After chattering away about the "Red Chamber Twelve Golden Hairpins," the group began leafing through the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking's Secondary Ranking.
They studied every name and every profile intently as time slipped by.
Zhu Wuneng pointed at the ranking and said, "Young Master, Senior Chen Ze and Senior Chu Youwei both made the list."
Chen Xiaojun glanced at it calmly and nodded. "They're both Soul Kings. It's no surprise they made this list."
Zhu Wuneng agreed with heartfelt conviction. "Exactly, Young Master. There really are a lot of Soul Kings on the Secondary Ranking. We truly can't underestimate the heroes under heaven."
Take Ice Seal Academy, for instance. Even setting Zhan Ruoxi aside, Ji Bingyan and Bo Huaiyu had both advanced to Soul King.
If a single academy had achieved that, what of all the others?
There were over a hundred seventh-rank great clans on the continent alone, not to mention the seventh-rank families within the many sects, gangs, consortiums, merchant associations, and other factions.
Across the whole continent, there were well over three or four hundred kinds of seventh-rank martial souls, along with around a hundred families possessing eighth- or ninth-rank ones. That did not even include the enormous number of families with sixth-rank martial souls.
With such a vast base, and in this age of fierce contention, the number of Soul Kings had naturally risen dramatically.
Chen Xiaojun also examined the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking closely and found many familiar names leaping off the page, some belonging to people under the Chen Clan, others to different families and academies.
His gaze roamed over the ranking, thoughts swirling through his mind.
Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Gao Cuilan and noticed a subtle shift in her emotions.
It lasted only a moment before she regained