Qingyun Immortal City, Li Family.
In the exquisite, magnificent hall, a dignified elderly man sat quietly in the seat of honor. With a sigh of emotion, he set down the Sound Transmission Jade in his hand.
"Yu'er, wasn't this Zhou Ling in the same class and dormitory as you?"
Looking at the young man and woman seated to his lower right, the old man asked with a smile.
He was Li Yang, the Li Family Patriarch, an Early Nascent Soul cultivator.
He had just received word that Zhou Ling had become a Steward of the Heavenly Crafts Division. At only sixteen years old, he was the youngest Steward in the Heavenly Crafts Division's history.
"Yes, Father. When he first enrolled, he failed the Foundation Establishment Test and drew quite a bit of ridicule. Who would have thought that afterward, he would advance with unstoppable momentum, progressing at breakneck speed in every respect!"
Li Yu let out a breath and said helplessly.
As for Zhou Ling, he could no longer even speak of competing with him. Other than unwillingness, all he felt was helplessness.
At the beginning, he had been deeply unconvinced by his defeat at Zhou Ling's hands.
After all, Zhou Ling had failed the Foundation Establishment Test and supposedly possessed a Low-Grade Spiritual Root.
He had also come from a Rogue Cultivator background.
Compared with him, the difference was like heaven and earth.
He had held back his anger, intending to properly prove himself once he entered Foundation Establishment.
Before a Favored Child of Heaven like him, Zhou Ling should have been nothing.
After all, he possessed a Top-Grade Spiritual Root and came from a Soul Transformation Family.
Yet he had kept losing to Zhou Ling.
Over an entire year, through so many competitions at Xuanyuan Daoist Academy, he