"Eldest Brother, didn't you say there wouldn't be any experts competing today? Why is it impossible to find a seat again?"
"Haven't you seen today's list of Sword Inquiry Cultivators?"
"No."
"Take a look and you'll understand."
In a spectator stand north of the Sword Platform, Guangling Pavilion's Mu Yuchen and Mu Yun talked as they struggled to squeeze through the crowd, finally making it into the private room they had reserved in the Cloud Tower.
"What's so strange about this list?"
After finding a chair and sitting down, Mu Yuchen muttered under her breath, then took out her Spirit Mirror.
With a light tap of her finger, the list of that day's Sword Inquiry Cultivators automatically appeared on the Spirit Mirror.
Three days before each Sword Inquiry began, the Nine Prefectures would publish the list of Sword Inquiry Cultivators, so it was no longer viewable only by the participants themselves.
"They're all cultivators I've barely heard of. What's so remarkable about that?"
After a cursory glance, the confusion on Mu Yuchen's face only deepened.
Although the list for this Sword Inquiry had only been released a few days earlier, Mu Yuchen and the others had actually learned the full roster of participants from the various heavens half a month ago.
Precisely because of that, Mu Yuchen already knew every cultivator on the list worth watching by heart.
So if even she had never heard of a cultivator, chances were their cultivation was unremarkable.
Mu Yun did not look at Mu Yuchen. He simply stared unblinkingly at the Sword Platform below and said without turning his head:
"Look more closely."
Just as he spoke, another cultivator stepped onto the Sword Platform after the mountain-guarding elder called his name, then produced his Sword Inquiry Token to verify his identity.
Beside him,