Land Sword Immortal: Eighty Years as the Guardian of the Sword Pavilion
Chapter 437 – Shrinking Turtle Lin Jinghong

Chapter 437 – Shrinking Turtle Lin Jinghong

In small worlds like this, there's no need for Elder Lin to personally take action. Sending some disciples from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect would be enough to flatten this small demon tribe world.

For instance, the demon realm Meng Fan had visited before was a similar situation.

"Should I go in and flatten this demon tribe secret realm?" Elder Lin murmured to himself.

If he took action, he could level this small world in a very short time, completely cleansing it with blood.

But after a brief moment of thought, Elder Lin gave up.

Heaven has the virtue of cherishing life, and killing without reason is not the way of the Righteous Path.

As for why people were sent to clear the demon realm secret realm last time, it was because the demon tribe in that realm often came out to harm the people.

The demon tribe secret realm discovered this time, to put it bluntly, had no grievances or enmity.

Such secret realms have no connection with the Monster Realm, and even if they wanted to connect, they couldn't.

Moreover, they hadn't harmed the people, so Elder Lin felt that going to cleanse them without reason would be against the will of heaven.

So after some thought, Elder Lin pretended not to have discovered this demon tribe secret realm.

If any demons from this secret realm were foolish enough to come to the Demon Locking Tower, they would be seeking their own death.

After making his decision, Elder Lin left the Demon Locking Tower and returned to the Sword Pavilion.

Thinking about it, he felt helpless. So many troubles had arisen recently, which really annoyed him.

Fortunately, after sealing the passage to the Monster Realm, things should quiet down a lot.

Any further troubles should be matters for seventy or eighty years later.

Thinking of this, Elder Lin peacefully began meditating on the second floor of the Sword Pavilion.

As for Meng Fan, he continued his closed-door cultivation in his room on the first floor of the Sword Pavilion. Six months passed, and in the blink of an eye, another three months went by.

Meng Fan was getting closer to reaching the ninth level of the Condensing Elixir Realm, but there was still some distance to go. He estimated that in two or three months, he could step into the ninth level of the Condensing Elixir Realm.

During this time, the news of the disappearance of the Sect Master of Shu Mountain gradually spread.

Paper cannot wrap fire; the news of Lin Jinghong not being at Shu Mountain would eventually be discovered.

Being able to conceal it for so long was already not an easy task.

For the various sects of the Righteous Path, this news didn't have much impact, as they bore no malice towards the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.

However, some sects of the demonic path began to stir.

As a top sect of the Righteous Path in the Northern Region, the Shu Mountain Sword Sect naturally had many enemies in the demonic path.

It could even be said to be widespread across the demonic path, as there was no sect in the demonic path that could claim none of its disciples had been killed by the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.

Almost every demonic sect had disciples who had died at the hands of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect's disciples.

Good and evil cannot coexist, so clashes were only natural.

Therefore, some demonic sects began to have little schemes, wanting to cause trouble for the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.

They didn't intend to destroy the Shu Mountain Sword Sect; that was impossible, even without Lin Jinghong, and they knew this.

They simply wanted to take the opportunity to suppress the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, to vent their anger and feel triumphant.

In the tenth month of Meng Fan's closed-door cultivation, a challenge letter was delivered to the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.

Li Fanchen, the Clan Master of the Ghost King Sect, challenged the Sect Master of Shu Mountain, Lin Jinghong, to a duel at Qianjue Mountain in one month.

This was a test. If Lin Jinghong were at the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, he would never avoid such a challenge; he wouldn't hide like a turtle.

If Lin Jinghong didn't appear after a month, it would confirm the news of his disappearance.

No, it couldn't be said he disappeared; it could only be said he wasn't at the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.

And without Lin Jinghong, the Shu Mountain Sword Sect would undoubtedly be easy to bully and manipulate.

A month later, Li Fanchen, the Clan Master of the Ghost King Sect, indeed did not see Lin Jinghong at Qianjue Mountain.

"Coward!" Li Fanchen left these words full of disdain as he departed from Qianjue Mountain.

This confirmed the news that Lin Jinghong, the Sect Master of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, was not at Shu Mountain.

And it seemed he wouldn't be returning anytime soon.

Some demonic sects couldn't hold back their thoughts and were eager to try.

They didn't have plans to attack the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, but they did have thoughts of taking advantage of the situation to rob Shu Mountain.

For example, like Li Fanchen, they wanted to retrieve the Blood Soul Sword from the Demon Locking Tower.

However, it was precisely because of Lin Jinghong's presence at the time that Li Fanchen failed to retrieve the Blood Soul Sword.

Later, Li Fanchen enlisted the help of the Saint of Thieves, Ximen Zhaixing, to steal the Blood Soul Sword from the Demon Locking Tower.

If Li Fanchen hadn't acted then and waited until now to ascend Shu Mountain, without Lin Jinghong's presence, he surely could have retrieved the Blood Soul Sword himself, without needing Ximen Zhaixing's help.

Li Fanchen no longer needed to retrieve the Blood Soul Sword, but some people from other demonic sects took this opportunity to harbor ill intentions.

The Demon Locking Tower, besides suppressing some demons, also sealed some demonic weapons and artifacts.

Many couldn't enlist Ximen Zhaixing's help, so they wanted to take advantage of Lin Jinghong not being at Shu Mountain to break into the Demon Locking Tower and retrieve the sealed demonic artifacts.

Not to mention, like the Fengyun Demon Sect's Fengyun Godslayer Spear, the Heavenly Demon Sect's Blood Demon Banner, and the Skyhawk Demon Sect's Ghost Cry Blade, which were as famous as the Blood Soul Sword of the Blood Demon Sect.

These demonic weapons were all sealed in the Demon Locking Tower of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.

Now that Lin Jinghong was not around, the experts from these major sects wanted to seize the opportunity to retrieve these sect-defining demonic weapons.

Some even set their sights on the Sword Pavilion and Scripture Pavilion of Shu Mountain.

Especially the Sword Pavilion!

Compared to the Shu Mountain Scripture Pavilion, the reputation of the Shu Mountain Sword Pavilion was even greater, with rumors of an Immortal Weapon existing within.

So some with ulterior motives were already considering whether to take the opportunity to loot the Shu Mountain Sword Pavilion.

Of course, most people gave up after thinking it over. After weighing their own strength, they decided not to court death.

In their view, even if Lin Jinghong was not at the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, the Shu Mountain Sword Sect was still a giant, with many experts, not to be trifled with.

But some top experts didn't regard anyone other than Lin Jinghong and were hesitating whether to take the risk.

After all, opportunities must not be missed, and once Lin Jinghong returned to Shu Mountain, such thoughts would be unthinkable.

In the eleventh month of Meng Fan's closed-door cultivation, several more people came to the Shu Mountain Sword Sect to deliver challenge letters.

Just one challenge from Li Fanchen, with Lin Jinghong not showing up, was not very reliable and not reassuring.

Subsequently, as expected, Lin Jinghong did not appear for any of the challenges, leading many to mock him as a coward.

Though Lin Jinghong was in the Monster Realm, he occasionally used secret methods to contact Elder Lin, so he could receive some news.

At this moment, Lin Jinghong, in the Monster Realm, was furious upon hearing himself being called a coward by some bastards, blowing his beard and glaring in extreme frustration.

He was originally a rather hot-tempered person, and although he had mellowed with age, his nature was hard to change.

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