Watching the sword strike, Gui Bieli suddenly smiled.
"Your fundamentals are solid. You've clearly trained hard, and you're not just hiding behind your senior brother's reputation. Unfortunately... you're still too green."
As he spoke, he raised a finger again.
Another invisible blade flashed past. This time, it came from such a vicious angle that Shengyuan had to turn back in midair to avoid it.
Meanwhile, up on the cloud platform, Chen Luo was still telling Zhou You about him.
"...Gui Bieli is a famous expert in the Southern Region. As a person, well... he's neither particularly wicked nor particularly righteous. He usually follows the money. The one exception was when he met a woman whose village had been slaughtered. Her husband and children had been dismembered, and she'd been brutalized so badly she had little time left. For three taels of silver, he personally wiped out the Thirteen Heavenly River Strongholds. Unfortunately, that made an enemy of Iron Rain Manor, and they sent people to hunt him down. No one heard from him after that... but it looks like he survived."
Zhou You kept his eyes fixed on the arena below and spoke quietly.
"So how good is he?"
"They call them the Mad Blade of the North and Bieli of the South. The northern one is Desert North Mad Blade... you've heard of him, right? He has quite a grudge against your Five Aggregates Temple. Shame he doesn't seem to be here. If he were, you might have faced him. Let me tell you, he's formidable. Even you might not come out ahead—"
"...I know, but you're getting off topic. Tell me about the man down there."
Chen Luo scratched his head.
"The man down there? Right. He practices Innate Formless Sword Qi, a technique he created entirely on