Several days passed.
The Inner Academy selection trials continued like a raging fire, though they lacked the fervor of the first day. After witnessing those heaven-reaching, earth-shaking feats, even battles between Da Dou Shi now seemed as dull as children play-fighting.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, the central figures in all the rumors, had vanished after that day. No one knew where they had gone.
Although the Inner Academy selection trials offered five places,
Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er had already secured two without even showing up. After all, who would dare not concede upon facing either of them in the arena? Thus, in a rather bizarre turn of events, they continued their "winning streaks" despite missing every subsequent match.
They went all the way through to claim their places.
"That jerk—"
Xiao Yu looked indignant. Ever since coming to the academy, he had been glued to Xun'er and had not even thought to visit her, his older cousin.
"Tsk, I told you to take the initiative, but you wouldn't—" Xiao Ning picked his nose as he lounged on a tree branch, his gaze fixed on the fierce match in the arena.
"How else am I supposed to become his brother-in-law? How—Ow!"
Xiao Ning grimaced. "Sorry, sis! I was only joking."
"You think I don't want to?" Xiao Yu huffed softly, then said wistfully, "My cultivation is too weak. I can't keep up with him like Xiao Yi Xian and Queen Medusa can, and I don't have Xun'er's grace or beauty."
"What about your legs?" Xiao Ning glanced at his sister's long legs. "Besides, you're Little Yanzi's older cousin. Sure, the blood relation is so distant it's practically beyond ten degrees of kinship, but—those are all advantages! How could an ordinary person ever get anywhere near him?"
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