Most of the disciples watching the battle never learned what had happened in the end.
When the pale moonlight flooding the arena receded like the tide, all they could see was the Lanyue Sect's supervising cultivator, his face dark as water, carrying the paper-faced, listless Yu Tingzhi back onto the cloud vessel.
Her innate True Essence had not been damaged, but Zi He had forcibly shot apart her Spirit Manifestation, inflicting devastating injuries upon the Qi Meridians throughout her body. Without a month or two, she would never fully recover.
That was why Zi He had chosen Yu Tingzhi's Spirit Manifestation as his target rather than Yu Tingzhi herself.
Because the True Essence arrow he fired at her would have been enough to threaten her life, and the Lanyue Sect's supervising cultivator would surely have intervened.
Just as he had previously done when saving Zheng Han.
That way, even if Yu Tingzhi lost, she would at most suffer a few superficial injuries—not enough to hurt or itch.
Zi He wanted to slap Solitary Moon Mountain in the face, but he also wanted Yu Tingzhi to pay the price for sneak-attacking Chu Hao earlier.
That was why Zi He had fired at her Spirit Manifestation without the slightest hesitation. He wanted her to suffer the pain she deserved as well!
With this defeat, the Northwest Four Sects had now lost every match against Tiger Chasing in the first three rounds.
This was vastly different from what they had envisioned when they came to challenge the mountain.
In their original plan, even if something unexpected happened in the first three rounds, winning two matches should not have been a problem.
Yet reality was that there seemed to have been a hundred million tiny unexpected surprises today.
In the early-stage battle, Lü Fangxuan