Chapter 499: Lu Guhong

Great 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 represents the collapse of the old order.

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

Great Goose Hall was one of the sects that rose rapidly during these two years.

Two years ago, it was just one of the forces that barely won the "Ascending Peak" wooden plaque at the Moon-Viewing Banquet on Mount Song, barely counting as a major sect, but it didn't have much deterrent power outside its own province. And the Hall Master of the Great Goose Hall, Lu Guhong, was also just one of the inconspicuous first-rate experts at the time.

The Great Goose Hall seemed like it was going to continue like this, and then disappear in some Jianghu vendetta 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 during those seven days, and no one knew what happened during those seven days.

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

He brought back a secret manual.

A secret manual named "Xuanlan."

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

So after seven months of closed-door cultivation, Lu Guhong, who was as thin as a skeleton, broke open the thick stone door with one palm and announced to the world that there was a place for him, Lu Guhong, among the Heaven-Man Realm experts of the Great Ming.

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

So, relying on Lu Guhong's powerful martial arts and a sense of proportion that stepped just before the bottom line of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Great 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 "Absolute Peak" wooden plaque at the Moon-Viewing Banquet back then.

After one great victory after another, the disciples of the Great 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 the Great Goose Hall, the Great 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 sure of victory and calm, was in extreme anger, astonishment, and fear.

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

Lu Guhong raised his teacup; from the outside, he seemed very calm, but the ripples in the tea cup exposed his inner agitation.

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

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

"Wearing a bear-skin cloak, broad shoulders and narrow waist, tall stature."

A few drops of tea splashed out of the cup in 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 rich young master."

Lu Guhong frowned again.

Not right.

The first half matched.

But the second half didn't match.

He had attended the Moon-Viewing Banquet on Mount Song; the brutal scene back then where "that person" challenged the entire Jianghu alone, suppressed all Heaven-Man experts, and crushed a Heaven-Man expert's head through the air 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 there was a disagreement?

But the appearance and clothing were truly him.

Although Gao Lei was from the green forest and had a poor education, the details he described were correct.

"Do you want to 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 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 couldn't imagine before. ===== CHAPTER 500 =====