Raging Flame City was managed by Raging Flame Villa, a second rate sect. It was one of the 13 cities under the rule of the Brilliant Saber sect . The Brilliant Saber sect was itself under the management of the Sword Pavillion.
The Brilliant Saber sect controlled Zhou Province, which covered an area of 15,000m^². It could be considered an average province, neither small nor big. The Zhao family that Lin Feng had offended was a distant branch of the one in charge of the Saber sect.
The capital of Zhou Province and the home to Brilliant Saber Sect was the Regressing city. The name didn't imply the decline of the city, rather it had a different story about it.
It was not the largest city in Zhao Province but it was the most important one for obvious reasons. It was located at the base of Saber Seven Severing peaks. It consisted of seven mountain peaks of different heights with a flat top.
The city was divided into outer region and inner region. As the inner region solely belonged to the Sect. There was a Pavillion in the center of inner region, 1000m height in size. It was in the shape of a saber stuck to ground.
Surrounding it were smaller buildings but still big in size . There was a Marital art arena divided into 16 blocks in front of the Pavillion. The sect was divided into three circles. The core circle with the Pavillion inside was the core area where core disciples and inner elders resided.
The inner area was where inner disciples lived with outer elders supervising them. The outer area was for outer disciples with inner disciples as their supervisor. Each area had a seperate building for it's servants.
The Sect master and core elders didn't live inside the core region, but over the Saber Seven Severing peaks. The size of peak decided the position of the person living there.
The highest peak was not taken by the Sect master but by the Great Elder who was also his uncle and a peak Tribulation Transcendence Cultivator ! His name was Zhao Zexian. Since he lost in the fight for the seat of sect master with the father of the current sect master , he became the Great Elder of the sect.
After the previous sect master died, he became the most powerful Cultivator of his sect and his position was even better than the sect master. But he didn't interfere much in the matter of sect and focused only on reaching Mahayana Realm.
The second peak was obviously taken by the the current sect master, Zhao Xuefeng.
He was a late Tribulation Transcendence expert, only one step behind the Great Elder. Despite being of one generation lower, he left behind the core elders and almost caught up the Great Elder. This spoke plenty of his talent.
The third peak was an exception as the person living here had a special status. He was the adopted son of Zhao Zexian and the direct disciple of Zhao Xuefeng. The Holy son of Saber Sect , Zhao Li.
The only Son of the sect leader was killed by Shen Ziyen.
And since it was too late to birth another son , the Great Elder and Sect master decided to adopt the most outstanding core disciple. He had both of their support so his position was rock solid and he was just below the likes of Shen Ziyen and Feng Aotian.
He didn't disappoint them, and cultivated hard and reached Mid-stage Soul Fusion at the age of 750 years. People even said that he might reach Divine Transformation before 1000, and his talent was comparable to the the direct disciples of Major Sects.
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On top of the third peak a youth was practising his Saber arts. He had a refined character and his movements were graceful. He was practising the fundamental of Saber arts - cut , slash , stab , pierce , parry. He didn't practice any Cultivation techniques.
He repeated the same again and again. When he was exhausted he sat in a meditative pose and circulated his Cultivation. After 30 minutes, he got up and repeated the same movements, faster and more sharply.
At some point there was a faint silver glow on his saber , but before he could understand what's happening, he collapsed. It seems like he had exhausted himself.
Before he could get up, he saw a stretched hand towards him, with help he got up and saw the person in front of him. Seeing an unknown person, his hand reached his saber but weirdly he couldn't pull it out. It seemed to be stuck.
" Relax, i don't mean any harm, well actually I do but it's not that." The Stanger told him some stupid words which made him even more tensed.
" Who are you? What do you want ?" Zhao Li gave up on resisting and asked directly.
" Who I am is not important but what I want is your name." Tian replied as he pointed his finger at Zhao Li. He didn't even get the chance to resist before a ball of light entered his body.
He touched his face and clutched his hair but he couldn't think anything.
"Wh-Who are you? No, who am I? Where is this ?"
His appreance changed, and he even forgot his own identity.
And with a flick of his Tian's finger he disappeared from this world forever.
" Who you are doesn't matter, but who you'll become does. Though late, you have touched the threshold of Saber intent. A Tier 2 World is not a place meant for you, where you were about to die anyway in 2 months. So I sent you to where you belong, don't miss the chance." 'Tian' was talking to himself as his appearance changed to that of 'Zhao Li' .
Ren still sleeping over his shoulder was just snoring the whole time. She didn't want to wake up for something so trivial.
Zhao Li picked up the space ring which the original owner dropped. He took out a manual from inside . The name was " Seven Severing Saber".
This was the core Cultivation technique of Saber Sect. The Mountain peaks got their name from this only.
" Seven Slashes to Severe your enemy's Dao. An incomplete Technique from the original Seven Spectrum Slashes of Joyous Sect. As I thought, this World wasn't a Tier-2 world originally. There are many variables.
