After exchanging greetings and talking for a while, Huo Hai took his leave. The moment he left, heated discussion erupted throughout the Divine Mystery Sect. It had been a long time since the sect had been this lively.
They had all heard Huo Hai's age loud and clear. He was only sixteen-barely an adult. To have achieved so much at such a tender age was truly astounding.
Even in the Ink Lotus Domain, people like him existed only in legends. Single-handedly, he had challenged the entire Divine Mystery Sect. With so many witnesses present, there was no way to keep the matter quiet. Soon, the news swept outward like a storm. Quite a few people felt their hearts shatter when they heard it, because they knew Huo Hai was Qu Siyu's fiancé.
With such a powerful expert standing in their way, did they have any hope of competing for the beauty? Meanwhile, the Divine Mystery Sect's disciples seemed to have turned their shame into courage. After the matches, they all began cultivating like mad.
What they did not know was that this incident had left the Divine Mystery Sect's higher-ups deeply disgruntled. For a long time afterward, not only did those higher-ups cultivate more diligently, but the disciples under them also suffered terribly.
Being surpassed by a junior was already depressing enough. Since they could not vent their anger on Huo Hai, they could only take it out on their disciples. As a result, for some time afterward, those disciples always looked at Huo Hai with wounded resentment in their eyes.
Huo Hai knew nothing of this. He had already returned to Qu Siyu's courtyard-or rather, to his own room. Sitting quietly on the bed, he recalled the earlier battles. Reviewing the course of a fight and the experience gained