Hearing Jin Shi announce that the melee could begin, the plaza immediately erupted in commotion.
The fourteen young powerhouses who had passed through the Rat Tide Sonic Wave Array unconsciously drew closer to one another, eventually forming three factions.
Mu Qingluan, Nalan Yanran, Qing Lin, and Lin Xiyu formed one faction. Feng Qing'er, Wang Chen, and Tang Ying formed another, while the remaining seven people formed the third.
Once the three factions had taken shape, everyone unfurled their Dou Qi Wings and turned into streaks of light, shooting into the sky and flying to the air outside the mountain peak where the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool was located.
However, although they had taken to the sky, the three factions did not immediately begin fighting.
Everyone feared that whoever struck first would become the target of all.
Thus, the three factions merely occupied their own sections of the sky, watching the other two with deep wariness. For a time, the situation fell into a stalemate.
After the young powerhouses participating in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool left the plaza, those remaining on the plaza atop the mountain were basically members of the Gold Devouring Rat Family, along with those not participating in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.
Those not participating naturally included Bai Ge, Cai Die, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan, as well as the Han Yue and Han Xue sisters, who had come to broaden their horizons, along with the two Dou Zong guards at Feng Qing'er's side.
Everyone watched the imminent battle in the distant sky.
Amid their mutual wariness, the three factions remained in a standoff, with no one daring to make the first move.
But the opening of the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool would not wait for them. As time slowly slipped away, everyone began to