It doesn't matter though."
He flipped through a manual in a casual manner and closed it keeping it back inside the storage ring.
Next, he picked the saber lying on the ground and stood into a stance and performed all seven Slashes one by one.
" First Slash: Meteor Fall "
" Second Slash: Mystic wind "
" Third Slash: Raging Inferno "
" Fourth Slash: Earthen Wall "
" Fifth Slash: Leaping Carp "
" Sixth Slash: Turtle in Sea "
" Seventh Slash: Regressing"
"Amusing Martial arts, Carps and Turtles. Why didn't they put Dragons and Phoenix here too. Truthfully, it's not a bad Technique."
Left with nothing more to do Zhao Li went inside his Adobe and took a rest. The next morning he descended the mountain with 'Tian' next to him. This time it was not Ren, but himself.
There was no such thing as Real and fake between the two. Both were as real as Sun and Moon. It was not a Dao Avatar, neither a clone or an illusion. Just an another him. It might be impossible for others to do such thing, but not for him.
As both of them went towards the Sect master's hall , people were talking behind them about who was the person next to their Holy son. Their Holy son was walking two steps behind that man. His identity was not so simple!
The Hall was located on the 99th floor of the Saber Pavillion which was located in the center of the City. There were 4 gates on each side of the Pavillion. Each gate led to different teleportation channel.
The North gate channel can take you to any floor from 1-20 which were used for Alchemy purpose, East gate channel took you to floor 21-40 which was Weapon division where disciples and elders can choose a weapon with their contribution points.
The west gate channel led to floor 41-60 , which was the Sect Library. All the manuals related to Cultivation the Sect had were stored here. And the South gate channel took the person to any floor from 61-80, there were Cultivation rooms engraved with Qi Condesing Formations ranging from low to high tier.
Whereas floor 61 had 20 rooms engraved with 1-star Iron Formation each, rooms on floor 62 had two such formations but there were only 19 rooms. Finally floor 80 had only 1 room with a 1-star Silver formation. Obviously the price increased as one went higher.
To reach above floor 80, one had to go through the central teleportation channel guarded by one core elder and two inner elders all the time.
All the floors above 80 were for only official matters. Today was such day. Two Core elders at Mid- Tribulation Transcendence Realm, Four Inner elders at Half-Step Tribulation Transcendence Stage , the Sect Master who was at Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage and even the Great Elder at Peak- Tribulation Transcendence , all were present at floor 99.
Reason? Because their Holy Son, Zhao Li had called for meeting related to an important matter. The core elders and rest ofcourse couldn't ignore his summons and the Zhao Zexian and Zhao Xuefeng didn't wanted to embarrass him, so all of them arrived.
" Elder Hai, do you know why Holy son has called all of us on such short notice ?" one of the Inner elder , Elder Wen asked Elder Zhao Hai who was a core elder.
" Hmm, I don't have any news. But if I had to guess it must be something related to his cultivation otherwise that child wouldn't disturb us like this." Elder Hai replied while stroking his beard.
" That's right, Son Li is a Hard working and polite man. Not like those hot-blooded young master of other First class sects. " Elder Sun , the other core elder replied.
It seemed that Zhao Li was well liked by all elders. His status was not the only reason for it, he came forward when his sect needed him most and recovered the loss of previous Holy Son.
The hall occupied the full floor and was about 1000m^² big in size. The Sect Master and Great Elder were sitting side by side at the highest step, followed by core elders one step down and finally inner elders. There were no seats for outer elders even if they joined the meeting.
The whole time , Zhao Zexian and Zhao Xuefeng didn't say anything and were sitting closed eyes , trying to meditate.
Suddenly the teleportation channel flashed and two people came out.
They all saw that their Holy son was following a man who looked handsome and elegant. There was a cat over his shoulder licking her paws .
Zhao Xuefeng and Zhao Zexian were alerted. They were feeling danger from these two. But before they could do anything, Zhao Li came forward and stopped them.
" Zhao Li greets Master , Father and all elders present. Master, Father please calm down. Master Tian is not an enemy." He greeted all of them and controlled the situation.
Since he was adopted by Great Elder, he called him Father most of times , even in front of others. No one minded that, some even thought he was attached to Great Elder.
Listening to Zhao Li, all of them calmed down and prepared themselves for an explanation.
" Zhao Li, who is this Senior? Explain so we can understand. " Zhao Xuefeng afterall was not an unreasonable person. Though he felt danger from these two, that was because they had higher Cultivation then them. This didn't mean that they necessarily had hostile intentions.
Tian came forward at this time and cupped his hand in Greetings " Greetings fellow daoists, my surname is Tian, you can call me Master Tian. "
This time all of them were shocked. They could feel that this person had very Cultivation, especially the Great Elder. He knew that this person was a Mahayana Realm Cultivator and a strong one at that. But he was calling them all fellow daoists?