Taiyi's Twenty-Four Saints—most of them had arrived by now. All Yu Sui could hear was the sound of her own heartbeat. She forced herself to stay calm, to make herself as inconspicuous as possible, and to wear a frightened expression, so Sage Chang Gen would think she was shaken by the clash between the two Sages.
Now that things had come to this, she certainly couldn't say in front of so many people that she wanted to become Wu Huaiwei's disciple.
Being the center of attention would do Yu Sui more harm than good.
Wei Xizhen could see this so-called Superior Body that even she herself hadn't known about. There was no guarantee the other Sages wouldn't notice something else.
And she had a disobedient sword spirit, too.
What if the Military School Saint noticed something?
Yu Sui's gaze shifted to the two Agricultural School Saints emerging from the shadows.
She had heard Wei Ren mention before that Shen Tianxue and Pei Daiqing, the Agricultural School Saints, were a married couple.
After breaking through to Sagehood, they had retired to the mountains and forests, wanting nothing to do with worldly affairs. But they had been chosen by the power of the Geothermal Core and become two of Taiyi's Twenty-Four Saints.
True to their principles of retirement and noninterference, Shen Tianxue and Pei Daiqing never involved themselves in Taiyi's affairs.
They took no disciples and taught no classes. They wandered around Taiyi, playing in the east one day and the west the next.
They returned to the academy only once every three to five years.
The Agricultural School was managed by Sage Ou Rushuang alone.
It was a rare thing to see these two here tonight.
From the high slope, Wu Huaiwei looked down at Pei Daiqing and Shen Tianxue, smiling