The moon shone bright while the stars were few. Within the mountain courtyard.
"Twenty-two, twenty-three... twenty-seven, twenty-eight..."
Jiang Changsheng sat on the trunk of the Earth Spirit Tree, gazing at the capital's nightscape as he counted under his breath.
The capital's curfew now came very late, and it was still brilliantly lit at this hour. Jiang Changsheng was counting the number of Heaven-Reaching experts below the mountain.
He was counting the inns near Dragon Arising Mountain. The capital was enormous, with inns too numerous to count, but so many experts gathering in the streets near Dragon Arising Mountain were surely plotting something.
"Three Divine Hearts, thirty-six Heaven-Reaching experts—quite a formation. You wouldn't have seen this thirty years ago."
Jiang Changsheng murmured to himself, anticipation filling his eyes.
It had been a long time since he had received a survival reward. It was time for one to arrive!
That was why he had handed the Great Vehicle Dragon Tower's legacy over to Jiang Ziyu. On one hand, it would strengthen Great Jing; on the other, he was cultivating leeks.
Martial artists were competitive by nature. Given enough time, someone would naturally forget Jiang Changsheng's power, or refuse to believe it, and then come deliver themselves to his door.
Jiang Changsheng waited expectantly for a while before cultivating beneath the moonlight. The luster of the Gouchen Heavenly Duke Great Feather Robe faded away, and he completely melded into the darkness beneath the sheltering leaves.
Half an hour later, the candlelight in Dragon Arising Temple gradually went out, darkness blanketing the entire temple.
A figure raced through the forest, his feet skimming over rocks, tree trunks, and pavilion roofs like a dragonfly touching the water, without the slightest sound.
He leaped into the air. Beneath the moonlight, he was one of the black-clothed