"Latest battle reports, latest battle reports! The top sixteen have been decided! Full backgrounds of every competing disciple revealed!"
That day, after Fang Qianyuan fought, the disciples from the other institutes took to the stage one after another.
Yi Huale of Luoqiu Academy, Wei Haoran of Watergate Training Institute, Hu Yunlong of Shangtong Training Institute, Xie Yiming of Fujing Academy, Ren Xudong of Lishan Training Institute, and Wei Dongming of West Road Training Institute all defeated their opponents and claimed victory.
With the top sixteen decided, the entire sect headquarters began heated discussions about the disciples among them.
Some busybodies even gathered their backgrounds and exploits, compiled them into booklets, and circulated them everywhere.
Among them, Meng Du of Red-Scale Training Institute and Fang Qianyuan of Cang Mountain Academy were undoubtedly the most dazzling. Both had proven through their own strength that they could defeat opponent after opponent and advance, without relying on luck.
The seasoned experts who had already distinguished themselves in previous years also received high praise.
For a time, speculation about who would reach the top eight, or climb still higher and contend for Tournament Champion, rose into a deafening clamor.
"What is this? What kind of rubbish have they written?"
That night, Fang Qianyuan also saw the so-called insider booklet a senior fellow disciple had bought outside, and he immediately found himself unsure whether to laugh or cry.
"Let me see, let me see." One senior fellow disciple took the booklet and began reading. "Fang Qianyuan of Cang Mountain Academy was clever from infancy, could walk at birth, and could speak within three days..."
"At eight years of age, he encountered a great python upon the road. The villagers feared it, but he went alone to slay it and ate its gall, thus gaining boundless strength..."