"What? Xu Jingming reached first place?!"
Noah shot to his feet from the throne.
The fluctuations of laws around him surged, causing the light throughout the palace to flicker erratically.
The founding emperor who had ruled the empire for endless ages was so shaken that even his voice had changed pitch.
The Eternal Gods around him, including Lu Wen, were similarly stunned.
"It's absolutely true."
With a slight wave of Black Feather's hand, the Eternal Star Alliance's official rankings appeared before everyone.
Xu Jingming's name glowed faintly with golden light, occupying the first-place position on the list!
"Good, good, good! Xu Jingming truly deserves to be Noah's number one prodigy!
"He actually has the strength to take first place!"
Noah was overjoyed. "Reward him handsomely! Pass down my decree: grant Xu Jingming the title of 'Pillar of the Nation Prodigy'!
"Give him the treatment of a Cosmic Level Expert!
"No, not just him. His family must be rewarded as well!
"I recall that his family members are all cultivating at the Imperial Academy, aren't they?"
"Yes."
Black Feather hurriedly replied, "His partners are all cultivating at the Imperial Academy. Their talents are fairly decent."
"Transfer them all to the Noah Sacred Land and allocate cultivation resources according to the treatment for Level 1 Geniuses!" Noah immediately ordered.
The Noah Sacred Land!
It was a sacred cultivation ground that people from countless star systems across the Noah Empire went mad over, exhausting every effort and risking their lives to enter.
Yet before Noah, the ruler of the nation, such a promise could be made with a casual word.
"Yes."
Black Feather nodded slightly and immediately began making arrangements using his authority.
"Xu Jingming's talent is already this extraordinary.
"His partners probably won't be bad either. Later on, I could take a