While the two were talking, Yue Yao arrived where they were.
"Senior Lin Yan." Yue Yao nodded to Lin Yan, then obediently stood beside Xiao Fan.
Xiao Fan glanced around. Having all three of them talking in the corridor was hardly ideal, so he invited the other two inside to sit.
"Oh, so you wouldn't let me through the door after all that talking, but the moment she arrives, you drag me inside. Should I take the hint and leave?" Lin Yan looked at them with a teasing expression.
Xiao Fan rolled his eyes at him, ignored him, and sat down in a chair.
Finding no fun in that, Lin Yan left Xiao Fan's room with a parting remark. "I'm going back to clear out my Fire Poison."
Xiao Fan's gaze fell on Yue Yao, and he asked in surprise, "You broke through to Da Dou Shi?"
"Hm?" Yue Yao looked slightly puzzled and surprised. "I haven't even told you yet. How could you tell?"
"I guessed." Xiao Fan smiled at Yue Yao. "Congratulations."
"What's there to congratulate me for?" Yue Yao pouted, looking at Xiao Fan with a hint of resentment as she muttered to herself, "If Dou Shi weren't barred from the lower floors, I wouldn't have bothered breaking through..."
"What's this...?"
Xiao Fan pointed at the badge pinned to Yue Yao's clothes and asked curiously.
The badge pinned to Yue Yao's clothes had a blue-green background, with a black ruler at its center. A spear like a roaming dragon lay across the ruler's surface, while a pair of winglike patterns curved around its sides.
At the mention of the badge, Yue Yao's face lit up.
"This is our Pan Gate badge." Yue Yao took the badge off her clothes and handed it to Xiao Fan with a