Chapter 276 - 141: Assuming Command of the Daoist School, Becoming the Martial Arts Master! An Arrest Warrant? The New Prefecture Commander Once Taught Me Arrow Skill

Chapter 276: Chapter 141: Assuming Command of the Daoist School, Becoming the Martial Arts Master! An Arrest Warrant? The New Prefecture Commander Once Taught Me Arrow Skill

In front of the Ancestral Hall, the air fell deathly still.

The few words spoken by the youth carrying the Sword Plaque and a greatbow on his back revealed a staggering amount of information.

It took everyone present a long moment to process it all.

In his peripheral vision, Ji Xiu saw a middle-aged swordsman in a blue robe, a giant carrying a Copper Gold Earth Fire Hammer on his back, an elegant elder with purple Qi roiling around him and a divine light in his eyes, and a Boxer wearing a pair of Iron Spike Gloves, his own eyes sharp and brilliant.

At a rough glance,

there were at least six Grandmasters in the crowd, each one radiating a more oppressive and intimidating aura than Gu Qix back at the ferry docks.

’This is quite the lineup...’

Ji Xiu thought to himself.

But his footsteps did not stop; he only tightened his grip on the Sword Plaque in his hand.

’I wonder if this Martial Saint Blade Plaque, left by a ’Titled Level’ expert, can hold up against such a grand affair.’

’Then again, these are all Grandmasters. Judging by their appearance and auras, they must be heroes of their respective domains. They wouldn’t stoop so low as to give a mere Skin Refining Martial Artist a hard time, would they?’

’That would be a huge loss of face.’

Meanwhile,

Chen Hex was also stunned to see Ji Xiu’s sudden arrival.

Sitting in a wheelchair with both legs broken, the pale-faced Third True Inheritance, Yuu Zhai, felt his lips twitch involuntarily.

’So this is... the little junior brother from Anning County?’

The disciples attending him—the Fourth True Inheritance, Li Songxi, and the Sixth True Inheritance, Yinn Hong, who had met Ji Xiu once before—exchanged glances and nodded.

They were utterly shocked.

’This disciple Junior Martial Uncle Duan took in... he’s got some serious nerve!’

The two of them had only met him once when Ji Xiu arrived on the island and did not know him well.

But not knowing Ji Xiu well didn’t mean they were unaware of the significance of today’s gathering.

After that Junior Martial Uncle Duan fell, even though he had been removed from the roster, their Master still set up a cenotaph for him to honor the bond between martial brothers.

However,

even though Junior Martial Uncle Duan was gone, the debts he had incurred upon his return to the Prefecture remained.

Gathered here today were all the renowned Grandmasters from the Prefecture’s ’Daoist School Street’.

The six at the forefront were even more distinguished. They were the Daoist School Masters of the ’six great mountains’ of Jiangyin Prefecture, each possessing Secret Martial Arts, presiding over their own schools, and holding intricate ties to the larger Schools they represented.

At this moment, they were all gathered for one purpose:

to crush the ’Celestial Blade Daoist School’!

The inheritance of a School, aside from its True Inheritance disciples, relies mostly on its Separate Mansions on Daoist School Street in Jiangyin Prefecture to recruit and screen new Disciples.

But after Wang Xuanyang’s disappearance, the Celestial Blade School lost its ’Celestial Blade Daoist School’ plaque. In its place, the Grandmasters of other Schools moved in, carving it up until nothing was left.

This was the rule of the Martial Arts world: the strong devour the weak. Without a champion to carry the banner, you couldn’t hold on to the fame and fortune, and you had to make way for the next in line.

The prestige of that No. 1 plot of land, situated at the very end of the street, had been built up over countless years by the dozens of Daoist Schools that had come and gone on Jiangyin Prefecture’s Daoist School Street.

And with Jiangyin Prefecture’s household population in the tens of millions, who could say that a few martial arts prodigies wouldn’t emerge from among them?

If they wanted to practice martial arts, they either had to join a Grand Lineage as a servant or rely on their own talent to enter a Daoist School.

And the top spot, ranked ’No. 1 Martial Arts Leader’...

was naturally coveted by all.

The ’Celestial Blade Daoist School’ plaque had been sealed away for over a decade.

But a month ago,

Duan Chenzhou became a Grandmaster. With a blade in hand, he went to the Daoist Schools established by the six great mountains and left his mark, slashing the plaque of every single one.

According to the rules of the Martial Arts Schools, passed down through generations,

on Daoist School Street, if any school’s disciple proved their worth by challenging and defeating the masters of the six ’Great Daoist Schools’ that governed the street’s affairs...

they would earn the right to place their own name above them.

And Duan Chenzhou had challenged the ’Great Daoist Hall Masters’ from the six great mountains... and defeated every single one, without exception. He then re-hung his own plaque.

He didn’t open a school or take on disciples. He simply let that plaque hang at the very end of Daoist School Street, reducing the dozens of other schools, large and small, to mere background decoration, like stars paying homage to the moon.

It wasn’t that the masters of the six Great Daoist Schools didn’t have powerful patrons—experts at the Leakless or even Dragon and Tiger Attainment realms.

But those figures were from Wang Xuanyang’s generation. If they were to step in and bully the younger generation for fame and profit, they would become a laughingstock, mocked behind their backs.

If you couldn’t stomach the loss and killed him in private, that was a personal vendetta.

But to do it openly would show you were petty and that your school had no worthy successors—that you couldn’t produce a prodigy capable of defending the legacy of your School and Daoist School.

To a Martial Artist, Power Fist is paramount;

but for opening a school and teaching disciples...

...producing a peerless prodigy who can dominate all other schools is the true key to bringing glory to one’s own Secret Martial legacy.

So, according to the rules,

with Duan Chenzhou gone,

they had come to find his ’legacy’—his school—to ask them to their faces: will you defend this plaque, or will you not?

If you would not defend it, you had to admit it before his very coffin.

If you would defend it...

...then your most outstanding True Inheritance disciple of the current generation must step forward and repeat the feat!

The difference was that Duan Chenzhou had been the challenger, but this time... it would be a defense.

Generally speaking, after hanging the plaque, if one is to defend the Daoist School, one must accept all challenge tokens without exception!

That’s why these two True Inheritance disciples of the Celestial Blade School were so utterly astounded by Ji Xiu’s words.

The True Inheritance disciples taught by Chen Hex, without exception, had all cultivated Outer Gang.

But not even Yuu Zhai, their Third Senior Brother, who was the second most outstanding among the disciples and the one in whom their Master placed the greatest hope, dared to speak so boldly.