Hongguang Forty-Eighth Year, March 17.
The first exchange match between Tianqu University and Hongyi University had concluded smoothly.
Ever since the first Martial Arts Exchange Competition had been held, the competition had taken place once every year.
At first, only the Three Daoist Sects and Twelve Universities had participated. Now, it had become a joint event involving Pudu Temple, thirteen universities, and two Daoist sects.
In the months before the National Martial Arts Exchange Competition began, some universities held exchange matches with one another to temper their students and serve as internal selection trials.
This year was Hongyi University's first exchange match with Tianqu University. As a "newly promoted university," Hongyi University had taken the initiative to send students to Tianqu University to compete.
Hongyi University had fifteen competing students in total: five commoner students and ten children of the powerful.
This ratio was not because the school had deliberately given the powerful children more places. It had been selected according to the students' overall results.
Although Hongyi University claimed to treat all students equally, when it came to obtaining resources, the children of the powerful could rely on their families' support and connections to acquire credits more easily and exchange them for resources.
If commoner students wanted to catch up in resource acquisition, they could only fight for it with their lives! Under such circumstances, commoner students occupied only one-third of the fifteen slots.
Yet at the exchange match between the two universities, Hongyi University's five commoner students performed exceptionally well.
Whether it was their ability to adapt on the spot or their drive and ruthlessness, they were clearly stronger than the other students!
Students trained through the most brutal "jianghu sect-style" education were indeed stronger in temperament than those raised through "greenhouse education."
The five commoner students from