Rankings

Over ten thousand years, Ning Yue seemed to have lived through nine entirely different lives.

His horizons expanded from the laws of Qi to the order of the entire Primordial Wilderness, and even to the rules of the myriad heavens and worlds.

The many questions that had once troubled him all received profound answers during those ten thousand years.

As a result, his cultivation directly broke through from Canon Warden to Realm Inspector—from a Grand Unity Golden Immortal to a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. (Each school had its own cultivation system, so it would not be explained further here.)

Such progress could not be called anything but rapid.

In Ning Yue's view, this discussion of the Dao had brought him even greater improvement than staying by his teacher's side and receiving personal instruction.

Rather than a discussion among peers, it would be more accurate to say that those nine people had been teaching Ning Yue.

Even after the discussion ended, Ning Yue remained immersed in the clash of wisdom from moments ago, unable to recover for a long while.

Yet something puzzled him. For some reason, as this discussion unfolded, the stars in the endless sky that represented the other schools seemed to have dimmed slightly.

Only the star representing the Way of Legalism had not dimmed in the slightest. Instead, it grew ever brighter and more resplendent. Its radiance had already surpassed the stars of every other school present, making even the Mohist School, Confucian School, and several other major schools seem lackluster by comparison.

This discovery shook Ning Yue to the core.

He recalled that during the discussion, whenever he analyzed an issue through the Way of Legalism, he could always stir a resonance from that Legalism star, while the other stars dimmed accordingly.

An astonishing conjecture gradually