Ling Tian Sword God

Chapter 1107 - 1106: Unknown World

Regarding each sect, this "Nine Provinces Sect Records" contains introductions. For example, the Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao is an ancient sect with a history of three thousand years. It was once designated as the state religion by the Central Dynasty and lasted for a thousand years. It was reputed to follow the will of Heaven and practice according to the Heavenly Dao, having a tremendous influence in the entire realm of the Nine Province Sect.Take the Divine Female Sect as another example. This sect appears rather unique, advocating a rule where the wife is the master and women are revered. Those holding the highest authority in the sect are exclusively women. If men join the Divine Female Sect, they can only serve as the lowest-ranked disciples, subject to exploitation and oppression, with no chance of advancing to higher ranks.

Other sects each have their own characteristics and distinctive styles. The Cloud Mud Temple promotes Buddhism, showing mercy and aiming to save all beings and enlighten people. The Taiqing Palace remains detached from the world, avoiding worldly and Jianghu matters, and advocates "governing by non-interference."

The Sword Casting Villa is renowned for forging divine weapons, especially the art of sword casting, which is uniquely exceptional in the world. Many famous so-called renowned swords and divine swords on the Nine Provinces Land today mostly originate from the Sword Casting Villa.

Next are the Desolate Fire City and Lingyue Island.

The foundation of these two major sects is shallower compared to the aforementioned major sects. The founding of both these major sects is less than a thousand years old, and their rise to become super sects is undoubtedly even shorter.

Interestingly, these two sects with the shallowest foundations seem to be at odds with each other. Historically, they have had continuous conflicts and disputes, and have never been at peace with one another.

Among these Eight Great Sects, only one, the Human Demon Hall, is exceedingly mysterious compared to the other seven. The "Nine Provinces Sect Records" contains only a few words about it, but what is known is that it is a sect of the Demon Way.

Ling Chen continued reading. Aside from these Eight Great Sects, there are other powerful forces on the Nine Provinces Land. Although they are not included among the Eight Great Sects, their strength can rival them. For example, the ancient Heavenly Eye Clan, and those mysterious and unfathomable semi-human forces in the boundless seas, are likely all entities capable of challenging the Eight Great Sects.

Closing the "Nine Provinces Sect Records," Ling Chen gained a preliminary understanding of the current sect situation on the Nine Provinces Land.

Lingyue Island belongs to one of the Eight Great Super Sects and could be considered a dominator in its own right. However, this is merely a description, not to say that these eight sects are the strongest and the dominators of the entire Nine Provinces.

Returning the "Nine Provinces Sect Records" to the shelf, Ling Chen took down another bamboo scroll.

This bamboo scroll was titled "Nine Provinces Geographical Records," primarily documenting the geographical situation of the entire Nine Provinces Land.

The "Nine Provinces Geographical Records" is divided into a Continental Chapter and an Overseas Chapter.

Ling Chen primarily reviewed the Overseas Chapter.

The map of the entire Nine Provinces was much larger than Ling Chen had imagined. Especially the entire overseas area, Ling Chen originally thought the area previously dominated by the Witch Fiend Sect was roughly the entire East Sea, but this notion was undoubtedly very wrong.

The Witch Fiend Sect’s area was merely in the shallow sea area near the Nine Provinces Continent, occupying only a small part of the entire overseas realm.

The vast East Sea, boundless and extensive, spans tens of thousands of miles, with Yingzhou to the north and the Penglai Island Territory to the south.

These two places are both extremely mysterious and unpredictable to Ling Chen.

"So the world of the sects is so vast and colorful."

While reading the books, Ling Chen was also amazed. These were things he could never have imagined before, because his strength and level were not enough, he couldn’t even come into contact with these things, which also proved an unchanging truth.

The stronger one’s strength, the larger the world they inhabit becomes.

Although the physical size of this world hasn’t changed, on the macro level, the world has grown larger, and many unknown things have become known.

In a brief day within the Scripture Pavilion, Ling Chen felt his knowledge and insight had greatly expanded.

This growth was not a strengthening of ability, but it was just as important as improving one’s strength.

Closing the "Nine Provinces Geographical Records" again, Ling Chen put the bamboo scroll back.

Now he had a rough understanding of the sect’s situation in the Nine Provinces, having gained a lot today, it was also time to leave.

"Ling Chen, there you are. I’ve been looking for you for quite a while."

Just as Ling Chen was about to leave the Scripture Pavilion, a slender female figure with a faint fragrance appeared in front of Ling Chen, emerging from behind a bookshelf beside him.

It was none other than Lin Wan.

An ancient array formation within this Scripture Pavilion suppressed everyone’s aura to an extremely low level, so at this moment, Ling Chen hadn’t noticed Lin Wan’s approach.

Ling Chen’s expression was slightly surprised and he said, "So it’s Elder Sister Lin. Is there anything important?"

"The Second Elder is looking for you."

Lin Wan nodded slightly, "She seems to be in a hurry."

"Oh? Something urgent?"

Ling Chen’s eyebrows raised slightly. What could possibly make Shen Bingxin urgently seek him?

"It seems there’s news about the Cold Condensing Pearl."

Lin Wan glanced around, then lowered her voice, "It’s said that there’s a lead on the Cold Condensing Pearl in the Penglai Island Territory."

"So it’s about the Cold Condensing Pearl? Then please take me to see Elder Shen, no, Master."

Ling Chen’s eyes lit up. No wonder this matter made Shen Bingxin anxious, for there was news about the Cold Condensing Pearl.

"The Second Elder has been waiting for you at your courtyard. Come, follow me."

Lin Wan nodded, leading the way out of the Scripture Pavilion, with Ling Chen quickly following.

However, just after the two left, a young man in blue emerged from the dark corner of another bookshelf not far away, watching the direction in which Ling Chen and Lin Wan departed, his eyes flickering.

"News of the Cold Condensing Pearl, Penglai Island Territory. Does this mean Ling Chen is going to the Penglai Island Territory next?"

The blue-clothed youth’s expression changed unpredictably, then he nodded to himself. "Most probably so. It’s truly a case of wearing out iron shoes with no place to find, yet it comes without effort. Luckily, I didn’t overlook anything and kept tracking this boy; otherwise, I would have missed this vital information."

Taking money to eliminate disasters for others, especially since the gray-robed elder promised him double rewards this time, the contents of which were exceedingly generous to him.

A strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and the blue-clothed youth immediately set off, with a "whoosh" sound, darting out of the Scripture Pavilion.