Chapter 5399: Rallying Support!
After Elder Qin of the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect restrained its disciples, who were itching to fight, he sat grimly in his seat without saying a word.
All the martial artists of the Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu hoped that the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect would send out another expert to challenge Lin Bai.
The Seven Sword Children were no match for Lin Bai, but the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect still had the "Three Kings"—three peerless prodigies, each an unrivaled expert among the Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu.
Even if the Three Kings lost, did the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect not still have a Holy Son?
That Holy Son of the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect was reputed to be the most gifted swordsman in Chu in the past ten thousand years. He even held the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect's guardian divine sword in his hands. Among the Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu, there was not a single younger-generation disciple who could withstand even one of his strikes.
The Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu hoped that the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect would continue challenging Lin Bai, because the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect now represented the Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu.
The Five Great Families and Seven Sects of Chu had always looked down on the Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu. They hoped that this battle would draw the attention of the entire world to the Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu.
But Elder Qin's silence had already made it clear that the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect would send no more martial artists to challenge Lin Bai.
In other words... the Cloud Heaven Sword Sect had chickened out.
The disciples of the Five Great Families and Seven Sects seemed to have anticipated this scene long ago.
The disciples of the Wen Tian Sect, the Zhao Family,