"Look, that person is one of the Blue Star humans recorded in Human Martial Arts. I heard the martial artists over there can only open one aperture at most!"
"What? Only one aperture? What's the difference between that and being disabled? Why would Silver Radiance Academy admit someone like that?"
"Sigh, I heard it was Professor Lan's decision. There's not much Silver Radiance Academy could say about it."
"Professor Lan is highly respected and broad-minded. He probably wanted to help them because they're both human."
Cheng Wu walked down the road with Jiang Yan, hearing plenty of discussions about Jiang Yan along the way. Those conversations always intentionally or unintentionally revealed contempt for Blue Star Martial Dao.
None of this had arisen without cause.
One year earlier.
Lan Shuli, a history professor at Silver Radiance Academy, had led a group of students deep into the stars to explore human martial arts civilizations, successively discovering ten human civilizations with extraordinary powers.
Professor Lan observed every minute detail along the way, read the martial arts history books of the major human civilizations, studied their origins, and conducted detailed research into ten different martial paths. After returning to Tian Yuan Star, he and his students compiled an academic masterpiece—
Human Martial Arts: First Volume
Among those ten martial arts civilizations, Blue Star's martial path had begun rather late, with only around a thousand years of history, and was weak enough to be representative.
Thus, Human Martial Arts repeatedly used Blue Star Martial Dao as a negative example for criticism, warning Tian Yuan Star Martial Artists of the importance of opening apertures.
Blue Star was simply too unusual. It had never even considered putting effort into opening apertures, making it the complete opposite of Tian Yuan Star.
The gap between the two gave Tian