"You old hag!"
Wang Dun, who sat cross-legged in the square, immediately burst into curses. "Don't you know damn well why my junior brother used a magical treasure?"
"All seven of your Phoenix Race members who went in brought clones, forcibly raising their cultivation to the Body Integration Realm. Fourteen fellows at the first layer of the Body Integration Realm ganged up on my junior brother alone!"
"And you have the nerve to complain about my junior brother using a magical treasure?"
"Which one of you didn't use magical treasures?"
Wang Dun's voice was loud and brimming with anger.
At those words, countless prodigies and onlookers across the square turned to look.
Good grief. Everyone knew the Phoenix Race wanted to deal with He Pingsheng, but who could have imagined they would use a method like this?
Fourteen at the Body Integration Realm?
And yet... He Pingsheng was still alive?
Holy shit...
This fellow was far too tough. Even that hadn't fucking killed him?
Everyone's gazes toward He Pingsheng and the Thirteenth Elder grew subtle.
"Hmph..." The Thirteenth Elder snorted coldly. "I admit that certain individual disciples of the Phoenix Race did break the rules, but those disciples had personal grudges against He Pingsheng. Their attempts to deal with him had nothing whatsoever to do with our Phoenix Race!"
"Our Phoenix Race knew absolutely nothing about it!"
"Besides, I have likewise disqualified all those rule-breaking disciples from participating in the fifth trial!"
"Hehehe..." Wang Dun chuckled, looking at the Thirteenth Elder as he asked, "Thirteenth Elder, do you dare swear that fourteen Body Integration cultivators of the Phoenix Race surrounding and attacking He Pingsheng was merely a personal grudge, not a scheme by your Phoenix Race?"
"Swear it, and I'll accept it!"
The Thirteenth Elder's face turned as black as