"Huh?" Jiang Zhu could not help interrupting. "Director Qian, you can compete too? How old are you?"
"I'm twenty-two this year." Qian Ren Shuang held up two fingers. "By the time the competition starts, I'll only be twenty-four—more precisely, still half a year short of twenty-five. Anyone under twenty-five can compete."
"Damn—seriously?" Jiang Zhu, Tai Long, Jing Ling, and Huang Yuan all sucked in sharp breaths. So they had come here just to make up the numbers?
"To encourage the nine of you to supervise each other and improve together," Liu Erlong continued, "report your Soul Power Levels to one another now. Let's see who improves the most over the next year or so. Go in order of age."
Since Dugu Bo had previously managed to infiltrate Tyrant Shrek Academy and poison two people to death, Qian Ren Shuang had reached a conclusion—Tang Hao was not there. Only after confirming that the Clear Sky Douluo was not secretly watching the academy from the shadows did he dare resume researching his second martial soul.
The worst-case scenario was simply that his Twin Martial Souls would be exposed, and the remaining people in Heaven Dou City would join forces to hunt him down after learning the truth.
If it truly came to that, he would just have to stop caring about Ning Rongrong, Xiang Ya, and the possibility of finding information about his godmother in the Heaven Dou Empire.
Qian Ren Shuang was confident. With his strength and Guilmon's mobility, he could absolutely break out of Heaven Dou City's encirclement with the Purple-Gold Windchaser Colt.
As for what came after breaking out, he had a rough plan as well: hide away in some unnoticed backwater and wait until the heat died down before making further plans.
"I haven't improved much over the