Tang Zhong saw Qin Chuchu behind the woman and immediately understood everything; it was definitely Qin Chuchu who called her.

If that’s the case, then there’s no need for him to reveal his strength.

With this thought, he suppressed the power that was already surging in his hands.

At this moment, Qin Chuchu rushed out, got next to Tang Zhong, and asked softly, "Are you alright? I thought I’d be too late."

"You’re not late, just in time. If you hadn’t come, I really don’t know what would have happened." Tang Zhong said, looking at Qin Chuchu.

What he meant was that if Qin Chuchu hadn’t come, he might really have killed Jian Jiu, causing a big uproar.

However, when Qin Chuchu heard this, she thought differently. She believed that if she hadn’t come, Jian Jiu might have killed Tang Zhong. She immediately said, "Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, I won’t let anything happen to you."

At this moment, Jian Jiu and Qing Xuan were facing each other.

Right now, Jian Jiu’s expression was extremely unpleasant, mainly because this Qing Xuan had humiliated him severely.

If he killed Tang Zhong today, he would regain the face that others had taken lightly upon him.

But now that Tang Zhong wasn’t dead, others would definitely look down on him. Originally, because Tang Zhong refused to join them, the Star Sword Association had already made him feel deeply humiliated. If he’s refused now, he feels that he won’t have any face left within the Spring Autumn Academy.

"Qing Xuan, this matter clearly has nothing to do with you. Why are you interfering?" Jian Jiu said, looking at the woman ahead.

"Because that person might be someone we at Listen Wind Pavilion are fond of," Qing Xuan replied.

Hearing this, Qin Chuchu’s face immediately flushed. She did not expect her leader to say such a thing.

"Leader, it’s not like that." Qin Chuchu argued.

Qing Xuan said nothing but kept her gaze on Jian Jiu.

Upon hearing this, Jian Jiu’s face turned even darker as he said, "Do you really have to do this?"

"I can’t help it, I just like doing things this way," Qing Xuan said slowly.

Jian Jiu said nothing more, glanced at Tang Zhong, then turned and left in a huff.

The people behind him followed Jian Jiu, their faces filled with unwillingness.

After the group had walked quite a distance, they approached Jian Jiu and said,

"President, do we really have to endure this time?"

"That woman is too overbearing. It clearly has nothing to do with them, yet they insist on meddling."

"I really want to just kill Yi Zhong."

Jian Jiu raised his hand to stop them, "I know what you’re saying. I will handle it, otherwise everyone will think they can stand on top of our Star Sword Association."

"I won’t let that woman go, and as for Yi Zhong, I’ll definitely take him down, but not now. Let’s go."

The other members of the Star Sword Association finally stopped talking, leaving with Jian Jiu.

On the other side, Qing Xuan turned to Qin Chuchu and said, "Alright, your matter is resolved now. Anything else?"

Qing Xuan was the Pavilion Master of the Listen Wind Pavilion, a faction within the Spring Autumn Academy.

As a member of the Listen Wind Pavilion, Qin Chuchu had come to this place today to recruit new members into their faction and happened to see Tang Zhong being bullied. Thus, she pleaded with her Pavilion Master to act, leading to the current scene.

Qin Chuchu hurriedly said to Qing Xuan, "Thank you, Pavilion Master."

"Alright, if there’s nothing else, I’ll take my leave." Qing Xuan said.

Then she glanced at Tang Zhong and said, "My friend, my invitation for you to join our Listen Wind Pavilion just now was out of necessity, merely for your protection, so please don’t take it to heart. Our Listen Wind Pavilion currently doesn’t need anyone."

Tang Zhong replied, "I understand. After all, I never intended to join any faction."

Hearing this, Qing Xuan felt a bit uncomfortable.

What exactly was this guy thinking?

The purpose of her words was to tell him that he didn’t need to pay attention to what she said.

She thought she would receive his gratitude, but instead got such a response.

She thought to herself to just let it go; there’s no point in arguing with someone like that.

Then she turned and left.

After Qing Xuan had gone quite far.

Qin Chuchu looked at Tang Zhong and said, "Alright, it’s all fine now, you can leave, but I advise you to be careful, the experts in the Spring Autumn Academy are all a bit crazy."

"You must be careful, and if you provoke them, try not to talk to them."

Hearing this, Tang Zhong felt a warmth in his heart, realizing that Qin Chuchu was a good person.

"Don’t worry, I won’t let anything happen."

"Alright then, I’m going to follow our leader to recruit new students, goodbye."

Waving to Tang Zhong, Qin Chuchu turned and left.

At this time, Tang Zhong was also preparing to leave. Ah Ding returned, having heard about what had happened earlier, and hurriedly shouted, "Brother Yi Zhong, are you alright?"

Tang Zhong shook his head at him and said, "Of course, I’m fine. How about you? Have you joined any new force?"

"I haven’t joined any force yet, I’m still looking," Ah Ding said. "It’s very strange, you know? Although they treat me well, they refuse to let me join their faction, as if they’re afraid of something."

Hearing this, Tang Zhong understood. It was likely because Ah Ding was with him, and because he had conflicts with the Star Sword Association, many factions refused to let Ah Ding join.

"Forget it, you don’t need to join any faction. As long as you’re with me, I can watch out for you." Tang Zhong said.

"Alright, no problem. I’ll just stick with you. I don’t want to deal with other people and have to watch their facial expressions." Ah Ding said with a smile.

"Let’s go now." Tang Zhong walked in front, with Ah Ding following behind.

The two decided not to join any faction and relied only on themselves.

During the day, Ah Ding practiced under Teacher Shi Tianjun’s guidance. Of course, he was the only one studying, as Tang Zhong wasn’t willing to. For him, the most important thing right now was to restore his strength and search for the Dragon Realm’s whereabouts.

A few days later.

It was time to go out for training.

The students at the Spring Autumn Academy had to go out for training after three years of studying at the academy, much like wandering the martial world, but under the name of the Spring Autumn Academy.

Even though Tang Zhong had just arrived, he had been delayed for three years, so just after arriving, this batch of new students had to go out for training, so he had to go too.