Tang Chi had confirmed it again and again. There was no mistake in the list; this year, there really were only this many students choosing him. His expression immediately darkened.
For more than ten years, he had spared no effort in building a good reputation within the Academy. With the cooperation of certain people on the Academy side, he had received more students every year than any of the other instructors.
This was not without its benefits. Although the Academy no longer valued master-disciple inheritance as highly as the Dao sects did, the people of Celestial Xia still attached great importance to the relationship between teacher and student.
The students who came to study at Kaiyang Academy either had deep backgrounds or were outstanding among their peers. Once they left the Academy, they might well rise to high positions in the military prefecture or even the provincial prefecture.
This was of immense benefit to both himself and the entire sect. Thus, for ten consecutive years, he had taught students here without holding anything back.
His own standards were there for all to see. Of the students who had passed through his hands over the past decade, not every one was exceptional, but at the very least, their safety of life had been guaranteed during their studies. Otherwise, some of the people within the Academy would never have chosen to cooperate with him.
Now that this unexpected development had appeared, his first thought was whether someone on the Academy side had tampered with things.
"Could they all have gone to Wu Chang?"
Wu Chang came from the Vast Light Dao Sect, which had always been a rival of the Flood Mountain Dao Sect Tang Chi hailed from. The Academy had taken advantage of this, setting the two of them against one