"Young friend Taiping, please hand your Sword Inquiry Token to this old man for verification."
Seeing that the appointed time had arrived, Elder Fu Yuan immediately walked up to Xu Taiping and asked for his Sword Inquiry Token.
"One moment, Elder Fu Yuan."
Xu Taiping nodded.
Then his gaze turned toward the stands where the Azure Profound Sect disciples sat, settling on the Sect Master at the front.
But before Xu Taiping could speak, Sect Master Zhao Qian wrapped the Sword Inquiry Token in a Flying Sword Talisman and hurled it toward him, calling out:
"Taiping, catch!"
As his words fell, a phantom flying sword carrying the Sword Inquiry Token streaked toward Xu Taiping like a stream of light.
"Bang!"
Before the sword shadow could stop, Xu Taiping reached out and intercepted it. Then he clenched his hand, crushing the sword shadow and retrieving the Sword Inquiry Token wrapped inside.
Now that Xu Taiping had raised his blood qi body tempering power to the Purple Gold Realm, even his ordinary physique could easily withstand the damage from an ordinary Flying Sword Talisman like this.
Yet the sight sent an uproar through the ordinary cultivators in the stands.
For in the minds of most cultivators, and even martial artists, anyone who could catch a Flying Sword Talisman barehanded had to possess physical strength at the Martial God Realm, or even beyond it.
"I remember Eldest Brother Taiping blocking Shen Li's flying sword barehanded during his Sword Inquiry against Shen Li of Yellow Maple Valley back then, didn't he?"
Inside Guangling Pavilion's side room, Ji Ye was surprised by the sight, but suddenly recalled that Xu Taiping had used a similar method during his Sword Inquiry against Shen Li of Yellow Maple Valley.
Mu Yun shook his head.
"The method was indeed