Day by day, more than half a year had passed since Aoko and the other three arrived in the Soul Society. During that time, their progress at the Shin'o Academy of Spiritual Arts had advanced by leaps and bounds, and they appropriately loosened their restraints on their spiritual pressure to display the outward signs of that progress.
The teachers and students at the Spiritual Arts Academy all knew about this group of four geniuses. Even some vice-captains and captains of the Gotei Thirteen had come to the academy to speak with them, inviting them to join their squads after graduation.
After Ruan Fengyi dealt with the five ninjas, the remaining two saw that the situation had turned bad. Without hesitation, they turned and fled.
Perhaps until the very end, she would never become utterly alone, never experience the lonely chill of standing at the heights, watching her dearest loved ones, relatives, and friends vanish one by one into the river of time, until all that remained was others' awe, admiration, estrangement, and schemes.
Xiyang smiled faintly, but did not take it seriously. Xu Yangfeng was merely an immortal who had just transcended mortality; the reason the old man in gray robes feared him was probably his powerful family background.
Because flying was forbidden in the Rong family's main city, and because the Rong family was an old and deeply established power in the Immortal Realm, though they had no Immortal Venerable, they had a good relationship with the Southern Jade Immortal Venerable and connections in the God Realm. Thus, even Immortal Venerables were willing to give the Rong family some face when they came here.
Meanwhile, Rong Hua, whom Bai Yanliu hated madly and Mo Yanshang envied, had already set off with Ye Yi and the other two toward the