Lord Tiange did not turn around. He continued gazing up at the Stone Spear Phantom, as if it were the only thing here worth looking at.
His body beneath the gray robe did not look particularly imposing, yet it carried a towering presence. Even just his back was enough to make an ordinary World-Deriving Rank cultivator tremble.
Lord Xuanyan had dealt with Tiange several times and knew he was simply like that. He took no offense and said, "I intend to nominate someone for the Special Genius Training List. His name is Lin Yi. He has been cultivating for a little over three hundred years and is at the peak of Star Core Level. He has fully comprehended Space-Time, Life and Death, and the Five-Fold Rules of Metal."
"Lin Yi."
Lord Tiange finally turned around, slowly.
His face was sharply defined, as if carved by a blade and chisel. His short hair stood straight up like iron halberds, and his gaze was so sharp it seemed capable of slicing through rules.
His eyes settled on Xuanyan, and he asked directly, "Is he the one you want to nominate?"
Xuanyan gave a slight nod. "That's right. You know him too?"
"I do."
The corner of Lord Tiange's mouth curved into something almost sharp. "He's a good kid. He did something impressive fighting on the border battlefield. The Frontier Legion made a promotional video about him. I watched it, thought it was good, and gave it a push."
Xuanyan understood.
He was so absorbed in his own work that he hadn't paid much attention to things like that.
"So it was you."
Xuanyan's tone revealed no emotion. "Qian Huan never mentioned it. I thought it was just the Star Realm Army's regular publicity."
"Regular publicity?"
Tiange scoffed. "The Star Realm Army fights