"He lost? Gu Han actually lost?"
"You've got to be kidding me! That's the guy who could go toe-to-toe with Huang Huo Kuangzhan!"
"How strong can you get after unlocking the Magic Body?"
Miao Wuyin's victory left everyone in attendance utterly stunned. Among the crowd were no shortage of top-tier experts — even a handful of monsters who had grasped the Domain. As a result, they had been able to follow every detail of the fight with perfect clarity.
In terms of technique, Miao Wuyin had not reached the Void Realm at all. She was still clearly half a step away from that threshold. The gap between her and Gu Han in pure skill was enormous.
In theory, even after unlocking the Magic Body and receiving a massive boost to both casting speed and magical potency, with their stats being equal, Gu Han's superior technique should have been more than enough to compensate. That much had been evident from their earlier exchanges — in a head-on clash, Gu Han was indeed outmatched, which was why he had dodged all frontal attacks and targeted Miao Wuyin's weaknesses instead.
But in the end, Gu Han still lost. How could any of them believe it?
"Second Sister actually won that?" On the nearby arena, Fen Xiao stared in a daze.
In his mind, even if Second Sister wasn't a match for Gu Han, none of the younger generation across the major families could beat her either. That meant the Pang family's leading position within the Azure Commerce Association was essentially secured.
But he had never expected this outcome.
This went far beyond merely preserving the family's standing. After this battle, the other major families would find it nearly impossible to find any pretext to challenge the Pang family's position. Even the Zeus Conglomerate wouldn't be able to say anything more.
"Wonderful! Wuyin did brilliantly! To actually pull off a triple-layered offensive against Gu Han — even Third Brother might not be able to pull that off." Pang Wushang watched Miao Wuyin on the arena, barely singed by the flames, his eyes blazing with excitement.
He had thought everything was over. He never expected such a surprise.
The number one among the Azure Commerce Association's younger generation!
With that title alone, even without the Zeus Conglomerate's backing, the Pang family no longer needed to worry about its position within the Azure Commerce Association. Their standing would in fact be stronger than ever before.
"A triple-layered offensive? She can already factor the environment and a player's behavior into her calculations to that extent?" Yuan Xiaoqian stared fixedly at Miao Wuyin, her mind filled with disbelief.
As a fellow magic-type Class user, she knew full well that Miao Wuyin's victory was no fluke. The entire thing had been calculated from the very start of the fight. While magic-type Class users would naturally make some predictions in combat, someone who could predict this far ahead — she had never seen anything like it, especially that final move. Miao Wuyin had even computed the exact damage, as though everything was under her complete control.
The person standing before her now was nothing like the Miao Wuyin she knew.
While everyone was still grappling with their confusion and shock, Zui Yan — seated below the arena — felt a sharp gleam of light flash through his eyes as he looked at Miao Wuyin, his expression one of barely contained excitement.
"Elder Zui Yan, what's wrong?" The third-rank elder beside him, serving as co-referee, glanced at him in puzzlement.
Before, Zui Yan had been completely indifferent to the tasks the guild had assigned him — cold, one might even say. The idea that he would grow excited over a junior was truly unbelievable.
After all, back when Gu Han had displayed his Domain, Zui Yan's expression had remained perfectly flat — indifferent, even dismissive. Yet now, a girl who hadn't even stepped into the Void Realm, even with the Magic Body unlocked, should have been utterly insignificant to a figure like Zui Yan.