As an academy renowned throughout the Northwest Continent, Jia Nan Academy's admissions naturally drew immense attention. Being selected by it might not mean soaring onto a branch and becoming a phoenix, but it would at least lay the foundation for a meteoric rise in the future.
Several days before Jia Nan Academy's recruitment began, the people of Wutan City were already enthusiastically discussing this "major event." The Xiao Family, which had recently been in the limelight, naturally became a topic of conversation as well, and Xiao Yan, who had become a Dou Zhe within a year, was someone no one could avoid mentioning.
At this time, Xiao Yan was still diligently refining pills, striving to produce enough healing medicine for the Xiao Family to sell before he left them to gain experience.
Inside the cave, the youth had his hand placed atop the Medicine Cauldron, feeding flames into it as he refined pills. Beside him stood an elderly figure, guiding him through the various procedures.
Under such refinement, bottle after bottle of pills quickly took shape before being stored in his Ring.
With the youth refining day and night without rest, several days passed in the blink of an eye.
On the day Jia Nan Academy began recruiting, nearly all of Wutan City had gone to the city gates to watch the academy's recruitment party, leaving the usually bustling city much emptier than before.
However, watching others did them little good. Anyone who failed to meet the recruitment requirement—reaching the eighth stage of Dou Qi before the age of eighteen—would not be admitted, no matter how much they tried to curry favor. Those who met the requirement, naturally, could enroll.
Of course, although favoritism was not allowed in recruitment, other accommodations could still be made. For example, several rather young