Seeing Xu Yan's eyes as dumb as a wooden chicken, Zhao Bailian, who had already shrunk his sword intent, also looked at the sword cliff in front of him, with a hint of nostalgia in his eyes. The seven sword marks on this sword cliff have been seen countless times in the more than ten years since he succeeded as the Lotus Sect Master, but no matter how many times he has seen them, he still feels awe of it in his heart.

Zhao Bailian asked, "Do you know, who is the person who left these seven sword marks on the cliff?"

Xu Yan naturally had no way to know the answer, so he shook his head.

Zhao Bailian took the initiative to explain: "This is the sword mark left by the eighth generation leader of my Lotus Sect, which is my master."

When Xu Yan heard this answer, he immediately thought of something and said in a little shocked manner: "The eighth generation sect leader, that's fifty years ago..."

Zhao Bailian turned around and looked at him, nodded and said, "You guessed that the decline of the Lotus Sect began with my master."

Xu Yan couldn't help asking: "What happened back then that made the sect evolve into this situation today?"

Zhao Bailian sighed, looked up at the invisible mountain peak in front of her, and said with a trembling voice: "Actually, this is not an indescribable secret, because my master suddenly fell on this main peak fifty years ago."

Xu Yan frowned and asked, "Just just the fall of Master, it shouldn't be so harmful to the entire sect and the vitality will be severely damaged, right?"

Zhao Bailian looked at Xu Yan with complicated eyes, and suddenly his face turned a little cold and said, "Yes, just the fall of my master is not that. But just after his death, a long-hidden traitor appeared in the sect. That man was my master's junior brother. His strength was as high as the peak of eight-story building, second only to my master. After that, he not only took away the most precious sword scripture of our sect, but also started a big battle. In the end, he used his own strength to raise the realm of his own realm to the nine-story building at the cost of burning his own blood, and personally killed four supreme elders from the four sects of Chunxia Chunqiu, and as many as dozens of senior elders under his seat. overnight, the sword cultivation of the upper third level of my Lotus Sect was killed and injured, and he also risked his life to take away the sword scripture and escaped the Lotus Sect."

When Xu Yan heard this result, he couldn't help but feel a little sigh. Such a loss was indeed a huge blow even for a sect like the Lotus Sect. He continued to ask: "Then why did the Lotus Sect continue to decline again? Faced with such a situation, someone in the sect should stand up and clean up the mess."

Zhao Bailian looked gloomy and continued, "After this incident, there are naturally some people who want to stand up and clean up the mess. However, after the Lotus Sect lost so much core power, they were already a little overwhelmed by their personal power. And the worst thing is that about three months after this incident, the dynasty sent an envoy to ask our Sect to send a large number of inner disciples and elders to the drought states in the north to resist the tide of beasts rushing southwards in the ice field."

"As one of the sword sects provided by the dynasty, we should not disobey the dynasty orders. At this point, the core power of our Lotus Sect is equivalent to being completely exhausted, which makes the sword sects in Lingzhou begin to look at our sect and want to take the opportunity to get a share of the pie. It's fine at the beginning, after all, the lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the sword sects among the ancestors of Baishan Mountains have been newly built, so they can't do anything to our sect. But in the next few decades, and even today, the sword sects have still inserted their disciples into the four sects of our sect by continuously inserting dark chess, making disciples who are originally the same sect gradually become uneven and have their own ulterior motives."

Speaking of this, Zhao Bailian was already furious and said angrily: "If some people in the sect were not profit-oriented, those sects would not have the opportunity to insert their disciples in it, but once this case was broken, they would be destined to be out of control. In order to become the leader of a sect, some people would even pay the many benefits they had in exchange for supplies from other sects. This undoubtedly greatly improved the decline of our sect, and at the same time, the tenth generation of sect leaders began to accept Baishan Chunhun, who knew it was to deliberately weaken our sect's strength."

After hearing this, Xu Yan was completely unaware of this answer.

