"Holy shit!"
Many people swore instinctively.
As that terrifying, staggering display flashed through their minds, they could not help being astonished by Lin Shuguang's performance.
If they had faced that saber strike head-on... quite a few weaker candidates felt an even greater sense of helplessness than they had when facing Li Jiandao.
They simply could not imagine what other adjectives could describe what Lin Shuguang had just done. That horrifying destructive power was downright outrageous.
Even many of the Heavenly Prides no longer looked at Lin Shuguang with their earlier teasing nonchalance. Their gazes had grown much more serious.
"This Lin Shuguang really kept his strength hidden."
"He was playing weak to catch people off guard."
"I thought beating Tang Hong wasn't all that impressive, but now it looks like he might be no weaker than us."
Zheng Sila turned toward his companion, who was already gaping in stunned disbelief. "I told you, he's different."
His companion opened his mouth but remained speechless for a long time.
In a corner of the crowd.
Tang Hong's face had gone deathly pale.
He had always blamed his defeat at Lin Shuguang's hands on being unprepared back then, insisting that he had only lost so badly because he had been ambushed. He had been determined to redeem himself in the Hundred Schools League.
But now, that seemed hopeless.
"H-how could he be this strong!"
Tang Hong screamed inwardly.
Lin Shuguang was only a first-year student, yet the strength he had unleashed now not only surpassed Tang Hong's, but even rivaled a level Tang Hong had never dared to imagine.
He could not understand it! He dared not even imagine it!
In the Xizhou Martial Arts School section.
Wan Jiangui narrowed his eyes, his expression uncertain and startled. Lin Shuguang's strength had indeed exceeded