It was not just them.
The disciples in the surrounding Cloud Tower stands, the Peak Lords in the Cloud Tower opposite, and even Xu Ziyan and the others from the Sixth Peak all looked bewildered.
The Named Challenge Battle of Sword Inquiry Qingxuan was actually an opportunity for disciples from the lower-ranked peaks, allowing them to choose suitable opponents rather than be eliminated in the first round.
Thus, in this competition, most disciples either chose no one or challenged opponents weaker than themselves or evenly matched with them (except for disciples with personal grudges, such as Xu Taiping).
Very few were like Lin Buyu, choosing the First Peak right from the outset-and its strongest disciple at that.
Everyone had seen Ye Xuan's performance of suspending six thousand jin of iron in the previous match. Calling him the First Peak's strongest disciple at present was no exaggeration.
Amid the crowd's discussions, Xu Taiping, who had briefly frozen in surprise, suddenly remembered that the bracelet on his wrist seemed capable of Mind-to-Mind Voice Transmission with Lin Buyu.
So he infused a strand of true essence into the bracelet. Once he sensed the other bracelet's presence, he immediately transmitted:
"Buyu, can you hear me?"
Before long, Lin Buyu's voice sounded in his mind-
"Yes."
Xu Taiping felt a surge of delight.
The Azure Profound Sect had set up a barrier prohibiting voice transmission. Neither divine sense transmission nor talisman transmission worked beyond a certain distance.
"Why did you choose to challenge Ye Xuan?"
Xu Taiping looked up at Lin Buyu across the Sword Platform as he asked inwardly.
At that moment, not only were many Sixth Peak disciples standing beside Lin Buyu, but Meng Qingqiu, the Sixth Peak's Peak Lord, had come as well.
The group seemed to be trying to dissuade Lin