Du Weilun opened the folder in his hands and read aloud, "Following the academy's final review of the freshmen's performance in the assessment, the following students have been approved as core disciples: Chen Ping, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo."
Chen Ping froze as soon as he heard that. That didn't seem right.
It was perfectly normal for all three members of his team to make the cut, but how had Little Huo's ranking suddenly climbed so high that he was even ahead of the Blue Sisters?
Since the competition began, Chen Ping had barely interacted with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, so he had no idea what was going on behind it all.
Still, it did make Chen Ping instinctively take note.
Huo Yuhao's ranking had jumped from near the bottom of the provisional core disciples to near the top of the confirmed core disciples. It was the equivalent of a lottery pick becoming a first-round pick. There must have been some change he didn't know about.
Once Du Weilun finished reading, class assignments came next.
Power attack and control, defense and agility attack, support, and finally food and healing.
Before long, Ning Tian's little mouth puckered into a pout. Looking thoroughly reluctant, she left the line and headed toward Freshman Class Three.
There was no helping it. As a support Soul Master, she really wouldn't learn much useful material if she stayed in Class One.
Mu Jin could only rub Ning Tian's head regretfully.
Apart from Chen Ping, that enormous wild card, Ning Tian was the sort of student any teacher would love: excellent in both character and studies, with nothing to fault.
Not having Ning Tian in his class really did leave Mu Jin rather reluctant to let her go, but there