"Were my eyes playing tricks on me?"
"Or was something wrong with this Spirit Mirror?"
Inside the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse.
Some instinctively rubbed their eyes.
Others fiddled with the Spirit Mirrors before them.
Even so, the watching cultivators in the teahouse still found it hard to accept the fact that a renowned divine general of the Dragon Clan had bowed on his knees before a human martial cultivator.
Soon, however, some cultivators noticed the sword in Xu Taiping's hand.
They then recalled Xu Taiping's earlier shout.
Someone thus speculated:
"The sword-it must have been because of that sword?"
Those words jolted everyone in the teahouse awake.
Someone recalled that Xu Taiping had drawn that silver longsword from a rift in the sky and immediately ventured a bold guess. "Could the longsword in that martial artist's hand have come from... from the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury that the Dragon Clan hid in a secret realm in Outer Heaven?"
At those words, another uproar swept through the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse.
Whatever their cultivation, the cultivators present had made it to the Old Dragon Court; their discernment and experience were nothing cultivators who stayed within their sects could compare with.
Thus, if not all of the people in the teahouse knew of the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury, at least eight out of ten did.
The instant the words "Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury" were spoken, the eyes of the cultivators in the teahouse lit up.
Some even took out Communication Jade Slips at once and began sending messages to the sects and factions behind them.
Even in Outer Heaven, intelligence concerning the Dragon Clan's Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury remained top-tier information worth a thousand gold.
Elder Lu of Ningchan Cave likewise brightened upon hearing the speculation that the longsword in