"Is Instructor Chen here?"
Chen Yue had only just lain down for a while. After the pain eased slightly, he got up, intending to take a bath and prepare lessons for tomorrow, when a soft voice suddenly rang out.
"Hm?"
Chen Yue froze for a moment. The voice sounded unfamiliar—he didn't recognize it.
"Yes, I'm here. What is it?"
But the thought quickly faded. With the class he led tearing through the Heavenly Water Junior Soul Duel Tournament, his name had probably spread throughout Heavenly Water Academy by now.
After all!
This was the first time in history that someone had led first-year students, whose Martial Souls had awakened less than half a year ago, to the point where they could crush sixth-year students... It was like a first-grade teacher somehow teaching a group of first-graders capable of getting directly into a top middle school.
Something like that would be absolutely explosive, no matter in his previous life or this one, wouldn't it?
Accordingly, it was hardly strange for Chen Yue, as the instructor responsible for such a feat, to become famous far and wide.
The thought flashed through his mind. Supporting his weary body, Chen Yue got up and opened the door. Standing outside the courtyard gate were a middle-aged man and a young girl with curiosity written all over her face.
A girl with dark red hair?
Why did she seem a little familiar?
Chen Yue's eyelids twitched as he looked at the middle-aged man before him. The latter clasped his hands with a smile. "Instructor Chen, I've heard so much about you!"
"And you are?"
"Ah, my apologies. I forgot to introduce myself!"
The middle-aged man was visibly taken aback, but the expression vanished at once, and he resumed his earlier smile.
The girl beside him covered