Farewell?
Jiang Ding thought for a moment, then used his access privileges as a professor in Clearwind University's Adult Swordsmanship Department to log in to the university's official website and look into it.
Clearwind University's doctoral program lasted two hundred years. Yu Qianzi should not have finished yet; at most, she was in her third year.
A record soon appeared in the search results.
"On June 24, 11340, Yu Qianzi, a third-year doctoral student at Clearwind University, applied to take her graduation examination early. Having passed the examination, she is hereby awarded a doctorate in swordsmanship and a Clearwind University doctoral diploma."
The record also included a photograph of True Lord Dinghai presenting her with her degree certificate and diploma.
"That's not how the procedure works."
Jiang Ding grumbled, "I'm the professor of the Swordsmanship Department. I should have been the one to award your diploma. True Lord Dinghai overstepped."
He knew this was more than a gifted student graduating early.
It had to be the result of diplomatic efforts by the Azurewood Immortal Sect. They had promised something and convinced the Immortal Sect before it agreed to let Yu Qianzi graduate early.
Of course, the price could not have been anything that affected the larger balance of power. A Taiyin Sword Heir was not worth that much.
Even if the Dao Children of this generation from the Eight Great Immortal Sects died, the Eight Great Immortal Sects could still appoint new ones. The Void Refining experts had more than enough life remaining to see those Dao Children grow.
With sufficient resources, there would even be time for several generations of Dao Children to mature.
An Immortal Order of such size would never stake its survival on a cultivator who had yet to grow into her power.
That was what