#107. Ancient Temple (3)

#107. Ancient Temple (3)

Mount Hua Sect, Zhongnan Sect, and Shaolin Temple.

The great pillars supporting the Nine Sects and One Gang had set out for one reason alone: to find the legacy of the Vajra Divine Monk, who had been called the greatest martial artist under heaven hundreds of years ago.

If you asked a passerby what first came to mind when they thought of his legacy, nine out of ten would answer, “The Formless Vajra Art (無相金剛訣).”

It was a peerless divine art said to have been newly devised by the Vajra Divine Monk after he reinterpreted Shaolin’s martial arts.

Of course, one couldn’t forget the “Prajna Divine Pill (般若神丹),” which the Vajra Divine Monk was said to have carried with him wherever he went.

There might have been other things worth finding, but the truth was that none of them were especially tempting to the major sects.

No matter how great a martial artist the Vajra Divine Monk had been, at heart, he was a monk. One of the conditions for attaining nirvana was abandoning greed, and it was hardly likely that the Vajra Divine Monk, famous as a revered master, had amassed wealth and left it behind as a legacy.

What’s more, even the “Formless Vajra Art” was little more than a mixed blessing to Mount Hua and Zhongnan. The martial arts of the Vajra Divine Monk, once the abbot of Shaolin, were essentially Shaolin’s martial arts, and a sect’s techniques were generally forbidden from being passed on to outsiders.

True to the orthodox sect types, who lived for their principles and were obsessed with honor, they’d agreed to return the Formless Vajra Art to Shaolin as soon as they found it...