295 Ling Xin

"16 years old… that man wasn't lying, huh?" I muttered.

"She's the same age as me," Xiang Peng blinked in surprise. "Welp, you know what they say. There's always someone better, and there's always a sky beyond the sky as we know it."

"Reaching the Holy Emperor stage at only sixteen years of age…" Feng Mian murmured. "Compared to her, we're…"

"Hm… 14, is it?" Ling Xin murmured, observing the girls around me. "Not bad. You can't be said to be an unparalleled genius, but having two innate elements is already good… for a human, anyway."

Then, she turned to me. "As for you, Xuan Kai-kun… hehe~"

Her flirtatious smile made me slightly uncomfortable as she licked her lips, but I didn't point that out.

"… Let's get down to business," I cut in. "We have to beat you to complete the preliminaries,  correct?"