What?!
More than an hour had passed.
Eventually, one by one, the participants slowly opened their eyes. The first one to do was Hua Hengyun followed by Dunggo Shi. Noticing that they were done with the first step, the other participants who were also under the first phase opened their eyes.
In actuality, they were already done with their first phases. However, seeing that the two geniuses who were not yet done with it, they decided to carry it on and finalize their thoughts over and over again. After all, they did not want to implicate a shame for their guilds. Even though they were bounded to lose this year just the usual, they still needed to do their best and put up a fight with all their best.
They were not pushovers to begin with!