"What?!"
Many people cried out in alarm.
Not to mention the onlookers on the street—they still had not recovered from He Pingzhang's Sharp Energy pressure. Their reactions simply could not keep up with the changing battle, and they were not even qualified to provide commentary from the sidelines.
The ones who cried out were the Star Engineering Federation higher-ups watching nearby, as well as the guests upstairs who had been pointing out the lay of the land.
As Sharp Energy experts, they should not have lost their composure like this.
But what had just happened was so shocking that every one of them stared wide-eyed, mouths agape. "He Pingzhang was... slapped?! He Pingzhang, at the peak of Sharp Energy, was slapped by an Essence Realm cultivator?!"
"How is that possible?!"
"How could that kid have such speed, such perception, such reactions?"
Liu Qigang, who had been silently observing, narrowed his eyes.
He realized that Shi Tiexin's slap was not merely a matter of speed, perception, or reaction.
"This kid is extremely familiar with He Pingzhang—with Sharp Energy." Liu Qigang pondered inwardly. "He isn't fighting blindly. He came prepared."
Below, He Pingzhang had already frozen.
He touched his face, unable to accept it for the first second.
Only after that second did he realize what had happened.
For an expert at the peak of Sharp Energy, taking a second to react was no different from an ordinary person standing there dumbfounded for a full minute.
That slap had truly knocked him senseless.
Then came unbearable disbelief and a maddening fury that nearly drove him insane.
Sharp Energy experts had keen ears and sharp eyes. He saw every reaction from the distinguished guests and his colleagues, and it made the veins in his head throb violently, as though they were about to