None of the Regional Lords being questioned spoke. They frowned to varying degrees; with their discerning eyes, they could all tell that an expert had intervened.
The mirrored image responded at that moment, abruptly pulling back to show a fuller view. No outsider could be seen intervening inside the arena, which only confirmed the Regional Lords' judgment: anyone capable of saving someone from a distance had to be at least a human immortal.
They had not seen the spatial rift and simply assumed an expert had struck from somewhere farther away.
Under the rules of the Skyfall Meteor Assembly, not only were participants forbidden from exceeding advanced martial upper attainment, even the armored soldiers enforcing the rules within the grounds were subject to that limit.
Someone had suddenly intervened just as Mulan Qingqing was about to meet disaster. Even Chi Rang, the Mystic Continent Regional Lord, stroked his beard thoughtfully.
"Outrageous, utterly outrageous. Isn't this just throwing their weight around to bully people..." The furious Wei Mo was still cursing.
It was not just them. The spectators in the Tournament Grounds could also tell that the force that had suddenly driven Shi Chun back could never have come from Mulan Qingqing, who no longer had the strength to resist. Wasn't she still kneeling there, panting, unable to get up?
The three people from the Suyuan Sect seated there breathed a sigh of relief at Mulan Qingqing's escape, but also exchanged instinctive glances, feeling inexplicably guilty.
Even they had the same thought: why had the expert acting in secret saved Mulan Qingqing rather than anyone else? To claim that the expert had no connection to her would hardly hold water. Who could it be? Someone from their sect, or someone connected to her outside it?
Their anger at seeing Guan Yingjie