San Xiang — Yangming Mountain.
Ever since Deng Qingyang, the sect master of the Hengshan Sword Sect, had stationed himself on Yangming Mountain, this peak had leapt from being a second-rate spirit-mountain within the Three Xiang to a first-rate one.
Now its fame was second only to Southern Yue Hengshan and Su Xian Ridge.
Yangming Mountain faced Jiuyi Mountain, which was held by the southern factions, and the two stood only four hundred li apart.
That made Yangming Mountain the forward bastion where the Haoran Alliance confronted the southern sects within San Xiang.
The mountain was filled with Hengshan Sword disciples, and other Alliance brothers rotated through in relief — fights in turns, recovering lost territory.
It was easy to imagine: if the righteous side could win this war, then after driving back the demonic path, this spirit-mountain might even give rise to a new sect.
The name Yangming Mountain came from: “when the morning sun first rises, and the mountain is already bright — that is Yangming.”
That line described the moment when the sun had just come up.
The fields south of the Xiang were still dim, but the summit of this mountain was already lit by dawn — radiant and bright.