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

"I didn't expect there to be so many people even though I came late on purpose..."

Xiao Yan couldn't help but sigh. When they saw thousands of people queuing outside the Great Soul Arena last night, they all decided to come out later. But they didn't expect that even though it was so late, there were still so many people.

"Although it's a bit immoral..." Looking at the sea of ​​people, Ma Hongjun said in a low voice, "Luckily, the teacher was locked up, otherwise I can't even imagine how embarrassing it would have been..."

Hearing Ma Hongjun's words, everyone agreed. Although they were all wearing casual clothes and didn't look like a team from the same academy, it was still much better than the dingy green uniforms that Flander had prepared.

After their reflections, the group moved forward into the sea of ​​people.

Today, many academies have come to participate in the Soul Master Competition. Teams from all thirty academies have attracted the attention of most people. The students of Shrek Academy, dressed in their own clothes and not at all like a team from the same academy, quietly slipped into the crowd and squeezed towards their academy's position.

"Finally in..."

Upon arriving at the rest area provided for the participating students at the main arena, Ma Hongjun collapsed into his seat. As a fat man, he had been pushed out of the queue several times. If it weren't for his soul power, he might have really gotten "lost".

"It feels so good to be alive..."

Oscar was also exhausted. As a male support-type Soul Master, he didn't have Xiao Yan's protection. Oscar was squeezed in all the way. Luckily, Tyrone helped him before he entered the door, otherwise he would have missed the day because he bumped into the door frame and injured his brain.

The Shrek Academy group wasn't the first to enter, but they were probably the first to be so "arrogant" after entering. Therefore, even though they chose a rather secluded spot, they still attracted the attention of a large number of people in the rest area, among whom the Blazing Fire Academy group had the most people.

"...Xiao Yan?"

"Xiao Yan?"

The somewhat familiar pronunciation attracted the attention of the Shrek Academy students, except for Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing. When they saw a group of people wearing gold and red school uniforms walking towards them, the students suddenly stood up.

"What do you want to do?!" Tai Long shouted at Tang San's signal.

"He's a student at your academy? He doesn't seem very bright." Glancing at Tai Long, Huo Wushuang smiled and walked to Xiao Yan's side, inviting her classmate to sit down.

"Why aren't you all wearing school uniforms?" Huo Yun blinked, looking at the Shrek Academy students with some curiosity. "It can't be because they don't look good, can it?"

Huo Yun, who was laughing heartily, had no idea that what he casually said was the truth.

"Huh? Your classmate is also a fire-attribute soul master? What is a martial soul? I feel that his fire attribute is much stronger than mine."

Huo Yu looked at Ma Hongjun with some strangeness. Besides the intensity of the fire attribute, he also felt that this little fat boy's martial soul level... seemed to be higher than his own?

The laughter and chatter of the Blazing Fire Academy students made the seven Shrek Academy students standing there realize one thing—

The "Xiao Yan" they were referring to seemed to be Yan Xiao, the captain of Shrek Academy who was covering his face and seemed afraid to look at them!

"Cough cough!"

The students' gazes were so intense that Xiao Yan had to admit he couldn't avoid them any longer. So, he straightened up and coughed twice.

"Let me reintroduce myself. My name is... Xiao Yan."

Xiao Yan's actions and words stunned Huo Wushuang and the others. After exchanging glances, they realized that they might have... tricked Xiao Yan.

For a moment, the students of Blazing Fire Academy, led by Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, obediently lowered their heads, not daring to look at Xiao Yan.

"you……"

"Xiao Yan? You really came!"

The Shenfeng Academy team, who had just entered the players' rest area from outside, noticed this place. Mainly, their captain, Feng Xiaotian, scanned the surroundings after entering, trying to find the location of the Blazing Fire Academy. As a coincidence, he saw Xiao Yan and shouted out his words, which interrupted Tang San's speech.

"Yo, yo! Feng Xiaotian, long time no see!"

Under the strange gazes of a group of people, Xiao Yan awkwardly raised his hand and greeted the captain of Shenfeng Academy.

"Xiao Yan?"

This response attracted the attention of the girls from Tianshui College who had just entered.

"Xiao Yan?"

Yu Tianxin, the captain of Thunder Academy who was following behind Tianshui Academy, peeked out and looked in the direction of Shrek Academy.

"Xiao..."

The last team to enter the rest area was the Elephant Armor Academy team. Upon seeing Xiao Yan, Hu Yanli, remembering his father's words, instinctively wanted to walk over.

However, upon discovering that all the seats around Xiao Yan were occupied and that the air pressure in the area seemed somewhat off, Hu Yanli wisely took a few steps back and walked to the other side.

