"I'm ready whenever you are," Luo Yu replied calmly.
He was eager to run into the top ten contestants as soon as possible.
After all, among all the contestants, only the top ten posed any threat to him.
The sooner he eliminated them, the less chance there was of complications.
At that moment, Baal ignored Luo Yu and stepped forward to speak to Ying instead.
"Well, if it isn't my old rival. I hear the situation over in the Void has stabilized?"
"So you're competing too?"
The top ten experts advanced straight to the finals, so it was perfectly normal that Baal didn't know whether Ying was competing.
He only studied the highest-ranked opponents anyway.
Ying was his contemporary, and back when they had studied together at the Light-Chasing Sanctuary,
she had always lost to Baal.
Now, Baal had even less reason to take Ying seriously.
So calling her his old rival carried more than a hint of mockery.
"I'm getting old. This is the younger generation's era now."
Ying feigned composure, but she was actually furious.
Her relationship with Baal was just like Cadbury's relationship with Luo Yu.
They had fought constantly back then, but she had always gotten thrashed.
Naturally, she held some resentment, and even after all this time, her anger hadn't faded.
The moment she saw Baal's big mouth, Ying's blood pressure shot up.
"That doesn't sound like something the spirited young woman you used to be would say."
"You're not competing?"
Baal sounded a little surprised.
Ying glanced at Luo Yu out of the corner of her eye. "Luo Yu is a newcomer I mentored on the Void Battlefield."
"I taught him quite a lot, so you could call him a student of mine, more or less."
"He'll be representing me in this tournament."
Luo