Seeing the wall of question marks, Qian Renxue suddenly felt a headache coming on.
Inside the Pope Palace of Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong looked at the line of text on the screen, the corners of her mouth curling into a scornful sneer.
That guy with the ridiculous nickname, who was always picking fights with her in the group, had finally gotten his comeuppance.
At last, she had found her chance.
She had to give the odious man a good mocking!
Meanwhile, at the other end of Heaven Dou City, in a small courtyard at Blue Tyrant Academy.
Liu Erlong sat on a stone stool, looking at the plea for help in the group. Her eyes reddened in an instant.
Poor child. He must have run into some hurdle he couldn't get past, with no one to even talk to about it.
When it came to love, Liu Erlong knew all about it.
The pain of being abandoned by the one you loved, of wanting someone you could never have—she understood!
Soon, two new messages popped up in the Chat Group.
[Pope]: "Not a single man is any good!"
[Gentle Fire Dragon]: "Not a single man is any good!"
Qin Feng had just packed his belongings and opened the Chat Group when he happened to see this.
Looking at the two strikingly similar messages, Qin Feng was left utterly dumbfounded.
Good grief!
They were really letting their feelings out, weren't they?
Qin Feng grumbled to himself.
Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong had both had their lives ruined by that cowardly scumbag, Yu Xiaogang.
As for Ah Yin, strictly speaking, she'd also been brought to ruin by that big hammer, Tang Hao, and had sacrificed her life.
With those three women in the same group, it was practically a Douluo Continent version of the Avengers of Vengeance!
Faced with Bibi Dong's sarcasm, Qian Renxue refused to back down.
Her fingers flew across the screen as she fired back at once.
[I Have No Mom]: "@Pope, saying something like that only shows that your own judgment is terrible. You picked a useless man, that's all."
The moment the message appeared, the group fell silent.
Inside the Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong stared at the screen, her expression frighteningly dark.
The atmosphere instantly grew oppressive. The guards outside the palace shivered, not even daring to breathe too loudly.
Bibi Dong was seething, but had nowhere to vent her rage.
The other person's words were harsh, but she had no way to refute them.
The old scandals Qin Feng had exposed in the group had stripped Yu Xiaogang bare, down to his underwear.
That spineless, useless Yu Xiaogang, who did nothing but plagiarize other people's theories, was now fast becoming the biggest stain on her life!
At the thought of it, Bibi Dong's resentment toward Yu Xiaogang shot straight up.
Then she turned her anger toward Qian Renxue's nickname.
"Just who is this 'I Have No Mom'?"
Bibi Dong muttered through gritted teeth.
"I never killed your mother. Do you have some grudge against me? Why are you picking on me and no one else?"
Bibi Dong's chest heaved with anger. She simply closed the Chat Group, deciding that what she couldn't see couldn't bother her.
In the study at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
After that noisy farce in the Chat Group, Qian Renxue's restless mood had, surprisingly, settled down.
She picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, her gaze returning to the secret order.
As for the soon-to-arrive Qin Feng, she gradually began to feel a strange sense of anticipation.
"If he really is like scum such as Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai..."
"Then I'll find a chance to kill him with one stroke of my sword and be done with it."
A murderous glint flashed in Qian Renxue's eyes, and her voice was cold as frost.
But soon, she shook her head, her expression softening a little.
"But if he really is the peerless genius Grandpa described in his letter, and a decent person to boot..."
"Then, following Grandpa's instructions, I could be a little more proactive myself."
At the thought, Qian Renxue seemed to imagine something. Two blushes quickly bloomed on her fair, jade-white cheeks.
She awkwardly patted her cheeks, forcing down her shyness.
After carefully putting away the secret order, Qian Renxue rose and left the study, returning to the complicated affairs of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Time flew by, and the days slipped past.
In the blink of an eye, several days of travel had passed.
Qin Feng and Hu Liena had set out together, traveling side by side along the way.
After leaving Spirit City, the two hired a spacious carriage.
At the checkpoints in the towns along the route, the guards had initially intended to carry out their usual inspections.
But when Qin Feng casually produced a high-ranking Spirit Hall token and a handwritten pass from Heaven Dou Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, the officers immediately bowed and let them through. Not one dared to stop them.
This smooth passage saved Qin Feng quite a bit of trouble.
At noon that day, the grand and imposing Heaven Dou Royal Academy finally came into view.
At the academy gates, Qin Feng presented his token and entered the continent's foremost academy without a hitch.
The only slight hitch was that, after making inquiries, he learned that Qian Renxue was currently at the palace, assisting Xue Ye with state affairs. She wasn't at the academy to conduct her assessment and studies.
Qin Feng wasn't in any particular hurry.
"Since the Crown Prince isn't here, why don't we take a look around the academy?"
Qin Feng turned to Hu Liena and suggested.
Hu Liena readily agreed.
The two walked side by side along the broad, tree-lined avenue.
The scenery along the way was exquisitely arranged. All sorts of exotic flowers and plants competed in beauty, filling the place with the lavish air of an aristocratic school.
As he walked, Qin Feng surveyed his surroundings.
"After all, it's the continent's foremost academy. The grounds and facilities really are impressive."
"But when it comes to the atmosphere for cultivation, it still falls a little short of our Spirit City."
Hu Liena wholeheartedly agreed. The two chatted and laughed as they leisurely wandered around the vast academy.
Meanwhile, in another part of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
A group from Shrek Academy had also arrived over the past two days.
Yu Xiaogang tidied up his appearance and headed off with Flender to pay a visit to the academy's three members of the Education Committee. They would discuss Shrek's admission and the arrangements for obtaining a competition slot.
With nothing better to do, the remaining Shrek Seven Devils wandered around the academy.
They hadn't gone far when Dai Mubai's restless nature got the better of him.
He sidled up to Ma Hongjun and Oscar, lowered his voice, and spoke with a suggestive wiggle of his eyebrows.
"Who knows how long the Grandmaster and the others will be busy discussing important matters."
"We shouldn't just stand around waiting. Let's slip away and look around somewhere else."
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy is full of noble young ladies. Let's go admire the beauties and give our eyes a treat."
The moment Ma Hongjun heard that there were beauties to see, his tiny, mung-bean eyes lit up. He was practically drooling.
"Boss Dai's right. Come on, let's go!"
Oscar had some reservations, but the other two dragged him along, and in the end he let himself be half-pushed into leaving the group.
The three followed a quiet path, looking this way and that as they tried to spot some aristocratic young women worth admiring.