Skywater Academy

At the entrance to Skywater Academy.

Shui Yue'er watched Shui Bing'er approach with Yu Tianchen in tow, curiosity immediately shining in her beautiful eyes.

When she saw Yu Tianchen's handsome face, she seemed to realize something all at once, and her eyes lit up.

"Bing'er, who's this?"

Before Shui Bing'er could introduce him, she asked in a teasing tone.

"Big Sis, what are you imagining now?"

Shui Bing'er picked up on the teasing in Shui Yue'er's voice, and her delicate cheeks immediately flushed a little as she introduced him:

"This is Yu Tianchen, the one I told you about—the person Father and I met two years ago when we went to hunt for my First Soul Ring."

"Oh! The one you kept going on about after you came back?"

"Who kept going on about him?"

Shui Bing'er was already showing signs of turning red.

Watching her younger sister on the verge of losing it, Shui Yue'er giggled and then turned to Yu Tianchen:

"Hello, Yu Tianchen. I'm Shui Bing'er's older sister, Shui Yue'er."

"Is your First Soul Ring really a thousand years old? I've heard my little sister go on about it for ages."

"I just got a little lucky, that's all."

Yu Tianchen smiled and didn't say much more about it.

Seeing that, Shui Yue'er was about to ask something else, but Shui Bing'er stepped forward and pushed her toward the academy.

"Come on, Big Sis. Didn't you want to look around the academy? Let's go!"

"Fine, fine, I won't ask anymore~ Honestly, you forget your sisters the moment you meet a guy..."

"Big Sis!"

Watching the sisters play around, Yu Tianchen smiled and shook his head before following them inside.

As one of the Four Elements Academies of the Heaven Dou Empire, Skywater Academy was quite famous.

It was not only the sole advanced Soul Master Academy among the four that admitted commoners.

It was also an academy whose entire student body was made up of girls.

And the kind that wouldn't accept you if you weren't pretty.

Yu Tianchen would have been lying through his teeth if he said he wasn't interested in the academy.

Come on.

Who wouldn't want to look around an academy full of beautiful girls?

Although he couldn't study here.

Getting to look around and feast his eyes was still pretty great.

The three chatted and laughed as they walked, and soon arrived at a place that looked like a training ground.

"Look over there!"

Shui Yue'er spotted something with her keen eyes and pointed toward a platform in the distance.

"They're sparring over there!"

Shui Bing'er and Yu Tianchen followed her gaze.

Sure enough, on a small platform not far away,

four pretty young girls were facing off against one another.

Quite a few students were cheering them on from below.

Curious, Yu Tianchen and the Shui sisters edged closer to watch the fight.

"They look only thirteen or fourteen, but they're all Soul Elders! That's amazing!"

Shui Yue'er watched the fight onstage, her eyes sparkling.

"I wonder if I'll have reached the Soul Elder rank by the time I'm their age."

"You definitely can, Big Sis. You've got to stay determined!"

Shui Bing'er encouraged Shui Yue'er from the side.

"Exactly. People need to have dreams. Otherwise, what's the difference between them and a salted fish?"

Yu Tianchen added with a smile.

"That's right!"

With both of them cheering her on, Shui Yue'er was fired up too.

"I'll break through level thirty before I'm fifteen!"

Then she suddenly thought of something and turned to Yu Tianchen:

"By the way, what level are you now, Yu Tianchen?"

"With your talent, you must already be a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster, right?"

"Yeah. A lot of it was thanks to the benefits of my First Soul Ring."

Yu Tianchen thought it over, but in the end he didn't say exactly what level he was.

Shui Yue'er had just gotten fired up. It wouldn't be good to crush her spirits right away.

It wouldn't do to have her talking about breaking through level thirty before she turned fifteen,

while he, an eight-year-old, told her he was about to reach level thirty.

That would be a little too cruel.

Seeing that Yu Tianchen hadn't said exactly what level he was, Shui Bing'er gave him an approving blink.

Good thing Yu Tianchen hadn't told her sister his exact level.

Otherwise, her older sister would probably have been discouraged for a while.

An eight-year-old, level twenty-seven Soul Grandmaster.

Even Shui Bing'er was a little shaken when she heard it, let alone Shui Yue'er, whose talent wasn't as good as hers.

"That's incredible..."

Even though Yu Tianchen hadn't revealed his level, Shui Yue'er couldn't help but marvel at his talent.

"If I remember right, you're about the same age as Bing'er, aren't you?"

"An eight-year-old Soul Grandmaster—do you ever lie awake at night, blinded by your own talent shining like daylight?"

Their conversation had also drawn glances from several Skywater students nearby.

When they saw Yu Tianchen,

their eyes all lit up.

Yu Tianchen was quite handsome, and in an academy like Skywater, where you could go all year without seeing more than a few men,

he was like a little lamb wandering into a pack of wolves.

Several girls with both pretty faces and figures, and plenty of confidence, immediately sidled over.

"What a handsome little guy!"

"You're only eight, and you're already a Soul Grandmaster? Amazing!"

"Wow! Those muscles are so firm—you even have abs!"

The three of them were caught off guard by the sudden crowd of older students.

Yu Tianchen was especially flustered.

He didn't even know where to put his hands.

"Hey! You... don't crowd me!"

Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er tried to rescue Yu Tianchen.

But no matter how they pushed, the two of them couldn't squeeze into the circle of girls surrounding him.

"Hey! You girls!"

A stern voice suddenly rang out from the other side.

The moment it sounded,

the female students surrounding Yu Tianchen and the others all shuddered and hurriedly scattered.

Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Yu Tianchen looked toward the voice.

A middle-aged woman, radiating an air of gloom, was striding toward them.

The moment Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er saw her, their faces blanched. They grabbed Yu Tianchen and tried to hurry away.

But before the three of them could make their escape,

the middle-aged woman's voice rang out from far away.

"Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er."

"If you dare run,"

"you can go explain yourselves to your mother later!"

At that,

the Shui sisters froze.

They turned around sheepishly and greeted the middle-aged woman, who had already walked up to them:

"Aunt Zhou..."

They hadn't even finished speaking

when the middle-aged woman, whom Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er called Aunt Zhou, reached out and grabbed one sister by the ear with each hand.

"You used your mother's name to get into Skywater Academy as non-students, and you even brought a boy in with you."

"You two sisters getting a little too bold, hmm?"

"Ow, ow... Aunt Zhou, easy, easy! We're sorry, we're sorry..."

Shui Yue'er grabbed Aunt Zhou's hand and cried out in pain.

"I was the one who brought Yu Tianchen in. It has nothing to do with Big Sis!"

"If Mother has to punish someone, punish me!"

Shui Bing'er struck the same pose as Shui Yue'er, but she took all the blame upon herself.