Thud.
As Wu Jiguang fell, some rejoiced while others grieved.
The River City Team was naturally overjoyed. Before coming to the Four Seas Ascendant Dragon Assembly, absolutely no one could have imagined that they would defeat a team from the Five Great Immortal Sects here!
The Taiji Eight Desolations Sect, meanwhile, was shrouded in gloom.
Their captain, Li Shouzhong, looked as though his parents had died. He stared blankly at the arena, his body rigid and motionless. Even after the others had pushed him for quite some time, he still showed no response.
He appeared to still be breathing, but in truth, he had already been gone for a while.
With their team eliminated here, Heavenly Prodigies of Wu Jiguang and Xue Hanyang's caliber might still have a chance to obtain golden tickets and enter the Dragon Hall. But people like him and Xu Xiuer could forget about it.
The Dragon Hall did indeed award additional golden tickets, but those went either to exceptionally talented prospective cultivation seeds from small places or to outstandingly powerful contestants dragged down by their teams. Mediocre performers like them would never get a turn.
It was fair to say that their lifelong dream of entering the Dragon Hall had been completely shattered.
And the ones who had single-handedly shattered that dream were actually a team from River City, which only deepened his disillusionment.
Xu Xiuer still bore the bruises and swelling on her face, with none of her former delicate prettiness visible. Seeing the team lose, she broke down in tears, utterly consumed by self-reproach.
Xue Hanyang's feelings were even more complicated. First, losing to a team from Northern Sky was certainly humiliating, but seeing Wu Jiguang lose brought him a trace of relief as well.
If he had lost to Yue Wen, only