Sea Island Pier, beside a cruise ship.
Liu Jian looked back at the competition grounds. He had participated as well, but he had not made it into the finals.
It was not that he was not strong enough; his luck had simply been terrible. He had encountered five people who made it into the finals in a row—so he could not scrape together six victories.
The first person he ran into had been Xu Yunshuang, a former club classmate. Before he could even make a move, his stomach churned violently, forcing him to leave the arena in embarrassment to deal with it.
His skin was not thick enough for him to deal with it on the spot just to win, though he knew that a true warrior would never care about such things.
He was not so unlucky afterward, but he ran into many veteran Otherworldly Users.
Though he possessed two otherworldly species, he had not had them for long and his foundations were too shallow. Faced with all manner of bizarre tricks, he was still defeated.
No one else could possibly have luck this bad. At least, he believed he was probably the only one.
Still, he remained calm about it. Luck was not something he could blame on others, nor could he blame himself. Some people got struck dead by meteors while sleeping at home—who could they blame for that?
He had not entered the team competition and did not plan to stay any longer, so he intended to leave by ship ahead of schedule.
He was still not strong enough.
Compared with Teacher Wenren, the gap was simply too great.
The man usually seemed mild and peaceful, without the slightest air of power bearing down on others. He was practically no different from an Ordinary Person.
Yet