Words spoken without intent, heard with intent. This had been nothing more than a discussion between the two sides, and Wang Yan had offered no opinion from the lectern.
But some people just liked to overthink things, and even started entertaining crooked ideas.
Young people were full of ambition, eager to point out the way forward. They put on airs of maturity, thinking they saw through everything, unaware that they had already fallen into someone else's trap.
Didn't they ever stop to think what kind of people would befriend students like them—enemy-country exchange students?
At the boundary between the outer reaches and the mixed zone of the Star Dou Forest.
This should have been an area where ordinary, low-level Soul Beasts roamed, but at that moment, it seemed unusually strange.
Even high-level Soul Beasts that usually stayed in the core zone had appeared in this border region.
"A Man Faced Demon Spider over fifty thousand years old, and an Explosive Flame Titan over fifty thousand years old... Soul Beasts of this level shouldn't be here at all."
Standing with his hands behind his back on the branch of an ancient tree that would take several people to encircle, Thousand Machines Douluo gazed down at the battlefield, his expression grave.
Beside him, Xu Tianyao had also concealed his presence and quietly observed everything.
Below, two wildly violent Soul Beast auras were locked in a standoff.
One was a Man Faced Demon Spider. Its eight legs stabbed into the ground like blades as purple-black poisonous fog slowly spread, withering the plants wherever it passed.
The other was an Explosive Flame Titan. Its body looked as though it had been built from rock, and dark red flame patterns flowed across its surface. Every breath seemed to churn molten lava, radiating scorching heat.