Fake Demon Lord [BL]

19 - The Water Moon Manor and the Myriad Treasures Hall

Translator: THISBRO

Editor: Mimishijie

Proofreader: Bubbles

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As expected, Qian Ren was reliable. They were immediately able to find their inn.

Letting the disguised disciples go to their rooms to rest, He Ku tied Lin Xuan to a stool and personally kept an eye on him. He, himself, was resting on the bed, but what he was actually thinking about was the information Xiu Niang gave him on the Three Great Sects.

The current distribution of powers in the Jianghu should be three sects, one palace, and one pavilion. The first two, He Ku already knew, but this one pavilion referred to the Heaven's Library Pavilion.

The reason for classifying the Heaven's Library Pavilion apart from strictly good or evil was because they had a large number of ordinary disciples and rarely, if ever, participated in Jianghu competitions. Instead, they single-mindedly focused on exploring the four arts. So much so that as long as one had enough mastery over a certain aspect, they could be appointed as an elder even without any cultivation.

Their air and style really were incompatible with the idea of a Jianghu cultivator. Hence, even though everyone knew that there was a late-stage Yuan Ying cultivator behind the Pavilion, when it came to physical skirmishes, people would unconsciously leave them out.

There was nothing that He Huan didn't know with regard to the Xuanmen Righteous Sect, but it was only today that He Ku got a more specialized understanding of the other two great sects.

The path of cultivation needed no shortage of weapons and pills, yet 80% of the world's smiths and alchemists were in the Myriad Treasures Hall Sect. In addition to that, every head of the Myriad Treasures Hall was responsible for trading and buying any necessary raw materials for those masters.

Specifically, the position the Myriad Treasures Hall's ten patriarchs had was similar to He Huan's. They all used their high cultivation to offer protection for those under them. The difference was that as long as you were a Myriad Treasures Hall patriarch, you could freely request the sect's masters to provide weapons and medicine as payment for their protection.

Such an unending flow of the world's best medicines and treasure, the ten patriarchs' cultivation would obviously progress extremely quickly. Currently, they were all Yuan Ying level masters. Among those, three of them were in the late stage of Yuan Ying cultivation, just one step away from Calamity Crossing.

As for the current lead patriarch, Lin FaCai[1], although his name was bad, he was exceedingly good at refining treasures and weapons. He had a gold abacus where each bead was a weapon, so it could be said that he was armed to the teeth. If he were in a life or death battle, he might even be able to hold off a Calamity Crossing cultivator until he could escape.

If it weren't for the fact that Xuanmen Righteous Sect's cultivation technique was too heaven-defying, and whoever was chosen would be able to ascend without a doubt, it would be unknown who the 'Jianghu Strongest' position would belong to.

Unlike the Myriad Treasures Hall, the Water Moon Manor was an all-women sect that kept with the tradition of shifu leading disciples. The sect technique 'Ethereal Reflections[2]' had one specialty—they could dual cultivate with any technique without having to worry about incompatibility. Regardless of the cultivator, as long as they could become dao companions with a Water Moon woman, then their cultivation was bound to make rapid progress.

Because of this, the Water Moon Manor had been coveted by male cultivators for close to a hundred years, and their disciples were often kidnapped by vile men. Fortunately, several of the Manor Ladies had voluntarily married into many of the major sects at that time. It was only after receiving the protection of their husband's family that the disciples had time to practice. But to this day, this sect was still very wary of men.