Chapter 89: Wind filled the tower before the mountain storm
The Wudang Sect was the fountainhead of internal martial arts and an orthodox lineage of Daoism.
According to legend, however, the founding patriarch of the Wudang Sect, Zhang Sanfeng, had once belonged to the Shaolin Sect and been a disciple of Master Jueyuan of Shaolin Temple.
Later, a confluence of circumstances had led him to leave the Shaolin Sect and establish his own school, founding the Wudang Sect on Wudang Mountain. In just a few decades, he had brought glory to its name and become a Grandmaster of his generation.
By now, Zhang Sanfeng was over a hundred years old. Not only was his martial cultivation the greatest in the world, but his prestige in Wulin was also unrivaled.
With him presiding over it, the Wudang Sect had naturally become a towering authority on par with Shaolin Temple, drawing countless experts into its ranks.
Among them were Daoist Chongxu, Daoist Yu Cha, Daoist Yuji, Daoist Ziyang, Wooden Daoist, Shi Yan, Shi He, and other formidable figures who had once enjoyed considerable fame in Jianghu.
Moreover, each of Zhang Sanfeng's seven direct disciples possessed considerable strength. They had made names for themselves in Jianghu and were known as the Wudang Sect Seven Heroes.
In terms of its accumulated strength, the Wudang Sect was already every bit the equal of top powers such as Shaolin Temple, Snowmoon City, and the Money Gang, a subject Jianghu never tired of discussing.
Only thirty years earlier, when Zhang Sanfeng had withdrawn behind the scenes to refine his martial arts in seclusion and passed leadership to his eldest direct disciple, Song Yuanqiao, had that fanfare gradually subsided.
Yet with Zhang Sanfeng there, the Wudang Sect remained a force no one dared provoke.
The exception had come