"Old Zhang, do you know these seven Chief Examiners?"
Li Fugui nudged Old Zhang beside him on the shoulder, somewhat puzzled.
As Outer Court teachers, both of them had graduated from the Inner Court and were fairly familiar with some of its teachers and students, yet they had never seen these people before.
Old Zhang shook his head. "No. Judging by their age, they don't seem like teachers. They should be Inner Court Disciples, right? Could they be newly admitted junior brothers and sisters?"
As the two spoke, the seven had already arrived before them.
"So many people are taking the Inner Court Assessment. It seems the academy has developed quite well over the past few years."
The man among the seven spoke with a smile.
Several teachers also walked over. Old Zhang, being the eldest, asked, "Hello, junior brothers and sisters. Are you the Chief Examiners for this Inner Court Assessment?"
It was perfectly normal for there to be people in the Inner Court whom they did not know. Aside from entering the Inner Court through assessment from the Outer Court, some could be recommended directly from other academies to undergo the Inner Court Assessment. Since they taught in the Outer Court, it was only natural that they had never met them.
There was nothing wrong with Old Zhang calling them junior brothers and sisters. He was already over thirty, while these Inner Court Disciples before him were clearly only in their twenties, perhaps even just barely over twenty.
Hearing themselves called junior brothers and sisters, Jiang Ming blinked, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
By the timeline, this should have been more than a hundred years after he had ascended to the God Realm. Even before ascending, few people had called him a junior