By now, eight of the eighteen female students had revealed their faces, but more than half still had not disclosed their identities.
Huo Yuhao slowly stepped out from the back row. Yet rather than walking on the water, he rose higher with every step, strolling through empty air.
With each step he took, an ice-blue lotus appeared beneath his feet to support him. The ice-blue lotuses reflected the golden light around them, refracting it into a dazzling rainbow of colors, beautiful beyond description.
The air above the Sea God Lake was thick with moisture. Using his ultimate ice attribute to condense that moisture, Huo Yuhao actually created the wondrous sight of lotuses blooming beneath every step, instantly drawing cheers from the students watching at the sidelines.
All eighteen female students opposite him, whether they had removed their bamboo hats or still wore them, exchanged startled looks. The trick Huo Yuhao had just displayed was simply too astonishing.
"That little brat never gets over his habit of showing off, whether he's in a tournament or at a matchmaking event," Xuan Zi said with a laugh. "But that was a fine bit of showing off. Brilliant, absolutely splendid! That's exactly how you should do it if you want to win a woman's heart."
"Heh, an old virgin with full marks in romantic theory and zero romantic experience, doing nothing but firing blanks over here." Suddenly, a rather discordant voice came from nearby, though no one knew who had spoken.
"Who? Who said that?"
At those words, Xuan Zi spat out a mouthful of wine in fury and demanded an answer. But the other Sea God Pavilion Elders beside him merely doubled over with laughter, and not one admitted to it.
Treading on ice-blue lotuses, Huo Yuhao advanced step by step and soon