"The Four Academies True Disciples have joined the ranks. In the past three hundred years, surely these three were the only ones born this year across the entire Immortal Alliance."
"Who says otherwise? They don't appear at all, then suddenly three show up!"
Watching the White Household's Ancestor and Bai Yi approach on a hoverboard, the Ten-Academy Academic Affairs Representatives couldn't help looking somewhat flustered.
Though Bai Shoudao was nearing the end of his life, he was still a Golden Core True Person who had once graduated among the best from the Ten Palaces.
In terms of strength and contributions alone, even Liu Chenran, who had been stationed in the Outer Domain for more than four hundred years, had to admit he was far inferior.
As for ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators like them, graduates of First-Rate Academies who were over two hundred years old and had only reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage, with almost no potential to advance any further, they couldn't help shrinking back at the thought of those rumors from the past.
What was more, behind Bai Shoudao stood Bai Yi, who had enrolled as a Four Academies True Disciple. As a prodigy counted among the best even within the Four Academies, his breakthrough to Golden Core was practically a certainty.
In this situation, if it weren't for the exchange of interests between their respective academy heads and Liu Chenran, they wouldn't have gotten involved in this mess for anything.
"True Person Liu, you'll have to step in from here!"
The ten schools' education representatives exchanged glances, then all turned their eyes to Liu Chenran. They had already brought the students here; what happened next had nothing to do with them.
"Everyone, come with me to greet them."
Liu Chenran's expression turned slightly solemn as he hurried forward