They spoke to each other.
Li Guanyi felt that the attitudes of these Palace Masters, as well as Ji Yanzhong's demeanor towards him, had shifted subtly from the beginning.
Even for figures like them, it was inevitable to be influenced by the legend of the Chi Xiao Sword Master; or perhaps it was precisely because they were Academy Palace Masters that they were more easily disturbed by the tale of the Chi Xiao Sword.
It wasn't malicious, of course.
But now, what they saw was not Li Guanyi, but the Chi Xiao Sword Master.
The eight-hundred-year legend of the Chi Xiao Sword weighed more heavily than the sixteen-year-old Li Guanyi.
Holding this sword meant bearing the expectations of the people, and also being swept up by these expectations.
