"Since you've done the Starry Sky a service, I'll let this go," Dean Wen said coolly as he looked at Xia Shen Fei. "I don't want trouble at the academy, not for you or for them."
"I understand," Xia Shen Fei replied solemnly.
Dean Wen took Nong Si Niang away. Xia Shen Fei burped after a drink and thought back to Nong Si Niang's fight with Liu Que. He was just as curious about how she'd made Liu Que draw his Second Sword. The gap between them was too vast for skill alone to bridge.
Unless Nong Si Niang had seen someone among the farmers challenge Liu Que despite having strength similar to her own, that would be enough to make Liu Que turn around and draw his Second Sword. That person definitely wasn't from the Seed Garden. Liu Que's curiosity showed that Nong Si Niang hadn't been able to do it before, but could now. It had to be because of someone at the academy. Xia Shen Fei wanted to know who it was, too.
Challenging Liu Que with strength on par with Nong Si Niang's was no simple feat. Even Xia Shen Fei himself hadn't been able to do it back then.
But since the dean had cut in, he let the matter drop.
He'd come here to find Yu Hao. There was something strange about this man's appearance—or rather, it had been abrupt. As soon as he showed up, all sorts of things had happened. They might have been coincidences, but there weren't many coincidences in Xia Shen Fei's dictionary.
Before long, Xia Shen Fei found Lu Yin beside the lake, where Lu Yin was preparing for the afternoon class.
Seeing Xia Shen Fei, Lu Yin looked surprised. "Xia Shen Fei?"
Yu Hao should have known Xia