“No!”

Hannah Grant’s expression was pained. “Honored stewards, please believe me, this Xuantian Sect is truly not some arrogant fool who doesn’t know his place. He’s too confident, too calm—so calm that there’s not a trace of reckless arrogance about him. What he said is true. He really has come to our Linmen Sword Sect for revenge. Steward Thomas Young, with late-stage innate cultivation, is enough to suppress all dissent in the outer sect, but to deal with this Xuantian Sect…”

“Heh, not enough? Are you trying to say that this Xuantian Sect is some legendary powerhouse, or even a demigod? Oh, even if he were a demigod, he wouldn’t dare provoke our Linmen Sword Sect. In front of the Patriarch, a demigod is nothing. Or, Hannah Grant, are you trying to tell me that this Xuantian Sect is a mythic supreme, just like the Patriarch?”

Jason Young spoke with a smile, his tone already tinged with faint mockery.

This Hannah Grant ranked among the top ten in the outer sect, with a strong chance of breaking through to the Innate Secret Realm. If she could enter the Linmen Sword Sect’s Heavenly Sword Secret Realm, her chances of achieving the Innate Secret Realm would reach ninety percent. He had even considered, if she performed well, giving her this spot to try her luck in the Heavenly Sword Secret Realm. But now…

Overreacting to such a trivial matter, so reckless and alarmist—how could she ever be entrusted with real responsibility in the future?

So, for such a precious spot, he would have to reconsider carefully.

“Mythic supreme…”

These words made Hannah Grant’s pupils contract slightly.

Suddenly, she recalled Xuantian Sect’s introduction of that supreme demonic sword.

“The sword in my hand is called the Supreme Demonic Sword. Alongside ‘Moon God’, ‘Reincarnation’, and ‘Thunder Staff’, it is one of the four ancient divine artifacts of the Moon Demon Realm, and the foremost among them. Its sword aura pierces through the Moon Demon Realm, the Desolate World, and the Earthly World—the three great worlds. The Scarlet-Blood Heaven-Burning Sword… I wonder if it can withstand a strike from the Supreme Demonic Sword.”

That slightly playful voice still seemed to echo in her ears.

At the time, she had thought Xuantian Sect was just joking.

The Scarlet-Blood Heaven-Burning Sword!

What a divine sword that was—rumor had it that even its sword spirit alone possessed terrifying power not inferior to a demigod!

And that man named Xuantian Sect had actually dared to question whether the Scarlet-Blood Heaven-Burning Sword could withstand a blow from the Supreme Demonic Sword. That alone showed the Supreme Demonic Sword’s power was far above the Scarlet-Blood Heaven-Burning Sword!

And to be able to subdue such a terrifying demonic sword…

How weak could his cultivation possibly be?

At this thought, Hannah Grant’s face turned pale, and she cried out in alarm, “Mythic supreme! Mythic supreme! That Xuantian Sect is, in all likelihood, a mythic supreme!”

“Absurd!”

“Hmph!”

Hearing Hannah Grant’s somewhat frantic outburst, several stewards snorted coldly in unison.

One of them, an elderly man with a wealth of experience, even sneered, “I’ve presided over the outer sect’s library for so many years. Regarding the mythic supremes of our Holy Light Empire, and even the entire continent, I may not know them all, but I’ve certainly heard of most. Yet I’ve never heard of such a young mythic powerhouse wielding a dark red sword. It seems the world is vast, and there’s still much for me to learn.”

“All right, that’s enough. Soon, it will be the Linmen Sword Sect’s succession ceremony. Countless powerhouses from the Holy Light Empire will gather at our Wenjian Mountain to witness it. Even a prince from the royal family is coming to offer congratulations. In such circumstances, if our Linmen Sword Sect were to make a big fuss over a trivial matter, wouldn’t we become a laughingstock in the cultivation world?”

Hannah Grant glanced at Jason Young, who had never taken this matter seriously, then at the fifteen stewards, all with dismissive expressions. In her eyes, despair gradually set in.

They didn’t believe her!

Not a single one of these high-ranking stewards, who had access to the upper echelons, believed her words.

It was just like…

Not long ago, when she’d thought Xuantian Sect was only joking with those words.

She was simply too insignificant for her words to carry weight.

Among the outer disciples of the Linmen Sword Sect, she had some status, but at best, she was like a small-town mayor in an empire. If such a mayor, without any evidence, suddenly went to the local city lord and said she wanted to see the emperor to report that someone intended to destroy the empire, what would the city lord think?

Especially when the empire in question was one of the greatest powers.

“Honored stewards, you… will see for yourselves—maybe as soon as tomorrow! At the moment of the succession ceremony, you’ll see whether what I said is truly absurd!”

Chapter 10: The Succession Ceremony

Linmen Sword Sect!

The number one sect of the Holy Light Empire.

Three thousand years ago, the world plane where the continent was located first came into contact with the Moon Demon Realm. Although no spatial passage had yet appeared, under the influence of the higher plane Moon Demon Realm, the entire continent began to see a surge of magical beasts, which at one point destroyed the most powerful empire of that era—the Sword of Glory regime.

From then on, the continent entered an era of warlords and division.