When Li Zai'en appeared, Lin Bai tactfully stopped. If they continued fighting, it would probably trigger internal strife within the sect.
After persuading both sides to stop, Li Zai'en gave Lin Bai a deep look, then turned and departed, vanishing above the clouds.
"Lin Bai, are you all right?"
Qiao Mo hurried to Lin Bai's side and asked worriedly.
The battle between Lin Bai and Qi Kun had left Qiao Mo trembling with fear. Several times, she had wanted to intervene and persuade the two to stop, but battles at that level were beyond even Qiao Mo's ability to interfere in. She could only stand to the side and watch blankly, silently worrying about Lin Bai.
"I'm fine." Lin Bai glanced over his injuries. The power of his Five Elements Dao Body surfaced, gradually healing his superficial wounds.
"Elder Qi Kun, Elder Wu Xiu, do you still think Senior Sister Qiao Mo deliberately held back to let me win?"
Lin Bai raised his head and looked at Wu Xiu and Qi Kun, a trace of mockery surfacing in his eyes.
Wu Xiu and Qi Kun looked terrible, as miserable as if they had eaten excrement.
Earlier, they had claimed that Qiao Mo had deliberately held back to let Lin Bai win, thereby undermining the fairness of the competition, and demanded that Lin Bai be stripped of his qualification to challenge.
But afterward, Lin Bai had fought Qi Kun, battling a Great Purity expert with Ninth-Rank Dao God cultivation. He had even forced Qi Kun to use Dao arts, yet Qi Kun still had not managed to kill him.
Everyone understood that, judging from the strength Lin Bai had displayed, there were probably few opponents beneath the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm who could stand against him.
"Hmph."
Wu Xiu and