Chapter 981
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“Zhu Xuejian, the direct disciple of the Huangfeng Valley Sect Leader, comes to challenge. Please give me your guidance, Taiping Daoist！”
After Elder Black Dragon’s voice sounded, Zhu Xuejian of Huangfeng Valley was the first to fly down from the spectator stand with her sword. Then, with the sound of the sword chirping, she cupped her hands towards Xu Taiping who was already standing on the Zhenjian Terrace.
“This Zhu Xuejian clearly knows she can’t win but still wants to go on stage and challenge. Is she planning to consume Taiping’s True Yuan for her senior brother Shen Li？”
On the spectator stand where the disciples of the Seven Peaks were located, after seeing this scene, Zhao Linglong crossed her arms and pursed her lips unhappily.
“It’s not entirely for this reason.”
Beside her, Huang Que retracted his gaze from the spirit mirror, then also looked at Zhu Xuejian on the Zhenjian Terrace. Then, he shook his head with a smile and said: “The Netherworld selects people for the Qingyun Assembly not only based on victory or defeat, but also on the specific performance of the cultivators in the competition.”
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Zhao Linglong and continued：
“If the performance is outstanding, there is still a possibility of being selected by the Netherworld and being granted the qualification to participate in the Qingyun Assembly.”
Hearing this, Zhao Linglong suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly, saying：
No wonder since the shout from Jue Ming Tian, all the sects in Zhen Wu Tian, big and small have come to curry favor with our Qing Xuan and all want to ask the sword with Taiping.
Your Taiping is now a cash cow.
Huang Que laughed “hehe” and then put the spiritual mirror in front of Zhao Linglong.
Zhao Linglong glanced at the spiritual mirror handed over by Huang Que, and then her beautiful eyes widened and said：
There are actually ten thousand cultivators watching this time？！
This is only in Zhen Wu Tian. The number of cultivators watching in other Western worlds is probably already more than ten thousand.
Then wouldn’t it be more than during our sect?
It must be more than that time.
Why is this so？
One reason is that after Taiping’s battle with the two Faceless Ones of the Faceless Tower, his reputation has become even greater. The second reason…
When Huang Que said this, he sighed and then said with a regretful expression：
The second reason should be that many people are curious whether, after Taiping was hit by the Broken Bone Curse, his cultivation has regressed and he has been in a slump as rumored.
Hearing this, Zhao Linglong immediately frowned and said angrily：
My little junior brother will never be in a slump. Even if his cultivation stops at the Refining God Realm, he must be the number one Refining God Realm in the world!
“That’s right. With Little Taiping’s disposition, it’s impossible for him to be depressed like this.”
The Yellow Sparrow nodded in agreement.
“Moreover, with this sum of gold essence money, even if Taiping can’t become a Transcendent Realm expert, he can at least become a wealthy merchant with great influence in the cultivation world.”
He pointed to the constantly jumping number of gold essence money on the spirit mirror.
One of the reasons why the Nine Mansions was so eager to arrange this sword-questioning was also to find a way out for Xu Taiping.
After all, in the cultivation world, there are many things that can be settled with gold essence money.
However, upon hearing these words, Zhao Linglong’s eyes dimmed immediately and she said：
“If it weren’t for the disaster in Qingxuan, with Little Junior Brother’s talent, he should have gone further.”
Saying this, she looked down at the Sword Towning Meadow again, at Xu Taiping who was walking towards the center of the Sword Towning Meadow, and then muttered： “If only there was a spell that could move Little Junior Brother’s Broken Bone Curse onto me.”
Just as the two were talking, Xu Taiping had already walked in front of Zhu Xuejian and cupped his hands from a distance and said to her：
“Miss Xuejian is too kind. I don’t dare to accept your instruction.”
Saying this, he put down his hand, pressed one hand on the handle of the Broken Water saber at his waist, and made a gesture of invitation with the other hand and said：
“Please.”
Actually, this was just a polite gesture. But in the eyes of the narrow-minded Zhu Xuejian, Xu Taiping was looking down on and slighting her, not taking her seriously at all.
“I’m offended！”
With a gloomy face, Zhu Xuejian coldly snorted, and then with her fingers in a sword gesture, she mobilized almost all the sword qi in her qi mansion and concentrated it on the natal flying sword in front of her.
