Early the next morning, everyone got up at dawn and left through Shrek Academy's main gate.
"Where are we going?" Wang Dong asked curiously from the side.
"Who knows."
Li Changsheng shrugged, utterly unconcerned. "Just follow along. Does it matter where we're going?"
"Why doesn't it matter?" Wang Dong asked in confusion.
"As if you can decide not to go!" Li Changsheng rolled his eyes at Wang Dong, speechless.
"Fine."
Wang Dong pursed her lips. Then, seemingly thinking of something, she asked with a gossipy look, "By the way, did you go on a date with Sister Nannan last night?"
"Why would you ask that?" Li Changsheng asked.
"Obviously! You came back so late last night that I thought you wouldn't be coming back at all!" Wang Dong complained.
Wang Dong did not speak loudly, but everyone could hear her. Jiang Nannan lowered her head, her pretty face flushing as she was too shy to say a word.
"If that's the case, why don't you take a guess?" Li Changsheng said with a smile.
"Am I a child? You want me to guess?" Wang Dong glared at Li Changsheng.
"You—"
Just as Wang Dong was about to say something, Elder Xuan's voice rang out from not far away. "Come over here. I have something to tell you!"
At that, everyone stopped talking. After exchanging glances and seeing the confusion in one another's eyes, they gathered together.
"Do you know why there are so few Inner Court Disciples left?" Elder Xuan asked the group before him with a serious expression.
"Isn't that obvious? They must have graduated!" Without much thought, Wang Dong immediately gave her answer.
"That's only part of it!"
Elder Xuan shook his head and continued, "What about those who haven't graduated?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Wang Dong