"We didn't come to look around. We were invited by the First Elder to join the Immortal Academy and study here," Lin Fan explained.
"Do you have proof?"
For a moment, Lin Fan and Yue Chan fell silent. After dumping them halfway here, that old man had only told them where the Immortal Academy was. He had given them no token whatsoever.
"Tell the First Elder to come over. He'll know as soon as he sees us," Lin Fan said after a moment's hesitation.
"Ridiculous. What sort of person do you think our academy's First Elder is? His cultivation rivals the workings of creation, and he spends each day practicing supreme arts. Can you see him just because you wish to?"
"Leave at once, or don't blame me for being ruthless."
The voice from within the mountain gate dripped with contempt and arrogance.
"Heh, I'd like to see just how ruthless you can be."
Lin Fan was displeased. Being dumped halfway here by that damned old man was bad enough, but now that he had reached his destination, even a gatekeeper was barring his way.
"Whoosh!"
As his words fell, a man emerged from the mountain gate, his crimson hair like fire, his bearing striking and heroic.
One glance was enough to tell that he was no fish destined to remain in a little pond. He stood out from the crowd, and the strand of immortal qi winding around his body made his extraordinary nature all the clearer.
Of course, he still amounted to little in Lin Fan's eyes, but using someone like him to guard the gate was quite a "luxury."
"Oh? These two young ladies are rather lovely. You may enter the Immortal Academy, so long as you get nice and close to me."
The red-haired man chuckled,