Depart for Zhenhai Battlefield!

Lu Youyou did not mind and quickly began chattering away again.

Most of the time, Lu Youyou was the one talking while Qin Yan and Xiao Wangshu listened.

Lu Youyou had always been talkative by nature and possessed a lively personality.

This time, she was not going to the Zhenhai Battlefield; she had only gone there not long ago.

She had come this time to see off her Little Junior Brother and best friend.

Qin Yan and Xiao Wangshu listened quietly.

Qin Yan occasionally interjected with a few words or nodded in agreement.

Xiao Wangshu, meanwhile, spent most of the time standing silently, her calm gaze fixed ahead.

Just then, a figure appeared soundlessly atop the raised platform at the center of the Martial Arena.

He was a middle-aged man in a dark blue robe, with a peaceful expression and ordinary features.

The sort who would disappear into a crowd without a trace.

Yet as he stood there, he seemed to become the center of the entire Martial Arena.

It was not because he deliberately exuded any imposing aura. Rather, the surrounding light, sound, and even the flow of air naturally warped and converged ever so slightly around him.

Like a stone cast into a still lake, sending ripples spreading outward on their own.

"That is Lin Shui, the vice dean of the Second Academy at Martial University," Xiao Wangshu's cool voice suddenly sounded beside Qin Yan's ear. Rarely, she took the initiative to explain, "He cultivates Water System techniques and is at the peak of Rank Seven. They say he already has one foot across the threshold of Grandmaster."

Qin Yan's heart tightened.

Peak Rank Seven, a half-step Grandmaster!

With such cultivation, he was among the very strongest in all of Magic Capital Martial University.

No wonder he possessed