Looking at the young girl before him, who was apologizing with a flustered bow and barely making sense, Wang Zhao smiled.
"It's all right. Little girl, you're Ye Lingling, aren't you?"
"Ah! Hall Master, you actually know me?" Ye Lingling's eyes widened, making her even more surprised.
"I've heard the girls from my academy mention you before. A Nine Heart Begonia Soul Master—you're very powerful and very rare."
Wang Zhao nodded as he spoke.
Powerful, of course, referred to her healing abilities.
Ye Lingling gave a shy smile at his words.
After that, Wang Zhao and Ning Rongrong continued strolling around Heaven Dou Royal Academy. As Ning Rongrong's close best friend, Ye Lingling joined them as well.
As the three walked along, they occasionally encountered Heaven Dou Royal Academy students passing by. Every one of them wore fine clothes and carried an air of nobility.
Seeing the academy's two renowned icy beauties accompanying a man, many students were so shocked that they could only stare. However, none dared to step forward and provoke the three of them.
After all, Ning Rongrong had already established a formidable reputation at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The sharp aura she exuded without even trying made ordinary people afraid to approach her, much less cause trouble.
As for Wang Zhao, his clothes and the bearing cultivated by someone long accustomed to power were enough. Even without deliberately showing anything, these students from powerful and noble families at the royal academy had the basic ability to judge people. Blindly mocking someone only to get humiliated was something that happened only in novels.
Though, in a world like the Douluo Continent, where intelligence was generally not held in particularly high regard, unless a Soul Master was strong enough, even weak children of noble families basically looked down