Then Xu Taiping, controlling Beiguo Xiao's body, stood on the high platform and once again declared in a ringing voice:
"I, Beiguo Xiao, a disciple of Stream-Rain Hall of the Profound Elixir Palace, continue my Blade Inquiry against the Blade-Sharpening Boy's Heavenly Tribulation puppet body today. Please grant my request!"
At these words, the Blade-Testing Pavilion erupted once more.
Elder Niu, the keeper of the Blade-Testing Pavilion, felt his scalp crawl and murmured:
"In over a hundred years of guarding the Blade-Testing Pavilion, this is the first time anyone has challenged the Blade-Sharpening Boy's Heaven Rank puppet body to a Blade Inquiry!"
In the past, Elder Niu would have stepped forward to stop this without hesitation, but after witnessing Xu Taiping's strike just now, he hesitated.
Rumble...
Then, as the floor of the Blade-Testing Pavilion shook violently again, the puppet body leaning against the easternmost side of the high platform suddenly straightened.
Boom!
Almost the instant that puppet body straightened, a scorching, savage Aura Fluctuation spread from the Blade-Sharpening Boy's Heaven Rank puppet body like magma erupting from a volcanic crater.
Within a single breath, the aura of this Heavenly Tribulation puppet body of the Blade-Sharpening Boy suppressed the Aura Fluctuation coming from Beiguo Xiao.
Yet while the Profound Elixir Palace disciples, Elder Niu included, were aghast at the might of the Blade-Sharpening Boy's Heaven Rank puppet, Beiguo Xiao stood motionless on the high platform, his face full of disappointment, as though he had been deceived.
Just as everyone was wondering why Beiguo Xiao wore such an expression, he shook his head helplessly and said:
"Blade-Sharpening Boy, is this your strongest puppet body? I truly am rather disappointed."
He immediately added:
"I am very disappointed in the Profound Elixir Palace as well."
At these words, the Profound Elixir Palace disciples