Elder Yu Yin waved his hand lightly!
Then!
A curtain of light rose!
It obscured the figures within, though their auras could still be sensed!
"See!"
"I told you! There was no way they would truly let the two fight openly!"
"Wouldn't the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens of the other sects then gather information on both of them?"
Song Zhe wore an expression of having expected it all along as he stroked his chin. "Still, merely displaying their auras can reveal quite a lot!"
Outside, the crowd surged into an uproar!
Discussions rang out without end!
"Previously, Senior Brother Zhu Ting was still at Star Shattering Intermediate, one minor stage below Gu Chensha, so that was understandable!"
"But now, they're both at Star Shattering High Stage. Who's afraid of whom? Gu Chensha definitely won't have it easy! Yet he's acting so arrogantly! How little does he think of our Nine Saints Sect?"
"Exactly! The outside world keeps spreading rumors that our Nine Saints Sect is the weakest of the Ten Great Sects. Who are they looking down on?!"
The voices continued without pause!
Su Ye gleaned much information from them as well!
Although he had already roughly learned on Zi Ning Star that the Nine Saints Sect was "declining,"
Only now, from the many conversations and everyone's behavior, did he come to understand much more!
First, the Time Ancestor had not appeared for nearly three thousand years!
Rumors outside had spread like wildfire, suggesting that he had likely died!
Afterward, the sect's disciples had failed to produce worthy successors, leaving them so suppressed by the other nine great sects that they could barely breathe!
"But this time is different. Senior Brother Zhu Ting is a genius our Nine Saints Sect has not seen in ten thousand years!"
"He even