Chapter 170: The victor was king, the one moving the pieces [ten-thousand-word update, please subscribe to all chapters]
Another half month passed in the blink of an eye.
An oppressive tension lay beneath the calm in Jingzhou City.
By now, however, Secrets of the Linked Cities had spread, and many people were studying it.
In the little courtyard in South City.
Yu Huatian sat in the pavilion, with a copy of Secrets of the Linked Cities laid out before him.
"I have to say, the person behind this really is willing to part with something valuable."
Yu Huatian sighed in admiration.
To make the Jianghu forces in Jingzhou City believe in the existence of the Shenzhao Scripture, the mastermind had directly thrown out Secrets of the Linked Cities.
And it was the genuine Secrets of the Linked Cities.
The copy before Yu Huatian was a sword manual. Its moves were ingenious, unpredictable, and ever-changing. In terms of rank, it should have been on the same level as the Yan Family's Thirteen Life-Taking Swords.
A sword manual of this caliber would have countless people in Jianghu fighting until their heads split and blood flowed.
Yet now, almost everyone among Jingzhou City's Jianghu forces had a copy.
The Liancheng Sword Technique had become street-stall merchandise.
It had to be said that the mastermind was indeed exceedingly willing to part with valuables, and his calculations ran deep.
This Liancheng Sword Technique, like the Shenzhao Scripture, was one of Mei Niansheng's supreme arts. He was a renowned Wulin elder from forty years ago, and in his early years he had relied on it to sweep through Jianghu.
The mastermind had thrown out the Liancheng Sword Technique precisely to make people believe in the existence of the Shenzhao Scripture and the City-Linked Treasure.
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