On the Commander's Platform, one could hear a pin drop.
Only when Gao Sheng's body twitched involuntarily did faint sounds escape his mouth.
Those sounds were faint, yet they scraped across everyone's heart like a knife.
"Hiss!"
"His spine... is shattered! Gao Sheng is crippled! Completely crippled!"
"Songfeng Martial Arts School has... lost the pillar of its future!"
Discussion erupted on all sides.
Quite a few experts, seeing this, instead breathed a sigh of relief, a trace of schadenfreude flashing through their eyes.
Gao Sheng's crippling was dreadful news for Songfeng, but for them, it was a wonderful thing.
Songfeng Martial Arts School could forget about producing a third Transformation Force expert anytime soon.
On Zhou Academy's side, the brief shock gave way to wild joy and indescribable excitement.
Sun Shun clutched his shoulder and looked toward the tall, straight figure on the platform, his heart shaken to its core.
He had fought Gao Sheng before and knew the depth of his strength well. He had never imagined Gao Sheng would lose so thoroughly, so quickly!
Sun Shun and Liu Nianbo had both fallen to Gao Sheng in succession.
Only in contrast now did the Zhou Academy disciples truly understand how formidable Chen Qing was.
In stark contrast to Zhou Academy's exhilaration, Songfeng Martial Arts School's side was deathly silent.
The smiles on Zhu Lian'er's and the other disciples' faces had long since frozen.
Watching the twitching figure on the arena, limp as a heap of mud, many of them were trembling slightly.
"Ah! Senior Brother Gao!"
"Master! Master! Senior Brother Gao, he...!"
The brief dead silence shattered. Songfeng's disciples rushed onto the arena, lifting Gao Sheng in a flurry of hands before hurrying toward the infirmary.
"Good! Good! What a Zhou Academy! What a Chen Qing!"
The smile had