Hearing Elder Liu's words, everyone's gazes returned to Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan.
"Is this Xiao Yu, the top-ranked newcomer?"
"He does seem... quite handsome."
Even Han Yue's gaze lingered on Xiao Yu's face for a moment, her eyes carrying a trace of curiosity.
"Hehe." Elder Liu smiled as he watched Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan, who still showed no movement. He then turned to Han Yue, standing nearby, and said with a smile, "Yue girl, if you're busy cultivating, go on down first. I'll be enough here."
"It's fine. I also want to see how long this newcomer, famous throughout the Inner Academy, can hold on." Han Yue shook her head, rejecting Elder Liu's suggestion. She was not in any particular hurry anyway; cultivation could be done at any time.
Han Yue was curious about this mysterious newcomer who had broken past records in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and led the new students in resisting the old students.
After learning that Xiao Yu was responsible for the reaction, the surrounding students did not leave either. Most chose to remain and see what changes would follow.
As time passed, fourteen minutes had already gone by.
"Not bad." Elder Liu stroked his long beard and chuckled as he looked at the two, their faces flushed red but still holding on.
By the seventeenth minute, seeing that the two in the center were still enduring, even the surrounding spectators gradually became restless.
"Seventeen minutes! It's been seventeen minutes!"
"You have to know, the highest record is only twenty-one minutes!"
"I wonder whether they can break the record!"
Just as the time approached eighteen minutes, everyone saw Xiao Yan's body tremble almost imperceptibly.
"Has he reached his limit?" Elder Liu sighed, somewhat disappointed. "Perhaps the expectations were still a little too high.