"For the first round of this match, the Sixth Peak will send a disciple up to carve the verses."
A little while later, once the disciples of the Sixth and Seventh Peaks had stepped onto the Sword Platform, Elder Black Dragon immediately announced the start of the match.
"Zhou Ao of the Sixth Peak pays his respects to Elder Black Dragon."
As expected, the first person the Sixth Peak sent out was Zhou Ao, the weakest among them.
"Second Senior Brother, given Zhou Ao's cultivation, he can only choose a hundred jin of ship-ballast iron at most, right?"
Zhao Linglong watched Zhou Ao selecting his ship-ballast iron as she spoke.
"Judging by the fact that he still can't perform Sword Flight, the ship-ballast iron he can choose should indeed be around a hundred jin."
Qingxiao nodded.
"Junior Brother, how many jin of ship-ballast iron did you manage to hang yesterday?"
Hearing this, Zhao Linglong immediately turned to Xu Taiping.
"Sixty jin."
Xu Taiping answered truthfully.
To prepare for today's match, the fellow disciples had gathered once at the Seventh Peak's Sword-Trial Platform and each tested how much weight their flying swords could carry. At the time, Xu Taiping's flying sword could suspend sixty jin of ship-ballast iron.
It was not that he could not hang heavier ship-ballast iron from it, but beyond that weight, his head would grow muddled and his ears would buzz incessantly, making it impossible to control his sword steadily.
According to Senior Brother Qingxiao, these symptoms originated in a cultivator's divine soul and were called soul weeping.
When cultivators controlled their swords with the Sword Flight Art, their divine souls were actually connected to their swords. If they loaded a flying sword with something heavy without adapting beforehand, or if the flying sword suffered a heavy