Confronting Him—Wu Xu walked straight toward a square table deep within the inn.
From the moment Chen Yan's External Incarnation stepped through the doors, he had taken in every reaction within the inn.
This place was only six thousand li from Listening Willow Temple.
For mortals living in the secular world, a straight-line journey of six thousand li would likely take more than ten days even if they rode without rest.
But for cultivators—especially these foremost Sword Cultivators who had come for the Listening Willow Temple Sword Debate—crossing six thousand li would probably take only a few breaths.
Yet the vast majority of Sword Cultivators who had come for the Listening Willow Temple Sword Debate had not chosen to leave directly.
An unparalleled event such as this, where nearly all the foremost Sword Cultivators of the Southern Bright Region had gathered, with even Sword Cultivators from the other eleven regions coming to attend, was something that occurred perhaps once in a thousand years.
Listening Willow Sage's natal immortal sword had already been taken by that mysterious Sword Cultivator who possessed Innate Sword Intent.
They could not have come all this way for nothing. Naturally, they could not easily pass up such an opportunity to exchange insights with other Sword Cultivators.
The few Sword Cultivators who had greeted Chen Yan earlier, for instance, had met through this Listening Willow Temple Sword Debate.
Of everyone present, the cultivator who drew the most attention from Chen Yan's External Incarnation was the elderly man in a deep azure Daoist robe seated behind the table Wu Xu had just passed.
Wu Xu could not see through that old man's cultivation realm.
With the experience he had gained as a Void Return Realm True Lord, he could discern the cultivation realm of any cultivator at the