Chapter 5180 — A Curious Challenge
The Blossom Guardian · Page 3 of 3
"Then I must beg your pardon." Ling Tianyou bowed with cupped hands, smiling, and then, before the watching crowd, slowly drew a silk ribbon from his bosom. Everyone stared in bewilderment — could this ribbon possibly be his weapon?
"This Ling Tianyou is spoken of as though he were a god, so why would he use such an effeminate weapon?" The crowd could not help but exchange glances.
"Exactly. Our Primordial Alliance has always set great store by weapons, and the Thousand Blades Sect's entire cultivation is founded upon them. As junior sect master of the Thousand Blades Sect, Ling Tianyou ought by all rights to have inherited some divine weapon or treasure. Why a womanish silk ribbon? It doesn't look like much at all," someone muttered with a frown.
Nor was it only them — at this moment even Bing Wushuang, Xue Jianming, and Xin Yi'an were all watching that ribbon fluttering in the air without blinking. They were all masters of the Golden Core stage, but none of them would underestimate Ling Tianyou, for this was, after all, a figure capable of becoming sect master of the Thousand Blades Sect.
Wei Zhao, for his part, gazed at the ribbon in thoughtful silence. He had dealt with men of the Thousand Blades Sect before, and had studied the heart methods of the Primordial Age's Thousand Blades Sect, and he knew that the most important measure of a Thousand Blades Sect master's strength was the number of weapons he could control at once. Each additional weapon meant countless more variations, harder still to guard against — and of course, the difficulty of cultivation rose with it by leaps and bounds. (To be continued~^~)