Over the next few hours, Qin Qi dragged Yu Tianheng through some actual combat training.
Once they were tired of fighting, the two sat on a stone table beside the Martial Arts Arena, eating and chatting.
"Cousin, I've made several friends at Heaven Dou Academy lately."
"One of them is called Dugu Yan. She's fiery, but pretty kind."
"There are two brothers called Shi Mo and Shi Mo. They don't talk much, but they're strong, and they really step up when something happens."
"There's also a girl called Ye Lingling. Her martial soul is the top-tier Nine Heart Begonia, but she's a bit hard to deal with."
"I don't know if it's because we haven't known each other long enough, but whenever I talk to her, she barely responds."
Before turning twelve, Yu Tianheng had grown up entirely within the clan and hardly ever ventured outside.
Attending Heaven Dou Academy this time could be considered his first proper contact with the outside world.
"Ye Lingling."
Hearing Ye Lingling's name immediately reminded Qin Qi of that unusual martial soul, the Nine Heart Begonia.
The Nine Heart Begonia has incredibly powerful self-healing abilities. The soul skills of all nine soul rings provide the same perfect healing.
Its strangest feature is that only two Nine Heart Begonia wielders can exist at once.
Qin Qi wasn't particularly interested in its healing abilities. With the Blue Silver Emperor's life origin, his own regenerative abilities were already powerful.
But he was very interested in the Nine Heart Begonia's trait of allowing only two wielders to exist at any one time.
And there's Dugu Yan. Her grandfather is Dugu Bo, the man people call Douluo's angel investor.
Qin Qi considered whether he should take his Immortal Herb redemption code and exchange it for some immortal herbs too.