A few seconds earlier-
Gu Qingnian had still been standing where he was, while the other Core Disciples watched him and considered their options.
But in the next instant, Gu Qingnian vanished from their sight. When he reappeared, he was already beside those two-ring Core Disciples.
Above them, Xuan Zi had also been watching the show. Gu Qingnian's sudden disappearance left him momentarily stunned.
It wasn't that he couldn't see Gu Qingnian's trajectory, but that his speed was genuinely astonishing. It also seemed to contain soul power, yet somehow not.
He was rather curious about what Gu Qingnian intended to do, but he found out in the very next moment.
A wisp of golden light had appeared around Gu Qingnian's arm at some point, and he was smashing it toward the floor beside those disciples' feet. Xuan Zi's scalp prickled. He immediately released a strand of soul power, forming a barrier before the students to block Gu Qingnian's hand, while releasing another strand to envelop them.
Yet Gu Qingnian seemed to have anticipated this. His fist missed the barrier by a few centimeters and smashed straight into the ground.
What followed was the scene everyone had witnessed. Those disciples didn't even know what had happened before they were inexplicably eliminated???
By the time they reacted, they had already been rescued. They had lost without understanding a thing.
It hasn't even been ten seconds, has it? Can we really last five minutes? And just look at that floor! The Soul Fighting Zone's floor was made from special materials. Put it this way: even if every student present except Gu Qingnian battered it with every trick at their disposal, they wouldn't leave so much as a scratch.
Yet Gu Qingnian had punched a web of cracks into it. *Come on, man, you've