Xiao Fan's days at the academy had been simple lately. Every morning, he went to the Dou Technique Pavilion to hone his Dou Techniques, and every afternoon, he holed up in the pill-refining room to practice his alchemy. Fourth-grade pills were now more or less no trouble for him, and he was preparing to tackle fifth-grade pills next.
The only thing that made Xiao Fan unhappy was Bai Shan.
Every so often, Bai Shan would send a student or two to try to humiliate him in the name of a "challenge." Xiao Fan had no intention of paying them any attention, but they kept coming over to pester him. With the academy's rules in place, there were many places where he could not teach them a lesson.
And here they came again.
Xiao Fan looked at the two students blocking his path. One was a seven-star Dou Shi, and the other was a nine-star Dou Shi. Their strength placed them among the better students in the Outer Academy, but in front of Xiao Fan, they were nowhere near enough.
"Tell me, do you even know how strong I am? Is that why you keep pestering me every day?" Xiao Fan stared at the two before him and spoke flatly. "I didn't want to bother with you, but you just had to provoke me."
The issue with his memories back in his room had already left Xiao Fan somewhat irritable. He had finally calmed the agitation in his heart by immersing himself in cultivation, yet these people kept provoking him, wearing his patience thin.
So this time, rather than walking around them, Xiao Fan stood before them and questioned them.
Hearing Xiao Fan's words, the two exchanged a glance. In their eyes, with their strength approaching that of a Da Dou