Wang Fa shouted at the Fifth Elder in a furious frenzy, "Grandfather! I won't accept this! That brat clearly cheated! He...!"
Before Wang Fa could finish, the Fifth Elder snapped coldly, "Even now, you still don't know where you went wrong?"
As he spoke, he fixed Wang Fa with a piercing stare, his eyes filled with the frustration of seeing iron fail to become steel.
Wang Fa's heart lurched. His face alternated between red and white, and he no longer dared say anything. He hung his head, as dejected as a rooster that had lost a fight.
Whatever the process or the outcome, this had only been a sparring match, not a battle to the death. In a real fight, his carelessness might have gotten him killed at that fellow's hands.
Never in his life, from the moment he left his mother's womb, had he been so humiliated.
Even now, a trace of the cold, biting sword intent still lingered at his neck...
At that thought, he shuddered and said with his head hanging, "Grandfather! I know I was wrong!"
The Fifth Elder replied calmly, "Then do you know where you went wrong?"
Wang Fa shivered, recalling how he had lost. If he had taken Ye Han seriously and fought him properly instead of dragging him into a battle of attrition, how could Ye Han possibly have matched his divine abilities and treasures?
So Wang Fa answered, "I was too careless! I believed that brat's show of weakness and underestimated him."
At the mention of this, Wang Fa's expression turned indescribably ugly. He remembered all the bullshit Ye Han had spouted at the start about going easy on him during their sparring match. Yet the moment Ye Han struck, his attacks had come like thunder, nearly leaving Wang Fa unable