"Sigh, that's all we can do." Xu Jiawei sighed.
The next day.
Seated on his throne, Xu Jiawei immediately felt two gazes fall upon him.
Xu Jiawei followed the first gaze. In the spectator stands, a thoroughly disheveled old man was eating a roast chicken while staring straight at him.
The threat in his eyes was utterly undisguised.
Xu Jiawei shuddered, then followed the second gaze.
In another section of the spectator stands, Du Busi sat watching him, the threat in his eyes equally undisguised. Qian Xunyi, seated beside him, did not look his way, but his stance was already perfectly clear.
Xu Jiawei sat helplessly on his throne, forcibly suppressing his terror as he announced the start of the day's matches.
The second day's matches continued with the elimination rounds as before. Xu Jiawei had not done as Xuan Zi demanded.
Xuan Zi grew increasingly impatient. He decided to give Xu Jiawei a chance and see whether he would deal with the matter after the matches ended.
Qian Xunyi sat in the spectator stands, watching one dull match after another below, his interest gone.
After all, he had come to watch the tournament for the express purpose of handing Shrek a ticket to a first-round exit.
Now that Shrek had been eliminated, he would not even have shown up today if he had not known they would lash out like a cornered dog leaping over a wall.
At dusk, the day's matches ended, and several more academies had been eliminated.
Just as Xu Jiawei stood to announce the conclusion, a chicken bone shot toward him at tremendous speed and struck him across the face in full view of everyone.
A wave of shocked murmurs immediately swept through the venue.
At that moment, Xu Jiawei felt utterly humiliated.
**"Xu