(Ning Tian and Wu Feng illustration)
The third team consisted of three girls.
Ning Tian stood at the front, with Wu Feng beside her and Nanmen Yun'er as their other teammate.
When Ning Tian and Wu Feng saw Lin Ye approaching, a faint blush rose on both their faces, as though they had remembered something they should not have been thinking about.
Ning Tian looked away from Lin Ye, took a deep breath, and secretly set a goal for herself:
I hope we don't draw Lin Ye. That way, we can meet in the finals.
Although he had helped her awaken the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda that day... she was determined to claim the championship this time!
Then... marry Lin Ye!
The drawing began.
The four teams stepped forward in turn. Dai Huabin reached out first and drew the number one lot.
He glanced at it expressionlessly, then turned and returned to his team, his mismatched eyes still burning with that unyielding ferocity.
Ning Tian followed right after him. Her slender fingers reached into the lottery cylinder and drew the number two lot.
She lowered her head to look at it. A flicker of light passed through her aqua-blue eyes before she stepped back into her team.
On the raised platform, a young and beautiful female teacher who looked to be around thirty turned slightly toward Zhou Yi. She wore a faint, ambiguous smile.
"Teacher Zhou, you'd better pray that your class's seeded team doesn't run into ours."
Zhou Yi's gaze immediately sharpened. "Mu Jin, do you think your students have already won?"
Mu Jin smiled and shook her head, her tone unhurried. "Not exactly. Nothing is absolute. Although your seeded team has a four-ringed Soul Ancestor, that doesn't mean we'll lose."
Zhou Yi's eyes turned cold. "Are you