The "Eastern Phoenix Sword Convention" was a top-tier grand event rarely seen in the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent even once every several centuries.
With thrilling matches on the arena stage, there were naturally no shortage of bookmakers secretly setting odds below, drawing countless watching cultivators to wager on victory and defeat and reap enormous profits from it.
As the host, "Xianyuan Palace" seemed to turn a blind eye to this.
It neither publicly supported it nor expressly forbade it.
Whether it was Song Qingming or Tang Yuchuan,
both had ranked among the top ten in the previous Sword Convention and were universally recognized as some of the strongest among the hundreds of Nascent Soul Cultivators participating in this convention.
For the very first match to be such an intense clash between powerhouses truly caught many watching cultivators by surprise.
Even those cultivator gamblers preparing to bet on who would win or lose felt deeply conflicted.
Yet compared with Song Qingming, who came from the remote "Floating Cloud Mountain Range," the name of Tang Yuchuan, First Elder of the "Three Yuan Sect," clearly carried far more weight in everyone's minds.
After all, the "Three Yuan Sect" had endured for twenty thousand years and was likewise a Nascent Soul great sect with an exceptionally deep foundation in the Eastern Phoenix Kingdom Cultivation World.
As the First Elder of this sect, Tang Yuchuan had long been renowned far and wide.
He had advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage in less than four hundred years of cultivation and had now likewise reached Half-step Spirit Transformation. He also held the sect's Imitation Spiritual Treasure in his hand.
At the previous convention, Yuan Luohua of "Qingyang Gate" had charged fiercely into the top twenty,
only to ultimately lose to Tang Yuchuan, who easily knocked him