Everyone knew perfectly well that the ceremony to be held several days later was merely a compromise born after this competition had been canceled due to force majeure. It was entirely just going through the motions, with no real significance.
The appearance of that rising sun atop the mountain was what truly proclaimed that the Sun Academy, which had lain silent for more than three hundred years, had returned to the light of day.
That little deacon who had once drawn countless disputes and gazes had taken only a few decades to become a True Immortal cultivator at a terrifying speed never seen before, rising high above as one of the Sanctuary's foremost Academy Instructors.
Beyond their shock and amazement, this matter was far more than a topic of conversation.
Those disciples whom Ye Tian had once taught all felt no small stir in their hearts because of it.
Because now, they could all be considered disciples who had been taught by an Academy Instructor.
Under normal circumstances, becoming a disciple of one of the Twelve Academies was no easy matter. One needed the most outstanding talent to enter an academy and hear the instruction of an Academy Instructor.
A disciple like Gao Yue, for example, would inevitably have been a supreme genius capable of shaking countless nations and becoming famous across her continent if placed in the outside world. Yet even after the entrance examination, she had not entered the Twelve Academies, instead going to cultivate at East Spirit Peak, one of the second-tier Four Directions Peaks.
Not to mention that even after entering the Twelve Academies, most disciples cultivated under the academy's teachers or instructors. Receiving direct guidance from an Academy Instructor was truly as difficult as ascending to heaven.
But now that Ye Tian had become an