the Lower Four Sects, the Wind Sword Sect naturally lacked a Titled Douluo.

Even so, the proportion of powerful individuals at the Soul Douluo and Soul Saint levels within their sect was still quite good.

"Wang Hao, bring over the intelligence on the Wind Sword Sect." Dai Xuanyu called out casually.

Before his voice faded, Wang Hao had already appeared inside the carriage, dropping to one knee and offering a scroll with both hands: "Young Lord, please take a look."

"Put it down." Dai Xuanyu did not take it, merely waving his hand.

"Understood." Wang Hao immediately understood.

After placing the scroll steadily on the desk, he then retreated into seclusion out of the carriage.

After resting for a short moment, Dai Xuanyu then unhurriedly picked up the scroll on the table and unfolded it.

I didn't expect the current sect master of the Wind Sword Sect to be Feng Bailong, and his Soul Power Level has already reached rank eighty-nine Soul Douluo.

Looking at the information recorded on the scroll, Dai Xuanyu's heart stirred slightly, and his previous doubts were all resolved along with it.

To say the Wind Sword Sect's actions in the original work were low-profile would be an understatement; they were practically indistinguishable from having zero presence.

Yet what about later on? The transition was so swift and thorough that it caught people completely off-guard.

Anyone unaware would have thought the Wind Sword Sect, like the later Holy Dragon Sect, was secretly cultivated and supported by Spirit Hall behind the scenes.

If so, the fast and thorough transformation of the Wind Sword Sect, which had acted with a low profile in the original work, made complete sense.

However, rather than saying the Wind Sword Sect alone was so low-profile from the beginning,

it was better to say that all those major sects within the territory of the Star Luo Empire were just as low-profile.

Just like the Black Tiger Sect and the Fire Leopard Sect, which were currently fellow Lower Four Sects alongside the Wind Sword Sect,

as well as the Rock Antelope Sect, which would become one of the new Lower Four Sects in the future, they were all like this.

Because the territory where these sects were located was the Star Luo Empire, which exercised high centralization and possessed formidable imperial power.

This place was not like the Heaven Dou Empire.

On this land, imperial power was supreme.

Those so-called sect forces like the Wind Sword Sect could only honestly stay within their own acre and three quarters of land and temporarily avoid the sharp edge.

Of course, this also had a certain connection to these sects lacking peak combat strength.

In the plot of the original work, it was not until Spirit Hall exposed its ambitions,

began launching devastating blows against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan of the Upper Three Sects, and crazily infiltrated the two empires, causing their national strength to suffer heavy blows,

that these sects like the Wind Sword Sect finally could no longer suppress their respective ambitions and successively turned toward Spirit Hall.

As for Feng Bailong, he most likely chose to pin all his hopes on Spirit Hall because he had been stuck at the bottleneck for over a decade and failed to break through to Titled Douluo for a long time.

It was not without reason that Dai Xuanyu made this deduction.

The scroll presented by Wang Hao stated:

Since childhood, Feng Bailong had been hailed as a once-in-a-century genius of the sect.

Everyone up and down the entire Wind Sword Sect believed that his future would definitely lead him to become the Wind Sword Sect's first Titled Douluo in history, propelling the sect to challenge the Upper Three Sects.

Furthermore, Feng Bailong's first half of life was just as the sect had anticipated.

His cultivation went smoothly, and by the age of just over fifty, he had cultivated to the realm of a rank-eighty-nine Soul Douluo, pushing the sect toward a new peak.

In the eyes of others, Feng Bailong breaking through to Titled Douluo was a nailed-down certainty, separated by merely a single step.

Even Feng Bailong himself thought so.

However, this favorable wind did not continue.

Feng Bailong had been stuck at rank eighty-nine for over five years.

Yet at this time, he could still keep his composure, believing that he could eventually make incremental progress through the grinding of time and successfully break through to Titled Douluo.

No wonder the future Feng Bailong would be so desperate, eagerly rushing to voluntarily act as a dog for Spirit Hall, defecting to Spirit Hall so thoroughly that he went all-in with the entire sect.

Dai Xuanyu associated this with the ultimate end of the Wind Sword Sect and instantly understood.

That seemingly one step away for Feng Bailong was actually a true chasm.

Before the Soul Core Cultivation Method was created, wanting to cultivate to Titled Douluo was truly of extreme difficulty.

Who knew how many geniuses like Feng Bailong were stuck at this step for their entire lives, never making any further progress.

A dozen years later, when Feng Bailong discovered that his Soul Power Level still remained completely unmoved,

given his arrogant disposition, the expectations of those around him, and the glory of the first half of his life, he would inevitably be driven toward extremes.

Under extreme madness, a person could do anything.

Let alone Feng Bailong.

At that time, in order to seek the opportunity to break through to the Titled realm, Feng Bailong would naturally lead the sect to participate wholeheartedly in the war and desperately rack up enough meritorious service.

Consequently, after he chose to thoroughly defect to Spirit Hall, he began to cooperatively and deeply participate in the situation of the mainland.

His level of performance was second only to the Holy Dragon Sect, which originated from Spirit Hall and was secretly cultivated by Spirit Hall.

Other sects still knew to hide some seeds more or less, but looking at Feng Bailong, he brought along all the disciples of the sect.

Of course, there was a reason why Feng Bailong did this.

The more Soul Masters participated in those sword formations cast by the Wind Sword Sect, the greater the power the sword formations would unleash.

However, the consequence was that when getting jumped in a team fight, it was easy to get wiped out.

Since that's the case, subduing the Wind Sword Sect in the future will instead be as easy as turning over one's hand. Dai Xuanyu closed the scroll, the corners of his lips curling up slightly.