The kind Senior Student wore a solemn expression as she addressed nearly a thousand newcomers:
"When this forbidden ground is mentioned, we have to speak of the spring of Year 987!"
Nearly a thousand people fell silent and pricked up their ears.
A forbidden ground born last year?
This forbidden ground was very young!
They guessed inwardly:
It had to be some Vice Principal with towering power and influence—or perhaps even the academy head himself—who had declared this little grove a forbidden ground.
Or perhaps some reclusive master lived in seclusion here.
Some had even begun thinking about how they could sneak into the forbidden ground later and meet that reclusive master.
Then have the master guide them.
At that moment, the kind Senior Student continued:
In the spring of Year 987, a youth practiced martial arts. Three months later, he entered the Martial Academy; a Martial Master committed evil and was beheaded at the gates of the Martial Academy.
A few months later, the youth slew several thousand Rebel Army cannon fodder, bathing in Corpse Mountain and changing clothes in Blood Sea!
Afterward, the youth entered the State Martial Academy with Golden Sinew Golden Bone and set fire to the utterly wicked Lotus Leaf Temple!
Before countless eyes, the youth slew King Shiyu's most beloved son and killed the foundations of many great clans!
He also helped Gong Wudi seize a Heaven-reaching Qualification amid an army of thousands upon thousands!
A few days ago, the youth slew Daoist Master Zi Qing, a Third Limit expert, deep in the desert thirty thousand li away.
Three days ago, the youth dug a pit here and buried himself—thus, this place became a forbidden ground!
And he was—Chu Qing!
The moment those words were spoken, everyone was stunned.
The prodigies of the provincial