Time flew by.
Dugu Chen and the others had spent a year and a half traveling between several major cities.
During that time, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had only just managed to break through to Soul Elder, only for the Shi Mo brothers to successively break through to Soul Ancestor. That left them as the only Soul Elders on the team, which depressed Ning Rongrong for quite some time.
And Zhu Zhuqing was a cultivation maniac. She worked herself madly every day and often sought cultivation advice from experts like Dugu Chen and Gu Feng. Ning Rongrong could only cry out at the sight of such intense competition.
'I can't take it, I can't take it—'
Ning Rongrong had never been obsessed with cultivation to begin with. If Oscar had not been there to spur her on, she probably would not have worked so hard. But now Zhu Zhuqing, who was even more diligent, had joined the team. It was practically killing her.
Especially whenever she saw the look in Oscar's eyes, like he was waiting to laugh at her, she worked even harder. One day, she would stomp that smug face of his beneath her feet.
Seeing how positively Oscar had motivated his little princess's cultivation, Gu Feng's gaze toward Oscar grew increasingly strange.
That day, the group returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
They did not alert anyone and simply returned to their respective dormitories without a sound.
Dugu Chen told them all to rest well. Although they had stayed at the finest hotels along the way, they had fought every three to five days for more than a year straight, leaving them mentally exhausted.
As for how Zhu Zhuqing, a member of Star Luo's Ducal Estate, had been allowed to come to Heaven Dou Royal Academy,