"Gulp!"
Looking at the wooden box in Jiang Xiaobai's hand, the Wulin People present all swallowed hard, their faces filled with disbelief.
Wait.
He... he had just taken it out?
So many people had tried earlier without budging that saber at all.
Yet Jiang Xiaobai had set up a frame, looped an iron chain around it, and finally lifted a finger-and the saber had actually risen.
What was that supposed to be?
"No, he... he's cheating!"
Someone finally snapped out of his daze, his face flushing as he said, "He had so many people helping him!"
"Exactly, that's cheating! Even the people from the Heavenly Mechanism Tower got involved. How can that count as taking it out by himself?"
The Wulin People who had come to their senses began shouting angrily.
They hadn't understood exactly how it had worked.
But one thing they had seen clearly: every member of the Heavenly Mechanism Tower had lent a hand.
That was damned well wrong!
"All right, let me ask you something."
Holding the box, Jiang Xiaobai raised his head and looked at everyone present. "Did the people from the Heavenly Mechanism Tower... touch the saber?"
At those words, everyone was struck speechless.
Indeed, they... really hadn't.
The people from the Heavenly Mechanism Tower had only assembled the frame and pulled the iron chain. From beginning to end, nobody had actually touched the saber.
"Didn't the rules say that one person just had to lift the saber?"
Jiang Xiaobai smiled and continued, "Didn't I just lift it with a single little finger?"
When Jiang Xiaobai finished speaking, silence fell over the room, everyone's face turning red with pent-up frustration.
But not one of them could offer a rebuttal.
Because that was true as well. In the end, Jiang Xiaobai really had used only