The Dumb Great Scholar Tian Songshi paid no heed to anyone's gaze. He merely looked curiously at the Sea of Learning ahead, the thirst for knowledge in his eyes far surpassing that of many young people.
Some people felt ashamed when they saw that sincere gaze.
Fang Yun scanned the crowd, looking for his friends, when he suddenly noticed several unusual groups.
One group stood among the scholars of the Qing Kingdom. They were tall, with deathly pale skin and deep blue eyes, closely resembling Zong Jibing. They were of mixed human and Ice Clan blood. At a rough glance, there were over two hundred of them-not only Metropolitan Graduates, but also two Hanlin Academicians and even a Grand Academician!
Fang Yun's gaze sharpened. Rumor held that those with nonhuman blood could become Metropolitan Graduates at most, unable to break through to Hanlin Academician. Now it seemed that these hybrids of the Zong Family had probably broken through long ago; otherwise, they could not have produced Hanlin Academicians, let alone a Grand Academician.
However, Ice Clan scholars still could not advance to Great Scholar, for that concerned the Sacred Way and touched upon the most fundamental power of the human race.
Apart from the Ice Clan members, Fang Yun also saw several thousand scholars farther away, each bearing the image of a blood-red mountain peak on the left side of their chest.
They were scholars from Two Worlds Mountain. They stood in ranks as orderly as soldiers, radiating powerful auras, and everyone around them feared they could not give them a wide enough berth.
Beyond them, nearly every kingdom had a few scholars whose appearance differed slightly from that of ordinary humans. Clearly, they were all hybrids studied by the great sage lineages.
Among the Lei Family's people, Fang Yun