After Huang Xiao finished speaking, Yang Hengchang shot to his feet from his chair on the High Platform, his face full of fury. "Outrageous!"
"Calm yourself!" Chilian said with a faint smile when he saw Yang Hengchang's reaction.
To Yang Hengchang, Huang Xiao truly had eaten a bear's heart and a leopard's gall. This was an insult to his Sword Pavilion.
Huang Xiao's earlier claim that he would fight Feng Xiaofeng with seventy percent of his power had already struck him as wildly arrogant, but he had never expected him to now propose fighting barehanded.
This went beyond arrogance. It was naked contempt for his Sword Pavilion.
He dearly wanted to go down and teach Huang Xiao a harsh lesson, but he could hardly do so in front of the Three Pavilion Masters.
After hearing Chilian's words, he had no choice but to sit back down, though his anger had yet to subside.
"My lord, if that brat insists on making such wild boasts, won't he be the one left humiliated?" the subordinate beside Yang Hengchang said quietly.
Yang Hengchang's eyes lit up. He realized that Huang Xiao seemed to have muddled his wits with anger just now. Although he had not really thought Feng Xiaofeng was Huang Xiao's match, Huang Xiao was now using only Seven-Tenths Power and no swordsmanship. Under those circumstances, how could Feng Xiaofeng fail to match him?
Once Feng Xiaofeng won, what would any of this amount to? It would merely make the Transcendent Immortal Sword Lord's successor a laughingstock throughout the Jianghu. He need not concern himself at all. In fact, he now hoped Huang Xiao would grow even more arrogant, so that his humiliation would be all the greater.
Nor would Huang Xiao be the only one losing face; the Transcendent Immortal Sword