"Not counted?" Wu Tian hadn't expected Ding Yi to say such a thing.
It seemed this guy's brain wasn't very sharp.
He smiled and said, "No way, aren't you an elite disciple of the Divine Doctor Sect? Don't you have any competitive spirit?"
"Winning is winning, losing is losing. Isn't that what a competition is all about?"
"If there were a chance to redo it, what would be the point of competing?"
But Ding Yi was truly unconvinced because he hadn't used his true strength. He had only intended to test Wu Tian.
He never dreamed that Wu Tian would attack so ferociously and eliminate him directly!
He couldn't accept it no matter how he thought about it, so he said resentfully, "Don't give me all this nonsense. If I say it doesn't count, then it doesn't count!"
"You knocked me down before I could use my real strength, so you're taking advantage of my weakness! Your victory is not honorable!"
This childish, sulky behavior made Wu Tian lose interest in arguing with Ding Yi.
He turned to Mo Xuantian and said, "Sect Master Mo, you saw what happened just now."
"I knocked him down, and he refuses to admit it. How do you think this match should be counted?"
Mo Xuantian smiled and said, "Of course, you won this match."
After speaking, he turned to Ding Yi and said, "Ding Yi, this is how competitions are. You can't be prepared for everything."
"You lost this time, so you lost. If you don't admit it, you'll be laughed at."
Hearing Mo Xuantian say this, Ding Yi immediately put on a wronged expression.
But since Mo Xuantian had spoken, what else could he say in this situation? He simply shut his mouth obediently.
Then, Mo Xuantian smiled at Wu Tian and said, "Youngster, it seems your strength is truly extraordinary."
"The Night God Family sent you here, perhaps they want you to win the championship."
Wu Tian smiled and said, "Sect Master Mo is too kind. I was just lucky. Perhaps I'll lose in the next round."
Mo Xuantian gave a noncommittal response and then announced that the competition would continue.
There was nothing surprising in the subsequent matches. As for the others, Su Qiannai, Dong Weiqi, and Xiao Qilin all passed with flying colors, essentially by instantly defeating their opponents.
They took the top three spots among the elite disciples, and such results were quite normal.
Soon, the competition progressed to the quarterfinals.
This time, Wu Tian's opponent was the sixth-ranked elite disciple, Wang Gangshi.
Wang Gangshi was a burly young man, looking like a small mountain, possessing the demeanor of a disciple from the Ba Shan Sect.
Wu Tian remembered his performance in the group stage. He had also crushed his opponents then.
He had even knocked his opponent unconscious, then picked him up and thrown him off the stage, demonstrating astonishing strength.
However, his strength was only at the ninth-grade mid-tier.
Such a level posed no threat to Wu Tian at all.
Therefore, Wu Tian didn't take him seriously.
After the two went on stage, Wu Tian couldn't resist teasing him with a smile, "Brother, your muscles are really well-trained."
"What's up, do you exercise a lot normally?"
Wang Gangshi had no good attitude towards Wu Tian. He snorted and said, "Stop trying to get close to me. Do you think I'll forgive you just because of this?"
Wu Tian was puzzled and said, "Forgive? Excuse me, did I offend you in any way that you're talking about forgiveness?"
Wang Gangshi said, "Ding Yi is my brother. You eliminated him, so you've offended me! Do you understand now?"
"So that's how it is," Wu Tian nodded and smiled, "But aren't you being too unreasonable? This is a competition, and I can't just let him win, can I?"
"If I wasn't here to win, why would I have come? Isn't it comfortable to stay in Bird Country?"
But Wang Gangshi couldn't listen to Wu Tian's words at all. He angrily said, "Stop telling me all this nonsense. You're wrong anyway!"
"Today, I will definitely throw you off the stage and let you know what happens when you offend me!"
Wu Tian couldn't help but sigh.
The Divine Doctor Sect truly didn't disappoint him; why were they all so unreasonable?
But it didn't matter to him. With his current strength, no matter who he faced, it was just a game.
So he nodded and said, "Alright, if you insist on saying that, then what else can I say?"
"But I have to remind you, you'd better give it your all."
"If you refuse to admit defeat like your brother, that wouldn't be very good."
Wang Gangshi snorted, "You don't need to remind me of that!"
"You just took advantage of an opening just now. Don't think I don't know, you're just a show-off, and you're actually nothing!"
After speaking, Wang Gangshi grunted, and a surge of spiritual energy condensed in his body, then erupted fiercely.
His spiritual energy leaned towards the explosive type, so when it burst out, the surrounding floor tiles were immediately shattered.
Wu Tian exclaimed with a slight cluck, "Yo, you really look the part."
"With your physique, if you went to a construction site to move bricks, you should earn quite a bit of money, right?"
Seeing that he had unleashed his full strength, yet Wu Tian dared to joke with him, Wang Gangshi's veins bulged with anger.
He roared in a gruff voice, "Bastard! You like talking so much, do you? Then I'll twist your neck off! Let's see what else you can say!"
As the words fell, Wang Gangshi let out a beast-like roar and charged straight at Wu Tian with earth-shattering momentum!
To be fair, his power was indeed astonishing!
If it were just a contest of strength, even a ninth-grade upper-tier spiritual cultivator might not be his match.
He swung his sandbag-sized fist and directly smashed it towards Wu Tian's head!
He truly held nothing back. If a spiritual cultivator of the same level took such a blow, their head would definitely split open!
But facing such an astonishing impact, Wu Tian's expression remained calm and composed, showing no change whatsoever.
The moment Wang Gangshi's fist was thrown, he simply raised his hand and caught it!
A dramatic scene unfolded!
Bang!
A muffled sound exploded, and then the floor tiles around Wu Tian were also cracked.
However, Wu Tian remained unmoved, clearly not affected by Wang Gangshi's strength in the slightest!
"How can this be!"
Seeing such an astonishing scene, the other contestants were all stunned.