"Little fellow, you noticed it, didn't you?"
Instead of answering, Blade Slave asked a question.
Xu Taiping froze for a moment at his words, then realization dawned. Somewhat curious, he asked Blade Slave for confirmation:
"Senior, do you mean the sudden changes in your blade intent and blade force during the last match?"
"Yes." Blade Slave nodded.
"Before your Blade Qi Profound Connection, I did indeed notice the changes in your blade intent and blade force."
Having received Blade Slave's confirmation, Xu Taiping immediately answered.
"The mere fact that you could sense the changes in This Old Man's blade intent and blade force already qualifies you to ascend to the Eleventh Floor of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower."
Blade Slave offered this explanation with great seriousness.
As he spoke to Xu Taiping, a rare hint of gentleness appeared on his normally frost-cold face.
"Senior Blade Slave, this is unfair!"
Just then, the Third Prince, whose form had already become a phantom of his primordial spirit, suddenly stepped forward and challenged Blade Slave with some dissatisfaction.
He did not say this to target Xu Taiping, but because he truly felt Blade Slave's actions were unfair.
"Unfair?"
Blade Slave turned his sightless eyes toward the Third Prince, Chu Yinan, then gave a cold laugh.
"Are you worthy of saying those three words to This Old Man?"
"Senior, you..."
The Third Prince, Chu Yinan, seemed about to argue further, but before he could finish, his primordial spirit phantom exploded with a boom, vanishing without a trace.
The next moment, the Tower Spirit's voice rang out in everyone's minds-
"Chu Yinan of the Southern Chu Kingdom in Youyun Heaven has provoked Blade Slave. He is hereby expelled from the Mysterious Wasteland Tower and forbidden to enter again for ten years."
At these words, Luo Cheng