Yang Lin: "You seem to have misunderstood something. As far as I'm concerned, you're the challenger!"

Li Bai held the Green Lotus Sword in one hand, then flicked his wrist upward. The sword energy that had long been building within the blade slashed out!

Bang!

The slash seemed harmless, yet it blasted the fiercely attacking Seven straight into the wall at the edge of the arena.

It left a deep indentation.

At some point, Li Bai had risen to his feet in midair. With one hand behind his back, he stood atop the illusory lotus.

"Immortal Caresses My Crown... Tying My Hair, Granting Immortality..."

Li Bai's eyes snapped open, both shrouded in white light.

His aura surged instantly, and a powerful torrent of sword energy shot skyward from within him.

Even the students sitting in the very back could feel the sharpness of that sword energy.

Watching the Emotional Value he had just spent replenish in an instant, Yang Lin nodded in satisfaction.

The reason Li Bai had so conveniently achieved enlightenment during battle

was naturally that Yang Lin had secretly spent Emotional Value to give him a little cheat.

Otherwise, how could such a coincidence happen? How could he suddenly achieve enlightenment in the middle of a fight?

This was Douluo, not some other fantasy world. The floor tile of fantasy worlds didn't do that whole midbattle enlightenment routine.

So there was actually nothing wrong with Li Bai saying, "Immortal Caresses My Crown."

Although Yang Lin had spent quite a bit of Emotional Value to let Li Bai show off like this, the returns were substantial too.

He had recouped his investment in barely a dozen seconds.

Clearly, this midbattle enlightenment routine had given the Shrek students quite a shock.

Just as Yang Lin had expected.

The spectators were left reeling by one reversal after another.

At first, they had thought Wu Liuqi was about