The Prodigies Break Through

On November 27, Qin Fengqing reached rank eight, giving Magic Martial University another young rank-eight martial artist. This greatly boosted ordinary people's confidence. With young people already this powerful, wiping out the Earth Caves could not be all that difficult. On November 31, Wang Jinyang of Nanjiang broke through, making his university the first outside Magic Martial University to have an enrolled student with an eighth-grade golden body. News of his breakthrough put every other martial university on high alert. Previously, they could claim that Lu Hao, Fang Ping, and Qin Fengqing owed their achievements to Magic Martial University's resources, but Wang Jinyang's breakthrough instantly left them without a rebuttal. After all, Nanjiang's resources were not much different from theirs. Now Nanjiang had produced a rank-eight student while the other martial universities had nothing to show for themselves. Anyone could tell which martial university to choose in the future. The other universities felt wronged, too. It was not that they had failed to work hard; nurturing someone with an eighth-grade golden body was simply impossible for them. Even their presidents had yet to reach rank eight, let alone raise a rank-eight student. Left with no choice, they could only put a slight spin on Wang Jinyang's circumstances in their publicity. They did not dare smear him much, either—he was rank eight now, after all. At most, they steered the discussion toward Magic Martial University, implying that he had only broken through with its help. Strictly speaking, that was not a distortion of the truth. Wang Jinyang had indeed reached rank eight so quickly thanks to Magic Martial University and Lu Hao. On December 5, Yao Chengjun of the First Military Academy broke through to rank eight, his aura bearing down on the entire academy, and became its vice president. On