The Top Sixteen had been decided amid feverish excitement. All of River City was looking forward to the Elimination Tournament three days later, and every contestant had returned to prepare intensively.
But that was not what Yue Wen was thinking about now.
In the City Heroes' Battle, he fought talented peers, one on one, with roughly equal cultivation levels. There was no pressure at all. He could advance just by fighting casually.
But outside the arena, what awaited him was a truly unrestricted battlefield, with no fixed number of enemies or fixed cultivation levels.
He was absolutely certain that the Medicine Dragon had wanted to kill him in the arena. After experiencing multiple battles to the death, he was sensitive to that sort of pure killing intent. Besides, the Medicine Dragon was as brainless as a Demon Beast and had made no attempt to conceal his intentions.
This had to be a scheme cooked up by the Hu Family and the Pudu Sect. They had thought that a late Astral Realm Medicine Dragon, with an additional burst of power, could tear him apart in the arena without fail.
That way, they would bear no pressure themselves. At most, they would throw out the Medicine Dragon to take the punishment.
But now their calculations had fallen through.
What would these people do next?
Yue Wen did not think they would let him off. On the contrary, after their first failure, they would worry that he had discovered their involvement and would probably launch their second attempt on his life even sooner.
This time, it most likely would not happen in the arena. Naturally, Yue Wen could not sit around waiting to die.
His safest option now would be to ask Perfected One Nagiko to protect him until the Hu Family was