After the Wang Family contestant finished speaking such a sentence with an indifferent tone, he glanced proudly at Ye Huan, then snorted angrily, and left with his assistant!

In every gesture, he manifested his dissatisfaction!

He almost directly said: If it weren't for someone arranging for me to hold back, I would have crushed you during the competition!

This scene left the onlookers bewildered, unable to make sense of it.

"What's going on? Why did the Wang Family suddenly withdraw from the competition?"

"What else could it be? It's definitely because some large family doesn't want to see Ye Huan lose too tragically, so they arranged for the opposing family to hold back!"

"Wow, it really could be that way. I originally thought Ye Huan wouldn't even pass the preliminaries, but it seems someone secretly arranged it and held back for him!"

"I really didn't expect that the revered Saint of Huaxia actually relies on others holding back to win, it's truly laughable!"

"It's not a big deal, just wait and see. I reckon the person behind the scenes arranged the holding back just to save Ye Huan some face, but after the preliminaries, Ye Huan will be horribly defeated!"

Someone voiced their opinion, receiving unanimous agreement from others!

Xiao Qingming felt quite embarrassed, lowering her head, avoiding the crowd's gossip.

Ye Huan didn't mind, having someone deliberately withdraw saved him from making a move, making him feel relaxed!

Meanwhile, among the crowd, Xiao Zhan was a mix of shame and anger, his face turning red.

The Xiao Family won, and he was happy.

But winning by relying on others to hold back, and then facing criticism afterwards, as the Patriarch, he felt extremely embarrassed!

At that moment, he blamed Xiao Qingming and Ye Huan in his heart!

It's all because of these two jinxes, losing the Xiao Family's last shred of dignity!

In the next two hours, the last two rounds of the preliminary competition were completed.

Without exception, Xiao Mingxuan and Feng Hao repeatedly astonished the entire venue, achieving unbelievably outstanding scores!

Representing the Xiao Family, Ye Huan and Xiao Qingming advanced "smoothly," with their opponents withdrawing against them voluntarily.

The way the Xiao Family advanced to the top sixteen prompted sighs from the others...

...

At dusk, the sky was enveloped in a golden glow.

The competition had been underway for more than half a day; under normal circumstances, the crowd and contestants should be a bit bored and tired.

Yet now, they were energetic, their eyes shining, staring intently at the martial arena, showing no signs of fatigue!

Because, the competition for the top sixteen had reached its final round!

"In this match, the Xiao Family will face the Xiao Family!"

With the referee's announcement echoing through the martial arena, many people's faces turned lively!

They knew, the climax had arrived!

Xiao Mingxuan and Feng Hao were not planning to hold back for the Xiao Family anymore!

They wished to crush Xiao Qingming and Ye Huan decisively, stomp the Xiao Family down, and enter the top eight!

Furthermore, plenty had discerned many clues from this match, their eyes meaningful, displaying schadenfreude.

The Xiao Family and the Xiao Family had always been rivals, how could they coincidentally clash in the top sixteen?

No need to think, someone must be manipulating the draw results from behind the scenes!

But it's alright, with geniuses like Xiao Mingxuan and Feng Hao in the ancient martial medical techniques taking down Ye Huan personally, Ye Huan's defeat wouldn't sound so bad, wouldn't cost too much dignity.

The crowd thought this and secretly took out their phones, turning on the camera feature, intending to capture the precious moment of the Huaxia Saint's defeat.

"Both contestants, take your positions!"

The referee's whistle indicated the official start of the match!

The project in the top sixteen competition was to copy the three projects from the preliminary round and repeat each one!

The family winning two of these projects advances to the top eight!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

In the martial arena, the target competition area, Xiao Mingxuan threw out ten silver needles consecutively, breaking another record, achieving an astonishing score of 88 points. He then folded his arms and looked mockingly at Xiao Qingming, "Miss Xiao, please go ahead."

"No need for your nonsense!"

Xiao Qingming snorted angrily, took a big step forward, moved her right hand, and threw ten silver needles at the target consecutively!

"Miss Xiao Qingming, 43 points!"

After the referee announced this score, the crowd burst into laughter!

43 points, this was the worst score in this competition for the needle-target project!

The offspring of third-rate families had higher scores than this in needle throwing!

Xiao Mingxuan pointed at Xiao Qingming, laughing heartily, tears streaming as he laughed, "Ye Huan, I told you, she's just a big waste, only good for dragging you down, haha!"

Xiao Qingming blushed, wishing she could hide in a hole!

