"Teacher Wu..."
Tang Wulin, still brimming with excitement, had just been about to share the good news when he looked up and met Wu Zhangkong's icy face, so gloomy it seemed as though water could drip from it.
Tang Wulin instantly felt as if someone had doused him with a bucket of cold water. The heat in his chest immediately cooled by half.
"Wulin, do you know what mistake you made this time?"
Wu Zhangkong's voice was low, yet it carried unquestionable authority.
Crushed by that imposing presence, Tang Wulin's body trembled, and he instinctively shrank his neck.
Before Tang Wulin could explain, Wu Zhangkong sternly rebuked him. "Before you had figured out the power of Gu Yue's attacks, how did you dare use your body to take them head-on?!"
"Do you think that just because you've broken through to Soul Grandmaster, you're invincible among those at your level?"
"Or did you take this test as some kind of joke?"
Wu Zhangkong's icy words struck Tang Wulin's heart like steel whips. His face flushed red with shame, and he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Xie Xie, who had already been prepared for Wu Zhangkong to tear him apart, immediately began gloating again when he saw this.
He hurriedly whispered to Gu Yue beside him, "Gu Yue, how do you think Teacher Wu is going to..."
"And you, Xie Xie. Do you think you performed very well?"
Before Xie Xie could finish, Wu Zhangkong launched into a furious tirade.
"As an agility-attack Soul Master, instead of slipping in from the side to ambush Xu Xiaoyan and draw Wulin's attention to create room for Gu Yue, you chose to get tangled up with Wulin instead. Are you proud of that?"
After scolding Xie Xie, Wu