The Green Mountain sword trials took place on Heavenly Light Peak, or, more precisely, in the Sword Forest.
The Sword Forest was a Stone Forest, composed of several hundred pillars. Each was about ten feet thick but rose over a thousand feet high, like countless giant swords pointing at the sky, an extraordinarily magnificent sight.
Many disciples participating in the Green Mountain sword trials for the first time were also seeing this stone forest at such close quarters for the first time, and were deeply awed. Thinking that they would soon stand atop these pillars to compete against their fellow disciples, they could not help growing intensely nervous.
Unlike the Sword Inheritance Assembly, the Green Mountain sword trials were more like real combat, and far more dangerous. Many disciples were injured each time, some severely. It was said that, in the trials many years ago, disciples had even died in battle on the spot. For these reasons, and because it did not want outsiders to discover its true strength, the Green Mountain Sect never invited other sects to observe, not even sects with which it had enjoyed good relations for thousands of years, such as Fruitful Accomplishment Temple, Water-Moon Convent, and Great Marsh.
Several hundred disciples gathered around the Sword Forest without making a sound.
A broad, straight black sword hovered quietly in the sky above a stone platform, radiating a bone-piercing chill in every direction.
This was Three Feet, the principal sword of Shangde Peak.
Yuan Qijing would personally preside over the assembly today.
At this thought, even the disciples' breathing seemed to freeze. How would they dare raise their voices?
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The sound of air being cleaved rang out incessantly.
Several streaks of sword light illuminated the hundreds of stone pillars among the peaks,