The Four Directions Gate occupied one of the finest areas in the Hidden Dragon Mountains.
By rights, other outside sects should long since have set their sights on it and requisitioned it.
But not long ago, astonishing news had spread through the Hidden Dragon Mountains.
The chief disciple and young sect master of the Myriad Treasures Sect, a first-rate sect of the Great Li Dynasty, had led experts up the mountain, intending to requisition the Four Directions Gate's grounds.
Instead, the chief disciple and young sect master had been killed, while a group of elders had fled with grievous injuries.
Once the news spread, the various powers in the Hidden Dragon Mountains were shocked.
After all, the Myriad Treasures Sect was a major sect of considerable standing in the Great Li Dynasty. Even across all of Yan Province, it was no minor power.
Yet they had suffered such a crushing loss at the Four Directions Gate.
A few inquiries told everyone that the one responsible was none other than the Sect Master of the Four Directions Gate, Yan Sihai.
After striking, he had made no attempt to conceal himself. Instead, he had declared it openly.
"The killer was Yan Sihai of the Four Directions Gate!"
Those words swiftly spread throughout the Hidden Dragon Mountains and beyond.
This was both good and bad.
The good was, naturally, that Yan Sihai's formidable reputation had spread.
Many sects and powers that had designs on the Four Directions Gate Mountain Gate temporarily abandoned the idea.
The bad was that Yan Sihai's name had become far too prominent.
Especially after he killed Zheng Qinghe, the Myriad Treasures Sect's chief disciple, who had ranked one hundred and thirty-seventh on the Dragon Abyss Ranking.
His name had actually replaced Zheng Qinghe's on the Dragon Abyss Ranking.
Then