Pan Xiaoning and Wen Bu Jun had paid attention to the match between Yu Lizi and Lin Shen not because they knew how formidable either of them was, much less because they knew about the grudge between Yu Lizi and Lin Shen.
Before the Kai Tian Race and the Cang Race, Ni Pan Palace could only be considered the little brother of little brothers. Even the underlings beneath those two races were far stronger than Ni Pan Palace, so there was no way they would have paid attention to it.
The two had only noticed this match by pure coincidence.
Pan Xiaoning and Wen Bu Jun had always been evenly matched. Whether they won or lost depended on their condition and willpower at the time; it no longer had much to do with actual strength.
Other contestants of the same rank were separated from them by a cliff-like gap and posed no threat at all.
Yet it was difficult for the two of them to determine a winner between themselves. Besides, they were actually very close in private and often trained and cultivated together. There was simply no need to settle victory or defeat onstage and fight to the death. If they ended up dying in the Great Void World, it would also damage their spirits.
Thus, the two made an agreement: they would randomly choose a match between two contestants to watch, and each would place their bet on one side.
If the person one of them chose won, then when the two of them met, the other would voluntarily forfeit and admit defeat. That way, they would not have to fight until neither could determine victory or defeat, perhaps resulting in both of them dying once.
By sheer coincidence, they had randomly landed on the match between Lin