Everyone present turned their eyes toward the chief examiner's seat once more.
Yet when they saw Lu Xuan's face clearly, a wave of hushed exclamations immediately rose across the enormous martial arts arena.
"He's so young!" someone could not help murmuring.
"Sect Leader, is that the chief examiner?"
"Why does he look even younger than those of us participating in the Martial Arts Grand Competition?"
A man about to take the stage wore a face full of astonishment as he could not help asking an elder from his sect beside him.
Nearly all the contestants on the stage revealed expressions of disbelief upon seeing Chief Examiner Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan had refined features and an indifferent bearing. He looked only a little over twenty, utterly unlike the chief examiner they had imagined.
Shouldn't they all be old men who had lived for over a hundred years?
They had never seen such a young great figure as Lu Xuan in their lives.
It was like getting stabbed in the backside with a little knife—they had really opened their eyes!
"Th-this chief examiner, can he really hold the scene together?" someone muttered softly, doubt in his voice.
"Don't talk nonsense!" the person beside him immediately rebuked in a low voice. "Didn't you see how respectful both the Left Prime Minister and Right Prime Minister are toward him?"
"This chief examiner is definitely not as simple as he appears!"
"Didn't you hear the contents of the Imperial Decree?"
"This man isn't merely the chief examiner."
"He's also the Blackbird Guard Vice Director of the Great Xia Blackbird Guard!"
"You know what the Blackbird Guard name is worth without me having to tell you."
"Indeed!"
The Blackbird Guard was the most mysterious organization of the Great Xia Court. It possessed numerous experts and answered