Xue Ye personally tried to recruit Xia Yan, promising him a title, territory, wealth...
Only to be politely turned down.
Politely refused.
Xia Yan did not need anyone's promises to obtain wealth and status. Why should he owe anyone a favor?
Over the next half month,
Yu Tianheng's miserable defeat became firmly established. People had truly seen the academy's strongest student reduced to that bizarre state!
Bald, pale, and weak.
Most importantly, Yu Tianheng never appeared again after that.
It was as though he had vanished from the face of the earth.
Some curious students deliberately wandered all over the academy, looking everywhere. Some even specifically went to peek into Imperial Heaven Dou Team One's training grounds.
For a time, the entire Royal Heaven Dou Academy tacitly launched a search for Yu Tianheng.
Yet none of them could find Yu Tianheng.
The silence from every side, the Imperial Fighting Team members' evasive answers, Yu Tianheng's disappearance...
Everything was confirming it...
The rumors were true after all!
The students were truly excited now, discussing it everywhere. It was as lively as if the Heaven Dou Empire had won the Soul Master Tournament championship.
The news even spread into Heaven Dou City.
However, such rumors sounded more like legends.
What a joke. A twelve-year-old with a thousand-year Second Soul Ring and soul power at rank forty-three had crushed Yu Tianheng, the nineteen-year-old, rank thirty-nine heir of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while he was in Dragon Transformation. He had defeated him in a single move.
If he had not received treatment in time, Yu Tianheng might even have died on the spot.
Ha, too fake.
No way.
Another group was utterly convinced. They said things like, "My cousin studies at Royal Heaven Dou Academy," or, "My grandfather's friend's younger brother's daughter