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  The sound of tearing through the air echoed. The petite and adorable Zi Yan perched on Xiao Yan's shoulder. Together, they suddenly shot down from the sky.

  The students of the Inner Academy were mostly in their early twenties, and reag the Dou Spirit realm was already quite endable; however, advang to the Dou King realm and maing Dou Qi Wings remained a distant goal.

  Hence, many senior students revealed expressions of astonishment when they saw Xiao Yan arrive with Zi Yan using peared to be Dou Qi Wings.

  However, some knowledgeable students, or those who had seen Xiao Yu use a flying-type Dou Teique, quickly uood what it was.

  After all, advang from a 3-star Dou Spirit to Dou King in seven days was impossible no matter how ohought about it.

  "Sorry, I'm te."

  Xiao Yan's calm voice resounded like thunder, eg in the ears of everyone around the arena.

  The sudden voistantly silehe murmurs that had just arisen. For a moment, the entire arena was deathly silent.

  All eyes turo the bck-eyed, bck-haired young man. Everyone present khat the oute of this fa battle hinged on him.

  If Xiao Yan could easily defeat the two experts, Yao Sheng and Bai g, as well as some low-star Dou Spirits, then numbers would not matter as much.

  "Hmph, who does he think he is? Does he think he's Cousin Liu Qing?" Liu Fei's pretty face immediately showed displeasure upon hearing people discuss that Xiao Yan might win.

  Her beautiful eyes then noticed something amiss with Yao Sheng beside her. She frowned and asked, "Yao Sheng, what's with this panic-stri look? Where's your posure?"

  Ever since Xiao Yan had appeared, Yao Sheng's face had turned deathly pale, and his body trembled. He pointed a shaky finger in Xiao Yan's dire, so shocked that he could not speak for a moment.

  "Brute... Brute... Brute... Brute Force Queen!!!" Yao Sheng's teeth chattered. Yet, it was not Xiao Yan he feared; it was the white-clothed little girl, Zi Yan, who had jumped down from his shoulder!

  Not only Yao Sheng, but even Bai g—another ranked individual orong Ranking—was shtehat cold sweat streamed down his face. His eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost, and his legs shook.

  Bai Shan immediately noticed that something was wrong and asked, "Cousin? What's wrong?"

  "That girl!" Bai g's face ged dramatically. He firmed it tless times, hoping he was mistaken, but reality proved otherwise.

  "What about that girl?" Bai Shan and the other members of the White Gang also looked curiously at the little girl beside Xiao Yan.

  "She is the Brute Force Queen! Number one orong Ranking!"

  When Bai g shouted 'Number one orong Ranking,' his voice was extremely loud, practically eg throughout the entire arena. Everyone heard his words.

  Naturally, Xiao Yan could not possibly be the number one orong Ranking, as this year's Strong Ranking Grand petition had not even started yet. There was only one possibility!

  Xiao Yu and the others naturally heard Bai g's words and simultaneously looked at Zi Yan, eared to be only eleven or twelve years old.

  This little girl is the number one orong Ranking?!

  Only Xiao Yan, who had sparred with Zi Yaly nodded. Zi Yan possessed Dou King strength and had given him a thh thrashing. It was not surprising that she held the top spot orong Ranking.

  Xiao Mei tilted her head and asked puzzledly, "She's the number one orong Ranking? This little girl?"

  "Got a problem with that, big-breasted woman?" Zi Yan's eyes narrowed as she coldly snorted. Due to the Body Transformation Grass, coupled with the long lifespans and ily slow growth of magical beasts, her figure had always been ft ae.

  Xiao Mei's pretty fastantly flushed red. It wasn't her fault she was well-developed!

  Hu Jia and the others observed the three elders wearing wry smiles without any obje. They uood that Zi Yan was ihe mysterious number one orong Ranking; in other words, she was the stro student in the Inner Academy!

  Elder Liu asked, "Xiao Yan, Zi Yan isn't a member of your Xiao Hall, is she?"

  The three elders exged gnces. If this girl joihe Xiao Hall, then there would be no point in fighting. Even Liu Qing of the Splitting Mountain, ranked 3rd orong Ranking, and Lin Xiuya of the Wolf Teeth, ranked 2nd, could not match this girl.

  She alone was enough to defeat everyone.

  Xiao Yan smiled and shook his head. "She's not participating. We just happeo meet outside the academy aurogether."

  Bai g and Yao Sheng heard these words and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. If the number one orong Ranking participated, they would have surrendered immediately; it would have been a one-sided, crushi.

  But they had not yet realized one crucial point: how did Xiao Yan e to know Zi Yan?

  As the saying goes, 'birds of a feather flock together.' The fact that Xiao Yan was able to befriend the top-raudent definitely was not because of his good looks.

  "Since you're here, kid, get oage." Elder Liu waved his sleeve. Even the First Elder Su Qian aying close attention to this battle.

  Many higher-ups in the Inner Academy were curious to see whether this freshman Xiao Yan could overturn the so-called unspoken rules of the Inner Academy aablish a new order!

  Both sides took the stage. On Xiao Yan's side, there were about forty people in total, while the senior student allianumbered nearly two hundred—a fivefold differen numbers.

  Moreover, the overall strength and cultivation levels indicated that the senior students were signifitly stronger.

