"Sure enough, it was you."
Murong Jing stood beside the many Vice Palace Masters, her heart a tangled mess. Yet joy and relief outweighed everything else.
Who could say a young girl had no dreams of love?
Scene after scene from the Azure Cloud Sect's disciple trials surfaced in her mind once more.
Perhaps Murong Jing didn't like Fang Yuan all that much. In the end, their engagement was a marriage alliance between their families.
But now, her fiancé had become the center of attention for everyone.
Her vanity, too, was being thoroughly indulged in this moment. She found it quite gratifying.
"Student Chang Qianming pays his respects to all the teachers and the Palace Master!"
Flowing Cloud Prefecture Lord was the first to step out of the shadows. His voice boomed like a great bell as he respectfully bowed in the student's salute.
"Student Liu Haiyang pays his respects to all the teachers and the Palace Master!"
"Student..."
With Flowing Cloud Prefecture Lord leading the way, nearly half the powerful figures in the shadows came forward. They were all graduates of Azure Cloud Academy.
The influence Azure Cloud Academy wielded throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty was plain to see.
Li Chengxian, the man at the center of it all, couldn't feel happy. The Honored Elder was still here. Weren't they stealing his thunder by acting this way?
He Yunsong was quick to read the room. He immediately sent a voice transmission to Flowing Cloud Prefecture Lord.
In an instant, these disciples from Azure Cloud Academy marched in a grand procession and bowed deeply to Gu Fengyang, who sat suspended in midair on a chair.
Gu Fengyang had seen such scenes countless times. He gave a slight nod.
Rumble...
As the crowd's voices faded, the sound of a chariot tearing