Within the Immortal Realm, strife never ceased.
As one of the Ancient Immortal Daoist Traditions, however, the Hundred Schools Academy had completed its integration early on and was developing steadily.
The Hundred Schools Academy's nineteen World Children were also secretly building up their strength.
Although they were building up their strength in secret, as the World Children of their respective academies, they naturally drew considerable attention.
These World Children had all displayed their strength to varying degrees and become known to others. In the various academies, some busybodies had compiled rankings based on their strength to determine who was stronger and who was weaker.
Yet no matter how they were ranked, the results convinced no one, for the World Children's strength was difficult to gauge.
No one had ever seen any World Child fight with all their might. Since they had never gone all out, naturally, no one knew their true strength.
Without even knowing their true strength, how could anyone rank them?
Thus, the matter came to nothing.
One thing worth mentioning was that, regardless of how the rankings were arranged, one World Child invariably occupied the very bottom spot...
That was Chu Kuangren of Qinglan Academy.
There were two reasons.
First, Qinglan Academy had the weakest overall strength among the nineteen branch academies, so Chu Kuangren, its World Child, was naturally looked down upon as well.
Second, Chu Kuangren was the youngest. Indeed, according to those who had deliberately investigated him, his bone age was no more than five hundred years, perhaps even less.
Most people generally believed that, given comparable talent, whoever had cultivated longer would naturally be stronger.
Chu Kuangren came from Qinglan Academy and was the youngest, so everyone regarded him as the weakest World Child.
This rumor had spread through the Hundred Schools Academy