"Fight!" Gu Yue parted her jade lips and uttered a single word.
Chill surged through her eyes. That traitor Na'er had her sights set on these two thousand-year Soul Beasts!
If so, Gu Yue had to seize this chance to teach her a harsh lesson!
"Hm?!"
Tang Wulin's face was full of bewilderment. He couldn't make sense of it.
Gu Yue had always been a loner, keeping her distance from the group. She never joined in their decisions or offered her opinion. Why would she make such an irrational call now?
Besides, he could tell that Gu Yue was far more perceptive than most. There was no way she hadn't noticed the danger in the clearing.
Of the five members of Class Zero, Gu Yue was the only one he couldn't see through. If she'd made this decision, there had to be some deeper reason behind it.
Tang Wulin mulled it over for a long while but still couldn't figure out what she was thinking. At last, he stopped puzzling over it and said in a low voice, "All right. We'll do as you say and take a gamble!"
As he spoke, the situation on the battlefield took a sudden turn for the worse.
The Flame Lion, with a cultivation of two thousand five hundred years, roared furiously at the sky, its mane ablaze. It opened its jaws and spewed a blazing pillar of fire.
Frenzied flames swept across the clearing, staining half the forest red. In an instant, they blasted away a student who hadn't dodged in time.
Before the scream could even escape his throat, a pale, egg-white aura enveloped his body. He flashed out of sight, forcibly expelled by the Spirit Ascension Platform's rules.
"Damn it!" Xu Xiaoyu's face changed. "We can't hold out! Retreat!"
Before he