After watching the scene within the Moonshadow Stone, everyone, including Fairy Lingyue, fell silent.
For a time, the only sound in the room was the bubbling of boiling water in the stove beside them.
What silenced everyone was not the outcome of the match, but the terrifying Killing Power of Sword Cultivators that A Meng and Cui Tiegu had displayed in this record.
In the end, Bai Yu was the first to break the silence-
"In this Sword Inquiry, the Pure Yang Sword Sect lost not only its title as the First Sword Sect, but eight entire mountains too!"
Although Bai Yu's expression was highly exaggerated as he spoke, his words contained not the slightest exaggeration.
During A Meng's Sword Inquiry against Cui Tiegu, the shock waves of Sword Qi from their exchanges had leveled eight surrounding peaks outright.
Beneath their swords, those peaks, each three or four hundred zhang tall, had been like blocks of tofu, sliced apart by their Sword Qi.
Moreover, at least three of those eight peaks had been protected by Mountain-Guarding Formations.
Even so, those three peaks had still been cleaved through the middle by the swords in their hands.
Fairy Lingyue, too, murmured with a grave expression:
"I originally thought A Meng had lost to Cui Tiegu in this Sword Inquiry because his Swordsmanship had regressed, or because he was improving too slowly."
"I never expected that not only had A Meng's Swordsmanship not regressed, but he had actually been improving at an extraordinary pace."
"With strength like that, he would at least have a fighting chance even against those Cultivators from Outer Heaven."
At this point, Fairy Lingyue gave Cui Tiegu's image in the Moonshadow Stone's projection a long look, then continued, her gaze sharp:
"The reason even an A Meng like that