Chapter 687: The Challenge
The Sword-Hanging Kingdom was located on an island in the West Sea. Although it was much smaller than the Fuyao Kingdom, which was also located on an island, it was ranked second among the kingdoms in the four seas. Like many minor kingdoms in the Western Regions, it had only one major city, which shared the kingdom's name—Sword-Hanging City.
In Sword-Hanging City, everyone carried swords, and in the countryside, every household forged them. In this kingdom that revered the sword as the most beautiful thing, it was common for powerful sword cultivators to emerge. Among them, the current Sword Emperor, Chen Erniu, was considered one of the finest rulers in the kingdom’s history.[1]
At this moment, in Sword-Hanging City, both men and women walked the streets dressed in white with swords at their sides. This was the aesthetic standard of the kingdom. Anyone dressed in different colors was likely a foreigner.
"What a remarkable place," a man in the crowd wearing a conical hat remarked.
Though the conical hat obscured most of his face, the faint stubble and strong jawline revealed a rugged, mature handsomeness.
Beside him stood a woman in a simple white dress, also wearing a conical hat. Although her face was hidden, her aura alone drew the frequent glances of passersby.
These two were none other than the Whale-Riding Immortal and Jiang Yuebai.
They walked to the palace, where two towering platforms were under construction. To call them platforms was an understatement; they were more like two enormous white stone pillars, nearly a hundred zhang tall, piercing into the clouds.
That was where Daoist Yan and the Sword Emperor of the West Sea would compete.
Sword cultivators fighting for control of a Great Dao would never resort to flashy techniques. They communicated solely through their swords without exchanging needless words.
In this case, there could only be one eighth-realm cultivator.