Leaving for the Black Corner Region

"Xiao Bai, why didn't I see you come out after the final match?"

Outside the Heavenly Realm restaurant, Xiao Yan spotted Bai Ge and asked in confusion.

"I went to the Alchemist Guild with President Fama to deal with a few matters."

Bai Ge smiled but did not elaborate.

"When are you planning to return to the academy?"

Xiao Yan asked again.

"In a few days. I don't plan to go back just yet. What, do you want to return soon?"

Bai Ge stroked his chin.

"Yeah."

Xiao Yan nodded.

"Although I didn't achieve any good results at the Alchemist Convention, I still broadened my horizons and gained quite a bit of experience. I really want to practice pill refining again now, but there aren't the conditions here, so I want to return to the academy as soon as possible."

"And you know that Nalan Yanran and I have the Three-Year Agreement. There's only a little over a year left now. Though I know none of you think I can win, I still want to give it my all. At the very least, I don't want to fall too far behind in cultivation."

Xiao Yan clenched his fists.

"Oh."

Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Bai Ge nodded casually.

If Xiao Yan still had Yao Chen, that old man in the ring, he might have had some hope of winning. But Yao Chen had been taken by him, and Nalan Yanran had also grown stronger because of him, so Xiao Yan's chances of victory were practically nonexistent.

Although Xiao Yan in the original story had been quite a bastard—messing around with young girls as a child, leaving behind so many romantic debts after growing up, yet refusing to take them all in—he was truly having his cake and eating it too.

But