"What terrifying Sword Qi and divine beast power!"
"Wait! That ink-wash-style Sword Qi... could that be General Zhao Donglai, the nation-protecting Divine General, the foremost sword cultivator of our age, known as the Sword Immortal?"
"It has to be him! I honestly can't think of anyone else capable of that."
"Look! The person fighting Sword Immortal Zhao is... His Highness the Crown Prince?"
"What? Why is His Highness fighting the Sword Immortal? Will something happen to him?"
"Her Majesty is right beside them. Since she hasn't stopped them, I imagine they're merely exchanging pointers."
"Of course they are. Sword Immortal Zhao is His Highness's uncle by marriage, after all. They're family. Why would they try to kill each other?"
"His Highness is far too powerful! He's actually fighting the foremost sword cultivator of our age on equal footing!"
Everyone was astonished and shaken.
Hearing this, the newly arrived master of Ten Thousand Medicines Valley, Pill Emperor Liu Ruofeng, shook his head with a smile. "On equal footing? Heh, you understand pill refining, but not martial cultivation. His Highness-no, my grandmaster-already has the absolute upper hand."
"The absolute upper hand?" Though they had their doubts, those words had come from their valley master. As his disciples, how could they dare contradict him?
They figured Liu Ruofeng had probably said that because Chen Mu was his grandmaster.
To him, his grandmaster Chen Mu was more of an insider than Zhao Donglai.
Most of them believed the fight would end either in a draw or in a narrow defeat for Chen Mu.
Their reason for expecting a narrow defeat was simple. It was not that they disliked Chen Mu or wanted him to lose.
Rather, given the tremendous pill-refining talent Chen Mu had already displayed, they simply could not believe he was equally