Chapter 106: Stirring on all sides, converging on the Capital
At some unknown point, legends of the Heavenly Pool Strange Hero began circulating through Jianghu.
According to the stories, the Heavenly Pool Strange Hero had been an unrivaled figure a hundred years earlier. He possessed two martial arts: the Energy-Absorbing Great Method and the Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill.
Obtaining either would let one dominate a region; obtaining both would make one invincible under heaven.
Then another rumor emerged: Ming's Iron-Gall Marquis Zhu Wushi possessed the Energy-Absorbing Great Method and had imprisoned his senior brother, Gu Santong, in the dungeon of Dragon Guard Mountain Villa, intending to obtain the Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill.
By chance, Gu Santong had found an opportunity to have someone carry a message out of the prison: whoever rescued him would be taught the Energy-Absorbing Great Method and the Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill.
Zhu Wushi and Gu Santong had both been outstanding figures in Jianghu among their generation twenty years earlier, and their martial lineages were shrouded in mystery.
Even now, when Zhu Wushi had become Ming's Iron Gallant Divine Marquis and master of Dragon Guard Mountain Villa, very few people knew who his teacher had been.
As for Gu Santong, his aptitude for martial arts had surpassed even Zhu Wushi's, but he had later vanished without warning for some unknown reason. Zhu Wushi had subsequently withdrawn from Jianghu as well and returned to the imperial court, becoming the Iron Gallant Divine Marquis, whose power overshadowed court and country, within just a few years.
Now that this news had emerged, all of Jianghu was shaken.
No one had imagined that Zhu Wushi and Gu Santong had studied under the same master, or that such secrets lay behind Gu Santong's sudden disappearance all those years ago.
At once,