Upon hearing his emperor's order, Huang Jinxu, who hovered above the arena barrier, immediately shouted down at the people fighting below, "The match is suspended! Everyone, stop at once!"
The members of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy heard their prince's voice. Ma Rulong and Ji Juechen broke away from their respective opponents and positioned themselves at the front of their team.
Ma Xiaotao ignored this entirely and still tried to attack Ma Rulong, but Huang Jinxu stopped her himself.
Watching Xu Jiawei chase after Xu Tianchen's departing figure, Xu Jiujiu took a deep breath, pulled out an Amplifying Soul Tool, and shouted to everyone in the square:
"A cheating incident in violation of the tournament rules has occurred during the match. Please remain calm. The tournament's Organizing Committee will give everyone an explanation!"
As soon as Xu Jiujiu finished speaking, discussion erupted in the stands. Some spectators connected Xu Tianchen's, Huo Yuhao's, and Wang Yan's behavior and pieced together a theory that was very close to the truth. One told ten, and ten told a hundred, until the theory spread rapidly throughout the stands.
Aside from Shrek Academy's brain-dead fans, everyone agreed that this was probably the truth. They then looked at Huo Yuhao with eyes full of contempt.
"Fairness! We want the truth! Not favoritism toward one side! We reject shady dealings!"
A voice rang out from the stands, and as though it had lit a fuse, the spectators' voices began to unite.
"Fairness!"
"The truth!"
Hearing the voices around him and recalling Dai Hao's earlier disgust and the spectators' contemptuous expressions, Huo Yuhao felt blood rush to his head and fainted!
"Yuhao! Yuhao! What's wrong? Wake up!"
The moment Wang Dong saw Huo Yuhao faint, he panicked. When nothing he did could wake him, he grew