Xiao Hua naturally knew that Lu Ruochang of the Xuanfeng Sword Sect had commanded the Sword Cultivator Great Battle, and behind Lu Ruochang stood Jiu Xia of Qingqiu Mountain. With the schemes of a Nine-tailed Fox... how could Human Dao cultivators possibly be her match? Still, he asked with a smile, "What else has Fellow Daoist Gu Yunzi discovered, to frighten even you disciples who devised these plans?"
"Alas..." Gu Yunzi sighed. "In our divination chamber, we suddenly discovered that from the very beginning of the Great Sword Dao Battle, we had already stepped into the Sword Cultivators' trap. Though the Sword Cultivators' arrangements appeared scattered here and there, utterly without pattern, and even resembled the Great Sword Dao Battles recorded in the past, in truth, once these arrangements were linked together with the passage of time, they formed a series of vast schemes so tightly interlocked that not a single crack could be found! They not only lured all our Dao Cultivator disciples below the Nascent Soul realm into the Sword Tomb and wiped them out, but also drew our Nascent Soul elders into Xuntian City to catch them all in one net! Of course, it was precisely because Senior appeared that the Sword Cultivators' early arrangements were disrupted. At the final critical moment... Senior even destroyed the Sword Tomb, thus preserving several hundred thousand of our Dao Cultivator disciples below the Nascent Soul realm!"
At this point, Gu Yunzi took a deep breath and said, "It is a pity that Senior vanished after the battle at the Sword Tomb and withdrew from the war. If Senior had also participated in the battle of Xuntian City, our Dao Cultivators absolutely would not have lost Xuntian City!"
"How could that be possible?" True Person Jinglü said unwillingly. "Even if Xiao