The other Sages of Danxi Academy all looked enlightened, their eyes filled with growing reverence for Han Chunxiao. Even those whose cultivation surpassed his looked on with envy and gratification.
However, the four Qiyang Hall students were not so optimistic. Having struggled for years within the Qiyang Hall, they were already grateful just to maintain their current rankings. To climb two or three spots? If one could rise even a single position, the academy’s leadership would issue greater rewards, and even their ancestral families would be showered with honors.
"Confidence is a good thing, but in any case, we absolutely cannot let the people from Xuanhui Academy step on the heads of our Danxi Academy students to squeeze into the Qiyang Hall," one of them said softly. "If this news were to spread, it would have a disastrous impact on the wars raging across the various regions."
Chapter 839