Although the rules prohibited the female students from attacking directly during the first round, they could retaliate once a male student came within a certain distance of their water lily's pillar of light.
Thus, most male students used ranged attacks at this stage. As long as the female students were confident in their looks, they generally offered little resistance. Who wouldn't want to reveal her beautiful face?
Yet no one had expected a full-blown fight to erupt in this very first round, much less for two female students from the Inner Academy to strike first. And their target was a junior from the Outer Academy. It was simply unimaginable.
"Outrageous! This is absolutely outrageous! Who gave those two little girls permission to do this?" At the sight, Xuan Zi was so furious that his beard trembled.
Even within the Inner Academy, few could truly threaten Huo Yuhao as he was now. Yet the two who had acted today happened to be among them. Both Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming ranked among the strongest female students in the Inner Academy, second only to their eldest senior sister, Zhang Lexuan.
If the two of them actually eliminated Huo Yuhao, wouldn't all of Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe's arrangements go down the drain, like casting flirtatious glances at a blind man?
"From the looks of it, Dai Yueheng must have bribed Wu Ming and the others." Yan Shaozhe's expression was equally grim. "Wu Ming's cultivation has recently hit a bottleneck, and she needs a rare fire-attribute medicinal herb. Dai Yueheng probably bought her off with that. Ruoruo is extremely close to Wu Ming, so if Wu Ming asked, she would certainly help."
"Damn it! Expel Dai Yueheng from Shrek Academy's Inner Academy! For daring to ruin the academy's grand plans, that brat has