His keen eye and vast knowledge let him see at a glance why Chen Qianjun's strength had skyrocketed.
"This is... a sacrifice?! No wonder Chen Qianjun had protected the Tiger Daoist Academy students all the way without suffering any backlash. While protecting them, he had also drawn all their fighting spirit and the blood aura lingering after their deaths into that battle flag."
"This was not merely protection. It was exploitation."
"The reason he could keep fighting for so long in this trial, and unleash such an eruption now, was all thanks to that battle flag that used his fellow disciples as sacrifices."
At this, Song Zhou looked at Chen Chengguang and gave a mocking laugh.
"I had always heard that your Chen Household's Chen Qianjun was upright and honorable. But treating his fellow disciples as sacrifices and walking forward atop their corpses... that little brat of yours is not as righteous as you claim."
Seeing Jiang Xuan about to lose, Song Zhou felt somewhat displeased and could not help taking a few sarcastic digs at Chen Chengguang.
But the moment those words left his mouth, Chen Chengguang sneered and shot back.
"We are not upright and honorable?! Heh, how did you even dare say that!"
"To deal with our Qianjun, you joined forces and altered the trial's difficulty. I will not even mention that."
"But beyond that, you actually sought outside help from other academies. Especially you, Song Zhou—you found more than one! If we are talking about acting like ghosts in the shadows, we are still far behind you!"
"Cough, cough..." Song Zhou and Cheng Jin were both left speechless by those words, embarrassment showing on their faces.
They truly had been the first to resort to underhanded tricks, leaving both men somewhat guilty.
Fortunately, seeing that Chen