The Left Guard Station was only thirteen li from Mount Hua. Cao Jinxing led his army down the main road, heading straight for Chaoyang Peak, the Eastern Peak.
News of the Pure Yang Stone Inscription's appearance had already spread throughout the Jianghu. It concerned Patriarch Lü's legacy, a supreme fourth-grade martial art. One told ten, ten told a hundred, and soon everyone was talking about it!
Sects great and small rushed toward Mount Hua under the pretext of exterminating the Demon Cult.
How much of that was for their own benefit remained unknown.
Along the way, the army had already spotted three groups: the Songhua Sect, based at Songhua Temple on Songhua Mountain; Beggar Gang disciples from near Lotus Mountain; and the Kongtong Sect, whose reputation and strength were slightly inferior to the Mount Hua Sect's.
All the Kongtong Five Elders had come this time, but their cultivation fell short of the Six Masters of Mount Hua.
Their strongest member, the sect leader, was only at late Tongyou. Of the remaining four, two had only just entered Tongyou. With strength like that, they could do little more than pick up scraps.
Sima Yuan had killed the Six Masters with ease. Although Yue Zongwu's injuries had played a part, Sima Yuan's own fighting prowess was no trifling matter. Ordinary people would only be throwing their lives away.
Besides, Sima Yuan was not the Demon Cult's only member.
"I heard from the Susha Gang that Sima Yuan also invited the Maitreya Sect's Spirit Child!"
"He's here too? That little fellow looks like a child, but he's ruthless and kills without blinking!"
"Yes. A huge number of Demon Cult followers have already gathered below Chaoyang Peak, not just from the Peace Sect, but the Maitreya Sect too. The incense masters from several hidden