Shi Lan was a little dazed and instinctively glanced toward Elder Xin, who stood off to the side.
Elder Xin's face had darkened. The corner of his mouth twitched before he announced, "Gu Feng City, Shi Lan wins."
Beside the ring, Hao Pojun's expression turned solemn. The fight had ended quickly, but it had already given him a rough sense of Shi Lan's strength. She was a formidable opponent.
A flicker of interest passed through Zhao Jing'an's dark-red pupils. At first, seeing that Shi Lan was only at the seventh level of the Xiantian Realm, he had assumed that everyone assigned to her ring was a good-for-nothing. Now, it seemed that wasn't the case.
Shi Lan stepped down from the ring and returned to Gu Rentong's side, staring at him with confusion in her eyes.
Gu Rentong gave a dry cough. "Well... perhaps Gu Rongyue was caught off guard just now..."
In truth, Gu Rentong was also somewhat puzzled. Gu Rongyue's reputation was simply too great. It was said that her mastery of the seven-stringed zither could even hold her own against an Earthly Baleful Realm martial artist.
Besides that, Gu Rongyue's zither skills were said to have surpassed her master's, Dream Brahma, the Valley Master of the Miao Yin Valley. Someone had once offered over ten thousand spirit crystals for a single performance from Gu Rongyue, only to be turned down.
There were countless such stories, enough to show just how extraordinary Gu Rongyue was.
The outcome of that fight had been beyond everyone's expectations.
At the edge of the ring, Gu Rongyue slowly regained consciousness under the nourishment of the woman's true qi.
"Rongyue, how are you feeling?"
Gu Rongyue sat cross-legged and regulated her breathing for a while before coughing up a mouthful of stagnant blood. "I'm