Duan Ying drew a deep breath, then said, "I don't know those people either, but I heard some experts calling them people from the Taixuan Sect. I suppose that must be who they were. How many other powers in this world could possess such strength? I can't think of many."
"The Taixuan Sect?" Huang Xiao and Dugu Sheng both exclaimed.
"People from the Taixuan Sect?" Huang Xiao asked in considerable surprise. "They intervened directly?"
Huang Xiao naturally knew quite a bit about the Taixuan Sect. After all, he had considerable entanglements with them.
The Taixuan Sect had always stood aloof. In all these years, he had never heard of them taking action against any Jianghu sect or the Imperial Court.
Of course, Huang Xiao also knew that the Taixuan Sect's influence actually extended throughout the Jianghu. There were countless sects in the Jianghu; who knew how many were under their control?
Even among the renowned great sects, quite a few had to obey the Taixuan Sect. Even those not under their control were so cowed by their formidable reputation that they dared not disobey their commands.
Thus, whenever the Taixuan Sect wanted to deal with someone in the past, they only needed those sects to act. The Taixuan Sect naturally stayed behind the scenes and would not take action directly.
Yet now the Taixuan Sect had actually acted directly, which rather surprised Huang Xiao.
"I heard that the one leading them this time was a young prodigy from the Taixuan Sect, Cao Wuxin," Duan Ying added.
"Him?!" Huang Xiao said, his brow furrowing.
"Brother Huang, this is the Cao Wuxin you mentioned before, the one with upper peerless strength, isn't it? With his talent, his standing in the Taixuan Sect must be higher than that of some peerless realm experts,