The master and his two disciples watched quietly as, atop the Top Scholar Platform, Zhang Shoucheng, Right Vice Minister of Rites, formally announced Li Qingxian as this year's Eighth Rank Azure Cloud Examination Top Scholar. The entire venue erupted in cheers.
Afterward, Zhang Shoucheng announced that once the Seventh Rank Azure Cloud Examination concluded, the Eighth Rank Top Scholar and Seventh Rank Champion would travel together to the capital to meet His Majesty.
Amid countless envious gazes, Li Qingxian descended from the Top Scholar Platform.
Song Baige, Wang Buwu, and the others surged forward all at once.
"You've made something of yourself!" Song Baige slapped Li Qingxian's shoulder.
"I heard the whole process was legendary? Tell us what happened." Wang Buwu asked curiously.
"Let's head back to camp and talk as we walk." The group surrounded Li Qingxian, listening as he recounted the examination while they slowly made their way back.
When they finally heard that Li Qingxian had killed Pei Changyun with a single spell, everyone found it unbelievable.
"We can understand you killing a Demon-Devil. After all, it was caged up, and you had enough time to build up your power. But Pei Changyun wasn't dead. How could he not dodge?"
"Pei Changyun ranked among the top five, so his strength was beyond question. I've heard of him—he's a core disciple of Devil-Transforming Mountain."
"Was your Thunder Arts really that powerful? A master of the same rank couldn't even evade it?"
Song Baige cried strangely, "If that's true, wouldn't you be invincible among those of the same rank? You can call yourself an Eighth Rank Grand Cultivator now!"
"My Thunder Arts were actually quite ordinary. They were just a tiny bit faster. As for cultivators from the Devil Sect, don't you know what they're like? They're the sort