What appeared to be a Sword Inquiry that would decide the survival of Zhenwu and the Shangqing Realm actually concealed a contest between the Demon Mother and the Sword Chief Ranking.
The Demon Mother wanted to use this Sword Inquiry to force Bu Xueting down the mountain.
The Sword Chief Ranking wanted to use the ten Demon Emperors of the Nine Abysses to select an heir to the True Martial Great Emperor's true inheritance.
"What is the Great Emperor's true inheritance?"
After hearing Cui Tiegu's words, Xu Taiping and Yun Ye of the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace both looked bewildered.
Cui Tiegu glanced at Yun Ye, who had asked the question, then at Xu Taiping beside him. Only then did the corners of his mouth lift slightly as he said:
"Don't rush. Someone will give you an answer soon enough."
Yun Ye was about to ask another question, but the moment he opened his mouth, a streak of sword light descending from the sky interrupted him.
"Boom!"
Amid a tremendous crash, that streak of sword light pierced straight through the Nine Prefectures' barrier and slammed into the Sword Inquiry cultivators' seating area outside the Sword Platform.
Everyone turned their horrified gazes toward that streak of sword light.
Xu Taiping, Yun Ye, and the others were no exception.
When the sword light dispersed, everyone finally saw the figure within it-a slender woman in white of extraordinary beauty.
Yet more than her figure and beauty, what truly shook everyone to their core was the terrifying pressure emanating from the woman and the Ice-Soul Longsword at her waist.
The pressure of that woman and her sword was in no way inferior to Su Chan's on the Sword Platform.
When Yun Ye saw the woman's face clearly, he first froze, then exclaimed in delight,