"Is this saber trembling?"
Ren Daoxing scoffed. "Surely not? You're imagining things-"
His voice suddenly faltered and broke off.
The saber really was moving.
At first, only its edge trembled faintly. Then the tremors spread throughout the blade, which even began to hum softly.
"Could it be?"
Ren Daoxing stared at the Blood-Yazi Saber and swallowed. "Has someone else capable of inheriting the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber appeared?"
Opposite him, Zong Lingwei unhesitatingly took out a talisman and flung it into the sky.
The talisman exploded with a thunderous crash. A gigantic ball of fire hung in the sky like a small sun, illuminating every detail of Formless Divine Mountain's summit.
By now, the saber's trembling hum had become even more pronounced. Streams of crimson saber qi burst from its blade, forming a rainbow of light thirty feet long.
Just then, Ren Daoxing saw the great figures of the Formless Divine Sect, ordinarily so rarely seen, appear on the stone platform one after another.
-Li Changsheng, the current sect master of the Formless Divine Sect!
-Qingxu Zi, grand elder of the Teaching Academy!
-Ao Guo, grand elder of the War Hall!
-Lu Shouyang, grand elder of the Discipline Academy!
Even Zhifei Zi, grand elder of the Sorcerer Academy, appeared on the stone platform shortly afterward.
Within moments, more than twenty second- and third-rank experts of the sect packed the platform so tightly that the many elders and True Inheritances arriving afterward could only hover outside it.
They watched the trembling Blood-Yazi Saber on the platform, their eyes shining, their expressions filled with excitement, joy, and anticipation.
"Seventeen years later, this saber has actually stirred again!"
"This must be a resonance between heaven and man. Before a great calamity descends upon the world, someone destined to face it must appear!"
"It hasn't