"Father, Eldest Senior Brother... should be all right, shouldn't he?"
In the stands where the Yellow Maple Valley disciples sat, Zhu Xuejian looked rather pale as she anxiously asked the valley master, Zhu Yuan, beside her.
"He'll be fine."
Zhu Yuan shook his head.
"Although your eldest senior brother only recently entered the Heaven Gazing Realm, and relied on Yellow Maple Valley's legacy to break through to the Transformation Realm, he is still a Heaven Gazing Realm cultivator no matter what—a practitioner of True Cultivation who has comprehended a trace of Great Dao True Intent."
The more he spoke, the firmer his gaze became as he looked at Shen Li on the Sword Platform below.
"You're right, Father. No matter how strong Xu Taiping is, he is still bound by the shackles of his cultivation realm."
Hearing Zhu Yuan say this, Zhu Xuejian, who had been feeling uneasy, finally relaxed.
Although she was willful and overbearing, she knew very well that if Shen Li lost the coming fight, Yellow Maple Valley's cultivators would become a laughingstock for years, or even decades.
Disciples with good Root Bones would never join their Yellow Maple Valley again.
"Don't worry too much. Although your third senior brother and the others failed to deplete much of Xu Taiping's True Essence in the last match, they forced him to use a blade strike at his current Ultimate Realm."
At this point, Zhu Yuan's lips curled into a smile before he continued:
"That was his greatest mistake in this competition."
"Taiping really should have played it a little safer just now and used another method to break the Heavenly Gang Seven-Star Sword Formation. Having faced them head-on with an Ultimate Realm blade strike, he is bound to let Shen Li find a way to counter it