"Look, it's Li Chengfeng—he's making his move!"
Beneath the tournament platform at Shuiyang Prefecture's Banquet of Martial Combat for the Chosen, as Li Chengfeng boldly stepped forward after Zhao Lie's defeat, all the martial artists from Shuiyang Prefecture and Green Mountain City felt their hearts leap. They stared tensely at the platform, at Li Chengfeng as he challenged Jian Wuchen, their hearts pounding furiously.
Someone could not help crying out, sending a flicker of tension through everyone's hearts.
Everyone knew that this graduation banquet of martial combat for Shuiyang Prefecture's chosen had come into being because Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie had announced at the Channel-Opening Banquet that they would challenge all the young prodigies of Spirit Mountain Provincial Capital. The event had simply followed the current.
And now, Zhao Lie, one of its instigators, had already been easily defeated by the sword of this foremost sword disciple of the Southern Heaven Sword Sect. Could Li Chengfeng succeed?
After the successive battles, the mindsets of many martial artists had quietly changed.
Before Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie revealed their full strength, they had thought the pair might be nothing but empty names—braggarts who knew only how to boast.
After they displayed their true strength, their attitudes changed. They believed the two truly had ability and could not help admiring them.
Then, when Shuiyang Prefecture's genuine local prodigies suffered crushing defeats in martial contests against the true disciples and even inner disciples of the Southern Six Sects, Zhao Lie had stepped forth powerfully and defeated one of their true disciples.
Moreover, judging from the outcome of his exchange with the foremost disciple, they had instantly placed themselves and Zhao Lie in the same camp, believing that Zhao Lie was fighting on Shuiyang Prefecture's behalf.
Zhao Lie's victory over a true disciple