At the summit of Sword Cry Mountain, on the sword demonstration platform, the Ascension Realm cultivator from Starpoint Sword Sect had already taken his position.
The man was tall and slender, with regular features. He was only a little over three thousand years old—a very young age for someone at the Ascension Realm.
He wore a dark-blue sword robe, its hem embroidered with silver thread in star patterns. At his waist hung a slender, azure-edged sword.
Though his sword remained sheathed, the aura unique to a Sword Cultivator had already spread around him without concealment—chilling and razor-sharp.
Xu Shuo—the name of this Ascension Realm Sword Cultivator from Starpoint Sword Sect.
If he could win four of the next seven sparring matches today, he would become Starpoint Sword Sect's second sword chief.
Among the Sword Cultivators present, even the weakest were at least at the Spirit 통 Realm.
That meant everyone present, aside from those heaven-blessed prodigies who had broken through to the Spirit 통 Realm at a tender age, possessed a certain degree of life experience.
They all understood perfectly well the twists and turns behind this so-called "contest for sword chief."
If a newly advanced Ascension Realm cultivator was able to participate in this "contest for sword chief," it meant he would certainly become sword chief.
Because all of this had already been decided.
All that remained was to go through the motions.
To become sword chief, one had to fight seven Ascension Realm Sword Cultivators in succession and win four of those matches.
And those seven opponents would not go all out... at the very least, four of them absolutely would not.
But there had been an exception.
That was when Lü Wangqiu became the sword chief of the Iron Alliance a thousand years ago.
At the time,