Chapter 107 Seeing Through the True Name

"So, it turns out that we were the only ones who never knew your real name, Boss Xiao!"

Watching Hu Yanli slink away in disgrace, Oscar said with a resentful look, "Even that big guy knows your real name, Boss Xiao!"

It has to be said that Oscar has an exceptional talent for portraying a wronged woman. After saying just one line, everyone around him felt goosebumps rise on their skin.

"I didn't mean to hide it," Xiao Yan rolled his eyes in annoyance, disgusted by Oscar's performance. "You all know what the name Xiao Yan represented a few years ago."

Before Xiao Yan went to the Spirit Hall to prove his innocence and that he was not a Fallen One, his name was basically hated by everyone on the continent.

If it weren't for the fact that they had saved their lives and confirmed that Xiao Yan's soul power was extremely pure, unlike the mixed and impure soul power of the Fallen Ones, the students of Blazing Fire Academy wouldn't have been so indifferent when they learned Xiao Yan's real name.

“But that person isn’t you…” Ma Hongjun muttered to himself.

"Fatty, why don't you guess why 'Xiao Yan's' crimes were proven to be nonexistent a year ago, and why that news came from outside Tian Dou City?" Ning Rongrong asked helplessly.

"Huh? That person has already been proven innocent?" Ma Hongjun blinked his small eyes. "Wait, is Boss Xiao the same as Xiao Yan?!"

Ma Hongjun, who had never paid attention to current events, whether in Soto City in the past or in Tiandou City now, finally realized what was happening.

"What do you think?" Oscar patted Ma Hongjun on the shoulder, then looked at Xiao Yan with some resentment. "If none of us knew, that would be one thing... but Zhu Qing and Rong Rong clearly know your real name, Xiao Yan. Are you really so fickle?"

“No, actually, they only found out recently,” Xiao Yan shrugged. “Given my previous reputation… even if I have a clear conscience, I wouldn’t dare to reveal my name.”

“Indeed, if we hadn’t met Xiao Yan’s brother on the way, we wouldn’t have known Xiao Yan’s real name,” Huo Wushuang complained. “At first, we were just passersby, but Xiao Yan didn’t dare to let us know his real name. He seems to be really cautious.”

elder brother?

Upon hearing this name, Ning Rongrong subconsciously looked at Xiao Yan, as she had never heard Xiao Yan mention this person before.

"So, Xiao Yan, why were you jointly wanted by the Star Luo Empire and the Spirit Hall before?"

Seeing that Xiao Yan had once again shifted the topic to his past "infamy," Tang San, who was a little further away, asked casually. Of course, he knew that Xiao Yan had been proven innocent, but he was very happy to use this topic to annoy Xiao Yan.

"How should I put it..."

Xiao Yan didn't bother with Tang San's little schemes. However, his friends around him all showed interest in the matter, but they seemed worried that it was a painful memory for Xiao Yan. So even though they all seemed very interested, none of them agreed with Tang San.

Since everyone cares about it, Xiao Yan doesn't mind slightly altering his past and then telling the story.

"Everyone knows about the wolf bandit incident on the border between the Barak Kingdom and the Star Luo Empire a few years ago, right?"

Even Ma Hongjun, who doesn't follow current events at all, knew about this shocking incident that reverberated throughout the continent. Of course, this was mainly because Flanders often used this incident to frighten him during that period.

“Several of my uncles participated in the campaign against the wolf bandits,” Xiao Yan said with a helpless smile. “They were just ordinary Great Soul Masters and Soul Grandmasters, yet they participated in that campaign against the wolf bandits, and even became the only victims in the campaign due to the machinations of a villain…”

"Wait, Xiao Yan, your uncle is only a Great Soul Master and Soul Grandmaster?!" Huo Wushuang exclaimed in surprise. "But Mr. Xiao Ding is a Soul Douluo, right?"

The gap between a Soul Master and a Soul Grandmaster is enormous. Even disregarding Xiao Yan's Soul Venerable level at the age of ten, Huo Wushuang would find it hard to believe that there would be a Great Soul Master or Soul Grandmaster among Xiao Yan's relatives of the generation older than him.

"Uncle Zhang San, Uncle Wang Cheng and I are not related by blood." Mentioning this, Xiao Yan's helpless expression deepened.

He was overly cautious back then. Even knowing that a Soul Emperor was roughly equivalent to a Great Dou Master, he still didn't act recklessly, fearing that there were a series of levels above the regular Title Douluo, and that accidentally revealing his knowledge would implicate Zhang San and Wang Cheng. Therefore, he dared not teach them anything like cultivation techniques. As a result, this very caution led to their deaths...

