Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, who was kidnapped to another world

As for how Xiao Yan knew—

"Hey, after hearing all that I've said, what are your thoughts? Aren't you filled with admiration for the master?"

As Xiao Yan approached Soto City, he happened to run into Liu Erlong. He was then targeted because of his age and soul power level. Just now, Liu Erlong was telling him about Yu Xiaogang's "heroic deeds" and promoting Shrek Academy in the process.

It's as if they've already decided that Xiao Yan is just an ordinary commoner, someone who's never seen the world.

With a helpless sigh, Xiao Yan finally looked at Liu Erlong and asked, "The 'master' you mentioned, you mean Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, whose innate soul power is less than level one and whose martial soul is a pig, right?"

In that instant, Xiao Yan seemed to see towering flames of fury igniting behind Liu Erlong, her face contorted with rage that wanted to kill him.

"What a coincidence? You know him?"

In the end, Liu Erlong did not vent his anger, but forced an ugly smile and said fiercely.

“I know him. His disciple with innate full soul power was recently defeated by me,” Xiao Yan yawned nonchalantly, looking completely unconcerned. “If I had to say something, I’m quite grateful to him. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have had a month-long vacation.”

'And you won't even get a level nine Spirit Gathering Stone or a piece of grade five Gale Wood.'

The Galewood is the cultivation treasure of the wind-attribute soul master who won the top prize at the Divine Wind Academy. However, although it can accelerate the cultivation speed of wind-attribute soul masters, it is actually a "yang" attribute medicinal herb.

Although it sounds absurd, Xiao Yan did have the materials to refine a second Five Elements Yin Yang Pill, so he was quite lucky.

Even though this luck had nothing to do with Yu Xiaogang, Xiao Yan still thoughtfully recorded Yu Xiaogang's contribution, thinking that if there were any extra pills in the future, he might be able to give some to him.

"Fighting with his disciple..." Liu Erlong was stunned for a moment.

"You're a student at Shrek Academy?!"

The next moment, she exclaimed in surprise. She thought it was just good luck that she had encountered a genius who had not joined any academy as soon as she entered Soto City. She never expected that he was actually a student of Shrek Academy!

'Xiao Gang is too lenient with his students. He doesn't even expel students with such poor character and complete lack of respect for their teachers.'

Although she was pleasantly surprised, Liu Erlong's impression of Xiao Yan worsened. In her opinion, everything Xiao Yan had was thanks to Yu Xiaogang. Not only did Xiao Yan not show gratitude, but he also had the audacity to slander Yu Xiaogang behind his back. He was a student with extremely low moral character.

"I am a friend of your dean. Please take me to Shrek Academy."

Although he was extremely disgusted, Liu Erlong, considering himself an elder, naturally couldn't argue too much with a junior of such low character. He raised his head and spoke in a commanding tone.

'Another idiot...'

Xiao Yan was about to throw up. Everything about this Douluo Continent was great, and the people were great too, but why did he have to run into a bunch of... people who weren't very bright?

Although Xiao Yan didn't understand what this woman was thinking, he was certain of one thing: this woman, who was related to Yu Xiaogang by blood, and very closely at that, probably considered him a person who disrespected his teacher, and might even be thinking of finding a suitable reason to teach him a lesson later.

"Where is the proof?"

"We'll figure out what to do later," Xiao Yan said calmly, abandoning his thoughts and focusing on getting rid of his bad mood as quickly as possible.

“Proof…” Liu Erlong’s lips twitched. “What kind of proof do you want?”

“Prove whatever you think proves you know my dean,” Xiao Yan said, spreading his hands.

"Tsk..."

Liu Erlong clicked his tongue in amazement. She hadn't had any contact with Flanders for twenty years. How could she possibly have anything to prove that she knew Flanders? Yu Xiaogang's would be more like it.

"The golden trio... doesn't look like it'll work out."

After tentatively uttering a few words and finding that Xiao Yan's expression remained unchanged, Liu Erlong sighed helplessly. That's right, after all, it was something from more than twenty years ago. At that time, this kid wasn't even born yet, so naturally he wouldn't know about such outdated things.

"Ah, right!"

Xiao Yan watched as Liu Erlong stood there deep in thought. Suddenly, she shouted, as if she had thought of something. She reached for her storage soul tool with her right hand and took out a page of certificate.

"Dean of Blue Tyrant Advanced Soul Master Academy, on behalf of Blue Tyrant Academy, I propose an exchange meeting with your esteemed academy. Is that acceptable?"

On the bright red, stiff paper were several large, gold-embossed characters: "Founder of Blue Tyrant Academy," and in the lower right corner was the certification seal of the Heavenly Dou Royal Family.

