Without overwhelming strength to back it up, the title "Hundred Knowledgeable One" would sooner or later get me hacked to death for "knowing too much" and stirring up "controversy over rankings." Meng Qi looked at "Sword Shakes Star Sea" Zhuo Chaosheng, then glanced at his own hands. Suddenly, he felt a little scrawny, as if he couldn't take the hit.
Fortunately, he had included the Eternal Ice Silence Sword and Eight Desolations Limitless Sword among the seven top techniques, which had pleased the Heaven and Earth Twin Swords. The Snow Mountain Sword Sect and Heaven and Earth Sword Sect hadn't gotten involved. The other five great sword sects were powerful and deep-rooted, but in the end, none had a Heavenly Immortal watching over them. Surely they wouldn't throw everything they had at him over some rankings he'd tossed out offhand?
The less seriously you took rankings, the less real they became. If you acted as if they mattered, others might think there was some truth to them, and soon they'd be the talk of the town.
He was a newly arrived Dharmakaya. If he hadn't happened to come across Wind and Clouds Gathering in Luocheng, with so many Dharmakayas joining forces to hunt down the Taishang Heavenly Demon, his "commanding the landscape" over drinks in a tavern would have amounted to no more than local gossip, never reaching the ears of the great experts. Now that several major sword sects had jointly invited him to "offer his assessment," it looked as though they meant to make the rankings official.
"Martial contests aren't about competing for fame. They're about defeating yourself, overcoming adversity, and breaking through your limits." Meng Qi sighed and put on a solemn, earnest expression, as if he scorned the sword sects' obsession with ranking sword techniques.
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