"Young Master Su, please wait a moment while I go and inform him." After saying that, Tang Wan walked straight towards the academy gate.

Before long, Tang Wan came out, holding two tokens in her hand. She handed them to Su Yang and Lin Anlan and said, "Let's go, the guards have agreed."

Upon successfully entering the academy, the first thing you see is a two-story building with a central doorway and connecting corridors on both sides, leading to the back. Many people dressed in light blue clothes are going in and out through the doors on both sides.

"This building is where our dean and all the masters rest and handle affairs. Let's not go in. The back is our academy's main training ground. Let's go take a look at the back."

"It should be the college office," Su Yang thought to himself.

Passing through the doorway, we arrived at the back area, which was a huge square pool. In the center of the pool was a circular arena. Along the edge of the pool, there were rows of tiered seats, where a few people sat sparsely, watching the two students fighting in the circular arena.

"This is our elemental power training ground. They are practicing one-on-one now, like a martial arts competition. Since we are students, we have set up a pool to make it easier for us to use our water elemental energy. Let's go to the back and take a look. That's where we usually study theory."

Just as the group walked towards the connecting corridor, the winner was decided in the arena. A man looked around at the students watching with great pride, and the students cheered. But his gaze quickly fell on Tang Wan, who was leading Su Yang towards the corridor. He hurriedly called out, "Wan'er!"

But before he could finish speaking, Tang Wan disappeared around the corner with Su Yang and Lin Anlan. He hurriedly chased after them, and someone in the stands immediately asked, "Brother Wan! Where are you going?" The person next to him explained, "Is that even a question? You must have seen Junior Sister Wan'er."

Wan Zixiu quickly arrived at the connecting corridor, but Tang Wan was nowhere to be seen. He could only call out and search for her. At this time, Tang Wan had led Su Yang and the other man through several gardens and arrived near a house located by a stream. Tang Wan pointed to the house and said, "This is the lecture hall where I usually study theory. There are more than a dozen similar houses behind here."

Su Yang moved closer and soon heard a clear reading voice. It was the students in the lecture hall reciting some kind of formula, similar to the formation principle of elemental power. After hearing the reading, Su Yang couldn't help but smile. This scene made him nostalgic for his childhood, when he also sat in the classroom reading textbooks, all the way to university.

Feeling they had seen enough of the sights, Su Yang wasn't particularly interested in the library and treasure vault Tang Wan had mentioned. Having already grasped the basics of Qingfeng Academy—which was essentially like a university—he suggested they head back. The three of them retraced their steps, and as they passed through a garden, they encountered Wan Zixiu, who had been searching for them.

"Wan'er, so you're here." Wan Zixiu was overjoyed.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Wan." Tang Wan frowned slightly, but still bowed.

"Wan'er, I've learned the move Master taught me last time. I just beat that kid surnamed Liu to a pulp in the training ground, hahaha." After laughing, he asked, "Hey, Wan'er, are these two new junior brothers and sisters?"

"They are my friends, visiting the college."

"Oh? Since this young master is Wan'er's friend, may I ask what level of elemental power he possesses? Would you be willing to spar with me?"

"Senior Brother Wan, this is inappropriate. They are just here to visit. Besides, it's not the academy's style to ask for a sparring match on our first meeting." Tang Wan was a little annoyed. Wan Zixiu was always like this, treating all the men around him with hostility, except for her own brother.

“Hey, Wan’er, as elementalists, we should spar with others more often to hone our skills. What do you think, my friend?” Wan Zixiu didn’t think so; he had his own ideas.

"Sigh, it still happened, the typical villain from the novel..." Su Yang just wanted to leave immediately and not get entangled with this kind of person who always wanted to spar.

Seeing that Su Yang remained silent, Wan Zixiu assumed he was being disrespectful and immediately raised his voice: "Brother, are you perhaps looking down on me?"

Seeing this, Lin Anlan came to Tang Wan's side and asked softly, "Is there something wrong with this person?"

“That’s just how he is…” Tang Wan felt ashamed and replied quietly.

"So, between him and your brother Tang Tianlei, who's more capable?"

"my brother."

Lin Anlan understood immediately and retorted sarcastically, "A contest? You're not qualified yet. Beat Tang Tianlei first before you come."

"You!" Wan Zixiu was furious. "I won't stoop to your level, you're just a woman!"

He then pointed at Su Yang: "You! If you don't settle things with me today, I will not let you leave this Fengbo Academy! Come with me to the training ground!"

After saying that, he turned and left, heading angrily towards the martial arts arena. Su Yang watched his departing figure, exchanged a glance with Lin Anlan, shrugged helplessly, and then said to Tang Wan, "Miss Tang, let's go back directly."

"Yeah, let's just go. I'm not in the mood to shop around anymore," Lin Anlan agreed.

"I'm truly sorry, but that's just the kind of person my senior brother is, and there's nothing I can do about it..."

The three returned along the same route, passing the martial arts arena without even glancing at Wan Zixiu, and walked straight away. Wan Zixiu, watching them leave without even a proper look, became enraged and wildly unleashed elemental power, causing chaos in the arena. However, a master quickly arrived and stopped Wan Zixiu's actions.

As the group passed through the doorway and were about to leave, they saw many people escorting a woman in red. Tang Wan looked closely and realized that these people looked familiar; weren't they the academy's dean and the deans of various colleges? Tang Wan immediately pulled the two of them back and signaled them to stop.

"What's wrong?" Lin Anlan also saw the group of people and asked in confusion, "Who are those people?"

“They are the dean of the academy and the deans of various colleges, but we don’t know who the woman in red leading them is. She might be a big shot from the capital, Huaijing. Let’s wait until they leave before we talk about it.” Tang Wan shook her head, indicating that she didn’t know the situation either.

"Such a grand entourage, they must be some important figures, perhaps from the education sector?" Su Yang thought to himself, and stood aside waiting for them to leave.

But fate had other plans. Just as the woman in red was about to step out of the mansion, she stopped, closed her eyes as if sensing something. The surrounding deans, unsure of what was happening, all stopped and waited. After a moment, seeing the woman in red open her eyes, the dean of the academy mustered his courage and asked, "Commander Qin, what's wrong?"

The woman didn't answer, but turned around and stared straight at where Su Yang was. The deans all turned their heads, but only saw a patch of green. It turned out that there was a patch of green plants in front of where Su Yang and the others were standing, which blocked the deans' view. However, these green plants could not block Qin Xiyun's detection.

Just moments ago, when Qin Xiyun, known as the Commander, was about to leave, Wan Zixiu was casually using elemental power in the martial arts arena. Elemental fluctuations were detected, prompting Qin Xiyun to activate her elemental detection. After discovering that it was only a fourth-order elemental fluctuation, she was about to end it when she suddenly found that her detection was blocked in one place, as if there had been an unexpected gap. This made her wary.

In her eyes, there were only two possibilities for this situation that she could not detect: either the other party possessed a powerful elemental artifact, or the other party was stronger than her. However, in Qingfeng Academy, or even in the entire Qingfeng County, it was impossible for anyone to possess such a powerful artifact. Therefore, Qin Xiyun could only think of the remaining possibility.

"Who's there?! Show yourself!"

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