The once-noisy surroundings of the Sword-Discussion Platform suddenly fell silent.
To everyone watching, that seemingly loose strand of green Sword Qi had scattered the water curtain before Kong You almost in an instant.
Zhao Mian watched from below the platform, initially still estimating how this man would be "instructed."
Now, however, he was dumbstruck.
He had just fought Kong You himself and knew exactly how resilient that water curtain was. How had this man broken through it so easily?
"..."
"This..."
The cultivators stared, dumbfounded. When they recovered, they exchanged looks, stammering this and that without managing a single complete assessment.
Kong Yun was even more astonished.
He knew very well that, among these Inner Sect disciples at the Qi Refining Stage, his elder brother was not without rivals.
But those few were all outstanding disciples of their generation whose names carried weight in the sect.
Where had this man sprung from?
"Song Yan?"
Someone in the crowd murmured, "Could he be that Song Yan who tortured and killed an Inner Sect disciple of the Xuanyuan Sect in public in Changping?"
"Ah..."
At last, quite a few people remembered.
Yes, it had to be him.
It was just that this man rarely ventured out, and there was almost no news of him within the sect.
On the Sword-Discussion Platform, Kong You had only just steadied his mind and regulated his Spiritual Power when the second strand of green Sword Qi shot toward him.
He spread his hand, and lightning flared from the waterdrop-shaped pendant at his chest.
Violent lightning Spiritual Power instantly blasted apart the Sword Qi of Green Snake in the Sleeve.
"...Such pure Thunder Method."
Song Yan thought that this man did indeed have some skill.
He casually dispersed the third strand of Green Snake Sword Qi he