Below Shiyue Peak, before the great hall, countless pine trees grew around the stone platform.
The winter wind blew, shaking the accumulated snow from the trees with a soft rustle, as though another snowfall had come.
The stewards had long since swept the snow on the stone platform to one side. It gradually melted in the sunlight, yet made the air there a little colder.
Tonglu's gaze was cold as he looked at the Green Mountain disciples before him and said, "Jing Jiu actually doesn't dare accept my challenge. That hardly seems like the way your Green Mountain Sword Sect does things."
The Western Sea Sword Sect had come this time because of the upcoming Four Seas Banquet, hoping to invite the Green Mountain Sect to send some people of standing.
The Western Sea Sword Sect's elders would negotiate those matters with the masters of Shiyue Peak. Tonglu formally issued his challenge, and Divine End Peak refused it, without the slightest surprise.
"Fellow Daoist Tonglu, if you truly wish to exchange pointers, I'd like to try," Yao Songshan said. "Or you can pick any one of us."
"You're no match for me, and neither are the others," Tonglu said. "Why bother with a needless exercise?"
In the past, in circumstances like these, the ones responsible for receiving Tonglu would have been Guo Nanshan, Gu Han, or other highly ranked disciples of Twofold Forgetting Peak.
But because of a certain matter, they had been punished under the sect's rules and had not left their cave abodes for two years.
Tonglu vaguely guessed that the matter must have been Luo Huainan's death.
Yao Songshan ranked eleventh on Twofold Forgetting Peak. He knew he truly was no match for Tonglu, and was not particularly angry at those words.
"In my view, Fellow Daoist