Clap clap clap clap clap...!
Principal Bi was the first to rise and applaud. Everyone in the hall stood up in turn, and the entire venue filled with thunderous applause.
Near the front, Xu Shengnan clapped mechanically as well, as though a bolt from the blue had struck her. Her mind roared, then went utterly blank.
Huo Yuanhong...
This... was too absurd. She had asked Master Huo for leave, then come here to attend Master Huo's lecture?
Chen Dalin, who had taught her Gun Martial Arts, was actually Huo Yuanhong—the leading figure of the younger generation whom she had always thought of as so distant...
But hadn't everyone said Master Huo was born with immense strength and exceptionally fierce? How could he look so gentle?
That enormous gap in identity left Xu Shengnan feeling indescribably complicated.
At that moment, she finally understood why he had emerged unharmed that day, and why he had remained so calm and composed before Xu Zhengze, the deputy commander of the city defenses. It was because he himself represented an exceedingly high status—power that held life and death in its grasp.
She also understood why he had looked so unconcerned when she had proposed using the Xu Family's resources to arrange for him to enter the Martial Arts Academy or the Western Continent Military Academy.
This was not someone clinging to fantasies about martial arts. He truly could do it—could achieve Dan Formation within three years, something others regarded as no different from a dream.
She had no doubt that, with Master Huo's talent, he would definitely achieve Dan Formation in the remaining two-plus years.
He certainly could. He might even become a Gang Strength practitioner within those two years, becoming a true Celestial Empire-level figure standing at the summit!
Just like the others on