Elder Yu of Qilin Peak had only just finished speaking.
The stands, which had been buzzing with discussion over Xu Taiping's appearance, suddenly fell as silent as crows and sparrows struck dumb.
Every pair of eyes turned toward Xu Taiping on the Sword Platform.
Although fewer than thirty percent of the spectators remained in Qilin Peak's stands, and only ten or twenty percent of those spectators were cultivators from True Martial Heaven.
When nearly a thousand gazes turned toward him in unison, they still put some pressure on Xu Taiping.
There had been far more spectators at the Golden Scale Assembly back then than at this Sword Champion Assembly, but the difference was that True Martial Heaven was Xu Taiping's homeland.
Victory or defeat in this contest for Sword Champion was intimately tied not only to him, but also to his homeland's honor and disgrace.
More importantly.
At last, I can settle the matter of that great fire in the Great Liang Kingdom!
With that thought, Xu Taiping quietly clenched one hand into a fist while lightly resting the other on the hilt of No Edge at his waist.
Lu Sibai, meanwhile, did not attack immediately after Elder Yu finished speaking, as he had before.
Instead, he looked at Xu Taiping with a smile and said:
"Fellow Daoist Ping'an, I've heard you have a fine set of blade techniques that can break swordsmanship."
As he spoke, he lightly tapped a finger against the hilt of the longsword at his waist. With a ringing clang, the longsword flew from its sheath on its own.
Flying out along with the flying sword.
Were a tremendous surge of sword intent and a violent burst of Sword Qi.
After circling once, the flying sword hovered ten feet in front of Lu Sibai's chest.
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