The Wuxie Sect of Great Feng!
The Zhuge Family!
Although the Zhuge Family was nominally a subordinate lineage of the Wuxie Sect, it had effectively become the lineage that controlled the sect.
That was because the Wuxie Sect's foremost expert, Wuxie Scholar Zhuge Hong, came from the Zhuge Family.
Now, Wuxie Scholar stood in the Zhuge Family's secret great hall, surrounded by mountain walls surging with spiritual energy. Coiling dragons wound through the walls, occasionally breathing out wisps of astonishing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy that churned through the space before streaming into vortices of whirling runes on the walls...
This was the Zhuge Lineage's Ten-Thousand-Year Coiling Dragon Mountain Wall, a treasure Wuxie Scholar had obtained from a mysterious place all those years ago. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy traveled through these vortices to the Zhuge Family's various secret cultivation sites, multiplying their disciples' cultivation speed and chances of advancing severalfold.
The exact benefit depended on the grade of the secret cultivation site. Naturally, the more abundant its Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, the better the results of cultivating there...
The Zhuge Lineage's rapid development could be said to owe a great deal to this Ten-Thousand-Year Coiling Dragon Mountain Wall.
Remembering the painstaking effort and dangers he had faced to obtain this Coiling Dragon Mountain Wall, Wuxie Scholar sighed deeply. If I hadn't been worried about the lineage's weakness back then and ventured into that accursed place, I wouldn't have lost...
As Wuxie Scholar was lost in thought...
Tap, tap, tap...
Hurried footsteps sounded from the Secret Passage, and a middle-aged scholar emerged, tall and imposing, with refined features and a thoroughly scholarly air.
Fewer than five people in the Zhuge Lineage were permitted to enter this core area where the Ten-Thousand-Year Coiling Dragon Mountain Wall stood.
The middle-aged