"It was Vice Dean Xiao who had come to visit."
Nan Shuishui gracefully returned the bow, her bearing dignified and elegant, a perfectly measured warm smile playing at the corner of her lips. Yet beneath it, shock surged in the depths of her eyes, impossible to conceal.
With her Soul Douluo cultivation, she could tell at a glance, more or less, how strong an ordinary Soul Master's aura was and how high their cultivation had reached. But when she looked at Xiao Yi, she couldn't sense the slightest fluctuation of Soul Power. He seemed utterly unremarkable, like an ordinary mortal.
That unfathomable state was what truly startled her.
"Clan Master Nan, you flatter me." Xiao Yi smiled faintly, his expression modest and his bearing composed.
After a few simple pleasantries, Xiao Yi didn't want to waste any more time, so he got straight to the point.
"May I ask what brings Vice Dean Xiao here?" Nan Shuishui was full of questions as she discreetly sized up the young dean of Shrek Academy. The Earth Dragon Sect was located in Dragon City in the north. It had always kept to itself and had never had any dealings with the deep-rooted Shrek Academy. None of its disciples had ever gone to Shrek to study, either. She truly couldn't understand why he had suddenly come calling.
The great powers across the continent all had their own rules. Only sects that lacked resources and had shallow foundations sent their disciples to study at Shrek. Those with Titled Douluo among their ranks generally wouldn't send their disciples to Shrek, unless they had some kind of partnership or already shared an ambiguous relationship.
"I've come today to make a deal with Clan Master Nan and obtain something from your sect."
Before Nan Shuishui could reply, Xiao