"Holy shit! Where did this Xiao Ming come from? He actually unleashed eighty quadrillion units of heavenly dragon strength and took second place on the Combat Power Ranking? That's a full ten quadrillion more than Xiao Chen, who took third place last time!"
"Xiao Chen is the foremost Divine Son of the Primordial Divine Mountain, a genius said to appear only once in countless ages. When he unleashed seventy quadrillion units of heavenly dragon strength, he shook the entire Myriad Heavens! I thought his third-place record would stand for hundreds of thousands of years. Who would have thought it would be broken so soon?"
"Xiao Chen! Xiao Ming! Vice Dean Xiao, could this Xiao Ming also be a genius from your Xiao family?"
As the academy elders marveled, some of them raised this point.
Xiao Ming!
Xiao Chen!
Across the upper and lower realms, surely only disciples of the Xiao family of the Primordial Divine Mountain possessed such talent!
At their questions, Vice Dean Xiao's expression turned rather ugly.
Xiao Ming!
How many years had it been since he last heard that name?
Back when Xiao Ming's family had been executed, it had stirred up quite a storm in the Xiao family.
Even he, who had remained at the Supreme Academy all along, knew about it.
After that incident, he had assumed Xiao Ming was long dead.
Yet now he had appeared again!
When he first heard the academy elders report Xiao Ming's name, he had thought it was merely someone with the same name.
Later, he had secretly gone to investigate. The moment he saw Xiao Ming's face, which looked almost identical to his father's, he had confirmed his identity!
To the Primordial Divine Mountain and the Xiao family, Xiao Ming represented a disgraceful chapter of their history.
Thus,