Li Luo was on a particularly tall stone pillar, and there were plenty of jagged rocks below. His arrow had taken up all of his strength. Given how many people were watching him, if he jumped down helplessly, they would pounce on his weakness. He was worth too many points to pass up on.
And so Li Luo had casually sprawled on top, his air of casual confidence holding them back.
Lu Qing'er leaped up beside him with a waft of perfume. She stretched out a small hand to him.
"Gloves on?" Li Luo checked. Yes, they were. Otherwise, they might both be screwed.
Lu Qing'er shot him a look. She cut an impressive figure herself, a heroine straight out of a tale. She took hold of Li Luo's hand, then leaped down from the stone pillar.
With both feet firmly on the ground again, Li Luo felt much better. He looked over at the three captives. "Slaughter these three too?"
They looked at him with trepidation, even more so than when they regarded Lu Qing'er.
After all, it was a nightmarish scene that lay before them.
It was Zong Fu who sighed and said, "I said before that you, Li Luo, might well be the greatest unknown factor in these examinations. Guess I was right."
Xiang Liang and Chi Su were silent. They had scoffed at Zong Fu's prediction, and never once had they taken Li Luo seriously as a threat. But now they could see that Zong Fu's prudence was well-founded. If they had planned more carefully and saw his strength properly, they might not be in as bad a state as they currently were.
Li Luo waved it off. He went to drag Song Yunfeng down from the wall, throwing him beside Shi Huang.
At the same time, he charitably helped Shi Huang stop the bleeding, so he would not die from blood loss. That would be a troublesome ending.
Shi Huang opened his eyes weakly. "Li Luo, you hid it well," he said resentfully.
Li Luo grinned and then feigned a tortured expression. "Ah, why must you force me so? I just wanted to be in the top 10. Why did you all force me to go this far?"
Behind him, Zong Fu and the others swallowed. This was a little too much.
Indeed, Shi Huang was so worked up that he was quaking. He retched another mouthful of blood.
"Hey, don't be so anxious, you’re going to vomit blood."
Li Luo hurriedly calmed him down, then used his crystal medallion to check the scoreboard. He saw that there were only thirteen people left—no, twelve now. There were twelve.
"Phew, all's good. I almost missed it." He smiled with relief.
"Know what I'm going to do next?" Li Luo said, beaming at Shi Huang and Song Yunfeng. There was something chilling about his smile.
"I said that I would ensure you two were eliminated from the top 10."
Shi Huang's face was pale now, and his fear showed. "Li Luo, you're cruel!"
Being eliminated from the top 10 would mean a loss of entrance slots. He might not even be able to go to the Astral Sage College. That would be absolutely devastating to Shi Huang.
Beside him, Song Yunfeng was yelling as well. "Li Luo, you can't do this! You'll incur the wrath of the entire Song family and the Governor's house!"
"Childish."
Li Luo shook his head and said peaceably, "When you do something wrong, you have to pay the price. It's time for you to pay."
He took down their crystal medallions, clearing out Shi Huang's points immediately. He erased Song Yunfeng's points as well, although students from the same school could not obtain each other's points.
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