He turned to Sun Buyu beside him and said slowly, "Go ahead and deal with the academy's affairs. I won't stay here and trouble you."
With that, Zhao Tian lingered no longer. He turned and walked unhurriedly toward the nearby Spirit Hall Advanced Soul Master Academy.
Seeing this, Mo Yuan immediately raised a hand to signal everyone to follow. The Sun Never Sets Team members withdrew their curious gazes and fell in behind Zhao Tian and Mo Yuan. In orderly formation, they gradually left the noisy gates of Heaven Dou Royal Academy behind.
They walked in silence. After quite some distance, Tie Zhan finally could no longer contain his curiosity and broke the silence first. He sidled up to Lin Chen, looking as though he had wanted more, his tone carrying a hint of disappointment and confusion.
"Captain, that big show you were being so mysterious about earlier... was that it?"
Tie Zhan scratched his head, utterly baffled.
"Just Shrek getting into an argument with the Heaven Dou students and being cowed by a senior's pressure? There wasn't really anything all that exciting about it. Honestly, it wasn't much of a show."
After watching the whole thing, all he had seen was an ordinary clash between students, with the minor addition of Flender being forced to apologize under a Soul Douluo's pressure. For Tie Zhan, who had eagerly anticipated a grand spectacle, it was quite a letdown and fell well short of his expectations.
Seeing his disappointed, impatient expression, Lin Chen's lips curved into a faint, easy smile. He spoke leisurely, his tone laden with meaning:
"What's the rush? A truly good show is never afraid of arriving late. That was only the warm-up. The main event is still to come."
The conflict they had just witnessed was merely a