However, above Xu Taiping's name, a golden sword light was slowly cleaving the name apart.
"Clang!..."
As the sword light descended, a sword cry like tearing metal and stone echoed ceaselessly across the summit.
Just as that sword light was about to tear Xu Taiping's name apart completely, a spectator on some unknown stand suddenly circulated his true essence and shouted, heedless of the backlash from the stand's restrictions:
"Lord Fu Yuan, please wait a little longer!"
The voice first made the cultivators in the surrounding stands freeze in unison. Then the Azure Profound Sect disciples in the stands were the first to react.
Liang Zhu, who had not even dared to speak loudly before, abruptly rose under Dugu Qingxiao's astonished gaze, mustering all the true essence in her body at once to shout toward the Sword Platform below:
"L-Lord Fu Yuan, p-please wait a little longer! Please wait a little longer!"
Immediately afterward, the dozen or so young Azure Profound Sect disciples in the stands rose together behind Liang Zhu, cupping their hands and shouting to Elder Fu Yuan below:
"Lord Fu Yuan, please wait a little longer!"
But after their shouts, the backlash from the stands' restrictions turned into fierce gusts of gang wind that roared as they battered the disciples in the stands.
Yet the instant those fierce gusts arose, Sect Master Zhao Qian and several Peak Lords had already stepped in front of the young disciples.
"Boom!"
In the end, the fierce gang wind battered Zhao Qian and the others, while the Azure Profound Sect disciples behind them remained unharmed.
Seeing this, Liang Zhu immediately pleaded for forgiveness from Zhao Qian and the others, her face panicked. "Forgive me, Sect Master. It-it was my recklessness."
Zhao Qian, however, waved his hand, then said in an utterly