Why Are You Here?
Once the chaos subsided, the people from Azure Lotus High School looked far more dispirited.
For the sake of rankings, everyone had done all sorts of things behind the scenes.
They bought scores, manipulated scores, bought medicine on the black market, abused Mystic Objects, worshiped Evil Gods—beneath those white school uniforms lay a black essence. For rankings, they had basically abandoned everything else.
Some people might have been innocent, but the people supporting them certainly were not.
After all, Azure Lotus High School was backed by Qinglian University, and high rankings earned extra points when entering Qinglian University. At the very least, they would not be screened out during the interview stage.
Being able to support a student into Qinglian University was an immense honor and source of wealth for one's family, enough to make anyone green with envy.
Now that the white lotus had been split open, exposing the rotten, stinking truth inside, Chen Yu felt that Qinglian University had truly fallen far.
Shaking his head, Chen Yu sighed. "Have universities become this corrupt now?"
"What else did you expect?" Bai Buyu asked, licking her popsicle. "Weren't universities always like this?"
"Are there no universities left that are devoted to education and focused on teaching students?"
"No. They're all busy making money. Besides, universities have people when they need people and research materials when they need research materials. With such a perfect environment, why wouldn't they make as much money as possible?"
"Who says so?" Ren Feihong leaned in. "Heaven-and-Earth True Person, my junior brother's and my teacher, is quite good."
"That's why she still hasn't formed a Golden Core."
Ren Feihong instantly lost her temper. Muttering things like "Dragon Body cultivation is slower" and "Teacher's foundation is simply too deep," half-understood phrases that filled