Xuan Zi was naturally not the only one who came to the hotel; several other elders of the Sea God Pavilion accompanied him. Yet when they heard what Huo Yuhao had to say, their expressions turned as peculiar as if they had eaten Nine Revolutions braised intestines that had not been properly cleaned.
Dai Huabin had lost to Huo Yuhao in the Upgrade Assessment and, bitter over his defeat, wanted to retaliate against him. That much was plausible.
These elders had also heard something of their wager. After all, Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin had blocked the entrance to Shrek Academy and made that bet in front of countless new students, their parents, and other students.
The simple-minded Dai Huabin had been thoroughly outmaneuvered by Huo Yuhao over the wager, then utterly defeated in the Upgrade Assessment. Besides, Gong Changlong was right here. He knew all about Huo Yuhao's cutting mockery of Dai Huabin, as well as Dai Huabin kneeling to apologize before everyone.
Shrek Academy's students had always been proud and arrogant. Before enrolling, they had been pampered and spoiled, never once suffering a loss, so of course they could not swallow such humiliation. But someone like Dai Huabin, who dared to attempt to assassinate a fellow student inside Shrek City? Nothing like that had happened in a very, very long time.
But setting all that aside, Huo Yuhao actually claimed that Zhou Yi had saved him from an assassin from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion-and in the dead of night, no less?
Was he telling stories to a coffin, trying to fool the ghosts?
How could these senior figures of the Sea God Pavilion not know what sort of person Zhou Yi was? They could leave her supposed teaching ability aside for now. Beyond that, her greatest use