At this moment, the entire mountaintop platform was utterly silent.
Even the wind that had constantly swept across the summit had fallen still.
The cultivators standing around the raised altar all stared at Lin Xuankong, who was stroking the small sword, as though they were looking at the most unbelievable monster in the world!
Just moments ago,
when Jin Ming, an expert of the Six Paths Heavenly Court, activated the Golden Light Sword,
it had moved far too fast. These cultivators, who were merely at Mortal Transformation Layer Three or Mortal Transformation Layer Four, had almost been unable to clearly track the little sword with their eyes!
Thus, when the streak of light brought forth by the Golden Light Sword came to a stop, the many cultivators saw only that it had already landed in Lin Xuankong's hand. They simply could not see how it had fallen into his hand, much less how he had taken control of it!
Yet every cultivator present was utterly certain that Jin Ming, that Six Paths Heavenly Court expert, had truly harbored intense killing intent toward Lin Xuankong. He had truly activated the Golden Light Sword to sever Lin Xuankong's head. There was absolutely no way he had meant to make the Golden Light Sword obediently fall into Lin Xuankong's hand.
The question was, why had Jin Ming's fatal strike turned into this scene?
How had Lin Xuankong done it?
Had Jin Ming not claimed that this Golden Light Sword was a treasure ranked somewhere above three hundred among the hundreds of treasures possessed by the Six Paths Heavenly Court?
Had this Golden Light Sword not been said to be capable of easily cutting down even Eighth Tier Immortal Venerables?
What in the world was going on?
Every cultivator around the raised altar had