"Clang!"
After the Yin Demon Beast struck, a Sword Cry exploded above Jade Pot Street.
Then Fairy Lingyue, controlling Xu Taiping's body, slowly pressed his raised Sword Finger forward, speaking with a hint of wistfulness:
"Because this sword strike of mine was given to the Book Sage by the Sword Ancestor for protection, and only passed down after the Book Sage refined it. Taiping, your Hidden Sword Art's Sword Intent isn't stable enough yet. If you watch too closely, this strike will bring all your years of swordsmanship training to ruin."
As she spoke, the Flying Swords within the Sword Formation above Jade Pot Street began trembling incessantly, like taut bowstrings.
Then a Sword Intent bearing a killing intent that looked down upon all beneath heaven, yet also possessed a vast and boundless righteous spirit, swept through all of Old Dragon City.
"Bang!"
As Fairy Lingyue's Sword Intent spread, the doors and windows of the Pearl Relic House Master's study slammed with a tremendous crash.
"Brother, you're closer. Can you sense anything different about Zhang Wuyou's Sword Intent?"
From another Spirit Mirror on the desk, Great Elder Lou of Guangling Pavilion questioned the Pearl Relic House Master urgently.
Although Great Elder Lou could see what was happening on Jade Pot Street through the Mountain Patrol Mirror the Pearl Relic House Master had placed there, he could not sense the Sword Intent emanating from Xu Taiping.
Yet those two aspects were precisely what best revealed a cultivator's lineage.
"Old Lou, we may have encountered someone extraordinary."
The Pearl Relic House Master stared straight at Xu Taiping, who was commanding a thousand Flying Swords in the Spirit Mirror before him, and murmured with a trace of fear.
Great Elder Lou asked in bewilderment from within the Spirit Mirror, "Brother, what are