"Clang!"
The moment the Sect Master finished speaking, Qingxiao swept onto the platform like a streak of sword light.
The instant he stepped onto it, a fierce sword intent cleaved through the Sect Master's sword intent shrouding the entire Five Elders Pool, like a blade splitting bamboo.
Not only that, after this sword intent, filled with the aura of evil dragons from primordial antiquity, arose from Qingxiao's body, it began washing away Sect Master Zhou Tong's sword intent like the dragon breath of legend, clearing it away in an instant.
Before the match had even begun, the contest between them was already underway.
An uproar swept through the surrounding Cloud Tower stands.
The disciples who had originally believed the Sect Master held an absolute advantage in cultivation could not help wavering now.
Unlike them, however, after sensing Second Senior Brother's sword intent, Xu Taiping thought-What exactly did Second Senior Brother go through in Fallen Longyuan?
Such terrifying sword intent certainly could not have come from an ordinary trial.
Just as Xu Taiping was thinking this, Xu Ziyan, the senior sister from the Sixth Peak beside him, suddenly offered him a piece of jade bone.
"Qingxiao asked me to give this to you. He extracted everything he and the other cultivators saw in Fallen Longyuan from their divine souls and placed it inside. He said that if anything happened to him today, you could use it as a reference when you went to Fallen Longyuan someday."
Xu Ziyan sighed as she spoke.
Xu Taiping's heart trembled at her words. He had not expected his senior brother to have already made arrangements for his death, or to entrust something so important to him.
"Senior Sister, Senior Brother is just preparing for the worst. He'll be fine."
Xu Taiping accepted the jade bone,