"Snap!!"
The mechanism jolted, and sixteen short steel bolts gleaming with the cold sheen of poison shot past the tip of Yu Feng's nose!
"Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!!"
Sixteen muffled impacts ran together, their terrifying penetrating force punching a row of seemingly bottomless holes into the obsidian floor half an inch in front of Yu Feng. Stone dust rushed into his face, carrying the acrid smell of gunpowder!
Large beads of cold sweat instantly rolled down Yu Feng's forehead. He froze where he stood, not daring to move a muscle.
A deathly silence fell over the entire Martial Training Ground.
Barely half a minute had passed.
Aside from Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, who had remained seated throughout, the main members of Heaven Dou Team One were either sprawled on the floor or caught in poisonous webs. None had so much as touched a strand of Tang Sanmei's hair.
Tang Sanmei put away the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and beckoned with one hand. The vast Grass Sea obediently drew back and retreated underground.
She dusted the stone powder off her hands, her cold gaze sweeping over the bruised, swollen, and numb figures on the floor.
"The eldest prince's gold token is here, and so are my senior brother's rules."
Tang Sanmei's expression was as cold and hard as iron.
"From today onward, I call the shots in Heaven Dou Team One. If you accept that, stay and follow orders. If you don't, I'll break your limbs and throw you out of the academy right now. Anyone with objections, step forward."
The Shi Mo brothers' faces had turned blue under the poisonous webs' constriction. Yu Feng clutched his lower back and trembled on the floor. Not one of them dared utter a sound.
In the highest tier of the Martial Training