“Qin Yun, don’t push it!”
Xiao Wu yelled.
She never expected that Qin Yun would attack her directly.
However, Qin Yun did not respond to her words.
Nor would he give her another chance to speak.
He lightly flicked his left hand backward, and the moment his fingertips brushed through the air, a spark sprang from between his fingertips.
Immediately followed by a loud explosion, a wave of Qi accurately struck the back of Xiao Wu’s neck.
Knocking Xiao Wu unconscious on the spot.
Xiao Wu’s body swayed before she collapsed limply onto the arena stage.
Her scorpion braid hung down to the ground, and the tip of the braid was scorched by fire.
Opposite the arena, that pair of siblings completely lost the urge to continue fighting.
The older sister put away the dim Green-Scaled Snake phantom and said, “We concede defeat!”
The referee’s whistle sounded immediately, declaring the victory of Qin Yun and Xiao Wu’s side.
Qin Yun stood on the arena stage, yet his expression showed no ripples of victory.
He lowered his head to glance at Xiao Wu, who had fallen on the brick floor of the stage, fell silent for two breaths, and then bent down to pick her up by the waist, preparing to take her back.
Qin Yun could severely injure Xiao Wu, but he could not completely ignore her.
If something happened to her, Tang Hao would likely cause trouble for him.
His current strength was not yet enough to confront Tang Hao head-on.
However, as Qin Yun passed through the corridor, a grey figure blocked his path.
Yu Xiaogang’s face was livid as he said, “Qin Yun, how could you deal such a heavy blow to your own teammate?”
“A 2v2 Soul Douhun is fighting side by side, and look at you, you blew your companion unconscious?”
Qin Yun stopped in his tracks, turning his head to glance at Yu Xiaogang.
His gaze was much calmer than Yu Xiaogang’s, and his tone when he spoke was unhurried.
“My blast went off-course!”
Yu Xiaogang certainly did not believe an excuse like “off-course”.
Those few explosions on the arena stage just now were clearly aimed at Xiao Wu.
But he could do nothing about Qin Yun.
When the two returned to where the Shrek crowd gathered, Flender was still sitting there.
He was somewhat surprised to see the unconscious Xiao Wu in Qin Yun’s arms.
With Qin Yun’s strength, a level-forty Soul Douhun a-versus-two was completely unproblematic, so how could Xiao Wu have been injured?
Before he could speak, Yu Xiaogang chased in from behind.
Taking the lead, he said, “Flender!
This Disciple of yours brutally attacked his teammate on the arena stage.”
“He injured Xiao Wu to this extent!
Qin Yun didn’t even glance at Yu Xiaogang, merely turning his head to shrug at Flender with his usual tone.
“I said it, the blast went off-course and I couldn’t control it.”
“Swords and spears have no eyes in the Soul Douhun arena.
If Grandmaster truly feels heartache for his Disciple, next time you can have her avoid teaming up with teammates whose strength gap is too large, lest she be ‘accidentally injured’.”
Yu Xiaogang’s complexion turned alternately green and white.
His chest heaved violently a couple of times.
“I think you are simply targeting Tang San, which is why you deliberately injured Xiao Wu.”
“Tang San is my Disciple.
Because you are dissatisfied with Tang San, you vent your Qi on the people around him.”
Qin Yun sneered and said,
“Grandmaster, are you out of your mind?”
“Tang San wasn’t my match in either of our two encounters; what would I target him for?”
“Don’t take yourselves too seriously; what qualifications do you have to be targeted by me?”
Yu Xiaogang’s lips moved, his complexion turning from green to white, and then from white to a somewhat purplish dark red.
It was as if someone had torn away a thin layer of fig leaf right in front of him.
Yu Xiaogang had poor talent and was looked down upon by his Family elders.
This bred a distorted mindset of wanting to be valued by others.
His research into so-called theories, as well as nurturing Tang San, stemmed from this inferiority complex.
He would unconsciously believe that others were targeting him.
In the original work, although many people knew his moniker of Grandmaster of theory, in reality, most people didn’t take him very seriously.
At this moment, Flender’s gaze shifted back and forth twice between Qin Yun and Yu Xiaogang.
On one side was his old friend and brother.
On the other side was his proud Disciple.
He was somewhat hesitant at this moment.
However, before Flender could speak,
Ning Rongrong walked in and said,
“I saw it.
Xiao Wu ambushed Qin Yun first; don’t splash dirty water onto him.”
“While Qin Yun was fighting that pair of siblings opposite, she secretly used the Godly Zhuge Crossbow to ambush him from behind, which is why Qin Yun counterattacked.”
“Grandmaster, does shooting arrows from behind count as a teammate?
In the rules of Soul Douhun, this should be called ‘maliciously ambushing a teammate’, right?”
Yu Xiaogang had just been separated from Ning Rongrong in a different spectator zone, so he truly had not seen the scene where Xiao Wu made her move.
Furthermore, Xiao Wu’s technique was extremely covert.
Most of the audience present had their attention focused on the counterattack of that pair of siblings on the arena stage, and very few people noticed what happened in those brief two breaths in the back.
But Ning Rongrong was different; her gaze had been fixed on Qin Yun ever since he took the stage.
Therefore she saw it, and saw it clearly.
However, at this moment Dai Mubai suddenly stood up from beside the wall.
He said,
“Ning Rongrong, you just teamed up with Qin Yun to fight a match, and since he carried you to victory, naturally you speak up for him.”
He paused, then turned to Zhu Zhuqing.
“Zhuqing, you should still team up with me.”
“Look, this person Qin Yun fails to distinguish between friend and foe, and will even heavily injure his own teammates.”
“If you team up with him, there is no telling whether you might also be accidentally injured.”
Dai Mubai didn’t care whether what Ning Rongrong said was true or false.
He wanted to use this opportunity to prevent Zhu Zhuqing from teaming up with Qin Yun.
Zhu Zhuqing had returned not long after finishing her own 1v1 Soul Douhun, her body still carrying the lingering slight pant from the combat.
A few strands of stray hair at her temples were stuck by sweat.
She slightly furrowed her brows, her gaze first falling upon the unconscious Xiao Wu.
Then she raised her eyes to look at Qin Yun, seeing that Qin Yun’s expression was calm and wave-less; he neither rushed to justify himself nor felt angry and ashamed, just quietly standing there.
She turned back to Dai Mubai, meeting his earnest gaze.
At this moment, she still held resentment toward Dai Mubai, hating him for failing to forge ahead and escaping reality.
So she said, “I don’t need you to manage me; I am willing to team up with Senior Brother Qin Yun.”
When these words were spoken,
Zhu Zhuqing knew that part of it was out of pique with Dai Mubai.
Angry at him for walking away back then, yet now wanting to lightly drag her back into his track;
Part of it was trust in Qin Yun.
Although her interactions with Qin Yun were not deep, she did not believe Qin Yun would harm Xiao Wu for no reason.
Her intuition told her: Qin Yun was not the kind of person who would stab teammates in the back.
Dai Mubai’s expression froze on his face.
His chest heaved once, as if he wanted to say something.
His Adam’s apple rolled, but in the end he did not say the words, “Could it be that you’d rather trust someone you’ve only known for a few days”.
He looked at Zhu Zhuqing for a moment, then withdrew his gaze, turned and walked back to the wall, and spoke no further.
Seeing Dai Mubai behave this way, her expectations of him in her heart decreased by another fraction.