There was a row of huge archway buildings at the entrance of Malicious Ghost Valley, and the archway at the very front had five entrances and was made to the most extravagant standard. The archway walls were carved from precious yellow and green colored glaze, while each dragon pillar was engraved with the demon-subduing scenes of each sect leader in the history of the Flax Robe Sect. The plaque above the middle entrance read "Magnificent Aura Witnessing Wonders."0

Qi refiners and pure martial artists often had incredible eyesight, yet Chen Ping'an hadn't managed to see the end of the path when looking at the row of archways before. Moreover, this seemingly wasn't because of illusion techniques.0

Compared to the gate linking Stalactite Mountain to the Sword Qi Great Wall, however, the mystical nature of these archways didn't astonish Chen Ping'an very much.0

Chen Ping'an casually sat down near the archways and read for more than two hours. He read very carefully, unwilling to let slip any detail, so he only managed to make it less than halfway through the book. He decided to rest at a nearby inn located in the market for the night, and he would make further plans tomorrow. There was no rush to make a decision, and he would either look at the scenery on the border of Malicious Ghost Valley again, or he would enter the depths of the valley through the row of archways and train inside.0

Chen Ping'an put the book away and walked toward the bustling marketplace, an area that the Flax Robe Sect had loaned to a cultivator from a small force in Skeleton Shoal to manage. This was the case for many of the Flax Robe Sect's assets, with the cultivators of the sect not personally participating in the management. The sect had fewer than two hundred cultivators but a huge number of assets and businesses, after all, so personally managing everything would naturally delay one's cultivation of the Great Dao. The loss outweighed the gain.0

There were exceptions to this, of course, and the intercontinental ship managed by the Nascent Tier cultivator with the surname Su and Mural City patrolled by the Golden Core Tier cultivator with the surname Yang were notable examples. This was because these two matters pertained to the face and foundation of the Flax Robe Sect.0

Downtrodden Mountain was already showing signs of becoming a prosperous mountain with many large residences now, so Zhu Lian and Shi Rou were responsible for dealing with internal and external matters, respectively. The former managed the general affairs in the mountain, while the latter managed the businesses in Dragon Riding Alley.0

Only when Chen Ping'an truly left Dragon Spring Prefecture did he look back and consider matters as he took the occasional break from practicing fist techniques on the intercontinental ship, and it was only at that moment that he realized the interesting nature of the situation. Zhu Lian and Shi Rou were like his stewards, yet one was a Far Roaming Tier martial artist while the other was a female bone ghost in the immortal body of Du Mao. Who could imagine this?0

Chen Ping'an had already given Zhu Lian a heads up before leaving Downtrodden Mountain, saying that he generally wouldn't send any messenger flying swords back to Ox Horn Mountain unless there was something...0