Ice Spirit Clan Kin! Hao Renjia!

"Cough..."

Just as Bing Tianxiao was proclaiming his lofty ambitions with great gusto, Elder Bai, hovering in midair, gave a light cough.

His aged voice echoed across the broad platform:

"Heh heh, having ambition is a good thing. However, the competition at Northern Cang Spirit Academy is exceptionally brutal. I hope you can maintain this confidence in the future."

Elder Bai stroked his beard and swept his gaze across the still somewhat empty areas of the platform before continuing:

"Since you've arrived, we should summon the other three little fellows from the Northern Cang Realm as well."

With that, Elder Bai smiled faintly and raised his withered palm.

He abruptly waved his wide sleeve toward the other three directions of the platform.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Accompanied by three deep rumbles, the air in the other three directions of the enormous Reception Platform suddenly twisted violently.

Immediately afterward, three dazzling beams of light, each like a pillar supporting the heavens, descended from above and slammed heavily into the white-jade stone slabs.

The light rapidly receded like a tide, and three vast, densely packed crowds appeared out of thin air on the enormous platform.

The previously spacious Reception Platform instantly became crowded and noisy.

"This is... Northern Cang Spirit Academy?!"

"We passed the trials! We finally made it in!"

"What terrifying spiritual energy density! And that mountain..."

The clamor and exclamations rose one after another, and the entire platform instantly boiled over.

Holding Luo Li's hand, Bing Tianxiao stood in a relatively empty corner of the crowd, sizing up these "new classmates" with great interest.

With his current perception, he could naturally see through these newcomers with ease.

"The quality is only so-so. Most of them are in the Divine Soul Realm, and there are pitifully few even in the Heaven Integration Realm..."

He was idly rating this group of "wild monsters" in his mind.

Suddenly, his eyes shifted slightly. His gaze passed over layer upon layer of figures and landed at the front of the first group to be teleported over.

A girl in a pale blue dress stood there.

The girl had delicate, beautiful features and a tall, slender figure. An icy aura that kept strangers at a distance lingered around her, making her resemble a proud plum blossom blooming amid the snow. She seemed completely out of place among the noisy crowd around her.

"Early Heaven Integration Realm? She's considered outstanding among these newcomers."

Bing Tianxiao muttered inwardly.

However, it was not the girl's cultivation that caught his attention, but the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from within her.

That spiritual energy carried an extremely frigid aura and contained the mark of some unique bloodline. He was simply too familiar with it.

An Ran followed Bing Tianxiao's gaze and softly introduced her: "What is it? You noticed her?

"That girl is called Bing Qing. She's another top newcomer from the Northern Cang Realm. She's a member of the Ice Spirit Clan and was born with a powerful ability to control ice-attributed energy. Among those of the same level, she has few rivals."

As she spoke, An Ran's beautiful eyes shifted, and her gaze landed on Bing Tianxiao:

"Come to think of it, you should be a member of the Ice Spirit Clan too, right, Bing Tianxiao?"

Bing Tianxiao raised his brows. Rather than answering An Ran directly, he carefully sensed her bloodline in his mind.

*But judging from the purity of her bloodline, she probably isn't from the core main branch. She's likely a descendant of some branch of the Ice Spirit Clan as well.

What was her name again... Oh, right. She's that passerby from the original story named Bing Qing?

Just as Bing Tianxiao was sizing her up without the slightest restraint, the girl named Bing Qing also keenly sensed something.

As a Heaven Integration Realm expert, her perception was likewise quite strong.

She slightly furrowed her attractive brows and turned her head along the completely undisguised gaze.

When her eyes passed through the crowd and landed on the handsome young man holding a silver-haired, breathtakingly beautiful girl and smiling at her with an ambiguous expression, a flash of surprise immediately crossed her originally cold eyes.

There was another member of her clan here?

Bing Tianxiao turned his head and happened to meet Luo Li's clear eyes, which held a hint of curiosity.

He admitted cheerfully, "Senior An Ran guessed correctly. I can indeed be considered a member of the Ice Spirit Clan."

As he said this, he suddenly changed his tone and added a hint of teasing: "But I'm not from the main branch of the Ice Spirit Clan that was beaten by Martial Ancestor senior, single-handedly, after he defeated a Heavenly Sovereign.

"At most, I'm from some branch that's been exiled to goodness knows where."

"Look, that girl is probably about the same as me. We're both from distant side branches. If she were some treasured daughter of the main branch, why would she need to come to Northern Cang Spirit Academy?"

Luo Li thoughtfully nodded slightly upon hearing this.

She did not know much about main branches, side branches, or the past deeds of Martial Ancestor.

But she understood the basic logic...

An Ran watched the two of them whispering to each other and felt as if ten thousand horses were galloping through her heart...

While the two were talking, the commotion on the other two Reception Platforms gradually subsided as well.

Accompanied by waves of awed whispers,

the densely packed crowds on both sides parted like stars surrounding the moon, each making way for a passage and revealing two figures whose auras were clearly a level above those around them.

Clearly, these two were the strongest individuals to emerge from the other two Northern Cang Realms.

The person who walked out of the Reception Platform on the left was a young man dressed in dark green martial attire.

"That's Mu Ya! He's also a top figure on the Spirit Road, although he's not as impressive as Bing Tianxiao and Luo Li!"

Exclamations rang out from the crowd, revealing the young man's identity.

But when Bing Tianxiao's gaze shifted toward the leader on the Reception Platform to the right, the corner of his mouth began twitching violently.

That was an extremely... "safe"-looking young man.

His features were utterly ordinary, the kind that could vanish into a crowd the instant he was thrown into one, leaving no impression whatsoever.

Yet he was wearing an extremely flashy white robe trimmed in gold and waving a Jade Bone folding fan that reeked of affected elegance.

He was nodding to the people around him in a pose he clearly thought was very handsome.

Most absurdly, as he made his entrance, the respectful whispers of the surrounding students clearly carried his name.

"Look, it's Big Brother Hao Renjia!"

Bing Tianxiao really could not hold it in and let out a "pfft" of laughter.

"Hao Renjia? Good grief, that name is way too perfunctory, isn't it?"

*This is practically the same as carving the words "I'm Passerby A" in huge letters onto his forehead!

If this were a game, he definitely wouldn't even have any lines. He'd be one of those High-tier Sacred Object minions brought out specifically to give players experience!

Although Bing Tianxiao's laughter was not loud, it was especially conspicuous on the relatively quiet Reception Platform.

Hao Renjia, who had been waving his folding fan and enjoying everyone's attention, stiffened. He turned toward the sound.

But after sensing the aura emanating from Bing Tianxiao, he forcibly swallowed his displeasure.

Just then, Elder Bai in midair gave another light cough, drawing everyone's attention over.

Only then did he slowly speak, his aged voice exploding beside everyone's ears like a great bell:

"Little fellows, welcome to Northern Cang Spirit Academy."

"Being able to stand here means that you've all passed the trials of the Northern Cang Realm and proven that you possess the qualifications to become students of Northern Cang Spirit Academy."