Chapter 1539: Chapter 1519: Sky Inquiry Tower vs. Nine Heavens Pavilion
"Sister Shiliu." Huangfu Ning’s spot this time happened to be right above Nine Heavens Pavilion, and she greeted He Wenyu excitedly.
"Ningning." He Wenyu nodded, casually tossed a bottle of water over. "Keep it down a bit, don’t wreck your throat."
In this third round, because Sky Inquiry Tower had a bye last round, Nine Heavens Pavilion was leading with two wins. This time Nine Heavens Pavilion was directly up against Sky Inquiry Tower in the second match of the third round, and the one with the bye became Blessed Land Cave Heaven instead.
Qhianqhian was especially calm. Since they couldn’t stand out and had to lose one match, losing to Sky Inquiry Tower was obviously the best plan.
So, under everyone’s watchful eyes, the five men all suddenly "got stomachaches" and kept running to the bathroom. Qhianqhian also looked weak as hell, lying on a chair with a blanket over her. He Wenyu could only look all kinds of innocent; she wanted to fake being sick too, but there was no women’s bathroom, and Qhianqhian was already lying down, so she couldn’t exactly copy her.
As for Yan? He was even smarter—said in the morning he had something to do and left. Mo wasn’t at the venue either. Clearly none of them could bear to watch what they were doing.
They just hadn’t expected that Sky Inquiry Tower also totally didn’t want to fight them. As soon as the first match started, twelve guys ran into each other in the men’s bathroom...
"Hehe, what a coincidence..." Luo Shufan was visibly awkward.
What could you do, there was only this one bathroom.
"What are you guys..." Wang Mazi was a bit dumbfounded too. They were laying groundwork for "out of stamina," so what the hell was this?
"Sigh, we’re all friends here so we’ll just be honest. We can’t stand out too much and attract attention, but we still have to make it into the finals..."
Bai Yizhu weighed the pros and cons. Sky Inquiry Tower was an allied force to them anyway; if they were honest, at least they wouldn’t have to run into them on stage like this and be awkward...
"Then we’ll team up in the first round of the finals." Wang Mazi smiled and nodded. "As the undefeated winner of our bracket, we have the right to choose our partner first. How about it?"
"Uh, what’s the first round?" Luo Shufan looked at Wang Mazi a bit blankly.
"..." The seven guys opposite looked at the five of them, and only after confirming they weren’t joking did they say in disbelief, "You really don’t know?"
"But it’s not the finals yet, right?" Luo Shufan felt this was perfectly normal; it’s not like they wouldn’t repeat the rules when the time came.
"The first round is team-vs-team, eliminating half the teams." Wang Mazi calmly explained to Luo Shufan.
"Then that works perfectly, as long as you don’t mind us dragging you down." Luo Shufan answered immediately.
"Why would we?" Wang Mazi laughed. After they reached an agreement, the twelve of them huddled together whispering for quite a while before heading back to their respective rest areas, all clearly much more relaxed when they returned.
"Shiqi, the five of us will go up later, you guys just stay up here." After Luo Shufan quietly explained the situation to his little sister without hiding anything, Qhianqhian directly nodded.
She stretched lazily. "I was about to fall asleep. Still, you guys do have your ways."
"No, we’re just lucky they’re in a tough spot too." Luo Yanhai said.
Between friends you really shouldn’t play these fake games; you should face everything head-on with real strength. But the obvious problem was, they wanted to lose, and the other side, seeing they had girls here and that they were rare friends, felt awkward too, so they all ended up meeting in the bathroom.
Now it looked like all their problems were solved.
Stretching her arm out, Huangfu Ning handed over the snack box in her hand to He Wenyu. "Sister Shiliu, this is from Second Brother Du, he brought it for you just now. Why didn’t he bring it himself?" Whenever Huangfu Ning was around, Huangfu Yihui and Huangfu Yanyao would act like wooden dummies off to the side—no speaking, no moving—afraid that any little slip would expose their identities.
But unfortunately for these two Masked Men, Huangfu Ning was far more interested in He Wenyu.
"I don’t want it." He Wenyu immediately waved her hands, flustered.
Huangfu Ning froze for a second, craned her neck and asked, "What’s wrong? He’s pretty nice though. He treats us the same way he treats Sister Weiwei."
"..." He Wenyu didn’t know how to explain and looked a bit embarrassed.
But Huangfu Ning wasn’t some clueless kid. Seeing the conflicted, helpless look on He Wenyu’s face, she immediately guessed a few things. "Don’t tell me Second Brother Du confessed to Sister Shiliu?"
If it were just a confession, you could still turn him down. This wasn’t a confession, okay?
Clearly, it wasn’t.
Compared to confessing, his way was way more heavy-handed!
"Don’t tell me he hired a matchmaker..."
Seeing the way He Wenyu’s expression changed, Huangfu Ning was instantly speechless.
"Don’t worry, Sister Shiliu, I’ll help you settle this." Huangfu Ning patted her little chest solemnly. "Second Brother Du is nice, but he’s still not good enough for Sister Shiliu."
Right? Right? Even a kid could see that clearly; no way Du Lanming couldn’t.
Soon the match between Nine Heavens Pavilion and Sky Inquiry Tower began, and the two sides bowed to each other.
Wang Mazi calmly walked forward, did a full set of broadcast gymnastics he’d learned at Nine Heavens Pavilion, then suddenly thrust both palms out. "Eat my move, Wind Roll Palm!!!"
In an instant, the four people on both sides of Wang Mazi were swaying like they couldn’t stand steady. Then, as if being pushed by a gale, they all toppled straight off the stage, leaving the audience dumbstruck.
Was this move seriously that OP? No distinction between friend and foe? He even knocked his own teammates off??
But the next second, the supposedly doomed Sky Inquiry Tower suddenly turned the tables.
Luo Shufan, who’d rushed forward, suddenly seemed blocked by something—his feet were clearly moving forward, but his whole body slid backward.
Very soon he was retreating fast, flying straight off the arena and slamming heavily into the ground.
Then Bai Yizhu and Luo Yanhai did a few flips midair and also fell off the stage, spinning as they went, looking like they’d lost all sense of direction.
Huangfu Yanyao couldn’t stand steady either and was "blown" up into the air. Huangfu Yihui hurriedly flicked out his long whip and wrapped it around him, but instead ended up dragging him clean off the stage.
A ridiculous scene played out before everyone’s eyes—five people all landed beneath the stage, while Sky Inquiry Tower, even though they’d already lost four people right at the start, still had one person left standing on the platform.
This match actually ended in this kind of comical finish. Even the referee could hardly believe it. Only when Wang Mazi assumed a "finishing move" stance did he dare go up and announce Sky Inquiry Tower the winner.
Luo Shufan looked at Wang Mazi with a face full of "shame." "Brother Wang, that move really lives up to its name. We agreed on deciding the match in one move, and you really did it in one move. I concede."
"You flatter me, Brother Luo. I burned through a lot of energy too. If Brother Luo had cut me off mid-move, it wouldn’t have had this kind of power. It’s Brother Luo who let me off." Wang Mazi also kept up the act, his face "deathly pale" as he traded polite words.
The audience looked at these two Sects walking off in such harmony and were all in disbelief.
At a Sect Conference, there are actually people who keep their word? Say one move decides the match and it’s really one move? The other side said they wouldn’t interrupt, and they really didn’t? That’s some true Buddhist mindset.
