During the rehearsal for the opening ceremony, Huo Yuhao had already sensed that something might go wrong.
He had originally wanted Vina to represent the Heaven Dou Empire, but Du Busi would brook no argument and insisted on taking the limelight himself. Vina had no choice but to yield the opportunity to her sect master.
Huo Yuhao was utterly speechless at Du Busi, too. The old bastard was so used to doing whatever he pleased that he simply was not suited to formal occasions like this.
Sure enough, just as he had expected, Du Busi had barely taken the stage and said a few words before he began making grand declarations about how these new students had to win the next tournament. That drew Xuan Zi out from beyond the venue.
Huo Yuhao had actually noticed Xuan Zi in the distance right from the start, but he had deliberately given no indication of it, merely keeping his guard up.
The announcement inviting all parties to attend the ceremony had long since been sent across the entire continent. There was no reason to drive people from Shrek away the moment they arrived. Doing so would only make Mingdou Academy look petty.
At first, Xuan Zi had behaved himself. But when he heard Du Busi spouting such wild claims onstage, he could not resist speaking up to take him down a peg.
Du Busi was extremely displeased by Xuan Zi's sudden appearance and immediately retorted loudly, "Xuan Zi, I'm addressing my own students. Who are you, an outsider, to butt in?"
He stared straight at Xuan Zi in the air a kilometer away. All he had to do was raise his voice a little, and Xuan Zi could no longer drown him out.
The two mighty experts confronted each other across more