It was almost a clash between the Jianghu and the Imperial House, though none of the Divine Capital's well-known newspapers dared use that as their selling point.
Lu Wei saluted with his sword, and Li Zhi nodded.
The Fourth Prince wore plain clothes as always, his hair tied with a cloth band, his hands empty. He watched Lu Wei with an indifferent expression, as though weighing his place within this heaven and earth.
Once the bells and chimes had sounded three times and the Sword Trial began, Yang Zhenbing understood why both Pei Ye and Yan Feiqing had said the outcome between Li Zhi and Mei Jianxi could go either way.
Li Zhi was powerful, and still maintained his dominance on the Feather-Scale Trial's arena. Against Qun Fei, or even Yu Qing or He Yaoyao, the heaven and earth within his eyes gave him an extremely high chance of victory. After all, even if Yu Qing's Intent Sword was invincible, it might not withstand the power of heaven and earth.
But he was indeed no longer seamless and without flaw.
It had not shown during his confrontation with Mei Jianxi, but when he tried to see through everything about Lu Wei, Yang Zhenbing, who had experienced it himself, clearly sensed that sliver of a "gap."
Lu Wei's sword possessed tremendous penetrating power.
Had he been placed on last year's Winter Sword Platform, there was no telling whether he could have won, but he would certainly have delivered a spectacular bout.
And now, on the Winter Sword Platform in early summer, the gap in Heaven-Qilin-Book of Changes could no longer hide before such a sword.
The main Dongting Sword lineage was "Nine Songs," whose inheritance had two branches: one began with "Mountain Ghost," the other with "River Earl." Zhu Gaoyang had