Early the next morning, in the corridor in front of the Heaven Class teaching building.
Ning Yuan As soon as he reached the stairs, he felt a line of sight falling on him.
He calmly turned his gaze and saw a woman in a dark green outfit leaning against the window on the other side of the corridor, holding a cup of hot tea in her hand, her eyes glancing towards him vaguely.
Her long dark purple hair was tied into a high ponytail. She had a beautiful face and a sharp coldness between her eyebrows.
The most eye-catching thing is her eyes.
It's not the round pupils of normal humans, but vertical, like a snake's.
Dugu Yan.
Her appearance here is obviously not a coincidence.
Ning Yuan looked as usual and continued walking towards the classroom.
When he passed by her, he even nodded politely as a greeting.
Dugu Yan didn't respond. He just held the tea cup, his eyes stayed on him for two seconds, and then moved away.
But Ning Yuan could feel that there was a sense of scrutiny in that gaze.
Ning Yuan smiled and ignored it.
He didn't look back and walked straight into the classroom.
In the corridor, Dugu Yan picked up the tea cup and took a sip, his eyes fell on the figure disappearing at the classroom door, thoughtfully.
"That's him?" A deep male voice came from behind her.
Yu Tianheng didn't know when he was standing next to her, folding his hands on his chest, and followed her line of sight to look at the classroom door that had just been closed.
"Hmm." Dugu Yan put down the tea cup, "Level 45, Shadow Nether Vine, twelve years old. Even more eye-catching than the rumors say."
Yu Tianheng was silent for a moment. "What are you going to do?"
Dugu Yan didn't answer immediately. She tapped the wall of the cup with her fingertips, and after a while she spoke, "I made an appointment with several members of the team to meet in the small cafeteria tonight. If you are free, come with us."
Yu Tianheng raised his eyebrows. "You want to call him over?"
"It's my business whether to scream or not, and it's his business to come or not." Dugu Yan turned around, and the dark green clothes drew a sharp arc in the air, "Let's find out first. My Martial Soul is not suitable for the pure control system. You know this, and I know it too."
She took a few steps, paused again, tilted her head and added, "But talent is talent. Whether you can use it depends on your character. The people over at Xue Beng went to trouble him yesterday. If he can't even break this situation, it's not worth my words."
After saying that, she left without looking back.
Yu Tianheng stood there, looking at her leaving figure, with a slight twitch of the corner of his mouth.
"Tough talk."
He whispered, then turned and walked towards the training ground.
In the evening, Heaven Dou Royal Academy small canteen.
This canteen is called a small canteen, but its scale is not small at all. It is an area specially opened to Heaven Class core students and team members.
At this moment, three people were already sitting at the long table by the window.
Yu Tianheng was sitting by the window, with a glass of water in front of him, looking out the window in trance.
Shi Mo was sitting opposite him, holding a notebook in his hand and writing something with his head down.
Dugu Yan was sitting at the head of the table, his fingertips tapping the table every now and then, as if he was waiting for someone.
Not long after, the door of the canteen was pushed open.
The person who walked in was not Ning Yuan, but a girl wearing a long white dress, with a cold face and a distant temperament, holding a heavy medical classic in her arms.
She walked very lightly, as if she was afraid of disturbing something, walked to the table, and sat down quietly next to Shi Mo.
Ye Lingling, Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Chief Treatment Department Soul Master, Martial Soul Nine Heart Begonia.
She didn't speak after she sat down, she just put the medical textbook on the table, opened the page she just read, and continued reading silently.
It seemed as if she didn't come here to eat, but just to read in a different place.
Dugu Yan glanced at her, already used to her behavior, and didn't say anything.
Shi Mo closed the note and raised his head to look at Dugu Yan: "Sister Yan, are you sure he will come? We didn't even hand over a formal invitation, so we asked your school girl to leave a message. Come and sit down in the cafeteria if you have time in the evening. Isn't this a bit too casual?"
Dugu Yan leaned on the back of the chair with a calm expression.
"You can only tell a person's true reaction casually."
"If he doesn't show up and doesn't come, it means that he is either not interested in joining the team, or he doesn't think we are qualified enough to invite him."
"Then no matter how talented he is, he can't get along with us."
Shi Mo pondered for a moment and nodded, "That's true."
Yu Tianheng turned around and said in a calm tone, "I think he will come."
Dugu Yan raised his eyebrows. "So sure?"
"A person who has cultivated to the fourth ring since he was twelve years old," Yu Tianheng picked up the water glass and took a sip, "It is impossible that his brain is not good. He knows why he came to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, resources, platform, and competition opportunities."
"He can't get these things just by practicing alone. He has to rely on a team."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the canteen was pushed open again.
A green figure stood at the door. He was tall and handsome, his eyes calmly swept across the few faces in the cafeteria, and finally landed on the long table by the window.
It is Ning Yuan.
He stood at the door for two seconds, and then walked in without being formal or ostentatious. He walked straight to the table and sat down in the empty seat.
"Excuse me."
Yu Tianheng put down the water glass, looked at him, and looked at him for a moment.
Dugu Yan did not exchange greetings, but spoke directly.
"I heard about what happened in the assessment field yesterday. At the age of twelve and four rings, he took on the Soul Emperor head-on and refused to retreat."
"I want to confirm one thing. Are you here to participate in the high-level Soul Master Tournament in two years' time, or are you just here to get a diploma?"
In the small canteen, the lights are warm.
Dugu Yan's question was like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, and the eyes of several people present invariably fell on Ning Yuan.
Yu Tianheng put down the water glass and Shi Mo closed the notebook. Even Ye Lingling, who had been looking down at the medical textbook, paused slightly when turning the pages.
Ning Yuan met Dugu Yan's gaze without any fluctuation in his expression.
He did not answer immediately, but first reached for the teapot on the table, poured himself a glass of water, took a leisurely sip, and then spoke slowly.
"I came to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy not to get a diploma, nor to get a position in any team."
Dugu Yan raised his eyebrows but said nothing, waiting for his next words.
Ning Yuan put down the tea cup and looked at her calmly.
"I came here because the resources here are better than those at the border."
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy has the best training facilities, the richest Soul Beast illustration library, and the most complete pharmacological classics."
"These are much more important to me than a team spot."
What he said was half true and half false.
Spirit Hall's cultivation resources are countless times stronger than those of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He has read all the illustrated books and pharmacological classics of Soul Beast from Yue Guan.
But he needed a reasonable excuse to explain why he came all the way to Heaven Dou.
The status of a civilian genius who pursues a better cultivation environment is the least likely to arouse suspicion.
Dugu Yan stared at him for a few seconds, seeming to judge whether his words were true or false.
Yu Tianheng spoke first, "So what you're saying is that you're not interested in the team's position?"