The elder announced his decision to all of the spectators.
"Zhou Yang has lost."
As the crowd heard this statement, they were baffled. Why would he lose? He just fell off the stage by accident! But as the crowd tried to make sense of the elder's statement, they started to understand as well.
"Because when he stepped on the stage, the battle had already started..."
"With the battle already having started, falling off the stage would be considered as losing..."
"He was just unlucky..."
The crowd nodded their heads in agreement to the elder. But even though they were agreeing in the surface, they were actually forcing themselves to accept the matter.
They so badly wanted to see Li Bai get pummeled, that when this unsatisfying conclusion to his battle came to be, they were sorely disappointed.
Crossing their fingers, the crowd muttered 'Please let Li Bai get picked with a strong enemy again...'
Nevertheless, there was nothing they could do about this failed attempt to kick Li Bai's face in. After this, they dared not blame the elder for fear of what he might do should he hear their statements, instead putting the blame on the teen Zhou Yang, who had his head down all the time.
After this incident, the people directed their attention towards the other battles. The crowd noticed a peculiar thing - they were all too focused on Li Bai's 'fight' that they abandoned theirs, so that no one was even on the stages, aside from Li Bai himself.
With everyone's attention being on Li Bai's fight, even if they wanted to concentrate on their own battle, they could not do so as either their opponent or they themselves would not be paying attention. Because of this, they haven't even ascended their respective stages yet.
Due to the anticlimactic battle of Li Bai having already finished, most of the spectators were unmotivated to continue their respective fights, but they forced themselves to, as their future depended on it!
Li Bai was more disappointed than the crowd. This was his chance to show off his prowess and yet this imbecilic idiot managed to mess it up! Now everyone's views of him were just some child who got extremely lucky. One had to hand it to him though, his luckiness was nothing to scoff at, but this mattered not to Li Bai, he did not have the desire to be lucky at all.
Rather than lucky, he felt more unfortunate that he didn't get to battle while a large audience was watching him. Wishing that he would be granted an opportunity the next round, Li Bai restored his state of mind to how it was before. He descended the stage and leisurely walked back to where he was before, sitting on a chair.
Everyone witnessed his carefree movements and scoffed at him in their hearts. As they tried to voice these insults out, they noticed that their throats were already sore from all the screaming and shouting they did. Damn it!
Thus, this uneventful event has concluded, with many itching for it to continue, it being Li Bai's complete and instant thrashing. The other battles would finally start.
Or, at least, that's what was planned, until all of the participants realize that they didn't even know who their respective opponents were. The elder had surely announced it already, but they were too preoccupied with Zhou Yang and Li Bai to even hear the elder, much less remember what he said. Since they didn't know who they were going to fight, they awkwardly stood still.
Seemingly realizing something, the elder that announced the names prior to the 'fight' between Li Bai and Zhou Yang suddenly stood up and opened his mouth.
"What are you doing?!"
Angrily screaming at the participants was not a practical solution, but the elder was irritated enough by the fact that Li Bai didn't get pummeled, so he didn't have enough patience to spare for these people who remained stationary despite the fact that their battles were supposed to have started already!
