"Mommy, Mommy, I want to protect everyone just like True Lord Bai Yi!"
"Behold my invincible swordsmanship! Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
The child leaped out of the woman's arms, swinging his little hands back and forth like sword blades. Wisps of spiritual energy spilled from his body, drawing repeated glances from the sightseeing crowd nearby.
"That child's only four or five, isn't he? He's already reached the first level of the Qi Refining Realm?!"
"This little fellow's a genius!"
"Pfft, you obviously haven't been in Qinghe City long."
"Green River Academy's affiliated elementary school is recruiting new students these next few days. One look at that little fellow tells you he's here for Green River Affiliated Elementary School's entrance exam."
Hearing the crowd's astonished discussions, a bucktoothed photographer with twin ponytails, who stood beneath the statue making a living taking pictures with a retro instant camera, grinned and spoke with pride.
Over the past few decades, Bai Yi had risen from nowhere as a monstrous prodigy ranked number one in the Immortal Alliance's history.
His lineage of origin, his schooling, and every other part of that history had been studied over and over in exhaustive detail.
Among them, Blue Mountain Second Advanced Dao Academy had, thanks to Bai Yi, leaped from an utterly third-rate Advanced Dao Studies institution in Qinghua Domain to one of the domain's finest.
Countless geniuses scrambled to enter it, hoping to bask in a little of True Lord Bai Yi's past glory.
Even the classroom and seat True Lord Bai Yi had once occupied had become goals for which Blue Mountain Second Advanced Dao Academy's gifted Dao students competed and struggled.
A saying had spread: "Back row, by the window-the king's hometown."
Only the foremost genius could sit in the seat True Lord Bai Yi had once