On the training grounds.
Jiang Ning streaked through the air like a gliding white crane, then landed lightly atop the arena.
"Foolishness!!" Wang Jin immediately stamped his foot beneath the arena.
Seeing this, Zhou Xing also sighed softly. "Junior Brother Jiang is too reckless! He stepped onto the arena far too early!"
Liu Sansheng looked at Jiang Ning on the arena and could not help shaking his head. "He is bringing humiliation upon himself!!"
Then he walked toward where the Martial Academy students were gathered.
Below the arena, Li Qing watched Jiang Ning's figure, her brows tightly furrowed, her face filled with worry.
"Why does Junior Brother Jiang have to do this? Going up so early will surely draw the attention of the powerful Martial Academy students."
Cheng Ran beside her had similarly knitted brows as he muttered to himself.
"No wonder Brother Jiang said just now that he had a way to get me into the Inspection Office. So he intends to fight for the squad leader position."
"If he becomes squad leader, perhaps he truly can find a way to promote me into the Inspection Office!"
"But the competition for squad leader is far too difficult. Even Fu Shiquan was defeated with ease!"
Elsewhere.
At the seats occupied by the Cao, Liu, and Xie families.
Cao Zijian looked at Jiang Ning atop the arena. "That brat actually went up too?"
"What, do you want to go up and teach him a lesson?" Liu Zhaonan asked from beside him.
"If it were later, I really would want to take the stage!" Cao Zijian said, then continued, "But it is too early now. There are still top eighth-rank experts among the Martial Academy students who have yet to go up. I have no desire to collide head-on with them."
"Brother