"What's going on?"
"Aircraft! Aircraft! There's something wrong with this aircraft!"
"Holy crap."
"..."
Those were all the last words Xu Baichen left his teammates before he was eliminated.
Although there were no kill announcements inside the arena, he had gone completely silent on the Message Jade Talisman. Tremors and rumbling came from the dense woods in the distance, and intense fluctuations of spiritual power spread all the way to the edge of the arena.
What had happened was already perfectly clear.
"Xu Baichen probably ran into the River City Team. They used that bizarre combination of supernatural powers, and he failed to escape," Gu Tianyu said through the Message Jade Talisman. "You two must be careful."
"Honestly, why couldn't he say something useful?" Ning Xiaoyao frowned on her end. "What exactly was wrong with it? He didn't even explain. Surely he wasn't too frightened to speak? That would be utterly useless!"
"Surely not," Liang Yan said. "He's a disciple of the Cicada-Chiming Ancient Temple. What supernatural powers hasn't he seen?"
"Hah, there's no need to think too highly of the Five Great Immortal Sects, either. That Blazing Fire Helicopter those people from River City came up with really was something I'd never seen before," Gu Tianyu said.
"That supernatural power certainly was bizarre," Liang Yan said, "but after seeing it once, he shouldn't have been too shocked to speak. Could those people from River City have developed something even stranger? That would be difficult, wouldn't it...?"
"Let's stop dwelling on it." Gu Tianyu reminded his two teammates, "We may have lost someone, but Xiaoyao has already secured a Starfire Stone. That's our advantage. If they're using combined supernatural powers, they must be moving together, so they're bound to search for Starfire Stones more slowly than us. If we're more