Yuan Yi pretended to kick me, then laughed angrily. "Damn it, can't you act properly for once? I'll go keep watch over your side tonight. It's mainly because of Xia Yitian. I always feel that he's not just ordinarily unlucky. Anything that has even the slightest connection to him ends up suffering."
"Hehe. Then you can bring more people to protect me." I grinned, only to be flatly rejected. There wasn't even half a person assigned to our Rogue Cultivator district. If something happened, we'd have neither father nor mother to rely on. Who would care about all that?
The Big Boss's Zero District and the Aristocratic Clans' Zone One had received the most guards. Quite a few Entering the Dao experts were stationed there, so there definitely wouldn't be any problems. That was why Yuan Yi had dragged me over to tell me this. He was afraid I'd sleep too deeply at night and cause trouble if something happened.
After saying that, Yuan Yi left, while several teammates were waiting for him nearby.
The three of us could only hurry back to the competition area.
But when we looked toward the announcement board, we froze. Zhao Qian had actually defeated someone with a higher cultivation level than herself!
"What happened?" I found it hard to believe, so I quickly took the betting slip over for verification. The attendant cheerfully settled my bet, confirming that I had won.
Li Qinghe and Zhang Xiaofei were both dumbfounded for a long while. Zhang Xiaofei's expression was the most animated. In his eyes, the only person who had ever beaten an opponent above their level was me. Now even Zhao Qian could do it, and the impact was simply too great. "That battle was way too suspenseful! It's all Yuan Yi's fault for