NOVEL NEXT Chapter 317: Xuanji Nebula
The Tianyin family entrusted Hidden Sword Manor to Tie Dan for guarding, and simply ran away.
Of course, ostensibly, it was to escort the first batch of resources collected from Genzhou, various firewood spirit stones, heavenly materials treasures, and hostage children back to the mountain. In essence, it was to leave the mess of the Shen Family entirely to Tie Dan.
Despicable as it was, at least they weren't playing coy games and laid the inside story bare, plus they offered three hundred Soldier Repelling Coins outright. In other words, as long as Tie Dan handled this matter for them, there'd be no problem for him to enter the mountain competition, the Nine Yin Ascension.
What's more, after all, this was the karmic debt your master accumulated back then, the favor that was owed, and now you're given a chance to settle it. Do you want to or not?
So naturally, Tie Dan accepted it.
Between master and disciple, it's only rightful.
Besides, who else but Tie Dan, would take up the burden of Guangxia Mountain?
Thus, Tie Dan began using the broken sword given by Tianyin for calculations.
This was of course a personal item left by Shen Huai back then. By using this sword for calculations, he could uncover the whereabouts of the four sons and eight misses of the Shen family.
Moreover, each of them had a Sword Sect treasure sword sealed inside their bodies for suppression. You could say that even if they fled to the ends of the earth, they couldn't escape the grasp of the Sword Sect.
It is evident that behind these people, other old mystics must have been secretly guiding and obstructing from the shadows, but not everyone has a hidden manipulator.
Taking Shen Yong for example, with Tie Dan's calculations and the internal details from Tianyin's side of gossip, it comes to light that in his past life, he must have been one of the Sword Sect Outer Mountain Disciples following Shen Huai.
Back then, Shen Huai had received an invitation to train with a group of mystic disciples and encountered a calamity. Chen Huzi had been drawn away, and the Sword Sect sent three people as guards to ensure nothing went wrong.
Who knew one was an insider, one a traitor, and one a fool? They colluded inside and out, deliberately sabotaging, dragging feet instead of helping Shen Huai escape and undergo his tribulation, effectively pushing him further into the trap. It was like giving him a shove instead of a helping hand.
So now, this fool took the punishment, lived another life, yet knew to bring his daughter back, acknowledging he'd erred, fallen into someone's ploy, and betrayed the master's trust, thus willingly accepted his punishment.
As for the other two, they didn't dare show up, clearly refusing to acknowledge themselves as disciples of the Sword Sect. They must be pursued and cut down to retrieve the swords.
Regarding Shen Xiaorong, Shen Wuyi, their situation was somewhat different.
Although they were among the twelve, evidently, they had no ancestral patrons, for when the Immortal Palace hunted them, no one stepped forward to save them, forcing them to wield their swords for self-rescue.
Shen Wuyi barely had a senior brother, but he was only infatuated with her body, only remembering her face upon seeing it.
And looking at the setup in Kongming Cave Heaven, merely one Zhongxuan Sect and three Xiao Xuan Sects, Tie Dan alone can easily sweep through. Even five hundred years ago, they weren't that formidable.
Presumably, these two were also minor sect mixed cultivators or Hidden Immortal descendants back then, not much stronger than those Sword Sect Outer Mountain Disciples. They were all young novices entering Jianghu, with shallow foundations, purely manipulated and coaxed in to obscure heavenly mechanisms.
Perhaps, they harbored no actual schemes in their hearts and just fell for Shen Huai and got exploited in the end.
Besides, seeing that all three have married, settled, and taken root, probably having no intention to stir this muddy water, nor awakening any past souls, let alone feuding with their master or stealing the Heavenly Demon Seed to score great merit for their masters.
But at least they avoided the calamity of being killed and are now serving obediently at Hidden Sword Manor, hence there's no need to trouble them.
Moreover, like Jian Jia, Su'e, and the Young Master, the third generation of the Shen family, are actually unrelated to the karma of those days, so they won't be held accountable for those past grudges. All possess talent and Immortal Fate, capable of rejoining the Sword Sect ranks.
According to this calculation, among the remaining seven, there's no doubt some have Level 1 backgrounds in the nine major sects, possibly even the Sect Leader Ancestors personally guiding people to seize the Heavenly Demon Seed.
Just as the Sword Sect cultivated Shen Huai, specifically nurturing through two lives to instill a sense of belonging to the sect. These seven bear the crucial mission to steal the demon seed back to their sect, and to deal with someone like Shen Huai with supreme heavenly talent, they can't just be any reckless newbies.
Aren't they those who have crossed one or two lifetimes before, already possessing Nascent Soul Cultivation, seeing the Sword Sect Heavenly Demon about to form, purposely soldier disintegrating for re-forging, waiting to plot against him.
In any case, in these five hundred years, even if their Primordial Spirits are suppressed by treasure swords, the bloodline of the Shen family naturally possesses exceptional talent, with their masters backing and guiding behind the scenes, likely reincarnated and re-cultivated with endless Immortal Fates, advancing all the way. Their cultivation realm is definitely not lower than those three without protection of number two, three, or eight.
Therefore, calculated thus, these people have at least reached the Golden Core Peak Realm, and many may very well be on the verge of breaking through, awakening their past souls.
Yes, specializing in the Primordial Spirit Method enhances the Divine Soul, hence even at the Golden Core Realm, there's a decent chance of awakening past souls. Like Xiao Liu, with a foundation in the Divine Sect, once they form a core, they almost completely awaken their past cultivation, recalling past life cultivation practices, all kinds of Heavenly Book Divine Skills, Immortal Fate, consolidating and erupting, power skyrocketing exponentially.
So now it's indeed a bit troublesome; Tie Dan no longer has the leisure to sit and cultivate; he must set off immediately, chop off those seven heads one by one, or else the Dao Seed might really get taken back to their mountain gates. As for something like Kongming Cave Heaven, fine, but can you really assault the headquarter of the nine major sects to snatch them away?