It's a genuine certificate, but the problem is, it's just a decorative item, something some nobles keep in their homes to serve as a status symbol for their families. Anyway, there are so many advanced Soul Master academies in the world; nobody cares about one they've never even heard of. And there's another problem—

Ordinary people are unaware of the existence of such a thing.

"What is this? I've never heard of any Blue Tyrant Academy." Xiao Yan didn't even look at it and directly rejected it.

"Uh……"

Xiao Yan's reaction surprised Liu Erlong. After a while, she remembered that the certificate was actually useless. It could not prove anything and was something that circulated among nobles. Commoners would not know of its existence.

"...Never mind, you can go now, it's alright."

After realizing that she really couldn't prove that she knew Flander, Liu Erlong waved her hand helplessly, as if to tell her to leave.

'How could a Soul Saint like me lose track of a Soul Venerable?' Having made up her mind, Liu Erlong followed Xiao Yan at a distance with a sense of smugness.

Knowing that Liu Erlong was planning to follow him, Xiao Yan looked very unhappy, but dared not say anything. He pursed his lips and turned to leave.

Liu Erlong's actions were exactly as Xiao Yan had predicted. In fact, even the distance she maintained during the tracking, which was less than a hundred meters, was within Xiao Yan's calculations.

·

"Teacher Zhao, are you sure we're experiencing double gravity right now?"

On the large playground of Shrek Academy, Oscar gritted his teeth and asked the question with some difficulty.

"Otherwise what?" Zhao Wuji, who was lounging in a deck chair on the playground, replied casually, "Didn't you notice that, apart from you, no one else seemed to be affected much?"

Indeed, on this playground covered with twice the gravity, everyone except Oscar was able to move around naturally without much impact, except for Oscar, who was exhausted.

“Fatty and Zhu Zhuqing both have beast spirits, so it’s normal that their physiques are better than mine,” Oscar rolled his eyes and started jogging after Yu Xiaogang’s gaze fell on him from the side of the playground. “But Ning Rongrong is also a support-type spirit master, right? And her spirit power is lower than mine, right? Why can she exercise normally?”

As the only female Soul Master among the new Shrek Academy students, Ning Rongrong's level was only level 27. Oscar simply did not believe that her physical fitness could be better than his!

“I thought you would have noticed a few days ago,” Zhao Wuji rolled his eyes and casually grabbed a fan to cover his face. “A few days ago, when the gravity was still 1.5 times, everyone was waiting for you to get used to it… Did you really not notice anything at all?”

"?" Oscar's eyes widened in disbelief.

"But I am a Soul Master!"

“But Ning Rongrong is the young lady of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School,” Zhao Wuji waved his hand, signaling Oscar to stay away and not get in the way. “The things she ate when she was a child are things you could never afford in your entire life.”

This wasn't Zhao Wuji exaggerating. He himself was a commoner Soul Master, so he naturally knew how destitute a commoner Soul Master would end up if he refused to bow down to the nobles.

"And honestly, if it weren't for the medicinal herbs provided by Yan Xiao, you would have collapsed even at 1.5 times the gravity, let alone twice the gravity." Zhao Wuji added casually after Oscar ran away.

"Oh, is this physical training?"

As Oscar continued running, somewhat unwilling to give up, a very familiar voice drifted over from afar—

"Yan Xiao, you're back? Didn't you say you were going on a month-long vacation?"

The first to react was Ning Rongrong, who was standing at the edge of the playground talking to Zhu Zhuqing. She gave Xiao Yan, who looked a bit travel-worn, a big smile, and then, together with Zhu Zhuqing, moved closer to Xiao Yan and asked him a question with some curiosity.

"The matter was resolved ahead of schedule, so I came back first. The month-long vacation I booked was just in case," Xiao Yan shrugged.

"Boss Yan, can you teach us the technique for detonating soul power that you mentioned last time?" Ma Hongjun, who had been chatting with Dai Mubai, immediately approached Xiao Yan and asked in a cheeky manner.

"Of course, no problem," Xiao Yan shrugged. "I've also been working through some difficult points during this time..."

"Am I physically fit enough now?" Oscar asked nervously as he joined in.

"It's not a big problem. I just wanted you guys to get a little rain on you," Xiao Yan said with a smile. "It's just a small technique for circulating soul power. How could it possibly be related to physical fitness?"

Seeing Xiao Yan become the center of attention among the students as soon as he returned, Yu Xiaogang's face darkened. It was because of Xiao Yan that Tang San had been in a coma for more than ten days with Tang Hao's "help". Not long ago, after the scorching soul power surrounding Tang San's spine disappeared, Tang San finally woke up from his coma.

