Early the next morning.
"Phew."
"Looks like the higher my cultivation, the faster I can refine Immortal Herbs."
"Last night, I refined three Immortal Herbs. I'm already at the Orange Profound Realm Third Heaven."
Waking from his refinement of the Immortal Herbs, Shen Fan got up and washed as he thought to himself.
"Fan, are you up?"
Just then, Dugu Yan came to Shen Fan's door and knocked.
"I'm up."
Hearing Dugu Yan's voice, Shen Fan's eyes lit up. He quickly opened the door, pulled her inside, shut it, then turned and pinned her against the wall.
"O-okay, okay."
"Let's get out there already..."
After being pinned against the wall for more than ten minutes and left unable to catch her breath, Dugu Yan kept pounding Shen Fan's back with her little fists.
"Is everyone up?"
Shen Fan released the panting Dugu Yan and asked.
"E-everyone's up."
"Other than Yu Tianheng, everyone from Heaven Dou Royal Academy has already left."
Dugu Yan took several deep breaths before the dizziness in her oxygen-starved head finally cleared.
"Why did they get up so early?"
Shen Fan wrapped an arm around Dugu Yan, one hand reaching toward a place it had longed for from a tricky angle.
"Isn't it already late?"
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy has started classes by this time."
Dugu Yan held down Shen Fan's wandering hand, her face flushed as she spoke.
"Meng Shenji's face must have gone dark when he heard that you and Ye Lingling had withdrawn from school, right?"
The two wrestled against each other for several seconds, but Shen Fan ultimately emerged victorious. Wearing a triumphant smile, he turned to serious business.
"More than just dark."
"They almost started fighting."
Dugu Yan closed her eyes, her voice slightly strange.
"I can understand that."
"Two core members