## Chapter 490: Feng Xiaotian's Transformation
With the grand competition's opening just two months away, Blazing Fire Academy, not being affiliated with the Saus Kingdom, had to travel to Heaven Dou City to participate in the qualifiers and earn a spot in the finals.
The qualifiers would use Team Battle format to select thirty teams from over a hundred Advanced Soul Master Academies.
The Star Luo and Heaven Dou competition zones each had fifteen qualifying slots.
Taking Heaven Dou as an example, within its borders, besides the Empire, there were five kingdoms and duchies.
The Empire, as the main entity, occupied five qualifying slots and one guaranteed spot, while the others each received two slots.
This extra guaranteed spot belonged to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's main team, of which Dugu Yan was a member.
Of course, as a seeded team, Dugu Yan's main team wouldn't participate in the qualifiers, so Quan Yi wouldn't encounter her so soon.
Due to its independence, Blazing Fire Academy had to go to the Empire and compete with the other twenty-seven Advanced Academy Teams for those five slots.
This was Blazing Fire Academy's first-stage goal.
Excluding travel Time, they had roughly one month to prepare.
During this month, Blazing Fire Academy was preparing for the competition 'intensively'.
Information gathering and tactical strategies, things that other academies had to do, they were also preparing for as a matter of course.
However, the more information they gathered, the more confident the Academy became in its victory.
During this Time, the outside world's disturbances didn't affect Quan Yi and Huo Wu at all.
They lived in the Wooden Cabin, leading a secluded cultivation life.
A month passed quietly, and Quan Yi successfully broke through to level eighty-five, while Huo Wu also reached level seventy-six.
Based on the trend, Huo Wu's improvement speed was roughly one level per month.
Quan Yi, on the other hand, was leveling up every one and a half months.
Originally, as the levels increased, the bottlenecks at each level would become more solid, but Quan Yi and Huo Wu rarely experienced the existence of bottlenecks.
On the second day after the two consecutively broke through, the Blazing Fire Team set off from Saus City and headed to Heaven Dou City.
After a journey of more than ten days, the Blazing Fire Academy Team successfully arrived in Heaven Dou City.
The convoy hadn't even entered the city yet, and the roads were already starting to get crowded.
With the competition approaching, Heaven Dou City, as the main venue for the Heaven Dou division, attracted countless people.
However, Heaven Dou City lived up to its reputation as the Empire's capital. The massive city easily accommodated several times more people than usual.
Moreover, the City Defense Army maintained order everywhere on the roads, and the convoy entered Heaven Dou City very smoothly.
The convoy went straight to the luxurious hotel that Blazing Fire Academy had booked in advance.
The tired travelers each went into their arranged luxury suites.
Of course, Quan Yi and Huo Wu moved into a double couple suite together.
However, before they could even sit down to rest, a noisy sound suddenly came from outside the hotel.
"Hmm? What's going on? Didn't we book this entire hotel?"
Huo Wu curiously walked to the window and looked outside, but the next moment, she let out a disgusted groan as if she had seen something she hated.
"Ew~"
What was with that reaction? Quan Yi followed closely behind and looked out the window.
With just one glance, he understood the reason for Huo Wu's reaction.
Because at the hotel entrance, there was a tall and slender young man arguing with the hotel doorman.
And this young man, Quan Yi and Huo Wu both knew, he was the long-unseen Feng Xiaotian.
"Why is this guy here?"
Huo Wu's eyes couldn't hide her disgust, and she withdrew her gaze after only a glance.
Quan Yi also just stared at the scene downstairs with extreme indifference. Soon, several team members, including Huo Wushuang, rushed out of the hotel aggressively and confronted Feng Xiaotian.
Huo Wushuang shouted loudly, "Feng Xiaotian, we've booked this place. I advise you not to intrude."
"Haha, finally someone I know. Wu Shuang, long time no see."
Feng Xiaotian ignored Huo Wushuang's unwelcoming attitude and greeted him shamelessly.
"We don't welcome you here. Please leave if you don't have anything important to say."
Huo Wushuang also didn't have a good impression of Feng Xiaotian and directly issued an order to leave.
But Feng Xiaotian acted as if he had no temper and said with a smile, "Can't I come over if I don't have anything important? Is this the way the Blazing Fire Academy treats its guests?"
To Feng Xiaotian's disappointment, he was only met with increasingly cold faces.
Being stared at by everyone, Feng Xiaotian also restrained his smile and said helplessly, "No need to be so wary. I'm here to find Quan Yi. He should be inside, right? Can you let me see him?"
Hearing this, Huo Wushuang's expression softened slightly.
As long as he wasn't pestering Huo Wu, everything else was negotiable.
He turned to look at Huo Yu, wanting him to call Quan Yi.
However, before he could speak, Quan Yi appeared beside him.
"Is there something you need from me?"
"Quan Yi!"
The exclamations of the crowd echoed in the air.
Especially Feng Xiaotian's voice was the loudest.
The others were somewhat used to it, but it was the first time Feng Xiaotian had seen Quan Yi appear so silently.
He looked at Quan Yi, who was a head taller than him, and couldn't help but swallow.
"Long, long time no see. What happened to your body in just a few years?"
This wasn't the reunion Feng Xiaotian had been expecting. In his imagination, when facing Quan Yi again, the gap between them should have narrowed.
However, the pressure emanating from Quan Yi's body made him tremble. What was even more terrifying was that he couldn't sense anything else from Quan Yi.
Soul Power, Mental Power—the criteria for judging a Soul Master—none of them could be seen on Quan Yi.
This could only mean that the other party wasn't a Soul Master, or that the other party far surpassed him, making it impossible for him to detect.
"That's what I should be asking you. What have you been through these years?"
Quan Yi asked Feng Xiaotian in return.
After getting closer, he noticed more clearly that there were several subtle scars on Feng Xiaotian's somewhat handsome face.
This didn't diminish his original appearance at all, but instead added a bit of ruggedness to his temperament.
More noteworthy was the aura emanating from Feng Xiaotian, which was extremely powerful. According to Quan Yi's judgment, its strength surpassed ordinary Soul Kings and was infinitely close to a Soul Emperor.
You should know that eight years ago, the sixteen-year-old Feng Xiaotian was only level thirty-six.
After eight years of not seeing each other, there would be such a big change.
Seeing Quan Yi ask this, Feng Xiaotian's expression paused slightly.
But then he said indifferently, "My experiences are not worth mentioning, so let's not talk about them."
"It seems that what you've changed is not just your appearance."
Feng Xiaotian's atmosphere wasn't as flamboyant as before. Quan Yi continued to ask, "Speak, what do you want from me? You haven't forgotten our original agreement, have you?"
The agreement Quan Yi was talking about was, of course, the agreement not to disturb Huo Wu anymore.
Feng Xiaotian smiled bitterly, "Am I so unbearable in your eyes?
"Don't worry, I haven't forgotten the agreement.
Also, I'm here today to challenge you.
In the upcoming competition, I want to have a one-on-one battle with you again."
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