Most importantly, even though he had clearly and subtly told Tang Hao that Tang San's injury was caused by Yan Xiao, Tang Hao, who had lost an arm, didn't react at all, as if he had never heard of Yan Xiao before. If he hadn't known that Zhao Wuji had recently been taught a lesson by Tang Hao, Yu Xiaogang might have actually believed that Tang Hao didn't know who Yan Xiao was.

On the other side, Tang San's expression turned somewhat grim upon seeing Xiao Yan return. Even now, he still remembered the burning soul power on his spine, a soul power that seemed capable of taking his life at any moment. Yet, he was completely powerless against Xiao Yan.

'Let me feign weakness first... wait until I find the materials to craft Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles, Peacock Feathers, and Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus...'

Forcibly suppressing his anger and pinning his hopes for revenge on the Tang Clan's strongest hidden weapons, Tang San awkwardly moved closer to Xiao Yan.

"Um... Rock Owl, I'm sorry, I even shot you in the back after Teacher Zhao canceled his soul skill last time," Tang San said with an awkward smile. "At the time, I just didn't realize it and thought I had broken through my limit and could move normally under Teacher Zhao's enhanced gravity..."

Anyone who sees the apologetic smile on that simple farm boy's face would forgive Tang San, right?

"Oh, it's nothing. I acted impulsively at the time and probably gave you quite a fright, right?"

Sure enough, under Tang San's "simple" smile, Xiao Yan also smiled apologetically. In an instant, the atmosphere between the two was just like when they first entered school and met, extremely harmonious.

'Do whatever you want, one glare and you're dead.'

Xiao Yan couldn't believe that Tang San wouldn't have realized that Zhao Wuji had withdrawn his soul power, but he didn't care at all. While laughing and joking, he checked the strength of the fighting spirit left in Tang San's meridians, afraid that he might accidentally make Tang San explode in front of him.

"Since Tang San, you and Xiao Wu are both here, I'll explain the technique for detonating soul power again," Xiao Yan said with a smile, changing the subject. "I explained it rather roughly just now, and they probably didn't understand... Old Dai, are you really not going to come and listen?"

As she spoke, she called out to Dai Mubai, who was standing bored in the distance.

"No, it would be a waste of time to learn, and I have other things to do, Teacher Zhao, so I'll head out now!"

As early as the beginning of Xiao Yan's first class, Zhao Wuji had already withdrawn his soul skill and moved closer to a few students. After hearing Dai Mubai's words, he simply waved his hand casually.

The teachers at Shrek Academy all knew about Dai Mubai's situation and that he had given up the struggle for the throne, preparing to face death peacefully in two years. Naturally, they wouldn't ask too much of him.

However, the tacit understanding between Dai Mubai and the Shrek Academy teachers enraged Yu Xiaogang, who had been eagerly anticipating the Netherworld White Tiger and hoping that his disciple could command it.

"you……"

"Xiao Gang!"

However, before Yu Xiaogang could even circulate his level 29 soul power to spread his words throughout the entire academy and the entire playground, a voice that sent chills down Yu Xiaogang's spine rang out.

Chapter 86 The Coward

Yu Xiaogang was very familiar with this voice; after all, if it weren't for an "accident," the owner of this voice would have become his wife.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Xiaogang turned around abruptly and ran towards the village.

"Sanpao, stop her!"

After summoning his martial spirit, Yu Xiaogang left behind a chubby creature that resembled a pig but wasn't quite one, measuring 1.5 meters in length. He then gave the order for it to block Liu Erlong before fleeing without looking back.

"Xiao Gang..."

Liu Erlong stood there, ignoring Luo Sanpao who had come running up to her, and just stared blankly at Yu Xiaogang as he fled.

All the students' eyes were drawn to Yu Xiaogang because of his initial angry roar, but they soon saw Yu Xiaogang frantically summon his martial soul, which he then used to block the way for a still-attractive and beautiful woman.

"What's going on, Tang San? Do you know anything?"

Not understanding what had happened, Ma Hongjun turned to Tang San first. In his opinion, Tang San was definitely the only one who knew why the arrogant and incompetent Yu Xiaogang had run away.

“I’m not quite sure either,” Tang San shook his head. “My teacher never told me about his past.”

That's what they say, but after noticing Luo Sanpao's closeness to Liu Erlong and the fact that Liu Erlong didn't attack Luo Sanpao, Tang San roughly guessed that this beautiful woman had a pretty good relationship with his teacher.