It was actually very simple. There was no need to put on a double act anymore. Yue Li Lian had never stood on their side; she and Si Fang Bo Yan were both the ones controlling the board.
"Since that's the case, Li Tianming is yours. As for this little girl, I'll have to take her back and give her a proper lesson," Si Fang Bo Yan said to Yue Li Lian.
"Sure." Yue Li Lian flicked her vivid red hair. The cold expression she had worn moments ago vanished at once, and she returned to her bewitching, amorous demeanor.
"A lifebound beast giving birth to an Astral Realm? And four Astral Realms at that, which can even merge with one another... Such an interesting and promising genius. Honestly, I regret sending him to the Heavenly Origin Camp. I should have taken him as my own closed-door student instead," Si Fang Bo Yan said regretfully.
"That's easy." Yue Li Lian raised her brow. Looking at Li Tianming, who stood in the arena looking utterly harmless, she suddenly smiled radiantly and said, "I'll take him as my closed-door student. That should put your mind at ease, right?"
When she suddenly said this, the disciples of the Earth Origin Camp were all rather stunned. Clearly, they did not know what Yue Li Lian's "closed-door student" meant.
On the Heavenly Origin Camp's side, however, it felt like a cold explosion. Cold, because they remained aloof and rejecting; explosive, because they were shaken, unable to believe it or accept it.
When they looked at Li Tianming again, their gazes gained further layers beyond indifference and hostility: defiance, anger, and speechlessness. They were also deeply puzzled by Yue Li Lian.
Ten days ago, Yue Li Lian had seemed utterly dismissive of Li Tianming. How had