The years flew like a shuttle, spring giving way to autumn.
In the blink of an eye, more than eight months had passed since the disturbance in Maple City.
Two madmen had provoked Medicine Emperor Han Feng and ended up with their corpses hung from the city gate tower. That topic had long since gone cold.
To the people of the Black-Corner Region, it was merely a bit of entertainment, hardly anything unusual. Those two were not the first examples, nor would they be the last.
Only those within Maple City knew that, from beginning to end, they had gained nothing. The true provocateur remained at large, his whereabouts unknown.
Compared to the Black-Corner Region, Jia Nan Academy had been rather lively lately.
The annual intake of new students had arrived, and the infusion of fresh blood made the Outer Academy brim with even more vitality.
At the same time, the competition was gradually growing fiercer.
Last year, a monstrous newcomer had pressed the senior students down so hard they could not lift their heads. They had no desire to see that happen again.
"Instructor Yan Xin, is the person they're talking about my Brother Cang?"
On the way to the new students' dormitories, a thin, frail boy asked the female instructor with the voluptuous figure beside him.
Yan Xin was rather surprised. After all, the Outer Academy students almost never used that person's name when discussing him now, and she had rarely spoken of Chen Cang on their journey back to the academy.
"How did you guess?"
The frail boy grinned. "Instinct. Brother Cang was always the most outstanding back at the manor. After he left and followed the city lord, even the city lord and Master Mo marveled at him. I believe he'll shine just as brightly even