Who Takes the Stage First

In this sacred land, thrones floated in the air as streaks of light descended from the sky one after another like falling stars.

Each streak of light represented a Wizard Sage of the fourth circle or above.

The first to descend were all fourth-circle wizards. Before long, the space beneath the enormous circular aerial hall was filled with fourth-circle wizards.

These wizards took their seats in different places. White wizards and black wizards were clearly divided, like the waters of the Jing and Wei.

Yet overall, the numbers of white wizards and black wizards were not all that different.

However, among wizards of the third circle and below, white wizards held a greater share.

This was thanks to the more systematic training provided by white wizards, which allowed more apprentices to become wizards, even third-circle grand wizards.

But this brought both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage was that there were more low-level wizards. The downside was that there were fewer truly elite wizards, because a considerable portion of cultivation resources was divided among mediocre ones.

Beyond their differences in casting methods and the spells they studied, black wizards and white wizards also grew up in vastly different environments.

The most obvious difference was that black wizards were more elite. One of them could often kill dozens of white wizards of the same rank.

Shadow Spy Wizards, for instance, were a hallmark of black wizards and rarely seen among white wizards. Such wizards could infiltrate other planes and carry out complex plans even at low levels.

Among white wizards, a Shadow Spy Wizard had to be at least a third-circle wizard before undertaking such missions.

But among black wizards, many Shadow Spy Wizards began carrying out such missions as early as the first circle.

As a result, their success rate in