"Hm?"
Xia Ping stood in the middle of the plaza when he suddenly felt two piercing gazes fixed on him from the stands. He turned and looked up, immediately spotting two figures in a corner of the audience.
They were Qiu Xue and Su Mei.
He was a long way from the stands, but after advancing to the seventh level of Martial Master, the Hell Golden Crow Eye in his left eye had fully formed. Even from more than ten kilometers away, he could still see everything clearly.
So he spotted Qiu Xue and Su Mei at once. They were in the audience, too.
"What?"
Qiu Xue was startled. "It seems that kid spotted us." She keenly sensed the gaze from afar and suspected that Xia Ping had noticed her and Su Mei.
"How could that be?"
Su Mei scoffed. "There are at least hundreds of thousands of spectators in the stands, and we're so far away. Even a grandmaster couldn't pick out a few specific people from such a crowd."
"You're imagining things."
She didn't believe Xia Ping was capable of that.
"Maybe." Qiu Xue shook her head, deciding it was probably an illusion. "Still, I didn't expect him to actually make it through the preliminaries, let alone rank first in points."
When she'd seen the news earlier, she'd been just as stunned.
Back on Yanhuang Planet, the kid had been a nobody, and it hadn't even been clear whether he'd get into college. Now he'd become an Elite Student and was competing in the Genius Tournament.
He was even going toe-to-toe with countless prodigies. The change was unbelievable. No matter how hard she tried to imagine it, she couldn't have guessed Xia Ping would come this far.
"That kid really does have some ability. Otherwise, he wouldn't have