Chapter 83: Shu Tang Clan
Jiangnan, Lei Family Fort.
Ever since the Lei Sect's founding elder had sealed away his saber and hung up his sword, Lei Family Fort had forbidden its disciples from using sabers or swords, focusing instead on developing firearms. Over the following decades, they had earned considerable renown in that field, securing their place among Jianghu's first-rate powers.
At their peak, in particular, their strength had nearly placed them among the very best of those first-rate powers.
Each of the "Four Heroes of the Lei Sect" had once made a considerable name for himself in Jianghu.
But storms could rise from clear skies. Perhaps it was simply that prosperity, taken to its height, had to give way to decline.
An upheaval ten years earlier had changed everything. Lei Yunhe, the eldest of the Four Heroes, had lost an arm to the Daoist Sword Immortal Zhao Yuzhen, ranked fourth on the Ming Sword God Ranking. He had lost his fighting spirit afterward and vanished without a trace. The second, Lei Hong, had become obsessed with the Sword Dao after fighting the Snowmoon Sword Immortal Li Hanyi. Breaking the Lei Sect's oath, he had developed the Slaughter Terror Sword, combining the sect's firearms with a sword, and had been expelled. The third, Lei Mengsha, had violated another ancestral rule—"never enter the imperial court"—and joined the court, later dying on the battlefield.
Only the youngest, Lei Qianhu, had remained to shoulder the duty of protecting the Lei Sect.
The once-flourishing Lei Sect had declined from then on, its strength no longer what it had been.
And now, the Lei Sect's leader was Lei Qianhu, the youngest of the Four Heroes.
At that moment.
Inside the Lei Sect, Lei Qianhu wore a fitted black martial outfit, but for some reason