Lord Shadow

The mountaintop of the Five Element Mountains is mystery and home to Demons and Devils. This is what the people of Silhae had always believed.

Even though the people believed in the Demon King, they worship him because they fear him. While some of the more ascetic group of believers believe in his other form the Holy Monkey of Enlightenment.

There have always been two aspect of the Demon Monkey.

There is that aspect of him as a fearsome Demon General attacking the Heavenly Court and there is the aspect of him becoming a Holy Monkey and attain awakening of the consciousness of all things.

But there is another reason why they called it mysterious and why they dreaded coming near the mountains.

It is because something unusual only happen on top of that mountaintop and nowhere else.

What is unusual?

It means something that is not habitually or commonly occurring or done. When spring came while most mountain would have some plants sprouting out, or a dry barren area, the thing is different for the Five Element Mountain.

When spring came, on top of that mountain, a paradise like scene would presented itself to whoever dares to climb it.

There is glowing flowers with variety of colors, there is green grass as green as those in a huge fertile field, and butterflies would fly around the mountaintop.

It looks nothing like a mountaintop and more like a large wide garden encompassing all the area of the top

One of Silhae officials once wanted to seclude himself on top of the mountain but when spring came and he saw this scene, while it is beautiful, it scared him and he went down the mountain

Since then there is many other things that made people avoid the mountain. One of them is the five peaks that is separated from each other that looks like finger. So, the mountain has another name by the people of Silhae.

The Five Finger Mountain.

When Xi Feng come from Yong to Silhae, while he did know of all of this he did not pay much attention to it.

Probably because he is form Yong, he did not share such fear or deep reverence to the mountain like the people around it.

But after a few seasons of living on top of the mountain he understands why people called the mountain a mysterious place.

In spring there is this trees that sprouted at an astoundingly fast rate with colorful fruits hanging off from its branches.

He once tested it on animals and they did not die eating it even after a few weeks of observation so he and his disciple would always wait for spring to come to taste the fruit.

It is not only full of water, it is also sweet and good for replenishing energy after training. While this kind of sight would scare the natives of Silhae, Xi Feng only thought it happens because the mountain might have a different kind of climate.

The Sage of Knowledge once espouses such theory on certain changes of the world weather.

So, Xi Feng lived quite peacefully on top of this mountain with his disciple. But not everyone knows this.

In the winter, it looks like an immortal abode with mist and clouds around it and in spring it is like a heavenly paradise of abundance and fertility

So when the entourage of the orthodox and heterodox sects arrived at the top, they were shocked and awe.

Most of these people come from Zhou or Yong and there are only a few people from the North and even they rarely see this kind of scene on top of the mountaintop.

‘This is….’ Tukhla was speechless when he arrived at the top. What he expected to see and what he sees is two different thing

And he was not the only that is lost for words. All of the people that arrived look at the scenery with bewilderment and look of disbelief.

Then as they recollected their shock they realize that there is three person standing not far away from them.

Some of the heterodox sect quickly raise up their guard.

The same could be said for the orthodox sect. It takes them a few seconds before they realize who those three people are as they lowered down their guards.

Some of them sighed looking at those three and also amazed.

It is the Three Devils of Han. Standing in the middle of the other two Devils is the Crippled Devil.

Many people from both of the orthodox or heterodox sect sighed because they felt wistful.

Just before they all saw the Crippled Devil is on the foot of the mountain but now he has appeared on top of the mountain and he doesn’t even seem tired or fatigue.

It is clear that the Crippled Devil is truly reaching near the border of the grandmaster. When he does reach such level, the Imperial family of Yong will not just stand still

The orthodox sect sighed because they know that when that times comes, there will be another bloody struggle in the martial arts world once again.

And some of them sighed, thinking how lucky this Xi Feng really is to be protected by such experts.

What could compel such experts to help Xi Feng and even serve him? Is it truly because as the rumors said, that Xi Feng have reached the boundary of a grandmaster?

Or does he possess some weakness of the Three Devils of Han?

Whatever the case, all the people seeing the Three Devils of Han is feeling complicated in their hearts right now.

Some more than others. Inside this crowd of the orthodox sects and heterodox sects there are also another faction of martial artist that did not belong to one of the camps

It is the martial artist that served the Imperial Court. And they have their own reason for appearing on top of the mountain today.

Some of them are from Yong and some of them from Zhou.

But no one notices them.

That is simply because they blend perfectly with the other martial artist. Hiding in plain sight

Some of these martial artist of the imperial family is on the heterodox sect, some of them is on the orthodox sect.

But the truth is, these martial artists only have loyalty for the imperial family of which they serve.

Shockingly enough, the two rival dynasty of the Southern dynasties seems to be cooperating in this matter.

And their objectives are a mystery. But whatever their objectives are, it is clear it had something to do with Xi Feng.

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We are starting slow but let me just say we will be ending in an explosive way the end of this month. Leave some comments and please vote for the story. See you tomorrow.