After Zhao Bailian withdrew her gaze, she calmed down and said, "Actually, my master and the junior brother who was my master were also one of the disciples transferred to Hanzhou by the dynasty. Later, when my cultivation reached the upper third level, I rushed back to the sect. However, when I returned to the Lotus Sect again, I didn't expect that the sect had fallen to such an extent, and there was not even a sword cultivator of the upper third level. I had no choice but to go down. My master had to take over the position of the Lotus Sect Master. However, compared with everyone who wanted to compete for it at that time, this position is very hot now. After all, the sect is about to end, and these old things that have become spirits are probably not willing to bear the charge of the demise of the sect."

Xu Yan suddenly felt a little sympathetic to his master, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Zhao Bailian suddenly smiled and said, "But they really want to replace my Lotus Sect, which is not as easy as they imagined. Not to mention that being a teacher is still alive, even your appearance is the biggest opportunity that my Lotus Sect has encountered in the past few decades. It is that you appeared a little late. If you could have come five years earlier..."

Zhao Bailian paused and smiled at herself, "No, maybe you may not be the right one."

Xu Yan looked at him with some confusion. Seeing this, the latter smiled and said to him: "Originally, these things were not told to you before, but since you asked, I will tell you all, and you are my personal disciple after all, so it is reasonable to know these things."

Seeing Xu Yan nodding, Zhao Bailian patted his shoulder and said, "But the Baishan Spring Hunting, which is held every three years, will be held in a month. I hope you can participate this time. The reason for this is not to be hiding you. First of all, it is best if you can protect some benefits for my Lotus Sect. However, secondly, the result of this spring hunt is related to the fact that the children of Lingzhou will participate in the six sect competitions held every 20 years in the dynasty. If you can achieve good results in this competition, you can get the admission qualification of Jianwu Academy."

"Sword and Martial Arts Academy?"

"The Jianwu Academy is the best holy place for cultivation in the Five Prefectures Continent. It is built on the holy mountain of Zhongzhou Imperial City. It not only gathers the most outstanding seeds of cultivation in the entire Five Prefectures Continent, but also has the most comprehensive teaching force in the entire world. As a teacher, he broke through the upper three realms there. Therefore, as a teacher, you can also learn for twenty or thirty years. I think you have the physique of the heavenly spiritual roots. At most thirty years, you will have great hope of entering the upper three realms."

After hearing this message, Xu Yanruo said it was impossible not to be moved. He wished that his strength could be improved quickly.

Seeing Xu Yan's look in deep thought, Zhao Bailian smiled with relief, "But if you want to get to this point, you still have to improve your cultivation level more now. If you have the cultivation level close to the third level of the Middle Ages, you are barely qualified to fight. Okay, that's the case, and the teacher you should talk to you. The next thing depends on whether you can seize this opportunity."

Zhao Bailian suddenly asked, "Do you know why you have only let you keep fighting swords but have not passed on any sword techniques against the enemy before?"

Xu Yan didn't understand why, so he asked calmly: "Why?"

Zhao Bailian was really amused and crying about Xu Yan's frank character, so she had to explain: "I am a teacher who keeps controlling the sword, just to make you and Fuyao feel the same way. You must know that as a famous sword in the world, it is like..."

"It's like a person, there's also the power of a sword spirit, right?"

Seeing that his master was a little surprised, Xu Yan chuckled and said, "These are what the dragon clown told me. She also said that when the original owner of Fuyao was able to use the power of the sword spirit in it, he was already at the top three realms of cultivation."

Zhao Bailian immediately smiled bitterly and sighed, "She even told you this... But she was right. The master before Fuyao was the fifth generation sect leader of my Lotus Sect. It can be said that he is the first among the practitioners since the entire Five Prefectures Continent. It is said that he broke through the nine-story realm and directly ascended to the fairy world. But in fact, except for the Five Prefectures Continent, it is impossible to verify whether there is an immortal world."

Xu Yan naturally knew that there was another heavenly realm, but he could not tell Zhao Bailian bluntly, so he had to nod and mean that he knew.

At this moment, Zhao Bailian suddenly stretched out her hand. Fu Yao, who was only obeying Xu Yanyan, instantly flew from behind him into the former's hand.

Zhao Bailian held Fu Yao in her hand and turned to Xu Yan and said, "You are optimistic. I will pass on you a set of sword techniques created by my master tonight. Although it is not complete, it is still enough for you to take it out to fight the enemy when you reach the upper three realms."
Chapter completed!