Atop Cloud Peak.
The Five Great Families and Seven Sects of Chu, the Young Lord and Princess of Chu, the Twenty-Seven Sects of Chu, and the holy sons and martial artists of the various clans and sects throughout Chu all sat around the four sides of Cloud Peak.
The central area had been cleared out for the martial contest.
Lin Bai now stood tall in the very center, Dragon Eye Flying Sword planted at his feet. Every martial artist present watched him with rapt attention.
"Who was it just now who said... they would wipe out the entire Tianshui Sect?" Lin Bai asked coldly, his hands clasped behind his back as he looked toward the Heaven and Earth Gate's area.
Although he had asked the question, he was facing the Heaven and Earth Gate. Clearly, he had deliberately said it to them!
"So you're the Tianshui Sect's holy son... Lin Bai?" Jiang Wei said grimly, clutching his severed arm.
Only after he spoke did Lin Bai seem to notice him. His gaze slowly shifted onto Jiang Wei.
Sword intent spread from Lin Bai's body. After Dragon Eye Flying Sword, embedded in the ground, trembled violently, it shot from its sheath with a clang and stabbed straight toward Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei's expression changed slightly. He hurriedly turned around and circulated his cultivation power, transforming it into a shield of light before him.
One layer was not enough. Jiang Wei condensed nine shields of light—one of the Heaven and Earth Gate's defensive secret arts.
With Jiang Wei's cultivation at the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm, almost no one at the same cultivation level could break through his shields of light.
But then, a shocking scene unfolded.
Dragon Eye Flying Sword shot forward, its razor-sharp sword light smashing through the nine shields