After taking the Teleportation Array from Sacred Heart City, making four more transfers, and spending over half a month in sword-riding flight, Lin Mo and his two companions returned safely to the Azure Cloud Sect.
Apart from Han Kang, who was still in seclusion stabilizing his cultivation realm, everything in the Azure Cloud Sect remained as before.
After escorting Luan Xiuping and Dantai Jingyu to the Guest Elder Residence and exchanging a few more words with them, Lin Mo soon took his leave and returned to his own Elders' Court.
For nearly half a year, he had spent almost all his time rushing about in search of the Ancient Swords. Now, at last, he could enjoy a period of peace.
Of the ten images that had once appeared in his sea of consciousness, nine corresponded to the Ancient Swords, and four of those were no longer useful.
Lin Mo carefully drew the remaining five images, handed them to the Artifact Hall to reproduce, and distributed the copies to the Azure Cloud Sect disciples gathering information outside the sect.
There were also the Eight Great Households.
The Eight Great Households had few direct-line descendants, but their pill business spanned the entire Eastern Province. They were especially dominant in pill sales across the East Sea, holding at least seventy percent of the market.
Their information networks far surpassed the Azure Cloud Sect's. Naturally, Lin Mo would not overlook this resource. He gave them copies of the illustrated booklet as well, asking them to help locate the other five Ancient Swords.
The Eight Great Households would naturally not refuse such a small favor.
Unfortunately, there was no discernible pattern to the Ancient Swords' distribution. Lin Mo only knew that each Ancient Sword corresponded to a Nine-Nine Soul-Devouring Formation and should lie at one