"Ye Huan, would you go first, or shall I?" Nearby, Feng Hao wiped the chip crumbs from his mouth, asking somewhat playfully.

Ye Huan waved his hand casually, "Whatever."

"Then I will be the first to make a fool of myself." Feng Hao's lips curled into a grin, he grabbed ten silver needles from his pocket, held them horizontally in the air, and suddenly tossed them!

Ten silver needles hit the target in succession!

85 points!

When Feng Hao's score was announced, the audience's schadenfreude grew even stronger.

The combined score of the Xiao Family duo is 86.5!

Xiao Qingming only scored 43 points, so even if a miracle happened and Ye Huan scored 100, their combined score would still be just 71.5!

The Xiao Family is faced with a situation of inevitable defeat!

What's more, Ye Huan, an outsider's score, might not necessarily be better than Xiao Qingming's!

Who is dragging whom down might not be so clear!

There is a good show to watch!

"Young Master Ye, if you can't do it, just withdraw from the competition. Don't force yourself," Xiao Mingxuan loudly advised, actually trying to provoke him.

Ye Huan ignored him, took a big step forward, and suddenly swung his right hand out of his pocket!

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Ten slender and sharp objects, so fast that their afterimages couldn't be seen, pierced through the air, cutting through the wind, creating a stream of glimmering light as they simultaneously shot towards the red target, raising the sound of breaking wind!

That's right, Ye Huan didn't throw the needles one by one like the other competitors, but instead flung all ten "silver needles" out at once!

This shocked many people!

You must know that those masters of Ancient Martial Medical Techniques with supreme acupuncture skills always release one needle at a time to ensure the stability and accuracy of the silver needles, never releasing more!

Yet, Ye Huan, an outsider, threw all ten "silver needles" at once. What is he doing?!

Does he think he can't win, so he's giving up, not wanting to pursue a good score, just performing at random?!

The spectators were bewildered, and after understanding it, the ridicule on their faces intensified.

Seeing the furious look of Huaxia's Saint is indeed a rare sight!

"Ye Huan, ten points!"

The next second, when the referee announced Ye Huan's score, Xiao Feng and the spectators couldn't help but burst into laughter!

Ten points!

As expected, Ye Huan's score is actually worse than Xiao Qingming's!

Definitely an amateur!

"Hahaha!" The intense laughter echoed in the air!

The people of the Xiao Family were all filled with shame and anger!

Xiao Qingming's beautiful eyes widened as she looked at Ye Huan, unable to believe what she heard!

Ye Huan's score was actually only ten points, worse than hers?!

At this moment, Ye Huan raised an eyebrow and said, "Open your eyes wide and see how many points it actually is!"

His sudden words made the referee quite unhappy!

When did it become a player's turn to question the referee?

Clearly, the referee saw that there was only one hole in the center of the target indicating ten points, isn't that just ten points?

The referee was a bit annoyed, but due to Ye Huan's status, he still dutifully widened his eyes and looked at the target next to him again.

Seeing that there indeed only is a hole at the ten-point center, he felt even more annoyed but still forced a somewhat awkward smile and said, "Mr. Ye, your score really is only ten..."

Before he could finish, his expression suddenly changed!

He finally noticed that the size of the hole seemed a bit different.

Normally, a hole pierced by a silver needle would have a radius of about 1mm, but this hole reached 1.5mm, seemingly because multiple silver needles with fierce wind pierced through it successively, causing the wind to enlarge the radius by 0.5mm.

The referee seemed to realize something, his eyes suddenly widened larger than chicken eggs, and he quickly looked at the back of the target!

Seeing ten toothpicks inserted in the middle of a wooden pillar two thousand meters behind the target, intertwined head to tail, his eyes nearly popped out, emitting an unbelievable shocking light!

"Can you announce now what my score actually is?" Ye Huan snorted discontentedly, thinking to himself, how can they have a referee so unprofessional that he could get a player's competition score wrong?

At this moment, the air was filled with mocking laughter which ceased.

Everyone looked at each other, unsure of the situation. Did the referee actually make a mistake with Ye Huan's score?

But even if he saw it wrong, so what can change?

Surely, they're not going to say that Ye Huan's score is better than Xiao Mingxuan and Feng Hao's?

As the crowd contemplated this, the referee's trembling voice announced Ye Huan's actual score in the next second, plunging the entire venue into dead silence, with everyone struck dumb, caught off guard in disbelief, thrown into disarray by the wind!

"Ye... Ye Huan's score is not... ten points, but..."

"But..."

"It's, 200 points!!!"