Chapter 443

Wild Goose Hall.

A third-rate sect name, but with first-rate strength.

In the two years since Li Miao disappeared and the Embroidered Uniform Guard relaxed its control over the Jianghu, the two giants of the righteous path, Wudang and Shaolin, also tacitly tightened their own forces, completely opening up the vast Jianghu.

A power vacuum meant the collapse of the old order.

And from the moment the order collapsed, chaos, slaughter, blood, and struggle were released, and from them, new strongmen and power were bred.

Wild Goose Hall was one of the sects that rose rapidly in these two years.

Two years ago, it was just one of the forces that barely won the "Ascending Peak" wooden plaque at the Songshan Moon-Viewing Banquet, barely counting as a major sect, and had little deterrent power outside its own province. And the hall master of Wild Goose Hall, Lu Guhong, was just one of the inconspicuous first-rate experts at the time.

Wild Goose Hall seemed destined to continue so ordinarily, then disappear in some Jianghu feud like countless other sects, and then be naturally forgotten within a few years.

But one day, a year and a half ago, Lu Guhong suddenly disappeared.

He disappeared for seven days.

No one knew where he went in those seven days, and no one knew what happened in those seven days.

Everyone only knew that on the seventh day of his disappearance, Lu Guhong appeared outside the mountain gate of Wild Goose Hall, carrying a broken weapon, covered in blood and wounds.

He brought back a secret manual.

A secret manual called "Profound Observation."

And Lu Guhong happened to be very suitable for practicing this manual.

So after seven months of closed-door training, the gaunt Lu Guhong, looking like a skeleton, broke open the heavy stone door with one palm and announced to the world that among the Heavenly Humans of the Great Ming, there was a place for him, Lu Guhong.

In the seven months that followed, Wild Goose Hall rapidly annexed the major sects of the three surrounding prefectures and did not openly oppress or harm any ordinary commoners.

Thus, relying on Lu Guhong's powerful martial arts and his sense of propriety that stepped just before the Embroidered Uniform Guard's bottom line, Wild Goose Hall rapidly grew into a giant capable of influencing the direction of the Jianghu, almost on par with the Kunlun Sect that had just won the "Supreme Peak" wooden plaque at the Moon-Viewing Banquet back then.

After one great victory after another, the disciples of Wild Goose Hall also got used to the feeling of victory and gradually began to treat Lu Guhong, who led them to victory, as some kind of faith.

It seemed that as long as Lu Guhong was still sitting in the main hall of Wild Goose Hall, Wild Goose Hall would always win.

The disciples outside the main hall all thought so.

But they didn't know that at this very moment in the main hall, their Hall Master Lu, who was always confident and calm, was in extreme anger, shock, and fear.

"Describe that person's appearance and speech again."

Lu Guhong raised his teacup, looking very calm on the surface, but the ripples in the tea exposed his inner turmoil.

Gao Lei lay on the ground, repeating it almost instinctively.

"Sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, heroic appearance."

"Draped in a bear-fur cloak, broad shoulders and narrow waist, tall stature."

A few drops of tea splashed from Lu Guhong's hand.

Gao Lei continued to describe.

"His speech was kind and easygoing, and his movements were lazy and casual, just like... a wealthy young master."

Lu Guhong frowned again.

Wrong.

The first half matched.

But the second half didn't match.

He had attended the Songshan Moon-Viewing Banquet; the brutal scene where "that person" single-handedly overturned the entire Jianghu, suppressed all Heavenly Humans, and crushed the heads of Heavenly Humans from a distance was still vivid in his mind. How could he forget?

He couldn't imagine that the devil would be "kind and easygoing," would be "lazy and casual"... shouldn't such a person wipe out your entire family if you didn't agree with him?

But the appearance and clothing were real.

Although Gao Lei was from the greenwood and had a poor education, his description was vague and rough, but some of the details matched.

"Should I bet?"

Lu Guhong's gaze swept across the surroundings.

More than a dozen first-rate experts, dozens of second-rate experts.

The magnificent and huge hall, the shouts of the outer disciples practicing martial arts coming from the square outside.

And the dozens of beautiful wives, concubines, young sons, and young daughters waiting for him in the back hall.

Power, money, beauty, influence.

He had obtained everything he dared not imagine before.