Outside the Facing Heaven Drum, the students were overjoyed. Lu Yin was still alive.
Liu Xiaoyun and the others were aghast. How had he dodged that? They were certain none of them could have avoided the arrow.
For Lu Yin, speed wasn't a problem. The Heavenly Star Art was the bane of speed, after all. In the end, he hadn't been able to resist using it at the last moment and dodged the arrow. If this had been the live-broadcast Greatest Competition, he wouldn't have been able to use the Heavenly Star Art. He would have had to take the arrow head-on, which would have exposed his physical strength. But he wouldn't have needed to hide it then. For now, though, it was better to keep some of his strength concealed, or he'd become a target.
Sailor certainly lived up to his reputation as someone from the Cosmic Sea who dared to compete in the Greatest Competition. He was strong enough to defeat most of the chief students from the Starry Sky Academy. Unfortunately for him, he'd run into Lu Yin. He was still a little short of the top four. Lu Yin wondered how the other contestant would fare. The one acknowledged as a candidate for the Ten Decisions—that was the greatest threat.
Sailor knelt on one knee, panting hard. The pain in his abdomen nearly made him vomit bile. He often experienced this sort of pain in the Cosmic Sea, but he'd never expected to feel it in the Inner Universe at the hands of a student younger than himself. This person was stronger than him. Was this the strength of one of the top four in the Starry Sky Academy? If all four were this strong, then neither he nor Neite stood a chance.
It took Sailor