Winds and Clouds Surge, Another Change Arises!

Taking in the youth's provocation, the Sword Sect's Old Ancestor's face twitched violently, while the killing intent in his heart swelled to towering heights!

But after weighing the pros and cons, he ultimately abandoned the idea of making a move here.

Cao Ming was right.

Zhou Qingyan had provoked them first; the Sword Sect had pressed forward step by step to lay a deadly trap; and Zhou Qingyan herself had brazenly declared that she would "give him three moves"...

Although Ye Li's counterattack had been brutally vicious to the extreme, there was, by the rules, not a single proper fault to be found in it!

Moreover, Cao Ming represented the official will of Xianjing Continent.

If he truly threw caution to the wind and acted today, never mind that the chance of killing Ye Li was minuscule—afterward, the Xuanming Sword Sect would surely face the thunderous wrath of the Nine Luminaries Division and even the entire official authority of Xianjing Continent!

The sect's foundation of ten thousand years would be destroyed in a single day.

That rage, enough to burn away reason, was for the moment forcibly suppressed beneath cold, cruel reality and Cao Ming's mountain-like pressure, all of it transforming into a suffocating resentment and humiliation that nearly tore apart his heart and lungs.

There was no need to tear off all pretense here. There would be plenty of time to settle accounts later.

His gaze fell back upon Zhou Qingyan, who lay barely clinging to life in the deep pit.

The sight of Yue Qing's mangled flesh surfaced uncontrollably once more, overlapping with Zhou Qingyan's miserable state before him. Fate truly loved to toy with people!

With great difficulty, he reined in the violent sword intent around him.

The Sword Sect's Old Ancestor cupped his hands toward Ye