  "A frontatioween the new and the old. The end of every old era marks the beginning of a new one. However, challenging the old era requires more than just ce," the First Elder Su Qian mused aloud. Standing atop a distant pavilioroked his beard while gazing toward the arena with a smile.

  "I wonder what trump cards this little fellow with the Heavenly Fme has up his sleeve."

  Bai g looked at Xiao Yan oage and sneered, "If Senior Sister Zi were willing to help you, you might have the qualifications to be arrogant. But as you are now, you do not have that right."

  After saying that, he did not fet to g Zi Yan's rea. When he saw that she was quietly eating something unknown without speaking, he finally rexed.

  It appeared that Zi Yan was indeed not on the Xiao Hall's side.

  "Arrogance requires the capital to back it up. If you find it an eyesore, feel free to try me." A faint smile appeared on Xiao Yan's handsome face, but beh that smile, anyone could see a hint of indifference.

  "You won't be so lucky this time." Yao Sheng looked at Xiao Yan with vicious eyes. The daggers in his hands spun rapidly, drawing dazzling arcs remi of two extremely agile and deadly pitch-bck venomous snakes.

  The two hundred senior students resembled hungry wolves, just waiting for the referee to annouhe start. Then they would swarm and eliminate everyone from the Xiao Hall, reasserting the dominance of the senior students!

  The rules were still to be set by them, the eion!

  Seeing that both sides were ready, the referee shouted loudly, "Duel, begin!"

  "Charge!!"

  "Defeat them!"

  "Teach them how to respect their seniors!"

  tless senior students brandished their ons and shouted.

  As soon as the referee's voice fell, Xiao Yan slowly took a step forward and waved his hand, f a spiritual barrier that enveloped the forty members of the Xiao Hall.

  "Xiao Yan ge-ge?" Xun Er was someuzzled. Why trap them inside?

  While the freshmen were still fused about what Xiao Yan was doing, they saw him suddenly take a deep breath, and faint dragon roars actually began to emanate from his abdomen!

  The Ten Thousa Fme surged through his meridians into his lungs. The trace of the dragon aura from the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill lified by the Ten Thousa Fme and suddeed.

  In an instant, a burst on might exploded from within Xiao Yan's body.

  "Hmm?!"

  "What's this!"

  "Why do I feel that Xiao Yan is exuding dragon might???"

  The three referee elders sprang to their feet and exged shocked gnces. Could he be a desdant ons?!

  A thunderous boom sounded as the dragon might erupted uhe urging of Dou Qi and the Ten Thousa Fme, overwhelming the entire arena!

  Evehree elders present could not help but feel their legs tremble slightly. Those seated in the audience, many of whom were merely 1- or 2-star Dou Grandmasters at the bottom tier, began to lose their posure as their bodies trembled untrolbly.

  They were pletely suppressed uhe dragon might strengthened by the Ten Thousa Fme. Had they been magical beasts rather than human, they would likely have been forced to prostrate themselves on the ground.

  "What's happening!" In an instant, the charging senior students trembled, overwhelmed by an instinctive fear from the depths of their hearts! Uhis aura, they all felt as insignifit as ants, and when they looked at Xiao Yan again, he appeared to have grer!

  The sed, blood-red fmes surged out from Xiao Yan's body, with the fmes t like a tsunami. If one looked closely, one would notice that within the sea of blood-red fmes, a coiling dragon seemed to be hiding!

  "Dragon might! Why does Xiao Yan possess dragon might!" Yao Sheng cried out in shock as he sehis aura.

  Dragons—even magical beasts with just a trace on bloodline were existehat anded awe ierritories!

  "Not good!" Bai g and the others were horrified as they sehe eruption on might. But it was too te.

  "A bunch of idiots." Zi Yan bit off the main ingredient of a tier 5 medial pill with a ch, mung as if she were eating dy. Her eyes gnced indifferently toward the arena.

  She hadn't joihis battle not because she was unacquainted with Xiao Yan; on the trary, if Xiao Yan needed her help, she would undoubtedly step in.

  The reason for this oute was that Xiao Yan didn't need her assistahese people served perfectly as test subjects to gauge the power of his Dou Teique.

  Xiao Yan's eyes sharpened, and within the fmes of the Ten Thousa Fme, a fire dragon seemed to open its eyes simultaneously.

  ROOOAR!!!

  At this instant, the A Dragon Roar shook the sky ah. It was as if an invincible, true dragon had awakened within the sea of fmes formed by the Ten Thousa Fme a out ah-shattering roar.

  The dragon's roar surged forward, infused with a dragon might capable of destroying everything. The domineering dragon might swept across the surroundings.

  At this moment, in this instant, the ons, armor, and Dou Qi Armors of the senior students all shattered with a bang. The ons and armor could not withstand this sonic attad crumbled oer ahe senior students below the Dou Spirit realm rolled their eyes bad lost sciousness; their knees hit the ground with a thud as their heads tilted back, with white foam appearing at the ers of their mouths.

  The senior students at the Dou Spirit realm all gritted their teeth and fully activated their Dou Qi defenses. Dou Spirits could dense Dou Qi, and the Dou Qi within their bodies provided some prote. However, fag the Di Css A Dragon Roar, a sonic Dou Teique that could pee defenses, and coupled with the dragon might, they were not faring well either.

  Quite a few Dou Spirit-level senior students had traces of blood seeping from their ears. It seemed that the more they resisted, the strohe attack became! Those who had fainted were spared from the influence of the A Dragon Roar instead.