“Zheng！ …”
Amid a harsh sword chirping sound, Zhu Xuejian’s flying sword, carrying sword qi like rolling waves, “rumbled” and flew towards Xu Taiping.
Such a full-strength blow right from the start was unexpected not only by the people of Qingxuan, but also by the disciples of Huangfeng Valley.
“Xuejian, you girl, even if you can gain some advantages in the first few moves like this, you will end up with a reputation for being unruly and unmannered after the competition！”
Looking at Zhu Xuejian’s sudden full-strength blow, Zhu Yuan, the master of Huangfeng Valley, said very dissatisfied.
In his opinion, this sword competition was not a life-and-death match. Moreover, with all the cultivators in the world watching, what Zhu Xuejian did would surely be laughed at by the cultivators in the world in the future.
“Ceng！”
Just as he was speaking, Xu Taiping drew his knife out of its sheath, and a dazzling blade light then slashed towards the sky full of sword qi.
At the beginning, Zhu Yuan didn’t really pay much attention to Xu Taiping’s knife strike. He only thought it was mediocre. But when a cicada-like knife chirping sound suddenly rang out, Zhu Yuan’s pupils suddenly enlarged, and his face showed a horrified expression.
“Boom！——”
In the cicada-like knife chirping sound, the fluctuations of Xu Taiping’s aura around his body suddenly rose sharply. His whole body’s qi and blood and true yuan power instantly turned into knife qi with the momentum of a surging wave. Then, with a “boom” sound, a domineering knife momentum, like a falling meteor hitting the ground, heavily “hit” on Zhu Xuejian and her sword momentum.
“Bang！”
In the huge shock sound, Zhu Xuejian’s sword momentum and the wave-like sword qi instantly exploded and dissipated.
“Shua！”
And Xu Taiping’s knife qi all converged on the long knife in an instant, turning into a snow-white knife shadow dozens of feet long and “booming” towards Zhu Xuejian.
At this time, Zhu Xuejian, who was suppressed by Xu Taiping’s knife momentum, couldn’t move at all and could only watch helplessly as this knife chopped towards herself.
“No！”
And after Zhu Yuan, the master of Huangfeng Valley, reacted, he immediately roared.
But Xu Taiping’s knife speed was too fast. Even if he wanted to intervene in this sword question, it was still too late.
”Boom！ ——”.
Just as everyone thought that Zhu Xuejian was going to be split in two by a single strike, a scene that horrified everyone happened.
I saw the huge knife shadow of dozens of feet actually stopped firmly at a position one or two feet in front of Zhu Xuejian’s forehead, and with the mighty knife energy of this chop, it then bombarded the ground on both sides of Zhu Xuejian with a “bang”, shaking the water in the Five Elders Pool to fly up more than ten feet high all of a sudden.
”The power of this knife strike, I’m afraid even a strong person at the peak of the God Refinement Realm would… wouldn’t dare to take it？”
After feeling the power of this knife strike, a disciple of the Yellow Maple Valley couldn’t help but murmur.
And the valley master Zhu Yuan let out a long sigh of relief, and then murmured with an extremely solemn expression：
”To be able to control a knife strike with such power freely, is this the true strength of the leader of the Golden Scale？”
Immediately afterwards, an uproar resounded throughout the Five Elders Pool.
At this moment, whether it was the cultivators on the stands of the Five Elders Pool or in front of those spiritual mirrors, they suddenly recalled the scene when Xu Taiping defeated the Third Prince of the Chu Kingdom with a single sword strike at the Golden Scale Meeting that day.
……
In a study room of Guangling Pavilion in Jueling Tian.
”He, he is the leader of the Golden Scale! He emerged victorious from countless talented individuals in the five regions. How dare you ignorant and fearless cultivators of the True Martial Region look down on him like this？”
Mu Yun, the young master of the Guangling Pavilion sitting in front of the spiritual mirror, excitedly said with shining eyes after seeing Xu Taiping’s strike.
Cultivators who haven’t fought against him can’t understand how terrifying Xu Taiping, who is a saber cultivator, is.
Ji Ye beside him also nodded in agreement.
