After his words fell, the low-realm cultivators seated below all raised their heads toward the various platforms, waiting to see which senior might step forward to answer the challenge.
Yet a full five breaths passed without a single response.
Upon the platforms, the Spiritual Connection cultivators from every side looked at one another, each seeing the same troubled look in the others' eyes.
They truly wished to witness the Vaulting Dragon Lord's strength with their own eyes, but the problem was that even if he were to display his Daoist arts, there had to be an opponent.
By the usual rules, with Yang Yuanhong now at the Spiritual Connection Fifth Layer, the first match should have been answered by a cultivator of the same realm.
But the Spiritual Connection Fifth Layer cultivators present were not fools. Having felt the pressure Yang Yuanhong displayed on his wedding day, how could they possibly step onto the stage to court suffering?
What was more, the many forces of the Northwest were all watching from the west. If someone went up there only to be knocked flat by Yang Yuanhong with one punch, they would lose face on a grand scale.
Thus, after five breaths had passed, the Spiritual Connection cultivators on the platforms all turned toward Yingxian Gate once more, as though by prior agreement.
Since this matter had been proposed by Yingxian Gate, now that the Dragon Lord had taken the stage, they should be the first to send someone out.
Facing the gazes from every side, the Sect True Person serving as Yingxian Gate's principal representative frowned, his face showing conflict.
"Senior Brother, how about... I go?"
Behind him, a Yingxian Gate cultivator at Spiritual Connection Tenth Layer, newly entered into the Perfected Realm, spoke.
Hearing this, the Yingxian Gate True