He was somewhat surprised, especially when he saw figures dressed differently from the Outer Academy disciples in blue. He thought, Had something happened again during this time? Why were there so many Inner Academy disciples here too?
As he thought this, he suddenly shook his head again.
He looked over in puzzlement. "It doesn't seem like they suddenly appeared. It seems they've always been here."
Once he thought that, details he had previously overlooked came rushing back to him.
It seemed he had always assumed that the Inner Academy and Outer Academy were isolated from each other, but it was not as though Inner Academy disciples never appeared in the Outer Academy. For instance, at the Mission Hall, he had clearly seen disciples wearing the Inner Academy's purple robes when he had first entered the sect.
It was just that at the time, Lu Qing had been wholly preoccupied with cultivation techniques—selecting techniques, comparing techniques—and had indeed paid little attention to others.
Perhaps because the closer he came to the Golden Core realm, the closer he came to the Inner Academy of legend, Lu Qing realized that the two should not have been cut off from each other.
Otherwise, he would not have previously seen the names of some Inner Academy prodigies in intelligence jade slips.
That made him feel a little strange again. Why did the Inner Academy seem to change with every telling among the disciples? Most of what he had known before came from the jade slips in the Book Repository Hall, or from occasionally checking the intelligence jade slips to see what had happened.
And before this, Wind and Clouds had defeated Ning Shaohua. One was from the Inner Academy and one from the Outer Academy, and their clash had caused a sensation.
But the question