"What? How could this happen?!"
"Cheating! This is cheating! It has to be cheating!" Long Lin refused to believe the referee's conclusion and pointed at Han Wu as he shrieked.
"Silence!" the referee barked, suppressing the voices of all the contestants.
"Han Wu underwent the test right under my nose. And his result was determined by my own judgment. Do you think I am favoring him?"
The question carried a biting chill.
Behind the referee, Divine Might in the shape of an ice dragon emerged.
It seemed that anyone who dared challenge his words would be frozen into an ice sculpture by that Divine Might.
"We wouldn't dare, we wouldn't dare," the contestants hurriedly replied.
Within the Ancient Dragon Clan, being able to serve as a referee in such an important competition was enough to show the referee's standing in the clan.
How could the younger generation possibly question him?
The referee's gaze swept across all the contestants before finally settling on Long Lin.
"Come here and apologize!" the referee shouted sternly.
Long Lin's face was filled with unwillingness.
"Why should I apologize to him? He cheated—"
The next moment, the referee's majesty descended upon Long Lin.
The terrifying pressure of a Middle Thousand World Level being forced Long Lin to his knees, leaving him utterly unable to rise.
"Apologize!" came the icy command from the referee's mouth.
As one of the foremost figures of the younger generation, Long Lin had never suffered such humiliation.
He gritted his teeth and refused to utter a single word of apology.
Seeing this, the referee increased the force of his Divine Might once more.
A frigid aura began forming layer upon layer of ice crystals over Long Lin's body.
The ice crystals slowly yet steadfastly spread upward. Once they completely covered Long Lin,