As soon as the referee finished speaking, Ye Lingling hurried to the edge of the Battle Arena, cradling her Martial Soul, the Nine-Heart Begonia, in both hands.
She released the Nine-Heart Begonia's group healing Soul Skill, and a pale pink glow settled over Yu Tianheng and the others.
Lin Xuan and Xiao Wu had actually held back. They had not seriously injured their opponents; the sheer force of their blows had simply knocked them unconscious.
As the Nine-Heart Begonia's gentle healing Soul Power descended, the five people lying on the ground regained consciousness one after another.
Yu Tianheng braced one hand against the stone paving and coughed twice before sitting up.
He shook his dizzy head and looked around.
The platform was empty. The Blue Tyrant Team had long since left.
The distinguished guests in the surrounding stands were still whispering among themselves, and snatches of their conversation drifted into his ears.
Dugu Yan looked at Yu Tianheng and asked,
"How are you feeling?"
Yu Tianheng sighed, looking utterly dispirited.
"We lost. Completely."
"We couldn't even last three minutes from start to finish."
Dugu Yan shook her head helplessly.
"Lin Xuan's methods are too strange. My poison was completely useless against him."
Yu Tianheng gave a bitter smile as well.
"It wasn't just your poison that got countered."
"When I unleashed Thunderous Fury, Tai Long and Huang Yuan actually withstood my lightning head-on."
"What kind of Soul Skills are those papers of Lin Xuan's, anyway?"
"He's a support Soul Master, but the heavenly lightning he summoned so casually was even more ferocious than our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's lightning strikes."
The brothers Shi Mo and Shi Mo also stood up, rubbing their shoulders with bitter expressions.
Shi Mo shook his head with a rueful smile.
"Exactly. That lightning was too