White String(Up In Book Next)
Chapter 6: Bei Feng

After studying the Book of the Heavenly Road, Long Shan's cultivation progress became doubled. He even managed to reach the level of Sky Swordsman before the age of fifteen.The progress not only brings good things. Many people were envious and wanted to get rid of Long Shan. Long Shan's own cousin, Long Yue, was no exception.

That night Long Yue sneaked towards Long Shan's room. He had intended to peek at Long Shan's secret because indeed Long Shan had never told anyone other than his grandfather about the Book of the Heavenly Road.

Inside his room, Long Shan was sitting cross-legged with a book hovering before him. Long Yue who saw this was annoyed, "I should have known that you had the book."

Long Yue immediately went home and reported everything he saw to his father who was one of the elders of the Long Clan. Long Yue's father gathered his supporters to snatch the Book of the Heavenly Road from Long Shan no matter if Long Shan was the future successor of Long Chen, the Patriarch of the Long Clan.

Long Chen cursed the deeds of Long Yue's father to his grandson. But Long Shan had already left the clan by leaving behind a letter and some cultivation manuals that he copied from the Book of the Heaven's Path for his grandfather.

From that moment on, Long Shan ventured while helping people who might need his help. Long Shan never discriminated between black and white flow. According to him it was inappropriate to treat a sect or association just because their cultivation techniques were evil, because there were only evil and good humans, not cultivation techniques.

He has always used his white rope as a weapon to uphold justice among mankind. That is why he was nicknamed the White Rope Swordsman. Also because Long Shan always covered part of his face with a white rope, many people called him the White-faced Swordsman.

He succeeded in uniting the three schools into a single entity although there were still minor disputes between them. But by his eighteenth birthday, the army of the Ding Empire was committing military aggression to the territory of the Shu Empire and obliterating the small sects that opposed them.

Finally, the war cannot be contained anymore. Long Shan led the third stream of flow in the front row. Black flow does not hesitate to use his cunning ways in the war.Blood spilled everywhere, many civilians are also victims.

The two emperors finally came to an agreement. They would stage a competition between warriors from both empires and if the Shu Empire was able to win it then the Ding Empire would pay for all the losses suffered by the Shu Empire. The warriors from the Shu Empire were hoping that Long Shan could win the match.

In fact, Emperor Ding never agreed to a deal. He had only made a trap for Long Shan because Long Shan was his biggest barrier to mastering the Shu Empire.

In the final round, all ministers and family members of Emperor Shu were slaughtered. The strength of the Shu Empire declined drastically as all the warriors who participated in the competition were killed secretly. This time Long Shan survived, but unfortunately he was chased by Emperor Ding's swordsman.

Long Shan fled while hiding his whereabouts. He was found crossing the Meng River into the Hong Empire. The battle is inevitable. Long Shan was in such an unfortunate position that he lost and was seriously injured. In the battle, Long Shan's body fell into the calm of the Meng River. From that day on, no one else found Long Shan and the Book of the Heavenly Road that vanished with him.

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The Shu Imperial Calendar

1401, the eighth month

"That dream again" sighed White String who had just woken up from his dream. He daydreamed for a while to collect his life that was fragmented, then stared out the window with another sigh, "Looks like I have to find a butler."

After clearing himself, White String headed towards the Golden Lotus Pavilion in Yun Village. It was still early in the morning, but there was already a lot of busy people who filled the streets. Many were also disciples of the Thousand Sword Mountain that roamed around in various entertainment venues.

In the Golden Lotus Pavilion, White String headed for the reception desk."I want to recruit a butler" White String said. The receptionist who served him took out a name scroll and offered it to White String, "This is the list of names available.Please take a look around first."

White String reads the names listed on the list and tries to remember if there are any names he might know. He paused on one of the names, "Bei Feng, can I recruit him?"

The receptionist's eyes lit up brightly as she was about to get a tip this many times. "I'll call him. Wait a minute, sir," the receptionist hurriedly moved on. White String waited for a moment at the reception desk while activating his Spiritual Perception to not find anything that caught his attention.

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Bei Feng was a middle-aged woman who had long worked as a butler. He has worked to serve several large families and because of his advanced age there are not many people who want to hire him. But the Young Master before him was different, whether he didn't know about him or just wanted to spend money to recruit him.

White String took out a jade token and a pouch containing spirit stones and handed it to Bei Feng. One spirit stone could be valued at 1000 gold coins, 1 gold coin was equivalent to 100 silver coins and 1 silver coin was equal to 10 bronze coins. To Bei Feng who was only at the Emperor Swordsman level a few spirit stones were a great fortune.

"Recruit ten servants and ten guards, then meet me at the western door of the Thousand Swords Mountain when it is done," White String's first order to Bei Feng as his butler. Bei Feng bowed respectfully to White String and immediately quickly carried out his task.

White String also did not waste his time.He headed towards the Thousand Swords Mountain to meet Elder Lang.