"Who is that?" Zi Yan finally snapped out of the temptation of the embryonic pills and belatedly asked.
Seeing her adorably clueless expression, Xiao Yan helplessly tapped her little head, then turned his gaze back toward the sky.
A burly figure stood high above, dressed in the robes of the Misty Cloud Sect. Facing that white-robed figure were four or five old men hovering in midair, watching him warily.
After shaking his head helplessly, Xiao Yan tugged with his hand. A cluster of embryonic pills within the refining flames stretched into a long string like candied hawthorns on a stick, each pill finally settling into a miniature Fire Lotus to be nurtured.
"Once these flames disperse, you can put the pills away."
Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan that instruction, then vanished from where he stood before her excited gaze.
A short while after Xiao Yan left, Zi Yan set aside her anticipation for the pills and looked up at him standing in the sky with space beneath his feet. Wrinkling her little nose, she gave a soft huff.
"I knew you must have reached Dou Zong."
By then, Xiao Yan had already arrived between the two opposing sides in the sky.
On Jia Nan Academy's side, besides Su Qian, whom he already knew well, there were two old men who looked remarkably alike. Their cultivation levels seemed to have barely crossed into Nine-Star Dou Zong.
Behind those two stood another two old men with even stronger cultivation levels. Though they still had not reached Dou Zun, both were at the peak of Dou Zong.
It seemed Jia Nan Academy's underlying strength was quite impressive.
"What brings you here?"
After nodding slightly to Su Qian, Xiao Yan cast a helpless glance at the burly old man beside him. Dressed in the