Everything unfolded exactly as Shen Hanyu had expected.
With Spirit Hall's help, Huyan Zhen had broken through to become a Titled Douluo. In turn, the Elephant Armored Sect and Elephant Armor Academy had become somewhat more arrogant—but only somewhat.
An ordinary Titled Douluo facing a Titled Douluo with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, when there was also a two-rank gap in cultivation and a certain degree of Martial Soul suppression between them—Huyan Zhen had no chance in hell of winning.
Unless he could catch the Sea God Trident with his head and kick Asura's great sword with his feet, he truly did not have that kind of strength.
Although the Elephant Armored Sect disciples in the city had indeed become much more overbearing in their conduct, that was only toward the students of the other three Element City academies. Before Skywater Academy's students, they tacitly chose to ignore them or steer clear.
After learning the details, Shui Ningbing felt much more at ease. She remained busy every day, and life seemed no different from before.
Unable to sleep one night, Shen Hanyu deliberately took a stroll through the city. Only then did he discover that there was another Soul Sage in Element City's Martial Soul Branch Hall. This person had a special layer of protection around him that could greatly block Mental Power from probing his cultivation. Judging by the strength of Shui Ningbing's Mental Power, the cultivation he revealed was at most that of a Soul King—and an unstable Soul King at that, the sort of cannon fodder no one would even spare a glance for.
However, Shen Hanyu did not take it seriously. He was only a Soul Sage. At Shen Hanyu's current level, such a person was no longer worth his attention.
As Shen Hanyu continued