"Knock, knock, knock..."
After arriving outside the dean's office, Zhang Lexuan raised her hand and knocked. Before long, a steady yet gentle voice came from inside.
"Come in."
Ye Qing pushed the door open and entered, with Zhang Lexuan close behind. They also let go of each other's hands.
What greeted his eyes was a woman with gray-streaked hair but few wrinkles on her face. Instead, she looked as mature and elegant as a beautiful woman in her thirties. At that moment, her head was slightly lowered as she wrote something on the documents before her.
Hearing the door open, she raised her head and looked at Ye Qing and Zhang Lexuan.
Ye Qing was very familiar with this face, too. She was none other than Yan Shaozhe's wife, Cai Mei'er, one of the Sea God Pavilion Elders.
"Our Little Monster has finally entered the Inner Court. You certainly kept us old folks waiting." Cai Mei'er smiled as soon as she looked up and saw Ye Qing. "I've been itching to meet the Little Monster who could absorb a hundred-thousand-year ring as his fifth Soul Ring."
"Dean Cai." Ye Qing and Zhang Lexuan greeted Cai Mei'er together, then sat down in the chairs in front of her desk.
"Training in the Inner Court is too intense. The Outer Court is more relaxed, and that also helped me assimilate the power of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, so I stayed in the Outer Court for another year," Ye Qing replied with a smile.
Cai Mei'er's eyes were full of appreciation as she looked at Ye Qing. She said gently, "There actually isn't much difference between the Inner Court and Outer Court for you. As long as you understand which environment benefits your cultivation more, that's enough."
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