Published: February 24, 2025
Mu Mengyi scanned the formation of over a thousand people below, her eyes shimmering with a cold light. With a flick of her wrist, a low-grade spirit weapon flying sword with death attributes appeared in her hand, pointing at the crowd.
"If you want to fight, then let’s fight; if not, get lost!"
Once a well-cultivated noble lady, Mu Mengyi was now filled with rage!
Soon, over a thousand people glared at Mu Mengyi, while others lowered their heads and left.
After a moment, those who had sworn to kill Mu Mengyi returned to their respective lineage groups.
They weren’t stupid!
On the contrary, they were quite clever!
What a joke? Han Li had even been killed by Mu Mengyi. Unless they were brainless, who would go and fight her?
Of course, they felt utterly humiliated, but at least they found some comfort in the fact that they weren’t the only ones embarrassed!
Besides, they couldn’t just fight Mu Mengyi recklessly out of pride and end up getting killed by her sword, right?
At this moment, Shen Subing in the Jade Tower was smiling like a flower. For the first time, she saw hope!
Her own Danmai disciples had a chance to compete for a spot in the top eight of the Crouching Dragon Rankings!
How many years had it been? The Inner Sect Danmai had gone through countless chiefs, yet no disciple had ever made it to the top eight!
As for the first place, that was even more improbable!
But now, Shen Subing saw hope. She had a strong premonition that the first and second places would be claimed by Tan Yun and Mu Mengyi! Of course, this was premised on the two of them not encountering each other in the early rounds.
Thinking of this, Shen Subing stood up from her seat, looking down at the disciples. "If no one dares to challenge, I will announce that Mu Mengyi has successfully defended the arena."
After her words, there was a long silence.
Shen Subing recalled the scandalous actions taken by Wu Hong earlier and glanced at him, smiling lightly, and said pointedly, "Thank you, Elder Three."
The five words were pronounced heavily, the implication was clear.
The subtext of "thank you" was: Thank you for letting me have this talented disciple, Mu Mengyi.
Addressing him as "Elder Three" was even more humiliating for Wu Hong, rubbing salt into the wound of his demotion from chief!
Wu Hong was so furious that smoke was almost coming out of his seven orifices, but he couldn’t explode in anger. He straightened up, and blood surged up his throat, filling his mouth.
Seeing this, Tan Yun noticed Wu Hong controlling his anger as he tried to swallow the blood. Tan Yun feigned to be seriously injured and said, "Oh right, Elder Three, I have something to inform you."
Wu Hong certainly knew that Tan Yun meant no good and didn’t even look at him.
Facing Wu Hong’s indifference, Tan Yun remained calm and raised his voice, pretending to worry that Wu Hong might not hear him clearly. "Elder Three, are you wondering why your eldest disciple Bai Xu hasn't come?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Hong suddenly fixed his gaze on Tan Yun, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart. As he was about to swallow the blood to ask, Tan Yun spoke first, "Let me clarify your doubts."
"Just yesterday, Bai Xu caused trouble in my Spirit Mountain Herb Garden, and after I accidentally disabled him, he actually jumped off a cliff to commit suicide..."
Before Tan Yun could finish, Wu Hong could no longer contain his fury, spewing a mouthful of blood mist, which erupted three zhang away!
"Tan Yun, you are too ruthless!" Wu Hong’s face was pale. Now that his son was dead, hearing that his eldest disciple had also died, coupled with the humiliation of losing his chief position and Mu Mengyi rising as a genius of the Danmai, made him nearly collapse!
"Pfft, pfft, pfft!" Another three mouthfuls of blood sprayed out, and Wu Hong felt a sharp pain in his heart, followed by dizziness, before losing consciousness and collapsing onto the Jade Tower.
"Master!"
"Master!"
Among the crowd, Lin Dong and Mount Tai, who had become arena masters, looked anxious as they cried out in pain!