As they watched Qu Lan's retreating figure, the beings of the Thirty-Three Heavens observing from the Chaos World did not know whether they should be happy. Though Sima Tian had narrowly escaped, he had lost the crucial first battle.
With that loss, their morale had been lost as well.
Before the battle began, everyone had been full of confidence in the Thirty-Three Heavens, because they had personally witnessed the trial selection. Every participant was a monster among monsters; not a single one was simple.
Sima Tian was the strongest among those in the mid-stage Quasi-Hegemon realm. He had swept through everyone in his realm, and all had witnessed his strength. Yet he had still lost, and lost miserably!
As the inheritor of the Ancestral God Academy, Qu Lan's strength made one's scalp tingle. She was astonishingly powerful, and her depths could not be seen through.
The reason she had been injured was the disparity in information. The methods Sima Tian had used were anything but ordinary. Had she not been strong enough, she might truly have been sealed and suppressed by Sima Tian before she could react.
In the end, Sima Tian exhausted every method at his disposal, yet before a serious Qu Lan, he was still utterly vulnerable!
The Sima Family inheritor, whom they had viewed as invincible, had been effortlessly swept aside and beaten until he could barely fight back.
They had once again seen just how powerful Young Heaven-level experts were!
With Sima Tian's defeat, everyone could not help but worry, fearing that every fighter from the Thirty-Three Heavens would lose.
Qu Lan had displayed crushing strength, dealing them an enormous psychological blow.
Perhaps Tianming Wuji was their only hope?
The others were all reclusive experts whose names had never been heard. No one knew just how