At that cry, boos swept through the viewing stands surrounding the Sword Platform.
Inside the pavilion in one of those stands, Huang Que and Dugu Qingxiao both frowned.
Dugu Qingxiao murmured,
"Wang You Valley really is willing to bleed itself dry."
Huang Que nodded and said,
"Foreign cultivators invited by the Sword Chief Ranking must have some strength. To make them challenge Chu Ping'an even at the cost of public contempt..."
"Wang You Valley must have offered terms they couldn't refuse."
Dugu Qingxiao said with some concern,
"In single combat, Chu Ping'an naturally has nothing to fear from those cultivators on the Sword Platform. But if Wang You Valley really has persuaded all twenty-odd of them..."
"With them challenging him one after another, Chu Ping'an's True Essence and Qi and Blood might not hold out."
At this, Huang Que's expression turned solemn.
"If that's true, whether Chu Ping'an can last until these challenges end is indeed hard to say."
As he spoke, Huang Que slammed his fist against the pavilion railing, then looked toward the stand where Madam Golden Bamboo and the others from Wang You Valley sat.
"Damn Wang You Valley!"
Half an hour later.
With a tremendous bang, Chu Ping'an kicked the twentieth Sword Inquiry Cultivator off the Sword Platform.
And that kick from Chu Ping'an...
Once again ignited the emotions of the True Martial Heaven cultivators in the surrounding stands.
For a moment, the entire venue erupted.
Had he not seen it with his own eyes, even Huang Que would have found it hard to imagine that this was the first round of the Sword Champion Assembly rather than the final round.
By now, the Nine Viewing Stands, which could accommodate ten thousand people, were packed.
Many cultivators were even standing in the stands.
Bang!
Just