"Greetings, Young Patriarch." Su Qian took the lead in bowing.
The other academy elders also stepped forward to pay their respects.
"Elder Su Qian, you are too courteous." Lei Qi returned the gesture with cupped fists.
"Young Patriarch, please come in." Su Qian extended a hand in invitation.
Lei Qi did not waste words and entered the Inner Academy.
Mang Tianchi, preoccupied with the opportunity to become a Dou Sheng, had not come to the Inner Academy. After reporting to Lei Qi, he had headed directly for the Snake-People Clan's territory and had likely already taken them away by now.
After arriving at the Inner Academy, Su Qian immediately gave an account of Jia Nan Academy's situation over the past few years.
Lei Qi did not care much about the changes at Jia Nan Academy. He merely said that any outstanding students cultivated by the academy who wanted greater resources could go and pledge themselves to cities under the Thunder Clan.
Of course, such matters were entirely voluntary.
It could be said that unless one's cultivation reached the Dou Venerate realm, it was difficult to earn even a proper glance from the Thunder Clan.
He then asked about what truly concerned him. "Has a young man named Xiao Yan ever joined this place?"
He had not sensed the Soul-Control Lock, so he was somewhat puzzled.
"Reporting to the Young Patriarch, there has never been anyone by that name in the academy." Su Qian thought carefully before replying.
Naturally, he could not remember every student, but someone Lei Qi had personally asked about could hardly be mediocre.
Hearing Su Qian's answer, and considering that he had told Xiao Yan to cultivate other techniques, perhaps Xiao Yan truly had no intention of coming to Jia Nan Academy.
"Then when did Gu Xun'er