Xing'er suddenly had no idea what taboo she had violated and stood there at a loss. She wondered if she had failed to perform the rite of kneeling and kowtowing to her elders, so her legs went weak and she was about to kneel again. Li Guxian, however, let out a mocking laugh and reached out to stop her grand gesture. "See this hundred-step stone path? Some call it the Sword Path as well. Whenever a disciple of my Heavenly Sword Immortal Sect comes here to meet the sect master, they must undergo the sect master's sword trial. Anyone who cannot raise their sword and advance ten steps must leave at once!"
"Ah..." Xing'er was stunned. Without a sword, ten steps would have been easy; she was confident she could walk into the building without a problem. But if she had to carry a sword for ten steps, then given how strongly Sword Qi was suppressed here, ten steps was a threshold!
"What? As disciples of my Heavenly Sword Immortal Sect, standing amid this field of swords, do you no longer even have the courage to draw your swords?" Li Guxian retorted, a smile of supreme confidence lifting the corner of her lips.
"It's not that this disciple doesn't dare..." Frightened, Xing'er hurriedly extended a hand. The gold-piercing sword flew out of her sleeve pouch in an instant, and she caught it firmly. Yet this hundred-step stone path seemed to possess a repulsive magnetic field against swords. The sword Xing'er had forced downward was instantly jerked upward. If her sword force had not suddenly stabilized, the sword would already have flown from her hand. With that repulsive force, it might even have shot all the way to the foot of the mountain!
"Oh? You've got the sword steady?" Seeing that