Surrounded by Stars! A Rise in Authority!

An hour later, the Director Conference ended.

Over the past year, Thunder Martial Hall had seen quite a few changes.

There was the rebuilding of the Myanmar Branch, for instance, and the assignment of positions to four newly recruited Eighth-Order Grandmasters.

But the personnel change at the Melbourne Branch in Oceania drew the most attention.

More precisely, Xu Jingming's change in position did.

No one had expected Xu Jingming to need only four months

to advance from the sixth order to the seventh, or to leap from a Genius Training Camp trainee to Deputy Director of the Melbourne Branch.

Wang Dong, formerly the top trainee at Genius Training Camp, had broken through to the sixth-order middle level.

Yet his position at the Thunder Secret Realm Branch was only Grand Supervisor.

He could not compare with Xu Jingming. The gap between them was enormous.

"Congratulations, Director Xu! You have a brilliant future ahead of you!"

"Director Xu, I'm Lin Hai, director of the Magic City Branch. Could we exchange contact details?"

"Director Xu, come visit Azure Capital when you have time. I'll be sure to show you around."

"..."

After the Director Conference ended, hall leaders and deputy leaders such as Su Qingli, Hu Jinyu, and Gu Ming left first.

The remaining directors and invited guests, however, did not leave. Instead, they gathered around Xu Jingming.

Smiling broadly, they vied to exchange contact details with him and introduce themselves.

Most were Seventh-Order Grandmasters, with more than a dozen Eighth-Order Grandmasters among them.

There was not a single Sixth-Order Metahuman.

They knew Sixth-Order Metahumans were nowhere near Xu Jingming's level, so none had the nerve to push their way in.

"Hello, Director Xu. I'm Zheng Ren, director of the Jiangnan Province Branch."

A scholarly-looking middle-aged man introduced himself to Xu Jingming with