Before leaving, Han Jue also told Xiao Yan that Desert City was his territory. Xiao Yan then introduced the situation in Stone Desert City and gave Han Jue a letter, saying it could strengthen exchanges between the two sides. Han Jue did not refuse.
After watching Han Jue and his group leave, Xiao Yan, persuaded by the First Elder, officially accepted the position of Young Clan Leader and led the Xiao Clan members in rebuilding the clan's influence.
Xiao Yu's life at the academy had been simple lately. Every morning, he went to the Combat Skills Pavilion to hone his combat skills, and in the afternoons, he hid away in the alchemy room to improve his pill-refining techniques. He could now basically handle fourth-tier pills without any problems, and next, he planned to attempt fifth-tier pills.
The only thing that made Xiao Yu unhappy was Bai Shan.
Every now and then, Bai Shan would arrange for one or two students to come and try to make Xiao Yu embarrass himself in the name of a "challenge." Xiao Yu had no intention of paying them any attention, but they kept hovering around in front of him. With the academy rules in place, there were many places where Xiao Yu had no way to teach them a lesson.
And now, they had come again.
Looking at the two students blocking his path, one was a seven-star Dou Shi while the other was a nine-star Dou Shi. In the Outer Academy, that level of strength counted as fairly outstanding among the students, but before Xiao Yu, it was truly not enough.
"Tell me, do you even know how strong I am? Why do you keep coming to bother me every day?" Xiao Yu stared at the two of them and spoke indifferently. "I