Li Taibai bore much of the responsibility for how arrogant Sword Cultivators were these days!
Ouyang grumbled to Bai Feiyu, who glanced at the drowsy Featherbearer on his shoulder and smiled without a word.
White-robed Sword Cultivators threaded through the bustling city. They all seemed to be hurrying toward the same place, their steps brisk, yet none traveled by Sword Flight.
The city had no explicit rule against it, but everyone tacitly accorded this Sword Immortal his due respect.
Faced with this spontaneous show of respect, Ouyang and Bai Feiyu readily followed suit, heading farther into the city with the crowd.
The farther they went, the stronger the scent of pine resin around their noses became.
When they reached Li Taibai's statue, the enormous figure, hundreds of meters tall, occupied the very center of the city.
His white robes billowed, a longsword hung at his waist, and he had the bearing of an unparalleled Sword Immortal.
Countless white-robed Sword Cultivators sat on the ground before the immense statue, seemingly hoping to gain some insight from this Sword Immortal.
It was said that someone had once comprehended a trace of the Sword Immortal's true intention from this statue, thereby becoming a Great Cultivator!
It was also said that someone meditating here had received a dream from the Sword Immortal!
It was even said that a female Cultivator had once meditated here and then become pregnant. Since no one could identify the source of the pregnancy, the child must have been the Sword Immortal's!
The stories grew increasingly absurd, yet the more absurd they became, the more people believed them.
And the more people believed, the stranger things became.
"Lord Sword Immortal has already cultivated to become an Immortal. Making someone pregnant out of thin air certainly couldn't be difficult for