"???"
Feng Huanyun and Yu Beiqing both whipped their heads around to look at Huo Zhentian, their eyes filled with shock.
What, man? You were jumping in the instant the party formed?
Even Shui Rou'er was unusually astonished. She had not expected Huo Zhentian to suddenly blurt out something like that.
Did this old fellow not even think it over?
Shui Rou'er had spent a long time deliberating and consulting with Skywater Academy's other higher-ups before making this decision.
Huo Zhentian, on the other hand, seemed not to have given it much thought at all. He had directly volunteered to join the Northern Border, which had yet to make any move, without even the slightest hesitation.
Faced with their puzzled and shocked gazes, Huo Zhentian found it perfectly natural.
Did something like this really require so much thought?
He did not doubt in the least that the Northern Border could go even further under His Highness's leadership.
There was only one reason: His Highness was merely seventeen years old, yet he had already reached Soul Douluo cultivation, a level of strength publicly recognized as comparable to a Titled Douluo.
Given enough time, entering that realm was practically a certainty.
With such a top-tier powerhouse to rely on, would rising to prominence not be effortless?
Unlike what Feng Huanyun and the others thought, Huo Zhentian had not made this decision rashly. On the contrary, he had considered a great many things.
A seventeen-year-old Soul Douluo; a top figure standing shoulder to shoulder with the Heaven Dou Empire and the Heaven Dou Emperor; holder of several military commands, including the White Robe Army; the Princess's Prince Consort; someone whom the Crown Prince treated with eager courtesy...
With so many factors laid out before him, if he still did not dare take such