The moment Elder Black Dragon's voice rang out, everyone stopped fighting over the pearl.
Under the rules of this event in the Seven Peaks Grand Competition, once a clam pearl had been set in place, anyone who struck another contestant or tried to seize it would be eliminated immediately.
"You went all out for just the first pearl. There are six more to come, Qingxiao. What will you do?"
Yan Bing, hovering in the air on his sword, looked at Qingxiao with a smile.
Yan Bing and Qingxiao had been rivals ever since joining the Azure Profound Sect. Though he did not hate the Seventh Peak as Jin Hezhi did, wherever Qingxiao was, he had to compete with him.
"You don't need to remind us what our Seventh Peak should do."
Qingxiao rolled his eyes at Yan Bing, then looked at Jin Hezhi and Huang Qi behind him and said:
"Keep those junior brothers of yours in line."
With that, he swooped down on his sword, heading straight for Eldest Senior Sister and Third Senior Brother, who had fallen into the pool.
Yan Bing frowned at his words.
He turned to glance at Jin Hezhi and Huang Qi, a trace of disgust appearing in his eyes, and said with some displeasure, "Useless."
According to his original plan for this event, he had not wanted Qingxiao to get a single pearl.
In the Cloud Tower stands.
After seeing Qingxiao win the first round, Zhao Linglong once again danced about in delight.
Xu Taiping's face, however, showed a trace of worry.
He could sense that, apart from Second Senior Brother Qingxiao, both Eldest Senior Sister Jiang Zhi and Third Senior Brother Zhang Qian had already grown somewhat weak in their auras, and their movements when controlling swords and objects were no