The black-clad middle-aged man led him to a residence in the south of the city and stopped in front of it. Pointing at its vermilion gate, he sent a voice transmission. "I'll take you this far. Go in by yourself."
With that, his figure blurred and vanished.
Xu Yi released his senses, immediately taking in everything inside the residence. Nearly two hundred people had gathered in a spacious hall beneath it, seemingly waiting for something.
He strode toward the gate.
As soon as he entered, someone came to meet him and asked by voice transmission for his admission credentials.
Xu Yi took out his gray badge. The man looked slightly surprised, then smiled. "So you're a fellow member of the Golden Core Society. Very few members made the cut this time. You must be no ordinary person."
As he spoke, a piece of jade appeared in his palm. He activated its restriction, and a glow rose from the jade and flowed into Xu Yi's gray badge. In an instant, the jade's glow faded.
The man clapped his hands, and a waiting attendant hurried over to lead Xu Yi away, toward the spacious hall.
Once inside, the attendant stepped aside. Xu Yi found a spot near a corner and sat down on a cushion.
He quietly sensed the auras of those present and was secretly astonished. The hall was filled with powerful experts.
He had known from the start that most of those entering Golden Core Academy this time would come from powerful families. In the current Cultivation World, he had never heard of a powerful family whose members weren't great cultivators.
Though he had been mentally prepared, Xu Yi was still deeply shaken. Several people in the hall exuded auras far stronger than True Man Scarlet Fire's. He even wondered