Because the sight was so bizarre, Five Elders Pool suddenly fell deathly silent.
One moment, Huang Qi had been brimming with confidence; the next, he had been reduced to this disgraceful state. Those on the platform and below it alike were slow to react.
Even Xu Taiping, who had been prepared for this, looked stunned.
Did it really... hurt that much?
He murmured inwardly.
"It should be because of that Wang You Talisman."
Lin Buyu's tone remained perfectly calm.
Xu Taiping also thought that was possible.
As Huang Qi screamed again and again, his Flying Sword, with eighteen hundred jin of Ship-Ballast Iron suspended beneath it, finally went out of control and fell into the water with a splash.
Thousands of jin of Ship-Ballast Iron plunged from high above, throwing up a spray several zhang high.
It was that sound that jolted Elder Black Dragon and the disciples in the surrounding stands out of their stupor.
"Junior Brother!"
"Junior Brother Huang!"
At the same time, several disciples from First Peak flew onto the platform together.
But just then, Huang Qi, who had been driven nearly mad by pain, abruptly stopped wailing and stood back up with a bewildered expression.
It was as though nothing had happened.
"I... what... happened to me?"
He looked around blankly.
"Senior Brother? Junior Brother? Why did you come up here?"
When he saw Jin Hezhi and the others, his face filled with confusion.
"Stay back!"
The sight instantly put Elder Black Dragon on alert, and he instinctively raised a hand to stop Jin Hezhi and the others from approaching.
Huang Qi's abnormal behavior at that moment closely resembled that of a disciple who had succumbed to demonic deviation.
"What's going on?"
"Why did Huang Qi go mad one moment and return to normal the next?"