Beneath the Sky Screen.
At the City Lord's Mansion.
Lu Piao looked disappointed. "Ah, I was hoping to see Shen Xiu and the others' jaws drop when they found out you'd reached bronze rank, Nie Li."
Lu Piao absolutely loved scenes like that, where someone showed off and slapped their enemies in the face.
But Lu Piao had already noticed that Nie Li only registered a hundred every time he tested his strength, so his soul force probably wouldn't be much higher either.
On the Sky Screen.
After Nie Li tested himself with the Soul Crystal, his soul force was still neither more nor less than exactly 100.
The sight nearly drove Shen Yue and Shen Xiu mad with anger. Why did it have to be 100 again?
Even a single point less, and Nie Li couldn't have reached bronze rank!
Just one point!
Ye Sheng, sitting in the spectator stands, also announced that Nie Li would enter the genius class. Lu Ye raised a few objections. After all, Nie Li's cultivation was only Bronze One-Star, so this might go against the rules.
Ye Sheng trusted his instincts and used his authority as Vice Dean to settle the matter.
Meanwhile, Shen Xiu had approached the two of them from behind. In accordance with their wager, she had come to resign.
Upon hearing this, Ye Sheng clasped his hands behind his back and turned around, praising Shen Xiu with a relaxed expression. Her class had produced so many geniuses, and the institute hadn't even had time to reward her yet. Why was she suddenly resigning?
Even the Vice Dean was rubbing salt into her wounds.
Ye Sheng's dislike of Shen Xiu hadn't started just yesterday.
His words only made Shen Xiu feel worse.
In the end, however, Ye Sheng accepted her