Just as everyone was chatting among themselves, Lu Linglong arrived from the mountain down to the reception area.
Behind her followed Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and the others.
At this moment, Zhang Chulan's face was etched with a deep sense of exhaustion.
He genuinely had not expected Shan Shitong to be so stubbornly persistent, actually showing up to continue competing today.
What surprised him even more was that, guided by who knows who, Shan Shitong had managed to conceal several fake talisman papers among a bunch of genuine ones.
When the two of them started fighting, he had been completely unable to get a read on Shan Shitong's movement technique for a while.
He had even thought that Shan Shitong had managed to overcome his own flaws overnight.
That ever-shifting interplay of the real and the fake, the true and the illusory, had nearly caught him off guard and caused him to suffer a massive setback.
It wasn't until he resorted to the trump card he had been saving for the later rounds that he finally managed to win the match.
Winning with such excruciating difficulty was one thing, but right after that, those two old bastards Lü Ci and Wang Ai had tried to coerce him into handing over the Source of Qi.
Lü Ci had even dropped the bombshell accusation that his grandfather had colluded with Quanxing, leaving Zhang Chulan with no choice but to come and demand a straight answer from the Old Celestial Master!
As Lu Linglong walked into the courtyard, she noticed her friends l…
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