You Really Don't Know When to Quit

The matter of Tianyi Sword Sect sending Su Fan a challenge letter and being rejected soon spread throughout Crimson Cloud Heaven.

Crimson Cloud Heaven was a pure immortal-sect plane. Relations between the various immortal sects were fairly peaceful—at least on the surface.

Even when two sects had grievances between them, the sects would not easily intervene. Most of the time, their disciples would step forward to resolve the conflict.

And the most common way to resolve such conflicts was to issue a challenge letter, after which the disciples of both sides would spar and determine who was superior.

At any rate, they would not fight to the death. In truth, it was nothing more than a contest for face.

It was rare for things to be like those devil sects, where people slaughtered entire sects and households until rivers of blood flowed, with the loser dying and their cultivation destroyed while the victor swallowed the other side's entire foundation, flesh and bones alike.

So when Su Fan rejected the other side's challenge, it also aroused countless speculations.

In any case, opinions varied wildly, and everyone had something to say. Most people believed that Su Fan had chickened out and did not dare accept Tianyi Sword Sect's challenge.

After all, the battle that day, in which he had effortlessly crushed five sword cultivators alone, had been spread by word of mouth. Few people had personally witnessed it, and most of those who had were disciples of Northern Dome Immortal Sect.

Because of this, people also drew certain conclusions, believing that the story of Su Fan defeating five sword cultivators might have been exaggerated.

This placed considerable pressure on everyone in Northern Dome Immortal Sect. Because of it, Immortal Venerable Ru Feng had even summoned Su Fan specifically to ask why he