Martial Cultivator Chapter 412.1: Clearwater Mountain - Part 1

White Deer Prefecture was one of the nine provinces in the Great Liang Dynasty, known for its scholarly atmosphere. Not only did it boast the White Deer's Xie Clan, a family of scholars with a lineage spanning hundreds of years, but also because for over two hundred years since the founding of the Great Liang, almost every imperial examination held annually by the imperial court had shadows of scholars from White Deer. The accumulation of scholars year after year for two hundred years has led to the saying that half of the scholars in the world came from White Deer. However, even in this province teeming with scholars, the world was still not peaceful. Almost one-fifth of the scholars who tried to travel to the Divine Capital for the imperial examination every year end up losing their lives in the wilderness, becoming food for those demons.

Clearwater Commandery City was located in the northeast of White Deer Prefecture and was relatively peaceful. This was mainly because not far from this city lies a foreign cultivator sect known as Clearwater Mountain as well. Although Clearwater Mountain was said to belong to the Daoist lineage, it had no affiliation with either the Infatuation Daoist Temple or the Myriad Heaven Palace. It was considered a place where random cultivators gathered, and most of the cultivators on the mountain did not practice orthodox Daoist techniques. It could even be regarded as a gathering place for those itinerant cultivators of the wild. There were even rumors that the mountain lord of Clearwater Mountain, Daoist Sage Tianyi, cultivated heretic techniques, but these were unsubstantiated rumors, and no one had ever confirmed them. Moreover, the cultivators of Clearwater Mountain had always avoided provoking cultivators from major sects, so they coexisted peacefully, and no one paid attention to them.

At dusk, a middle-aged man slowly walked past the city gate, carrying a young girl in his arms. But the guards at the city gates turned a blind eye to it. Although they received a salary from th

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