Just as Luo Yan nodded, Xiaodao stood up. But she did not immediately step onto the stage. Instead, she hesitantly glanced at Li Bohang, who was acting as the referee.
Li Bohang gave a slight nod. "Come on up, Xiaodao."
Xiaodao looked at her opponent again before saying, "Teacher, wouldn't it be unfair to let me go up against him? It wouldn't be an honorable victory."
The entire auditorium fell silent.
The young Yujing student on the platform flushed bright red. Xiaodao's words clearly carried a hint of contempt, but what made it worse was that the one saying them was merely a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl.
Even if she was only a first-year student, students that age were normally eighteen or nineteen.
Being told by a girl several years younger than him that victory over her would be dishonorable made his face burn. He immediately said,
"Student, don't worry."
"I wasn't using my full strength just now."
"I was only holding back for that other student. I'm actually at Intermediate Level Three Realm. Feel free to give it everything you've got."
On the second-floor stands, Bai? stuck out her tongue. "As expected of Yujing Academy. Even its first-year students are already at the Intermediate level."
Luo Yan said calmly, "It's different now. Primal Energy cultivation techniques have been widespread for years, and people are becoming cultivators at younger and younger ages. Things are very different from our time."
"But resources still place limits on them. Becoming a cultivator is easy, but making rapid progress along this path isn't so simple."
"Yujing is a renowned academy, after all. It's not strange for a first-year student there to have reached the Intermediate level."
At that moment, Xiaodao frowned in the auditorium. "But I'm at the Advanced level, one major realm above