"Senior Sister Pei, congratulations!"
"That's right, Senior Sister Pei. Professor Jiang said that as long as you place in the top ten in this prefectural examination, he'll accept you as a personal disciple!"
"Senior Sister Pei, don't forget us when you rise to riches and honor!"
Several young girls in orange dresses surrounded a graceful figure as they slowly emerged from the depths of the academy.
The woman at their center possessed a beauty so refined it seemed untouched by the mortal world, her delicate features as exquisite as a painting. Yet an icy aura of "keep strangers away" surrounded her. Tall and poised, she listened quietly to the teasing and congratulations around her. Though her expression remained cool, the corners of her lips could not help but curl upward slightly.
Within the prefecture academy, Professor was an honorific title of extremely high standing.
Anyone granted this title was unquestionably a Xiantian Realm expert. Not only was their cultivation profound, but they had also devoted themselves to teaching, possessing deep experience and outstanding knowledge and attainments in the martial path. Their prestige within the academy was immense.
Ordinary academy students could, at most, receive guidance in cultivation from regular instructors. To be personally taught by a professor was already a rare honor.
For someone like her to catch a professor's eye and be considered for acceptance as a personal disciple was a tremendous opportunity that countless ordinary martial artists could only long for.
What was more, Professor Jiang Hong was far from comparable to an ordinary academy professor. His cultivation had long since entered the Grandmaster Realm, making him one of the few foremost experts within the academy.
For such a figure to be willing to personally pass down his legacy and carefully nurture her—even as the legitimate daughter of