Less than a single breath passed between using Close at Hand and breaking the formation.
The entire venue fell utterly silent.
Even Ye Guxiang had never imagined that Wang Shuo and his two companions, armed with a sword formation, would fail to hold Jiang Hai back for even a moment. Whether in magic or battle aura, Jiang Hai was only at the early Green Level, just like the three of them, but his martial arts were simply too refined. Though they were all low-level techniques, he turned the mundane into the miraculous. Combined with his uncanny spatial magic, they made him incredibly difficult to deal with.
Ye Guxiang had already tried his best to overestimate Jiang Hai, assigning three people to attack him directly, yet he discovered that he had still underestimated him.
On the viewing platform, the Warrior Academy instructors stared at Jiang Hai with shining eyes. "What a pity. What an absolute pity! A genius like this ought to join our Bamboo Martial Department. To cultivate mere techniques like the Tremor Fist, Flicking Sword, and Thunderclap Step to such a level... this boy's talent for martial arts is simply extraordinary. If he were using intermediate or advanced martial arts, he could probably put up a fight against someone at the middle Green Level!"
Ye Xianren, head of the Bamboo Martial Department, looked at Qi Wen and said, "Young Qi, I'll trade you the Ice-Fire Chess for him. Let our Bamboo Martial Department have this boy. What do you say?"
"The Ice-Fire Chess is actually in your hands?" Qi Wen was startled, but shook his head. "Our Space Department won't give up one of our own students, unless..."
"Unless what?" Ye Xianren asked.
Qi Wen said, "Unless he chooses to join the Bamboo Martial Department himself. Even then, our