"After learning of their deaths, I spent some time finding the villains who did it, and then... I avenged them in my own way."

"Your own way?"

"Yes, one night, when everyone was asleep, I went to their door and killed them all."

Amidst the puzzled looks of the crowd, Xiao Yan pursed his lips and changed his plan from a direct assault to kill them all with a single soul strike to an assassination.

Everyone fell silent. An eight-year-old child, at most level 20 or even just a dozen, assassinated a "villain" who could kill the Soul Sect. Even just thinking about it, they could feel the difficulty involved.

"If you killed them all..." After a brief silence, Tang San asked with some doubt, "Why did news later spread that you killed and massacred civilians and became a Fallen One?"

“Because the real culprit is still at large…” Xiao Yan shrugged casually, temporarily putting aside his low spirits. “The city lord of the city I was in at the time was the real mastermind. By the time I realized it, it was too late.”

"He also used the excuse that an eight-year-old child could not possibly kill a Soul Master to forcibly pin the title of Fallen One on me."

City Lord of the Star Luo Empire.

These two words silenced everyone present even more. The combination of these two words seemed to imply that Xiao Yan would never be able to take revenge. After all, even if Xiao Yan became a Title Douluo, he could not possibly withstand the million-strong army of the Star Luo Empire, and killing the city lord of the Star Luo Empire was essentially a direct declaration of war against the Star Luo Empire...

"Xiao Yan, it's been a long time."

In the silence, a clear voice rang out. Looking in the direction of the voice, they saw a group of Soul Masters from the academy dressed in moon-white Soul Master robes, led by Lin Dong.

"long time no see!"

Upon seeing Lin Dong, Xiao Yan broke into a bright smile. "How did things go with the spirit rings?"

Seeing Xiao Yan's enthusiastic performance, and then looking at the young man leading the Canghui Academy team, the members of the Blazing Fire Academy, Divine Wind Academy, Heavenly Water Academy, and Thunder Academy, who were unaware of Lin Dong's strength, were all filled with astonishment.

Among the many Soul Master academies, Canghui Academy is indeed ranked relatively high, but it doesn't seem like the kind of academy that can produce students comparable to Xiao Yan.

'So, is this person a friend Xiao Yan met during his training?' The team leaders from each academy muttered to themselves.

Upon hearing the second half of Xiao Yan's sentence, Lin Dong's face fell immediately. He stopped paying attention to the people around Xiao Yan and sighed helplessly, "Soul rings are not easy to find. Even after searching through all the available books, I still can't find a suitable one."

"I guess we'll have to go check out the Holy Temple in Wuhun City."

Lin Dong's face showed a slight bitterness. Although he had prepared himself from the beginning that it would take a long time to find this sixth soul ring, he was still somewhat distressed that he had not found even a trace of it after more than a year.

"The Spirit City Temple?" Ning Rongrong's expression shifted slightly. She wasn't very clear about the relationship between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Spirit Hall, but she knew that the two would never stand on the same side. "I wonder what kind of spirit beast you're looking for, Lin Dong? Perhaps the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's collection of books can help you."

Even if it's just about maintaining a good relationship between Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, and preventing Lin Dong from being dragged into the Spirit Hall's war machine as much as possible, Ning Rongrong cannot allow Lin Dong to get involved with the Spirit Hall.

"Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School..."

Upon hearing this term, Lin Dong looked at Ning Rongrong, but mainly observed the distance between Ning Rongrong and Xiao Yan.

"If possible, I would appreciate it if you could introduce me to someone," Lin Dong said solemnly, clasping his hands in a fist salute.

He had heard about the relationship between the Spirit Hall and the sects of the world. Since Xiao Yan stood on the side of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Lin Dong naturally could not stand on the opposite side of Xiao Yan. In any case, on this continent, the only close friend he cared about was Xiao Yan.

"Of course!" Ning Rongrong breathed a sigh of relief and said confidently.

Once the Grand Arena was full and all the academies had arrived, the tournament staff quickly went to the rest area and organized the students from each academy to enter the arena.

Unfortunately, Shrek Academy was last in line. After the students from the other academies had entered, the group was guided by the staff to the entrance.

Although I was the last to enter the venue, I was still awestruck by what I saw the moment everyone else entered—

Surrounding the huge and open square were countless spectators shouting and cheering. In front of the central area was a grand stage with a gold background, and behind the grand stage was the renovated VIP area.

The spacious venue has a diameter of over 150 meters. The colleges that entered earlier had already lined up in neat formations in the center of the venue. Each college was introduced by a master of ceremonies on the stage as they entered.