At 8:20 a.m. on August 1, 2056, at the square outside the Elite Training Camp in Hongning Base City.
Six training camp buses stood ready. Ten accompanying instructors and 182 camp students had also assembled. There were still ten minutes until the final assembly time.
"Why hasn't Xia Zhi arrived yet?" Jiang Fang checked the time. With only a few minutes left before the final assembly time, she could not help asking Zhao Ruo and Shi Jiang anxiously.
The two exchanged a glance. Zhao Ruo said, "Instructor Jiang, Xia Zhi has been on leave these past few days for closed-door cultivation. He hasn't come out of the training room, so we don't know the specifics either."
"Nothing will happen, Instructor Jiang. Xia Zhi will definitely arrive on time," Shi Jiang said firmly.
Shi Jiang had absolute faith in that peerless monster who had entered the camp in his first year and claimed first place in the student point rankings from the very first month, never dropping from that position again.
The three of them lived together in Jiangnan Pavilion. Shi Jiang and Zhao Ruo knew better than anyone just how crazily Xia Zhi cultivated martial arts.
Even the most diligent students had times when they relaxed or gathered to chat, but ever since Xia Zhi entered the camp, neither of them had seen him relax for even a single hour.
It was not scary when someone else was more talented than you. What was scary was when they were more talented than you and worked even harder!
Shi Jiang was now completely convinced by him.
Among the other students waiting around, many also noticed that everyone was being held up because Xia Zhi had not arrived.
"SHIT! Just because he's first in points, we all have to wait for him?"