The next day, the Earth-Grade Sword Discussion between Void Gate and Heavenly Sword Sect began.
The outer grounds of Dao Discussion Mountain were still packed with people, but there were noticeably fewer cultivators watching than before.
They had grown bored.
Void Gate's strongest team had suffered defeat after defeat in the Earth-Grade Matches. Their performance had been abysmal, with scarcely a single bright moment.
Many people no longer held any expectations.
What was more, this Sword Discussion was an offense-defense match, and their opponent was a top-tier sword cultivation sect—Heavenly Sword Sect.
Heavenly Sword Sect inherited the ancient Heavenly Sword Art.
This Heavenly Sword Art was also one of the finest sword Dao techniques in Ganxue Prefecture, and its power was terrifying.
If Heavenly Sword Sect was allowed to attack freely and unleash its sword qi's killing might, then across all of Ganxue Prefecture, even Longding Sect of the Four Great Sects and Vajra Sect of the Eight Great Sects—two body cultivation sects famed for tempering their sinews and bones and for their defenses—might not be able to withstand it.
Much less a mere Void Gate.
Void Gate did not have any truly top-tier Body Cultivators.
And on top of that, there was Mo Hua, who would "shatter at a touch."
In the minds of most cultivators, this was a Sword Discussion with virtually no chance of victory and nothing worth watching.
Void Gate was already at a disadvantage, and the disadvantage only compounded itself. Defeat was inevitable.
Of course, some among the audience still held expectations.
But what they hoped for was that Heavenly Sword Sect would catch Mo Hua's weakness and cleave him to death with a single sword strike in this Sword Discussion.
It was a simple expectation.
"To see Mo Hua die with my own eyes,