After Wu Hao left, the matches resumed as usual.
Xiao Yan, however, became curious about why Xiao Fan had refused Wu Hao's challenge. "Senior Brother, why did you turn down Wu Hao's challenge?"
Xiao Fan rolled his eyes at him and spread his hands. "Work myself to the bone fighting a match with nothing to gain? Isn't that just making trouble for myself?"
Everyone had assumed Xiao Fan had refused to fight Wu Hao to conceal his strength for the later matches. They had never expected his reason to be so simple, leaving them unsure whether to laugh or cry.
In the matches that followed, Xiao Fan and Xiao Xun'er both took the stage again. Xiao Xun'er's opponent was a Seven-Star Dou Shi student with the wind attribute. After the student lasted a dozen or so exchanges against her, Xun'er spotted an opening and defeated her opponent with a single palm strike, barely revealing any of her strength.
Xiao Fan's opponent was an earth-attribute cultivator at the Five-Star Dou Master level, who had absolutely no power to resist him. Still, Xiao Fan did not deliver a crushing blow right from the start. Instead, he traded blows with the student, letting his opponent display his abilities before defeating him. The student was immensely grateful.
Along the way, Xiao Fan also saw Bai Shan fight again. His strength as a five-star Da Dou Shi was practically a cheat in these matches; none of the others possessed Xiao Fan's strength to stop him. As though trying to show something off, Bai Shan defeated his opponent in one blow as soon as he took the stage, then stood proudly in place. When he noticed that Xiao Xun'er's gaze had not lingered on him, he could only return to his seat with an ugly expression.