"Could there really be such a devious scheme?" Xu Zi exclaimed in shock from the commentators' stand.
The points competition had been held for many years. To be fair, people had used bait to trick others, and they'd even set traps to kill.
But deliberately making a fake Dragon Blood Crystal Stone to lure a team into a narrow ravine and crush them to death was entirely unprecedented. He turned to Guo Zhanlu beside him. "Master Guo, what do you think?"
"What do I think?" Guo Zhanlu said gravely. "I'm sitting here watching. What, am I supposed to rush in and kill those three bandits?"
Judging by his gloomy expression, he'd clearly put himself in the shoes of the gophers being crushed beneath the rock walls—unable to escape upward or dig their way down. It was truly hopeless.
"Xue Pinggu was a top contender for first place in this points competition," Xu Zi sighed. "Is he really going to be eliminated so miserably?"
"Probably not," Guo Zhanlu said, shaking his head. "It's hard for a scheme like this to trap a Gang Realm cultivator to death. If he realizes he can't save the people around him, he'll likely just leave on his own."
After a pause, he added emphatically, "True powerhouses don't fear these petty tricks."
Ten minutes later, things gradually quieted down in the narrow ravine.
If they'd fought fair and square, Yue Wen and the other two wouldn't have dared claim they could beat Xue Pinggu's team of nearly ten.
Even if Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er's formidable combat strength, together with Qi Dian's encouragement, had won them the fight, they would have suffered some losses.
But after successfully setting their trap, they'd used the terrain to rain boulders down on the enemy. They'd wiped out the whole